happy halloween!

I had a lot of fun preparing little things for our Halloween party yesterday.  I was looking for bowls big enough to hold candies...and decorated them with my knk-cut cards :D.  No, they're not originally designed by me...I actually bought the designs from Silhouette SD and traced over it...I think I should be able to replicate most of them next time for my KNK software.  I stayed up really late cutting these cute little creatures :D but I had so much fun!  I'm looking forward to our Christmas party next :D.  Chia and Ana did a marvelous job decorating the Halloween table and the children definitely had so much fun.  Misfit waited impatiently for the magic show...because she wanted a fish!  So fish, she got :).

Various things cut using knk :D

Chia made the Strawberry Shortcake Dress for her daughter, Caramel apples by Chia, Cupcakes
Cake pops, assorted chocolates with my decorated plate, chocco cinnamon rolls by Chia
The Candy Halloween Table, Misfit participated in magic show

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happy birthday, ma belle

Wishing you many happiness in life and may you grow up to be whatever your dream may be and know that you will always...always be our precious little princess :).

The Special Agent OSO party is finally over.  Last night, my cousin delivered the beautiful cake!!! I was pleasantly surprised with the result...thanks to her and her friends at Cookienary.  When Isabelle woke up this morning, I asked her if she likes the cake....and she said..."Why is it so cute, Mommy??".  Her sister wished her a happy birthday and when we came to her class this morning, she was all shy :).

Little misfit was so very shy...she didn't even want to blow her candles, but she was willing to cut her cake :)

The goody bags were of course done by us :D...assorted PJs with some snacks for each child.  I played around with my knk last night and made the children's names.  It was a lot of fun playing with knk :), it cuts like a pro...very clean and fast too...I love it :).

Assorted PJs and snacks for the children

The bento box was ordered from my meal box and I guess I was lucky Lukman was still able to receive my order :D.  I opted for the non fried foods for the children and they seriously looked good :).

Lil Misfit giving away her cupcakes and goody bags.

I love birthdays...though I will always complain during the preparations but seeing the smiles on my little princesses' faces make all the hard work worth while :).  Last night they helped me putting in the snacks into the plastic bag and they had such a blast doing so.  I still remember the excitement I used to feel during my childhood...the night before my birthday was always exciting and happy, and all thanks to my Mom :) and I am now oblige to give the same happy experience to my children...

Lil Misfit's first birthday present :D

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special agent oso for misfit and my lovely knk

Tomorrow is little misfit's 3rd birthday and since her birthday never falls on holiday (LUCKY ME!), we'll celebrate it at school :)...she's been requesting a lollipop birthday, but she finally gave up on the idea and sounded happy enough to have it at school (pheeeww..).  I've been asking her many times, what sort of theme she would like for her birthday and on all of those occasions, OSO is her only answer....I've tried persuading her towards a more "princess" theme but nope...she's headstrong :).  So, OSO it is....I was looking for an OSO image on the web and there's one free invitation template from Disney Junior but the link was broken :(...so I stole the color scheme and idea and use it for Belle's invitation and gift tags.  

Gift tags and invites

My husband and I played with my latest cool toy...a KNK Maxx 24" machine...I must admit that it was HELL trying to set it up!!!!  I'm very bad at reading manuals! and after a few phone calls to their technical support, the machine was finally up and running.  Yesterday, I pestered my hubby to sit with me and read the rest of the thick manual...So far, I'm able to print and cut using registration mark....though it is still not as precise as Silhouette SD, but it is able to cut through thicker materials...such as the 220 gsm card stock for Misfit's birthday...so, overall I'm happy...I am yet to play more with it...it truly is a powerful machine...just not as user friendly as some of the plug and play machines.  I need to figure out its other functions.... 

KNK Maxx 24"

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personalized quote leather bound books

I saw this posting via Amesh and I hurried down to Tarlen's blog :) and ordered some for me! :) I'm so happy when they finally arrived!!! Thank you, Tarlen!

