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Welcome to this new Gratitude Friday !

I am happy that today is Friday, even though it seems there won’t be much rest during the coming weekend. It still means more time as a family unit, no stress to have both girls ready on time in the morning (one now has the school bus, the other bikes to middle school on her own).

Know your limits ? Try pushing them just that tiny little bit.

I know where my comfort lays when it comes to my creative processes. This is how I know where I am going outside my own edge. And with time, I learned to love venturing outside the walls I have built.

I invite you to explore outside your comfort zone, see what wonders you can create when you think it will simply end up in the bullshit pile. If only you knew how big my own pile is ! But that’s okay: you can always start over. You can always cover it up to make something else.

And there is no shame in going back inside the pretty bubble of what we know works for us, by the way.

This week, I am thankful for:

❇︎ Signing myself up for a fitness program for the days I am not going to Orange Theory with my husband
❇︎ Fall is here but the sky is still blue
❇︎ My best friend, Cocotte
❇︎ Exploring my creative edge and doing what scares me.
❇︎ The visit of my brother-in-law from France
❇︎ Words and Music and Texture and Colors
❇︎ Inspiration
❇︎ Possibilities and opportunities

Have you taken the time to reflect on your week and what goodness brightened it ? I would love to hold the joy for you if you share it in the comments. Let’s build a huge joy and gratitude bubble together.

Some Friday Musing:

Happy Thursday ! Today I have a new {Painting In Motion} video, created for ColourArte, to share with you. Scroll down to see the list of the products I used.

I wanted to try something I have had in mind for quite some time. However, I did not dare doing it until now. Use a fluid painting as a background instead of a finished abstract painting. All the possibilities !

Don’t be scared to experiment !

If you always put some pressure about doing every piece of art a masterpiece, you will forget all about the joy. Trust me: I have been there ! I had a urge to do something more with my fluid paintings. Even though this year is the year I chose to explore abstract paintings in different forms, I wanted to go further.

Nixies have been a quiet voice this past year. Always on the back of my mind but not in the foreground anymore. I guess we needed some time apart to grow.

Experimenting is leaving some space for mistakes. I don’t believe in mistakes when it comes to creativity though. Because it always becomes some learning material. Think of it that way next time.

SUPPLIES USED

• ColourArte Primary Elements pigment –  BABY’S BREATH
• ColourArte Primary Elements pigment – WINTERMIST GREY
• ColourArte Primary Elements pigment – DEEP CORAL
• ColourArte Primary Elements pigment – PLUMERIA
• ColourArte CLEAR ENAMEL
• ColourArte Vivid Ultra-Metallics – PERIWINKLE
• ColourArte Vivid Ultra-Metallics – BOLIVIAN BLUE
• ColourArte Vivid Ultra-Metallics – PINK AZALEA
• ColourArte Silks acrylic glaze – IRIDESCENT BLUE
• Stabilo mark-it-all – BLACK
• Artist’s loft – WHITE acrylic
• Americana acrylic – GRAPHITE
• Liquitex Pouring medium
• Water

You know that I am a list maker and lover. In the past few months, I have been doing daily + weekly check-ins. Therefore, Mondays are focused on figuring out what I want to achieve and especially how I want it to make me feel.

Due to several reasons, I tend not to be reaching my goals was hard is because I don’t have any accountability… so maybe sharing publicly here would push me to take actions.

How do I want to feel ?

✰ I want to feel connected. Connected to my Inner Self. Connected to the Source (the Universe/God/whatever you personally call it). Connected to my family. Connected to a tribe I am trying to gather.
✰ I want to feel in the flow. Of course, I want to be in the flow regarding my creativity, but with my loved ones as well.
✰ I am inviting ease in my everyday. I wish to lessen the level of stress that puts me down on an everyday bases.
✰ I am also calling kindness in. I need to make better decisions when it comes to how I react.

Most of all, every single day is a new day allowing me to choose which way to go.

In the same way, what feelings are you focusing on this coming week ?

A little bonus: Monday morning tunes:

I really hope my habit will stick and that I will share my Gratitude Friday here again, weekly.

First, I want to thank all the people who took the time to comment either here or on the social media. It brings me so much joy to read your own list. Everytime I read one, I take a few minutes to send you a little gentle energy.

This week is my birthday week, which I love. Even though my body decided to go against me and to put me in full fibro flare-up. A flare up means I can’t focus, I can’t function, I become bitchy (even more than my usual regular self).

This week, I am thankful for:

✼ The love I receive
✼ The good teacher my 7th grader has this year and her studying hard paying off
✼ Pain meds
✼ My Sister, Mindy, and her online classes (feeling witchy anyone ?)
✼ Getting messy in my Art Cave, the freedom I have to create
✼ This piece of writing by Carrie-Anne Moss that resonates so well with my own epiphany
✼ Hot Epsom salt baths in the middle of the day
✼ Family coming from far away to spend time with us
✼ Canning food
✼ The new album from Macklemore
✼ The trust invested in me to create beautiful meaningful videos.

And you, what comes into your mind when you start the sentence “today, I am thankful for……” ?

Share in the comments and let me hold your joy with you.

A few pictures
  

Happy birthday to me 🙂 I love celebrating birthdays. Not just my own, but my loved ones’ too. Celebrating birthdays is part of my love language, one day each year I show how big and deep my love is. But I am a Virgo and it means that I usually have too high expectations (oops).

This year somehow feels different than the 31 previous ones. I can’t explain yet how come. Maybe it is because of the New Moon or maybe because I decided to stop giving a shit for what I should only let go.

I am quirky. I am not your average “well in all aspects” mom. I am unperfect. I am paradoxical. I am too much and not enough. I am creative. I am a blank canvas. I am a storyteller. I am not broken. I am a neverending dreamer. I am a daughter of the Moon. I am deeply passionate. I will love you as no one had loved you before. I am the stories yet to be written. I am fucked up. I am the Light and the Darkness combined.

I am so much more than what words could convey. I am in pain everyday in a body that fails me, but I refuse to let it define me.

32. Now is the time to stop being apologetic. Forever.

As Kesha is singing “Don’t let the bastards get you down” while I am writing down these thoughts on being you, I take it as the Universe telling me I am finally on the right path. For so long, I let others tell me who to be. How to behave. That I should not cry, be stronger, stop complaining. I will dress however I feel like, put colors in my hair, storylines on my skin. As I said before: being someone else is exhausting, so why don’t I just be who I know I am ?

This sums up everything:

And to leave you on a beautiful musical note: