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This is the first Wishcasting Wednesday of 2010.

I don’t know about you but for some years now, I stopped making New Year resolutions, and instead i set some goals for the year that comes…

What Dream do I wish to explore ?

One of my giganormous goal is to write and publish a book this year (even if it’s in december or at least being in contact with a publisher interested in my project).
The idea is here, and more are being added. It will take me a long time, it may sometimes make me cry (I am a cryer, I’ll take about it later this month), it may be hard but I now that eventually it will bring a lot of joy and relief in my life, I can already feel it. And I will finally feel that I have achieved something in my life.

And I hope this book will help people and that they’ll (you) like it.

It is a big big Dream that I wish may come true.

I decided that in 2010, I’ll try to share with you people/movies/musics that make my Heart & Soul shine. I don’t know yet the frequency of this new category, but I think it might be about… twice a month.

I open this with a multi-talented man from whom I adore the work since my teenage years: Tim Burton.

You probably know most of his movies and animated movies. From Edward Scissorhands to Sleepy Hollow, Beetle Juice (the movie I remember I saw on tv when I was a child, it introduced me to his Universe… I still love the dance scene), his colourful adaptation of Charlie & the chocolate factory (it’s a really good one, I’m a fan. And both my daughters watch it over and over again, singing along with the Umpa Lumpas. I loved the book when I was younger.), don’t forget Mars Attacks or Big Fish (certainly, this in my favourite one !); from Vincent to Nightmare before Christmas, The corpse bride and so on… so many good things that go through the years…
I can’t wait to see his adaptation of Alice in Wonderland !

And he started his career in the animation studios of… Disney. Yes !

Did you know that Tim Burton was diagnosed as being bipolar ? It is a mental illness that (I simplify a lot) is caracterised by a mood fluctuation, it goes in the extreme from euphory to depression. People who are bipolar, when it’s not the very important kind, are often really really creative people.
I did not want to know if I am, eventually; even if I wonder a lot about it. But I relate to it deeply.

I must have been really well-behaved last year because Santa Claus put under the Christmas Tree a really big and heavy box (more than 4kilos !). It was Tim Burton’s ArtBook. It contains more than 1,000 illustrations, from it’s personal work and work he did as preliminary work for movies. More than 40 years of drawings and paintings in this book. I love see the outline of what we see in the movies, it’s fascinating.
This book is a large one, as I said it is a big heavy one. Some of the pages can be unfold, become kind of panoramic.
It’s absolutely the perfect book for Tim Burton’s lovers 🙂

If you have the occasion to visit NYC, run to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), where there is currently an exhibition of his art, until April 26th 2010. If I lived on the other side of the continent, the question would exist, I’ll go without any hesitation !

This kind of gothic, sometimes creepy, Universe can seem simple but it’s (in my opinion) a lot more complex than we could think it is. I relate to it, it makes my heart sing. As if someone was in my head and extracted some feelings to put in into images. I’m very emotional about Tim Burton’s artwork.

Official Website: http://www.timburton.com
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton
Where to buy his ArtBook: for the US, for Europe.

Hop, as a little bonus here is my favourite scene in Beetle Juice (get up and shake your booty with them !):

2010 is finally there, I wish you an ansome wonderful year ahead, may all your biggest and deepest dreams come true. It’s the beginning of a new decade, I can’t believe it !

May 2010 be filled with Stars in the eyes, Magic, Unconditionnal Love, Friendship, Laugh, Joy, Creativity and whatever you want your life to be. You deserve it.

Yesterday was the second Full Moon of December 2009, yes we had two full moons in the same month, what a better thing to end a year, really ?

It was the perfect time to introspect, and dig deep to define what we want our life to be, what we want the Universe to bring to us during the year to come. Not so easy to feel and think “no, it’s not too big for me“. We were taught to wish only for things affordable, that seems right. But what if we dare to dream big, this house you always wanted, this person you dream to be is already here, inside of you, silently waiting to be pulled out the inside.

I made this WishBoard in a circle, inspired by Anik “creative wheel“.

Jamie asked us last wednesday what do we wish for 2010 ?

I wish to become the real me, the one I know I am inside, I wish to dare to show this me to the World.
I also wish to dare write my book and find an editor to publish it; it’s hard because I am SO afraid of failure.
I wish to live some awsome friendship moments, and much more time with my SoulMate.
2010 is a huge year for me: I’ll turn 25 and we will celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary !
I wish to let my creative spirit expend its wings and take the flight.
I wish we finally have the money and the opportunity to buy our first home, to settle in a place of our own. Somewhere we’ll be able to receive family and friend, somewhere we’ll have enough place to all let our souls do what they’re passionate about. A place we’ll be able to call “our home”.

2010 will be a good colourful year.

Here is a short video featuring the WishBoards I created in 2009 🙂

2009 retrospective in WishBoards from Nolwenn Petitbois on Vimeo.

2010 is finally at the corner, the big day is really close. It is full of Hopes and new things that are gently waiting to be built up.

Personally, this year knew some deceptions and some pains and I don’t forget all the doubts and the wonderings. But it was also plenty of discovery and love, and for me this is priceless.

☯ 2009 is the year of our arrival in Vancouver (Canada), the realisation of a long big dream finally becoming real.
☯ 2009 is the year I decided that I want to be an artist.
☯ 2009 is the year of a friendship becoming really strong with my friend Isa.
☯ 2009 is the year of cheering my Soul-sister Paola through a painful event, and I admire & love her so much.
☯ 2009 was full of “first times”.
☯ 2009 is the beginning of new friendships. And a lot of afternoons spent in Nath’s kitchen to bake.
☯ 2009 gave birth to Gratitude Friday, here on this blog.
☯ 2009 is the year I started to WishCast every wednesday or so, thanks to Jamie.
☯ 2009 is the year my friend Aliénor introduced me to Alice Kara.
☯ 2009 is the year my grandma was finally relieved and went away, I’m happy for her because she was happy when it happened and I know she’s with her daughter (my aunt mentionned later in this post) now.
☯ 2009 is the year when both my daughters attend a francophone Montessori structure, they discover and learn a lot.
☯ 2009 is the year I realized I am not an E.T. but just a person with some gifts, and it’s the year I accepted to love who I am. So it’s the year of “weird” experience, like the creepy “hello” of my aunt.
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I wish 2009 was a beautiful year for you, despite the negativity it surely contained. But take this negative points to see all the positivity that comes along. One can’t really go without the other.

HAPPY 2010, Lovelies !!!

Lately, I’ve been listening a lot to Hana Pestle songs. I discovered her in my Twilight saga obsession phase, I don’t remember how but I listened to her song “Need” on YouTube, she wanted it to be on the New Moon movie soundtrack but didn’t get it eventually.

The song “The Red Death Ball” makes me think of the novel “Carrie” by Stephen King.
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of his books and loved this one, I love the power he gives to women, they’re abused by men but are still strong and full of will to get the negativity out of their lives.

Hana Pestle reminds me a lot of Evanescence, a group that I use to listen everyday, all day long. In 2003. She’s produced by Ben Moody, the guy who founded Evanescence with the lead singer Amy Lee… so no coincidence I guess.
It’s the kind of songs I was litterally drowning into. But today, even if I still like them, I don’t let myself being immerged in the sadness it brings. I aknowledge myself for this huge step I made.

It’s easy to let the Past come and swallow you, your emotions take control and it’s the end… But you can decide the Past is the Past, you can’t change it so stop to focus on it. It does influence the person you are now, but you still have the power to become who you really want to be.

YOU DECIDE.