Wedding Story : The Kebaya

The kebaya was a last minute plan, around 1 month before the wedding when ma found out that I was planning to wear the same dress for akad nikad & sanding. She gave me one of her hand-made exclusive batik kebaya and we sent it to a tailor near our house to do some re-fitting to alter the kebaya according to my measurement.

It fitted nicely!

I personally love the detailing and I love how all the red flowers scattered on a white clothes. I secretly want Ma's hand-drawn white kebaya for ages! I never thought she will offer one as a gift T^T

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She also made a nice veil that matched the kebaya. She drew, coloured, put it in the fixer, washed, sew, added beads and crystals all by herself. T^T I knew Ma was determined to make it all perfect and beautiful, but I never thought she will put up to all the hassles and time just for a veil. For that, I am really grateful - I can't never pay her by money knowing her hand-made batik is just too expensive for someone like me.

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PS : For the tudung, I just bought normal RM15 cream-coloured shiny tudung bawal from pasar malam :p

If you want to spend few thousand Ringgit on an exclusive designated custom made batik, you can contact her here. But if you want to rent the veil that I used on my wedding - I think we can work it out and you can email me : azreen_31@hotmail.com !

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That's my beautiful Ma :

❤ :D

Events : Sept & Oct 2013

Caffa & Fuyoh Art Bazaar -
Coffee and Art Fringe Festival 2013
Publika, Jln Dutamas
28, 29, 30 Sept 2013

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Art for Grabs -
Annexe Gallery, Central Market, KL
28 & 29 Sept 2013

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Zanubah's 5th Solo Exhibition -

Matic Gallery, KL

3 - 30 Oct 2013 ( 5th Oct : Launching )

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Tempatan Fest 3.0 -
Dataran DDEC, Jln Kia Peng, KL
5 & 6 Oct 2013

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Zakka Fest -
Pipit Zakka Store, Taman Connaught, KL
11 - 27 Oct 2013

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Event : Islamic Art Exhibition, Matic KL

Last weekend :

My mother and us siblings went to Matic KL for the preparation of the Islamic Art Group Exhibition she participated along with other 20 artists. We arrived quite early and my mom being my mom, she brought along all other equipments as well : portable folding ladder, super spring, etc. We didn't start the work right away and took several hours waiting for other artists as well *note : the air-cond is still broken. 

The Morning

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She managed to create 5 big mixed media paintings, mainly using batik technique. She took about 2 months to finished up the artworks. She is a bit secretive while making a new artwork, so usually we get to see it when they are almost ready. The artworks are phenomenal. Let's just forget that this is my mom we are talking about, because I am her biggest fan and it sounded a bit bias knowing I am her daughter. 

But you just need to go and see her works :

Almost ready.

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So we went to Matic, hanged all the artworks for hours. I literally shaking and sweating madly after several hours of standing on the top of the ladder, tying up the tali tangsi and walah, I'm done ! 

PS : I can do this for money, because I'm pretty good at this :D 

The Brother

The Helpers

Other artists with their works :D

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The event started yesterday, for the whole month of July at Matic KL, better check them out before the fasting season, I bet no one wants to walk around much by that time. Click here for the direction.

A little info on my mom, my master sifoo :

Zanubah Hamzah

She is a full time artist, I don't remember her doing anything other than creating artworks. She indirectly taught me so much about improving my works and creating stuffs - just because I wanted her to notice my works too :F hewhew. She is my number one inspiration ❤ , if you have a master sifoo artist as a mother, you'll understand how stressful it can be sometimes :D 

Follow the white rabbit : Fb Page.

My favorite piece, I want this please.

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Exhibition : 6 x 6 Art Geng 2013 - 3

Last weekend, we went to MaTiC, Kuala Lumpur again for the closing ceremony. I met several artists : Fai Zakaria & Dzul Afiq , for the first time. Not as many participants came as anticipated, but it was enough to fully make use of the stage for the photography session. 

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For the event, I brought 7. The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. I loved the movie so much I had to read the book, even though I am currently reading 6. Beatrice & Virgil by the same author started several days ago. You should watch the movie, HD version, because it was breathtakingly beautiful ! 11 Oscars nominations surely meant something. 

Ps - I secretly went to Rhythm & Hues recruitment session at Uniten last year because my previous lecturer called me to participate. I remember they showed us the exclusive long trailer of the movie because they were the one who had done special effects for the movie. They had done a great-great job :D

I need to summarize more on the movie & book later, when I finish reading the book and re-watch the movie. A great story needs to be repeated so that I can learn !

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Here are some photos of the event at Matic Art Gallery :

The air-cond was still broken, I can't stay in the gallery for long !

Check out the previous post here.

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And for the previous pencil-coloured artwork by my mom, she framed it and c'est tres magnifique ! All her 12 orchids were sold on the exhibition, thank God I asked for the special version specially made for me. I adore her artworks very much. 

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