{sight of peonies}

Working now on my desk and suddenly loved the sight of the plastic peonies against the backgrounds - curtain and scrapbook paper.

{sunday rehearsal}

Today been out rehearsal with the amateur chamber music ensemble. No crafting :o)

Pictures during break, taken from my seat in the second violin section (and one or a few steps to the left).


Resting contrabass.


A peek on the score.


The violin on the seat in front of mine.


The instructor and the conductor. I wonder if they wanted to have a break.

{rearrangement on the way}

Welcome to my little place :o)


I love love love pinecones! The pinecones hanging on my door are the ones I collected in Mullhyttan, Sweden, while I was staying there last July. While taking a walk in the forest nearby my hostfamily's house, I saw one pine branch hanging and the pinecones were dried without touching the ground, so it was perfect! I got around twenty of them and they made their way to Indonesia, to my door! :o) The papercutting on the middle is a traditional Polish papercraft called 'Wycinanki'. It's a gift from my Polish friend Joanna. I wrote about it on my blog here.

Finally and hopefully soon, I will have a craft corner of my own, even if it's only part of my room in the family home :o)

The rainy season has come and it is crucial to clean up and to get prepared in case there's flooding, even the smallest. If somehow you read my old blog about last year's big flood, then you see why I'm a little bit nervous when it comes to rainy season and big rain.

After the flood that devastated the house and most of my belongings, I moved back to the family home, and occupy a small room upstairs, which hopefully will always be safe from flood :o)

Anyway after a year (and a little bit more) I managed to gather all the 'leftovers', transported them from the flooded house to where I live now, and here it is the big cleanup.

I still think that my room is too small *hehehe* but I really need to have two tables for working and crafting and some shelves for my books and magazines and other things. I can imagine the room will be more 'crowded', but I have to deal with it. Now you know why I'm crazy about small-room-decorating ideas...yay!

Today the cleaning up is almost done, and the rearrangement is on it's way. And it's time to make good use of the flea-market-found fabrics that I've been collecting for sometime now...hehehe, I really love fabrics and papers, you'll see from the photos here.



Before the rearrangement, this was the original location of the teak table. I had removed the pinboard when I took the picture, but you still can see the scrapbook papers that i stuck to the wall as inspiration when I draw graphics. And yes, I love peonies and lavender...but the ones on my table are made of plastic :o)



The other corner with the shelves for my collection of books and magazines. My plan was to put the higher shelves on the corner and the lower in the middle next to the bed.



And the bed. I don't plan to change its look, somehow I love it to feel serene and fresh at the same time, so I'm in love with the color combination of the bed sheet and blanket cover: white, blue and lime green. The wall on that corner is still bare. Still looking for some inspiration...though I already posted some here on the blog. Too much inspiration is good in this case :o)

The curtain is a mix of old and new. At first I wanted to change the red-and-white gingham curtain, found at flea market, with these cheerful Swedish fabrics, a gift from my friend Anna H. (when we had a real fun time having to drive around Gothenburg just because we missed one turn in the city center :o)). Turned out that the new fabrics are not wide enough to cover the window, so I just put them on top of the old gingham. And I just like it!

After cleaning up...



This, will be my craft corner. The teak table was turned 90 degree to the right, next to it, in the middle, I put the painted table, and I covered both tables with strawberry prints fleamarket-found cloths. Then I also covered the three pinboards with three different fleamarket floral fabrics, pink, yellow, and green. Ow, I love the result! I still don't have any idea how I will put back all those small inspirations to the pinboards, so in the meantime I pinned whimsical illustrations from 2007 Becky Kelly calendar (I really like them so I don't throw them away). Probably I will frame them later, who knows. And you see the scrapbook papers are also moved next to the pinboard.



And these are the bookshelves on their new corner, as planned. I haven't moved all the books yet. The middle shelves are still occupied only by my violin and two peonies. Time's up for today, now time to rest and I will continue the rearrangement tomorrow. At least the clean-up part is done, and tomorrow to the most exciting part: getting organized! Till tomorrow...

{holiday wishes}

from a little corner in the world which is still busy with cleaning up, rearranging, redecorating... :o)


image from Country Living

Happy Holiday, and let's wish for a happier, sweeter, and wonderful new year 2009 *blow the candles!*

{to dream in - continued}

Voila! I'm taking a break from cleaning up day 2. Still love looking at artsy inspirations for the corner to dream in. This time is from Domino.

