Take a Bow! Accesorize Your Working Suit

Its been 3 weeks since i start working at a bank in Jakarta, and suddenly all the weekdays i used to have for crafting being replaced by sitting down facing piles of papers and being chased by banking cut-off time.

I, who never work in a place with such strict dress code feels out of place at first because i have only a piece or two shirts and pants for formal suit and my tone only limited to grey, black, white, brown.. grey, black, white, brown.. 

 I love colours. They said, vibrant colours can add some energy so i want  vibrant colours on my working suit! :’(

This challenges me. How to splash some colours on my working suit yet not troubling me when the cut-off time arrived and i have to rush running ups and downs two floors. Hence, on my weekend (the only spare time i have left) i create some accessories.

stripes bow and pearl necklace (inspired by my partner-in-crime Primark neklace)

reversible batik and multi style cape (inspired by Mbak Lia http://ow.ly/3ukkK)

multi colour yoyo brooch

blue-green 4-tier braided necklace

purple pom organza brooch

And succeeded in making some of my colleagues asked where i get such bizarre and unique accessories ;) and proudly I said "I'm making it myself, thank you." *big smile*

 

Happy Working,

an.indya.

smitten by moose

Last time I hunt fabric in Tenabang, I got this cute moose pattern printed on cotton. I love cotton and smitten on the foolishness of the moose. Didn’t take long time to decide buying it even though I haven’t thought what I have to do with the moose.

see how foolish the moose is?!

Today, I found this on my keychain! Whoooaaa.. turn out I have small moose attached on my keychain. I never use the keychain for 2 years that was why I didn’t recall of having another moose surround me.. uh oh. Is it the start of cute yet foolish moose hunting?! ps. I got it from a friend back in Norway, but it wasn’t Norway’s moose it’s Canadian!

  

my Canadian moose

The rest of the fabric.. hmmm.. I think I’m going to make a chopstick bag out of the cutlery pattern cotton and the flowers, will make an excellent quilt on a tee’s. Never try quilting before but I think I can manage. ;)

Oh yeah.. I was thinking of making tutorial on how to make obi belts, but I couldn’t find the fabric that I had cut to tie the obi.. huhuhu.. have to cut another one and sadly the tutorial must wait a bit longer. 

the obi parts

 With love,

.an.indya.

scrap fabric newbie

April.. May.. June.. July.. August.. September.. October..

Its been 7 month since the last time I have a permanent behind the desk job. I do miss having steady influx of money every month yet I enjoy the days without having to stuck in jakarta traffic jams daily that sucked your soul out of you. It might be working for someone else, but definitely not me..

And in those months I was constantly battle of finding what should I do? What is my passion? What is the purpose of my life? (Well, aside from busy chatting with boyfriend ;)).

Recently, I was helping a friend of mine in her clothing business to find tailor for her. Before I know it, the sewing workshop in my house start running again steadily. You ever heard about how energy attracts other energy?! Well in my case I guess the clothing attracts other clothing. Not long after that we got several more order from neighbours

Without me noticing, I am surrounded by packs of packs of packs (seriously there are loooootttssss) of scrap fabric just everywhere. Helpless of doing nothing during the day and already having too much sleep in the night I decide to dive in those packs.

It brings back childhood memory. As a child with head filled with cinderella and princess and fairy tales fantasy having long white gloves was uber cool (at least I thought so). For days I begged my mum to buy me one, she had no clue where to get one of those so she just kept saying no. Stubborn as always, I then locked myself in my mum workshop, traced my palms on a white sheet while shouted in rage 'I WILL MAKE MY OWN GLOVES!!'... And naaaahhh.. It never came true.. Hihihihi.. But it was among my early involvement with needles, threads, fabric and sewing machine..

*clap* okay, back to now. Several days before I was reading this article on some tabloid about the people who use scrap fabric to make money. Among them were tara amelz, amesh from dreamesh and puri from ideku handmade (I put their links in left columns). Their works is simply awesome and adorable and being such and inspiration. Yes, the attraction getting stronger when I browse hours and hours on etsy.com. That website become the 1st rank of where-i-shud-browse-daily. The enthusiasm piling up and I start to make something from that scrap fabric. Well, I hope that someday I can create so many various product just like puri of ideku handmade. But now, baby steps.. :)

In one of my facebook album you can see my experiment of diy things, mostly fabric necklace. Don't know where this craze will lead, for sure I enjoy every minute while I'm making something. Because passion is not what you're good at, but what you enjoys the most (Rene CC)

with love,

.the.passionate.newbie.