Thanks For Your Understanding Meiny

Untuk 'curhat colongan' hari ini akan ditulis dalam Bahasa Indonesia. Why? Yaah, karena pengen aja sih ^^, trus buat besok planning-nya mau pake Bahasa Mandarin, besoknya lagi pake Bahasa Jepang, trus besoknya-besok pake Bahasa Jerman #dung-bret!!!

Well, order-an B'day goody yang bener2 bikin stress tingkat tinggi adalah punya Ms. Meiny. Kesalahan ada di saya, karena salah catat tanggal ultah.

Ms. Meiny order untuk keponakannya yang ultah di bulan February, dan saya catat di bulan Maret (tertukar dengan orderan Ms. Meiny lainnya untuk ultah anak keduanya di bulan Maret).

Gak tanggung2, orderan tsb adalah patchwork bag (selanjutnya disebut quilted-bag karena lebih make sense :p), goody yang paling lama dibuat karena separoh kerjaan menggunakan sulaman tangan dan bukan 100% mesin jahit. Jumlahnya pun lumayan.

Untuk menyelesaikan order ini, setiap malam selama 5 hari kami lembur 1-3 jam, dan tetap kami tidak sanggup menyelesaikan sejumlah yang diorder. Untungnya beberapa orderan tsb 'tanpa nama' artinya memang di order untuk 'cadangan'. Saya menghubungi Meiny to say I'm sorry, and thanks God she understands my situation. *hug-Meiny.

Ini beberapa foto yang diambil dalam keadaan panik hahaha...

Foto 1: Ini Ana (eeh lucu yah, ini-ana ^^). Ana lagi konsen potong kain untuk dijadikan bis pada tali tas.

Foto 2: Ini tali tas yang sudah di bordir tapi belum di bis.

Foto 3: Kantong2 tas yang sudah selesai bordir & bis dan tinggal digabungkan dengan bagian tas lainnya. Kantong (dan tali tas) ini tiap hari saya bawa pulang untuk dijahit bis-nya. Bisa dibilang, setiap siang pada saat nunggu Sydney bubaran sekolah dan tiap malam sambil nemenin anak2 main, kerjaan saya yah jahit-menjahit bis ini :p

Foto 4: Ini jari2 saya yang malang. Hehehe, pake plester 2 biji karena udah bener2 sakit. Critanya lagi macet abis jemput Sydney, so, daripada bosan mending fotoin jari. hahaha.

Foto 5: Bagian depan tas yang sudah dibordir nama2nya. Tinggal menunggu penggabungan bagian tengah, belakang, pasang kantong, bis atas, dan pasang tali, baru kelar. Hahaha, masih loooong way to go.

Foto 6: Tali tas yang sudah selesai di bis.

Foto 7: Ini separoh tas yang sudah selesai dan siap kirim. Total selesai hanya 45 pcs dari total 50 yg diorder.

Foto 8: Quilted bag motive guk-guk coklat/cream, khusus dibuat sesuai permintaan Meiny.

You know what, Meiny tetap menunggu dengan sabar 5 pcs yang tidak kelar dikerjakan tsb (ditambah dengan 2 pcs lagi orderan baru) untuk dikirimkan berbarengan dengan goody ultah anak keduanya bulan Maret nanti. THANKS MEINY so soo much for being so sweet to me.

I now put Meiny's name together with Bibrina, Ms. Tien Widya, Ms. Yen2, and so many more on my "Customers from Heaven" list. Wow, the list is getting longer. How grateful I am to know you, guys. Thanks and thanks and many more thanks. ^^

Purple Elephant

When I wrote that I will publish 31 posts during these 31 days of December my hubby laughed. Well he has a point, cos I normally published 1-10 posts a month. He said he didn't sure if I could have that many stories to share. Today is 6th of December, and he caught me many times day dreaming in front of my PC. Hehehehe... He gave me his 'told-ya' smirk and little pad on my shoulder and said "only 25 more stories to go Hon ... jiaayooo" (>_<)

Well later if you read the story about my 'old' work or more posts about my kids, then it obvious that .............. yeah, you can fill the blanks :O

This was one of my very first art work. I called it Patchwork bag. None of it were patched, so basically I dunno where I get that name. I should change the name I guess *blushing. Need your input about this moms, my pea-sized brain can think of anything rite now.

I made 4 different colors with 4 different motives embroidered on the front pouch, and this purple elephant was the first of 4.

