Shop opening giveaway WINNER
Hello !!
I used random.org to select the winner of the handmade journal.
But first of all, I want to deeply thank all of you who entered and promote my shop, it means the World to me. Thank you too to my customers, I would never have hoped for already selling that much within the first week.
Soon, I will add handmade journals and some surprise goodies.
Tadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam, the winner selected is:
Who left the comment numero 5 ??
Congratulations Cynthia H. !!! Email me at nolwenn@inner-voices.net with your snail mail address so I can ship your price as soon as possible.
Gratitude Friday 03/18/2011, Thank you Big step forward
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 !
WHAT.A.WEEK !!! Amazing...
This week my heart is so full of Gratitude that I feel like it could explode right now. But it won't, and could even take some more goodness.
Sharing some of the best (would be too long if I was sharing everything):
- I finally took the leap and opened my Etsy Shop. Thank you for all of you who supported me along the way, for months, and now that it is opened. Do not forget you can win a handmade journal (made by yours truly) by helping me to spread the love.
- I sold two prints.
- I was including in this amazing Treasury created by Aimee from Artsyville: Mix it up.
- Yesterday (Thursday) was just an amazing day. Spent some time alone with my husband (which never ever happens since we live in Vancouver); bought some presents for Koala's 4th birthday, had fun at afterschool thing with Grenouille...
- We are reorganizing my tiny corner of the sunroom where I stock my art supply and had very good deals at Ikea yesterday.
- Money is coming in ! Positive Affirmations DO work for me.
- I received all the packages I was waiting for the same day.
- I love working in my new Art Journals. I will make more and put them for sale so you can love them too.
- I found a huge notebook (11"x14") to create my dreamboards and maps in it. For only $16.50 (way less than the giant Moleskine). Love me some Opus Framing Art Supply in Granville Island.
- Donna Downey is doing an «Inspiration Week»: everyday of this week she is recording herself working in a journal. This is just fantastic !
- I am just happy to be living the life I have right now. Dreaming big, taking steps forward, sharing.
I hope you will share with me what made you happy this week. I know a lot of you experienced hard times lately, so maybe this would help.
Take care.
If you wrote your Gratitude Friday on your blog, don't forget to enter your NAME and URL below so I'm notified and can come to read you (you can also join by commenting this post):
What I love on Wednesday, #1
I need to clear my heart today... So I decided to share what I am loving right now with you.
I love reading what my fellow bloggers share in their "Inspiration" or "What I love" blogposts so I thought that regrouping what I do am exciting about could be great.
But don't forget, you can help me spread the word about my Etsy shop opening and win an handmade journal. Learn more about it here.
I am currently loving and excited about....:
- Samantha Kira new mini-journal class. Learn how to make fantastic fabric and button journals, with a lots of versatility. {a new-journal making mini workshop}
- Connie has gathered 21 fantastic artists to share their art journal secrets. It is the second round, the first one was awesome. You can learn from Goddess Leonie, Willowing, Lisa Wilson and so many more; the techniques and themes are very different from each other and cover a lot of areas. Exciting !!! Learn more about it: 21 secrets Spring 2011 edition.
- PanPastels are soft easy to use pastels... I love them. I think they are becoming my favourite medium for shading faces. I have a lot to learn but I am loving it ! I will share soon the page in my Journal I started with them yesterday night.
- Lindy Stamp Gang is now offering their awesome Starburst products in what they call «color shot». This is the same amazing ink doubled with amzing shimmers, but in a pot instead of with a sprayer. SO now, I can use them to paint. And this is gorgeous. I love their product so so much. It makes me happy and I want them all... they even make me like vintage-y brown colours, coupled with colours shimmers (they call this «MoonShadows» what a name !). And they treat us well by having sales very often during the year (they are currently having a 20% off everything for St Patrick day !). They also have amazing two-toned embossing powders, stamps etc. And you can buy seperately the caps to change your sprays into daubbers, crazy !
- I started a new Art Journal yesterday night while the girls where already in bed and dear Husband was playing video games. The first page is not finished as I type this but will be today. I already love it. This is the journal I finally decided to play in:
- I am happy to read the big dreams shared on my opening shop comments.
- We are FINALLY having a dry day in Vancouver, with some sunshine coming through the clouds.
ETSY shop opening and giveaway !
Hello you !
Here it is... It is with great excitement and a lot of nervousness that I announce my Etsy shop OPENING !!!
I am SO excited to finally share my art and hopefully some people will like it enough to buy it.
This is a huge step for me. I know I make a big deal from it but I realized that my anxiety about opening this online shop is related to the fact that to me, putting my work for sale is another way of exposing me, who I am, moments of my Life and Path, to the World.
«And what if people do not like it ?» «What if some think it is stupid to even dream of selling this crap ?» «What if they think I am a weird woman that should be in a mental institution because my artwork is not that conventional ?» Yes, I thought all this over and over again.
But I keep having this quote from Marianne Williamson:
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
And this is so true for me (I replace "God" by "The Universe"). Too true maybe. So it keeps me going, stronger and stronger. Because I did not discovered this firey passion for art by coincidence. This was not accidental.
I know that some find that this is crazy stupid, but I am as affraid of being successful than I am of failure. «What if it gets too big for me, if I can not handle it correctly ?» «What if success changes me in someone I do not want to be ?». I know with conviction that my close circle won't let any of this happen, they will gently remind me who the True me is so I don't get lost. And I believe that because I am aware of this, I won't let it happen either.
So here I am, opening an Etsy shop with currently only 8 items but it is okay, I am working on adding more soon. As my dear friend Anu told me when I said "I am affraid to open it with only 8 items, 8 is nothing": "8 is not nothing, 0 is".
Here is the link: http://www.etsy.com/shop/InnerVoice. But be careful... there is a slight difference between my blog name and Etsy shop because InnerVoiceS was already taken, I had to put the S off...
Now, enough with the heavy, place to the FUN and let's go partyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy !
To celebrate the opening I am giving away one of my handmade journals. There are all made with fantastic paper, bound by me, covers made by me too.
This time will be a bit different than the other giveaways I have done... Here are the rules:
Each give you one entry (via comment on this blogpost). You can do one of them, part of them or all; so you can have 1 to 5 chances to win):
- Leave a comment on this blogpost. Let me know what would you do if you could achieve your biggest dream.
- Tweet about my shop with a link to this blogpost, then come back and comment again with a link to your tweet.
- Talk about it on facebook with a link to this blogpost, then come back and comment again with a link to your status.
- Write a blogpost about it with a link and you can write two comments here to let me know.
So the more you help me spread the word, the more chances to win you have 
Contact me via email if you have any question and/or difficulties: nolwenn@inner-voices.net
A glimpse in my latest Art Journal ? {Video}
Coucou !
As promises, here is the flip-through video of my second Art Journal. I love it ! But I have also noticed that the feeling is different from what I felt when I finished the first one.
I love glancing through the journals and see the evolution in front of my eyes since July 2008 when it began for me. It is just obvious and magical. I see the positive changes that happened in me, the discoveries. And my journal is now essential to me alongside my spiritual path...
This week, I wondered a lot about what would my daughters see about me in these journals in a few decades. Will they continue to explore and play in their own journals as they love to do now ?
Here is the video:
You can head on my YouTube channel to watch my previous videos if you want: http://www.youtube.com/user/NolwennBC
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