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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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Hello !

Soooo you may wonder what’s currently happening here, I am doing a little catch up post. It’s like my life is going in a lot of different directions but at the same time, I don’t do all I wish I would. I don’t know if it makes sense.

I am painting like crazy, my head is filled of new designs/colours combinations/styles I want to try (I’ll make a special post about my inspiration sources). I try to focus on not-too-many-artworks-at-the-same-time because I tend to jump from one to another to another and I end up with too much in progress, not enough finished pieces.

I was sure I took more photos of the different stages this artwork knew, but it seems that I hallucinated it. It’s a pity because for me, this artwork is all about the process that took me to what it looks like now. On the left is what it looked like at the beginning of november, on the right what it’s today.
“Soar” is a big size, about 24″x24″. I started it at the end of September, all fresh from Jesse Reno’s 2day workshop.
By the way, it’s still hard for me to cover everything up, even if I now that it’s for highlighting a part I love in the artwork and giving it all the attention it deserves. But I get better at letting go and going further. Yes I do. A little more every day.
I think I’m done with it. Maybe in the future I’ll want to come back and add this or that on it. But for now, I consider it as finished. There are part of it I LOVE and others not that much, but I’m okay. I’m not looking for perfection. The picture does not do it justice though (gloomy weather and big piece are hard word for taking photos).

This one was a linen canvas (so like a beige colour instead of white). I wanted pink shades. But… I’m not that much of a pink girl, so one afternoon, I just opened several paint jars and started to cover up, repeating in my head “it’s gonna be alright, you’re not ruining everything by painting over and over until you enjoy what you see”. Brayering, using my hands (now that I have the “invisible care*” cream that Samantha Kira praised in her uStream shows. SO I determined what parts I liked and block them out with another colour. It’s not finished, in real life it’s more greenish than blue (a pity since I like the blue I see on my computer more lol). For now, its title is “Courageous Steps” as it’s two words that came in my mine while painting.

I am totally blocked on this one. I felt the urge to paint these gorgeous bright colours together but I don’t know what to do next. I am in love with the combo and what it makes me feel how it is.
I don’t like that we see the brushstrokes that much. In real life, the bottom are really pink, not orange like on the pic.
“What do I add now ???” is the real question. It was like an impulse to fill a canvas with this colour combination, but what happens now that it’s done ? Frustrating me.

And of course, I’m still working and playing in my loved Art Journal. Plus writing for my book project. And taking care of the kids (my 5yo is at school full time, but not my 3 1/2 so…) and the home (despite I’m absolutely not a good housewife, I try to get better at this too).

It’s weird because I don’t feel like I am doing a lot, I know I should do way more than this (!!!!).

And what about you ? What are you currently up to ?

Note: I bought the Invisible Care cream at Blick when we went two days in Seattle last week. It’s cheap, you don’t have to put a lot on you hands to be covered and it allows to work with paint directly on your hands without wearing gloves (but for more safety, I still only use non-toxic acrylic paint when it comes to play without a brush), here are the product infos:

EZ Air Invisible Care EZ Air is a before and after skin care product. It’s specially formulated to create a barrier that protects skin and pores against paints, grease, ink, and numerous other materials that stain. Apply EZ Air Invisible Care before you start to work and after each time you wash your hands. Conforms to ASTM D-4236.

I know I know, it’s been a long time since I last wishcasted with all of you.

First of all, I encourage you to go to Jamie’s blogpost because she’s celebrating something big today: the soon-to-be-launched Wishcasting Journal. Yaaaaaaaaaaaay ! It looks amazing, I can’t wait to see the video she’ll make to show this treasure to all of us.

So this week is all about celebration ! What do you wish to celebrate ? Woot Woot.

It may sounds cheesy, but since a weird dream I had a few nights ago, I realized that Love can have so many faces it’s just amazing. So I wish to celebrate all the form Love can take. Sentimental love, Parental love, Friendship Love, Love for your pet, Love for your country (may it be where you’re born or where you live) and whatever I can’t think on right now.

You are loved. Yes YOU are. Even when you feel lonely, abandonned, and misunderstood. You are loved. Your heart is not made of stone, you have the possibility to change the way you see things around you, the way you feel, you are the master/mistress of your life, so make it as you wish it would be. It can be perfect. Just as you are.

It took me nearly 15 years to accept that I am worth the love of others. 15 years to realize that no one deserves not being loved, even the worst people on the planet. It’s Love that will literally save us, trust me. It’s so much easier to hate and to criticize than to love, I know it from experience. It takes practice to always be in a place of Love, and even me am not there yet. But I practice 😉

Don’t be affraid to love, to say it, to express it. You are loved. And you are 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.

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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Despite the fact that yesterday, I had both my girls with me at home all day long, I managed to both work in my beloved Art Journal AND to start a new artwork. It feels so GOOD !

I printed a selfportrait I like, and transfered it on a 12×12 cardstock with what we call in french “papier calque”. It looks like tracing paper but it has the particularity to transfer what we draw, in reverse. It very very useful and I don’t find the same thing here. Or maybe tracing paper does so and I didn’t know it ?! It would be totally possible 😉

I am practicing hard to get better at shading faces. I don’t aim to draw/paint realistic faces, but still I WANT to get better at shading, to give some volume to my characters faces. And it’s so damn hard. I don’t know why I’m so struggling at this, i never know where to put shadows exactly. Maybe I should stick to one source of light and always do the same thing ?
I don’t know what came in my mind when I decided to do a selfportrait mixed-media artwork, with my “real” metis colors instead of the shades of grey I usually do (after all, grey is kind of metis too uh ! lol). Whatever… I’m trying and if I don’t like it, I’ll do it again, and again, and again until I’m satisfied. I’m not affraid of making mistakes anymore. It’s just hard to have this feeling of “I lost so much time for nothing !!!”. I realised that it’s not nothing, it’s practice and experience.

I have no idea where this journal page is going, it doesn’t look like what I usually create at all !

I have a lot of work to do and I can’t really say I like it. Wait and see what it will become.

I am in love with new colours ! Payne’s grey is my favourite, it’s a very dark blue awesome for shading any other colour; I love love love transparent red iron oxide and quinacridone nickel azo gold (I love the word “quinacridone” ;)) and of course cobalt teal and the new van dycke brown. And titan buff, and I am discovering all the possibilities of zinc white (which is a transparent white).

Today (Tuesday) I received two good news:

1. My illustration “Meant to shine” was featured in another group on RedBubble. I’m very proud. It is the illustration that means the most to me in my creative and spiritual life. I am very attached to it.
2. I received an email announcing me that I won an Affirmations Package worthing several hundred of dollars; it’s not the carribean cruise but I’m doing the happy dance because the prize is just awesome ! It contains items that are on my to-buy-list for months, and even years.

You can’t imagine how good it feels to be like me again. I realize that creating in all forms is really a part of me. And that I just can’t deny it, even unconsciously.

I am digging in the suggestions people gave me regarding their own creative block solutions so I’m filling my universe with what inspires me: music, movies, images. It’s just perfect at the moment.

This is why I want to share what pumps me up since last week, the new video and song by P!nk. She is an artist i really admire, I love her since “there you go” when she had this short bright pink haircut riding on a big motocycle. She dares to say out loud what she thinks. There is something that emanates from her that is just bright and light.

Come and raise your glass with me (and yes, I was “too school for cool” when I was younger lol). Cheers !

P!nk – Raise Your Glass (Official Music Video)
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