Craftivity Creation

Just launch my brand Craftivity Creation.

Check out our Instagram (craftivity.creation) and our website Craftivity Creation.
we provide wide range of clothing and others. We have batik clothes, prayer set (mukena), bed sheet and a lot more will coming soon.
Stay tune and do regularly check our page.

Like I'm Gonna Lose You - Meghan Trainor ft. John Legend

I found myself dreaming
In silver and gold
Like a scene from a movie
That every broken heart knows we were walking on moonlight
And you pulled me close
Split second and you disappeared and then I was all alone

I woke up in tears
With you by my side
A breath of relief
And I realized
No, we're not promised tomorrow

So I'm gonna love you
Like I'm gonna lose you
I'm gonna hold you
Like I'm saying goodbye wherever we're standing
I won't take you for granted 'cause we'll never know when
When we'll run out of time so I'm gonna love you
Like I'm gonna lose you
I'm gonna love you like I'm gonna lose you

[John Legend:]
In the blink of an eye
Just a whisper of smoke
You could lose everything
The truth is you never know

So I'll kiss you longer baby
Any chance that I get
I'll make the most of the minutes and love with no regrets

Let's take our time
To say what we want
Use what we got
Before it's all gone
'Cause no, we're not promised tomorrow

[Both:]
So I'm gonna love you
Like I'm gonna lose you
I'm gonna hold you
Like I'm saying goodbye wherever we're standing
I won't take you for granted 'cause we'll never know when
When we'll run out of time so I'm gonna love you
Like I'm gonna lose you
I'm gonna love you like I'm gonna lose you

Hey
Whoa

I'm gonna love you
Like I'm gonna lose you
I'm gonna hold you
Like I'm saying goodbye wherever we're standing
I won't take you for granted 'cause we'll never know when
When we'll run out of time so I'm gonna love you
Like I'm gonna lose you
I'm gonna love you like I'm gonna lose you

Book Review - Antalogi Rasa by Ika Natassa (no spoiler)

Every writer has their own hallmark. After reading Antalogi Rasa (second book from Ika Natassa that I read), I start to notice similarity between the books.

Airport, it seem like Ika Natassa has a special memory about airport. Critical Eleven and Antalogi Rasa starts with chapter about airport. When you read the first chapter, you will instantly know that is Ika who wrote the book.

Write the story from different view of person. While in Critical Eleven Ika wrote from 2 different angle in Antalogi Rasa she wrote from 3 different angle, Keara, Harris and Ruly. Even though most of it from Keara and Harris point of view.

Name and character. Harris name and character are some much look a like in Antalogi Rasa and Critical Eleven. Main character always beautiful, independent and success career women.

Maybe it's just my shallow observation after reading her two books but I enjoy reading them. It's light and a great escape from your busy days.  Once you read it you want to finish read the book instantly and wants to know the end.  Love the end of Antalogi Rasa but cliché ending for Critical Eleven.

I love the way the story flows in Antalogi Rasa, emotion and relation between all the characters.  The twist and dynamic relation Keara had with Harris, Panji and Ruly. The way Keara play with her own feeling and at the end realize that she can change something that she posses of. 

This review will not help anyone that wants to know the story of Antalogi Rasa, but if you buy and read the book, you will enjoy it.

Any suggestion for my next book review? Went to book store last week but somehow none grab my attention.  Let's go to the book store.... yeah....

My Thinking

Lately, I have a lot of things on my mind. I try to discover myself and define it into words. Somehow it makes me feel better and I write it on my twitter(@blue_goldfish). I also want to rewrite it on my blog, just to remind me of my thinking and feeling.

Maybe it's how the way universe works to tell me the right thing to do.

If you just do your thing, you'll never have any reason to envy others.

Sometimes you want to prove to others that they are wrong, actually you don't have to because you know exactly who you are and what you want.

Quote of The Day

And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

Steve Jobs

Book Review : Critical Eleven by Ika Natassa *no spoiler*

Somewhere between Jakarta-Depok in commuter line train, which I rarely take, I had an idea to write a book review.  I just bought 2 books, 2 weeks before. One of them was Critical Eleven by Ika Natassa. I never read any of Ika Natassa book before, that make Critical Eleven is the first book of Ika Natassa that I read.  Let's start the book review ala Kimi, Book Review without spoiler. :)

At first I had to admit that this book can make me cry. Maybe because the story close enough to my personal life.  Lost, lost of something that we love, something that we had waiting for, something that we expected to come.  Anya (Tanya Baskoro) and Ale (Aldebaran Risjad), the two main characters in this book, feel very devastated but then they just express it in a different way that make both of them loss each other.

