Octopus!

End of school year, and this time the class performance is presenting the "growing' concept, how the children will grow and move on to the higher class, and with that to make the children realize that things around us are growing too, such as plants, animals, people.

I borrow an octopus costume from my friends, but she lost the head, so we have to make one, and I got this pattern , loveeely pattern from Purl Bee website, it use to be a bunny hat, but we transform it into an octopus hat, and it turn out to be a very comfy hat, I've got to make more of this for my self, isn't it cuuuteee.. :D

*and about the costume, kids loveee the tentacles,
Dian- your costume is grrrreat!

Bunnies!

Happy Easter to you!
We're surrounded by bunnies, look.. :D

:: Our new bunny, Peanut, isn't he cute, he's only 4 month and like to be pat, what I love about him is that I can  carry him around, almost like a cat :)

:: What my daughter bring back from school, a bunny and his egg!

:: again, bunnies finger puppet. I made this for a Pay it forward project from my friend Anne, it's about making something handmade and share it with your friend, and I though about making this cute bunnies project from Purl bee, you can make one and download it here. And you know, I'm so lousy at stitching hehe.. hope it'll improved after these bunnies finished :D

Totoro Pepakura

He come over to my garden and give me a biiiig smile, isn't it great!

I've got this totoro pepakura from my friend, she's been crazy making pepakura for his boys and herself, and send me this totoro pattern, and I love it!

Welcoming school holiday

Not yet, but we already make a plan, it would be great to have a to do list,
this is ours:
1. Making a octagon shape ball, from a triangle shape origami. I'll post it as soon as we succeed making it.
2. Teaching Mika to play 'Dampu'
3. Make a terrarium
4. Go to the planetarium, wish us luck, last time we didn't make it, it's full of people and the ticket was sold out! *_*

there.. 4 plan to go, more to think about..

:: Lily the dolly, she's our favorite right now.. :)


















more fabric for her clothes and box for her bed, beautiful Lily.. :)

















:: Sunface Pizza, easy to make, yet delicious, and price-friendly heehe..

Origami for toddler

We love origami!

Not the difficult one :)
We love the simple one, easy to make, easy to laugh at, easy to play.

































Our favorite is this one, the helicopter, I'm amazed that it could fly and turn so smooth, bless the inventor!

Try this at home and have a good laugh.. :)

Egg and Chicken

Happy Easter everybody!

This is our Easter'chicken' muffin, and one of my friend says that this is a porcupine, oh dear oh dear! I use cheese instead of shredded coconut :)

See the recipe and ideas from Martha's :)























:: Not to forget the eggs, too!

Color it!

Mother and daughter


















A drawing of Mother cat and her daughter on canvas
Acrylic paint by Mika

She's so excited with her first canvas media, honestly I'm rather confused on how to direct a 5 y.o. to paint on canvas, but this is the result, and I cannot be more happy about it.. :)

Old crayon trick


















Gather up your old crayon, put it into an old jar, and melt it by putting the jar into a boiling water, Voila! You've got a brand new rainbow colors of crayon now!

Mysterious Benedict Society


















And this one surely color up my day! It's from Ella, my illustrator friend, the stories are good, the illustration are beautiful, thanks Ella! I can't stop reading it now, and it reminds me of the famous five too, my favorite! Look at the little witch, isn't she cutee...

The Costume- Leaves Children

This is the sketch for Mika school performances on March 2009 for the 'Leaf' costume, there will be a modifying here and there for the costume, because of the budget, and a lot of great new ideas from the parents. I really like the process, soon as the costume is ready, I'll make sure to post it right away. And there gonna be a children 'butterflies, caterpillar, zoo animal, grass', and many more, aren't they cute!

