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Watercolor My Heart’s Content

Yay we are now at the end of the year with new paperssss lol.

I must say that the previous watercolor papers I’ve been using was a little bit of a bummer because they don’t hold that much water compared to other papers. It kinda led me into doubt that maybe I wasn’t meant to watercolor but it has resolved now after buying a new one after a year *BIG RELIEF*

So much trust in those papers, it said 190 g/m2 D:

Anyway, I’m back with goals and meaningful comebacks haha. As what I have said in my 2015 goal is to post EVERY month of my progress, aaand I let you down on that. But still, I've promised myself that watercolor will be my medium for this year so here it goes :)

First months:

I think I was using more color than water like acrylic hehe.

Hopelessness started around here. Read/looked up on various ways on watercoloring and they said that it uses less color and more water making it very light. So I tried it and it looked like a colorful puddle ;_; See how it doesn’t hold much water ;_;

I felt sad and all so I played watercolor a bit on regular paper (of course I had to paint an eye, I love eyes). I guess I was lucky that it turned out to be Elsa I was painting haha (on regular paper ;_;).

Again I tried and this time I used less water and less paint. It was hard but it turned out nice, but you could still see water-y parts though.

Then Inktober came and decided to join. It wasn’t fully watercolor.

School came along during the later months but I had to do something > <

It was not ‘til early December I replaced my watercolor paper since the only available one here is Pheonix (Berkeley and Canson is here now whyyy). I told someone to get a Canson/Berkely for me since she was in Manila that time.

Tried again, this time less paint and more water.

Seeee??? I was sooo satisfied ;_; I thought I was gone with painting for good, turns out it was the paper’s fault. The anxiety was gone for good. ;_;

What I Learned:

Watercolor need suuuper patience

Watercolor is soft, and subtle as clouds in the sky

Quality over quantity (especially materials *_*)

Don’t lose track of what’s important. :)

Today is the 30th of December 2015 (Rizal Day wohooo), a little bit windy but I’m looking forward to next year’s adventure. :)

Hopes & Dreams,

- Hana  花

Even in the tiniest details could make a difference. 😌💚

things to pay attention to

the tiny specks of colour in their eyes

the bass and background sounds in a song

starlight on a cloudy night

how someone looks when they think nobody can see them

the mannerisms of a stranger

real meanings behind spoken words

subtle facial expressions which last a second

the underlying flavours in food

emotions that a friend is trying to hide

little lights in a sleeping city

flowers growing through cracks in the pavement

the mixed colour palette in a piece of art

the melody of someone’s voice

This cutie just arrived earlier this afternoon 😍💖 Can’t wait to wear you for upcoming events! ✨

(got this cutie at @dollymoon.ph on instagram✨)

Finally Had The Guts To Start A Proper Bullet Journal 📖🎉👀 | Some Thoughts

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Around the last days of August, I finally had the resolve of bullet journaling my way out of a busy month of school work, exams, college admission tests, a youth service that I'd never think of participating, and esp (of course, once again) an inktober attempt juggling all these things in a span of thirty one days. Spoiler: I got by and actually (barely) survived ✨🎉

I'd say it is a proper bullet journal now because of such elements based from Ryder Cowell's system of the whole bujo. I never really dug deep into the bujo community until I realized that bullet journaling was waaay more flexible than I thought. So I researched the whole concept and it turns out I was actually "bullet journaling" even way back since I used to do (food and skincare) logs, (anime & manga) trackers and (idea/music) lists before then, only the difference is that it was all over the place, kept in an unorganized manner unlike a proper bujo separating them by months for convenience of the viewer's eye onto the paper he/she's seeing.

I realized I was about to go down if I didn't kept track of the things that was happening last month. I decided to put my inktober works inside my bujo along with my test permits and weekly tasks in school. You could say that this notebook helps me stabilize equal amounts of time with school related tasks and my creative projects I've been working on since idk... day 1? *sighs. (To be honest, my heart is aching to be in two places at once -_-) It's been a long time for me doing multiple things, and I miss concentrating, focusing on one thing with all your heart. That's why I decided getting things real with legit planning my days from now on. I still think its scary doing this since I'm more of a "surprise attack" person than an organized one at that.