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thank you

for making sure I stay fat....that's Diana who gave me a big yummy lasagna (you can call her to order, at: 08179878460) and Mimi, my cousin of cookienary who sent me a scrumptiously fattening quiche with super delicious yummy almond biscotti (yes, only 2.5 pieces left :'( hix..)...Then, my super nice sister in law (hubby's youngest sister) just got back from my most favorite place in the whole wide world...she bought me 3 yes...THREE pieces of marimekko fabrics!!!!! arghghghghg they're to die for :) and a box of sponge cake...and, to make my week super happy...I got an email yesterday from the talented Cecilia Hidayat...yes, the artist :)...I won her giveaway!!!! YAYYYY...I love those beautiful drawings of hers...I'm content...

the giveaway I won (one of them) heheheheehe
picture from cecilia hidayat's blog

super delicious lasagna from Diana's "my mama's kitchen" :)

super yummy quiche and 2.5 pieces of biscotti left :'(

my marimekko fabrics!!! yay...yay yay yay :D

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it's beginning to feel a lot like christmas

It's the 1st of December and Christmas is 24 days away :).  My most favorite holiday season of the year :).  And yet, I haven't even put up the Christmas tree yet.  I need to borrow Mom's tree from her garden.  We were finally done with one of the Christmas order (one more to go).  I love how these simple tags turned out :) and the Orange PJ from the first Christmas order turned out festive as well :).  I love it when a job is done :).

Christmas Tags using Silhouette SD

Sewmanics Orange Custom PJ

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happy birthday, ms.congeniality

Today's Carina's birthday and we wanted to give her something special.  For someone who has just about everything, Astrid recommended us giving her some blank cards and gift tags, since she wanted these when she saw someone did a personalized cards at JICC Bazaar.  So, I traced her picture, her husband and her lovely daughter and made them into caricatures and printed them.  I've also included some gift tags with hers and Val's face :).  I sewed the pouch, put the cards into a rattan basket and presented the whole package to her :).  We hope you enjoy them, Car! 

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a gift of love ;)

Chia...I told you not to get me anything...I knew you were extremely busy with the wedding and all...but thank you anyway for your wonderful thought ... fabrics from purl and two cute bottles of maple syrups! wow...Can you tell I'm extremely happy and grateful.  Thank you, dahhhhhling :) you're the best!  Ooo and the doily, I cut using my Silhouette SD :)

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a little play with the silhouette :)

I must say...I'm IMPRESSED and very happy :).  I was just showing how the machine worked to my friend the other day :) it worked well :D...This is the second time I've played with it :)...I'll have to start playing with it soon :)

will you have tea with me?

I wanted to make 2 cups and a pot...but ended up with this :)...I love tea...it started when I had a lovely afternoon tea at tea and sympathy before I came home for good.  I used to have midnight tea with my (now) husband...complete with cookies and sandwiches ahahhahahahaha...but Jakarta's weather is proven to be too hot and humid for a nice cuppa hot tea :)...I'd love to go to a nice traditional tea salon :)

under the sea...

another design I made into blank cards :).  The color was a bit light, but I guess it's not so bad. Enjoy!

houses and cars

Finally gocco-ing again :).  And I looove how this one turns out :).  I was so clumsy yesterday, as I was closing my AutoCAD program, it asked whether I wanted to save or not and I chose NO!!!! ARGHGHGH but I've saved it on pdf. sigh...

mr. cookie

cookie is our annoyingly cute little "brother", a dachshund who loves to eat, play and bite my misfits :p

some more prints

up up and away...

on a lazy Saturday afternoon...little old me decided to stamp away these cards with lots of gocco love :)...now my little supply is diminishing.... :(

a squirrel's first love

doily and friends

I love doilies and you all probably knows my infatuation with doilies...So, I tried making a simple doily...next time I'll try a more elaborate one :)...for now, this will do

kokeshi kokesha koke koke shi

Chia and I had fun designing the kokeshis :) It was a lot of fun and we printed them out at home

a cloudy fox

Made a few batches of these illustrations :)...for goodies bag, maybe? we'll see ;)

some more flops

Tried gocco printing again...mmm the whale didn't turn out nicely and the owl's balloon became a mess because I put the wrong ink! and the banner's inks were too close to each other :(...I've learned a few lessons here and there, though...so next time I know not to design anything with different colors too close to each other!