PENS, PENCILS AND WATERCOLOURS // Hobbies

Yet again. I talked about this once, drawing. I don’t know what happened but I never loved drawing as much as I do now. I don’t even like my drawings yet I love the process of it.

I don’t know what hit me but I tend to really dislike how my drawings turn out and I think that’s mainly because I ~always~ compare myself with other, so much more experienced artist and their work just always makes me feel less worthy just because how my drawings turn out.

I really want to change that so I just keep drawing and try to get better at it every time I take a pencil in my hands. And let me tell you, that is not working as well as I would want it to but hey, a little progress is still a progress, right??

Not so long ago I took watercolours to challenge myself and I ended up watching at least three YouTube ~tutorials~ on how to paint with watercolours and gawd, turns out it’s so much harder than I thought it would be or maybe it is just me pressuring myself and not feeling free enough while drawing with this kind of paint.

Also, one thing I really want to get better at drawing is people. I CAN’T draw face features at all and that is so nerve wracking because most of the time I come up  with ideas which look amazing in my head and yes, they include a human figure but then when it comes to reality, I can never draw it like I want to. But again, maybe all artists struggle with this.. I have no idea at this point hahha!

So yeah, this is just a rant about a hobby of mine. What hobbies do you have??

Faustantica.x

STATIONERY // LIFESTYLE

Hiya!

I feel like we live in such a great time where you can choose between so much stationery. Want a cactus eraser? Here you go. Want a notebook with a fluffy unicorn on the cover? Take it. Want a pen in a shape of dinosaur? Enjoy.

Like, you can get anything and everything. In most places. Where I live, however, you can’t get whatever you want but our stationery game is stepping up every year. Yay!

Continuing on, today I will talk all about my stationery. Where I keep it, for what I use it and all that little stuff.

How I became obsessed.

It all started when I started writing letters. I found some people with same interests as mine and we send each other letters. Kinda obvious, right? But we always put some gifts in the envelope and most of it always is stationery. That’s why I am so obsessed with washi tapes, cute sticky notes and stickers. I just can’t get enoooough of them.

Journaling comes to this list, too. I started journaling in mid-April this year and adding cute stuff here and there is a must hahah!

Also, pen pals – life changer. Never thought or even dreamed about writing letters and sending them to the other side of the world.

Where I get it.

Here’s where magic happens. Cheap magic. So, where can you get extremely cute but affordable stationery and almost everything?? YES, AliExpress, eBay or something like that. I, personally, order all stationery from aliexpress. The only con is the time you have to wait to get it. As a really impatient person, I can say it’s annoying but worth it.

Another place to buy stationery is a shop The Flying Tiger. Here it is really popular and one of my all time fave shops, I think you get why so I won’t even talk much about it. Basically, cute stuff everywhere. Maybe not as affordable as AliExpress, but hey, still cute.

Where I keep it.

Two or three weeks ago if you asked me this, my answer would have been as basic as “in a pencil case”. One day I was so in a mood to change it, so that’s what I did. I moved almost all of my stationery into a little box I got about 2 years ago when all the ~Loom band~ thing was popular. All my stationery went there including washi tapes, stickers, and that’s pretty much it. There isn’t enough place for my pens and highlighters so I just keep them in a small pencil case.

I have so many things I still want to get and maybe even make but as my dad says, everything takes time, gotta be patient.

Are you obsessed with stationery like I am? How do you use it?

Faustantica.x