Easter Bazaar Preparation (part 7)

Time flies...four more days to go!! I am so excited about the bazaar. I can't wait to display all my handmade on the booth. These few days we are working really hard to create more and more cute items for the bazaar. I said we, because it's a team work, not solely me. My husband, my sister in law, my son and me. We are working together. How do my 4 year-old-son help me? his smile of course ^^ he is my vitamin.

The making of Dadar Gulung

 My sister in law was a great help to me...(sorry ignore the pillow behind ^^')

 Texturing the Dadar Gulung

Dadar Gulung is Indonesian traditional pancake. Instead of cream and maple syrup, Indonesian Pancake is filled with grated coconut and brown sugar. If any of you would have a chance to visit Indonesia, make sure you try this out. Exotic snack!

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Ta da....the finished products. We made them into wearable accessories!! ^o^

From left to right .. Kue Pepe Betawi, Dadar Gulung and Biskuit Gula. 

All these exotic snacks can be found in our traditional market, but these exotic rings are only available on our Bazaar ^^ don't miss it...they are limited 

Working with style ^^

Biskuit Gula Necklace - Vintage style

Choco cookies Necklace - Vintage style

Miniature Terrarium Necklace 

Pastel color Macaroon necklace - Vintage style

Below is the picture of the GIVEAWAY bag charm!!!!
I collaborated with one of my favourite Bag charm designer on Instagram (kirashoppe) to create this super adorable bagcharm. We picked Little Twin Star - themed bag charm.

How to join the giveaway?

First, you have to be in Jakarta...I am sorry to overseas friends or those that not living in Jakarta, but I promise I will hold another online giveaway soon in the future. All friends who live in Jakarta, you can win this bagcharm by just simply dropping by our booth at the Easter Sunday Bazaar on 3rd April 2016, and write down your email and Instagram account on our guest book. We will random pick one lucky winner and announce it on Instagram and email the winner.

So...save the date and please drop by ^^

Details of the Bazaar

See ya...

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Easter Bazaar Preparation (part 5)

It is true that young people are more creative than we are older generation. My young sister in law threw me a very interesting idea for my glass dome necklace. I never thought of it and I was so delighted that I started to make them right away.

I believe all my fellow Indonesian friends sure know what these white stuff are ^^ I call it our staple snack lol. It's our traditional crackers made of garlic and flour. We call it Kerupuk Putih (white cracker). There are some that made of fish, too, and we call it Kerupuk Ikan (Fish cracker). It smells fishy but it tastes heavenly ^o^

 This is the picture of the original Kerupuk, slightly bigger than adult's palm

Usually they are sold in this typical green tin can. You can find these at almost all local food restaurants in Indonesia, especially Warung (food stall at street side).  

I made two version of the Kerupuk necklace, one is round glass dome and the other one is tear-drop shape glass dome.

There will be only two are available at the Bazaar. Don't miss it ^^

See ya..

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Easter Bazaar Preparation (part 4)

After making miniature plants for more than two weeks, I shifted to miniature food for refreshment. I plan to include miniature food  for the up coming Easter Bazaar, too. Last weekend, my sister in law came for stay over and tried her hand on clay. She made me Wow! for a first timer, she was very good! She is a graphic designer. If you are interested to see her works, you can check her Instagram and her Blog out. She has wide experiences working in one of Indonesia's top publishing company. If you need someone to design logo, name card or packaging for you, you can contact her ^^

She will be designing a new packaging base for me, too..I will post it here when it's done.

 That's her ^^

 Close up 

She got to bring home a jar of her handmade miniature Choco chips cookies too

And ta da....the picture below are Choco Chips cookies that we made together last weekend. She shaped and texturing them and I painted them + adding Choco chips

I put all these cookies into a glass dome and made them as necklace. Cute isn't it? It will be available for purchase at the Easter Bazaar on 3rd April 2016. Since all my products are handmade with love, details, one by one, they are limited. I am unable to make mass production. So, make sure you don't miss the Bazaar and grab your favourite items ^^

See ya...

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Terrarium

What is a Terrarium? It is a sealable glass container that can be opened to access to the plant and is usually arranged in such a way like a mini world of garden or fairy garden of your dream. It is very popular recently in my country. Workshops on how to DIY your own terrarium is in a very hot demand. It's easy to take care and such a beauty to enjoy indoor or outdoor. Some people place their collections on the top of their dining table as center piece instead of flowers which is a very good idea and sure refreshing to the eyes.

I would like to have one for myself too, so I thought why not make one for yourself?? Yeah..I made a tiny version for myself which I can carry everywhere ^0^

Here is my very own terrarium..