I think I did a pretty good job on my first month. We're now in the early days of November and I think I'm making sure I'll get things by. Bullet journaling is kind of therapeutic tbh, been tracking my sleep lately bc of my weird patterns but I'm sure I'll be fine soon haha 😃

Hopes and dreams,

-花 🌸

Ps: stickers and things aren't really necessary, they just make me happy by seeing colors every now and then hehe

Pps: not posting it that much online = also don't wanna stress over how it looks and not that visually pleasing since it isn’t about that at all heheh

After all the harsh lighting (esp. at night), here’s my own attempt in this year’s Inktober!!! :DD

and horribly scored with 11 over 31 ink attempts  D:

I have been wanting to eat some pasta for some time and tadaahh I had the chance 😗 You can never go wrong with pasta.

Summer Days with my black pen

It’s a shame that I was with my improvised sketch pad and black pen for the past sixty days. In the end, I was in my parent’s room hiding from all the heat haze that has been happening all around the house. I couldn’t even do my ‘serious’ drawing and painting because of the summer heat. I wanted to be a little productive so I filled my hands only to my beloved laptop, stack of drawing paper I decided to book-bind and a black pen stolen from a cabinet upstairs (*pats self*). And so today, I am just gonna share what I had done for the past two months of heaaat ;_; 

(that photo above says: im learning french this year yaaaay :D )

right now I'm eating avocado ice cream while writing this hehehe

The state must be brought into harmony with the universe, and the musical instruments which could accomplish this must be integrated with the cosmic forces --- with the changing seasons, with wind, thunder, water and fire, with eternal space, and with all matter.

                                                                  - The Heritage of Music

Before my case of japanophilia, I use to have piano lessons at my grade school for a year. But I stopped the following year due to some expenses and other errands and ended up discontinuing the whole thing (tbh it really broke my heart ;_; ) I really loved playing the piano so I studied it myself. Got to learn the basics and with the help of Google-sensei and youtube tutorials (yes youtube tutorials omg) little by little I can read sheets and play beautiful pieces of sound on my 49-key keyboard. 

*gambatte*

- That haiku above was when I was finishing halfway through a simple but beautiful piece by Schumann. I FINALLY MASTERED IT. one summer goal checked haha

- Life goals: Play the Violin

- I still have shigatsu feeeeels aaaaah ;_; When I first watched Your Lie In April, my love for music grew even more :”) I will never forget this one.

Music has always been there for me. Even before my craaazy anime/pop/street fashion culture (obsession) passion 

and the rest are just complaints about my sad life

kidding. what a shameful entry huhu

My summer days was like this:

- Priscilla Ahn’s song from When Marnie Was There by Studio Ghibli <3

 no need to explain it. The song says everything.

- I’ve been looking up into lolita fashion lately. yaaaay lololol

- When your just streaming episodes on the internet but the connection suddenly stopped and gets back again seconds after.

- Finishing an 11-12 episode series at 2 am. It gets better.

- When the sun is lurking behind you while your just trying to be in your cute and innocent-and-trying-to-be-productive self. (you can’t even go outside and have fun it’s like the heat is forcing you to be with your phone or your laptop)

There’s nearly a week of summer vacation right now. In fact, the only way to describe this feeling is this

hope your reading this until the end of this post. Until next time!

truly yours,  花/ Hana :)

☔ Green dewy grass and air getting cold horaaay but man June passed so quickly. Oh and I finally got a new journal last month after two years.

I know its like the first of July but I’m in the middle of all reality and stress with a pile of schoolwork to do huhu but I know all will be well. Keep reminding myself about the small things I see in town like the weird pink tricycle whose horn sounds like a rooster, a dog that looks like a hairless pig, the different kinds of birds living in the backyard, the homeless woman cooking breakfast early in the morning, the electric post that still grows branches and leaves on top of itself, or the cool skater dude with locks that passes by at school. 

Yeah, we are definitely gonna be fine

君の名は (Kimi no Na Wa)

Bounded by a timeless feeling, I found myself lying on my pillows in awe after watching the newest Shinkai masterpiece on a cold and rainy night. It has really been a while since I’ve felt like this after something that is so worthy to watch.

My hands are always up for Makoto Shinkai’s art and story. He has his way of portraying the little details of life that suddenly reflects a bigger impact of a scene later on. (I’m talking about the rate of which the cherry blossoms fall, the morning downpours of a busy city, kumihimo, and tankas)

Also, RADWIMPS’s lyrics was so beautiful. His music resonates and completes the whole story and I find that very fulfilling. Kimi No Na Wa *kinda* reminded me a little of myself.

I’ll wait for the HD of the HD of the movie and watch it again for the greater good. I know that it will be a thousand times better and an emotional wreck haha.

Hopes & dreams,

- 花