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2011 Goddess Year workbookGratitude Friday is a weekly ritual I started in order to focus on all the small and big positive things that happened during my week. I invite you to join me, you’ll see how much being thankful can change your life. If you want to know more about it, read my introduction post.

Hello everyone !
How was your week ? Mine was focused on feeling and sending some Love whenever possible.

I had a weird dream to begin my week, after feeling uncomfortable by the facts I had kind of a breakthrough on Monday: don’t be ashamed or guilty to love because Love can have so so many different faces. And I discovered a new weird spiritual loving practice: hugging people, even when they’re not physically with me; please, don’t call the psychiatric institution now, I’m not crazy. Give it a try. I may be too good at positive creative visualization, I don’t know 😉

As I told in my yesterday blogpost, I’m a lot inspired lately, and it goes in a lot of directions. I have to refocus because I’m losing track.

This week, I am thankful for the Love in my life: my husband, my daughters, my mom, my friends, the people I connect with online.

I am very thankful for the package received from Hay House, with all the goodies I won at their Affirmations Card Contest. Awesome !

I am thankful for Jamie Ridler and my Circe’s Sisters. Coincidenced do not exist, trust me. We all complete each other wonderfully, Jamie is a maker of magic. And in already (!!!) seven weeks, I feel all the change in my World. I am very thankful for the opportunity I got to enroll in this, it’s a real blessing to witness and support all these dreams coming true way beyond what we all imagined when we started.

I am thankful for the Love I put in everything I do. Doing something you have pleasure to do is a real gift, whatever it is. I don’t earn any money through it (yet) but it will come eventually, for sure.

Being open to receive love is sometimes very hard. Because we’re not really used to it. But try, for example for just a day, you begin your day by setting the intention to receive all the Love floating around you without questioning it, without doubting you deserve it. Just receive.
Was it so hard ? How doe it feel ? Do you think you can do it as a daily practice ?

Please, don’t hesitate to come and share with me how it went/goes 🙂

I also want to talk to you about the recent launch of Goddess Leonie new 2011 “Creating my Goddess Year workbook“.
It’s not just a planner, it’s filled with inspiring imagery, there is a monthly calendar, worksheets to help you manifest your dreams and make 2011 your year. To keep it affordable, Leonie sells it less than $10 (and it’s 72 colorful pages !).
And I love the fact that you can buy one for you, but also one for you and another for a friend, etc. It would be an amazing gift for those that count so much in your life. You can also buy a gift voucher 🙂 How awesome is that ???
Click on the image to be redirected on the page, or right here if it’s easier.

Don’t forget: You.Are.Loved

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Gratitude Friday is a weekly ritual I started in order to focus on all the small and big positive things that happened during my week. I invite you to join me, you’ll see how much being thankful can change your life. If you want to know more about it, read my introduction post.

Hello !

I know it’s Monday today, but I was not home on Friday but really want to share this post with you all. I hope that if you wrote on your blog a Gratitude Friday, you’d share your link at the end of this so I’ll be able to read and support you.

How was your week ? Are you facing some blocks on your Gratitude road ?

My week was really great. I enjoyed it a lot, despite the fact I was not as productive as I should have been. I focused on having fun. Just to have fun, no pressure.

I am thankful for the 2day trip we had in Seattle. We made a big surprise to our daughters: we went to the Harry Potter’s exhibition. They are both HUGE fans of the movies, the characters, everything related to Harry Potter. It’s because of Harry Potter that my now 5 years old wanted to learn how to read so she’ll be able to read the books by herself, she was 3 1/2 (!!!). They were over the moon, and so are we. We stayed in a great hotel near Seattle, were we meet a family that 1)speaks french 2)lives not far from us in Canada. Weird uh ? I love this kind of coincidence !

I am thankful for the nice people working at Blick in Seattle. They are very helpful and patient. I love going there. If only there were a Blick here *sigh*.

Thank you for the spot I won via Leah at Creative everyday in Mindy’s (from In the wish studio) for her online class “THIS moment“. I was eyeing it.

