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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:

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).

Brrr baby it’s colder and colder outside (we reached the -25C). BUT what is great is how appreciative of the warmth of our home we become.
Christmas holidays will begin next week, and my husband will have some time off so it means one thing: family time !!! Do you have any family traditions during that time of year ?

This week, I am grateful for:

• Cooking vegan food
• Magical oils
• Books that helps me deal with my own feelings
• Speaking my Truths via this blog
• Creativity, keeping my hands busy
• Bringing back my Soul Whispers intuitive paintings for you, so you can have a visible
• Celebrating my husband’s birthday and our dating anniversary
• Neverending learning
• Words and symbols and hugs

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).

I am writing a blogpost I will push public next wednesday and I keep reading, erasing, re-writing it. It is not an easy blogpost to share but I feel like it’s about time I do. In the meantime, it is essential for my sanity that I take some time each day to make a mental list of what I am grateful for. Either I do this, or I drown myself in my thoughts…

This week, I am grateful for:

• New creative ideas
• Letting my sadness go
• Books (I just finished “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas and started “Turtles all the way down” by John Green)
• Hugs, “I am sorry”, “I love you”, ‘You’re in my thoughts”
• Daily walks
• Going to Orange Theory Fitness with my husband 3 times a week, the coaches, and just moving my body
• Cooking what we eat

Good sound for your weekend:

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).

You guys, Winter is really here now in my Montréal suburb town. Last night, the snow was fresh and powdery while falling; walking the dog was actually really enjoyable et magical.

This week, I am thankful for:

• Laughter with my family, silliness
• Books (I am currently reading “They both die at the end” by Adam Silvera)
• Putting emotions into words
• Living in a warm home
• Knowing deep down that my Inner Voices do not always tell me the truth.
• The gifts we are able to do for our loved ones
• Getting my fingers out of my ass and doing what was needed to go back on the job market
• Music (I am currently listening to Kesha, P!nk, Willow Smith, Jaden Smith…)
• Comfort
• Possibilities
• Rest

Life has been hard this year, I won’t lie to you. Maybe I will talk to you about it, maybe it will only live in the pages of my journals (written or art journals). December is not the easiest of the 12 months but I decide to make it what I want it to be. My 12 years old daughter is glad we are in December for two reasons: she is now finally allowed to sing Christmas carols and she can start the Lindt Advent calendar gifted by our neighbor.