{to dream in}

And oh, I want these artsy bedrooms to dream in!

thanks Country Living

{mother's day bug}

It was a very nice morning, this morning. It has been raining the night before, so the weather was fresh. Didn't want to believe it was Monday morning, and I had to go to work. I wanted to continue cleaning up. The mission 'Sunday clean-up' wasn't accomplished. There was too much to do. We had fun though. Especially when it came to washing the plastic boxes. Water, bubbles, scrubbing, and it smelled clean, so good.

I went downstairs. "It's Mother's Day!" my cousins were frantic (yes today is mother's day here in Indonesia). Apparently they just remembered. My aunt came out of her room. A choir of two boys greeted her: "Mom, don't prepare breakfast!"



And today I'm so inspired by Anna Maria Horner. Can't stop looking at her beautiful fabrics! Her blog is one of the loveliests on the internet. And see her showroom, painted in aqua-blue? Wowwow! Wonderful isn't it when inspirations just keep coming up when you need them? *blink* Now I really love it that my room is painted in that kind of blue ;-)

Well I guess I've got a new addiction. I spent most of this evening looking at Anna Maria's website and blog. Pretty pictures of her home and creation. Those colors. Yay, can't stay 'stop'. I'm smitten. Not only that they are so pretty, but they also remind me of my childhood home, with my mom's collection of fabrics and batik. My mom sews, she still does from time to time. She made dresses for her three daughters herself. And with colorful fabric pens she added drawings on plain white dresses. Hmm. I should find a picture of me wearing one of those dresses. Anyway it's mother's day today. No wonder. I got bitten by mother's day bug ;-) Happy mother's day to you, mommy! XOXO

Pictures below are property of Anna Maria Horner. All linked to her website.

kindwords: live love laugh

One print from my "LIVE LOVE LAUGH" prints series - free for you to download. There are 11 more prints in the series, available for Amretasgraphics members. (checkout membership pass when the shop is open again)

{rearrangement continued}

Sunday! And I'm so excited today about cleaning up and rearranging my room...what else :-) I will get some help from my aunt and cousins {thankful for my family}. It's been sometime since I moved all my belongings from the flooded house to where I live now, and my aunt and I tried to find a weekend where both of us are free the whole day. So last week we decided it's today.

And came an sms from the cellist of our chamber orchestra: "tomorrow rehearsal at 2 p.m."

Oh no.

I explained to her the situation, the plan, the ship-wreck-looked room I'm now (oh, not that bad, actually!), that I desperately needed a peaceful Sunday for a joyful housework...

I always knew our cellist is a super nice one. She replied with "ok, see you next week then?"

It was almost midnight. I smiled and was ready to go to bed for a restful sleep before the big Sunday. When suddenly my cellphone once again gave a blink. A text coming in. From my pianist, our conductor: "don't forget tomorrow rehearsal at 2 p.m."

What should I say? :-D

Anyway, I'm ready for the big clean-up now and, I looked again at my own post about decorating ideas for small room with icy-blue painted wall. I also came across Alicia Paulson's website last night, and wow! Look at her studio!! It's exactly a look that I'm looking for! Fresh, cheerful, crafty, and well-organized.

I continued with reading Alicia's blog, and I felt like refreshed. It's nice when you wake up being inspired and looking forward to do something you'd been yearning for sometime, and knowing you have lovely ideas in hand!

Just look at some pictures of Alicia's studio here. My happy inspiration. Thanks Alicia! :-)

{rearrangement}

Hello I'm back :-) Oh, when was it the last entry? More than one month ago! Oh no. I can always say that I've been very busy at work these past few weeks..and I'm so glad end-of-year is finally there...that means holiday!! Yippi!! Some time off!!

The fact is, there have been some changes at work that I needed to re-adjust myself, and thought "probably i can work on it like this...or like that..." and the trial-and-error-and-tweaking went on. For weeks.

Somehow I managed to make some new prints for the member area, the Live Love Laugh series. I did have sometime off and sat there in front of my computer trying to continue the unfinished websets. But I ended up drawing some prints..it seems like I needed something to cheer myself up at that time :-D

And ok, one print is free for everyone to download here :-) Hope you like it. If you are member, there are 11 more prints in the member area.