I’m in love with Laura Izibor‘s sweet and spicy voice. I discovered her in One Tree Hill (yes, I watch this tv show since the first season, not ashamed at all). I’m always thankful for the music that fills my days (and my nights).

My heart is full.

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Gratitude Friday is a weekly ritual I started in order to focus on all the small and big positive things that happened during my week. I invite you to join me, you’ll see how much being thankful can change your life. If you want to know more about it, read my introduction post.

Hello !

I’m so happy to read your comments and your own Gratitude Friday, to know that it helps you at the end of the week to focus on what matters the most: staying positive in all situations and learning to look at things differently. I’m so blessed and happy.

• This week, I am thankful for the inspiration swirling in my mind. I am fighting the thought crawling that whispers “it won’t last, so take the most of it now !” because I am one of those who believe that we have an unlimited access to a kind of “higher source” of Inspiration, and that we can tap in it everytime, it won’t fade out. Just have to learn how to stay in touch with it.
• I am thankful for the love all around, and the support.
• I am thankful for the work the “after school care” work, they’re awesome ! They planned a role game like “cluedo” for the kids today, to celebrate Halloween.
• I am very grateful for the person who puchase a Goddess Circle Membership through my affiliate link. I love promoting other artists’s work and Leonie is offering this amazing opportunity for pretty cheap: it’s one of the best investment possible (in my opinion) ! That’s why I spread the word for Leonie and Kelly Rae Roberts (see the section in my right sidebar =====>); and I am thankful that they both offer the possibility to earn some money for the help.
• For the insight given to me by my Sisters in the Circe’s Circle; I love the energy here, and that we all help each other as we can. Having the point of view from the outside is very helpful.
• For this painting that I finished (click to enlarge and have a better view). I think it the one I love the most, it brings a sense of accomplishment in my heart despite the fact it’s totally out of my usual colour palette, even the face is different but still “my style”. It’s hard to let her go in a new home. I have to set a price and put her for sale. I need to sell my artwork, it can’t stay in a closet forever, they’re meant to be shared and loved.
• Thank you it’s friday !! I’m very tired, like all my energy (physical and spiritual) had been drained out of me. It’s Samhain on Sunday so I’ll be busy but now that my daughters are older, they’ll help me in the kitchen 😀

I wish I could afford my fellow Vancouverite artist Vivienne in her self-portrait workshop You are your own muse. I know all the love she put in it and it’s right what I need but I spend too much money in others’ workshops, I have to earn money before spending some more (says my husband) 🙁 Today is your last chance to sign up !

I wish you all a happy Trick or Treating this week-end, have fun, honour your ancestors, make room for the new year and let go off the old.

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I don’t know how your Creative Spirit works. And I must confess that I am just at the beginning of discovering the all process of mine.

I can have my head buzzing for weeks, full of new images, new color combinations, new pattern I want to try, new techniques I want to explore that I have no idea how to manage all these things I want to do. And I can be for weeks not feeling like creating something new, or going on with what is actually in progress. Like “I don’t even want to look at my pain or see my crayons”. It’s a real big roller coaster. And being at the low side of the loop is sometimes very hard and frustrating. I’m sure you’ve been there, too. Haven’t you ?

I still don’t really know for sure how to deal with it, but realized that forcing creativity and inspiration is absolutely not working for me. So I go with the flow, I do something else until it strikes my head again. BUM !

October has been a mix of “wow I want to create this, and that, oh and this new thing is just fantastic, I have to give it a try”, and about ten days of “why do I want to create, by the way ? I’m not even a real artist that has real projects, that sells blablabla” and I did nothing except writing again as a daily practice and achieve some experience pages in my Art Journal.
And the thing is that… I’m have facing a blogging block for two weeks now. Absolutely no will to write here. I have no idea where it cames from, it slapped me in the face out of nowhere. Just I didn’t want to write on my blog. And as always, I decided not to go against what my heart was telling me (to be silent).

BUT I fell in love all over again with painting, with creating my world, with wanting to put it inside in the World.

How do you deal with your creative ebb and flow ? Do you know how to always access this source of inspiration within you; how do you do ?
I’d love to hear from you. Sharing with others our process sometimes just helps to identify how we roll.

