Tuesday, February 27, 2018

DIY : Rustic Flower Crown by Jihan

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Flower crown is a naturally beautiful headpiece that every woman can wear. But, to get the real fresh flower sometimes is expensive and not easy to find. Fresh flower is always the best choice to make a flower crown, but who know that artificial flower is way cheaper and long lasting, so you can wear it longer than the real flower. I made flower crown from artificial flower for my wedding rustic theme. The things below are what you need to make a beautiful flower crown by yourself #diyflowercrown

What do you need ?
1. Artificial / fake flowers



2. Fake leaves

3. Leaf tape


4. Wire

5. Wire Shears

6. Glue Gun



What to do ?
  • Measure your head diameter
  • Cut the wire as long as your head diameter
  • Cut the flower and leaves as you need
  • Combine the flower as you want and bind it using wire or leaf tape
  • Glue or tie each bundle of flower to the wire
  • Make sure the wire is fully covered by the flowers
Taadaaaa.....your flower crown is done and ready to wear! 
So easy, isn't it!
Good Luck



Wednesday, January 17, 2018

How "Your Dream Wedding" looks like ?

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Do you have plan to get married this year??
Or perhaps not yet, but maybe do you have your dream wedding?
What is it like?
Vintage wedding, rustic, traditional, or a fairy tale such as Disney's princess movie wedding?
That's sound amazing isn't it?

Every girls has a right to decide what their wedding ceremony be like. Because for me, "marry once in your life, with the right man". In my perspective, being married is a serious decision, so I will not mess around with this things. You have to thought carefully what is your purpose to get married. Because you married is not for yourself, but also your family. Marriage merges two family with very far different background and tradition. So, it is not a big deal, if you want special yet unforgettable wedding ceremony in your big day.

This year, I will start my new journey in life. This year will be many adventures and learning. I'm so excited but also worry, am I able to be a good partner or not? Of course, I also have my dream wedding. Honestly I love something close to nature and vintage. So, I decided to have my wedding party a rustic theme. However, I am Javanese, which is the customs very strongly attached in the life, so I will mix it as traditional and rustic wedding ceremony. What will it be like? hahaa..

I'm prefer looking for ideas or tips for my wedding theme in Pinterest or blog.  If, you like rustic wedding ceremony also, I have some inspiration for you. Check the link below :

    This blog is my favorite to get ideas for rustic or vintage wedding. There are many tips such as  wedding dress, bridesmaids style, photographer, venue, etc. To see the wedding style you can open  the "real wedding" section on the web.


    This is blog not only give you wedding ideas, but also provide vendor to help you preparing your wedding. It has a lot of vendors, so you can freely choose the wedding theme from traditional until modern.




    A platform for you to get many ideas such as DIY, style, home decor, until wedding inspiration. I love to scrolling my mouse in Pinterest, this platform just so amazing. You can get new knowledge and information as easy as you flip your hand..hahaa.  Here some wedding inspiration that I got from Pinterest.




Wish a great wedding ceremony dears, hope my writing gives you some help for preparing you wedding day.. (^_~). Thanks for reading my blog. See you ~ ~ ~












Thursday, December 21, 2017

THE EXOTIC OF CAMBODIA

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“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” 
― Jalaluddin Rumi
All Photo by @jihanphotography
     Continue my journey to Cambodia, the land of the Khmer by land. I started from Mui Ne then back to Ho Chi Minh, the capital city of Vietnam. You can read my previous journey here and the itinerary here. Because we planned to save more money rather than to rent a room in only one night, so we prefer using sleeper bus from Vietnam to Cambodia. It was little bit difficult to find night bus, but you can try to buy the ticket along the Pham Ngu LaoI got the ticket from one of travel tour here (sorry I forgot the travel name). The ticket was about 12 US$. The sleeper bus will arrive around 12 am at Ho Chi Minh, then it will take about 4-5 hours to get the country border.

     On Vietnam - Cambodia border, the driver will ask you to collect your passport and you have to get off from the bus to enter the immigration office. Honestly, the Vietnam immigration office was beyond my expectation, the place near the border was look like warehouse and less maintained. The good news is the immigration checking was not as scary as I though, your name will be called by the staff, you just need to walk and show your face, then taraaaa...your passport had been stamped. The bus will wait you on the exit door of Vietnam immigration, then you will be delivered to Cambodia immigration office. This was my first time to stand on 2 countries border line. I felt so excited, but also nervous. The Cambodia immigration was not far from Vietnam, but the building was more beautiful and modern, its appearance was very different with Vietnam's immigration. When entered the Cambodia immigration, the staff will do finger scanning and take some pictures of you. As always, the bus will wait you and other passengers at the exit street. The bus will continue the journey about 4-5 hours more to get Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia.

     The land was so dry and hot. Yes, this was my first impression when I saw Phnom Penh from my bus window. The city is not as modern as other big city, but the street was not so crowded. I and my friends didn't stay in Phnom Penh, because we had run out of time, so we directly went to Siem Reap by mini-van. Need about 4 hours more to get Siem Reap. After long journey passing the weeds, Cambodian traditional village, and the dry land, finally we arrived at Siem Reap. We stayed at Pub Hostel, at Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia. The district is tourist area, so you can find many attractions here, start from club, cafe, night market, until food stalls. You also able to find extreme food here, such as cockroaches, caterpillar, and scorpion.

