new rug

the right one was found at Ace Hardware. not bad as it was on 50% discount PLUS 25% spent from the citibank's card point rewards.

the left one is the 'before' version, which we got from sami's mom. and there's also another 'before' version, which we got from a store in Ambassador Mall-Jakarta about 5 years ago and was used to decorate our bride & groom's room back in November 2005. 

so what do you think of the brand new one?

happy lunar new year

vintage paper parade

(found via poppytalk)

i'm not celebrating anyway :) just sending away some good greetings for all of you who's celebrating around the globe!

on the day we had: banana pancake for breakfast, baked macaroni for lunch, paprika chicken ala dapursaya for dinner. went for groceries in the afternoon after meeting sami's friends in a mall's foodcourt. 

it was raining all day. i think that should be a good sign for the chinese new year, huh?

closed the day by watching 'the tigger movie' on playhouse disney with nataya, who reaaaallly loves the movie.. 

it's only us

since sami is in town only on weekends, i (and perhaps nataya, too) am really really really looking forward to having him on the weekends.

we usually go out on saturdays: mall-ing, eating out, doing outdoor activities, etc. and spend sundays usually at home, doing various stuff: cooking, cleaning, re-arranging stuff, etc, while re-charging for the monday: sami's heading back to J-town early in the morning, me giving morning lectures, and nataya going to school.

monday is the hardest day of the week (for me). while friday is the, oh.. most wanted, hehehe :"> because he usually arrived home on friday nights :)

now, it's thursday already. and i just can't wait for tomorrow night!

feedaway

i thought nataya's portable chair was the best :D

nataya, 19 months, Bali.

until i've found feedaway, a cardboard portable feeding chair from belkiz. sure it must be very light and handy. (via craftzine.com blog)

this product actually reminds me of ImageNation's cardboard products (backpacks, and some simple furnitures) from my hometown, Bandung. i've googled them but i couldn't find anything. too bad..

anyway, there will be another Pasar Seni ITB on October 2010. anyone care to join in opening a booth? ;)

hat & crown

inspired by dita (via the urban mama's article), i decided to entertain nataya in making one. but it didn't went well because i was too lazy to create something fancy for decorating the hat. i just use the newspaper itself for making the flower :D


see, it doesn't look as beautiful as dita's, huh? ;)


nataya didn't like the first hat very much, thus she asked me to make her a crown. yes, a crown. while i was cutting the newspaper into a crown shape, i wondered where she got the idea of crowns, dresses and princesses. i myself never played any princesses' movies nor read her any princesses' books. hmmm..

after she got the crown, she asked me to make her a dress (!!) which was impossible :P so i just change her t-shirt and pants into a batik dress :D


but the crown itself looks like a padangnese crown, doesn't it? :D 


then i remember that i have seen a tutorial of making crowns in the book that i bought before. and after a couple of days, tadaa.. this crown looks better than the newspaper one, isn't it?


anyway, nataya is having varicela aka chicken-pox since last Friday. she's getting better now. but we still have to wait until the rashes are ALL clear, then she could go back to school. phew. she's been absent for a week and i guess it will be one week to go.. be patient, dear ;)