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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 !

It’s almost 11am, nearly time to go pick up Koala from preschool, Grenouille was with me this morning has teachers at her school are having their «educative day» or whatever it is called. I am ready for Koala to go to kindergarten, and so she is. I laughed when my husband told me out of nowhere «if we have a third kid someday, s/he has to be born after june, would be easier when school time will come» mwahah

This week is quite good in general.

This week, I am thankful for:

• My Practical Reiki class, at the Reiki Awakening Academy. I learn in a fantastic atmosphere and there is always someone, my teacher as well as my classmates, to answer my weird questions. I do feel the energy and I am over the moon to be able to help people with it now. I have amazing feedbacks, it adds to my gut feeling that I did the right choice and it was the best for me.
• Thanks to it, I am now doing daily self-healing and it helps with my general pain level. I am still exhausted but I learn to deal with it.
• The moments where my friends and I kind of yell at each other (luckily there is computer screens to seperate sometimes lol) teaching me not to ask to much, to be more accepting (with them and with me).
• This new thing in my creative process makes me enjoy it even more (I really have to spill the beans and let the words out so you could finally know what I am talking about)
• My Cocotte (my BFF) and all the great musical discoveries I do thanks to her. This week, it is the singer Imany.
• Again and again the love (and stupid humour) of my Cheridoo, and our Trollettes.
• Schools of the Trollettes.
• The very nice email I received from a reader.
• Conversations I have with other artists, very successful artists I admire.
• My new «diet»
• Japanese cooking.
• ZenaMoon‘s candles.
• I listed one of my original painting and some other prints in my Etsy shop. July is one of them, I will present her to you very soon
• I began snapping selfportraits again.

July, while she was still being created.

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I firmly believe that one of my mission in this current life is to connect. Connect people with their beautiful inner self. Connect myself to my Higher Self. Connect people with each others……..

This quote is, in my opinion, kind of the sum up of one of my bigger value. Thanks to my friend Jennifer who shared it on Facebook right when I was waiting for the message that should be on this painting.

I know some people find it crazy to think that we DO create our world, our life, our universe, with our thoughts. That thought is energy and that energy is creation.

This can be scary, for sure. But don’t be afraid. At first, when I was introduced to positive thinking a few years ago now, I was totally freaked out. It was a time when my thoughts were mostly negative. And I decided to give it a try, and… it was the beginning of a better life.
It is not a miraculous trick of some sorts. And just think: what if for a day or two, you pay attention to what you are thinking and how it is formulated in your head. And for every thought that has a “not” try to shift it the other way around. Or to find something positive regarding the fact in your thought.

Regarding the painting, I started with this vision of a girl with a lotus flower on her forehead. That’t it, to be honest. And as usual, the face just came along.

It is totally out of my comfort zone, I am not a green kind of person, I used to HATE green.

I got attached to this painting, representing so much to me, where I am on my path right now.

The original is for sale, as well as prints, in my Etsy shop. I won’t lie, I am a bit nervous about selling the original because it is a big canvas board and the price is the higher I listed anything to this date. Pricing is SOOOOO damn hard. Fearing that people would think I am asking way too much.
But I also know in my heart that someone will love her as much as I do 🙂

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 did not post as much as I wanted to this week, it has not been as wonderful as I wished it would have been. Sometimes, you just can’t control everything and go with what happens, even if it does not make you happy at heart.

But for today, I want to look back a bit and find 26 things I am thankful for in my life, right now. In no specific order (the numbers are just there to help me know when I reach 26 ;)).

1. I am 26 years old, I married my SoulMate at 19, pregnant with our first sunshiny soul (the wedding was planned before the pregnancy, just saying). Today, we are a family of four, and we stand for each other with love and care. My tribe.
2. My mom is an amazing mom. Even if I did not always understand her choices, I know she did her best to raise me, alone.
3. I live in Canada, and it was my dream since I was… 14 or so.
4. After several trials in different jobs and time learning (psychology, cooking, english, FSL…) I know today that my path is linked with creativity and healing. And with teaching somehow. I learn the hard way but I am getting there.
5. My husband introduced me to japanese food when we met and it was love at first sight. And since we live in Canada, I really enjoy cooking it, learning it even more. It became my comfort food.
6. Some amazing people crossed my road, Soul Sisters and Soul Brothers… Sophie, Cocotte, Anu, Melchi, Aurore, Paola, Maïlys, Alice, Connie… linked by this weird thing I can’t define but that is definately there.
7. The music that rock(ed) my world and tell my life.
8. My mom’s open mind that allowed me, despite the Christian education she gave me, to wander around different things and beliefs. Buddhism. Paganism. Witchcraft.
9. Artists that share their work, their process, their struggles. Making me feel like I am not that weird.
10. The people that came and went in my life. Leaving me wounded and hurt. It made me stronger, and help me see myself in different perspectives.
11. I am currently learning Reiki so I can help people and my teacher and classmates are amazing (you can ask me more infos if you want).
12. I am learning so much through mama-hood. Even in the struggles and the “why the heck have I wanted to be a mom ???” moments. My girls are just fantastic. And my guts tell me that it will get better as they grow up. Love is what binds us so strongly.
13. My body is teaching me a lot. To accept I am not perfect. To slow down. To see myself differently.
14. Creating art videos makes me very happy. Even when no one comment to tell me what they think of it.
15. Books. They allow me to escape. They teach me. They make me think. They make me dream.
16. I realize that I love taking pictures, documenting my life. Our life. I may want to try scrapbooking so we would have beautiful traces of our memories. Even the little ones. I want to learn more about photography.
17. I feel so blessed to have been given this possibility to share the positive messages I receive through my artwork and I really hope I will find the way to touch more and more people somehow.

