Category: e-zine

The Best! News! Ever!

cover of "airing from Lisbon", an illustrated e-zine by Ana Isabel Ramos

There’s a brand new issue of “airing from Lisbon”! To find out what the Best! News! Ever! are, sign up here to receive my email news and access your free goodies. Can’t wait to see you there!

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O novo número da zine “airing from Lisbon” acabou de sair! Nele partilho as melhores notícias de sempre. Para as lerem, assinem aqui a newsletter e acedam aos conteúdos grátis e exclusivos para subscritores. Até já!

Issue 39 of “airing from Lisbon” is out

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Hello everyone!

Here’s a new issue of “airing from Lisbon”. It celebrates the Chinese New Year and the year of the Horse, my year!

I’m super excited to see what changes this new year will bring me, now that we have completed our first year living back in Lisbon.

To read this issue, sign up here and get it by e-mail, it’s free! Don’t forget that as a subscriber you’ll have access to special news, features and discounts, as well as a free illustration.

Enjoy!

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Olá!

Ei-lo, o novo número da zine “airing from Lisbon”, que celebra o Ano Novo Chinês do Cavalo – o meu ano!

Estou ansiosa por saber que mudanças e desafios o novo ano me vai trazer, agora que já celebrámos o primeiro aniversário da nossa estadia em Lisboa.

Para ler a zine gratuitamente, basta assinar a newsletter e aceder a todos os benefícios reservados aos subscritores: uma ilustração grátis, acesso livre e ilimitado às zines e muitas promoções.

Espero que gostem!

Issue 38 of “airing from Lisbon” is up!

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The Holiday issue of “airing from Lisbon” is up! (Sign up to access it.)

I’m so happy to be celebrating the holidays back home and enjoying every bit of the cold weather that we have been feeling so far. Knitting, embroidery and tea help!

To access this issue, please sign up for my mailing list (and access exclusive content only available to subscribers!).

I will be taking some time off during the holidays to cook yummy seasonal foods, be with friends (many of them live abroad and are coming home for a couple of weeks, yay!) and enjoy the festivities with family. Enjoy the Holidays and see you in the New Year!

Oh! And before I go, there’s a Giveaway going on! Participate for a chance to win a free one year subscription to the air Embroidery Club!

Happy Holidays!

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Aí está ela, a zine! O número 38 está no ar! (Assine a newsletter para aceder a todo o conteúdo exclusivo!)

Estou tão contente por estar a celebrar a quadra natalícia aqui em Portugal, perto da família. E está a ser uma delícia desfrutar de todos os pequenos prazeres que o frio nos traz: o tricot, o bordado, um chá quentinho…

Para descarregar gratuitamente este número, assine já a newsletter (e receba uma ilustração gratuita!).

Agora que o Natal se aproxima, vou estar um pouco mais afastada do blogue e do trabalho, para aproveitar as visitas dos amigos que vivem fora, dos convívios familiares e de todas as festas de Natal que se aproximam. A cozinha lá de casa já está quentinha e pronta para os cozinhados que aí vêm. A todos vocês que me acompanham nesta aventura, muito obrigada! Desejo-vos Boas Festas e vemo-nos no ano novo.

Antes que me esqueça! Não percam o primeiro sorteio para poderem ganhar um ano de Clube de Bordado! Participem já e partilhem com os vossos amigos!

Boas Festas!

Issue 37 of “airing from Lisbon” is here!

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Hi!

It’s great to be back from our Fall break. We had a wonderful time in the northern part of the country, where autumn colors were golden and days were blue and crisp.

Issue 37 of “airing from Lisbon” celebrates the season, as well as my being installed and adapted to my new life back home. To download it, please subscribe to my email news. You will then be able to download the latest issue, as well as get a free illustration that is yours to keep (for personal use only, thank you!).

Thank you for signing up and supporting my work!

October’s zine in progress

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October marks the seventh month-versary of our move back to Lisbon. It’s hard to think back objectively on the time that has passed: was it long ago? Or yesterday? It feels like it was yesterday, on the one hand; but, then again, so many things happened.

We traveled in March, received our sea-shipped furniture in May, felt at home in August. It’s October, Autumn is here; I’m now feeling the desire to cozy up indoors with my knitting needles – or pencil and paper! – and just enjoy work with a cup of tea.

Last week I showed you my studio and today I’m sharing a bit of the process of working on my zine.

I usually start by folding a sheet of paper in four, just like the zine. I jot down some ideas and start to write and distribute copy on the different “pages” to set pace and tone. Then I imagine what I’d like to use as illustration and start sketching!

When I’m happy with the sketch, I grab my favorite pen – or brush – and start inking.

This is where I am today as I’m writing to you. I’m documenting the process over on Instagram. You can check out my feedair_billy is my username – or search the hashtag #airingfromlisbon.

One of the changes I implemented over the summer was to change the accessibility of the zine. Although it is still free, current issues are only available to email subscribers.  It is thanks to you and your help spreading the word that I can keep illustrating, embroidering and knitting.

Speaking of which, tomorrow we will be meeting here in the studio for the first knitting workshop. I’m planning to add a new date for November. Want to join us? Let me know!

