New Members

We got new members. Anthemis & lavender from a nursery near my parents-in-law's place, Les Jardin de Saint Eloy, adopted in April 18, 2013. And, four plants adopted from Troc Plantes event (by ASELQO, Orléans): aster, myosotis, chlorophytum & oregano. I also got one package of flower seeds. In that Troc Plantes (April 20, 2013), everything was free alias gratis...

Anak makin banyak...

Welcome back, mint!

Setelah periode tidur panjang selama winter, tanaman mint saya tumbuh lagi...

* photo was taken in April 16, 2013

A Short Holidays

Our little trip to Lyon city was amusing. The weather was so friendly and the children were quite cooperative :)

*Traffic jam in Lyon on Saturday

We stayed at our friends' house, they had a nice garden with some flowers, herbs, a cherry tree and some other plants. I learned some new things about gardening from my friend. And because of her garden, I wanted to buy some flowers for my balcony garden. I will buy...!

And then I could meet one of my Indonesian friend & we shared much about gardening & sewing. Then the next day, we could spend a nice time together in a flea market where she found a nice sewing box for only 5€ *lucky her*.

The last day, I finally visited Toto in Place Louis Pradel. It's a fabric shop that I wanted to see since I was still living in Lyon (I don't know why I didn't go there before, I passed that shop couple times). Bon, finally I did. In general, their collections were not as complete as Mondial Tissus, including the sewing notions. But if you want to find not expensive cotton fabrics (5.90€/m) for practicing sewing or making simple projects, you can find some in Toto.

* Some of fabrics at Toto shop

In the same arrondissement with Toto (Lyon 1), there is one Asian store that sells Indonesian products (Indofood, ABC, Bamboe, Kobe, etc). So, I happily did a fun shopping in that store where the seller still recognized me. Wow... Anyway, I have Indomie again now *penting*

Mall. We noticed that there are some new shopping malls in Lyon & we visited one, Confluence shopping mall. Of course we visited La Part Dieu too, I couldn't miss that, euw... (I grew up in shopping malls in Jakarta >_< ). But Confluence is every... interesting & different. The area itself is quite new. At first we wanted to take a boat trip in that area but the information girl said it was not opened (I mean, the boat trip) because the water level was too high (it could be dangerous). So, okay... Shopping & Starbucks then... (gosh, my Jakarta's lifestyle was still here...). While my husband & my children were busy playing at the Apple Store, I spent time alone shopping. Muji store has various boxes to organize things like... fabrics, patterns, threads, notions. Drooling...

* Some MUJI containers for my sewing things

* Plants! Inside Confluence

* Ondine or Silvermist in her winter costume, at Disney Store Lyon Part Dieu

My Little Star's Bday

It was three days ago and the birthday was celebrated at her school. I think I like the idea of celebrating my kid's birthday at school... Making my life easier :D

So, compared to last year's birthday, this year we only prepared 2 yoghurt cakes with chocolate, 26 sachets of chocolates and bought 4 liters of orange juice. We took all to the school in the morning and voilà... done. When I picked her up after school, my daughter looked very happy. That was her first time celebrating her birthday at school.

One thing that made her birthday different was... the Tinkerbell theme. The second cake was decorated with a Tinkerbell & Periwinkle cake topper (rice paper). The sachets of chocolates were with Tinkerbell pictures inside (I printed those pics). The paper bag to carry the sachets was a Sephora bag covered with Tinkerbell picture(so we couldn't see the Sephora logo). And on that special day, my little star was wearing her Tinkerbell t-shirt... :D

A simple birthday but it gave a big result. 

Happy birthday, my dear... Love you always...!

PS. And this is what I did with the birthday cake leftovers. Cake pops! I just mixed the cake in a food processor, added some Nutella and a little bit butter. Then my little one and I made cake pops... Yum, yum...

Nursery plants' shopping

Hari Minggu kemarin, toko Botanic ramai. Spring spirit :D Semua orang semangat menanam. Seperti yang direncanakan, saya membeli tanaman tomat ceri & strawberry. Basilic citron kebetulan tidak ada di toko itu (adanya 2 jenis basil yg lain) jadi saya ambil benihnya saja.

Yang bikin tambah senang adalah semangat si kecil dalam membantu saya mencari tanaman tomat (yg posisi raknya berubah, tak sama spt tahun lalu). Dia sibuk menunjuk2 tanaman dan terlihat senang sekali saat kami sudah menemukan rak tanaman tomat. Sempat juga dia meminta saya untuk membeli tanaman bunga berwarna pink. Pokoknya pink. Hmm...

