Tutorial Hijab Ala Paris

A couple months ago, my aunties came to my city to visit us. Then, during their visit in the city, they asked us to show some handbags stores which sell beautiful designed, unique, high-quality handbags, and better if they also sell batik-ed, ethnic, or other handcrafted bags.

This January, my aunty is going to visit her son and his family in the USA, so at that time, she wanted to bring them some handbags she bought here as souvenirs. She said that she knew they will love those handbags made in Indonesia.. :)

I knew some of the stores which sell those kind of handbags. Perhaps there are many more bags' stores with that specification that I did not know yet. You can share with me if you know other good quality bags' stores, particularly which based in Yogyakarta.

First store we visited was Dowa. They sell beautiful designs of handbags with rich of beautiful color blocking. They also sell knitted bags and clutches, and also pouches.

I love all those colors!










The upfront door of the store with pretty, delicate, ethnic design:



Other handbags stores we visited will be in my next post. So, stick around! ;)

I have been so busy lately and have no time to write... As a mom of two boys and a wife, and working on a bit of small entrepreneurial things I'm trying to work out.. are already consuming almost all of my time! I only had a very little time for my "me time".

During this "little me time", I usually fill it out with blogging and reading. I love reading since I was a kid. And blogging.. I love it since I knew it several years ago.. :) These activities make me feel fun and fresh with new knowledge, info, inspirations, entertainment, and sometimes humor I got from them.

But, when it comes to blogging, I got distracted easily.. you know, with so many news and exciting info, I can help it but read them all one by one, and.. when I realized, ohh, my "me time" has run out and I haven't share a thing yet with you guys! :p

(Update: I read in one book that there's a site named ReadItLaterList.com that is useful to save and make a list of what we want to read later. I surely need to check this out.).

Or, I have been too tired to blog after I finished up my "duty" as a mother and a homemaker :)

Sounds cliche? But I definitely sure that many of you, especially Mothers, feel this way.

Many self-development books also have taught us how to be an effective person, how to manage your time effectively, how to be a very good multitasker, how to not get distracted easily when you are working (in my case, blogging) and so on. But still I feel that I am not as effective as I want to be.

So, I have to mind myself to keep learning on this my best.

Okay then, here is today's newsflash for you:

Today, the countdown begins for the launch of new Karl Lagerfeld collection:


Click the picture to read more about it.

New modest fashion lines come from:

Saby H, a New York based designer coined the word Shehjaab for their fabulous scarves. It is a blend of two words, Shehzaadi, which means princess in Urdu and the word Hijab. Here are some of their scarves I love:



Cocoon Clothing from UK with lots of modest, chic clothing collection:

A new, unique, scarf-necklaces from House of Sakti is a scarf united with handcrafted healing jewelry (a necklace composed of healing-quality gemstones).

This fabulous long scarf, along with the necklaces, has a circular/infinitive shape. Here, in my city, we used to call this kind of scarf: a tubular scarf.

The scarf is made of 100% cotton.. the fabric is so lightweight, thin, and available in 10 colors.


With their unique, infinitive circular-shape with a necklace, these scarves can be worn in many possible ways. You can wrap it, twist it, just keep playing around with it until you find the style you love.

You can place the necklaces on the front, at the back, or style it up as a headband; Or, wrap the scarf as a bolero.. It is up to you to get creative and be inspired.




Mariam Sobh of HijabTrendz has made a tutorial on how she wrapped her scarf-necklaces. And, she really love to share this tutorial with you all..

So.. Enjoy! :)



You can buy this scarf on House of Sakti's website: here.