Have a great weekend!

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Outubro marca o sétimo mesiversário da nossa mudança para Lisboa. É difícil pensar de forma objectiva sobre o tempo que passou: passou rápido? Depressa? Por um lado, parece que chegámos ontem mesmo; por outro, aconteceram tantas coisas entretanto…

Chegámos em Março, recebemos a mudança, que veio por mar, em Maio. Em Agosto sentimo-nos finalmente em casa. Agora que o Outono chegou a Lisboa, sinto vontade de voltar para o interior, beber um chá e sentar-me a desenhar, bordar ou tricotar.

Há dias mostrei-vos um pouco do meu atelier; hoje mostro-vos um pouco do meu trabalho. De momento, estou a trabalhar na edição de Outubro da minha zine, “airing from Lisbon”. Normalmente começo por dobrar uma folha em quatro, tal como a zine se apresenta, e anoto ideias. Vou mudando o texto de umas “páginas” para as outras até chegar à versão que mais me agrada, e depois passo aos esboços.

O passo seguinte é fazer a ilustração numa folha nova, primeiro a lápis e depois – como vêem acima – a caneta.

E é neste ponto que me encontro actualmente. Se quiserem acompanhar o processo, estou a documentá-lo com mais detalhe no Instagram: air_billy é o meu nome e estas imagens estão todas identificadas com a hashtag #airingfromlisbon.

Uma das mudanças implementadas durante o Verão foi no que diz respeito à acessibilidade da zine. Apesar de ser ainda gratuita, só está acessível aos leitores da newsletter. Se ainda não assina, basta clicar aqui! É graças ao vosso apoio que eu posso continuar a fazer o que gosto: ilustrações, bordado e tricot.

Por falar em tricot, amanhã é o nosso workshop! Em breve haverá nova data para Novembro – quem quer vir?

Bom fim-de-semana!

 

Time for celebration: the zine is three years old!

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Wow, three years! It’s an important milestone for me, to have been able to keep publishing “We’re in Panama!”, now “airing from Lisbon”, for three years. This has been such a ride.

This celebratory issue is embroidered. Those of you who follow me on instagram knew that already.

To read it, sign up for my email updates, and, as a bonus, get a FREE illustration!

Or take a peek at back issues here!

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Quem diria, três anos de zine! Esta é uma zine especial, que merecia também uma técnica especial. Por isso é bordada!

Para ler, assine aqui a minha newsletter e, como bónus especial de leitor favorito, receba também uma ilustração grátis.

Ou então leia os números anteriores da zine.

Is profit a dirty word?

"airing from Lisbon", issue 35, is here

A month and half ago, I started attending and online business course called Ten Thousand Feet. It has been an intense and fun ride, and it has kept me awake, more than once!, with ideas. So far, it has made me change the way I see my business and my relationship with money.

This course is aimed at mostly women like me, who are micro-entrepreneurs, have good ideas, work very hard to make them happen, and still feel unjustly compensated for their efforts. To give you one example from my own business history, I have three years of writing, illustrating and e-publishing my zine “airing from Lisbon”, formerly known as “We’re in Panama!”, completely free of charge. As much as I love making it, it takes at least one week of my work month, without a financial compensation. I want to be clear: I love to work pro-bono for a cause, and admire those who choose to donate their work to charities, but the point in cause is that work – in this case, my work – should be appropriately compensated.

I’m my worst enemy on this, and I want to change that.

This may sound weird to many, but cultural interference is important: I was brought up to not stand out from the crowd. There are historical and anthropological reasons for it, such as my parents’ generation having lived during a very long dictatorship. Standing out was not good at that time.

My excellent grades in school were not something to talk about: standing out in that context meant that I was “competitive”, had “leader’s attitudes” (as if that were a bad thing) and could provoke envy in others.

Last May, twenty years after being in school, I signed up for this course attracted by its concept: to work smarter, more efficiently, and to double my income in the next year. In financially appropriate terms, to increase my return on investment.

I suddenly saw myself (virtually) surrounded by people who believe that working to create value for the public and earning money are not mutually exclusive concepts. Profit is not a dirty word was the sentence a fellow colleague shared today, about one entrepreneur who worked well, saw his business grow, earned a good income and used a part of it to anonymously give back to his community.

This was the inspiration I needed to aim higher, to not be afraid to price my work well and mostly not care about the possible envy it may or may not provoke.

Politics, religion and money are taboo, was what I learnt when I was a teenager, and I know this topic isn’t easy. Still, I would like to know: what are your thoughts?

Share your thoughts below!

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Há cerca de um mês e meio comecei a fazer um curso de negócios online. Dado por uma mulher, aliás, duas, este curso tem-me feito perder o sono pela incrível mudança de paradigma que tem provocado em mim, na minha maneira de encarar o meu trabalho, o meu negócio e a minha relação com o dinheiro.

