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Welcome to this new Gratitude Friday ! Feel free to share with me your (partial or full) gratitude moments in the comments; that way I can hold joy for you ✿ (you know that makes me happy to make you happy).

This week, I am grateful for:

• Fitness and nutrition
• Sharing vlogs again
• My husband and daughters going all in with my crazy plans
• The phone calls with Mom
• Epsom baths, to give my sore muscles relief
• Books (I am currently reading the second book in the Anne Of Green Gables series)
• The chance  to work from home and manage my time as I wish
• Music. Always
• Creativity. Not only painting and art journaling, but in all its forms

What about you ? Which book are you currently reading that makes you happy ? What song is inspiring you ? Share in the comments what makes you joyful.

My soundtrack for this week:

Hey Love Beans ! This week, I wanted to share with you my process to create a colorful cover for the first Art Journal I’ll be using in 2018 (PS: as you’ll see in the video, I use a very easy handmade journal. If you’d like me to cover how I did it with a quick video, tell me in the comments here or on Youtube).

Here is the video:

I truly came back to my first loves: layers. finger painting. texture. colors. This year, I am creating to bring joy back into my life. Last year, I was in a deep creative drought.

After long periods of analysing what I was going through, trying to understand, some few points came up:

• I was putting too much pressure on myself to create to please, to create to sell.
• Also, I was passing time comparing my path with other artists’ paths. This is never a positive thing to do.
• I lost my personal creative voice.

My solution was to go back years ago, to the techniques that truly speaks to my Soul and make my Heart sing. This art journal cover embodies all of this.

The products I used:

Some shots: