Hi everyone, how are you all? 

I have been missing you very much. Being away from my blog for so long has making my brain stuck. Well, I must restart and reload it again now on :)

What has been happening in my life lately? Hmm well, let's see last February I was so ready to run my crafts boutique and then all of the sudden something held me back from doing all the important things I must do.. Yep, suddenly something just switched off my energy and power.. My days were filled with nausea, vomiting, fatigue, diarrhea, migraine, shortness of breath and sleep.. I thought I was too exhausted with my work volume at the office..

But then later in April that I found out that I'm 10 weeks pregnant! At first it was so surprising as I don't plan anything or neither pushing myself to having a baby although my hubby and I've been married for nearly 4 years. And the fact that I personally was afraid of having child. Maybe some pieces of my bad childhood experience is still remain in my subconscious :P Ahh but heyy, why should I complain about the bad things that happened to my childhood; coz there are so many happy things happened to me as well that I will always treasure. And all the bad things do not have to happen to my child, right? All that I must do is to make sure that my child will get better life and fill its life with lots of love and encouragement. Amen. :)

So yep after injecting myself with positive thoughts, endless support from my hubby, family, friends and throw all my fear away.. I begin to feel the excitement of being pregnant :)  Yes, the first trimester had really knocked me down, I just couldn't do any activities other than work. Those times of nausea, morning sickness and sleepy nights were the colors of my days. I could only staring at my laptop and cleaning the mess on my crafts desk, but after that I just don't wanna do anything. I was so easy to losing my temper and patience. Going to work was the hardest time but Coming home from work was my favorite thing yep coz I would just jumped up to bed and do nothing but sleep :) My sense of smell was so very sensitive that I hated vegetable oil so much!! I hated my perfume, bar soap, shampoo, fried food, meat and the smell of water :P I even hated the smell of grass!! (which is usually my favorite)  Oohh it was soo awful and terrible!!

Now that I am commencing to my 23rd weeks, things are getting far much better. Yesterday I begin to drawing again, cleaning up my e-mails and website, yes yes I must start again.. But One thing that I have never lost since few months ago is my eating behavior :D yep, I just keep eating and eating and gaining weight ooohhhh.. no more skinny image, no more S/M sizes clothes! I'm just as big as a zeppelin :D But I don't care, just have to find the spirit to work out after this!

And last week when doctor said that I'm going to have a baby girl, it feels so touching! Ooohhh I just hope she's gonna be a healthy girl :) My hubby is so very happy and so are my sisters coz it means we're gonna add another girl member to the family :)

Now I do realize it's an amazing feeling to having this little human growing inside of me. I feel so full of  blessings! I'm sure that all the mothers in this world feel the same excitement. It's just something that I can't describe, coz it's something that you have to experience it yourself. I just pray to all women out there who are trying so hard of having a baby that God will see your effort and answer your wishes.. Just be patience, I believe your time will come soon :)

Hmm it's already 4.50 am here and I must take a break, prepare myself for an early morning pray and things for my work today. I'm so glad it's Friday!! Oh, and if you love the image I made above, I'd be glad to share it with you, just let me know and I'll e-mail you the file so you can use it for your craft projects :)

Bye for now and I'll see you later soon, okay! Take Care!

in the air... :) 

how's everyone doing? great i hope.. Another year has come to celebrate Valentine's day. What have you been planning for this special day as it's the time to spread and express your love. Couples can express their feelings one another by sending flowers, chocolate, gifts or having a candle light dinner. Singles can do same thing as well with their friends or family. Just because you're single doesn't mean you have to celebrate it alone, right? Invite your friends to have a small barbeque at your house and then filled the evening by sharing your story or dreams. You can also take them to go to a theatre and watch those romantic movies together and imagining yourself living with one of those romantic character :D hahaha..

Well, whatever way you choose to celebrate this special day, I hope you will have a great time. For me, sometimes celebrating it in a simple way is much more meaningful. Hmm, in this material world, love cannot make you rich, but hey, if you have love, you are rich and you can be richer if you do everything in your life with love :) Coz most of the time, it is not the price of the gift that counts (although sometimes it is :D) but it is the effort and attention you put to it that counts :)

Oh, before you leave, please check-out my latest e-cards and free downloads (words just like the image I use above) for Valentine special! Visit my web at Plumeria Crafts.

See you and take care everyone! 

Wishing you a wonderful Valentine's Day :)

All this red and gold colors are fulfilling the atmosphere to celebrate this lunar year. The rain that keeps falling down for the past few weeks cannot stop the spirit of the new year. Some says that this is a year of dragon and it's the best time for those of you who wants to make changes in their lives. I'm not sure if that's true but however, it's very interesting! Maybe by knowing the meaning of the year will give us more spirit to keep focus in doing whatever we decided to do. Well, what do you think? :)

Most important thing for me is hoping that my friends can celebrate this lunar year in peace. And although the rain is falling heavily tonight, don't let it stop you from going to the temple and do your ceremony.

Happy Lunar New Year and Enjoy your holiday!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday to all of my family and friends!

