Deal With It, Please...!!!

.......

You know, there are some people out there that really really giving me hard times and tainting my positive energy. Look Sweety, we all have s**t things in our life, let's just deal with our own things and respect others lives. Don't pushed too hard for attentions....really Dear, we are busy with our own s**t. Unless you've also lost your Mom, must deal with the reality that came afterward with your Dad, your new family members, your siblings, etc. Realising that you're getting more distance with your own family, seeing your Dad is getting old and misses his grandchildren, understand that in his heart he's feeling lonely...and as his daughter you can do nothing....Then, knowing that slowly you loosing your Identity after marriage, only known as 'a Wife', 'a Mother', or 'an in-law'. You crafting as a therapy, as a distraction, and also helps you feel 'present'. Last but not least, you feel s**tty with all that (and honey, the List doesn't stop there...yet)...then I considered you get my point of 'Respect each others lives'.

I'm focus with my life and am in my journey to be more Religious now.....so please, don't make me start over again!

What's Up, April?

Ah...yes...such a lazy Mommy...first April post at nearly end of the month!?! Well, let Mommy kiss you first my sweet sweet Angels :*

Thank you Dear, yes it's my birth-month ;), and....hei, we had a TV shot in the house and it'll be airing on BeritaSatu News Channel next Tuesday April 30th (that's what they said ;D). What else...oh, my Andalusian scarf finally has some progress, and ummm...I'm trying to catch up with this Beatles cross stitch.

So....yup, that's about it, anything else are just drama-things that I really fed-up with and just want to spent my energy for my husband and my precious Angels...oooh, lucky you! ;*

Priority *sigh*

Most of the time, Mommy always know how to sort things in the Priority List.....BUT, when it came to Knitting and a beautiful pattern and the thought that it can be a gift....ALL are on the top of the List!

What will Mommy make with these projects? A ha....be patient and see ;)

Hug you now and Hug you later, Angels! :*

When It's Time For....

....a sweet-peaceful-and-harmonious evening with Mommy's Angels (^^,).

Adorable.... :*

When It's Time for...

...a Hair Cut!

...and afterward

Biggest Simple Things

Hi Angels....

Almost everyday is a rainy day here....freezing....but Mommy's still survive ;)

Anyway, two days ago -at a family gathering- I had a nice conversation with my cousin-in-law, Dannii. This lovely lady owns an online Kebaya boutique which produce beautiful and elegant Kebaya. You can visit her online boutique at Inade Kebaya. Since both of us love to create something and sell it...(well, I'm thinking of selling it ;p), so the conversation went on things that we (really) passionate about. I really had so much fun, and miraculously, it became some kind of creative booster for me! AND, I also got introduced to one of her friend who also owns an online boutique and produce her own collection...how great! 

Oh, I'm so grateful with our last talks, Dear Dannii..... I had so much fun, I got new supplier for my shop, I get a creative booster, I even got a slight courage to try taking part on craft bazaar or such. Look what have you gave me, Dannii?! Alhamdulillah, who would expect great things comes from a humble and fun conversation.....I didn't ;)!

So, since I fully recharged, as soon as I got home I picked my hybernating-for-almost-two-months crochet project and said to it..."Don't worry beautiful, I'll finish you now".....

Well, Angels.....what is your biggest Simple thing?

The Last and The First...

...purchased things.


Hi Loves...Enjoying your first week in 2013?

I'll make this post as short as it can be, since I just wanted to share of the last items I bought in 2012 and the first items I bought in 2013...and I'm so excited of the items! So, here it is....

The Last Purchased in 2012

Purchased on the visit to Bandung - December 2012

The First Purchased in 2013

My Favorite Novel and My Favorite Craft Book

How about you Dear? What was your last purchased on 2012? And what is the first item you bought in 2013?

Sleep tight my sweetpies... :* 

ps : I Highly Recommended The Stitch by Stitch book, it's so easy for beginner...so check it out on Amazon!

I lost my Baby Boy

...Hugs my Angels sooo tight...

Oh my God, two days before New Year, and I've got a very VALUABLE lesson. I underlined the word 'very' because it was something that gave huge impact especially for me.

We were at the Mall, at a big Toys Shop, I was busy with Alicia and her Doll selections, everybody was busy with their...things. I was assuming that my baby boy was with one of us, and obviously everybody thought the same about him....that-somebody-is-keeping-an-eye-on-Agasha.....And the next thing we knew, we lost him!

Only God know how I felt, what was inside my head, how I running around searched for him with blurry vision, how trembling my hands was that is so difficult for me just to push a button on my cell phone so that I can show the security guard my baby's picture when reported of my missing child.........only God knows.

