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The day has finally come. Today is your last chance to sign up for 21 Secrets, where I am one of the teachers with my class «Journaling Your (he)ART out». I had the chance to teach along teachers as Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, Christy Tomlinson, Jane Davenport, Christine Mason Miller, Dina Wakley, and SO much more.

And it is now at the lowered price of $39 (original price: $59 !!).

You can watch my video promo right here in one of my previous blogpost. And sign up just there.

Don’t worry though, the playground will stay open until late January 2013 !

I hope to see you there 😀

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… I know. It’s been a long long time since I took the time to write here my Gratitude Friday. However, I’ve been thinking a lot about what being grateful means to me, and how to teach it to my girls. I have been implemeting it further in my life, linking it with my compulsive buying habit (regarding art supplies and stuff like that). Appreciating everything I already have, and thanking the Universe when I do have the possibility to get what I want. Pondering before buying, «do I really need that, or am I fulfilling another thing by wanting this RIGHT NOW ?». It’s been moving in my inner life…

So here is my Gratitude Friday, right now I am grateful for:

• My birthday day, as my husband was able to get his day off from work to be with me, and my birthday is during the two busiest and more stressful weeks for him at work (EA Sports’ launch of the FIFA game). We had a lunch date, and it was perfect. Thanks a lot to those of you who took time to celebrate it on my Facebook wall ♥♥♥
• I am enjoying writing and sending letters to dear ones. I hope I will get some snail mail as well.
• My friend Anu, who loves me even when she does not understand me, who supports me no matter what. And always tells me the bloody truth when I am falling apart.
• P!nk’s newest album, «The Truth About Love», which is just one of my favorite from her so far.
• Inspiration everywhere.
• I began sketching, like for real. Which is out of my comfort zone and was not at all in my habits. I love putting on paper, in a place where I am not obliged to share with anybody, Nixies, Sprixies and whatever appears in my mind. And maybe some of the characters that are discovered in my sketchbook will come to life in a painting, who knows.
• Melissa, from YellowMelle, came to play with me in my Creative Hollow. We managed to be two on my tiny work table. She created an amazing painting while she was there ! (see below)
• Our neighbors. The girls can play with the other kids. We are learning to know each others. I hope to become friends with some of them, as we are all here for at least a decade I guess.
• My brother Thomas, who called me, who thinks of me sometimes. Even if we have never met yet. He got married last week and I am so sad I missed it.
• The chance of having a good Health Insurance so I can have the meds I need for my fibromyalgia shit, and the exams I need.
• Still having big dreams sprouting in my Heart.
• Not giving up. Even if I was that close to give up, I am sticking to painting.
• Noticing how much I love taking everyday life pictures. I wish I would have taken notes during the YAYOM workshop of Vivienne McMaster.
• I posted a new {Painting In Motion} video, and making these makes me really happy.

If you wrote your Gratitude Friday on your blog, don’t forget to enter your NAME and URL below so I’m notified and can come to read you (you can also join by commenting this post):
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Ok, I just came up with that name while looking for a title. It may not stick but it made me smile so I may keep it anyway !

I decided I needed something to be pushed forward in my creativity. Something that would also serve as a practice for me, to get better. But mostly, I need to find the groove and flow again.

I started brainstorming. Having a deadline is a total juju killer for me, because of the stress it implies when I realize I am not going to meet that deadline on time.

I love making art journals. So I decided to center it around that. My goal is to create 15 Art Journals, with at least 2 that are bound with techniques I have never tried before.

To help me achieve that, I will watch YouTube videos of course (being visual, seeing someone actually doing the binding in front of my eyes is a huge help for my understanding of the whole process) and browse the 3-4 books I have on the subject (if you wanna know which books they are, simply ask me and I will happily share more infos about them in a seperate blogpost).

Of course, I want to keep track of my progress and will document along the way here on the blog.

Eventually, the journals will go on sale in my Etsy Shoppe, Inner Worlds (I may keep a few just for me, however :D).

Hello !

A new video is here, yaaaaaay 😀 You know how I love recording them, the editing process and then sharing with the world. I am still trying to figure out how to use the video option on my Nikon D5100 and had some bad surprises noticing it stopped recording or did not focus well sometimes. So bear with me 😉 I’ll get it eventually, right ? I even recorded a voice-over explaining what I was doing. I find it easier to record and comment once the painting is done, instead of speaking while working. It would be too distracting for me. And I tend to sing along the music that is bursting in the studio while I create; trust me you don’t want to hear that, no no no.

This time, I decided to go back to painting on stretched canvas, a deep edge one (because I love playing with the edges at the end).
I just try to come back. Come back to what I love doing. Come back to sharing my Story, my way. Come back to listening to my Inner Voices, the good loving inspiring one, and shutting the nasty ones up.

I intentionally let the wording vague. Because this painting means something to me that you may not see, and what it brings to you when you look at it is probably different. However, I did write a little something…:

Sometimes…
… I wanna disappear,
I want it all to be clear.
Sometimes…
…I look at the sky,
Just wishing I would know why.
Sometimes…

Can you see how much I love using the stencils from The Crafter’s Workshop ? I really like that some of them are as good used with a spray than used as a «stamp» (you’ll see what I am talking about in the vid). This doily one, designed by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer is one of my favorite, I think I will have to get my hands on her more tribal one too.

If you’d like a more detailed list of the supplies I used, please just ask and I will do something about that 🙂

Prints will soon be available in the shop, as well as the original painting.

Here is the video, hope you enjoy !

Hey Loves,

You know how I love being a teacher in 21 Secrets (don’t know what I am talking about ? you can read more about it in this previous post). The doors will close for registrations in just two weeks (October 1st), but the playground will still be open until January 2013. So still months to watch and play with us 🙂

The price was just lowered to $39 (regular price: $59), so if you were hesitant, now is your time to join us 🙂

You can sign up right here (just so you know, each teacher has a unique link for registrations and part of our pay comes from it. I would appreciate for you to use this link. Thanks).

I hope to see you there <3