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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.

Good morning !

This is this day of the week again, when we think of  these things that put a smile on our pretty face and when we chase away the blackish thoughts swirling around. Concentrating on what the beautiful positive moments the Universe showers us with is why I like friday so much.

This week was very trying and I feel exhausted, however..:

• Thank you for the sun shining today. Wakin up with sunrays peaking through the blinds just announced me that today will be a great one. Days are getting longer, spring is coming and I really need this.
• My perseverance while editing my latest video was a good thing. It was a pain in the *** to do because of computer issues and took me ten times more than it should have. But I like the result !
• I am thankful for the first order I received, and honoured. A customed journal was sent yesterday for its new home in New Jersey and then Bordeaux.
• My friend Anu’s presence despite her own life, she is there for me everyday and helps me a lot. She is priceless in my daily life.
• My Husband is always by my side, listening even when the words do not come out of my mouth. He listens and deals with my silence. And my tears.
• Writing this blogposts makes my heart sings.
• I am waiting for new books today, and what would I be without my books ?
• Grenouille is at a circus school for the day, with the afterschool service -pedagogic day so they don’t have school-. She will have fun for sure !
• Koala is a lot into learning how to write lately. So I try to follow and help her the best I can.
• My mom is at day 3 without smoking, I am very very proud. I know she can quit definitely.

Oh and a picture for the road… Yeasterday I spent time doing and glueing small “patches” for my Glimmer Mists and Lindy Stamp Gang products caps, so it is way easier to pick a colour. My fingers are still rainbow-y from it 😉

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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.

Here in Vancouver we are still Friday, so I am not that late for publishing my Gratitude Frtiday blogpost !

I admit that this post was this close from not being written. But talking with my dear friend Anu, I took the time to sit and write this now.
If you did write a Gratitude Friday blogpost, please, share the link here. I love seeing the circle forming every week, even if it is one or two persons only.

But before going there, I must confess you something. It’s been two or three times since the beginning of the year that i just do not feel the pleasure in writing my weekly Gratitude Friday articles. I don’t know where it comes from, or why. Maybe I just go too far in personal details in these specific posts ?

Don’t worry, I will not give up on this. This ritual is way too important to me to be put aside. But the answer may be in writing shorter.

This week, I am grateful for:

• The book “The Replacement” Lindsay kindly sent to me, for free. Because she had two copies in hands.
• I received three things in the boxmail: a wonderful card handmade by my friend Aurore, the Girls received cards too, and my friend Paola sent Grenouille a book about Origami !
• I received my first custom order for a journal ! If my client agrees, i’ll share pics with you.
• The appointment with our bank councellor went well. Slow but steady is our mojo, praying that the Universe will send us what we need.

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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 am sorry I didn’t write my Gratitude Friday last week, I hope it didn’t stop you to do yours, online or privately. After all, I see myself only as the starter point, the tackle to make you begin and keep you going.

This week, I was showered by signs of friendship. Yes, I am shaking things to meet people here in Vancouver. It is hard for me because I am shy, I hate to be “the newcomer” in a group because i always have this bad sensation to bother people. But we arrived two years ago, and I still don’t really have girlfriends around you know (i have friends, don’t worry too much about me).

Thank you to my big soul sista Samantha Kira, to put me under her wing, to tell me face to face what I have to hear to keep moving forward, even if sometimes it is hard, so I can stay true to myself no matter what. She is my inspiration for perseverance, dedication and hard work. Just have a look at her new blog and website to see how passionate she is about what she does. It speaks for itself.

Thank you to Connie for making me see things differently to make sure I know what all my options are before taking a decision.

Thank you Paola for taking time in her busy schedule to talk with me.

Thank you Sophie for the messages she left me here and there, you’re in my heart every single day.

Thank you Cocotte for the comment on Facebook, it went straight to my heart.

Thank you Alice, for showing to the World that we should never give up on our Dreams. And for the frigtastic Skype moment. Can’t wait for her visit next month !

Thank you to my wonderful husband, for supporting me moraly and physically when the world seems to collapse around me. Showing me that love and optimism are the best responses to stressful moments.

