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Is this a goodbye or welcome?: what I’m changing in this newsletter and what’s coming up
Feb 22
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The Alarm Rang: a poem drop and a sketch
Feb 9
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When did I start taking my art seriously?: this issue's on connecting the dots, my husband's cancer, and what's in my sketchbook
Mar 23
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The first time I drew outdoors at zero degree Celsius, and created a fundraiser for the homeless this winter: on seizing opportunities to draw the London snowy scene, which turned into a fundraiser. Plus, the drawings.
Dec 12, 2022
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I’m moving from Malaysia 🇲🇾 to Portugal 🇵🇹! (Wait. What? Wow!)
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Where the neighbours invited us over for coffee at 10 pm
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Olá! My first HopeMail from Portugal
11
8
I’m plucking up the courage to live the part in my heart that I’ve never dared to fully live
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The slowness of walking. And it feels good.
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Is this a goodbye or welcome?
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New artworks, new online shop, new life updates!: on the soft opening of my new shop, gift cards, and other exciting things
Dec 9, 2022
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When the spatula flew across the kitchen: on moving to Portugal is much harder than I thought (4.5 months’ update), the tension between wow and woe, regaining clarity. Plus, a peek at my new…
Nov 10, 2022
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Where the neighbours invited us over for coffee at 10 pm: on our one-month update of moving to Portugal, photos and videos of food and such, plus my paintings
Aug 5, 2022
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13 days and counting of living in Portugal (how is it like for us?): on coughing my head off, some photos and videos of our life thus far in Portugal, wrapped with a weird poem, and a weirder sketch | HopeMail #140
Jul 15, 2022
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Olá! My first HopeMail from Portugal: on day two of moving to Portugal (or should it be living in Portugal?), getting my head together, processing everything new. Two new drawings.
Jul 1, 2022
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The COVID & moving to Portugal diary: on getting COVID, saying goodbyes, and things I will miss
Jun 17, 2022
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I’m moving from Malaysia 🇲🇾 to Portugal 🇵🇹! (Wait. What? Wow!): on new chapters of my life, new adventures, and what? Why Portugal?
Jun 3, 2022
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Finale | The Half Month Project pop-up newsletter: learning watercolour painting #4/4: The Half Month Project ends today. What a journey. And we’re just beginning!
May 18, 2022
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I’m moving from Malaysia 🇲🇾 to Portugal 🇵🇹! (Wait. What? Wow!)
13
28
Where the neighbours invited us over for coffee at 10 pm
11
8
Olá! My first HopeMail from Portugal
11
8
I’m plucking up the courage to live the part in my heart that I’ve never dared to fully live
8
8
The slowness of walking. And it feels good.
10
Is this a goodbye or welcome?
8
16
See all popular
HopeMail

HopeMail

The art I’m making and the person making the art. A newsletter about what inspires me, what I’m learning, discovering, exploring; the heart in my art.
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The art I’m making and the person making the art. A newsletter about what inspires me, what I’m learning, discovering, exploring; the heart in my art.

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