Hello my friend, I have entered the last few months of my 20s, I am grateful and I am now able to sit back and reflect what this decade was for me. The funny thing about pain and hardship is that once the storm passes, and the seasons change, in retrospect, it all becomes beautiful. Most, if not all of the lessons I have learned were through hardship and tears. I thought I would share a short list of 30 things I learned before I turned 30: 1. You will always get another chance 2. The price of lack of self-reflection, is lack of growth 3. Life has it’s cycle…

If you have read any of my blog post in the past, it is clear that I was really struggling to figure this art thing out. I can’t even count how many years its been, I am now entering my 30s and only now does it feels like it is coming together. For my entire 20s it felt like every time I overcame an obstacle, I fell into another one. It was truly a prolonged winter season. But after winter, comes spring. Allhamdulilah I’m grateful I persevered! A lot has happened Last time I really wrote about myself, I got laid off from my job and had to pause my business…

Hello my friend! Hope you are doing well. I’ve been on earth alongside with you. Isn’t it strange we are existing during the same time on earth but we have totally different experiences? Yet we are connecting right now, My thoughts, your eyes Another day another attempt I’ve been spending all my days with my itty bitty decor.to — building, painting, rebuilding, getting flowers, all to get to function. I’ve put majority of my time into refining my carpentry skills (one thing I’ve been tackling is kerf bending, which is the process of making thin slices across wood that doesn’t go all the way through, allowing the wood to be…

I say lives because it happens more than once.

If I could describe my experience this summer in one word it would be: wobbly. No stability. No clear direction. A lot of empty space for things, which comes with a lot of excitement and a lot of fear. One minute I feel like I got it, the next I feel like I don’t. I’ve been hitting the wall and falling down in so many of my dreams that it’s hard for me right now to believe in my future. I don’t feel like my life is mine, I don’t feel like my decisions led me anywhere good. But what is anywhere good? This is something I’ve been thinking about…

Hello, my friend! It’s been a while. I wish I could say after a year and some change, there’s been a big change in my life but honestly….. not really. So remember I mentioned that years ago I decided to pause my life (school and work) and really go all in with my art? I felt as if life was beckoning me to go in that direction (i.e. a lot of external validation). But when I turned to face it, it seemed to run away from me. And all went silent. To put it bluntly, I failed. In both my decor and my poetry (though I don’t think you can…

☁️ I wrote about being flawed, messy hustles, and being anti-perfectionist

The older I’m getting I’m realizing cliche phrases are true. When people say things like, “the grass is greener on the other side” or “you are what you think,” it’s all real— I’ve been really digesting the fact that my life is largely defined by my perception of it. And so the value of documenting my thoughts has become irreplaceable, as it shows me how I live.