Advent Calendar

Minggu ini kami mau membuat tradisi baru menjelang Natal, tradisi apa sih.., ya sebenernya lagi kepikiran aja untuk membuat satu kegiatan tahunan yang pengennya sih ditunggu2, ngak usah yang ribet, dan ngak usah yg mahal, yang penting asik dan semua bisa ikut, moga2 sih bisa sukses :)

Kegiatannya bikin advent calendar, jadi setiap hari menjelang Natal mulai dari tgl satu sampai 25, kita bikin list kegiatan yang mau dilakoni bareng2, kalo buat orangtua mungkin 'event buang jauh2 jaim' sebagai orang tua wehehhee! Belum kepikiran 25 hari itu bakal ngapain aja sih, at least udah ada beberapa, dapet ide dari orang2 kreatif didunia maya sana atau yang memang bakalan available dilakukan, yg udah kepikir baru ini:

1 Dec: Menghias pohon Natal
2 Dec: Menghias kandang Natal
3 Dec: Cari kado buat emak/ saudara2
4 Dec: Joget bareng pake lagu Natal
5 Dec: Cerita Natal
6 Dec: Kasi peluk dan cium kesemuanya, dst..
:)

What about making an advent calendar now? Let's get busy like a bee and enjoy it :)
This is my list, I'm gonna need advice here, just let me know if you have a good one, thank you!

1 Dec: Decorating Christmas tree
2 Dec: Decorating the Nativity diorama
3 Dec: Find the Christmas present
4 Dec: Play a Christmas song and dance
5 Dec: Tell a Christmas story
6 Dec: Hug and kisses for everybody



:: Ini kantung2 yang belum jadi buat ngisi kertas yang sudah di list perhari itu, pake kain felt, tinggal tempel2 dan lem, masih 14 hari lagi yg belum dibuat fiuuh Kadang rusuh bikin kegiatan itu bikin pusing, tapi dibalik itu memang ada kenikmatan tersendiri, sering kan kalo usai satu hari raya, sesudahnya kita rada2 jetlag karena kehilangan ke rusuhan itu, jadi sekarang nikmati dan buatlah!

:: Unfinished pouch for the advent list, 14 more to go!

Socks critter workshop on ICE

Last week I was asked to give a socks critter workshop in the ICE- Indonesian Community Expo, it is quite a fun experience, for it's been a long time since I give my last a presentation in front of people,












and the audience is fun too, mostly because they're also a mom like me and mostly coming from the next booth - a cooking and cakes decoration Community- they're so friendly and funny ha!













So this is the critter that I made the night before the workshop, we name him 'Gembot' means Fluffy, welcome to the community Gembot! :)

See the instruction of the socks monkey from Hanna- here-
thanks Hanna you're fab!

Welcoming November!

November berartiii..... 2 bulan lagi ke hari Natal,
Mika suka nanyain bulan sekarang, hari ini bulan apa, ma..? Kalo besok bulan apa? Dia kira bulan itu sama dengan hari, kalau hari ini Bulan November, besok itu bulan Desember.. , dan kalo saya jelasin besok itu masih November sampai 30 hari seterusnya, mukanya berubah... 'Maaaaah, kenapa masih lama siiih!??'

Ini beberapa aktivitas dibulan November, sengaja saya cari yg berbau2 Natal, dengan tujuan buat menenangkan dia hehe..

Snowflake
Kenapa disini ngak ada snowflake ma?
"jadii.. kita buat aja snowflake dari kertas ya, mik!?"

:: Ini versi snowflake standar yang persegi enam :)
















:: Jadinya kita tempel dikamar, buat dekorasi, saya bilang, ini pohon Natal kamu.., keliatan kah? Itu... , diatas kepalanya dia :)




:: Ini yang versi 3Dnya, yang ini baguus deh.., nah dibawah itu cara bikinnya, tinggal klik aja ya, moga2 ngak bingung :o)

Cards and stamps

Phew! It's been a busy day lately :), forgive me dear blog, for I don't have time to talk to you lately

I introducing 'the cards' to Mika, I mean 'the cards' because it's my collectible card since I was 11 years old, and it becomes a vintage cards for her, I'm surprised she like the games a lot, and it is a very interesting way of teaching win and lose thing to a child.














We also make a stamp from potatoes, it's quite nice, though I end up making a really weird stamp from it, the art knife really a tricky tools for me- hem!






















:: It's supposed to be a 'bird' and a 'window' heehee!

Fly birdie! Fly!

A little project. a little bag. for a little girl.










well not really ' little', but for me she's always be my sweet little niece :)
A freedom concept, showing a girl freeing a bird into the sun. Something between a self actualization in a responsible way, searching something useful and positive. Fabric paint on canvas bag

make and enjoy

:: We do this shirt painting last week, I sketch the cow and Mika do the rest of it, it is a night project, and it is fun to do. I have this project in my mind long time ago, and finally we did something with it, and of course one project will surely follows by the others .. mooo...!























