Glam Dress

So I went to Sheraton Kuta Bali to celebrate my Uncle's birthday, and decided to wear this lovely flare contrast peplum dress. Kinda obsessed with the signature look of the fabric.

pardon for this blur one ;)

By the way, you can enjoy buffets here at Feast (Starwood Preferred Guest) start at IDR 270.000++ per person. Fresh buffets and a la carte with seating indoors and out, plus live cooking stations will makes you totally enjoy this place. I forgot to take the food pictures, next time, okay ;)

zoom in to this lovely fabric 

Dress - Three Floor

Heels: Charles & Keith. 

Tote Bag: Dorothy Perkins. 

xoxo, bee ❤

My Favourite Outfit #OOTD

Hello, April!

just a short blog about my favourite outfit of the moment. I know this kinda old, Ashley Madekwe already wore this last june in her blog post.
But, can't help to share this ^^

 

Dress: Three Floor. Heels: Charles & Keith. 

Tote Bag: Dorothy Perkins. 

Btw, you can find your favourite high fashion dress right here

xoxo, bee ❤

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Motherhood

Hello everybody!
I'm sorry for not update it for so long... I've been busy all the time with my 11 months Chloe, and everything is perfectly settled now. I just want to share this little story especially for first mom, young mom or mom going-to-be, about baby world, and how a child will change your life forever but in a good way :)

The Newborn (first month)
The worst time ever for me. I didn't mean to complain, but seriously this was the worst stage ever. I just gave birth and should adjust myself to this new situation, and always feel exhausted because newborn always awake every 2 hours (sometimes every hour!) to breastfeed. I was struggling so hard because can't get enough sleep. Everytime it happens I just look at my baby and try to gather all of my strength because she's so helpless and so small. Everybody said,"She's so small and thin". So, I tried my best to breastfeed her as often as possible.

The Friendly Baby (2-4 months)

Things are getting so much better! I start to understand her and she also start to understand me lol. She grow up into this cute baby who loves to smile and she's getting prettier too :) I can't describe every single progress she makes, because it's a lot. Baby growing up so fast.

Friendly Baby  

The Roller

The Starving Baby (5-7 months)

My little Chloe start to hungry all the time, she's asking more milk than usual. I gave her formula too, because she keeps starving. Besides of her growing appetite, she's so interest in what other people eating too. I realize it's time to give her solid food. Things just keep getting better because she already eat solids. 

Then, when it's holiday time, I was so nervous to take her on her first plane trip. Thank God everything's going well, she keeps eating so her ears didn't hurt. Best morning flight ^o^ But when the second flight at night, she's so tired and fall asleep, that's when the bad time came, her ear suddenly hurt so she's screaming and crying so loud x_x I tried to gave her everything, formula, pacifier, she didn't want to. (Since out of town, she makes a weird habit, suddenly she refuses formula or bottle, she just want to breastfeed to me)

I was plan to wean her at 6 months, and it's all failed.

Cutie Chloe

 Little family

The Superactive Baby ( 8-11 months)

Chloe start to sit by herself at 6 months, and at 7 months she already stand on her feet. Since then she just unstoppable. She's learning to walk now, and still crawling everywhere. I spent a lot energy chasing her until one day I fall while carrying her and twist my ankle. Thank God, it's already healed. That's the risk of taking care your baby by yourself without babysitter. (until today I still haven't changed my mind about that) My husband helps a lot with his cooking skill and he also taking care Chloe while I was gone. 

well, that's a bit story of mine. When you have a child, life is no longer about yourself. I never go to watch a movie with my husband anymore, and never have a 'saturdate'. We just busy with this little one :) (Except you have a family member or baby sitter who can take care of your baby ;))

xoxo, bee ❤

The Big Day

Oh, finally I can share my story. I am officially a mother and here's how everything happened when God decide to let my daughter born to this world.

my baby

I already choose I would go with natural birth, so I tried not to complain when the contractions start to come during my final trimester. Why natural birth?

1. I want to recover as soon as possible
2. I want my body get back soon too (Victoria's Secret angels proof that ;)

But, it's okay with you who choose c-section, the most important thing is the baby safe, right?

 I will never forget how everything happened when the real labor really came. 

Two days real contractions.

 It was monday morning and i already felt stomachache and it happens the whole day. I was 38 1/2 weeks so i thought it was just false alarm. I tried my best to ignore it, and just go lying down on my bed, after the pain gone, i grab something to eat and lying down again when it came again. 

Tuesday morning. I still felt the pain come and go, and it didn't get any better, even it's getting worse. I couldn't get up from my bed, couldn't eat and just snuggle on my bed. I cried and my husband confused, because the contractions were getting closer but it still came every hour. 

