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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 !

March is for us the month to celebrate our baby Koala birthday (she’ll turn 5 this year… and I secretely celebrate my half-birthday the same day, as when I was a kid).
March is also the sign that a quarter of the year is already gone.
For many reasons, I feel like this March 2012 is holding a lot of life-changing stuff. I think I’ve talked about it here in the past. But I am not excepting anything specific, just enjoying the ride. The famous “Now”. And this Gratitude Friday rituel, whether I share it online here or keep it for myself, is a great tool for that.

This week, I am thankful for:

• The persons who actually make an habit of Gratitude Fridays and sometimes share it on their space. Even when I am silent.
• I am learning to know the 20 other teachers in 21 Secrets (more info about it here. It starts in a month and it’s not too late to sign up. I will giveaway one spot next week). I know most of them, at least their names, but I have this feeling that this round will be extra special. I hope I am not wrong 😉 I am in the starting blocks to get everything ready.
• I love the short videos my friend Anu sends me. It makes me feel special and loved.
• I love the raw honestin in Liz Lamoreux’s blog. One day, I’ll gift myself with one of her jewelry piece.
• The email from Grenouille’s teacher. Reassuring. I know Grenouille is doing the best she can.
• I signed up for Studio Calico’s kits. I am not a scrapbooker but use a lot of stuff they use in my artworks. And I love to receive packages :s
• My last Nixie, Allie, is filling me with this je ne sais quoi I haven’t fully felt for some time. And I know that when this feeling is there, it means I am where I am meant to be and have done what had to be done. I loved writing her story.
• I want to create art journals again. Experimenting. Just having fun in the process.
• I will be able to get my certification to be a Certified Vision Board Coach. I have homework to do though.
• I will be in Mindy Lacefield‘s first online class. It makes me happy.
• The women at the scrapbook store Clipper Street begin to know me and what I like (which means I go there too often, I know). I even dared asking about the possibility of teaching at their boutique. YAY me for taking that leap of faith.
• I am one of the 50 lucky to have been chosen to test recipes for the second cookbook to come of Jaden Hair (from the blog Steamy Kitchen). I will try the first recipe tonight. Can’t wait.

I wish you all a wonderful week-end. Here it tastes a bit like spring break already because of the teachers’ strike (it’s a very long story…).

Here are a few pictures from this week:

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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 !

February… ok, I won’t tell it every new month of the year but honestly I don’t see where January went. Maybe it is because my mind is currently so full of everything, I don’t notice each day that comes after the others.

January made me realize how important it is to thank for everything we receive, good and less good. There’s a positive message in everything that is thrown our way.

This week, I am thankful for:

• Open-hearted discussion with this girlfriend that matters so much to me. And our mutual decision to take care of our friendship.
• Today is Cheridoo’s payday, I can finally breathe again (and buy food).
• Nothing is a coincidence I guess… I wanted to finally sign up for Flora Bowley’s class first thing this morning, and the registration for this session (that begins next monday) is now closed. It was not yesterday. Next term: June 2012.
• Mamounette (ie my Mom).
• Despite this stupid wrist/arm that has me suffering for more than 10 days now, I was able to paint and work this week. It’s weird how the only moment I notice I feel relief in my pain is when I paint.
• My girls that cover me with love and sweet words («Mom cooks the best meals in the world» «Mom is the bestest artist in the whole universe»… even if it is from my daughters’ point of view, they honestly feel what they tell me).
• The tv show Supernatural. Oooooh yes we waited forever to finally give in and watch it. We have several season to catch up with but this is good. And it is filmed nearby 😉
• I am currently reading the second book of The Hunger Games, Catching Fire. This is amazing. I am glad I waited for the trilogy to be completely released before reading it. I hate having to wait for sequels to come (and honestly, they all do several-book series now. Tsss). And this is something I can share with Mamounette as she’s read the first two books while she was here. I am trying to convince my husband to read them as well. Here is the link for Lien pour the trailer.
• My friends Kira that jumped on Skype to talk to me after something I poster on facebook. It is good to know I can vent with someone that totally gets what I am going through. And to know she cares.
• It is auite sunny outside so I am walking in my neighborhood just to get some fresh air.
• My friend Anu that listens to me patiently and support me.
• My friend Aurore that will give me skirts she does not wear anymore.
• My husband, who simply is my perfect match.

I realized I like to end my Gratitude Friday blogpost with some pictures from my week:

There is still time to sign up for 21 Secrets, that will open its doors in April. You won’t regret learning from the 21 of us.
Click on the image to learn more about it, and maybe sign up (note: the teachers are given an affiliate link so people can sign up using it and we are paid a percentage of your fee. I would love if you’d use my link above to sign up.)

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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 !

I’ll be honest with you, I am beyond exhausted. Not even because I ran in the cold or worked out. I’m just worn out and have to deal with it. I did not really know if I wanted to write this Gratitude Friday, as I write it in both english and french, it asks twice the energy.