Here is 3 of the artworks I work on this month (The smaller ones measure 16″x20″. Click to enlarge).

1. Hope in a bottle
2. Uniqueness
3. I am meant to shine

The first one (in the middle) was in progress for MONTHS. No kidding. I remember having shown the sketch at the early beginning on my Twitter account. I was not happy with it, too much brush strokes showing, some of the colours weren’t as I wishing them to look etc. As Jesse Reno would say “if you wonder “Am i done with it ?” then the answer is simple: “NO !!!!”” 😉 I was less affraid to go over the part I didn’t fully love, to cover again and again. I added this and that. It needs more small details and then it’ll be finished.

The second one (on the right) was inspired of a discussion we had regarding our values in Jamie Ridler‘s Circe’s Circle. It says “I accept and embrace my Uniqueness”. Because I know how hard it is to stand for who you know you are, and not who you want people to think you are and even less who people think you are. It’s hard to finally be able to say “I am me, and only me”. So this painting is my little reminder that we are all Unique, and that it’s thanks to all our uniquenesses that the World is so rich and so beautiful.
Prints of it are already available in my RedBubble page: right here. And if you only want the “quote”, here it is.

The last one (click to enlarge) is nearly done too (I worked more on it since I took the general picture above). I just love love love it. It was inspired by my session with the awesomely fantastic Jo Anna Rothman.
I love the gentleness I see in it, but she’s definately bold. And she is not affraid of affirming that yes, she is meant to shine, she assumes it because there’s no shame of shining. Because we all carry Light and Darkness inside, but we all deserve to show our Light to others. I have to accept that I’m not only made of Darkness and that my Light shouldn’t only stay inside. I experimented a technique learned in Julie Prichard’s last online class, in duo with Chris Cozen, called Texture Town.

I fell in love with saying what i have to say through my artwork, with writing everyday, with having paint all over me (oops), with dreaming of what I could do next at night.
And it’s SO good to be in love.

Gratitude Friday is a weekly ritual I started in order to focus on all the small and big positive things that happened during my week. I invite you to join me, you’ll see how much being thankful can change your life. If you want to know more about it, read my introduction post.

This week was full of lessons and learnings. By the way, I wonder why I always have to learn things the hard way. I’m very emotionnal this week, I don’t know if today’s Full Harvest Moon is messing with me but aaaaaaaaaaaah (sound of a deep sigh).
But it’s in these kind of harsh moments that I count my blessings and see that all my past, even the most painful events, is what makes me… me. And hooray ! Today I got a new idea regarding my book project. It may make it easier, or not. But more cohesive for sure.
This week’s Gratitude Friday is hard to write. Not because I don’t see what to be thankful for, but because for unknown reasons, I don’t “want” to write here, in the blog. I do have lots of things I want to share, I want to show you, I want your input on. But I don’t know,

I know that some of you are facing a kind of block. Not finding what is making the joy of your life. But remember: your Gratitude list doesn’t have to be long. It doesn’t have to be full. Just listen to this little voice that makes your heart sing. What does she tell you ?

This week, I’m grateful for aAron’s new album, Birds in the storm. Not all the songs are good, but I was waiting for this album for years now.

Thank you for the inspiration striking me. Beautiful ideas are taking shape on canvas. I don’t work as much as I would like, but I still don’t have an art studio so it’s hard to be organized. I enjoy every minute of the creating process, from the idea sprouting in my mind to the sketching to the final artwork.

Thank you for all the messages I received about the latest artwork I shared on my RedBubble page (I still have to share it here more precisely). It’s not perfect, I still have to work on the face shading. But the message is there, and I love love love it. You can’t really see it on the picture above but it says “I accept and embrace my Uniqueness“.
You can buy prints (laminated, canvas print, simple print), cards etc of it. I had really good feedback on the quality and service by one of the sweet heart who bought some of my art there. It’s a cheap and easy way to have my artwork in your home.

Thank you for the friends who are in my life for many years now. We went through storms together, but the link between us is still strong despite everything. It’s important to me to celebrate it. Thank you for being by my side no matter what.

Thank you for the Love I receive, in every kind of way possible.

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