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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 was waiting for this week to come for MONTHS. No kidding. My mom is here from France, we didn’t see her since summer 2010, it was like forever…

This week, I am grateful for:

• Hope. I knew Mom would eventually come, even when it seemed hopeless for several reasons.
• One of my latest journal pages is featured today on Julie Fei-Fan Balzer’s blog and you know how much I love her.
• I can’t wait to share with you this amazing project I am working out. Will talk about it in a couple of weeks.
• Homemade bread, daily. I bought this book by Jeff Hertzberg & Zoe François, it is just amazing (some bread is currently baking in my oven as I type this, it smells heavenly).
• The Halloween Party at my husband’s work yesterday. It was fun.
• The non-guilty feeling I am filled with despite the fact I almost didn’t work this week.
• Homemade madeleines. I’ve never been fond of it but the one I bake are just addictive.
• My mom doing my hair. Feel like a kid again.
• Again, the Reiki Awakening Academy (I guess i would have to dedicate it a whole blogpost). I took another class with Alice and it was amazing. I now have to practice 😉
• My customers. They are happy with what they buy from me, and it makes me happy. A positive circle it is.
• Taking everyday pictures. I found a website that print your instagram pictures, it is not expensive so I think I will use it soon. I am looking for a great way to document our daily life. Any ideas ?

My Mister Linky is being spammed so until my dear Husband has time to change it, I disable it. But please please please do share your link in the comment to this post so I can come read your Gratitude Friday blogpost.

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 !

How are you doing this week ? Friday is almost halfway done here in Vancouver, it is a grey rainy day. Both my girls are sick, so they stay home (it was professional day at Grenouille’s school so she had the day off anyway). I am happy the week-end is nearly here.
I can’t deny it anymore, Fall is there now. I love this season but knowing that the rain saison is there too does not make me that happy. And despite the sunny days we still get, I feel like I am in lack of serious real Vitamin D.

This week, I am thankful for:

• Practical Reiki and the fact that my daughters keep asking me to heal them with it when they have a booboo or a concern, my mom benefits a lot from it as well.
• Good Fall days
• Weight Watchers
• The answers to my contest (here and on my francophone blog). You can still participate 🙂
• Music. Always.
• I finally have some encaustic medium. I used it on my latest painting and really love the look it gives. But now, I have to learn all the possibilities it offers.
• This painting. Her name is Samsâra (I published a few pics of her on my Facebook page).
• I decided to change the name of my Etsy shop. From InnerVoice (without an «S») to InnerWorlds. It still reflect my Universe and what I create and there won’t be any confusion because of the typo anymore (InnerVoices was someone else).
• Speculoos spread. You may wonder what the heck Speculoos is. Let me tell you: it’s a biscuit from East of France and Belgium, full of delicious spices (I use it instead of the graham crackers when I bake cheesecake, let me tell you this is Heaven on Earth). They made a spread from it. YUM. BUT it is as addictive as Nutella is. Thank you Catherine !
• Mamounette arrives in 4 days.
• Halloween and Samhain are around the corner now.
• I received my order from Art from the Heart, new paint and ink spray, gorgeous colors.
• My iPhone (and I am not an Apple fanatic), even if it’s only a 3GS and that I could use an upgraded version.
• Cooking chef Michael Smith.
• This big dream that is slowly taking form (if only I’d stop blocking myself).
• My friend Aurore got the condo she wanted. She rocks the casbah !
• Candles from ZenaMoon that brighten my days.

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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 !

How was your week ? I hope that my fellow Canadians enjoyed their Thanksgiving week-end and did not have a food overdose 😉

My week was good, not that much in pain, same level of exhaustion but I guess I just have to go with it now, my husband was home both monday AND tuesday.

This week, I am grateful for:

• The messages I receive from readers of this blog and on Facebook, telling me how they love this Gratitude Friday because it helps them.
• The opportunity to teach.
• The time passed with my Husband and the fantastic Thanksgiving week-end we had.
• My friend Paola may be coming to see me with her family next week.
• My aunt’s help with my mom. And my mom now have her plane tickets to come here. She will arrive on Oct. 25, which is very soon from now. I am over the moon.
• My mom got out of the hospital earlier than planned.
• The fact that my husband supports me that much. I know how lucky I am.
• Taking the actions so I can move forward in my life.
• Having shared this silly picture of mine publicly.

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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 !

Next Monday will be Thanksgiving here in Canada. The girls won’t be at school, my husband will be off work too. A long week-end ahead. And I am pretty excited about this one, to be honest. I would love to gather around me friends and close family but unfortunately it is not possible. But we decided to start our first familial Thanksgiving traditions this year. YAAAAY.

And this is perfect with this Gratitude Friday ritual. I hope you will join me and share some things you are grateful for in this period of the year.

