DIY: Carton Milk Wallet

"Create your own toy," we learned it from our parents. Now it's time for us to teach our kids to do the same.

So our project is creating a wallet from carton milk. We got the instruction from Disney Family Fun (link)

There you go! Now don't forget to bring that wallet when we're going to grocery, kids!

Smocking Dress

Smocking? Seriously...I did it! It's not as hard as you think. This is a simple project of smocking dress. You can find tons of tutorial on the internet.



Yayyyy....I couldn't stop jumping around when I did it!

Rose Fabric Necklace

Another fabric necklace? Yess...I'm totally addicted of making them. The fun part is I don't have to deal with chain, plier, etc. Only glue, thread here and there. I made video tutorial for the rose, but I'll post it soon *lazy mama*.

Fabric Ring Necklace

Stacy of Hart+Sew posted this nice tutorial. I was browsing around of fabric necklace images through flickr, then I ended up at her blog. It's really easy to make and I have all the materials. Not all actually. I use a cardboard (that've been used by my kids...see the doodles) to substitute the plastic ring as she suggested.

And here's the pictorial :
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Wrap them with something soft first to give them a plumper effect.

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Look! Piece of cake!

Spring Summery Dress

Ohh Dana I heart you and I heart your crafty life. When I first saw her tutorial in her blog...I feel like...I have to make this one. This is a great way to reuse one of Dad's old shirts...too cute! Unfortunately I didn't have one. I made it with a new fabric.



Check here for the tutorial.

Batik Skirt

You have no idea how I love fabrics scrap. These batik skirts made from fabrics scrap of my batik dress. I didn't use pattern, just use my imagination and feeling :D

Dish Towel Dress

I bought these 2 packs of dish towel at IKEA. 1 for my food photos property and the other 1 sat nicely on my pantry. Actually I was thinking to make cushion cover but there weren't enough fabric. So I decided to make this little dress (it's not long enough, tough, you'll see it as a top). Like usual, I didn't use any pattern.

Handmade Hairband

What I love about having a daughter is making sweet&cute little thing like these ;). I don't like spending money too much on their accessories because they are easily get bored and often forget where they put their accesories. Making one on their own or making together with me, will teach them about creative process, how to save money and how to appreciate handmade products.

Look what we've made together! We only need scrap fabrics, lace, assorted button, beads, colorful ribbon and elastic ribbon.


cute&romantic hairband


sweet pink hairband


pink my way hairband (arwen made this)


funky&edgy hairband (leia made this)

That's our crafty girl!

Home Sweet Home

It's been almost 4 months,since we moved to this new apartment. And we love it. It has more bigger room and playing space for the kids.

2 years in the old apartment and we had such a really sweet memories. Especially in our artful life. We've done so many artful things.



Now we have a new nest. New place we'll fill with artful things. New chapter in our journey.

Food Photography Contest Winners

I was on vacation when David Leite from Leite's Culinaria e-mailed me. I'm so surprised that he told me about my Chocolate-Ginger Crinkle Cookies photo goes to final.

It was the only photo I sent for this contest. I didn't have much time to try another recipes and to make so many photos because I was preparing my vacation to Indonesia.

Then at the beginning of the September month, Allison from Leite's Culinaria e-mailed me. Yayyyyyy!!! I'm so thrilled that I made it as a second place winner.



Now, I can't wait for my $200 gift certificate from B&H Photo *dora dancing*