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    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!!

    How’s everyone doing? I’m sorry for being late in posting this season’s greetings..  I hope you had a great time celebrating Christmas with your family and friends and have a wonderful holiday for you all!

    Happy New Year to you too! As you know, each year I always write that time flies by so fast..  and it is.. there are still so many things I haven’t done and so many things that I want to do.. yet this year I only finished one or two tasks..  those list of plans from last years and the years before are still kept on my bucket list :) I am hoping  that next year I can make them all come true hehe..

    Also this year I don’t get the chance to make any Christmas or New Year greeting cards . I don’t even have time to visit my friends or relatives neither. As I have been very busy with my newborn baby girl! Yeah, another new role for me..  become a mother hehe.. I will tell you more about it on my next post :)

    Well, anyway, I hope that whatever your resolutions are they can be achieved next year. And all bad lucks or troubles that got you this year will not be getting you again next year. I really hope that you will reach your dreams, achieve your goals and be blessed with a better health and wealth :) Amen.

    Oh, and before I go just wanna inform you that during the holiday, my crafts boutique is closed starting from last 23 December until 03 January 2013. However, should there are any question or information you need, you can still reach me by e-mails only. And also, there will be more new products coming up next year! So please do check out the website or facebook page to find the update info :)

    Once again, Happy Christmas and have a wonderful New Year’s eve celebration!! 
    Take care and See you!


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    Hello everyone!

    I miss you all so  much! Having been away for quite some time busy with work and also preparing myself to welcome my little one to the world within two days! Feels so nervous but excited at the same time! Please wish me luck!!! :)

    I'm getting bigger and bigger and now it's even harder for me to sit on the floor :D yeah, it's now commencing to the final weeks of my pregnancy.. although actually the baby is coming earlier than predicted! So I have to catch all of my work and hand over them to my warmhearted colleagues :)

    It's difficult to concentrate to what I'm about to write now.. as it's already 7 am and I must get ready to work so I kind of in hurry :) Well, just wanna say hello to all of you and let you know that I'll be away for about another one week before I can get back to my blog again :) I also just want to upload the latest drawing I made to welcome the baby hehe.. yeah, I had to finish the drawing so fast because I could't stand to sit on the floor for more than an hour :P so yes, just made a sketch, save and uploaded it to the blog :)

    Okay, I've got to go now to take a shower and go to work.. yeahhh, it's just two more days before I can have my maternity leave!! yipeeeee, after 7 years of working in the company I finally got a three months maternity leave!! What a blessing! :)

    See you all soon and take care!

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    Hello everyone! Hope you're enjoying your weekend :) 

    Today I want to upload one of my digital drawing to join the Digi Drawing Challenge at Crafter's Digital Art Centre, you can find their link on the side bar. It has been quite long time since the last time I join their challenges and am hoping to join more often in future :)

    Anyway the theme for this September is Does Your Dog Bite/Does Your Cat Scratch (Pets) with Falling Leaves (Fall Inspired Theme). I decided to draw one of my cat who is playing in a pumpkin. well, my cats love playing in a box or in a plastic bag and get their hair dirty from scratching leaves :P although we don't have fall season here but I'm sure my cats will love playing in a pumpkin and even sleeping in it :)

    I created this digi drawing using  adobe Illustrator. I actually made one image in black and white and another one is in autumn color.

    Good luck to all participants and do visit the Challenge at Crafter's Digital Art Centre web here as they have so many challenges and inspiring images! :)

    See you all and take care!


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    Hello everyone! Hope you're doing well :)

    Tonight I'm going to  upload one of my greeting cards which is made especially for my hubby who had birthday on last Saturday. The card as usual is a very simple one made of some scrap papers (oh yess I have tons of them at home! :)

    Well, I only draw my hubby face on adobe illustrator program and used blue line instead of black.. I didn't do much editing so actually my hubby's face is a lot more handsome in real life than my drawing haha :D  
    I gave this card to him at midnight at 00.01 exactly :D coz I want to be the first person who congratulate his new age :P at that hour we still had time to go to the nearest fast food restaurant and I bought him a small tiramisu cake and put the card beside it :) (Yep, don't be surprise we like to have some snack in the middle of the night :P). He was so happy with the drawing although I'm not sure if he really saw it or not coz we were kinda sleepy and hungry then :P

    Anyway, the next day he said he likes the drawing, so it was a bit relieving for me :D but ofcourse he said that it would be better if I could made him looked a bit skinnier (believe or not I draw it from his photo three years ago before he gained weight!! :D) Well I don't care whether he's fat, skinny or whatever.. as long as he remains faithful, responsible and a true wonderful hubby that would be enough for me :) Although he wanted me to cook for him as a gift but I'd rather took him to have a candle lit dinner at a small restaurant (which a thing that we had not done for so long :) coz honestly I didn't have enough energy to cook for him that day :P

    Happy Birthday once again sweetheart! May God will always protects you, may all your dreams will come true and may you will have everything that is the best! Love you much!

    Thanks for reading everyone :) See you later!

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    Hello all,

    I'd like to say Happy Kuningan Day to all my Hindu friends in Bali! 
    May peace be upon you always! :)

    I actually made the above image to celebrate the Galungan Day too which was 10 days ago, but really sorry for being late to upload it.. It is mostly hang in every houses during the Galungan and Kuningan.. Kuningan Day is the day when the Gods leave the earth. It is believed that the God is leaving the earth by noon. Therefore, it is better for the Balinese to start their ceremony or prayer earlier in the morning and should finish it before noon. Mostly on Kuningan Day, they are not only celebrating it with having ceremony but also by relaxing and visiting family and friends.