For me the story a little bit too cliche.  A single, beautiful and successful women met a single, handsome and successful man. Just like a fairytale. The conflict began when Anya can't accept Ale accusition and decide to move away from it instead of deal with it. Anya and Ale trying to get justified on how they feel and behave. Ale's family make the story more lively but somehow Ika didn't tell us much about Anya's family. I got a feeling of Sex and the City about Anya, when you are close to your friend than your family.

Ika writes the book from 2 different angle, Anya and Ale. But sometimes, repetition happened, and it just feel like dejavu. Anya already described a situation and then you read the same line all over again from Ale. The feeling that each of them feel, the emotion, the thin line between right and wrong, uncertainty of feeling are well described by Ika. Detail of location and place and detail information on related things such as part of brain or critical eleven minutes in aviation world are not too much to get us iritated but just enough for us to get the context and knowledge. The boorkmark is very unique, a boarding pass, love it.

Overall, a nice book to read to spend your lazy weekend. ***

Indonesia Handmande Product, Bag Review

Maunya sih nulis dalam bahasa english biar bisa bisa dibaca oleh orang-orang non Indonesia sekalian promosi gitu tapi ternyata membutuhkan niat dan otak yang jernih untuk menulis dalam bahasa Inggris. Apa daya jadinya bahasa Indonesia aja ya.

Yang mau direview adalah tas handmade buatan Indonesia....
Yeayyy nggak harus batik or tenun gitu yang penting yang buat orang Indonesia.

Yuk kita mulai listnya berdasarkan banyaknya koleksi dimiliki oleh penulis.
1. Craftivity
Ya iya lah pastinya, karena yang punya Craftivity adalah yang punya blog yang amat sangat keren nih. Jahit sendiri, pakai sendiri, kadang-kadang give away ke saudara or teman dekat. Sampai saat ini tidak menerima pesanan maupun request karena membuat tas atau pouch atau hasil karya lainnya berdasarkan mood, mood dan keterserdiaan waktu. Walaupun kain banyak bertumpuk dan semakin banyak bertumpuk tetap saja mimi harus menunggu mood datang. Mood oh mood Where art thou?
Foto-foto dibawah product craftivity yang dipake sendiri oleh yang punya, ha ha ha ha. Untuk hasil karya yang lain bisa lihat di facebook atau instagram or banyak juga yg sudah dipost di blog ini. Sengaja nggak kasih link biar ada usaha *hi hi hi sok tenar*.
Craftivity sekarang sudah punya blog, facebook dan instagram lho. Instagram ID craftivity.creation dan link untuk facebook Craftivity Creation, tinggal klik aja ya. Cari di google dengan kata kunci Craftivity Creation juga bisa.

Narsis with beautiful totebag by Craftivity

Handphone Pouch by Craftivity

Small totebag yang dipake buat jalan-jalan ke mall by Craftivity

2. SewStories (SS)
Fall in love with this product since 2013. Pada waktu itu untuk mendapatkan SS butuh perjuangan banget. Harus mantengin facebook pada saat mbak Imel yang punya SS upload, karena begitu diupload langsung dibook dalam hitungan detik or sepersepuluh ribu detik *lebay.com*. Tapi kira-kira begitu lah susahnya, belum lagi kadang-kadang waktu uploadnya ajaib, bisa tengah malam, bisa sore-sore or bisa kapan aja. Trus dulu belum bisa PO, kalo mau pesen harus WA mbak imel sering-sering biar mbak Imel buatin pesanan kita. Hmm belum sempet ngitung punya berapa SS yang pasti banyak banget. Soalnya harga sebanding lah sama barangnya, walaupun untuk beberapa item menurut penulis terlalu berat untuk badan penulis yang imut ini (cieehhh ngaku imut) dan pundak yang sudah renta dan gampang sakit. Atau dompet yang terlalu berat dan besar. Berikut penampakan koleksi SS. Tenang saudara-saudara masih ada koleksi yang belum sempat terfoto. Maaf waktu itu agak maniak SS, sekarang sudah insyaf. Sekarang sewstories lagi ultah yang ke-4. Happy Birthday.... dan mimi lagi ikutan kontes fotonya, kayaknya susah menang, tapi tetap harus optimis dan positive.

