Valentine's Day Decor

Hope no one bored with my wall trees yet.  Inspired by The T&Co colour, here is our wall decor for Valentine's Day.  I didn't count how many butterflies there, but it took 2 days to cut and stick them there.

And of course, more decor for adding the details! We love Cupid's arrow and there are a couple of awesome tutorial around the web. From the vintage inspired arrow to cute arrows with chevrons(!!!) feathers.

Mine are made of coloured paper for the feathers and plastic straw. A very budget friendly project.  I love how the colour bring softness to the room. Now, I think it's time to repurpose some old furniture I saw in Mr Chai's family storage by painting them some pastel colour.      

CNY Decor and The Strategy to Win People's Heart Through Food

And there goes New Year..

So, here is the same decor but different bunting. Do not have any resources to make much alteration.

I'm not sure if I'm ready to host a CNY gathering at our house this year (never ready!). Thinking about messing up food for bunch of vegetarian and vegan people is terrifying.  Do you think should be okey if I goes with just gado-gado? That a little bit plain isn't it? Hmmm..
Mr Chai said my version of vegetarian Bakso or siomay should be alright. Or even my Red sauce Spaghetti doesn't sound bad. And I think spring roll is a must!

What about dessert? Is fruit popsicle okey? Oh, the Horror!!    

We Go Black&White this Christmas

It's 5 days to Christmas!!! And the decor are up.. Yay!!  (lots of acclamations there ha ha ha..) Okie, here are our Black&White DIY Christmas Decor theme this year.

Hopefully next year we will have a real Christmas tree.  

Christmas (should) come early!

To be honest the loneliest time in year for me since living in LLG is Christmas.  Maybe because I'm away from my family in Jakarta and I can't find any Christmas decoration in this town.  One of the hotel here, City Hotel, might have some decoration on their front window.  I don't expect other hotel would have it.  And maybe the newest "Mall" JM would have some.. I haven't set foot there since months ago.

Anyway, to keep the spirit high I made my own tradition by decorating our house. For this year I would go with Black and White Christmas. Not much different with last year, paper is still being used as main material.

So this is our door wreaths.  Looks great, ya? Thanks to Pinterest, you can find tons of paper snowflakes pattern there.  I'm happy with the result even if the scissor hurt my fingers (3 hours cutting folded paper could be irritating).  Sorry couldn't take better photo, lighting was not bright enough. The snowflakes makes pretty texture actually.  

Work in Progress

Currently listening Cassie Davis, painting like a mad person while Draco looking lost with no clue...
I'm so happy I could paint something at last. Did half bottom already and doing the top part.

The down:  This paint is so shitty! Just remember next time not to use this paint. I paint like 4-5 times to get the perfect tone. Usually if I paint with Dulux it only take me 2-3 coats.

Anyhooo.. me enjoying my moment -- so Rebecca Black! 

LLG house - bathroom

This probably the last room we have at the moment. We used to have a water tub which is a common item here because we life in a tropical country, we usually store some water and keep it cool in this tub before using it for shower.
But that have to go together with the terracotta/brownish wall and floor tiles. We change the bathroom with black and white colour scheme. Natural stone (Andesit) coated in black, white with grey stain wall tiles on bottom half of the room and white painted wall for the rest.

The only thing I left from the previous bathroom was the koala on the bathroom door. So I could imagine taking shower in Australia. LOL

LLG house - bedroom

Another quick tour, this time to our bedroom. We are keeping a very boring natural colour in here. similar to the dining room. Previously there were some request to specially made all fitted furniture, but since (we think) we might move to new house, we decided to use some old furniture and new loose furniture instead, so that means we could use them again next time. So here the photos...

This is the bed, with nice timber artwork above it - somehow this is kind of a big hit in JKT espc in Informa and the other interior/furniture store. We managed to snitch this from Chantique, hopefully it's the only piece! I love the spiky leaves tho Mr.Chai once questioned about the fengshui.. he said spiky things in bedroom might not good. Ideally people put some romantic, calm and soft artwork. But we couldn't help it, we did walk around every stores for days to look another options but finally we came back standing in front of this white big spiky leaves.

All linen are self made, I choose the colour and material and my mom made them together for me. There are suppose to have nice big baroque pattern on the brown fabric but my camera couldn't capture it, and you should feel them - they are quite soft and cool. And the big news is we spent only 1/2 price to made the linen compare to the retail price. Awesome huh?!

Those giant big toes and duckies are my sleepers. You can't get enough of big toes!

That big mirror there is my favourite. I bought it in local shop here in LLG and sprayed black paint. This will remind me of my mom white mirror that I made while back - just to give me a little something attached to my parent's house.