I am apologizing, again, for doing it short. Hoping you won’t mind and will enjoy it as well, and that it may inspire you to reflect on your week and what was good in it.

This week, I am thankful for:

• The unexpected features of the Nixies that were born this week.
• CHA (Craft And Hobby, it is a huge show that happens twice a year in the US, where companies share their new products. It is opened both for the public and for professionals) is around the corner, and so the web is filled with sneak peaks. I love the new stencils coming from The Crafter’s Workshop designed by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer (and some other of their releases); the stamps and other products by Christy Tomlinson, some of the new stamps and ideology stuff by Tim Holtz, lines from Studio Calico… It is very inspiring.
• I received the beautiful mixed media portrait of me made by Joyce. Amazing !
• I started my Project Us, inspired by the famous Project Life. But I am not a scrapbooker. I still enjoy it a lot and I just love documenting our daily life in picture. Would love to have a pogo printer or other ZINK printer so I could have the pictures from my phone and camera printed quickly at home. Maybe later.
• I realized that small dreams are as good as the big ones. And feel more reachable for me at the moment.
• Vivian is now offering her «old» art journaling class for free. I took it in 2009, freshly arrived in Canada from France. You’ll love it.
• I almost have 300 «likers» over Inner Voices page. It just a number, but I like it.
• Grenouille lost her second teeth yesterday, which put her over the moon excited.
• I am carving stamps thanks to Julie’s class. Love it !
• I finally found a way to create my portfolio ! See the link in the horizontal bar. Or click here to see my mixed media gallery (not everything is in it). I’ll do an Art Journal gallery asap.

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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 !

It’s now 10h37, I’ve already written my Gratitude Friday blogpost for the french-speaking version of Inner Voices, I don’t know why it is so hard to translate it (not technically difficult, but… I am doing other stuff, pushing doing this aside). Sometimes, I am just weird I guess. Too many things going on in my head maybe.

This week, I am thankful for:

• Our visit at the aquarium On December 31st, despite the encounter with an hungry squirrel, it was very nice.
• We had a very nice New Year’s Eve. Simple, but perfect «The best New Year’s Eve of my life» depending on the girls.
• I had the very good surprise of this blogpost this blogpost and gift from Joyce, the winner of «Name My Girls» contest and spiritual mom of my Nixies.
• My tv shows are airing again. Yaaaay (not all, but it will be, soon).
• I am back to painting. One step at a time. Pushing away resistance and fear.
• The girls are back to school.
• Chéridoo was in vacations. It feels so good when he is home.
• 21 Secrets is now open for registration.
• The comment from my friend Aurore in a previous blogpost.
• The come back of a lost friend in my life.
• The discussion with my brother (honestly this still feels weird. But OMG I have brothers and a sister !!!! They are now real and know I am here, I exist).
• The Angel Attunement I received from Marsha Bennie. She is amazing, this is a wonderful experience. I am still buzzing from it. (if you want an Angel Reading with Marsha, contact me so I give you her contact info. She is amaziiiiing).
• I am finally reading The Hunger Games. Ooooh so good.

What gives you butterflies right now ?

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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 !

Christmas will be there in a week. My girls are both in vacation today. Baking cookies is planned, and we bought our first gingerbread house kit to create together.

This week, I am thankful for:

• Mom is here to celebrate with us. The last two years it was just the four of us.
• I will be able to rest, not to stress over what to cook for Grenouille’s lunches at school, neither to hurry in the morning to get her ready for the schoolbus.
• Goddess Leonie’s 2012 workbook + planner I printed and put in a binder, to review for you. It looks amazing and I feel like it could change positively a lot of things for the year to come.
• My husband and I celebrated our 8th dating anniversary. We went to see Hugo and have dinner together. It feels good to be just the two of us sometimes. It feels good to have mom around.
• I am in a creative groove. I love the Nixies that are emerging. I paint again just for the joy of it.
• I am creating my first Brown Nixie and you have no idea how happy it makes me. For a lot of reasons.
• The pain is not that bad this week. And I sleep again almost normally.
• My Nixies cards are flying all over the world to their new homes. And twice it was moms who ordered them for their daughters. Makes my heart sing.
• The questioning about what I do. About my life purpose. And the answers at those questions.
• My family saying “you smell good” even if I don’t have any perfume on, it happened a lot this week, strangely.
• The excitement of my girs regarding Christmas. I love them both so much.
• I art journaled again and oh my goddess it feels good.
• I sent my December edition of Inner Whispers. Not all the subscribers have read it apparently, but it’s ok. I created an archive page (see the horizontal sidebar, titled Inner Whispers), you can read the previous editions (and the current one).
• I am listing lots of new art prints in the shop. And I have a 15% off prints ! So it’s time to get your dose of Nixies before Christmas. Enter PRINTS15 at checkout.

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