The World Cup is Coming!!!

I never consider myself as a sport fans, but World Cup is coming!!!
So I made this Jakumi doll.
I couldn't make the doll similar to the real Zakumi, so I made my own version as part of the gigi series :)


It would be shameful to call it Zakumi, so this is Jakumi, fake Zakumi
He is a Zakumi fans.


Indonesia is not yet participating at this World Cup :(
So my support goes to the France team, since I was born at France :)

whichever team you are supporting, Let's Celebrate the World Cup! YAY!

Picnic with the little bird

We knew that the little bird loves ice cream


What about other sweet things? Look at that Strawberry cake!


AH! He found the Ice Cream!



"Thanks, Dude!"

See? Birds do have teeth :D
Now you know why I didn't make it to the science class.
The food at the set are erasers, cute right?
and they are cheaper than plastic food miniatures :)

PS: I'm allergic to birds feather, so it's impossible for me to check on real bird's teeth

Waiting room

I get bored of waiting for that administrative stuff (to open that 'store')
it's been a week, and there would be more waits :(

So, I took my hook and doing another dolls for the gigi series :D

Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Rat

I made it last night.
Rat is the first animal on Chinese Zodiac, and also my zodiac :)

Hickory, dickory, dock,
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Hickory, dickory, dock.

The "Hickory Dickory Dock" toys behind was my favorite toys when I was a toddler :)
I made the dolls while memorizing the song.

how many steps away?

Maybe I've made you bored with my "opening store" story.
So sorry, that I'm still telling the same old story.

I believe I'm getting closer to the goal.
I've done what I need to do, now what is left is none of my capacity.
all I have to do now is waiting.

Somehow it needs more luck than trying, it getting more and more like gambling.
So, please wish me luck :)

The POO

Recently, I love to read Mythfits a blog comic by Justin Winslow.
The story is about Unicorn who is in love with Robot (well, just read it, you'll love it)
the characters are unique, and beside The Unicorn and the Robot, my favorite character is The Poo.
Yes, you read it right, the Poo, stinky poo.
He might be smells funny, but all He want is to be loved.

I saw many crochetted poo, and I thought that I wouldn't make something like that.
But ever since I saw "the Poo", I really want to make the amigurumi version of him.
and here it is:

I wanted to make some photo session in my front yard, but all I made are some crappy picture. (Wait I did take pictures of "Crap", right?)
My dogs were not co-operating in this photo session.
Maybe the Poo really smells funny :D

"NOO, what is that smelly things!"

My bookshelf

I got new books from Taiwan!

actually I bought it from Medan (Sumatera, Indonesia), but it was Taiwan Book.

The seller sell a lot of Taiwan Craft book, most of them are translation from Japanese Book.

But mine here are made by real Taiwan author.

Well, I can't read Chinese, but the author names are not Japanese names.

The books are similar to Japanese books, but they're using slightly different method.

What I really like is the book has cute illustrations!

By the way, I kinda collecting crochet book from everywhere I could.

From the last trip to Vietnam, I got this book.

There are 978 crochet and knit pattern, most of them are translations.

And of course, since Amigurumi was from Japan, I have a lot of Amigurumi Books from Japan.

Mostly bought from Kinokuniya, or from Indonesian who sells it.

My favorite is the one with Lion and Blue rat, I accidentally found it on a hidden 2nd hand book store. Probably the oldest Ondori Book I ever found.

I don't speak/ read Chinese, Japanese nor Vietnamese, so I was very happy when my sister bought me Amigurumi! Super Happy Crochet Cute for my birthday. Definitely my first crochet book in English. Then I found the Crobots book in the local book store, and didn't think twice to buy it, of course :D

These books both use words than diagram for the pattern

I'm Indonesian so of course I have an Indonesian Book. Found it on the 2nd hand bookstore. It's an old book, probably from early '80s. I think it was some kind of catalog made by local yarn store. The patterns inside are translations. There are some vintage toys pattern too.

Kinlon was the name of the yarn

And just in case you were wondering, which book I used for learning to crochetting.

Yup, It was a French Book. My Mom taught me to crochet by the help of this book. Even tough I was born in France, I can't read French at all. The book has a big and clear picture, so even a 6 years old can learn from it.

And at last, my love for crochetted toys is because of this book.

The 70 Animaux Rigolos is my favorite book and my treasure. I did ask my mom and my sister to make me one of the doll inside the book but they never do. 20 years later, I started to make the dolls by myself. The pattern are combination of words and diagrams. I had to ask my mom to translate it to make the doll. But after all I made it with a lot of wild guessing :D

sneak peek!

the thing is, I have canceled my participation on the bazaar.
Because I'm not ready.
I have many plans for this year, and the bazaar was not really part of my plans.
It's a difficult choice cause it's really a good chance to introduce my work.

Anyway, here's a sneak peak of Duridurirams


unlike my past amigurumis, this a set of five amigurumis
I'd like to call them the Duridurirams
By the way, I had a French "R", which makes me having trouble spelling Duridurirams :D

I made them about 2 or 3 weeks ago
can you guess who they are?