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Little things

December 8, 2010life

I joined a small cooking class in the neighborhood and they had a Christmas potluck party yesterday. I always got nervous whenever I have to meet people, and this time I had to make something edible for them! The fact that my skill in the kitchen is not something to be proud of didn’t help [...]

Tagged as: food, heat packs, sewing

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Birthday giveaway! – CLOSED

November 30, 2010life

Thank you so much for all the sweet messages on my birthday post! I’m sorry if I couldn’t reply to all, but I read all the messages and they brought a warm feeling to my heart. Sidra was not feeling well and he didn’t go to school, while my husband was working at home, so [...]

Tagged as: birthday

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As time goes by

November 30, 2010life

I’m 39 years old today! … Some people has said that I look a little bit younger than my actual age. In fact, the reaction people made when I told them my age made me felt like I’ve just confessed a big lie. Of course I didn’t lie, I just didn’t see any opportunity nor [...]

Tagged as: birthday

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Recycled pants

November 28, 2010kidswear

My husband has a couple of pants and jeans who are no longer wearable due to some rips on obvious places. After being worn and washed so many times, the fabric has became soft and comfortable to the touch, unlike stiff brand new denim. I thought they would make good pants for Sidra, after all [...]

Tagged as: jeans, pants, Pattern Drafting book, refashioned, sewing

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Bye bye Baon-chan

November 22, 2010making other stuff

Have you ever heard of a wonderful project called Softies for Mirabel? The Mirabel Foundation is based in Melbourne, providing help to children who have been orphaned or abandoned due to their parents drug addiction. Once a year, they collect handmade softies for the children so they can have a friend to snuggle down with. Before they were [...]

Tagged as: cause, doll, sewing, toys

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Here she goes again with the wriggling pet

November 20, 2010life

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Sorry if you don’t like our cute pet! It’s time to change the soil again for our Colombian Hercules larva. Today was such a shiny day, it was nice because the larva wouldn’t get exposed too long to the cold autumn weather. We keep the larva in a big plastic case filled with special soil [...]

Tagged as: beetle

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Grey jacket

November 11, 2010womenswear

Another pattern from Pattern Drafting vol. II, this is from page 134 and it is called The Onepiece-Coat Ensemble (it is spelled that way!). I only made the coat and made several changes to it. It was shortened into a jacket since I only had one meter of the fabric, and three buttons are used [...]

Tagged as: coat, jacket, Pattern Drafting book, sewing, vintage pattern

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This makes me happy

November 9, 2010life

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4XP9Tbu7Yk&w=500&rel=0 Acoustic version of ‘Pack Up’ by Eliza Doolittle.

Tagged as: music

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Autumn dress

November 4, 2010womenswear

This is one of my favorite pattern book, Pattern Drafting vol. II, it was bought several years ago in a secondhand bookstore in Indonesia for only $1! The book was published by Kamakura-Shobo Publishing in 1970, it shows how to make a basic bodice pattern and how to use it to draft patterns for blouses, dresses, [...]

Tagged as: dress, Pattern Drafting book, sewing, vintage pattern

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Featured in Sew News!

October 29, 2010bags and purses

I’m in a magazine cover! Well, at least my handmade organizers are ^_^ If you can get your hands on the newest (December 2010/January 2011) issue of Sew News magazine, you would see five organizer wallets featured in the cover. They were handmade by me! You can see the cover in the Sew News facebook page here. [...]