Then, when he asked me what outfit that my baby wears, and I answered "Jeans!", like he understand how dying I was he straight away told me to go to the Information booth on the Ground fl. immediately because it was already informed throughout the speaker (thank you Sir, may God Blessed you the rest of your life, Amin). Unexplainable how I could run that far and that fast with my plus size figure, but I do believe this is what you called a Mother Instinct. 

Alhamdulillah, I can hug my baby again. I kiss him, I hold him tight, I apologized to him over and over again....tears all over me. I cried of fear, I cried of relieved, I cried of regret, I cried of happy, I cried of everything. All I know, I have my baby back.......

It was a devastating moment in my life...the worst! God, please don't let me feel it again, I got the lesson.....yes, I surely do got the lesson! There was no blame put on someone's name. It was purely the Adults fault. My failure, as a parent....*sigh. ALWAYS make sure I know precisely about my children's supervision. NEVER think that someone will automatically keep an eye on my babies! Whatever it is, Parents responsible to their Children!

Mommy is holding you tight now my dear Agasha...

Kiss and hugs your Children everyday,every minute, every second, every breath of your life...please!

POTD

Hi there Dear....

Last night when I browsed at some knick-knacks online shops, suddenly I have these cute ideas...and it has something to do with burlap....yup, BURLAP! A rather uncommon type of fabric to use other than sack, but surprisingly when I typed BURLAP and clicked Search on Google Images...Wow! Beautiful stuff and ideas popped on my monitor. Some of them was pinned on my Pinterest board, but I'm still gonna share some of my favourites here...

If you want to experiment using Burlap, what will you make? Kindly share it with Mommy, I love to read it ;)

Take care my Dearest Angels... :*

Into The Blues

Morning, Dear.....How are you guys doing? Hope everything is good and smooth ;)

I really really need some mood injection here, I mean like Super seriously need it! Well, nothing bad going on or something upsetting...nope, none. In the contrary, I'm in the process of losing weight --it's my 2nd week and I lose 2 kilos yeay for me-- and am about to start a shop...so I'm so exciteddd!

BUT, Mommy is over excited now Mommy is got overwhelmed with it. Yup, when you sooo excited of something, you had so much plans and ideas in your head...and suddenly you just don't know where to start and get anxious about all that...................Oopsy! That's exactly what had hit me on the last three days :( 

Seriously, I became grumpy and moody and felt like having an anxiety disorder...so low.

This morning, I said to your Daddy "I thing I'm on my lowest point of my mood level"....And your Dad just hug me and kiss me and gave me that 'Everything will be fine, Honey' rub in the back, and I feel oh soooo relieve... :)

Sometimes, all we need is just expressing what's in your heart and mind.....and releasing some of that heavy burden on your back. There is limit in every person.

Have a wonderful weekend my Sweet Lollipops..... I Love You guys :*

POTD

Hey Hooo.....!!!!

And if you all wondering, it's Pins Of The Day.... ;D

Actually Mommy was doing the pinning last night...really late at night, so late that I couldn't made to blog about it. Yup, I was carried away in the Pinterest world and soooo hypnotized with tons of  Dream Room pictures on the Google Images....wooo,spooky @_@

Naah, I'm just exaggerate it ;). BUT, I did found some beautiful pictures  that I pinned on my Pinterest, and I'm more than HAPPY to share some with you (^^,).

Dream House Board

I Love This...Board

Pretty, huh!?! Oh, there are a lot more of these pretty ideas on my Pinterest. And you all so much welcome to see them ;)

Earth Calling...

....Mommy!....

I'm still here sweet pies, Mommy is still here....just a little bit distracted ;D. Yup, it's always be one of my weaknesses, to be too concentrate...too focus whenever I learn something new or making something difficult or whatever that's need high attention. And sometimes when I'm on this 'mode' I tend to be Mrs. Cranky...hehehe...bad effect, huh!?

What is it that I'm focusing on? My Knitting Lessons! I'm learning to Knit now! It's not as easy as Crochet, you know...waaay much harder I may say. On crochet, if I made a mistake on my stitches or miss a stitch, I can figure it out easily. But with Knit, a drop stitch means start from the beginning! I'm on my 3rd project now, and still find some difficulties getting through the-after-cast-on rounds/rows. Plus, now I'm trying to make a basic hat using DPN (Double Pointed Needles)....I was so close to change to crochet it instead :p

Well, just a little bit of Mommy's update, I'd better continue my Knit again :). Wish me luck, Angels....Love you :* ! 

New Word from My Boy

Ain't He Adorable?!

ps : 'Susu' means Milk 

Ain't No Stepford Wife

Hi Honey.....

How's your day, Dear...? (^^,)

I just did a little catch up on the newest post on childhood101 and read some old post when I nod and nod and nod to read this particular post :

Mum in the Hot Seat: Life is not meant to be picture perfect

Oh yes, sometimes I do forget that chaotic is includes in the package the time a baby is arrived in the house. No wonder I'm often times feel frustrated when every times I managed to make the room neat and second later the room looks like it has never been cleaned...guess I'm hoping something impossible (-_-').