:: And making projects makes you hungry of course, a quick recipe, pastry with choc chips and cheese will do











:: Then, we make markisa-nade from this, and the sour-sweet-taste surely boost your energy level, we pick this up freshly from my sister garden, it is so nice to see all the fruit just hanging there and we could pick it just like that..

New member of the house- Prudy the 3rd sock critter

We welcome him yesterday,
a sensitive guys with an unbalanced smile and ears, sshh.. but he can hear everything that you say about him, he like to pretend that he's sort like a fairy, with a lot of flower blooms all over his tummy..

actually my daughter want a moose with glasses, but I though a moose will be to long to make, so here he is, Prudy - the purple sock critter- the ideas is from the Flickr group Quirky sock critters
They make such a cool critters from socks! I just love it.. :) Welcome Prudy!

Simple Critter and Stencil

Whoa.. I never though stenciling could bring so much fun.. Thanks for Amanda from soulemama, this is our first attempt doing some, I think we're gonna do it a lot from now on..

The first one is a success, so we try to make a bunny drawing on a shirt, but it seems a lot more chicken than a bunny.. :)





I think the little artist get a little too excited here..

Stenciling *in bahasa
1. Kertas bungkus nasi, yang coklat baliknya ada plastiknya itu
2. Gambar di bagian yang tidak berplastik
3. Potong gambar dengan art knives, supaya rapih- bagian yang dipotong adalah bagian yang nanti akan diwarnai
4. Setrika, nanti si kertas bungkusnya nempel deh
5. Warnai dgn cat tekstil
6. Copot kertasnya.. tadaaa.. jadi deh!








:: Again- critters from socks, fast version- the Ocmo..- Octo Monster.. . Note: I have to make one fast project, the easier it could be the better, or I might be ending doing it alone.. :')

:: Lagi- boneka dari kaos kaki, kali ini versi cepetnya... si Ocmo..

It's all about eggs

This is what we do last Easter, all about eggs, and thanks to the internet about the tips on how to blow egg, it's so simple and it is so nice to do an egg painting, wish we have know it earlier!


















:: 2 hours project- Each egg painted with poster color, sketched with marker, dried.. and finishing with clear pylox, and their name is 'looney- grumpy and eerie'.... *-^






















:: Instant project- Construction paper egg, I cut a few shapes for Mika, then she decide to make her own egg design..



















:: really-really instant- Plastic egg with many colors, and a timer self potrait project- make sure that the camera is in the safe position! :D

Done!

At last, the Christmas present it ready, here he is.. Leo from Little Einstein pillow,

cross fingers, hope she like it!

Happy things before Christmas

It's a little bit chaotic in our house lately, Mika got a cold and fever, dateline to catch, house to clean* I think I'm gonna left this one :).

And present, ooo.. the Christmas Present..., I forget how a child never forget.. and she remind me..

"Mom, is Santa's gonna come..?"
" Yes, dear, what do you want for Christmas..?"

" Leo- mom, the plastic one..*Leo-that famous- eyeglasses boys from Little Einstein..??

"... -pause-... mmm, what about the pillow version of Leo..? I don't think Santa have the plastic version.."

" Umm.. ok then...mom! I'm a good girl mom! - grin-"

Ok dear, then a pillow with Leo character is on the way.. wish me luck!

:: And, a Christmas Card from Ella, not only one illustration, but two..! A singing cat and mouse, and a little cutie elf on the back cards..

Thanks El, I really loved it, it's sooo beautiful! You can check Ella's work on her site, and be amazed :D

:: First timer baking.. :) we enjoy the process..
It's a Christmas sugar cookies from The Joy of Baking, what I love from this site is, they provide the measurement in grams, yaay..!

IF- Little Things

Being brainwashed by Ghibli's movie The Cat Returns, I represent my family as a cat family.. :)

I've been looking all my illos and found out that my most favourite objects is cat.. number two is monkey, and this week IF topic could bring them both perfectly :D

From all the little things I've done with Mika, this is what we do last week, making a new member of the family. We haven't named him yet, but he's surely an adorable little thing.. :)
Thank you very much for Hanna for sharing her tutorial, please go here for making you own socks monkey, it is fun!