pink and black

aliya from jakarta emailed me the other day asking ideas for her daughter's goody bag. her little daughter, who's going to be 1 year old (last may), loves music. so she made 'rock and roll princess' as the party theme.



i made her 30 goody bags in two color combination: pink and black, with simple rock-ish ornaments at the front. an activity-book which suited the theme, some coloring pencils, stickers and origami papers were the goodies inside the bag.

the idea of making an activity book for birthday goody bags had popped through my mind some time ago, i almost made it for nataya's next birthday. since aliya agreed about it, so why not? :)



as usual, i tried to make them all by myself. very hectic at the last days. glad i could make it on time :) thank you for trusting k.e.d, aliya! and happy birthday to aizka :)

crafty days #5

finally. a post about the event! :D though it was weeks ago, but.. who carees.. :P come, come let's have a little rendezvous ;)

this year i participated as one of the tenants. i shared the table with a good friend from college, Rieninta Astari (Ririen), who brought along her cool hand-printed shopping bags and pouches under the name of Toko Malka.

while i myself had k.e.d stationery displayed at the event. i also bring some new stuff: the fancy stamps, the newest serial of the say-it-with-pencils and hand-printed gift-tags.

i really enjoyed the event, though very exhausted afterwards, but it was all worthed ;) it was very nice meeting other crafters with their beautiful works, talking with customers or just visitors who came by at our table, getting update stories about the campus nowadays from younger alumnus (both participant and visitors), peeking at the craftypreneur forum (really interesting), and got interviewed at the end of the second day, hihihi.

Angel (Paperpleased), Mei (Oma Anna), Siesca (Anything Sunday), Audy (illustrator), me, Ririen (Toko Malka)
and the second day's lunch: yamien manis, it was so unforgetable :P

then at the end of the event, i got myself these stuff :D

Toko Malka's shopping bag, Oma Anna's apple and mint jam, Derrau's woodcut-printed badge, Ojanto's hand-printed fabrics.
and also this pretty headband for nataya :)

oh.. and i found this (keep on scrolling, hihi.. you'll find k.e.d's notebooks) and also this (scroooling, see the pencils, hihi..) after googling :P
more pictures of the event, please visit the flickr album :)

veggie stamp

i remember doing this when i was a child; making stamps by carving potatoes into letters or just simple shapes. to bring back that good memories, i tried to do some simple hand-printing with veggies on a linen, hoping to make new covers for the 12-month-journal. 

and this is the result when stamping with chinese cabbage's bottom. not bad. looks like a black rose to me :P

and this one was using a cut sin qua. looks bad to me, lol. it looks like a moon's surface or something like that :D

 

i've tried to cover the journals with the 'black rose' pattern. take a look here ;)

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*