O curso destina-se a pessoas como eu, micro-empreendedores, sobretudo mulheres, que têm boas ideias, fartam-se de trabalhar mas não vêem os seus esforços recompensados financeiramente. Para vos dar um exemplo, para trás tenho três anos de publicação mensal da minha zine ilustrada “airing from Lisbon”, antes “We’re in Panama!” (que adoro fazer e partilhar, por sinal), mas que não me traz nem um cêntimo de retorno financeiro. Imaginem que trabalhavam uma semana inteira por mês sem receber nada em troca? A menos que seja trabalho voluntário (opção perfeitamente digna), não tem graça nenhuma.

Talvez seja influência cultural, não sei, mas a minha educação sempre foi para não sobressair do conjunto. Na escola tinha excelentes notas, o que nem sempre jogava a meu favor. Sobressair significava muita coisa “má”: ser competitiva, ter atitudes de líder (como se isso fosse mau), despertar invejas.

Inscrevi-me neste curso pelo currículo e pela sua premissa: trabalhar menos, de forma mais eficiente, de forma a ganhar mais dinheiro. Em palavras “executivamente” bonitas, a ter um melhor retorno pelo meu investimento.

E de repente vi-me rodeada (virtualmente) de pessoas que pensam que criar valor, trabalhar para o bem comum e ganhar dinheiro não são conceitos antagónicos. Profit is not a dirty word foi a frase que li hoje, contada a propósito de um empreendedor que trabalhava bem, ganhava muito e que repartia os seus lucros com a comunidade de forma anónima.

Às vezes, é desta inspiração que necessito para almejar mais alto, para não ter medo de sentir que o meu trabalho deve ser valorizado e bem pago e que não devo temer as invejas que isso possa despertar.

Sobre política, religião e dinheiro não se fala, foi o que aprendi ainda adolescente, e sei que por isso o tema não é fácil. Mas quero saber: que opinam?

Dêem-me a vossa opinião abaixo!

The third anniversary issue of “airing from Lisbon” will be embroidered…

Some progress on my embroidered illustration. #airingfromlisbon (actually in #bcn)

…and I have been posting regular photographic updates of the progress done on instagram and on the facebook page.

This is a very detailed and slow project but I feel that it works like therapy for me.

Make sure to follow @air_billy (on instagram and twitter) and “airing from Lisbon” (on facebook) and sign up for my newsletter, which will show you exclusive, behind the scenes images.

How about you? Are you working on any project that feels therapeutic?

“airing from Lisbon”, issue 35, is here!

"airing from Lisbon", issue 35, is here

Issue 35 of “airing from Lisbon” is here! Download the zine here to read (and see) all about settling in.

These have been a very busy few months. We have received our furniture in a little over two months – which was much faster than our move from Buenos Aires to Panama, which took five months!

Still, moving from a large apartment to a smaller one means a lot of extra work, being very selective about what to keep and what to give away. We have been very busy and my muscles are all sore! But we are very happy to be here and I am mostly looking forward to having my home and my studio ready.

Download and read the zine, tweet and instagram it. Don’t forget to tag it #airingfromLisbon. And visit the zine’s facebook page to get the latest updates.

If you haven’t yet, make sure to sign up for my newsletter, where I share behind the scenes stories and photos, special subscriber discounts and exclusive content I don’t share anywhere else.

See you next month!

“We’re in Panama!” is now “airing from Lisbon”

"We're in Panama!" is now "airing from Lisbon"

Hello there! I know it has been a very long time, but relocating logistics have been filling up a great portion of my time.

So, have you noticed the zine has a new name? In the last newsletter I asked for readers’ suggestions and “airing from Lisbon”, an idea my sister Ana Maria had, was the chosen one. I really like the pun she made with my initials “air”. I hope you like it too.

You will also see that there is a new logo and a bit of a refresh, but – as we know – the zine is always a work in progress because it accompanies my own evolutions in taste and style.

Without further ado, download the latest issue here and don’t forget to sign up for my newsletter. I promise I won’t clog your mailbox, as I only send one (sometimes two) mails a month.

Like our facebook page and download back issues (free!).

Changes! Issue 33 is here

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Issue 33 of “We’re in Panama!” is here. This will be the last number of the zine under that name, because, as you may already know if you follow my instagram or flickr feeds (or my life blog, in portuguese), we are currently relocating to Lisbon.

Part of our islamic heritage, azulejos (ceramic tiles) are a beautiful, decorative and story telling technique, with a very broad usage throughout Portugal. This issue’s illustrations are inspired by its visual language, and I hope you enjoy reading it.

On a more personal note, February was a very busy month lifewise – house hunting, packing and moving all happened in just a couple of weeks. We are now slowly settling in our hometown of Lisbon.

I am now faced with the fact that the zine can no longer be titled “We’re in Panama!”. So, my dear reader, I ask for your help finding a new name for it. Please read this issue and leave me your suggestions below.

Don’t forget to sign up for my newsletter, where I share exclusive content and behind-the-scenes shots.

Hope you enjoy International Women’s Day and have a wonderful weekend.

Also, visit “We’re in Panama!”‘s Facebook Page and read back issues.

E é isto

Last happy hour with this view with a glass of Viu Manent. #byebyepanama

Até breve!

P.S.: continuo a pedir as vossas sugestões para um novo nome para o “Entre…” – que contenha a palavra “entre”, claro – e outro para a zine.