  

 Everything inside the dome are made from clay..including the pebbles

Maybe I will make it into a necklace too, so I can carry it with me everywhere I go. I will make more of this cute Terrarium so that if any of you would be interested to own this beauty, you can have it too ^^ soon.

Thanks for reading and supporting ^^
See you again

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Valentine 2016

I am not a very romantic person but I do love pink color which is so strongly associated with Valentine's color, in fact most of my clothes are pink ^^ so I decided to make something pinky, glittery and valentine.

First, what came into my mind was love potion. So I made these..

It's made of UV resin, glitter, some sparkling flakes and heart-shaped clay

Once I finished the love potion, I was still unsure what I had to do with these glittery bottle for two days. Then an idea of "key to my heart" sprung up into my mind, so I decided to make a necklace out of the love potion.

And here is the result..a key and a love potion with combination of light pink Chezch crystal

This will be a very meaningful and personalized gift to your loved one, as it means "You've got the key to my heart...and only you have the Love potion to save my life"

This lovely necklace is available for purchase at Etsy : Jtlilcorner (my exclusive sales partner in Melbourne, Australia) many more items will be up for sale at her Etsy. Please make sure to check it out ^^  and follow her Etsy

And next..the valentine cookies!!! 

 Heart shaped cookies with glittery pink icing...nom.nom..

 And I put all of them into a glass dome 

A Glass dome full of love cookies ^^

Thank you and Happy Valentine 2016

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My Little Pony (part II) - Tutorial

Today I am posting a video of how to make My Little Pony character as I promised on my previous post. I picked Flutter Shy character because she is my niece's favourite pony, I am sorry for being a little bit bias ^_^ This cutie will be made into a necklace for her. She has been requesting for it months ago, but this super busy auntie can only make it recently. Sorry dear...but at least request is fulfilled ^o^

In this video, I am using Japanese resin (air dry clay) which is usually white in color and I am also using the colored resin clay to mix the color. 

Colored resin air dry clay

You can also use oil paint to mix the color, but it will cause the texture to be slightly drier which makes the clay hard to shape. If you are using polymer clay, you can still follow the steps in my tutorial, because the technique is basically similar, but they are a few things that you need to take note:

• For the instruction of leaving it dry, in the case of polymer clay, you pre-bake it.
• In the smoothing parts, polymer clay don't need water. Air dry clay blends well with water.

I am more comfortable crafting with air dry clay, that is why my tutorials are always using air dry clay as the medium. I also notice that there are very little tutorials on air dry clay available online. I hope my tutorials will be useful for air dry clay crafters out there, and of course for Polymer clay crafters, too.

I am also sharing some ideas on what you can do with this cute Flutter Shy beside a necklace.

 My Little Pony Strap

It could be bracelet, too when the strap is removed

 Dust Plug for your phone

 Mom, sisters or cousins could share this cuteness, too

Or just add on a pastel color tassel and hang it on your organizer, key chain or USB

Hope this post will give you some useful ideas and happy crafting \(^o^)/

By the way, what do you think I should make for the next tutorial? 

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Photography skill

It is so important to have a very good and clear pictures of our product if we want to sell online. That is what my husband and I are working on. He got a book about photography yesterday and learnt a few tips and tricks. As usual, I was very excited about it and wanted him to try the new technique soon. The results turned out to be much much better and clearer than our previous pictures. It looks more like the actual product and guess what?? after like 100 snaps...there are only three picture that we were truly satisfied with Lol. More learning to go!!

Here they are

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Frozen Mania

It is so hooooottt down here in my country...let's cool the weather down by making some Disney Snow Queen....yes..Elsa, the pretty queen with magical power to control the winter. Hope she could share bit of her magic here to bring down the temperature LOL

This whole day, I spent for making Elsa pendant and busy taking photograph with the help of my husband (as always). He is my adviser, ministry of finance, doctor, tour guide, friends, photographer, soulmate, etc...the lists are still going on. He is my everything. I understand that our pictures are not the best result yet, but we will keep on learning and practising ^^

Here are some pictures of Elsa that we took today

Isn't she pretty and so glittery?

 Yes..she is not flat back

This picture was taken under direct sunlight, you could see the blinking effect of the crystals

Flying Elsa..this is my husband's idea 

I use ice-like acrylic beads combine with acrylic star beads and Chezch crystals to give the icy effect and bring out the elegance of the Queen. Her braid is adorned with Swarovsky rhinestones. I love the result so much. Hope you guys like it, too.

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