Want to know where I get the pattern? Easy. Its from my Sherine's bib. She was 10 months old back then, so practically I have many baby bibs at home. Kinda embarrassing to tell you that some of my best seller goody's pattern were copied from my baby bibs, their PJ, their shocks, in fact wall lamp hahaha.... please don't run to my competitor, dear customers. I have my original too :p

Next..... :p

Using the same pattern, I embroidered this elephant on my cushions for Ms. Wulan Wibowo daughter "BELLA" for her 1st birthday. All 32 goodies were sent to their house at Yogyakarta on October 2 months ago (heiii this was consider new, hooray not all are oldies yippee).

Hmmm, I think I'm going to embroidered this elephant on my towel very soon. Hahahahhaha. #kurang-kreatif-kalee-kau-BAH! d(^____^)b

My yellow baby giraffe

I've got an order to make a towel with my yellow baby giraffe embroidered on it. I now declared that this giraffe is the most wanted pattern chose by all moms (^_^).

Last year, I embroidered this exact giraffe to my Sydney's school bag. That was the first time I use this pattern.

This year, I've got order from mommy Linda to make a cushion to her baby boy "Kaeden" with 'again' yellow giraffe embroidered on it. You can see the picture here.

And now, fresh from the oven, please welcome: my very same yellow baby giraffe embroidered on a towel for mommy Astrid's boy "Xander".

Really really hope that my other customers not get bored seeing this cute giraffe. 'Cos it's not feel good when somebody see your new creation and say "ityu lagi ityuu lagiiiiii, bosyyaaan atyyuuh neng!!!"

Somebody wears my handmade bag :)

Last Saturday (July 3rd) we've got invitation from a friend to celebrate her boy first birthday. Me & hubby were late cos we still have to work on that day .. hix.. Anyway, we came when the room already packed with her guests. We sat on the table in the corner cos that was the only table left, and voilaa in front of us there's my green-dino bag hanging on a stroller. I took a picture of it with my blackberry in silence, but I noticed the owner of the bag have a glimpse of what I did, I hope she didn't think that I plan to grab something out of it. hahahaha. Lately, I met kids wear my t-shirts at mall, or wear my denim bag at school, etc. I couldn't describe my feeling every time I saw kids wear my stuff. Aaah sooo P-R-O-U-D. ^_^

Beatrice's 6th Bday

Beatrice is surely a lucky girl. She'll have a birthday party that is going to be a great one. Do you wonder why? ^_^ Take a look at the goodies we've made for her. A while ago, Bea and her parents came to our workshop, they had a quick 5-minutes-scan to pilo's products and made decision that they would go with the patchwork bags. First I thought -same with other family- they would only have that bag for the goodie. Well apparently I was wrong 'cos Bea's daddy said, he also wanted our baby-animal-shirts to put in each of the bag. I said wow "double goodies? hmm, Bea's friends must be happy to received it". Well, if you think they stopped there, then you were wrong. Cos a couple of days later, Bea's mom called and informed that she also wanted some snacks to put in each of the bags. I said "woohoo... triple goodies?... I want to be Bea's party guest" hahaha...

Anyway, Bea's mom has set the birthday bar pretty high, because after this, other moms have to think extra to celebrate their kid's bday. Why? cos no other party is as great as Bea's bday party ^____^

Giraffe Cushion

The story behind these giraffe cushions was like this.... once upon a time *giggling... i feel a bit sleepy just to say 'once upon a time'* a friend ordered goodie bags for her birthday girl ... she loves yellow so much and she wanted to have a yellow goodie bag despite my existing bags which were already in purple, pink and green. she allowed me to embroidered any animals character to suit this specific yellow bag. I tried lion, dog, and deer .... but none was as cute as i though ... then, i tried giraffe... when it was done it surely put a very big smile on my face. I think this friend of mine was as happy as me to see the result... and as ussual, a happy customer is always come back for more... guess what? she wanted the same giraffe on her cushions... and here what i made for her.

Brandon's Patchwork Bags

These cute patchwork bags were ordered by Mrs. Jenny Setiadi for her boy 4th birthday ... There were three motives and different colors to suit the little guests. Pink Flowers and Purple Elephants were for the girls and Green Dino were for the boys. These little guests' names were embroidered one by one to specific bags. Mrs. Jenny said the bags surely put smiles on children faces, that they could see their names attached on those bags. Happy that you were happy ^_^