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Aya A, Stockholm (2026)

15/04/2022

Every one is born creative

Create art because your heart wants to and following your heart is self-love. The revolution in your heart doesn’t have to come from the love you have for someone, it may also come from other forms of love, like love for nature or the love for yourself.

Create art you want to do and for your mental health first. The rest will eventually fall in line. (If you plan to earn a living from your art, then do your “homework”. Study your niche to start with.) Express uprising in your heart. Start your own revolution.

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I have always been a fan of Elisabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic: creative living beyond fear. Reading her words always inspire, empower and encourage me. Swipe left for an excerpt from her book (I swear you will love it) or read here 👇🏼

“Let me list for you some of the many ways in which you might be afraid to live a more creative life: You’re afraid you have no talent. You’re afraid you’ll be rejected or criticized or ridiculed or misunderstood or—worst of all—ignored. You’re afraid there’s no market for your creativity, and therefore no point in pursuing it. You’re afraid somebody else already did it better. You’re afraid everybody else already did it better. You’re afraid somebody will steal your ideas, so it’s safer to keep them hidden forever in the dark. You’re afraid you won’t be taken seriously. You’re afraid your work isn’t politically, emotionally, or artistically important enough to change anyone’s life. You’re afraid your dreams are embarrassing. You’re afraid that someday you’ll look back on your creative endeavors as having been a giant waste of time, effort, and money. You’re afraid you don’t have the right kind of discipline. You’re afraid you don’t have the right kind of work space, or financial freedom, or empty hours in which to focus on invention or exploration. You’re afraid you don’t have the right kind of training or degree.

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15/04/2022

Create art because your heart wants to and following your heart is self-love. The revolution in your heart doesn’t have to come from the love you have for someone, it may also come from other forms of love, like love for nature or the love for yourself.

Create art you want to do and for your mental health first. The rest will eventually fall in line. Express uprising in your heart. Start your own revolution.

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I have always been a fan of Elisabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic: creative living beyond fear. Reading her words always inspire, empower and encourage me. Swipe left for an excerpt from her book (I swear you will love it) or read here 👇🏼

“Let me list for you some of the many ways in which you might be afraid to live a more creative life: You’re afraid you have no talent. You’re afraid you’ll be rejected or criticized or ridiculed or misunderstood or—worst of all—ignored. You’re afraid there’s no market for your creativity, and therefore no point in pursuing it. You’re afraid somebody else already did it better. You’re afraid everybody else already did it better. You’re afraid somebody will steal your ideas, so it’s safer to keep them hidden forever in the dark. You’re afraid you won’t be taken seriously. You’re afraid your work isn’t politically, emotionally, or artistically important enough to change anyone’s life. You’re afraid your dreams are embarrassing. You’re afraid that someday you’ll look back on your creative endeavors as having been a giant waste of time, effort, and money. You’re afraid you don’t have the right kind of discipline. You’re afraid you don’t have the right kind of work space, or financial freedom, or empty hours in which to focus on invention or exploration. You’re afraid you don’t have the right kind of training or degree.

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13/04/2022

How do you say Happy Easter in your mother tongue or where you live? In Sweden , we say Glad Påsk. In my home country Philippines (English and Filipino as the official languages) , we would wish one another “Have a blessed Holy Week!”

Enjoy your Easter week, everyone!

Slide 1-2:
Images of my very first handbuilt ceramic pieces.

*I make my pieces in a communal studio that observe environmental friendly practices such as maintaining a slop for glaze waste management and recycles clay residue.

To see more of my ceramic art , you can view my gallery on .ceramics

21/03/2022

Happy World Poetry Day ❤️❤️❤️

"Arranged in words, coloured with images, struck with the right meter, the power of poetry has no match. As an intimate form of expression that opens doors to others, poetry enriches the dialogue that catalyses all human progress, and is more necessary than ever in turbulent times."

- Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General, on the occasion of 2022 World Poetry Day

Share your voice, share your story, share your words. You never know someone needs to hear them.

Slide 2 : Reciting a poem at

Slide 3: Sharing my pieces at

To my fellow poets, these are just two of poetry platforms in Stockholm where you can share your words. Check out their pages here on IG and FB to find out about them and their poetry nights. I always get nervous when I read my poems on stage but they’re truly are a loving community. The audience is always supportive and will always make you feel at home 🥰🥰🥰

Speaking from my own experience,

With all my heART,
Aya

08/03/2022

Happy International Women’s Day!
I celebrate YOU, phenomenal woman ❤️

And today, I would like to take this chance to honour women who changed the world in spite of adversity and innumerable challenges. There are many women who made a difference but we rarely hear some of them today.

I’m so grateful I came across with this timely quote. The story of this quote’s author, Eglantyne Jebb, is extraordinary and it touched my heart. I cannot wait to find out more about her. (Ordered her biography by Claire Muller)

Eglantyne Jebb was a British social reformer who founded the Save the Children organisation at the end of the First World War. She drafted the document that became the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

Excerpts from The Forgotten Story of Eglantyne Jebb: The Woman Who Founded Save the Children
by Claire Muller

Eglantyne Jebb was a brilliant woman, passionate and compassionate in equal measure. Happy to defy convention and break the law if required, she also wrote romantic novels, worked in a European war zone, and embarked on passionate affairs.

When she set up Save the Children and later pioneered the concept of children’s human rights, which has since evolved into the UN Convention, Jebb permanently changed the way the world regards and treats children, yet she was never particularly comfortable around them, and never had any children of her own.

