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Yesterday was the Full Buck Moon, the Full Moon of July. She was really round and bright, I had a direct view on her from my bed.

It seems like I didn’t create any Wishboard (Vision Board, DreamBoard, whatever you call it) for a LONG time. So it was really good to be back in the process of browsing through magazines, newspapers, gluing, pasting and… dreaming.

I love reading Jamie’s insight each month, it helps me to have starting point.

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On this WishBoard, my intention was to focus on connecting with people and trusting myself. I realize that I am ofter facing one problem while making a WishBoard: finding images. I always find words or small sentences very easily, but not images. It’s kind of frustrating me, I must confess.

• The totem at the bottom right symbolizes Canada; the image is linked with the sentence “meet extraordinary people”.
  Because I feel the need to connect more with other Canadians people. As well Creative people as “other” people. Kelly Rae’s “Lovebomb” meeting blogpost made me notice how much I am in need for a Tribe. It’s funny how this subject comes back to me nearly every single day for more than a month now. It means I have something to work on about it. Passing my fears of “they’ll think I’m crazy because they don’t know me” and contact people I discovered they live in the same (big) country as me. I want my own Lovebomb group. We’d meet once a year, create together, share where we are on our path, cry, laugh, eat together. I need it; and I am pretty sure I am not the only one !
• The middle image at the bottom, you may not see it clearly, is someone ready to bungee jump. I feel it’s time for me to take this leap, to start seriously working on my business -starting by re-vamping my blog and website, creating the products I want to share etc.-. Now is the right time.
• The bottom left image is made by Anahata Hatkin for Papaya Art (do you know how much I love them ?). I bought myself the giclee print of it a few months ago when I had a job, to celebrate me. It says “Breathe.Believe.Receive. It’s all happening”. Absolutely what I am experiencing now. Just a reminder not to doubt it anymore.
• The image representing a couple is for the joy I want to experience everyday with my husband and our girls.
• I need to consolidate my roots, to dig deeper in my past because I want to finish my book. I need to finish it. I need to discover myself even more.
• I loved the colour of the image at the top right, it says “Joy”. Also an image found at Papaya Art.
• I wrote a positive affirmation about money I am working on right now. I struggle to much with this part of my life, it has to change.

Do you create WishBoards ? I’d love to see yours 🙂

This week, Jamie is asking us about what we wish to envision… Strangely, it’s not as easy as it seems for me to formulate this one.

Lately, I started again working on Positive Affirmations. Everyday, I visualize, I declare, I feel, and I enjoy receiving what the Universe answers me with.

I wish to envision my life as an Artist, as the Healer I feel I am in a way I don’t see yet, as a loving mom/spouse/friend/daughter.

I realize that making art (and trust me, art has a lot of gazillions of different faces) is what makes me happy, what keeps me sane in my daily life. So yes, it’s frustrating for some reasons (dreaming of a space dedicated to creation, having to stop because of X reason etc.)

I wish to discover why I am here. Why I can’t make concrete what I feel I have to do.
I wish to envision people happy and seeing how they can change their life thanks to one of my big project, because I feel it’s important I build it and share it in the World, but regarding this, the Universe seems blind 😉

But I hold up tight and don’t give up. Nop.

Hello !

I hope you all had a wonderful week-end.

Today, I am going to share something that is very important to me, you may be okay with it. Or not. It’s alright if you’re not.

Since my early teenage years, I am a huge believer. I don’t call it “God” or “Allah”, it’s not a “He” or a “She”, sometimes I call it in French “Les P’tits Vieux” which I don’t find an appropriate term in English. For me, and it’s my personal point of view, It is both Feminine & Masculine, Dark & Light, Positive & Negative… the ambivalence in everything, everywhere. But most of the time, I simply refer to this Life Force as “the Universe“.

Before I discovered Art Journaling, I was an avid writer in diaries (since I was something like 7 years old) in which I glued and doodled sometimes. So the writing part is kind of important in my Art Journalin process; even just a word or a short sentence make me feel like it’s more complete.
I love writing unsent letters. Do you know this ? It’s simple: you write a letter to someone you have something to say (usually, it’s something painful you can’t tell directly to the person, but it can be anything you need), and when you are finished, you symbolically destroy it. What I do is that I safely burn it, visualizing all the negative feelings associated with it vanishing away; but you can burry it, tear the paper and flush it in a river: be creative, it can be absolutely anything (just be careful, ok ?) ! The major positive thing about it is because it stays “unsent” you don’t have to censure yourself and you can expose everything you feel, every word that needs to get out of you.

It is a very powerful way to keep going on your life without being hold back by old feelings. Give it a try 🙂

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In this Art Journal page, I wrote a letter to The Universe to express my Gratitude regarding all the beautiful Souls that are coming into my life lately, and I ask for some guidance (You see, no need to be in pain to write an unsent letter). Gratitude is an important part of my life, that’s why I began the weekly ritual I call “Gratitude Friday“, you can read more about it there.
Then, I simply let the paint go on the page, trying not to overthink but to just enjoy the process.
I used my Silhouette to cut the stencils.
It’s not perfect at all. I made a glitch when i wanted to stencil the round thing in the left corner, using black fluid acrylic: bad idea, too liquide, it resulted in a huge black spot on the page. Not a problem, i just incorporated it and add some more texture with the bubble wrap while it was still wet. Before, I would have litterally panicked and the Gremlins would have been feroce with me “look at what you just did, you blew all your page, it’s ugly, boooooooo”. Not this time. So I notice a change in the way I see my Art Journal process and I am glad.
My girls wanted to participate and added the stars and butterfly. Pretty pretty.

And here is my first Art Journal video !! I want to deeply thanks all of you who told me they liked my first one about being BIG & FEARLESS, and for sharing it around you, I’m so blessed to have you, thank you !
I hope you’ll enjoy this one as well:

Right at the good time for me, Jamie asks us what do you wish to focus on ?

This past week was full of breakthroughs for me. Hard and softer ones.
I belong to a wonderful BIG tribe. Connie, from DirtyFootprints-studio, has gathered us around her for becoming BIG and Fearless painters.

Today, I can say less shamely that I AM AN ARTIST. Not because I paint, but because we create everyday, even when we don’t see it.

And I have great things to share with the World. But for this, I need to really become fearless, to trust myself, and to go ahead. If people are receptive and like it: good! If not, well, at least I would have tried 🙂

So I wish to focus on my Truth, and on sharing it with the World.

I need to focus on getting things done every.single.day.
Setting goals (big and small, long and short terms).
And not being distracted by my Gremlins that keep whispering me “people do better than you. why will they care about what you want them to see ? you’re not BIG enough…………….”

Today, Jamie‘s asking us What do you wish for your relationships?

I was one of the several “students” attending Kelly Rae Roberts first ever online class called Flying Lessons.

It was a growing five-week experience that I didn’t go through entirely now. It will take me some time to digest, and to apply all the informations learnt during this class.

But one thing I really realized during these weeks is the importance of the Tribe. Connecting with people having the same goals, the same dreams, even if it’s not exactly 100% the same.

I wish for my relationships to be trustful, sincere and win-win.
I want to help people grow as much (or mooore) as they have a place in my own evolution. We are all here for a reason and nothing happens just by coincidence, the good and the bad; everything is there to help us go on on our path.

I wish to be surrounded by people who believe in me, in my dreams, who cheers me up when doubts feel my Soul. I want to be there for people who need what I know by experience. I wish to grow stronger friendships. But I don’t want to be in the waiting of something regarding the relationships I have.
I just trust. And everything will fall into place when the time will be right for it.