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Hey guys !

I am so happy to finally share with you my video interview for the amazing class SoulFood that I am so proud to be a teacher in. It will be really special, I just can feel it. AND it starts in a week from today, woot woot !

I am currently working on my class, and I really hope you’ll like it. I am sharing what makes me happy in my TealStudio, what makes my heart sing loud and clear. I’ll share sneak peeks along the way.

I hope it will allow you to know me and my creative path a bit better (turn the HD on ;)):

 

One lucky reader can win a spot in the class. I open the giveaway from today, the 23rd, to next Monday, the 30th.  The winner will be selected via a random generator.
To enter, share in the comments a cooking recipe you love, and why.

I hope to see you in the classroom ! More about the class on Mystele’s blog.

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 from under the snow !

This morning, we woke up with a bit of snow… and then it began falling bigger and harder. I love the snow, when I know we don’t have to drive anywhere (people driving on snow routes is the best recipe for disaster). The forecast barely announced flurries when I checked yesterday. duh!

This week, I am thankful for:

• My top notch organization while I am a single mama for the week. It proved me that I can do it.
• We managed to be early for the schoolbus every.single.morning.
• Grenouille, who is 8, cooked dinner for her sister and herself yesterday while I was in big PMS pain, glued to the couch.
• Their joy when I let them play with my spirograph set and nice gel pens during bedtime story.
• They are on winter break today, which means no hurry in the morning for two weeks.
• Hangout video chats with my Chéridoo everynight.
• Editing short videos for the family and close friends.
• Losing weight, even if I don’t see it on my face.
• Our neighbor who kindly drove us back and forth to the school so the girl could participate to their Christmas show.
• Grenouille received a merit certificate at school for being a great ambassador of our French language.
• Early dinners, early nights.
• Painting, pushing through the rut.
• My artist Sisters, who are creating such heartfelt and inspiring pieces.

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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 hello !

Well… for once, I am writing a bit in advance so I am sure you have a nice read with your morning coffee (or you are like me and browse your emails and reader before you even fully open both eyes *working on it guys. working on it*). See, I am in bed. Avoiding the conflicts coming from downstairs, trying to fill myself with why we can be such a great fit as a family most of the time but others as tonight, I wonder why we chose each others… I tried compassion, and understanding. I tried to guide my youngest daughter through an easy visualization with a rose quartz. But I failed. And we are now without a bedtime story, she is pissed, her father his pissed, I am sad, and her sister just does not really understand. So yea, I am taking the time in the chaos to still my mind and soothe my heart, counting my blessings instead of focusing on this precise event.

This week, I am thankful for:

• The Love package from my Sugababe the shiny Kelly Barton.
• The messaging/texting/emailing with my TrueSisters.
• The phone call from my big bro, just to tell me my first «I told you so», good laugh.
• My Husband, best friend of a decade today. 10.
• The cuddles.
• The hot bath with my book and some music.
• Speaking of music, I am loving the band Imagine Dragons right now.
• Shipping some care packages. Some «I am glad you are in my life» goodies. Planning on more.
• Knowing I will have a gift or two under the tree.
• Creating a project with both girls for Mindy’s next class, Wild Surrender.
• Generosity.
• The snow we had *please, give me some more*.
• The amazing DT I am a part of for Lindy Stamp Gang.

I know it’s not such a wonderful time of year for everyone, for some reasons painful memories often tag along Christmas. I hope you know you are heard, and that the practice of Gratitude (which does not mean ignoring the negativity, but balancing it and focusing on its contrepart) can help you overcoming it. 

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Hey there !

I invite you to check Lindy Stamp Gang’s blog today as I am sharing the mixed media piece I created especially for the booth we will have at CHA next January.

I hope to see you there 🙂

Welcome to LSG & 7 Dots Studio Creative hop!  We are so excited to have to amazing companies team up for a full day of creativity.  This hop will surely get your creative juices flowing so head on over to all these incredibly talented crafters to check out how they’ve combined the beautiful lines by 7 Dots Studio with Lindy’s Stamp Gang products, it’s a match made in color heaven!

We have a little surprise for you:
We would love for you to show some love to all our crafters and leave them a little message. You will have the opportunity to win a fabulous prize by both 7 Dots Studio and Lindy’s Stamp Gang so please let us know that you have done so by coming back to 7 Dots Studio and Lindy’s Stamp Gang blog at the end of the hop.

I love 7 dots studio, brand that I discovered through the amazingly talented Anna Dabrowska (aka Finnabair). The lines are so gorgeous that, to be totally honest with you, it is a bit intimidating to work with for me as I tend to cover up most of my paper layers in my creative process.

I started by tearing the beautiful Messy Head paper to 9×12”, I love ragged edges. Then, I mixed some Gab Me With A Spoon Gray Magical Mica with soft glossy gel medium to create a wonderful shimmery paste, that I simply applied with one of my Catalyst wedge here and there (it was helping me to overcome the «blank page» syndrom). I also used it for the top left corner.

I love love love the new dusty rose color, Bodalicious Blush, and sprayed it through a stencil as well.

Gel media and our LSG products love each other, proof is I used heavy gel with our Midnight Rendezvous Raven glitters (still from Totally 80’s) to stencil through and create her leafy wings; and then again with another stencil that I sprayed, once dry, with Icy Primrose Gold (a discontinued color) *the ink goes in the cracks and creates natural contrast*. 
I used Fiber paste mixed with Time Travel Teal Magical Mica to create a great texture for her hair. It stayed so vibrant even once dry.

The short sentences on this paper are great, you don’t necessarily see them at first but they are here.

I embossed the drops with Pumpkin Fiesta and Hydrangea Blue Mauve embossing powders, I did want the overlapping of the two colors so it was totally made on purpose.

Her antlers were cut out from the What Wood U Say paper, and then sprayed with Cowabunga Copper before being glued.

For her dress, I used the Sweet Dreams paper from the Dreamer collection. The fabric and colors were perfect for a dress. I did not want it to lay flat on top of the rest so I applied gel medium through a stencil, and to make it pop just a little more, sprayed with a golden Starburst Spray (as said earlier).

Her messages, Little Miracles, comes from the Messy Head Elements. I simply sprayed it with Cape Cod Coral and glued it where it seemed important.

I used Frolic In The Forest Green Magical Mica (from the Tickle Me Fancy set) for her eyes. And last but not least, I splattered the amazingly unique Sweet Violet Purple Teal as a final touch.

Here is a full list if you get lost along the way, have fun!:

1. Mary – http://damselofdistress.blogspot.ca
2. www.ototusia.blogspot.com
3. Lizzy – http://lizzywurmann.typepad.com
4. http://erinblegen.blogspot.com/
5. Limor – http://chicscrapbookdesigns.blogspot.ca
6. Helen – http://helentilbury.blogspot.ca
7. http://smakizycia-wiosanka.blogspot.com/
8. Nolwenn – https://inner-voices.net
9. Irina – http://irinagerschuk.blogspot.ru/
10. Cindy – http://cynthialoowho.wordpress.com/
11. http://sandi-smith.blogspot.com/
12. Lynne – http://www.mymadkow.typepad.com/
13. Kate – http://www.sparkletart.com
14. Ivett – http://www.ivettcarrillo.blogspot.ca
15. Sharon – http://www.smscrapperdesigns.blogspot.ca