Are you a beach comber?

Lombok. Apa yg ada dikepala lo waktu denger kata Lombok? Pedes ato pantai? 

Lombok buat gue ya pantai ya pedes :D.

Waktu hamil, ngidam jalan-jalannya hore banget. Semua symptoms sama bad mood hilang seketika kalo udah jalan-jalan, apalagi jalan-jalan ke pantai hehe.

I was in my 3 months of pregnancy at Nipah beach

 Pantai Nipah ini pantai yang paling sering gue sama Ndut juga temen-temen datengin. Biasanya kita dateng sore hari buat baca buku, berenang, makan ikan bakar ato liat sunset.  Pantainya ga terlalu jauh dari rumah, sepi dan cantik. Hampir ga ada ombak disini, airnya tenang dan jernih. Berendam sambil mandangin langit sore hari, cucok banget deh.

mengejar sunset di pantai nipah

Don't forget to bring your fav things. They will be your best friends.

Salah satu daerah yang punya pantai-pantai sepi dan cantik adalah Sekotong - Lombok Barat. Dari pusat kota ke Sekotong bisa makan waktu hampir 2 jam. Ada beberapa gili (pulau) yang bisa didatengin didaerah Sekotong ini, tapi mostly orang-orang biasanya dateng cuma ke tiga gili aja (Nanggu, Sudak dan Kedis).  

heavenly heaven - Batu putih beach - Sekotong

anchored in Gili Nanggu :D

Nobody's around here on weekday. The beach will be yours.

Snorkeling and feeding fish is MUST activities, here.

You can meet Mr and Mrs Starfish easily, here.

And... we hop to the next island.

having lazy-time with the breeze under the trees in Gili Sudak

the floating house

Suatu hari, Ndut pernah ngajak gue ke Gili Kondo dan Gili Bidara - Lombok Timur barengan sama seorang tamu cewek dari jakarta. Waktu itu gue lagi hamil 3.5 bulan, jelas seneng banget diajak datengin pulau-pulau cantik yang ga berpenghuni. Nyebrang ke Gili Kondo butuh waktu sekitar 25menit dan ombaknya, OMG, kalo siang-sore hari guedee banget dan lmyn bikin parno. Tapi ajaib, baby bolang ga abikin gue mual muntah, cumaaa.. gemeter yang ada karna takut nyiahahaha. Tapiii, semua terbayar sama cantiknya pulau-pulau ini.

I call this place, The Blue Heaven - Gili Kondo

Gili Bidara View from Gili Kondo

one of heaven's path

Kita sempet muterin Gili Kondo sekitar 30menit, pulaunya lumayan kecil kok tapi lumayan bikin gempor juga. Dan kerennya kita bisa ngeliat pulau-pulau lain juga Gunung Rinjani dari Gili Kondo. wow!

Me with Gili Bidara view

Rinjani mount's breathtaking view 

Sayang banget ga sempet foto di Gili Bidara karna air yang surut dan kita disuruh cepet-cepet sama yang empunya boat.
Daaaaan akhir kata, enggak nyesel gue tinggal di Lombok. Biarpun disini sepi, jauh dari rumah bonyok, temen-temen, mall, toko buku bagus, tempat nongkrong asik, bioskop, tempat kuliner, dll, tapi disini banyak pantai-pantai cantik dan ga ada jalan macet yang bisa bikin gerah. Udah dulu ah postingan pantai-pantai cantik di Lombok kali ini. Entar dilanjut lagi, yuuuuuk.

Hello Jackets!

Olalaaa I'd love to steal my little time to do sewing (this is the way to keep me fresh and sane) in my daily bustle. I wake my girl up at around 7 after the "midnite playtime" - which makes me go back to bad habit, coffee. After having sunbath, we'll have a fun bath time. Then my girl will let her mom to do the chores and do other household things in about thirty minutes or more than an hour if she's just being nice :p or only five - ten minutes when it's her fussy time. So, when I meet my sewing goddess in such little time, I'll make it as precious as gold (too much) hehehe. Since I haven't found a heart-matched jacket for my girl, I sew some.

Paws & Pink Blossom

The Pink Blossom inside

the label - gempitalagi

This jacket below - I prefer call it a cardigan - use silky felt fabrics (usually used for wrapping a baby) so, it'll be comfortable to my baby.

the polka and the yellow fabrics

Hello polka cardigan

go babyshoes go!

When I was in last semester of pregnancy, the good mood of sewing comes back. oh thank god! I'd been lost without it. I was really enjoying to sew some nursing dresses, making baby needs and other stuff again, day and night! It really drove me crazy, yeah sewing is such a great boost for me to keep me alive :P. And making these baby shoes were soooooo fun, I made them in a day!

pinkbabypink - fully cotton fabric

 

yellowbabyyellow - felt outside cotton inside

hellopolka - felt outside cotton inside

a story in a baby crib

I like sewing something which the idea just suddenly popped up in my head and I'll be working on it directly. Like these three dolls (Luna-the cat, Tarra & Nolla -the rabbits), the pillow & bolsters covers, and the hanging mobile that I sewed before my lil' girl's arrival. They are so quick and easy, fast and dirty as well :)

 And I really fall in love with the hanging mobile. My girl loves it too.

 

Welcome Home Sekar

It's June already, and I've become a mother of a babygirl. on May 4th 2012 baby Sekar was born and i will never forget holding her in my arms for the first time. Now, she is 4 weeks old and always bring cheeriness  in our home. 

