I’ve been talking about journals in my Instagram feed @iam_artisan for a couple of weeks now. And that’s because I’ve been journaling religiously since the pandemic started. It is my way of showing self-love, coping, healing, memory keeping and simply documenting my everyday. Now, since I started journaling with the traveler’s notebook size a few …
Category: Review
Book Review | Japanese Craft Books
Hello, lovelies. I have another book to share with you. This might be new from my usual book reviews but it is still craft related. Although, I’ve been sharing and showing a lot of english craft books, I also have few collection of Japanese craft books. There was a time, I wanted to learn Nihongo …
Book Review | Pocket Art Guides : Color Secrets, Urban Sketching And Painting
Back when I was actively blogging, I like sharing the books I have and called it Wednesday Book Club. I love buying and collecting books. Mostly about crafts and other design books. I thought of sharing some of the books I have. I thought it might be helpful for you. Either you want to buy …
Review: The Joy Of Watercolor By Emma Block
Here I am again with another review. With a book this time. I used to do this before and called it Wednesday Book Club. Since I have a lot of books, I thought, I’d share some of them in case someone is interested too. You may check the other books here: review. One of my …
Review: Canson XL Aquarelle Watercolour Paper
I’m adding another category here in my blog. I received few questions from friends and Instagram folks about which materials is best or how is it so far whenever I share what I normally used. Admittedly, I’m quite a hoarder. Something I’m not proud of, but I do have a lot of materials with me. …
Currently Reading E-magazines
There’s something about reading books or magazines that spurs up your imagination and creativity, don’t you agree? Especially nowadays you can simply download everything. And right now I’m currently reading these two e-magazines that’s full of inspirations and it helps me prepare for the holiday season. One e-magazine is from fellow crafters based in Manila. They …
Wednesday Book Club: Japanese Collage Idea Book
I made a book club column in my blog because of my love for books. I’ve shared few from my collections but mostly english craft books. My love for books had evolve to all sorts of languages. One of my greatest source of craft inspirations are from japanese craft books. Where else can you find all …
Wednesday Book Club: Gift Wrapping
For our next post Wednesday Book Club, we’re back to crafting again. Truly my heart belongs to this side already. It feels so good to share craft books rather than designs, such bias I know, haha. Couple of days from now, it will be September already and we all know what that means… Christmas is truly …
Wednesday Book Club: 1000 Greetings
I know the name of the column is Wednesday Book Club but my posts are always 1-day late and I missed two Wednesdays already. My goodness! I’m such a bad blogger. But if we consider the other side of the planet, it’s still Wednesday, lol. And I’ll be doing 2 posts to compensate my absences. …
Wednesday Book Club: Creating Papercrafts
If you’re in love with anything to do with paper just like me, then you’ll also love what I’ll be sharing for our Wednesday Book Club. It’s entitled Creating Papercrafts {Stylish ideas and step-by-step projects} by Labeena Ishaque. This book will teach you different things you can do with paper. A little history of paper …
Wednesday Book Club: Handmade Gifts
I’m sorry this was not posted last Wednesday. I lost track of the days and I just realized last night. I can’t imagine how I forgot the days. Seemed like it was just Monday and boom! The week is almost end. Anyway, one of my book reference whenever I need an inspiration is Paper Art …
Wednesday Book Club: Blogging for Bliss
Most of my money is spent in either craft supplies or/and books {yup! or/and because either I have one or all of them}. I’m not sure if it has something to do with my childhood, because where we were still kids, my papa required us to read 1 chapter of a book everyday. I used …