December Calendar 2016

Firstly, I have to send my apologies to whomever waiting for the calendar. But on the other hand, I finally resigned my job - which I disliked. Probably this might be on another blog post if y'all curious about it.

Anyway!

It is finally December - my favourite month of the year! First it is my birthday month and second- Christmas! Although Christmas is illegal in Brunei ( bummer!) I still can drink wine at home :D tucking under my blanky watching kdramas.

I hope you enjoy this last calendar of the year! 

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 

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November Calendar 2016

Yikes! It is November guys! That means we are nearing the end of 2016 and shopping for christmas! lol. It is also the month I'm looking forward to because it will be my very last month of being a school teacher.

I hope you enjoy this month's calendar! 

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See you on my next blog post! 

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Favourite things in September.

I am late while posting this, my apologies to you!

A month gone by really fast. I learn a very important lesson - that is to slow down and enjoy the current moment. No worry about the consequences or the past. 

1. Luxury face oil -Jeanie Botanicals
This bottle was gifted by my friend for my birthday last year(Thanks Emma!).The term 'luxury' isn't a joke. It literally makes me feel so relaxed while applying just 3-4 drops on my face every night. And also I'm impressed how well my skin has gotten so glowy in the next morning. For very oily skin type , I highly recommend this to try it out!

2. Nelaton, my boyfriend, visits me.
Oh boy, things gonna get cheesy here. We have not seen each other since my last visit to KL last December. So it makes perfect sense why this goes to one of my highlight thing of the month :)
P.s : long distance relationship sucks. 

3. Xmen Apocalypse movie.
The movie was great. One thing that got me is this coming when Prof x. Xavier said this to Magneto- "There is so much more to you than you know". Man, that quote really got me thinking deep bout me life because I was really unmotivated to do anything at that time.

4. Two door cinema club - sun 
This song stayed in my head when I was painting. And it still is now lol

Although this is a rather short post, I'm drafting a few things about watercolour for y'all to read about. It would be helpful to tell me what you want to know more about ! Just leave me a comment or email me.

I hope you have a great day ahead! 

x

Ashley 

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October Calendar 2016

Hello friends! 

It is October and I have prepared another calendar for you! It is kinda delayed because I ran out of ideas to try a simple approach to a minimal composition (i.e, I suck in composition) 

The month of October is the starting month of cozy sweaters, cute mugs and cookies and also , Halloween! (If you're wondering what are those leaves hanging around, they are cookies) 

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****Also, please give me a shoutout or comment below if you're using my wallpaper! I'd love to know more feedback that can help with my calendar designs in future :)

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Cocktails

Old fashioned brandy- never gets old.

This is my favourite piece to paint on especially the bottom glass refraction.

Blood orange Margarita - That's a bloody one indeed.

Excuse my spelling mistake on 'Margarita'. This salt crystals on the rim of the glass took me longer than I thought.

Classic Mojito - I got that lime rum classic thing that you like.

One of my favourite cocktails.

I can imagine myself sipping on a tall glass of Mojito while watching the sunset.

Tequila Sunrise - Only available on sunrise lol

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Watercolour supplies for beginners.

Hello everyone!

It has been a  while since I made a lenghty post about watercolour. For I am such a nerd for watercolours.

Choosing what to buy for watercolour can be a pain. Especially when there's too many choices to choose from. But it's okay because I'm going to show you a list of affordable items that you can get for a decent quality for watercolour painting.

A rather awkward monthly favs. post.

August was a weird month for me. Rather boring actually. I didn't do much painting, I guess it is because my lack of motivation and I was so bummed out with my day job. Quite a number of depressing days. Well I guess it's not normal to feel happy everyday.

1. Pentel Brushpen (gray)

I love how flexible the strokes i can get from this brush pen. I always use this to ink on my sketchbook during work. I also use this brush pen for inking my sept calendar 

2. Pentel pocketbrush

This is actually a impulse buy because it was on sale in amazon. I didnt get to use it until i realise how magical they can be when I ink my drawings. 

3. Kinako cookies (vegan)

I snack alot. Especially when I read mangas and watching dramas and SNL skits (big fan of Bill Hader!) But I cannot just stayhealthy with just store bought cookies. So I make them Kinako (roasted soybean flour) cookies. I also add heaps of matcha to make it even healthier. 

4. Ipod 

So I started to pick up running as a hobby . It was great. I like the feel of running aimlessly around my neighbourhood with music in my ears. I used to suck at it last year but ironically I can now (??). The ipod is actually 4 years old now. and still doing good. (Big fan of Foo Fighters btw)

I wish September will be a good month. at least more painting to look forward to :> I hope you are too. Chin up and look forward! 

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