The only rules I gave to Mr.Chai before was there should be no TV in bedroom (but other gadgets are allowed LOL). I just don't like noisy sound because you know how guys usually watch TV, right? They put the volume so loud until you can't barely talk to each other. About untill last week was ok, but Mr.Chai was looking a bit more restless these days because he haven't seen his favourite TV channel - the animal planet - for straight 2 weeks, plus there will be some kind of soccer match happen very soon.  So, yes.. since 2 days ago we had a TV in the bedroom, and soon there will be a new one coming too which will sit nicely above the timber bench in front of the bed. I'm not sure how to handle this *rolling my eyes..

And here is a shot of my morning tea and yummy yam crackers... *Oh, yes... no meat at all in the house except for Draco.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend ahead..  

LLG house - kitchen and dining room

Finally I have time to post this. I think we pretty much settled in our (temporary) new house.

Our house is actually a shop house, means the first floor is an open plan for store/shop and the rest of the floor above it are for house. But so far we only life on the second floor, the third and forth are closed - strictly for swallow bird, they keep the floor locked, dark and humid to create ideal environment almost like a cave for the bird making their nest there. Yes, in the afternoon the roof looks like in one of those scene in Gotham city. Lots of swallow birds flying around before they get in to their nest inside.

For now, allow me to give you a short tour to our kitchen. Before, we had nice dark red ceramics wall and top table. But I would like to change it with a lighter colour and we did some extention. So here it is.. before and after - errrr.. didn't get much better isn't it. :P 

I keep most of the kitchen tools in the drawers - believe me, there are tons of them. I only put the essential on top table - for this photo session. Here's my cooking ingredients which I always use in most of my cooking.

Babushka in the kitchen - wedding gift from the Khalidis. YAY!!!!

And this are the shots of the dining next to the kitchen. All are from Informa, can you tell how much I miss IKEA...

Frontporch

With the big day coming soon, mom organized some painters to repaint our house here (thanks God!). The exterior wall used to be in light pink colour (!) and the interior was in light cream colour with combination  of light moss green.  Now we painted the pink and cream walls with white paint that have hint of green and still keep the old moss green paint. The house looks fresh because of the new white paint and we have some old furnitures removed aswell.

The front porch (located in front of mom's bedroom) also had a facelift. We decided to close the fish pond - which never been used for ages - with ceramics tiles.
Here are some photos of before and after. Mom and my cousin helped me with the paint.

I think this corner has lots of potential. We would like to add some ivy trees along the wall fence, just to cool off the area a bit, once the roof is fixed we could close the ceiling and add some white lantern and add a painting or artwork on the white brick wall..  but I guess that has to wait.  

HellowYellow

This corner used to be red, then green and this time yellow.  I made these tissue paper pompoms earlier today, very easy and definitely bring instant radiance. Click here for step-by-step instruction.  

Birdcage Lamp

Finally, after a small spray paint and Dad helping me with the cable, here it is... my birdcage lamp. I use 15w light bulb, but because of small twigs the light come out quite subtle. Good for my eyes generally but not bright enough for working.

Here is photo of the shop owner helped me to take out the bottom part after a small fix here and there. I need to went back twice to birdcage shop because they close in first week of Ramadan. It cost me around $4 due to my crappy bargain skill. This birdcage should only cost around $2.5 so my Dad and neighbor said.  

Mom's mirror

After two days painting the walls, mom's bedroom finally done, but we still need to buy some accessories for bathroom such as shower curtain and towel rack. And of course she is planing to make the bedsheets herself tho I don't know when she will have the time to do that with all the stuff going on at her workshop right now. So I wont post the before-after photos yet.

Well, at least one corner is done. Here are some piccies of the new basin. I bought a gold-iesh classic style photo frame last time and it has been hanging there for a couple of days, but mom said the golden colour somehow bring some horror feeling every time she pass it. So, I decided to paint it white just to remind me also with my (used-to-be) vintage mirror. It turn out really cool.



Do you like our clay piggy chicken bank?

My new corner

Taadddaaaaa..... my new red corner is done. Thanks to my mom for the free red fabric and my dad for the helping hand.

Update:
My stuff arrived yay!!! it's a bit messy now.... I miss Ruahm.

Moon Cake Festival coming

I bought a moon cake because of this tin can... Haven't try the cake it self. But i'm sure it is delicious.
I admired her face.. looking straight up with her tender eyes. She looks so young, maybe about 18 YO, but from her hair I think she is married already.

Tsk.. it's oke bb, life is hard but at least you still have your pretty face and pearls necklace.

Vintage mirror

Found it from garage sale near our house. $5 together with a couple of blue dolphin printed glasses match with Marie's dolphin cups.
I might paint this in black next month.. or even red..