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You may be smiling when you’ll know how the design came up in my mind 😉

In fact, I was thinking of creating a logo for a while. Because I am wishing to create some goodies and I’d like to put a logo on it. But nothing came. Nothing.

For Christmas, Santa Claus gave our daughters the DVD of Tinkerbell… so on December 25th, of course, we were watching it all together… and then revelation ! I saw a kind of spiral at the beginning, when Tinkerbell is “called” to what she’s here for. I have a love for spirals, all kind of spirals. And then I felt the urge to take a piece of pater and a pen… and voilà !

Because I am a stamp addict kind of girl, I soon wanted to make this as a stamp. And there’s the magic of the internet, I asked for advice about finding a website, Kathryn (alias Collage Diva) suggested me Simon Stamp that makes customized rubber stamps for a really affordable price (I paid mine around $20USD). I received it today and it’s perfect !

You can also see the logo, colorized, if you go to my online bookstore (made with Amazon.com) 🙂

It made my day 😉

Inspiration can really come from places and things you don’t expect it. I love when it flows like that.

I remember when I did an exercice I found in one of Anne-Marie Jobin book. It was about getting rid of our Fears. Personally, I prefer to treat one thing at a time. And for a beginning to work on my Fear of Success. And I also remember the reaction of my buddy Camille when I told her about it “but how can someone be affraid of success ???”.

Indeed, it can seem strange because everyone whishes to succeed. But I do am affraid of success.

The exercice I did in my journal was quite “simple” in theory: I wrote the word “success” in the middle of my page and then wrote around everything success inspires me, like in a simplified mind map. On the other page of the spread, I wrote “Desire of Success” and why I would love to be successful, what it would feel and bring in my life. And then, I took time to think about what came out and write about it.

Why do I fear Success ? Because of the responsabilities it implies, because I think I don’t deserve to be a successful woman, because others do better than me, because I also fear to become somebody else. I don’t forget the biggest one: Fear of Failure. Shhh I hate this fear. This fear prevents me to even try things I want to. What a waste ! It’s hard to go off this fear, it’s like being blind and finally being able to see the light.
And now, I am absolutely sure that this is this particular fear that explains why I stagnate professionally even if I know now what I want to do and what I want to share with the World.

I remember the amazing reading I had with Alice a few months ago, and she told me that yes I will succeed but there is a risk that I’ll become a little bit too much… over-confident and that it will be one of the big test the Universe may send to me. It would be another me, I don’t want it to exist. I do not want to be the one who thinks she’s better than the others.
So I keep that in top of my mind, without letting the fear come and control me.

My power word for 2010 is “Achievement”, so I have to work hard on my fear of success, because both fear of success and fear of failure go along with each other: I cannot achieve anything while I fear the consequences  of success.

Do you fear success ? How did you manage to switch this negative feeling into something more positive ?

YOU DESERVE TO SUCCEED. I deserve it too.

Hello Lovelies !

How was your week ?

It’s already time for a new Gratitude Friday. But before sharing what I am thankful for this week, I wanted to share with you my brand new Gratitude Journal.

For this year, I really was looking for a space dedicated to my everyday gratitude moments, not only a place in another journal I have on my night table. That’s why I grabbed the chance to buy a Moleskine on page a day agenda that was for sale at my artstore. I used one as an usual agenda in 2009 and fell in love. I already love Moleskine so it was not hard for me to be convinced it will be awsome.

I show it to you now but it is not completely finished yet I’ll stamp a “Gratitude Journal” on it this week-end to finish it, and in the inside cover I’ll decorate it with my word of 2010. I’ll talk about it soon.

I painted the outside front cover and play around with acrylic paint. So much fun.

So… this week, I am thankful for:
⚙ The evenings with my husband. I feel like we’re back six years ago and it is so so good. I missed this part of me.
⚙ The afternoon with Nathalie while we made a galette des rois (a french tradition, it’s a dessert made of puff pastry filled with a mix of almond cream and pastry cream called frangipane. You put a trinket in it. Read the wikipedia article to learn more about it).
⚙ We ate some amazing french pastry, feels like France. It’s actually the only thing we really miss from France (I said “thing” not “people”, notice ;)).
⚙ The discussions I had with an old friend.
⚙ I received my journal that has been traveling the World for over a year; it was a part of a Journal Round Robin. Some amazing art in it !

Hello !

This is the first Wishcasting Wednesday of 2010.

I don’t know about you but for some years now, I stopped making New Year resolutions, and instead i set some goals for the year that comes…

What Dream do I wish to explore ?

One of my giganormous goal is to write and publish a book this year (even if it’s in december or at least being in contact with a publisher interested in my project).
The idea is here, and more are being added. It will take me a long time, it may sometimes make me cry (I am a cryer, I’ll take about it later this month), it may be hard but I now that eventually it will bring a lot of joy and relief in my life, I can already feel it. And I will finally feel that I have achieved something in my life.

And I hope this book will help people and that they’ll (you) like it.

It is a big big Dream that I wish may come true.

I decided that in 2010, I’ll try to share with you people/movies/musics that make my Heart & Soul shine. I don’t know yet the frequency of this new category, but I think it might be about… twice a month.

I open this with a multi-talented man from whom I adore the work since my teenage years: Tim Burton.

You probably know most of his movies and animated movies. From Edward Scissorhands to Sleepy Hollow, Beetle Juice (the movie I remember I saw on tv when I was a child, it introduced me to his Universe… I still love the dance scene), his colourful adaptation of Charlie & the chocolate factory (it’s a really good one, I’m a fan. And both my daughters watch it over and over again, singing along with the Umpa Lumpas. I loved the book when I was younger.), don’t forget Mars Attacks or Big Fish (certainly, this in my favourite one !); from Vincent to Nightmare before Christmas, The corpse bride and so on… so many good things that go through the years…
I can’t wait to see his adaptation of Alice in Wonderland !

And he started his career in the animation studios of… Disney. Yes !

Did you know that Tim Burton was diagnosed as being bipolar ? It is a mental illness that (I simplify a lot) is caracterised by a mood fluctuation, it goes in the extreme from euphory to depression. People who are bipolar, when it’s not the very important kind, are often really really creative people.
I did not want to know if I am, eventually; even if I wonder a lot about it. But I relate to it deeply.

I must have been really well-behaved last year because Santa Claus put under the Christmas Tree a really big and heavy box (more than 4kilos !). It was Tim Burton’s ArtBook. It contains more than 1,000 illustrations, from it’s personal work and work he did as preliminary work for movies. More than 40 years of drawings and paintings in this book. I love see the outline of what we see in the movies, it’s fascinating.
This book is a large one, as I said it is a big heavy one. Some of the pages can be unfold, become kind of panoramic.
It’s absolutely the perfect book for Tim Burton’s lovers 🙂

If you have the occasion to visit NYC, run to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), where there is currently an exhibition of his art, until April 26th 2010. If I lived on the other side of the continent, the question would exist, I’ll go without any hesitation !

This kind of gothic, sometimes creepy, Universe can seem simple but it’s (in my opinion) a lot more complex than we could think it is. I relate to it, it makes my heart sing. As if someone was in my head and extracted some feelings to put in into images. I’m very emotional about Tim Burton’s artwork.

Official Website: http://www.timburton.com
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton
Where to buy his ArtBook: for the US, for Europe.

Hop, as a little bonus here is my favourite scene in Beetle Juice (get up and shake your booty with them !):