When Two Worlds Meet

January 26, 2026

For the longest time, I kept A Touch of Kitab and PurplyBelle carefully separate.

In my mind, they lived in two different worlds.

A Touch of Kitab was where I taught.
Where I showed up as a tutor.
Structured, intentional, rooted in responsibility and trust.

PurplyBelle, on the other hand, was where I created.
Where I explored design, journaling, reflection, ideas that came from the heart.
It was softer, more expressive, more me in an unfiltered way.

I never planned to merge them.
In fact, I was quite determined not to.

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The Line I Drew for Myself

Teaching felt serious.
Creative work felt personal.

So I drew a line.

What I taught stayed there.
What I created stayed here.

And for a long time, that separation felt safe.

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But Quietly, Something Was Already Overlapping

What I didn’t realise at first was this:

The resources I was making - the calendars, trackers, systems - were never made for an audience.

They were made for myself.

To help me keep track of my tuition hours.
To understand how much I was actually earning.
To see my workload clearly, month by month, year by year.

They were practical.
Unpolished.
Honest.

And slowly, people around me began asking questions.

“How do you track your hours?”
“How do you know how much you earned this month?”
“Do you have something you use?”

That was when it hit me.

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This Isn’t Two Brands. This Is One Person.

A Touch of Kitab and PurplyBelle aren’t opposites.
They’re not competing ideas.

They’re both me - just expressed differently.

One comes from teaching.
One comes from creating.
Both come from lived experience.

And this tracker I'm selling now - the Tuition Income & Hours Tracker — sits right in between.

Click here to go to the product.

It wasn’t designed to be aesthetic for the sake of selling.
It wasn’t designed to be complex or impressive.

It was designed to be useful.

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Choosing to Share, Instead of Separating

Right now, PurplyBelle is the only shop I have.

And instead of seeing that as a limitation,
I’m choosing to see it as an acceptance.

An acceptance that I don’t have to fragment myself to be valid.

That the tools I create as a tutor can live alongside the things I create as an artist.
That practicality and creativity don’t cancel each other out.

They support each other.

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This Is Me, Showing Up Fully

So yes, this resource lives on PurplyBelle.
And yes, it was born from A Touch of Kitab.

And that’s okay.

Because at the end of the day, both were created by the same hands,
the same mind,
the same person trying to build a life that feels aligned.

This is me choosing to stop compartmentalising what already belongs together.

And this is me sharing something that helped me, in the hope that it helps someone else too.

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Where These Resources Will Live

For now, any resources created under A Touch of Kitab - whether they come from teaching, tutoring, or organising my own work - will be shared through my PurplyBelle shop.

Not because the two are the same,
but because they are connected by one thing: me.

Until I build a separate space for teaching resources,
this is where they’ll live - clearly labelled, thoughtfully shared,
and created with the same intention I bring into my lessons.

If you’re someone who’s been following my teaching journey,
and you see something useful here - know that it comes from lived practice, not theory.