My SewStories Collection

Bumil narsis dengan Fantasia dari SewStories

3. Others
Untuk sisanya saya kategorikan sebagai others saja ya. karena punyanya juga nggak banyak.
Handmade by Sofia Sadji, lupa namanya apa. Tapi punya 2 tas dan 1 dompet, dua diantaranya bergambar Candy Candy, karena mimi pecinta berat Candy Candy. Secara kualitas lumayan, tapi salah satu tas, talinya kulitnya mengelupas akhirnya ganti tali tas ke tukang tas deh. Harga standard untuk handmade yang memang cukup mahal jika dibandingkan dengan mass production.
Project Aili Indonesia
Tas dan dompetnya mix dengan motif batik. Punya 2 tas dan 1 dompet. Lagi-lagi untuk yang tas, kulitnya mengelupas, again ke tukang tas untuk diganti kulitnya. Salah satu tas, as gift diberikan kepada ibu mertua. Semoga kabarnya baik-baik saja. Harga standard for Batik bag.
Gia Batik
Punya 1 tas dan belum sempet dipake, jadi nggak bisa review banyak. Harga (bagi penulis) cukup mahal.

Dompet Candy by Sofia Sadji

Tas Aili

Tas Gia Batik

Sementara ini dulu, kalo ada lagi nanti mimi update.

Happy Tuesday Everyone.

Blank Space - Taylor Swift

[Verse 1]
Nice to meet you
Where you been?
I could show you incredible things
Magic, madness, heaven, sin
Saw you there and I thought oh my god
Look at that face, you look like my next mistake
Love's a game, wanna play
New money, suit and tie
I can read you like a magazine
Ain't it funny rumors fly
And I know you heard about me
So hey, let's be friends
I'm dying to see how this one ends
Grab your passport and my hand
I could make the bad guys good for a weekend

[Pre-Chorus]
So it's gonna be forever
Or it's gonna go down in flames
You can tell me when it's over
If the high was worth the pain
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
Cause you know I love the players
And you love the game

[Chorus]
Cause we're young and we're reckless
We'll take this way too far
It'll leave you breathless
Or with a nasty scar
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
But I got a blank space baby
And I'll write your name

[Verse 2]
Cherry lips
Crystal skies
I could show you incredible things
Stolen kisses, pretty lies
You're the king baby I'm your queen
Find out what you want
Be that girl for a month
But the worst is yet to come
Oh no
Screaming, crying, perfect storms
I could make all the tables turn
Rose garden filled with thorns
Keep you second guessing like oh my god
Who is she? I get drunk on jealousy
But you'll come back each time you leave
Cause darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream

[Pre-Chorus]
So it's gonna be forever
Or it's gonna go down in flames
You can tell me when it's over
If the high was worth the pain
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
Cause you know I love the players
And you love the game

[Chorus]
Cause we're young and we're reckless
We'll take this way too far and leave you breathless
Or with a nasty scar
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
But I got a blank space baby
And I'll write your name

[Bridge]
Boys only want love if it's torture
Don't say I didn't say I didn't warn you
Boys only want love if it's torture
Don't say I didn't say I didn't warn you

[Pre-Chorus]
So it's gonna be forever
Or it's gonna go down in flames
You can tell me when it's over
If the high was worth the pain
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
Cause you know I love the players
And you love the game

[Chorus]
Cause we're young and we're reckless
We'll take this way too far and leave you breathless
Or with a nasty scar
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
But I got a blank space baby
And I'll write your name

Source:http://www.directlyrics.com/taylor-swift-blank-spaces-lyrics.html

Khalid Ahmad Rasyad

It seems that previously I didn't have time to write about Rasyad birth process. Rasyad was a very nice baby when he was inside my tummy. I took my maternity leave 2 weeks before the due date since at that time I had to wait my replacement first. I always had a feeling about the delivery time, it wasn't 100% correct but it just a near miss, just few days nearmiss :). My feeling said that Rasyad will see the world on Monday, but he chose Saturday night instead.

I already felt the contraction 3 days before giving birth. On Saturday, 26th April 2014 on 9pm I asked my husband to accompany me go to the hospital, my sisters informed my parents to go to our house to accompany Rafan at home, eventhough we had our assistants at home. The process was fast, around 11.30pm Rasyad already become our second child. So happyyy............... after all that happened before, Rasyad is a gift from Allah to our little family. Welcome to our little family Khalid Ahmad Rasyad, our beloved little boy.

Right after he was born

Brothers

Operasi Usus Buntu

Operasi usus buntu, hmm kayaknya sih sering denger tapi nggak pernah mengira bahwa itu akan dialami oleh Rafan. He just 9 years old, too young but the doctor said it has nothing to do with age. Anyone including 20 months baby can have appendix surgery. Jadi kesimpulannya tergantung amal ibadah eh tergantung nasib ding.