Si Bolang's arrival

Helloooooo

How's life? what have you been up lately? 

After getting lost for several months :p finally I'm getting to this post in the first month of this new year 2012. Happy new Yeaaaarrr!!

Welcoming this year means preparing a new life which Ndut and me will have a new member of family, my baby. Yuuuppp! I'm pregnant!! Gue udah berhasil lolos melewati first trimester dengan symptom2 yang menurut gua ngga indah sama sekali (that's the truth), dan hampir melewati the second stage dan yang nantinya gue harus lebih kuat lagi di trimester terakhir. 

Gue berharap setelah melewati masa2 nausea dan mood swing ini, gue pengen mood bagus buat ngerjain hal-hal yang gue suka bisa dateng lagi secepetnya. Gue udah bosen do nothing, gue pengen ngerjain sesuatu! tapi kalo moodnya ngga ada, ya mau gimanaaa T__T

"Don't ever put blame on your pregnancy!"  yap. setidaknya itu yang sering gue denger dari suami gue ketika gue mengeluh karena banyak hal-hal yang gue suka dan ngga bisa gue kerjain lagi karena gara2 gue hamil.

Mulai dari baca buku, masak, menjahit, menyulam, nonton film, nyiram rumput dan taneman dihalaman, dan bla bla bla termasuk nyalain laptop. karena, ketika mau memulai ngelakuin hal-hal itu pasti mual dateng, masih mending kalo cuma mual, tapi ini selalu diakhiri dengan muntah.

yeah, suami gue bener. Walopun kehamilan gue ini diluar rencana kami, gue ga semestinya menyalahkan si baby a.ka si bolang ketika kehilangan mood bagus. Apalagi sekarang ketika si bolang udah jago silat didalem perut, dugem disiang hari yang berasa banget jedak jeduknya, biarpun ngilu ternyata asik juga gilak! hehehe. 

Hmmm yaaa, postingan kali ini udah mungkin cukup membuktikan kalo mood bagus gue sedikit demi sedikit dateng lagi. semoga yah, semoga gue bisa update blog ini lagi. 

aaahhh don't too much ramblings, just let the journey begin! yaay!

cushions for summer lovers

Long time no see!
I don't feel inspired for these couple of  weeks, but I've tried so hard to drew some sketch, applied to cotton fabrics and sewed some cushions..

 

Welcome Home, Baby Ollie :)

Hola!

Enggak sengaja aku nemu (juga) anak kucing di pinggir jalan, di lahan kosong di sebelah sebuah bengkel motor. Entah dibuang sama orang yang sebelumnya melihara atau si emak pus ngelahirin dan ngebesarin di lahan kosong itu...yang jelas anak kucing itu a.ka Ollie nangis teriak-teriak dan pas aku samperin (hampir sebelum dia jatuh ke selokan yg penuh banget sama limbah tuh bengkel sialan) dia langsung lari nyamperin. Firasat ku *halah.. memang sepertinya dia pernah dipelihara soalnya dia jinak banget. 

Aaah tak peduli, peliharaan siapapun di lahan kosong itu, berjenis kelamin cewek atau cowok, aku sama Ndut memutuskan untuk bawa Ollie pulang. Ternyata besarnya ga lebih besar dari tanganku.  Ternyata Ollie masih kecil sekalii...
Sesudah mandi dan wangi, tadaaa!! Ternyata Baby Ollie cantik juga :)

 

Aku tau si kecil lincah ini ga mau sendirian, jadi aku buatkan Nona Loli untuk teman "perang cakar" juga untuk nemenin Ollie tidur. 

Karena memang Ollie punya rumah kardus digarasi, jadi kalau malem Ollie tidur dirumah kardusnya. Dan karena enggak mungkin cuma ditemenin sama nona Loli dan baju-baju bekas untuk alas tidur, jadinya Ollie aku buatin Kasur Hitam Ollie (floor cushion) buat tidur didalem rumah kardus :) 

Ollie, Nona Loli dan kasur hitam ollie :)

Selamat datang di rumah putih kami Ollie :)

June's Gifts

My cousin, she loves frog! I don't know why and I could never get the best answer for every single question. I never see her with a real frog in her hand, feeding or just stroking any frog. But forget it, because she has a lot of frog stuffs in her room. At least it has proven her as a frog lover ;)
She came to visit me in the middle of June, I knew and predicted that she would have special stuffs for me in her hands. Otherwise, I only gave her one thing, I sewed a - postman bag for her.

I drew the frog, hoping that she would love it. Then, one day I -accidentally- found this sentence on the internet "You gotta kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince" It's  perfect since she haven't met her real prince yet :P, but it's a joke anyway :) So, with my hubby's suggestion, finally I embroidered the words.

  well, great! she really loves the bag :)

I sewed a special pouch too for my new best friend in Bali. So glad, when she said that she like it :)

Hey, A Blue Polka Tote Bag!

 I have some fabrics, and I imagined a big blue polka tote bag would be nice to be my hand-sewing collection for this month. But I made mistakes in cutting the fabric, oh I really didn't pay attention to the pattern size. It means that I was too confidence in cutting the fabric, gosh! 

The Blue Polka Pattern & the Three Birds Pattern

And this is it! The blue polka tote bag. Mini!

the label inside

I didn't get a big tote instead. But that's okay, at least I can put my small laptop in this small tote bag. And now, I'm just sort of thinking to make another tote bags, hopefully I'll get another good mood (again) :)