I am thankful for:

• My Mamounette (aka Mom). Always there, always strong. One of the pillars of my life I would crumble without.
• My half, my Cheridoo. Despite his obvious lack of subtility (that is sometimes hurful when he speaks his truth without any embellishments around), his love is what keeps me strong and helps me to still stand.
• My daughters, who love me no matter what. Their hugs and moments of pure bliss and craziness.
• Having been put on the road of my Reiki teacher and her academy when I needed it the most, she teaches a different kind of Reiki (but also the original Usui one) but it is also very powerful (and WAY easier). I am now a Practical Reiki Master (I still have some assignments before receiving my certificate though). I am healing, physically and spiritually, and I feel useful by giving back to the ones who ask me. And I know this is just the beginning. Contact me if you want more info, I would love to share about my experience.
• My family doctor. The contact was hard at first but I am now happy she is following me. She does not think I am crazy, she listens and helps the more she can.
• Jamie Ridler’s opportunity she gave me to be in her Circe’s Circle. It helped a lot with my project, and I met amazing women.
• Anu, just for the amazing she she is. For our daily discussions, for her humour, for listening to me without judging. Just because I love her. A lot.
• The Universe and the messages I get when I am in creative state. This source of inspiration I am tapping in. The certitude that despite the strangeness and apparent simplicity of my artwork, this is partially what I am meant to do here.
• Connie who gently pushed me to open my Etsy shop, and supported me. Helped me unfolding my wings so I could fly free. My customers and their positive feedbacks.
• The lost friends, the ones who came back without explanation why they left me there, the ordeals put on my path.
• Teesha Moore’s workshop. ANd I thank in advance for FLora Bowley’s workshop in Teesha’s artfest annex next month.
• The possibility I have to explore my Darkness in order to appreciate how bright my Light can be.
• My sewing machine, that I am still learning to use, and the things I create thanks to it (plushes, fabric art journals I love).
• My Art Journals, that keep me sane.
• The support from other artists, and from other women also struggling with fibromyalgia. Community is important to me.
• My husband’s work, despite the times I hate it because it keeps him away from me and that sometimes it feels like he is working 24/7, it gives us a lot.
• My friends, old and new. I send the wish to the Universe to please send me friends in Vancouver. I would love some girls night, without boy or kids. (Melissa, I have to message you).
• My selfportrait project that I started back in March this year. I document my daily life in picture without words. And I see me differently.
• People met thanks to the Reiki Awakening Academy, where I got my certification.
• People who participate in the weekly ritual, even the ones who do it once a month, or less. I love reading their own Gratitude Friday or just knowing they do it privately.
• This come back to a more spiritual life, the reintegration of rituals (not necessarily in a witchy kinda way).
• The good food I cook and put in my belly. Yes Anu, even the Nutella.
• Art supplies. My drug, and the brands I discovered this year (Lindy Stamp Gang, Dylusions, Crafter’s Workshop et j’en passe), it just makes me happy to get new art supply. See a kid in a candy store ? or a kid on Christmas morning ? yep, i am a mix of both at the same time !
• Books I surround myself with and that make me enter new universes.
• The chance I have to live in a city I actually chose, and where I am not by obligation.

Life sometimes sucks. But it can also be put in a different perspective. Thank you for all I am living every single second. Thank you.

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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 almost 11am, nearly time to go pick up Koala from preschool, Grenouille was with me this morning has teachers at her school are having their «educative day» or whatever it is called. I am ready for Koala to go to kindergarten, and so she is. I laughed when my husband told me out of nowhere «if we have a third kid someday, s/he has to be born after june, would be easier when school time will come» mwahah

This week is quite good in general.

This week, I am thankful for:

• My Practical Reiki class, at the Reiki Awakening Academy. I learn in a fantastic atmosphere and there is always someone, my teacher as well as my classmates, to answer my weird questions. I do feel the energy and I am over the moon to be able to help people with it now. I have amazing feedbacks, it adds to my gut feeling that I did the right choice and it was the best for me.
• Thanks to it, I am now doing daily self-healing and it helps with my general pain level. I am still exhausted but I learn to deal with it.
• The moments where my friends and I kind of yell at each other (luckily there is computer screens to seperate sometimes lol) teaching me not to ask to much, to be more accepting (with them and with me).
• This new thing in my creative process makes me enjoy it even more (I really have to spill the beans and let the words out so you could finally know what I am talking about)
• My Cocotte (my BFF) and all the great musical discoveries I do thanks to her. This week, it is the singer Imany.
• Again and again the love (and stupid humour) of my Cheridoo, and our Trollettes.
• Schools of the Trollettes.
• The very nice email I received from a reader.
• Conversations I have with other artists, very successful artists I admire.
• My new «diet»
• Japanese cooking.
• ZenaMoon‘s candles.
• I listed one of my original painting and some other prints in my Etsy shop. July is one of them, I will present her to you very soon
• I began snapping selfportraits again.

July, while she was still being created.

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