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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 !

No, I didn’t wake up at 2am last night to watch the royal Wedding. So I am fresh today and happy to write this Gratitude Friday, especially since I haven’t wrote it publicly for two weeks in a row. Oops.

This week is nearly over, I am happy it is finally Friday though.

I am grateful for:

• My Koala (my 4yo daughter) is healing fast from her accident. She cut open her forehead last saturday while we were visiting a house. She is now stiched up and healing.
• Grenouille (my 5 ½ yo daughter) is gaining weight (her weight is a struggle so this is a very good new to us).
• I was one of the 400 lucky who received a small goodie from the Smash brand. Exciting, it really looks an awesome thing. If you have no idea what I am talking about, check their blog: Smash Stories.
• I also won a $25 gift card at Deserres, from a blog.
• I signed up for two amazing workshop later this year, both happening at Teesha Moore’s ArtFest Annex. The first one is «Little Journal of BIG Intentions» taught by Teesha herself. The other is a 2-day workshop by Flora Bowley in November. I wished so so hard that she will have a workshop closer to me, and then it happened… never be ashamed to cast some wishes. You never know how positively it can be granted.
• My mom is doing really great and i am always hanging up from the phone more happier for her. Can’t wait to see her and hug her at the end of the year.
• I received amazing email from my Soul Sister, she always knows exactly what to say to me.
• This painting is almost done and makes me swoon. I am experimenting new techniques and love some of them. Getting back on the horse of creativity after a hard 2 weeks of neverending questioning.
• I love playing in my Art Journal again. It is my safe place, where I can vent and dream at the same time.
• I received a lot of support regarding my fear of recording me speaking to put over my next Art Journal video. Speaking in english, in front of everyone (if I can say so) paralyzes me. But I will do it, I have to figure out some sound issue.
• My new eating habits make me happy, I feel better in my body, I am losing weight AND I eat good stuff.
• You can read my feature over Roots Of She this week: Creative Harvest. So honoured to be there.
• I was also part of Kind Over Matter’s «Seven Souls, One Musing».

I know how hard it is sometimes to find these specific happy moments when all seem so dark, so «I can’t do anything about it». But give it a try. Make it simple. You can do it, I promise.

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This is my first official Wishcasting Wednesday of 2011. Shame on me. But to my defense, I usually answer Jamie’s prompt in my head or in my written journal.
And I am publishing a day late as I prefered painting that being on the computer yesterday.

Focus Focus Focus. This is a big part of my daily life as I have very hard time to focus. On anything. I am always doing several tasks at the same time, because my mind gets bored, or I think of something else and it just can’t wait (unless I will forget).

I wish to focus on my creative business as it seems I have abandonned it a bit during the last few weeks, trying to create perfect stuff I am never satisfied of (and that never ends in the shop).

I wish to focus on Love and what I actually have. Because I have way more than I think (not speaking of material stuff there).

I wish to focus on my health. Continue eating better, starting working out again regularly and not two days and then giving it up for fake reasons. I lost 3 pounds, a lot more to go. But i know now I can achieve it with steadily perseverence (can we say that ? lol).

I wish to focus on the process more than on the final artwork. To simply have fun, enjoy, experiment, discover.

Happy Monday !

For several of us, it is a holiday so the kids are not at school etc. Here in Canada, they didn’t had school last friday either… My husband is at work today though.

It’s been a long long time since my last blogpost. I must confess I was in a kind of roadblock regarding writing here. But it’s gone so here I am again. Did you miss me ? 😉

To come back softly I want to share some love today. There are amawing things going on in our Creative community. No specific order (other than how it appears in my sleep deprived mind):

Connie, from Dirty-Footprints Studio is gathering her 6th (!!!) tribe of Fearless painters to grow, live, breath BIG. I was in the first one. And if you follow my blog for a while now, you know how it changed my life. Thanks to it I overcome my fear of being seen and started recording videos (still a long way to go but I am getting there); you can read more about it in this blogpost.
During my time in the Tribe, I also finally stated to myself the raw truth: I am an Artist.
It was one of the bestest way to spend my money, the day I decided to follow my gut feeling and to just sign up and show there, not knowing exactly what it would be, how it would help me as an artist but also as a woman, to become the Me I know I am inside.

You can sign up right there.

Goddess Leonie, from GoddessGuidebook.com is sharing her wisdom in a new e-course: Become a Business Goddess ecourse. It seems to be jam-packed with a lot of informations, and knowing a bit Leonie, this will be all of her heart and generosity poured into this class.

Here is what she says about it:

So what’s in this course?

You’ll get:
8 Ways to make Money Online
The Blueprint of how I did it: with all ze juicy goss
The Practical Parts: website, pricing, techie bits
100 Ways to market magically, mindfully & joyously
How to stay sane & joyful when business gets BUSY

AND some deeeelicious bonuses:
Profiles of Business Gods & Goddesses
The Becoming a Business Goddess workbook
The Magic Money Maker kit.

