Serumpun Bunga di Hari Hujan

Seminggu lalu, aku menanam segerombol bunga Lavender di halaman depan rumah, tetapi hujan turun deras sekali berminggu-minggu ini. Aku khawatir lavendernya tidak akan berbunga. tapi untungnya sudah ada tanda-tanda tunas yang sedang tumbuh di sana-sini. Horee...

Hari hujan, saatnya untuk:

1. mengguntingi kertas tipis-tipis untuk hantaran lamaran. Sepupuku hendak menikah dalam waktu dekat jadi keluarga kami ikut repot mempersiapkan semuanya, terutama ibuku yang menjadi wedding organizer bayangan.

2. menggambar dengan cat air, karena sangat menyenangkan memegang kuas dan bermain dengan warna. 

Hujan telah berhenti, aku punya setumpuk buku yang belum kubaca.

(Membaca tweet dari Ms. Vantiani yang sedang berada di Bali, tampaknya menyenangkan sekali hari-hari yang ia jalankan di sana. Hari hujan di Bali...)

Thank You for Smoking

Still from the same person who collected CD label at his journal, he came with a new project: a cigarette case from Diana F+ flyers. We got tons of it at store and left alone sadly. Not many customers pick it up, but him and I did. I kept it for my next collage slash journal project, but...he turned it into one great idea: a cigarette case! Only tapes, flyers and scissors involved in this project. Here comes the oh-you're-so-brilliant project:

Stab & Stitch

On November 2009, I bought this book "How to Make Books: Fold, Cut & Stitch Your Way to a One-of-a-kind Book" by Esther K.Smith. I haven't tried single bits of the tutorials until last week. Gone nuts for stitching. It's a total fun. Gathered up few used papers & magazine, picked the largest needle, crochet yarn and new awl. Darn, my camera still at the service center, so I have to use my mobile phone camera instead (which is not really good). These are pictures of my express book:

And these are my first stab & stitches notepads (now belongs to my beloved cousin):

Collage-iate

the first one

I always wonder, how Ms. Vantiani did all her beautiful collage. She taught me in an afternoon tea cozy and I still don't get it. This weekend, I chatted with her through the messenger, just to show her how's my work and everything. In conclusion, I should train my collage muscles harder. Here are some of my collage, it's so Vantiani-ish, but she said it's okay until i find my own pattern. Thank you soooo muccchhh, Ika....

then come the second