    I went out this morning and the road is very empty coz most Balinese people are returning to their villages or spending holiday out of town. Well, I just hope all of my friends are enjoying this special holiday!

    Hmm, I have to go now coz I feel soo very sleepy. Just need to take a nap for few minutes! :)

    See you later all and take care of yourself!
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    Hiiiii everyone! I'm back! :)

    Again, I want to upload another creation I made to celebrate our Eid ul-Fitr day. This time I'm using my own digital stamp. I draw a small dome and put some colorful objects in it.. Just want to describe how wonderful Eid ul-Fitr is :) If you like this image, you can download it freely on my online gallery HERE.

    It's another simple card using my own digital drawing creation and embossed it with my Cuttlebug. I also printed the sentiment using fonts I got from Fonts 101.

    I would like to enter my greeting card to the following challenge:

    Lollipop Crafts Challenge: Challenge # 87 ~ Anything Goes

    Check out the DTs creations and other participants, they're all really great!

    Well, good luck to those who join this challenge and I'll see you again soon! :)
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    Hellooo All...

    Here I am again, uploading one of my handmade greeting cards from my Eid ul-Fitr collections :)

    This is another simple card that I made. I'm using green color paper as it's my favorite color for Eid ul-Fitr :) I'm using stamp flowers from Inkadinkado and Color Box ink pad. In the middle I made my own flowers and also the stitches frame, I layered it, typed the sentiment with special font I downloaded from Fonts 101, printed it on a special ink jet waterproof paper and cut it with scissor. Then I distress it with Color Box ink pad.

    I enter this greeting card on below challenges:

    1. Just Some Lines: Layer it up Challenge
    2. 2 Sisters Challenge Blog: Challenge #105 - In The Garden
    3. Hooked on Craft Challenges: Let's Celebrate

    Good luck to all participants and don't forget to visit those challenge blogs, the DTs creations as well as the participants are all very inspiring!

    See you soon and take care! :)
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    Hello again frenz! :)

    Today I'd like to upload one of my Eid ul-Fitr/Eid Mubarak greeting cards. I made it using one of my charm collection which I have not used for quite some time. But not only for Eid ul-Fitr, this card can be used for any occasions..

    It's a simple and blank card. I only made a small frame embossed by Cuttlebug then colored the edges using chalk from Color Box. I put the charm in the middle of the card on a black paper :)

    Well, I also enter this card to join the challenge with  Digi Doodle Shop Best called Challenge 121-Use a Charm.

    Check out their website and see the beautiful DTs creations and other participants! :) Good luck to those who join the challenge!
     
    Take care everyone and see you soon!


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    Happy Eid ul-Fitr to all the Moslems in the world!

    May God gives us so much blessings and peace in our lives! And may we become a better person after doing the fasting for one month. Am also hoping that God gives us another opportunity to meet with Ramadan month again next year! Amen.

    Yeah, as you've known that I don't do fasting this year due to my pregnancy. But still, I enjoy the early morning cooking to prepare "sahur" for my beloved hubby :) I'm gonna miss Ramadan month so much and again I wish to meet with it again next year :)

    Since I'm taking this holiday season as a chance to get some rest from my working place. I used to go to my home town and visited my mom, but not this year as I couldn't get any cheap ticket until last minute :P So I decided to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr with my hubby only and our baby in my tummy :) We really enjoyed our time together. Watched tv, went to my hubby's friend wedding, bought some cookies, beverages and some cleaner stuff :P Oh yes, we're just staying at home and cleaning all the mess :P

    But this year I'm glad to have the chance to create the above greeting cards for some friends and sent them through by mail. I wish I can make more designs but I haven't got much time and energy to finish all :P I also make the e-card version which you can use freely HERE. Simply click the e-card page and it will direct you to these cards :)

    Well, not much i can write here but I hope you had a wonderful Eid ul-Fitr day and a great celebration with your family and friends! Amen.

    Take care of yourself and See you soon!

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    Hello all.. hope you're doing great! :) 
    Today I'd like to upload few digital drawings that I made and some greeting cards too.. But first, I'm going to upload my newest digital drawing which was to celebrate the 67th Independence Day of our country on last August 17th! Yeaahh!!! Long live Indonesia :)

    This year I draw a Gunungan, complete with symbols that describing how rich our country is well, it is far from perfect though :) Hmm I have no idea what "Gunungan" means in English. Gunungan is used by Indonesian traditional puppet show (wayang) which symbolized contents of the world. It is a puppet with a mountain shape and its contents. It is also used to starting and closing the show, to rising action, to acting as land, forest, to symbolizing forest, fire, wind, land, road etc following the Dalang (The Puppeteer). It is also use as a symbol that all puppet characters and the stories do contain high philosophy teaching on wisdom.

    Myself, I'm using Gunungan to describe how rich our country is. So therefore, I draw fishes, trees, rice and chain (as a symbol of unity in diversity). Hoping that our government and the people realize that we are rich in everything so we must be able to use our nature wisely and human resources, be more independent, do more positive works, care more to unfortunate people, clean the corruptions and all dirty politicians from bottom to the top :P Thus, we can move forward to the challenging future. Otherwise, we'll be stuck here with nowhere to go except waiting to get more loans from other countries and put our country "On Sale"! Embarrasing.. but I think that's what has been happening now! :P

    Anyway, I won't be complaining more about my country and its terrible political conditions. As I believe it happens in every country! I just feel grateful that so far despite of all the bad things here, I do love my country very much and I have so much hope in it! :) I will try as best as I can to support our local products and community coz for now that's the small thing I can do :)

    Well, should you like to have this digital drawing, you can visit and download it freely at my online gallery HERE in jpg format. You can use it for your personal projects!

    Okay, this is all for now! 
    Thank you for visiting and take care of yourself! :)







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