There’s over 150 pages of wisdom + genius + experience + love in this baby. All the business goddess goodness you could need.

Sounds amazing to me. And for only $20 more, why not suscribe to her Goddess Circle ? While in it, you have access to ALL her classes past and the new one that are released during one year ,with no additional fees !!! Yep.

For the francophone people out there, Nessa from Pretty Days is back on track ! Soon will start her Wonderland Art Journal class. She has a colourful free style and this sounds like so much fun. Check it out: Wonderland Art Journal Info.

It will begin on May 1st.

If you don’t know Nessa, she is a scrapbooker, painter and art journaler. Her world is very colourful and complex at the same time.

This week, Kelly Rae Roberts is sharing some bits of her Flying Lessons ebooks on her blog. The first post is there: it’s about passion, inspiration and commitment.

Her class was amazingly useful and about a year later I still refer to it in my choices, when I have a doubt. I think this is a good combo with Goddess Leonie soon to come Business Goddess class as their approach are different but very complementary.

Kelly Rae’s ebooks are pretty, printable, and you won’t regret the money spent. Trust me.

Learn more about her ebooks there.

My dear friend Samantha Kira, from JournalGirl.com (where I am a proud sponsor) is working her ass off to provide us wonderful online classes.

The regristrations for Through the Lens, her class about making art videos, are now opened; you have the option to receive a DVD for a little extra. It will be a self-pace workshop. She will soonish have a journaling class that will rock our socks !!

And in other news, I am beyond the moon because this summer I will attend a Journaling class with Teesha Moore called «Little Journal of BIG Intentions». And…. the Universe conspired to realize what I asked for a few months ago: I will also attend a 2-day workshop by Flora Bowley, still at Teesha Moore‘s ArtFest annex in Seattle. This makes me really really really happy, trust me. I know this can sound silly but… i just don’t care.

I am really excited about these. I don’t attend a lot of in-person workshops, and decided to chose more wisely the online classes I sign up for (I went over crazy last year so now, I am more picky).

Oh, and for you who have an iPhone, you can find me on Instagram, my name there is simply nolwennp. I share itsy bits of my daily life and art there. You can see the pictures there: http://instagrid.me/nolwennp

I wish you a wonderful week. I missed you <3

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 Lovelies !

Yep, it is this day of the week already, Friday. Was waiting for it ! I can’t believe April is really there now. It seems that 2011 will pass very quickly; which I am good with at I was predicted a life-changing year 2012. Posing the right bases in 2011, harvesting the positivity the year after 😉

This week, I am thankful for:

• The support received from the Ladies in our Facebook group «52 paintings in 52 weeks».
• The artworks I created this week. I am finding my groove again, it seems to have gone somewhere far away but it eventually came back home.
• The few days of sunny weather. Feeling the sun’s warmth on my skin is priceless. I wish they was not announcing several continuous days of rain AGAIN, I can’t take it anymore, this grey gloomy weather is killing me.
• Cheridoo got us new cellphones. So yes, I won’t have the last version of the phone I wanted but I am still happy.
• My girls are back to school, which makes every one of us happy. I am blessed to have kids that LOVE school. Summer break will be long….
• My gluten free bread is not a disaster. We all tasted it this morning for breakfast and it was a success. I am really trying to improve our way of eating and I do not eat meat anymore.
• The book «The last song» by Nicholas Sparks. Almost finished it. It is my first book from this author, whom I know mostly because almost ALL his books are successful movies. I am reading lots of good books this year !
• The Receiving project 2.0 begain this week; Jo Anna Rothman rocks it all !!! I can’t wait to continue our session together today.
• Some people are suddenly coming back in my life after having deserting it. It is strange but I welcome them back with a smile.
• The radio mode on Grooveshark. I (re)discovers some songs. Good to go outside what I listen to everyday and to be surprised. Right now it is playing «Ghosts» by Michael Jackson ♥♥♥
• Our family getaway in the US last week end. I really enjoy this kind of moments together.
• New opportunities are knocking at my door.
• I feel loved.
• It is only 9am but I decided that I will finally receive the two packages I am waiting from the US, sent like 2 weeks ago (I am pretty sure a US package arrives fasters in France than in Canada…).

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Hello darling sunshines !

I really have to go back into my regular scheduling in blogging. I have so many things to share but spend so less time on my computer…

Here is the painting I am currently enjoying working on. It is on 9″x12″ canvas board (trying to figure out the best to finally sell some originals as well, without having to ask for expensive shipping fees):

I actually hate the background how it is now. There is something off about it. But is is okay because I will start over and cover it up, will see what happen then ! I learned to love every single step of the creating process, even when I actually don’t like what is happening.
If you look closer, you will see the lotus on her body. We can see it better in reality than on the picture but it is subtle.

I am playing with faces, trying to make them express something. But they are still kind of blah. So I practice. However, I like her.

What are you creating right now ? does not have to be a painting, i would love you to share with me in the comments if you’d like <3