Birthday Girl

(Above and the last photo in this post were taken three weeks before this post -- no blister >_< )

My daughter will turn three this Sunday ! I hope it's not too soon to announce it to everyone. It's so sad that my birthday girl can't celebrate her birthday with a crowd of friends and families. She is required to stay at home while she is infectious to avoid spreading the disease to others. I know, "infectious" is a weird word to describe my own daughter. I hate when it happened, but everyone must pass this phase at least once in their lifetime, I guess

She still gets lesions and blisters from the varicella infection I mentioned at the end of my previous post. I took her to a pediatrician at Tuesday and some of chickenpox/varicella's symptoms on her body has been relieved. Anyway, while she awakes, she will refuse my attempts to cut her nails. She can't prevent herself from scratching, and I'm afraid that the scrathing will cause more infections. She'd been told not to scratch and she agreed. But when she feels the itch, in a funny way, she innocently asks me "Can I scratch it ?" My poor daughter

Oh, did I forget to mention that my nanny's daughter will marry this sunday? Last week, the nanny asked me permission for taking a whole week off. That what made me taking a three days off from my office since wednesday and doing nothing but keeping the children and the house. No sewing or blogging. And my fabrics shop is officially neglected.

Back to the birthday. I don't order a special cake for her birthday. So, there will be no barbie cake that was ordered for last year's birthday. And there will be no dazzling princess-like dress like the manhattan dress I made for her second birthday anniversary *sobbing*

I've made a plan to make this cute pinafore from Ottobre Summer 2006 :



using this "Parade" print, a best seller (and hard to find) from Sarah Jane's fabric line :



Or maybe a pair of top and skirt using this cute Little Apples from Aneela Hoey ?



But today is Saturday, and the birthday is tomorrow ! I don't have time to sew T_T

My husband said that my daughter is just three years old and she doesn't even know what birthday celebration is, anyway. I agree. What more important for her is my love, attentions, kisses, cuddles, bedtime stories, back-scrubbing, or maybe just a walk to a local grocery shop to buy some snacks ?



I will always love you, my dear

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MathCraft Series Winner

And the winner of MathCraft Series from Capungmungil is.....




Congratulation Mrs. Ethie, please send me a confirmation email in two days
And thank you for Mrs. Dini, for being my monthly spotlight this month

Btw, my dearest daughter got varicella infection/chickenpox yesterday. Hope she will be alright with all those itchy rashes T_T

The Blog's 200th Post

Something happens today. It's my 200th post ! I marked the 100th at December 23, 2010, at this boy's kimono pj's post. The conclusion is I need almost a year to write 100 blog posts

Nothing special today but the delivery of my 7th email newsletter. Read it here and find a surprise !
Unfortunately, it only opens for my subscribers who signed-up before the newsletter was sent

If you want to join my newsletter and be counted in my not-so monthly surprise giveaway, you can sign-up for my newsletter

Back to the number of blog post, how many blog posts that you have written so far ?
is that meaningful for you ?
I also need some helps on being consistent and how to post almost daily, because weekly posting becomes my big constraints nowadays. I mean, if to post weekly is almost impossible, how can I do a daily posting ? Ha.. pesimist *_*
I seriously need some optimistic feedbacks which can give me some guts


Chiao !

Math Craft Stories -by Capungmungil Giveaway -CLOSED

Tadaaa !! I'm back !

No new project here. Actually, there are. But they are lying in my desk, untouched

But, I have a new monthly spotlight today ^__^

A lovely local business, "Capungmungil" has taken my interest. Cute handmade finger puppets, softbooks, clothbooks, boardbooks, storyboards, handmade prayer rugs, home/nursery decors and many kinds of edutoy. They are all crafted and designed by the lovely Mrs. Dini, my new friend. I know about Capungmungil in a media few months back, and all I can say that this lady is super. She's a lecturer, an architect, a writer, designer and an illustrator. She writes, designs and illustrates all her books.

She specializes in creating and decorating with felt into soft edu toys and home decors. Her creations are unique, cute, colorful, one of a kind. You can ask her to make your order in special design, or "made by order". The toys are sewn by hand and less-glue so they are safe for babies and toddlers




Ms. Dini also recently writes her own craft books Flanel Make Over and Bantal Unik & Lucu. In the books, she tells you how to decorate things from plain and boring into special. I have her books. I'll write a review about them next week .



My favorite is her latest edu-book for toddlers, My Mathcraft Stories. A series which contains 3 board books illustrated in felt : "How High is The Hill", "Let's Count on The Pond", and "Let's Go Travelling". Their felt illustrations introduce toddlers with new visuals and enrichs their senses of touches. Also included in this series, is a felt numeric poster which can be used as the books' bag.

Here is the author with her books (she is lovely, isn't she?) :




And lucky for us, she want to give away the My Mathcraft Stories (contains 3 cute boardbooks in felt illustration : "How High is The Hill", "Let's Count on The Pond", and "Let's Go Travelling") for one lucky innocentia reader !

How to win it ?

Mandatory entry :
Visit www.capungmungil.blogspot.com and put a comment telling me "If you are asked by Ms. Dini to give her inspirations, what's your favorite childhood story / stories ? "
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Additional entries (optional) :
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- Follow capungmungil's Blog ==> +1 point
- Like capungmungil facebook fans page ==> +1 point
- Blog, share it on facebook or tweet about this giveaway ==> each +1 point
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This giveaway is officially closed. Thank you for the participants

And, thank you Ms. Dini for this chance.
p. s : I really want to interview her, really. Let's say that it will happen soon. I'm rewriting my monthly plan ^_^

My fabrics are for sale !

Some of my fabrics collections are now for sale, check my online shop on facebook, Innocentia Fabric Club. Now, I only sell a few stuffs, especially some prints from "Children at Play" by Sarah Jane for Michael Miller.

p.s There are so many tasks with upcoming duedate in my desk now, so I'm afraid I can't sew and update my blog for a week ahead. I'm really sorry. Whatever happens, I'm still a sewing lover at heart