Glow by Lady E

  I found this little box of Mont Marte watercolor paints for around $4 at KKV. Twelve tubes. That comes out to about 30 cents per color, which made me wonder how good they could possibly be. Turns out, pretty good. 😆 I believe these are student-grade paints, and they don’t bloom quite as beautifully as my Koi watercolors, but they bloom enough for the way I paint. The colors are pleasant to work with, they’re easy to control, and I’ve genuinely enjoyed having them in my collection. I especially like the tubes. I can squeeze just a tiny amount onto my palette when I need it instead of disturbing an entire pan of color. It’s convenient, surprisingly neat, and somehow makes sitting down to paint feel even easier. And maybe that’s why I like finding inexpensive art materials like this. Not everything in my atelier has to be precious. Sometimes I just want paint I can squeeze onto a palette without thinking too much about it and start making something. For around $4? I’m ver...

  I read the Dior email too late and missed out on the Lucky Clover collection. It was sold out by the time I texted EJ, my Dior Ambassador. He said there were only a few pieces that arrived and it sold out fast. I was busy in the atelier.  I used to think missing out meant I had to find the next-best thing. But I didn’t want the next-best thing. I wanted the pretty little clover lipstick case.  The lipstick was available but the case was sold out, so I left without buying anything. Maybe healing also looks like this sometimes. Not scrambling. Not compensating. Not buying something I didn’t really want just because the thing I wanted was gone. Sometimes I can simply say, I missed it. And let that be okay. Something better will come soon.  —- With elegance and quiet fire, Lady E Founder, Glow by Lady E  An editorial space for stories, art, and intentional living

  Venice Grand Canal Mall has gotten bigger over the last few years. There are more shops now.  The other shops I wanted to go to was on another part of the mall and we had to go through the bridge.  It really is a beautiful mall - the canal, the building colors, the street lamps, even the greenery.  We made a pit stop at Denny’s. I’ll show you what we ate on Lady E Eats.  For now, just enjoy the photos.  I also opened my Hello Kitty tissue… And look how ridiculously cute it is! I didn’t even know that it’s printed. I looked and saw hello kitty on the packaging and immediately put it in my basket. It’s so cute! And it’s not flimsy, too! I’m gonna buy another pack when I see it.  Next up Miniso at Venice Grand Canal Mall.  —- With elegance and quiet fire, Lady E Founder, Glow by Lady E  An editorial space for stories, art, and intentional living

  Hey, Glow Girls!  I am exhausted. It’s Monday as I write this. I just shipped the huge order from the atelier yesterday. I’ll show you what I made for this client either in Issue 04 or on a separate post.  Today, I really need to finish my Holiday Fridate series! This is a really long one. Probably will take 2 more posts. We’ll see.  So the next stop was KKV. I specifically wanted to go to this mall because it has both Flying Tiger and KKV.  The KKV branch here is big!  I finally got those two cherry mugs that I’ve been wanting to buy since my last KKV outing.  I saw this really cute cherry scrunchie, but I hardly tie my hair. I just don’t like the headache associated with it after. I try to be very gentle with my hair. Plus I think it’s because of the length that’s why I cannot tie it for long.  They have many cute scrunchies in this branch. I wish I could buy them especially this one with the crocheted cherries!  And then there’s thing. I...

On September 23, 2025, Glow reached one million views. I remember looking at that number and wondering what could possibly come after a million. Less than a year later, I have my answer. 759,511 more visits. Not another beginning. Not an ending either. Still becoming. Glow has reached 1,759,511 all-time views. Our last milestone was 1.5 million . Since then, another 259,511 views have quietly found their way here. That number still feels a little unreal to me. Not because I think of Glow as small anymore, but because I still remember what it feels like to sit down and write one piece at a time. One thought. One photograph. One painting. One ordinary afternoon turned into something worth keeping. And then, somewhere beyond my screen, someone reads it. Then someone else does. And somehow, over time, those tiny moments become 1,759,511 . The painting behind this milestone is called Still Becoming . I painted it long before deciding it would become part of Glow’s milestone s...

August ended with 106,299 views on Glow. Six figures. There is something a little surreal about typing that number, especially when I think about what a view actually represents. Somewhere, someone opened a page. Maybe she came looking for an answer. Maybe a photograph caught her eye. Maybe she was curious about something I bought, wore, tried, made, or thought about. Maybe she read one piece and wandered into another. And somehow, all those small moments added up to 106,299 . What makes August even more special to me is seeing just how far Glow traveled. To everyone reading from the United States, Norway, Seychelles, Brazil, Germany, Singapore, India, Vietnam, France, and Pakistan , thank you. These were Glow’s ten biggest countries for the month, and seeing places thousands of kilometers apart gathered together on one little analytics page never stops feeling remarkable. And to everyone reading from everywhere else, including my quiet readers here in the Philippines, thank yo...