30/01/2022

Mermaid dream come true at

Slide 2-4 Some of my works are inspired by the sea, sculptural vessel URCHIN in Tiffany Green. Its colour values vary depending on how much sunlight dances on its surface. All my sculptural pieces are multifunction, they can be displayed as sculptures and can be used as flower vases .

A tanka (Japanese form of poetry)
I created after I’ve learned how to swim, a piece conceived while swimming in open water for the first time (Menton , France) , poetry challenge by .solar

Newly earned fins glide
Mermaid’s courage cruising through
French Riviera’s blue
Aquatic odyssey marks
a sensational splash

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30/01/2022

One of the quotes from one of the women I adore.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is an
American psychologist who made a major contribution psychology and healthcare. She conceptualized The Kubler-Ross Model in which she proposed the five stages of grief known as DABDA :

- denial
- anger
- bargaining
- depression and
- acceptance.

If you read her story , you will give your heart to her. A truly interesting and empowering woman, my type of influencer to admire.
Here’s another quote by her which I love:
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

27/11/2021

Stay safe, everyone. The new Covid variant Omicron has sparked worries.
Artists, keep creating, the world needs us. Art is a buoy that keeps us afloat in dark waters.

29/10/2021

Beautiful quote from New City by
Slide 2: Tools of the trade, work in progress , embarking on a two-three year colossal project

22/10/2021

A group of women from all walks of life: (Slide 1) I and Sue as child care educators , Rachel (in the middle) as a business baccalaureate and confidence blogger,

and the other phenomenal ladies: fashion designer Camilla Thulin and her team Alexandra, Malin , Kajsa & Sophia; members, officers and guests of the International Women’s Club who are mothers, speakers, grandmothers, directors, sisters, entrepreneurs, students, marketers, front liners, and other professions, positions and roles they hold, cherished and persevere…

all gathered together one glorious day for a fashion show with a cause to give aid to Child10, an organization whose mission is to end child trafficking and aims to develop and advocate for powerful and durable solutions to ensure that the rights of every child are respected, protected, and fulfilled.

What a wonderful gift to be part of this meaningful purpose. Thank you for this opportunity 🙏🏻🦋🦋🦋

16/10/2021

Do you agree? I do, and I want to add : TO LOVE is the highest of arts. To see, to show, to give, to feel LOVE not only to someone but to yourself as well.

I recently read this quote by Thoreau in the Simple Abundance, A day book of Comfort & Joy by Sara Ban Breathnach , which I found languishing on a secondhand book shelf. It’s inexpensive but its content is priceless…a journal that will shower me with beautiful words every day, one of my daily reminders to be grateful and to find beauty in each day.

I want to share today’s entry titled THE QUALITY OF THE DAY, the first part is on Slide 3 .
(Slide 4-5 are the rest of my book haul, I’m a charity book shop enthusiast❤️🥰)

“For some time now, I have been conducting a top-secret experiment with life, as Thoreau suggests we do. I wanted to see how much influence I really had on the day’s character. So the first words I speak in the morning are: “Thank you for the gift of this wonderful day.”
Here are the initial findings, but you will not like them. Nor did I.

- All days are wonderful in direct proportion to the creative energy invested in them. No investment, no return.
- Even lousy days posses hidden power. Sometimes all you need is a moment of attitude adjustment to shift your perception of an entire afternoon and move forward into a pleasant evening
- Weather does not seem to affect the experiment. Gray, cold, and rainy days spent in an office are just as susceptible to the warming influence of enthusiasm as are sunny days spent lying in a hammock sipping sangria.
- Days that are expected to be wonderful before they begin turn out to be so much more frequently than days greeted with rumbling.
- The results of this experiment suggest that it doesn’t matter whether a day is good or bad. It matters what we do with it. “
- excerpts from the book

THANK YOU FOR THE GIFT OF THIS WONDERFUL DAY!

With all my heART,
Aya

08/10/2021

Happy National Poetry Day❤️
My soul is rich. I write with all my heart and soul..ever since childhood.

For me, writing a poem is like creating a painting and words are colours that would create a composition from your heart.
How wonderful it is to colour a blank canvas with my own thoughts…my whole being, my essence on a tangible surface.

Here’s the latest work I am most satisfied with, conceived whilst vacationing in the Riviera.
I turned an old poem into a Shakespearean sonnet.

On bed of kelps
amassed by doves we lie,
Limpets cluster,
lilting to their heart’s might
At the port of our soirée yachts retire
Our amorous feast is to their delight!

Shoals of breams lap to the shore siphoning
Cooling brine splashing out best laden skin
waves of unbridled passion heightening
deep moans chorus with the whistling dolphins

We shroud this isle with sensuous essence
On our barque abalones gild their shimmer
To far and wide they flaunt love's quintessence
The sea shines a most glorious glimmer

Upon the shore we bask sweetly in love
And the moon twirling, swooning high above
Original piece:

Upon the bed of kelps
amassed by turtle doves we lie,
Limpets clustering around us,
lilting though the ballad of our hearts.

Abalones encrust their nacre
on our barque,
gilding our nest with pearlescence,
sparking the entire isle
to shimmer in our presence.

Crabs from their coves out they scurry,
on the sand our portraits they engrave
whilst they sing to the tune of our gaeity.

Yachts berth at the port of our soirée
To catch a glimpse of our feast
must be their primal feat!

Shoal of Dorados lap to the shore,
siphoning every bead of heat
teeming in the brine bathing our feet.

Upon the sea shore we bask in love
and our souls merge into one,
beckoning the moon to swoon
and twirl high above.

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