October 15

It's not like me to get all sentimental but I think it's just a milestone that is worth writing about. Maybe. Haha. But again, who reads this :) 

Last week was our ten year anniversary of knowing each other. We had a little getaway at Lloyd's Inn and it was so nice. We really like it there. It was so peaceful. The three days away was a nice reminder about how it was nice to be together all the time. The first six years, we were friends just exchanging emails. And somehow we decide that we wanted to be together. And here we are. It has been great to always have my best friend with me, by my side. And I'm thankful for his friendship. Here's to many more. I did a little drawing of us. 

"I'm so glad we live in world where there's October"

October is here. I haven't blogged in a while. Things are just super busy with my part time job so most of my energy is spent there. I have been thinking a lot about my future as an illustrator. I think I am an illustrator. But I feel like I'm still not there yet. And also sometimes I feel like I want to be doing something more. Drawing more is something I should be doing. It feels like I'm giving excuses when I said I am tired and all that. I shouldn't be lazy. Creativity takes time for me. Sometimes it just comes. I wish it would come more often though. Lately I have been thinking that it would be great if I had gone to art school. I feel that maybe I would be better at being creative. 

Well besides my usual thoughts on creativity and illustrating, I have been busy with the house. My sister moved out. She finally got her house. It's sad. We're still adjusting to being away from each other. First when she got married, I had to adjust not sharing a room with her, now we have to adjust to not seeing each other every day. If anyone knows me, even for a few minutes, people will always have the assumption I'm very close to my sister. And I am. I talk about her most of the time. If not I would be talking about my husband. I like having a bond, with just a few people. It's nice that way. To me, being close and having a bond is two different things. Well I just miss her now. But hey it's been nice to meet up and grocery shop, or go shopping. And besides that I have also been busy making my house more liveable. Most probably will have a study now :) Pretty exciting. 

October will be a quiet month for me. I still don't know when my next market will be. I wanted to participate in a few but in the middle of October is a big date for me and my husband. It marks the 10th year of us knowing each other. TEN YEARS! It's great really. How do you know someone so much. Most of the time in the ten years, we were just friends, getting to know each other. And now, here we are, together :) To many more years to come I guess.

My last market was with Public Garden. It's my second time participating in a PublicGarden market and it was great. Last year when I participated, I didn't have t-shirts. I had less of prints, and cards, and it felt nice to look back and see the progress. This December will mean two years of trying this out. 2 years. I still feel new. I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing. But I guess we'll always feel like that. Always learning.

Till nex time , take it easy,

Munirah

Here we go.

I think I said it in my previous post that I am taking it slow for June. And now it's July. I have been trying to take it slow. Mainly I have been doing portraits, drawing in my sketchbook and constantly trying to think of doing things but never doing them. And now when I write about it here, I feel like I didn't do much :/ 

Ok hopefully now that it's a new month I'll have myself all motivated to do things. I did start a Printmaking class so that's something to look forward for the next few months. 

July starts with the end of Ramadan and the start of the month of Syawal. Lots of family gatherings and all that but I still hope to keep my regular working schedule. I hope so. 

Well till next time, take it easy. MM

I did get started on something I have been meaning to do. I wanted to do something with my travel memories and photos of Israel. This was taken when we were both missing the Singapore sun(if that's even possible) Now I am missing winter. It's too hot here.