my story is a bit long but I will try my best to make it as short as I can ;)
bring your potato chips and enjoy reading
when I was a little girl I found myself enjoying art in all types ,drawing , hand crafts or anything really that made by hands
I was always enjoying drawing so many different things and coloring as well always trying to draw something out of a carton I watched or picture from a story books and that was all what I do in my free time till I was 19 years old
I born in Jordan BTW and I moved to china with my family in 2012 when I was 16 years old just for you to understand the entire story ...
I was teaching in a kindergarten back in 2016 and one of my colleagues were a henna artist and she draw a little mandala on my hand from a picture I show it to her from Pinterest , it wasn't a professional one or even so detailed but I enjoyed the progress a lot
I back home and brought my little sketchbook and tried to copy what she actually drawn on my hand but I fail , it wasn't good at all and it was look such a mess, I kept that on my mind and I kept on practicing and trying to know what that type of art is even called as its touched my heart a lot and I felt that this is what I really need to get pro with
I made a tons of research to finally know that this type of art called MANDALA and here everything begin
I kept searching for more mandala works to get inspired and learn more about this type of art in in 2017 when I felt I get a bit better and I can call my self an artist I created my Instagram account @farah.brightrart to start sharing my works with the people around the world , never knew I would reach where I am now ...
I kept on practicing and mostly draw every single day just for me to improve my skills
in the end of 2018 I get way better , improved a lot and even come up with my very own mandalas and patterns and I started to think that I need to make my work reach to more people homes but I don't wanna sell my originals I wanna something small to be affordable and cute and still has my art and here is where I started to create a business
2019 was a supper challenging year it was really hard for me on all the ways but I was supper excited for the new chapter im creating for myself , I made a lot of search to see what would be the best product to start with and boom the idea finally came
stickers , yes stickers
it was the first product I've ever made an I remember I made a 20 different sticker designs in the beginning
I created my Etsy shop and I started with the stickers I made , and I add couples of hand drawn bookmarks and some prints
in the end of 2019 and no before covid-19 starts I moved to Turkey with my family and we were planning to stay here for few months but unfortunately covid starts and we stuck here
it was such a real bad timing for moving specially because It was just after a couple months of launching my Etsy shop so it was really hard in the beginning and I don't really know how can I keep running my biz from a different country , but with time I got used to everything and I kept going
I kept adding new stickers to my shop and with time I added different type of product too , I was truly super excited every time I need to add a new item to my shop
and I ended on having 20 different type of products now and I promise many more to come
I'm actually sharing my story just because I wanna inspire someone else to start and not let their fears or their situation to diminish their dreams , I did what I did in a very hard time I went through a lot of struggles and I keep going through it till now
don't let anything to stop you from achieving your dreams whither about start running a biz or anything else
I did it and I'm pretty sure you can do it too if you worked on yourself
if you made it till here
thank you so much for reading my story I really appreciate that a tons
if you have any questions or if you would need my help with anything I'm just a msg away
email me at hello@farahbrightart.com and I will be there for you
thank you so much again
see you on my next blog