Back on my single life, it was so easy for me to keep everything manageable and organize and neat, especially since I'm a perfectionist and organized person. So when babies start coming in, and then they start to walk and start on thinking that every stuff in the room could be some kind of entertaining, that is the time when I started to pull my hair off......As well as when I started to cut my hair short and start the 'everything is maxi' collection in my wardrobe, that's because my time is cut off for dressing up my children first. When it's time for me to dress up, it only enough to put on my lipbalm.....I repeat : just putting on my lipbalm!

So, when I read what had Kellie wrote, it takes me to remember again how often Aisya always said how beautiful I am when we were going out, even when I only wore my face powder and lip gloss. And how she loves to play beauty salon with me and pretending she shampooing my hair and then says, "I want my hair long like yours, Mommy"....Also, as far as I remember even though my house is not as neat as a Hotel room, it also doesn't required to be on The Clean House show either. Hence for that, I totally agree with Kellie that :

1. Beauty doesn't lie on how shiny my shoes are
2. The House doesn't have to be spotless ALL the time
3. Sometimes I need to let go (in my case, I need to be more flexible ;p)
4. It's the simple things in life that often brings the greatest joy... :)

If I may add another lesson that I learn from my children is....Don't forget to have FUN!

My Spot

Pardon Monsieur....that is Mommy's Spot...!

WIP List

Nope....it isn't 'Work In Progress'...it's WIP for 'Wait in Progress'.....

Hi Angels...  :*

Hi September....I welcome you with lots and lots and lots of yawning.....hmmph...

Finally our helper are back and ready to work, so thank God The Routines will be back to normal....yippi yaayy yeay! And yes, I think a Back Massage would be an offer that must not be rejected...oh, I need that soooo baaad!! BUT, before I could have the luxurious treat, I still have a list of things to do :

1. Make a review of Mister Maker Workshop yesterday

2. Make "Basic How-To" tutorials of Veritas Famula. It's a request from one of my reader ;p, but I haven't        decided it yet of how I'll do it...by video or by pictures...???

3. Working on crocheting Aisya's Poncho....it's 60% done already but I still need to wind 2 more skeins of           yarn :( . "Honey, I really need the Yarn Winder...." - The Seducing Queen -

4. Start on my Knit Lesson with my new Knit Kit.....hooraaayy!

5. Wait...but I also need to sew a sewing machine cover.....!?!

6. .....or can I have a nap for a while....????

Sewing Project - Quick Pants

Hei Babes........

Last night Mommy already shared to you my Veritas story, my first sewing machine story. I also did a trial to get used on using my Veritas, so I made a baby pants, an easy one for a newbie like me ;p. It was awkward when I first worked on the sewing machine, still NEED to adjust on the rhythm between the foot dynamo-the needle-and the right gesture on guiding the fabric. Do you know how hard it is just to sew a straight line!?! 

Okay, like I did mention on the previous post how I often spent my time browsing on free video Tutorials on Youtube, and yes I subscribed to a lot of craft channels. One of my favorite channel is TheCraftGemini, you can find easy-to-follow video Tutorials of Sewing, Quilting, and Cooking, and yesterday I tried to make a baby pants based on how is taught on the video. So....let me share you the step-by-step pictures....Notes : I'll just give some short captions on each pictures since this is my first project (oh, I'm so embarrassed as the sewing rookie ;p), but I'll be giving you the full video tutorial on how to make it (^^,)......

Choose a baby pants for the template and place it with the long side of the pants on the folded side of the fabric, like in the picture below.

Trace it on the wrong side of your fabric

Don't forget to add 1/2" for seam allowance, cut it, and do another one with the same steps.

Now you'll have two pants patterns.

Unfolded the two patterns, match them together with the right side facing each other on the inside, as in the picture. Pinned and sew both of the Crotch.

Irons to smooth the pants lines. I also found it easier to sew the legs without the need to pin. 

Now we can sewing the legs part, then hem the bottom of the feet.

I'm using elastic for the waist.

And.....Voila, my first baby pants!

If you notice I'm using the zig-zag stitch when making this pants. Why...? Because my straight stitch is a big mess! I need to practice on it a lot! Another mistakes I made was the waist. I didn't measure it properly. Remember the baby pants I chose for the template? It's using elastic and on the small size of it. Now, the right thing I should do is to stretch it to get the original measure of the waist.....like in the picture below :

All in all, I'm pretty happy with the result, and of course I have a lot of Notes to be fixed on another projects to come. After all, a perfect Diamond needs a long process to make....got it!?! Now, as I promise before, I'll give you the video of How-To from TheCraftGemini....do check out her channel on Youtube, so informative and so much helpful. Sweet dream Sweet Pies.... :*