That night the pain start getting closer and stronger and i couldn't sleep, i just gripping my husband's hand and crying. He said "I think its time", and i agreed with him. 
So, i called the doctor, it was 1.30 am, and she said just come to the hospital. We borrow my 'emergency bag', and went to the hospital. 

We arrived at 1.50 am, and the nurse checked if any dilation, and it turns out i already in 4th dilation. After that, the horror came, the pain was keep getting closer and stronger and i felt like I was punished. I couldn't scream, I just whisper to my husband "it hurts, it hurts", and until the 6th dilation,  I throw up, and snuggling again on the hospital's bed. I asked of any epidural, but the nurse said if i want to get that, then later I will end up with c-section. She said not to worry because the pain will decrease. She was right but just until the 7th dilation, after that the contractions keep getting hurt beyond any boundaries. I couldn't think anymore and couldn't open my eyes, I almost collapse.

The 9th dilation, my water broke. I shout to the nurse and said the water broke, and she checked again, finally I entered the 10th dilation. The doctor came right at the time, suddenly i hear someone yelled at me. My doctor shout at me, "Wake up, Mrs Tabitha! Open your eyes!"
My husband also shout at me. It turns out, at my 10th dilation my baby's head already visible down there. And, it's time to push her out. I didn't have power enough, so they inject me and they coach me to push again. The doctor make episiotomy and i pushed again, finally she's born to this world. She's born quite fast in this process. My opening and contractions hurt so bad until I didn't feel hurt so much on the episiotomy. My husband follow the nurse who carry my baby, while I got another shot of local anesthesia before the cut was stitched up. 

My recovery was amazingly so fast, after the cut was stitched up, I didn't feel any pain anymore! I feel like just had a nightmare, and already awake with my beautiful baby. My husband gave her to me and I breastfeed her directly. It was a wonderful moment, and I didn't sleep that night, taking care of her. I didn't know where my power and stamina comes from, but i didn't feel tired at all. I just so excited with my baby.
I lost 5 kgs from 8kgs pregnancy weight gain. And lost another kg a week later.

Now, she's already 2 months old, and I can't stop give thanks to God, after everything we've been through, finally we can be a happy family.

my body, a week after giving birth

xoxo, bee ❤

The Final Trimester

self portrait at 7 months 

Sometimes, i still feel all of these pregnancy experiences is just a dream.
I can't believe in one and half month i'm going to become a mother. Well, actually i feel already like one, since i love to talk to my baby all the time :).
I already pass my best time in second trimester, move on and let go all of my favourite raw food, let go my hobby such as coloring hair, and let the 'scary numbers' on my scale I'd never seen before in my whole life.
That's all just for my baby girl.

But, there are many good things too. 

• a healthier lifestyle 

          I eat a lot of fruits these days, really a lot! I never eat fruits more than 5 times a day. I eat apple, pear,     banana, fruit salad, and keep looking everything that fresh for my meal. 

still hang around with my besties at 6 months :)

• more luscious hair

          when you're pregnant, actually you're not growing hair more than usual, but fewer hair fall than usual. Oh, the nails is growing so fast too.

• never alone

          I never feel lonely because of this cute baby keep kicking, punching, and do some weird stuff, such as this one lol

I was laying straight on my bed, and suddenly her head pops out on my belly ^o^ maybe she's bored and wants to go out hahah.. btw it's a huge belly, isn't it? it's my 8 months baby bump :)

• new habits

          such as taking tons of vitamins, doing pilates, and become an 'oily human' everyday Lols. Thanks to my sister-in-law, i really concern about skin these days. She keep reminds me about how important to moisture your skin to prevent stretch marks. So, i have some new best friends since the 5th day of my pregnancy: Palmer's Cocoa Butter, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, and all of high-moisture lotion and oils, they're always with me all the time. 

Here's my 4D Ultrasound of my baby at 7 months ^^

Actually, she blinks her eyes couple times, but I didn't get the captured when she did that. 

Well, I'm 8 months pregnant now and gained about 7kgs, and my baby weigh almost 2kgs, we're hoping and wishing for the best for the labor. I hope i can giving birth smoothly just like Kourtney Kardashian :)

Thank you for those who praying for us too, 

GBU

xoxo, bee ❤

Wedding 101

Hey guys, Cary’s here. It’s been a while since the last time I write. Well, bee is so excited with her pregnancy. I remember the first time she tells us about the news, we’re on a blackberry group chat and she was like giving us this blushed face emoticon and making us wondered what happen. HAHA! But anyway, we’re so excited for Bee and hope for the very best for her and the little baby^^

As you know I got married last June. I was waiting 'til I got all my wedding photos and I’m running down options of what I will write, not gonna blab around my whole wedding details since it might get a little overdue by now. LOL. So, I’m gonna write down some tips for you beautiful bride-to-be's since we got all the stress from planning a wedding!

