Hi you :)
Today me and Tomás had a fun start of our Easter day… We woke up to a beautiful blue sky and we went for a walk just before breakfast.
Suffice it to say that even though the sun was warming our cheeks, the air was still freezing ⋆꙳❅*‧ ‧*❆ ₊⋆ (๑-﹏-๑)
After a week of deep cleaning, my home and my studio are perfectly tidy ☁︎
This has given me a lot of mental peace and I recommend it to anyone feeling down: tidy your space. I’ve used this past week to think about life as well, it’s easy to think deeply about certain things when you’re organizing stuff around the house. Revisiting old pictures, old sketchbooks, old yous
It’s funny… I feel I’ve come so far and yet, I don’t spend enough time drawing.
So one of those mornings organizing my studio, I just sat down and drew a mood board for April:
For April I want to start a new knitting project since I have finally finished my Sophie Scarf. Fun project by the way!
I stopped playing the piano last November when work and markets took a chunk of my time away, I must make an effort to get back to it! I want to finish learning the song from Howl’s Moving Castle.
I’m finally reading the Magic Mountain, and here is a quote I want to share with you
“Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
I have a book deal!
With the Indie Comic Books Publisher Gorila Sentado.
We agreed to make 6 volumes of the story of my little fairy (the one from the stickers) I must finish the first volume in time for Japan (June) hence the much needed deep spring cleaning!
I have a dedicated page just for this project where I post the full process, drawings of the characters and so on.
It’s a Patreon page but it’s free for everyone to access, you need only to sign up with your e-mail ✿
Before I go I want to share with you 3 pages of my TRAVELER’S notebook
Here we visited Sólskins and bought Portuguese Kombucha and a lettuce in a vase
Here I was on a date with my new friend Clàdia from Barcelona, we met on my last workshop and she got my attention because one, she’s spanish and two, she made carrot paper. Yes, real carrots! We had coffee, well, I had mushroom soup and tea eheh and we talked and journaled and had a wonderful time ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡
On the page to the right you can read her recommendations of music and books! She loves the song Memoria from Rosalía and Carminho and I listened to it this afternoon and it is SO PRETTY!
Here I tried my new hotaru-bi ink and rambled about how having dates in real life makes me happier and keeps me offline ㅤ♡
And since this is a NEWSLETTER …
Here are the dates of my next workshops:
23 April - Journaling Workshop in Nakano 11am - 1pm
24 April - Collage workshop for kids in the Library of Selfoss 4pm - 5.30pm
Happy Easter, we will now make pancakes and Sky is sending kisses
Oh congratulations Mada!!
Congratulations for the book deal Mada 💕🧚 so happy for you!