Dimulai Sabtu sore tiba-tiba Rafan mengeluh sakit perut karena tidak bisa pup, mimi pikir ah biasa anak-anak, suka susah makan sayur dan kurang minum air putih jadi susah pup. Tapi kok sakit perutnya nggak berkurang dan nggak ilang-ilang. Trus Rafan muntah, setelah muntah Rafan bilang sakit perutnya mendingan, oke mungkin Rafan keracunan makanan. Kesimpulan ibu-ibu minim pengetahuan. Tak lama kemudian sakit perutnya muncul lagi, akhirnya berhasil membujuk papi untuk nganterin Rafan ke dokter. Dapat rujukan dari dokter untuk usg mengecek usus buntu hari Senin, karena minggu radiologinya tutup. Rafan terus muntah-muntah dan sakit perutnya tidak mereda, kasian Rafan jadi nggak bisa tidur dan gelisah. Obat dari dokter pun tidak ada efeknya. Pukul setengah 1 malam akhirnya Rafan kita bawa ke UGD.

Sampai di UGD langsung diperiksa oleh dokter jaga, dicek darah dan di diagnosa usus buntu, kesimpulannya kemungkinan besar harus operasi. Karena hasil periksa darah leukositnya tinggi jadi disarankan untuk check in kamar. Setuju untuk check in, sementara itu Rafan tetap belum boleh diberikan pereda rasa sakit karena akan mengaburkan penyebab sakitnya. Jam setengah 3 akhirnya kita baru masuk ke kamar dan dijadwalkan untuk ketemu dokter bedah Minggu pagi. Seperti biasa kalo nggak lebay namanya bukan Rafan. Mau di ambil darah, drama dulu, mau diinfus drama dulu.

Minggu pagi jam setengah 6, dokternya datang. Aiih pagi bener, mimi masih kiyip-kiyip karena baru tidur jam 3. Berdasarkan hasil diagnosis, Rafan disimpulkan radang usus buntu dan harus segera di operasi, semakin cepat semakin baik. Awal-awalnya ragu, masa sih anak kecil bisa usus buntu. Akhirnya Bismillah dan setuju Rafan untuk dioperasi. Operasi dijadwalkan minggu malam pukul 7. Sebelumnya Rafan puasa makan dari jam 12 dan puasa minum dari jam 4 sore. Sebelum operasi Rafan dikasih obat antibiotik lewat infus, setelah dikasih obat, Rafan jadi cerah ceria, ceriwis kayak anak nggak sakit aja. Mungkin karena obatnya menghilangkan rasa sakit, jadinya Rafan happy dan malah nggak sabaran untuk operasi. Mulai heboh untuk ngasih tahu semua orang dan request biar dijenguk. Aihh Rafan seneng banget kalo jadi  pusat perhatian.

Alhamdulillah operasi berjalan lancar dan sekarang Rafan dalam masa pemulihan.  Semoga Rafan cepat sembuh dan bisa main seperti biasa lagi. We love you Rafan, get well soon. Muah muah.....

Before the surgery

After the surgery

Somehow upload photonya error. Fotonya jadi kebalik-balik gitu deh.
But at least we have 2 pictures, before and after :).

Happy Pictures Collection

Selamat Lebaran....
Maaf Lahir Batin...

Blog yang sudah lama mati suri karena kesibukan pemiliknya *ah alasan saja :)*

Karena lagi males cerita-cerita, saya posting foto-foto saja ya.

Happy Birthday Rasyad 

Rafan dan Rasyad Tidur Bersama

Foto Keluarga yang Agak Gatot

Sisters in Action

Sisters in Action 2

My Lovely Family

Karena suasana lebaran, jadi foto-fotonya juga nuansa lebaran.

Dengan hadirnya imutable, cutable Rasyad, hobby jahit menjahit agak tersendat. Karena suka nggak tegaaaaaa ninggal di kecil untuk menjahit walaupun ada mbak, Rasanya gimana gitu.

Tapi masih bisa berproduksi walaupun sedikitttttt sekali. Berhasil membuat sling bag dan tote bag dengan semua motif Matryoshka yang semuanya handmade asli Craftivity ibu kimi yang baik hati, rajin menabung dan tidak sombong.

Sling Bag Matryoshka Biru

Tote Bag Matroy Biru

Cukup sekian postingan kali ini. Dan nanti sore saya ingin makan ramen.........