At the beginning of my wedding planning process, I spent so much time on researching about wedding, the traditional wedding, the modern day, etc just to get a basic idea. I mean we ‘re all been to a wedding but it is the first time that we’re actually getting married, doh! So I wanna know more. It may be good for you to actually have a basic understanding of the tradition especially if you or you partner come from a traditional background.

Tips #1. Let’s talk.

Sit with your partner and talk about what you like your wedding to be. What you and your partner’s family expected on the wedding, is there any kind of tradition of what you need/must/mustn’t do at the wedding. Let’s make everything clear so both party will live happily ever after.

Tips #2. Money & Budget.

Well, by now you should have decide who will pay for the wedding. Is it the grooms family, both families, or the bride&groom themselves. But either way, you need to have a budget planning on your wedding. It’s a good idea to write down every details of your wedding. Ie, venue, decoration, bridal, etc. and put down your budget for each, if you have no idea how much the usual price, have a quick research on how much each item should cost and decide are you going to pay lower or higher. You don’t want to overbudget yourself, coz if you don’t have the budget in writing you will think you can add everything and at the end of the day you’re paying too much. Well, unless if you have tree that produces money and you're swimming in diamonds and golds.

Tips #3. Don’t over think it!

As the bride-to-be, I understand you will spend hours and hours on internet or magazine flicking through wedding photos, details, etc. DON'T THINK TOO MUCH! Everything will look good, will look pretty, page by page it will look prettier than what you chose yesterday. It happened! I stressed myself out because of this. I choose how my wedding dress looks like, I love the design so I took it to the designer and ask her to design similar for me.  I regret it the next day, coz I saw a better design T^T that happen to every detail of my wedding, so my tips is. Don’t think too much, everything will look better than what you choose! It’s just the stressed before the wedding. So breathe in, breathe out. RELAX. You already know what you want back in your head, so don’t poison your brain by thinking too much. If it's happen, stop whatever you're doing stop looking at the wedding magazine and internet. Seeing too much can add more stress, pictures can be deceiving. 

Tips #4. You can’t always have what you want.

This is how budgeting helps, as the bride we usually want something out of the ordinary. We want our wedding to be magical, unforgettable, better than our friends. But we just can’t have it all! So please be reasonable. You can have a beautiful wedding without paying unreasonable amount of money by ordering some costume design bejewelled wedding shoes from Iceland (this is random, but Iceland kinda pop-up when I write this. LOL)

Tips #5. It’s your BIG day, Smile and enjoy the ride.

This it, after months of planning your wedding day is arrived. Things can go wrong! But whatever happens on the big day of yours! SMILE! Enjoy it, you’re the king and queen of the day! This is the happiest day of your life! Whatever happen, be happy. You don’t want to ruin your wedding photo. Relax and enjoy the ride! It’s not about the big beautiful wedding, it’s about the life after this. You will go through so much after this day, make a beautiful story. Perfect wedding celebration does not mean a perfect marriage life. Even if you have the simplest wedding, you can always have a happiest marriage from here after.

Hope this simple tips will help you to relax. Share your worries to your partner/best friends/maid-of-honor, it will help you relax a bit. One more thing, Men are designed not-to fussed about the whole wedding thing, so if you keep on nagging them about wedding wedding wedding they’re not gonna like it - just fyi. So go out with your besties, have a chat and you’ll be find it’s not the end of the world if you can’t have those wedding shoes or the wedding ring is over your budget or you're dream wedding venue is over booked! It’s not always about that, it’s about living a life together from this day forward for better or worse, through tears and joy, through sickness and in health. Til death do you part.

So, cheers to a new life as husband and wife! I put some of my wedding photos, hope you enjoy. This is the Holy Matrimony Part and a simple dinner reception in Bali, we will be having another reception in Bandung this December :)

THANK GOD for the beautiful weather on our wedding day!

The wedding cake designed to look like our invitation (oh! should have put them up. will upload the invitation later *wink*)

Noah's Ark Chapel

Vivi as my maid-of-honor ;)

where's my Groom!!

pretty Vivi

view from the bedroom villa

how cute is my husband's nephew holding my mom-in-law dress, he's afraid that it gets dirty >.<

Dad's walk me down the aisle *teary eyes*

you may kiss the bride :-*

my Pandora world (from Avatar. LOL)

this is the only picture I took with Bee that day. Sorry bee :(

My dearest friends who come all the way from Perth to attend my wedding. xoxo

awkward first dance. hahah

Fireworks!

our WO, thank you for making our wedding wonderful :)

the Mr & Mrs.

Hope you enjoy and have a nice day. xxo

Love ♥

Cary