     We had visited not many places in Siem Reap, because we did't have much time, we still have to continue our journey to Thailand by land...lol...so tiring but also full of fun, seeing more place, custom, and meeting a lot of new friends....hahaa...
     So, the main attraction place is Angkor Wat, you will need a day or more to visit some famous temples in Angkor Wat area. We rent tuk-tuk , the traditional three-cycle bike for a day trip to Angkor Wat, the fare is about 30 USD per tuk-tuk (year 2017), you have to bargain because they will offer high price for tourist. Because we want to see the magical sunrise in Angkor Wat, we decided to go in early morning (about 5 to 5.30 am). The tuk-tuk driver will pick you up at the hotel and bring you to the main gate of Angkor Wat area, the entry ticket was expensive this year the price increased about 37US$ per person for one day trip.
      Photo : @jihanphotography
During the one day trip in Angkor Wat area, we did small circuit temple which consist of 2 big temples and 5 small temples.


Big Temple
1. Angkor Wat
 Photo : @jihanphotography
    The temple is one of the biggest temple on this archaeological site. It is located about six kilometers north of Siem Reap, south of Angkor Thom. This place is crowded by tourist in early morning who want to see the magical sunrise. Angkor Wat was built in the first half of 12th century, which estimated construction time is about 30 years by King Suryavarman II, dedicated to Vishnu (Hindu).
 Photo : @jihanphotography
2. Angkor Thom
        Angkor Thom, the last capital of Khmer Empire, was a fortress that protect the residence of priest, officials of the palace and military, as well as buildings for administering the kingdom.
 Photo : @jihanphotography
Small Temple
1. Bayon
     Bayon temple is part of Angkot Thom temple, built in the late 12th or early 13th century as the official staet temple of the Mahayana Buddhist King Jayavarman VII, the Bayon stand at the centre of Jayavarman's capital, Angkor Thom. Following Jayavarman's death, it was modified and augmented by later Hindu and Theravada Buddhist kings in accordance with their own religious preferences.
 Photo : @jihanphotography
2. Ta Phrom
     Anybody know this temple? Have you ever heard about 'Tomb Raider Temple'? Yes, the famous name of Ta Phrom is 'Tom Raider Temple' as it became a movie scene for beautiful actress Angelina Jolie. Ta Phrom was a Buddhist temple dedicated to the mother of King Jayavarman VI. Ta Phrom has its magical, a abandon kingdom which is covered by deeply shadow, its crumbling towers and walls locked by the very long roots system.
Photo : @jihanphotography
3. Ta Som
     The area of temple was very quite and shady, because many big trees here. Yes, Ta Som area is better to call it in center of forest. The temple is located at the eastern end of the Northern Baray at Angkor, was built at the end of 12th century during the reign of King Jayavarman VII.The temple is surrounded by laterite walls, with roots system in several place.
Photo : @jihanphotography
4. Ta Keo
     Ta Keo temple marked by many stairs that arranged very high to the top of temple. Ta Keo had to be the state temple of Jayavarman V. It has five sanctuary towers, built on the uppermost level of five-tier pyramid consisting of overlapping terraces.
Photo : @jihanphotography
5. Neak Poan
Photo : @jihanphotography
     Neak Poan temple is an artificial island with Buddhist temple on a circular island in Jayatataka Baray, which was built during the reign of King Jayavarman VII. Tourist need to walk across the wide lake using a long wooden bridge to get the temple. The temple is not big, mostly covered by water, but it has many small garden.



Monday, November 20, 2017

Story of the Rain City "Bogor"

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"Kota hujan, kota sejuta angkot, tapi juga kota sejuta kenangan"
~ Jihan the Wanderer


Back to this city or just short time visit, is always my favorite. Yeah, now I'm living in Jakarta. Long time ago when I was Junior High school, is the first time for me to visit Bogor. That time, Bogor's weather is so comfort, cold and fresh rather than my metropolitan city. There were so many big trees, I felt like in a jungle, feel freedom to take fresh deep breath. Since then, I had ever said in heart that I want to live here, in this city "Bogor". 

In this city, I'm falling in love

Who knows, that God heard my wish, about 5 years later, I got a chance to study in one of best campus in my country and it's located in Bogor. The biggest campus in Bogor. For almost 5 years, I've lived in Bogor. In this city I met, new friends, new challenge, new opportunity, family even love. 

As the raining comes, it's also story comes

Beside the people, I also love the ambiance of this city, the smell of land when its rain, the old building, the old market even the traditional food. Yeaah, there are so many kind of food here. From traditional until modern. Now, there are so many chic and Instagramable cafe in this rain city. But, Bogor now is more crowded than long time ago, when I was there. Bogor now has so many mall, supermarket and fast food restaurant, traffic jam every where. Bogor is not as cold as past. But the ambiance, I still like it. Sometimes at weekend I make s short visit, only just walking near the Istana Bogor (Presidential Palace), feeding deer, buying flower in traditional market or hunting photo.

In my campus

Big tree

Oh deer ~ ~ ~


Flowers lover

Old Building

Horse

When you are in Indonesia, don't forget this rain city ~ ~ ~


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