Mikisi Curiosities Etc. on smART Dialogue Dec 1, 2012

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Yes, yes, Mikisi Curiosities Etc. will be on Dia.lo.gue artspace, Kemang this weekend! The bazaar will open from 10.00 am to 10.00 pm, there will be an art exhibition opening as well in the afternoon. Brilliant, isn't it? Now Jules and I still working on many new pieces on our shop. If you're curious about it, see the process at my instagram.

Mehmoh Pad

New year's a good energy booster. January 1st. Awake at 7 am after a long night and started to screenprint piles of used-papers. Applied a thin but in generous amount of PVC glue (I used Fox and Elmer Glue) on the side. Then I clamped them with bulldog paperclips. Let it dry. 

Oh yeah, I made myself a memo pad!

printed

piled up

bound

ready to use

Screen Print Madness

Recently in love with screen print. Made new limited art prints on coffee stained paper. Been a very good friend of screen stripper, I met and smell 'em every morning. Hope you're okay, dear lung.

Sedang keranjingan menyablon, hampir setiap hari percobaan gagal dan coba lagi. Mencuci screen adalah bagian tersulit, lebih sulit daripada membuat film dan menggesut rubber. M3 dan Seritrip adalah sahabat baik saya setiap pagi, disertai bunyi "ngik ngik ngik" Kata bapak saya, sekarang saya punya anjing peliharaan kecil di kamar mandi. 

screen print guru

the screen

the print

printed on coffee stained paper

Mikisi on Crafty Days #4

Our dream came true! We opened our first booth at this wonderful craft fair at Bandung, West Java last weekend. Altogether with my partner in crime slash co-owner of Mikisi, Julian, we've spent two days of meeting incredible people buying our stuffs, having chit-chat, exchanging new ideas and name cards (of course!). I met Tita Larasati (writer of Curhat Tita, she bought my bookplates for her daughter) and I kept pinching Julian "it's her..it's her!"

We've never expected that our plushies, notebooks, pouches and lunchbags would sell like hot cakes. Our owl plushies, all notebooks and peacock lunchbags are sold out! On Sunday night, we forgot the moment we shout at each other about screen prints and bag measurements, colors or anything. We just sat at this small restaurant nearby the inn, ate our super delicious grilled fish and lyonaise fries, not to mention free mushroom soup and three scoops ice cream.
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Akhirnya mimpi kami jadi kenyataan! Mikisi buka lapak di Crafty Days ketika libur panjang kemarin. Bersama sahabatku, Julian, kami menghabiskan waktu bercengkrama dengan para pembeli dan penjual yang manis-cakep dan super terampil, bertukar kartu nama dan ide brilian, tentunya! Sungguh tak disangka, Mbak Tita Larasati mendatangi lapakku untuk membeli bookplates. Aku gembira setengah mati dan mencuwil-cuwil Julian "itu lho Tita-nya Curhat Tita..."

Pada awalnya kami pasrah saja, tidak balik modal ya tidak apa-apa, namanya juga lapak perdana. Namun ternyata hasilnya sungguh di luar ekspektasi kami. Plushie owl, buku catatan dan tas merak tandas! Tempat pensil gambar gunting yang kami bawa 10 buah hanya tersisa 3 buah saja. Malam harinya, kami sudah lupa bahwa kemarin-kemarin kami sempat bertengkar gara-gara sablonan dan ukuran tas. Kami bisa makan enak di restoran kecil di dekat penginapan. Ditambah masing-masing dapat semangkuk sup krim jamur gratis lagi. Enak banget!

Tita Larasati & daughter

she's wearing our bag

Nuri & Tisa from Kandura bought the last notebooks

I still got more pictures at flickr

"Flocks & Feathers" on Crafty Days #4

Well probably you're asking for what I've been doing all around? I am preparing for this craft fair, my first craft fair to be precise, under the name of Mikisi Curiosities Etc. 

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Am I a bit exaggerating? No, I'm just too excited!

Mikisi is a long-distance collab project between Julian and I. He lives in Yogya, meanwhile I'm in Jakarta. He do all the sewing and screen-printing, meanwhile I'm drawing, hand-sewing, printing and marketing. The only things we do together (sometimes) is designing. The name came up out of nowhere and while we were pushed by deadline to find names for our products in submission. Well, if you're planning to come to Tobucil's Crafty Days next week, take a peek here first what are we gonna sell. (this is our very first dummy of this series, we guaranteed that the things we'll sell at Crafty Days are improved. Our skills are growing within process of sewing dozens of plushies and lunchbags :p). 

lunchbags (click on picture to enlarge)

length: 23 cm

width: 9 cm

height : 21 cm

matching plushie for the bags
(size: height: 5 cm)

available in Owl & Crow, too

dozens of plushie (see, it's improving right?)

crow

notebooks (available in long-stitch & stab-stitch binding)

long stitch binding

And we got another babies on progress:

- Scissors Sisters Pouches (6x4 in, lining made from our craft failure fabrics)

(it was taken with mobile phone camera, so it's not that sharp)

- Bike Flag, available in red and yellow, both in bahasa Indonesia & English (inspired from Tall Bike parade on Critical Mass in Yogya (2007), I got one from my dear friend Sono and amazingly last week I read an article about Tweed Run here and everything seems matched this flag)

ready, steady, rocksteady all you crafty fingers?


p.s Wait for the next post for special announcement about the prices.