Saving the Heritage

Ini seperti virus flu, yang bakal kambuh kalo ada pencetusnya atau penularnya ^^. 

Aku dapat rumah ini juga karena pengaruh dari kakak-kakakku yang duluan beli rumah kayu lama. (It's a positif influence)

Aku dapet rumah ini murah. Padahal kalau lihat pasaran barang yang serupa di internet, bisa berharga lebih dari itu. Meski begitu, rumah ini menguras separuh tabunganku selama 3 tahun hueee.

Lokasinya di Desa Manyaran Kabupaten Wonogiri. Rumah ini dulunya milik keluarga yang telah ditinggali sejak ibu si empunya rumah menikah di tahun 40-an. Dan sekarang anak-anaknya ingin membangunkan rumah tembok yang lebih besar.

Dengan itikad baik untuk menyelamatkan rumah lama yang notabene warisan keluarga yang umurnya lebih dari 50 tahun, ndak ada penyesalan, karena kita juga jadi setidaknya maju satu langkah dalam menjaga lingkungan. Dan yang pasti material  kayu ini ramah lingkungan, karena kita ndak perlu lagi menebang kayu untuk membangun rumah , right^^

Aku masih punya keinginan untuk mendirikan rumah ini, karena sejak kubeli sampai saat ini masih kutitipkan di rumah bapakku di desa.

Misi selanjutnya adalah Beli Tanah (atau cari suami yang punya tanah luas kali ya... , tinggal nyeblokke aja tuh rumah hahahha). Amiin.

October 2nd : Batik Day

It's already the second day of October.

Yup, October 2nd is the Batik Day

Sidoasih (Yogyakarta Classic Batik)_private collection

The President of Republic of Indonesia with the Keputusan Presiden Republik Indonesia Nomor 33 Tahun 2009 declare that  Oktober 2nd as Hari Batik Nasional (National Batik Day). 

This declaration is based on  UNESCO decision on Fourth Session of The Intergovernmental Committee at Abu Dhabi in Oktober 2nd 2009.  Indonesia Batik  acknowledged as a Representatif List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

  

With this  internasional official acknowledgement to Batik Indonesia, beside increases positif publicity in  internasional forum also growing the love and pride of  Indonesian people to    Indonesia's culture it self.

A stack of my Batik Collection

After the declaration, now many people wear batik in every occasion, formal, informal, even leisure. In my office, we wear batik on Thursday and Friday.

And we proud of it.

 " I love Batik, I love Indonesia " ^^

Batik Placemat

Honestly, i never make placemat before ^^. It's because of yesterday, my mother asked me to sew some apron using an old bed sheet. The fabric was cotton batik called "Jumputan" because of the technique that  used was by bunching the fabric with a thread before it was colored. You can see the pattern (the green center spot with white lining), it is typical for Batik Jumputan.

Then I read the table-stitch-table-set-tablescape-contest! by Sew Mama Sew! 

So I grab the chance and made one placemat using the bed sheet scrap. Here it is,

 

 

I hope this can inspiring you like I did.

"I proud wear Batik, because Batik is Indonesian National Heritage"

Mom, I'm ready for the soup :d

Gift for friend

This is what I usually do when I got a wedding invitation from my friend.

I will wrapped a gift with used-envelope, the bigger one. Finished with a ribbon or simple tagging.

Simple like that, but look different and special   \^0^/ .

Want to know what the gift is? Just sent me an invitation and you'll know. ^^

Batik Pouch

Today is Saturday. In the weekend, usually i do something, sewing or cooking or baking.

For today I sew some pouch.

I take my fabric scrap, cut  and sew them.

Here they are:

Pouch for my USBs

Cosmetic pouch

For my note.

Look how adorable they are.

Batik Brooch

This idea came up when I getting bored with the ordinary brooch that I had. So, with the passion to our-Batik- heritage, i used the left over Batik fabrics to make my own brooch.

And this:

these two buttoned:

and this rolled rose using a pattern from portabellopixie.typepad.com .