make your own one-of-a-kind plushie.

Step ONE

- Prepare your tools for battle ; felt, scissors, floss, stuffing, needles, anything you want to use in your plushie. Keep it close to you so you don't have to panicking searching for later use.

Step TWO

- Prepare the sketch, design, doodles, or just use your imagination straight!

What? no idea?

here's a tips ; Do anything that are really personal and close to you, it didn't need to be something fancy or hard stuff. Your beloved pet, your family, or just plain cute things like kitten or puppies will do. Just have fun with it!

For this time i'm making my beloved snow foxi ( note ; this is my hubbzy's signature )


Step THREE

- Transfer the design into the felt, I'm using just pen to do it because it's faster - or sometimes just do freely whatever cute stuff come in my head at the moment XD

Step FOUR

- cut cut cut cut cut...la la la la ( ok sorry no photos, i forgot to take it, just imagine I already cut it ok ).


Step FIVE

- Before attaching all the parts, better do the embroidery first ( trust me for this). I use the back stitch, satin stitch, and for the eyes I use weaving stitch.

Try this site, it have almost all the embroidery tutorial and it's really easy to understand.

let's begin to stitch! be careful not to accidentally poke someone with your needle.

tips : be patient! enjoy the pain-staking moment...uh oh... :p

Step SIX

- Add a little teeny-weeny heart for your lovely plushie. Why? Everyone need heart of course!

Attach it in the back of the plushie ( now you can see all my messy stitch, oh my ).

Step SEVEN

- Make your personal signature. It can be your name, nickname, logo, or anything you fancy. I try to make my logo but since this is my first time, well, close enough! XD

Step EIGHT

- Now let's join all together and stuff it, use some beans or rice for the bottom part also so it can sit on their own : 3

Step NINE

- It's done! free to hug it, play with it, admire it, and give it lot of love. Don't worry about some error or imperfection too much. It's what it made it more special one of a kind.

Here's the final one with the close up detail :

Have fun!

welcome to my world - artwork

I have to admit, i rarely make some drawing for someone else. It's because i'm shy and scared they didn't like it.

I didn't trust myself. That is, my drawing skill.

That was the past. The past me.

Now i realize that i need to trust myself if i want to go forward. That i can do this.

For the first time ever ( i think this is really the first time ), i push myself to ask my fellow bestie who is a great illustrator also ( check her blog guys here ), to think of some theme for me to draw for her as a gift.

After a day, she said she want a red whale ( that after a while i just realize that was her icon, lol ), a boy, and a city that resemble Russian Saint Basil's Cathedral.

I know she like a fantasy and conceptual theme as much as i am,
so i was thinking to make this all in some container,
i imagined a bottle, to represent that this is her imagination inside her head,
a world inside,
and she welcome anybody who want to look inside it.
Anything can be happen inside it.
A playground, imagination, a world inside.


so here is the outcome,
welcome to my world.

hope you like it :D

the colors of autumn.

Mother nature are the super-artists of all who create most of the beautiful artworks ever. Like i've been mention before, this is my first time to experience autumn in here and it was gorgeous!

Many times i read in some fairytale or books talking about how pretty is the autumn color. I never imagined i can see it until now.

Here's some of the pictures i took to share for you all :D

Enjoy! ; )

What i've learned 24022012.

Some week ago, i have an urge to eat chinese potsticker ( jiao zi ). I want to make it myself but get scared of failing it.

Then i push myself at last to make it, and it turns out well and nicely even the look of it not so promising i think, here's the evidence ;

The taste are pretty same with what i remember when i still in Indonesia. I really happy that i tried it, it's not too hard actually, i will make more of this later.


#Life, is the same. 


We always afraid to do new things for the first time, after you try it and experience it yourself, you eventually gain more courage to do it more and making it better. 


Learning from your mistake in the past and move on into new challenges.


Sometimes we scared at first before even try it because see or hear other people said it is hard. But until you try it yourself, how do you know if it really hard? who know if it really easy?


It's like when you open one door, 


the other will open also for us. 

5 awesome daily sites to feed me with creativity.

Everything can be the source of inspirations. From books, daily objects, people, anything that you can think of. But I find up that this 5 websites are the most awesome one to feed you daily for inspirations.

Just click the title list to bring you to the sites :D


1. Pinterest

Currently the most powerful site to highly boost my inspirations.

From craft, art, cooking, gardening, design, almost anything you can find it here, allowing you to *pin* anything from all over internet and make your digital inspirations board here.

I like this one because i don't have to worry for making too many bookmarks on my browser ( i hate clutters ) and forget which is which i want to see it for my inspirations.

You can create many boards whichever you desire, and every time you pinned something, you get the links also automatically.

Neat :D

2. Google Reader

Google is really a lifesaver ( for me ) ; from mail, this *blog* ( of course ), documents, etc, and this one is the most awesome one from it. You don't need to worry to miss updates from blogs you love, or open a lot of tabs in your browser. It's simple, sleek, and easy to navigate.

It's like subscribing a magazines and send straight to your door everyday.

Definitely worth to try :D

3. Deviant art

The place for all art lovers *lurks*.

Tons of artworks uploaded everyday, you can also, of course upload your artwork here and show it to the world.

Good for making a portfolio also, they provide an easy DA-folio for making a straightforward-portfolio-website for free.

Nuff said, just try it! :D

4. Craftgawker / weddinggawker/ foodgawker / dwellinggawker

Another newly website that I found from Pinterest. Mainly craft, wedding stuff, home, and food interests. Constant daily updates because everybody can submit their own. Its pretty straightforward, you see the thumbnails, click it, and it will take you to the website links.

Fast, easy, and an eye candy satisfaction.

5. Evernote

For you who like to organize and hate clutters in your life, this one is the must-try.

You can put notes, links, drag-and-drop photos from your desktop, clip articles, and lot more awesome stuff. It is a cross platform friendly so you don't need to worry if you want to save inspirations that pop suddenly into your mind ( that darn spontaneous inspirations! ).

Did I mention it's free? you can, of course pay the premium one which give you more additions.