I publish this as is and will come back to it later with the nine other facts 🙂

WIshing you an amazing week-end (welcomed here after a really crazy week !).

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This idea was in my head for several birthdays but I never made it. And then, I was reading all these amazing posts by Sarah over her blog Yes and Yes and her lists she creates at every birthday… So this year, I decided to jump and find 26 (my new age) new things I want to try this year.

I love making lists, for everything and nothing at the same time. Not only grocery shopping list (which I found a very useful pad called «All of out» at Chapters and I just have to check what we need. Save me some time).

So this is it, my list for this year:

26 new things I want to try

1. Learn how to crochet
2. Launch an online class
3. Get drunk
4. Dye my hair a funky color (with Manic Panic dye)
5. Give distance Reiki to someone
6. Send my work to be published in a magazine
7. Attend a yoga class
8. Make my own tofu
9. Try to get my artwork hung in a shop or a gallery
10. Buy our first home
11. Learn the basics of playing piano (or drums)
12. Go to a baseball match
13. Do a 3-day detox
14. Try Malaysian food
15. Read Tuesdays with Morrie
16. Attend an art retreat
17. Carve a stamp myself
18. Be on a movie or tv show filming set
19. Try my hand at watercolor
20. Create an encaustic painting
21. Watch Blade Runner
22. Have my make-up done at MAC
23. Try acupuncture
24. Do a yard sale with all the stuff we don’t need anymore
25. Have a mani/pedi done
26. Paint a huge canvas (like 48″x48″ or bigger)

Have you done a list like that (not necessarily for your birthday) ? Have you crossed all the new things on it ?

Oh, this is the selfportrait I took while waking up this morning…

Helloooooo

Yes… this week marks my 26th birthday. Young ? Maybe. But it does not feel so to me. I love my girls trying to be quiet while comploting to make something special for this day with their Dad’s help. And my Koala always saying she hadn’t made me a birthday card yet and she has to do it soon because it is «the day after tomorrow !!!» (imagine the White Rabbit there).

So I decided to make it special myself here on the blog. I don’t know exactly how yet but we’ll see; bear with me please !

To begin, I thought it would be fun to share 26 things I think you don’t know about me. Maybe it would help us know each other better 😉

1. I am an addict. A Nutella addict. But I am currently in desintox. Difficult with two young kids.
2. I used to be depressed. And I’ve never been helped professionally for it then. No one really knew because I did my best to kind of hide the despair I was in. I was a teen.
3. When I was very young, I wanted to be a trapezist in a circus.
4. I love taking selfportraits. But I usually hate when someone else snaps a picture of me.
5. I have 4 half-brothers on my father’s side. But they know nothing about my existence.
6. My first «real» boyfriend was 9 years older than me. We stayed together for 2 ½ years. He is still my friend today.
7. I am a Witch. Kinda.
8. I love Paulo Coelho’s books. My favorite is «Veronika decided to die».
9. I watch a lot of teen/young adult tv shows. The kind you only admit watching to your BFF, telling her she will be dead if she spills the beans about it.
10. I don’t know how to draw.
11. I love receiving snail mail and packages. I kind of get on everyone’s nerves when I know there is something in transit for me because I am like a child before Christmas.
12. I took modern’jazz dance classes for 8 years.
13. I thought I would become a cook and worked in a restaurant. This was the best job I had. I was coming home smelling spices all over me (and the smell in your hair and on your skin DOES stay).
14. I met my husband on an esoteric centered forum in 2003. A friend had created a thread for the one of us who were singles to post like a newspaper ad telling what we were looking for in a relationship… and my husband answered to mine. I was not expecting falling in love at that time, I was still kind of having my ex in mind not that long ago before. It was the best participation I wrote in a forum 😀
15. I started my alone adult life at 18, when I went out the cozy maternal cocoon after I graduated high school.
16. I regret not having any University degree and having quit Psychology. But this stays one of my passions.
17. I have a fascination for names, their origins, their significance.
18. I sometimes secretely wish we will move more east in Canada… Ontario or Québec. For many reasons. Even if I do really really enjoy Vancouver.
19. Marilyn Manson fascinates me. I am a gothic inside.
20. Being a mom is sometimes a pain in the ass. Love is tested.
21. I have no friend in Vancouver and feel very lonely here. I am so shy and always fear to bother people that I don’t insist when I am put «on hold» several times.
22. I love houses and buildings, their shape, their stories…
23. I am in the blogosphere since 2003. I first created a private blog, when things like typepad etc were not popular, i created it for my friends, when I started University. Then I spent my life on esoteric forums, managing the one I’ve created and that had several thousands members. And when I closed it, i started «themed» blogs: cuisine, reading…. I loved playing with HTML. I guess it was my way of being Geek.
24. I believe I am an Old Soul and that one of my past life was hundred of thousands years ago (wishing someone could (in)validate).
25. I don’t know how to meditate.
26. I was Mel B in an end of year show during middle school, some girl friends and a boy friend and I did a choreography on one of the Spice Girls’ song.

Your turn know to tell me a secret about you, pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase ;D Just have fun and share in the comments.

See you tomorrow <3