Inilah anggota baru... Tomat & strawberry...!

Fabric Macaron

This is my first attempt in making macaron coin purse following the tutorial from Craft Passion.

Here some notes I made during the process (in Indonesian language):

- Lebih baik bikin kedua meringue-nya dulu, setelah itu baru prepare zippernya. Ini spy bisa ngepasin ukuran zipper ke body meringue. Terakhir, baru prepare lapisan dalam
- Pas jahit jelujur di pinggiran lingkaran kain (utk meringue maupun lapisan dalam), usahakan jelujurnya bener2 pendek2. Pas diserut bakal lebih rapi
- Lapisan dalam macaron bisa diganti karton ukuran yg sesuai krn susah ternyata motong pentulan metal (foto menyusul)
- Pas konstruksi, usahakan jahitan antara meringue & zipper tidak terlalu mepet supaya zipper ngga stucked pas dibuka
- Apa lagi ya...

Sekian dulu... Kalau ada tambahan, pasti disusulkan :-D

Gardening, Early April

Sudah memasuki musim semi tapi cuaca masih saja dingin. Terkadang ada hari dimana sinar matahari bersinar dengan indahnya, masuk melalui jendela-jendela besar di ruang utama, menyinari tanaman-tanaman kecil yang tentunya sangat senang menerimanya... *sok tau :D *

Benih cabe rawit yang saya semai bulan lalu mulai memperlihatkan daunnya. Tadinya saya pesimis karena lama bangettt euy tumbuhnya... compared to others seeds yg saya semai berbarengan dgnnya. Saya pikir benihnya udah jelek jadi ngga mau tumbuh.

Dan, ini beberapa foto terbaru, tertanggal 3 April 2013... Cilantro, spinach, chilli, lettuce dan chives. Kale bleu masih hidup, aman. Tapi kemarin itu ngga ikut foto karena malu * :p *. Kalau citronelle yg saya tanam tahun lalu, masih sehat juga... Kapan2 difoto.

This weekend: beli tanaman tomat dan strawberry...! Yuk!

Tambahan:

• Yang sudah disemai tapi belum tumbuh: kangkung tanah, kacang panjang (tapi nanti akan dipindah ke kebun mertua kalau udah agak tinggi), edible capucine dan bayam Indonesia.
• Yang akan dibeli (nursery plants): tomat ceri, strawberry dan basilic citron
• Vide jardins dekat sekolah si sulung: Place Dunois 28 April 2013. Dicatet!

Buttons

Kancing magnetik & kancing snap metal (yg biasa digunakan utk pakaian jeans).

I prefer the magnetic one. Easier. Tp ada jenis kancing snap metal yg lain yg ingin saya coba *hunting*

My Sewing Corner

After a long weekend, as usual, I had to clean up. Clean, clean and clean... Like I did today. With the little miss running around partout & asking so many things, I couldn't make all rooms cleaned. Well, at least the main room was done.

The sunshine was great, the little miss was on her snack time, so I took some photos of my sewing corner. It's a part of our main room (living room - dining room). I can not use too much space in this room so my fabric stash is in another room (bed room) - not in this pic. I also have some beading & wire working supplies (from my first crafting activity) and they are all in our dressing room (again, not in this pic).

I don't think this neat view will stay for long time since I have a "production schedule" on Wednesday night until Friday. We'll see then... :D

Happy sewing!

Silvermist Costume

For the school carnival, my little one wanted to wear Silvermist (Ondine in french) costume. Silvermist is a friend of Tinkerbell. Because the weather has been so cold (still! You know it will be spring in couple days... kerr...), so I worried if she used the usual fairy costume.

Well, according to one of Tinkerbell movie, the winter version of those fairies' costumes also exist. With a little research and some days of design planning (design planning? ^_^ But yes, it took couple days to decide & make the design), I finally made the Silvermist costume on winter.

I might missed some little details (especially for the wings) but It's fine. My daughter was totally happy... She gave me some hugs when she saw the costume finished (almost finished). And she smiled a lot when she saw the mini wings.

Total working hours, probably 5 hours (not including the design & the material hunting process). Four hours for the coat, one hour for the wings (the first one I made was too weak, the wire was not strong enough so I had to change). The headband was easy peasy :)

Ah yes, the pattern I used for the coat was Anya Dress from Petite Kids Boutique (in Etsy). I modified the below part & the belt.

And... Look at her photo... Trop mimi... :)