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I am still working on this blogpost that I started weeks ago. I am.

It’s also been weeks since I really painted. I did work in my Art Journal but that is kinda it. I don’t know what to do (this is a recurrent theme in my life).
I feel totally lost. Confused. I feel like I am fighting, whatever it is (Fear, Indecision, Sadness). I feel alone, and lonely; even if I know deeply I am not really.

This is not the first time I have plenty of weird thoughts, questioning my path, my career (if we can call that this way…), myself. But it does not last that long.

So I am pushing my limits, trying some new things in my art. And see where that goes…

I have one or two blogposts I began writing weeks ago. But they are taking longer than planned to be finished, maybe I still need to clarify my thoughts before sharing them with you.

Just for fun, I was thinking «Why not sharing 10 other random things about me ?» so there we are 🙂

1. I love nail polish, and I am happy to see that funky colors are back in the trend.
2. I suck at naming things. BUT I loved the name searching phase during my pregnancies, I have a passion for first names.
3. I wish I was a scrapbooker.
4. I love love LOVE quotes. And keep a file on my computer with plenty of them.
5. Once (for a long time), I had this dream of publishing a book. Not any book, but kind of my Mémoires.
6. I get lost in my mind pretty easily. Sometimes it scares my husband a bit.
7. I enjoy celebrating birthdays, making them extra special. And love when my close family does the same when mine comes.
8. I dream of flying or gliding in some way, like with a parachute or something. To see if it feels the same than when I fly in the dreams I have when asleep.
9. I heart creepy cute things.
10. I live in a very rainy part of the World and moved here anyway, knowing it wouldn’t be that good for my health.

Please, share with us random things about yourself if you want ;D

PS: I am working on getting these articles published. And share new art I have been making. While waiting, why not hang over on my Facebook Page so we can stay in touch ?

The current art journal I am playing in seems so far from what I used to do inside my former journals. It feels weird but good at the same time. They follow my journey, the complexity and simplicity of it, it’s paradoxicality.

I don’t know how come I am currently passing through a rough patch in my creativity, being in the lowest part of the wave. Wanting to paint, to do something, but once I get in my studio, knowing i actually have some time available for it, nothing comes…
I guess it has to do with the weird place I am right now in my life. Where I know the direction I wanna go toward to, but in the «Now» I have no clue how to actually get there. So there is frustration, and also sadness, and sometimes envy (i hate this one specifically). I try to work on that and wash them all away; some days are easier than others but I see real progress in how I do handle the negative thoughts that go through my mind now and then.

I just had kind of an epiphany about what is actually really happening with me. I am mourning. Grieving. FINALLY should I say, as I guess it should have happened before right now. But as we keep saying in France «mieux vaut tard que jamais» (meaning: «better late than never») ! I am saying goodbye to the Nolwenn I thought I would become, all the things and experiences I did not have and maybe will never have because of lots of things. However, I refuse to live in a place filled with regrets and filled with «What If-s». So I am trying to move on, to accept (I should count the number of times I speak of acceptance here ;)) what is and what is not, and just enjoy and do my best. Do my best.

I am currently taking Mindy Lacefield‘s art journaling class called «Neat Stuff» (that is actually over but available for you to take at your own pace), all about honoring our childhood and keeping it alive in our journal (or outside of it if we want). This class is jampacked !
In one of the last day, Mindy shared her way of painting a more realistic face, I was waiting for this to inspire me and to show me how it is possible to combine child-ish and realistic (you can see it in the class button on the left <——).

Mindy is simply an amazing woman, with such a bright and beautiful Soul…

While I am in the midst of finding myself again, I just grab my journal and see what happens. And this all thing reminds me how it feels good to do so. And that I should do it more often again.

Here is a journal spread I titled «My Messy Mind»:

«My Messy Mind». Print available in Inner Worlds

It just started with the desire to practice my faces, and to play with my not-so-new-now stencils from The Crafter’s Workshop (most of them on this page, if not all, designed by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer). I wanted muted colors and simplicity. The words came by themselves at the end. I really really like this page.

This blogpost took me WEEKS to write and publish, I apologize if it does not make a lot of sense. But I hope it may resonate with someone so I publish it now or it will stay in my drafts for ever and ever.

Hey there !

Summer vacations with kids that don’t go to any kind of camp yet is kinda taking all my time, energy and sometimes… sanity. But that’s okay, we are creating new memories and currently enjoying the end of my husband too short week of vacations with us. Which is totally priceless, even if it was staycations.

First of all, if you are reading this directly from my blog instead of your rss reader, you would notice the design changes. I needed something else, I did simple and the base is still the same. I will do a proper blog tour soon to be sure you know exactly where to find what.

But I am still working, anytime I can have a few moments in the Creative Hollow (we installed two small tables so the girls can do their things too when i am out there).
We do collaborative arts, which I adore doing. My 5 years old, Koala, is constantly asking me to teach her how to do this or that (this morning, it was how to draw braids so her princesses could have braids too)
I am learning to go with the flow and if I don’t feel like to paint (this have been sticking around for a bit too long for my taste), I do something else. Like sketching and giving life to new Nixies and Sprixies in my sketchbook. I also started to cook more again (jellies, i’ve done roasted pepper tomato ketchup that is delish…).
And my Etsy shoppe, Inner Worlds, is still open for business 😉

I have a few new 8×10″ art prints listed (click on the image to be directed in the shoppe):

A few originals mixed media paintings are looking for loving homes. More to come in the near future (it is sometimes hard to let them go).

A new edition of Inner Whispers went into the World, you can read the Newsletter right here. And if you are not signed up for it yet, there is a form on the right sidebar ——–>

I have a request for you if you have a minute or two: what kind of new products would you like to purchase from Inner Worlds ? it can be anything, just tell me (here in the comment or by email if you prefer).

Take care ♥♥♥

6:30-ish pm. Richmond Night Market, BC (Canada)