Thank you to my wonder-Mamounette, who I miss terribly (can’t wait for Winter), for the everlasting cheer-ups, for being the first one to try my fabric journal too :p

Thank you to Jo Anna for the article she wrote in her new website “The Big Sparkly Life” titled The art of Nolwenn Petitbois.

Thank you Anu for the Valentine’s card. It is the first I receive !!!

Tell me, what were the fantastic highlight moments of your week ? What made you smile ? What made you happy to be alive ?

Oh I won’t be there this week-end, we are heading to explore Seattle before our “visit permit” expires. Excitiiiiing.

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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.

January is already coming to en end… We were surprised yesterday morning to wake up under the snow, totally not planned by the meteo guys.

This week was marked by three days when we, one after the other, got the stomach flu. That’s how we rock: we share everything, even the germs. Despite the chaos of the beginning, the week then got filled with pretty surprises.

I am grateful for the wonderful print I ordered to the fantastic artist Samantha Kira: You Can Fly (photo above). You can visit her Etsy shop here. I am also much grateful for the discussions we had this week, her kindness and what she shares with me about her journey. Gives me faith.

We received a HUGE package from Nantes (France), were Santa Claus let some gifts for us under my mom and my aunt’s trees. My mamounette (pronounced like… “mamoon”) created the most amazing gifts for my husband and I. For me, she found three short stories I wrote when I was ten and illustrated them, then she put a spiral binding so it’s like a book. She titled it “stories between us”. And the note that was with it just brought many tears to my eyes.

Thank you to the stomach flu that released me from two kilos. Of course, i gained back some weight but just a little and it was the thing that makes me decide to change my “diet” (aka eating habits) and to find a way of working out that would work for me. And to help, I’m reading along Marianne Williamson’s book “A course in Weight loss, 21 spiritual lessons to surrendering your weight forever” (I’ll talk to you about it, I have a copy to giveaway).

It’s the third week in a row i’m talking about it in my Gratitude Friday blogposts but gosh I LOVE FRINGE !!! And I’m over the moon that I insisted to buy the first season to watch with my husband, we finally have a tv show we both really enjoy and can watch and talk about together 🙂

Thank you for the beauty of snow yesterday, all washed out by heavy rain today.

Thanks a lot for inspiration striking me right in the face, to the Universe for conveying ideas and images and messages. And to show me I am on the right path.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to the singer p!nk. For standing up in what she believes, for fighting for causes she thinks deserves attention, for her songs and her music videos. Thank you for having overcomed the hardness of filming such an heartfelt video for her song “f**kin perfect”, it put me on the floor yesterday but was the sign I asked for. I don’t know if I should share the video here as it contains some difficult images to watch (there is a “clean version” of it though).

This week, I am just thankful to be alive.

After having thought a lot about it, i decided to put the video here. BUT you are warned that some scenes may be difficult to watch:

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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 beautiful You !

How was your week ? I hope your not lost under a mountain of snow and that you are safe where you are in the World.
How are you doing ? Do you manage to shift your way of seeing what you experience and see more easily what’s positive in it ? If not, don’t worry. Stick to your Gratitude Practice and it will come.

A very good way of learning how to receive and be more aware of the gifts sent by the Universe (in so many ways !), is to sign up for my friend Jo Anna’s project called “The Receiving Project“. It’s totally free and it changed my life in 2010 (and still now). Go check it out.

This week, I am thankful for:

• The new artwork I created. It is powerful (for me at least), it helped me in my healing process. You’ll know everything about it tomorrow.
• All the new creative opportunities that are flying my way all at the same time. I’m just in awe. It will be amazing !!
• For the support of online friends.
• Friends sharing with me their love for the tv show Fringe 😀
• Email giving me some long awaited news.
• The warmth of our home.
• The snow we had, even just for a day.
• The book I’m currently reading, Matched, by Allie Condy. I try not to think how long I’ll have to wait for the two sequels…
• I’m slowly but surely losing some weight.
• Suzie Ridler’s awesome roll bread recipe. I made it twice this week (without the thyme), it’s just so yummy and easy to do thanks to my bread machine.

Don’t give up.

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