I hope you had a wonderful holiday and celebrated it with lots of love, joy and laughter!! :)
It's been quite long time since the last time I updated my blog. And glad to be back here again to wishing you a happy christmas :) You can feel the breeze of Christmas spirit since last month. Lights, flowers, green and red colors and all of those holiday theme are everywhere coloring this island with joy :)  This year I'm glad to give a friend my old small christmas tree as she needs it more than I do. Yes I do like christmas tree because I always love to see how people decorating it :) Although I don't celebrate christmas but I'm happy enough to see my family and friends are celebrating it peacefully.. and that's all that matters, right :)

Well, many things had happened to me for the past few weeks. Hmm, let's see: First, my work volume is increasing suddenlly :P and it has pushed me to postpone many of my personal plans which I regret. Second, I am sad to have to leave my DT task at AI Factory Graphics :( even if I enjoy my time there but I don't think I can fulfill the responsibility. I am very thankful to Asma the owner and other creative DTs with the chance they gave me. It was wonderful experience working with them! Thank you all and I'm gonna miss you so much. Third, my hubby and I have just finished moving all of our furnitures and stuff to the new house, the great thing is it's nearby the beach (well, not by the beach though :P only nearby the beach about 5 minutes drive with motorbike) and next week will be our first night to live there.. sooo excited :) And last but not least, I'm now in the mid of preparing a simple online craft store with a brand new name :P Actually I have missed my own deadline for this, but well, sometimes we have to put aside our priority for more other important things..  anyway, once it has finished I will surely tell you all about it :)

Those are at least few things that had happened to me. And although I am not a part of AI Factory DT now but I do suggest you to visit their site and join the challenges, you will not regret it as they have lots of great digital stamps etc. and you will learn a lot from the amazing creations of the DT :)

Ok, I'm off for now! Once again, happy christmas all and enjoy your holiday!

Hugs, Ika

Hello there,

It's been a while since the last time we had challenge with AI Factory! It is sad that we also have to say goodbye to our talented DT Leader Tammy has stepped down due to her personal reasons - she's such a wonderful person to work with and we're all gonna miss her so much!! - Now it's with a great pleasure that we welcome her replacement who is one of our talented DT - Petra -! Goodluck with the new assignment, Petra and we believe you can manage the challenges very well! :)

Some changes on the rules is that Petra have changed the day of our challenge so instead of THURSDAY, she has decided to run it every WEDNESDAY. She wanted all of you to have more time to create you project! great, huh! :) And another thing is that you don't have to use AIF image, but if you do then you will have the chance to win two digital stamps!! how cool is that??!! :)

Okaayyy, now here's the challenge for this week, the theme is Something red, use anything that is red and our DTs are using the Christmas Birdie image which you can find here. It is soo cute and we love it and it can be used on every occassion too :) 

Below is my card for this challenge

Here's a card I made to celebrate this special day'

My drawing theme is Qurban animals Camel, Lamb, Goat and Cow which are partying on heaven :) and I added a short sentiment too hehe.. Since I'm still learning to draw and to use Adobe Illustration so I have to say that I'm quite happy with the result hehehe..

 

For this card, I used Prisma Color Pencils for the coloring, Rose paper pattern from scraps that I collected :P then I used a wood embellishment and small organdy ribbon..

 

That's all and hope you had a good time celebrating Idul Adha this year and for those of you who are starting another working day tomorrow --that includes me-- 

Happy working and may the sun will always shine your days!!!

See you next time and I really appreciate you're stopping by here! 

Hi Everyone,

Glad to be back here again for another challenge from AI Factory Challenge Blog.

This time the theme for this week's challenge is Autumn. I hear that fall is coming in other part of the world! We don't have autumn here but we do know that the colors of autumn are sooo beautiful!! I love it so much! :)

 

Well, we are now using a gorgeous stamp above designed by Mia. You can have it too actually by downloading the image on AIF website here and you have to do it asap coz it will be available only in a very limited time!

So, here's a simple card I created for this week's challenge:

 

 ~ Image Fall: AI Factory-Mia; Image Maple Leaf: Ika; Coloring: Distress Ink and Prisma Color Pencils; Embellishment & Ribbon: Caramel Craft ~

Ok, now, it's your turn to show us your creation! Please visit AIF Challenge Blog HERE for more details and you will have time to submit your project until 11:59 EST on Wednesday, 16th November.

See you there and Happy creating!!! :)

Hello there! It's time for another new challenge at AIF graphics! :)

This week's challenge theme and image is chosen by one of our talented DT Anne. The theme is Friendship and we are using this adorable image of a cute puppy and a lovely kitten! Soo cute that you just wanna play with them everyday :) love it so much! Oh, and you can download them free but in limited of time, so go visit the website now and grab it while you can :)

~ Image: AIF Graphics, Sentiment: clear stamp Stampendous; Images bones: my hand drawing using black drawing pen 0.2; Embellishment: jeweleries seal; Coloring: Prisma coloring pencils ~

Myself, I'm making another simple card for this challenge.. I printed out the image on the card paper and stamped it with "Friend" sentiment and embellish it with two pink of jeweleries seal. I gave soft blue and green colors on the sentiment background. And I draw bones on each side of the paper.. I also cut their heads and attached it to the card paper using foam tape..

Now, it's your turn to show us your creation! Visit AIF graphics HERE to see the details and to upload your project! The challenge runs from Thursday, 6th October until 11:59 EST on Wednesday, 19th October, So you've got plenty of time to join the challenge!

Happy World Card Making Day everyone!
At last I can upload this card after struggling with my internet connection again ;P

 

Anyway, for those who love card making, I believe it's a great feeling to celebrate a card making day! :) I don't think words are enough to describe it. Myself, it's always a great feeling knowing that although we never meet but we are sharing what we love doing and celebrating it with the rest of the world..

 

Hello All!

Hope things are going well with you! today I'm posting a new challenge from AI Factory.

The theme is Tri-colored, so you will need to use any 3 colors on your project.
The challenge will run for 2 weeks again so you have plenty of time to join us :) For this project, we are using the Ella Fairy image chosen by one of our talented DT Petra.
I'm a big fan of Ella images so I'm sooo very happy to play with her again :)