when he's around

last monday sami took a day off, and tuesday was vesak day, a public holiday. so he stayed longer with us, not only on the weekend but got extended for 2 days more. yay! when he's home, he usually spend most of his time in the kitchen. lucky for me and nataya :) like last tuesday, we got home-made bread for breakfast, roasted king-prawns for lunch, and dinner.. err, we didn't do much, we just fried some pempeks from my mother :P






in the afternoon we went to Bandung Carnival Land, a new mini playground in town. nataya got really excited there. when she knew that she could ride a vehicle more than once, she got more excited. while her mother got a bit worried on some vehicles' safety.






more pictures of the playground, take a look at our flickr set.


oh by the way, last weekend, k.e.d joined tobucil's crafty days #05, which was really fun and exciting. will write about it on the next post! ;)

souvenir batch

ouch! this story actually happened at the early days of 2011, such a long delay, hihi. anyways, i've got a souvenir order from a girl who was getting married at the end of january 2011. she wanted the say-it-with pencils with a sophisticated packaging in a vintage feeling. i came up with some ideas, but finally we decided to cover the pencils in a granny chic feeling with flowery fabrics and lacy ribbons.

she ordered 125 packages, each with 2 pencils in it. the saying on each pencil was (1) Ari (heart) Lrz are officially married!!, and (2) Ari & Lrz 'till death do us apart..

i sewed all the packaging by myself with some help from my mother. truthfully i am a newbie in sewing and i think this was my new commercial project in sewing. it went smoothly though the sewing machine got troubled at the last pouches, haha.

the girl, Laraz, was satisfied with the result, as she told me via sms: (1) "…Cantik sekali.. I Love it! Thx yah.." (2) "..Iya sudah aku bongkar, thx jg gift nya pokoknya aku suka bgt.." glad she loved it though i was one day late in shipping the whole batch (oups). but i made in on-time :)

it was fun doing this. though a bit exhausting as the deadline was pretty tight. thank you Laraz for trusting k.e.d stationery :) *bighugs* 

congratulations

yay! i've got the names of the giveaway winner already. nataya helped me last night picking them up randomly.

the first name was..

of monsterijo's doodle, 

who will get the second set (patterned 12-month-journal and say-it-with pencils).

and the second name was..

of lana's playmate,

who will get the first set (stripes 12-month-journal and traditional-toys greeting cards).

yay! congratulations winners! ;) i will wait until tomorrow (wednesday) at 12 PM for you to claim the prize, otherwise i (err, nataya tobe exact..) will pick up another name. please email me via kotak.emas.design(at)gmail.com. thank you ;)

and for those who didn't win, no worries.. better luck next time! ;) thank you all for participating, really appreciate it. *hugs*


UPDATE: since Lana (the winner of the first set) didn't claim until last night, i decided to pick another winner. and the new name was... *drum rolls*

of word, mind, soul,

who will get the first set (stripes 12-month-journal and traditional-toys greeting cards).

congratulations! please email me at kotak.emas.design(at)gmail.com, anindita! i will wait until today at 12 PM. thanks :)


(more) UPDATES: anindita wrote about the giveaway on her blog. yay. big thanks!

belly painting

one of my besties, Kirana -- a make-up artist, asked me to draw on her bump for her personal maternity photo-shoot. i wasn't really sure what to draw or paint. though i'm a graphic designer, i'm not really good in drawing nor painting, lol.


she told me i could paint anything i like/want, but i know that deep down inside she wanted me to paint a neat tribal (oh well -__-") well, actually i did, but i wasn't really happy with the result, so i won't show it off here :P but, i was quite happy with the other one, this simple painting :)







anyway, Kirana gave birth to her second child on April 3, 2011, 6 days after the photo-session. it was a baby girl, named Refana Ayesa. Picture taken from Farry's (the dad) facebook :)

is that reaally youuu?

featured on Genie, a local tabloid, last week's edition 1-7 April 2011. thank you for Rahmi (writer) & Rahmat (photographer) who came along the way to my place in Bandung :)