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Since a few month, I began again to read A LOT. I always loved reading, but I didn’t take time anymore. I don’t know what me realize that I missed it so much.

A few weeks ago, I read the first book of Maggie Stiefvater’s saga “The wolves of Mercy Fall”, SHIVER.  I was drawn into it, and can’t wait to read it’s sequel. So I take my chance of winning an advanced reader copy of it 🙂

I love reading Maggie’s tweets and her blog, she has a sense of humour I really enjoy 😉

In Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other.  Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past . . . and figuring out a way to survive into the future. Add into the mix a new wolf named Cole, whose own past has the potential to destroy the whole pack.  And Isabelle, who already lost her brother to the wolves . . . and is nonetheless drawn to Cole.

At turns harrowing and euphoric, Linger is a spellbinding love story that explores both sides of love — the light and the dark, the warm and the cold — in a way you will never forget.

Comes out in stores everywhere July 20th. Pre-order here.

Enter to win an advanced review copies of LINGER, Sisters Red, The Dead-Tossed Waves, and The Replacement on Maggie’s blog.

Ohlala what a week, Lovelies !

As you know, today marks the beginning of Vancouver Olympic Winter Games 2010. I must confess that until yesterday, all this stuff was kind of pissing me off. But something shifted in me, I don’t know what it is yet but it happened. So no, we won’t attend any of the competitions but will watch the opening ceremony with a lot of pleasure (and it seems to be WONDERFUL, dixit my husband’s colleague who attending the rehearsal ceremony and said it was stunning).
It’s on for two weeks (and then two quieter weeks during the paralympic games), when all eyes will be watching our city.
I really want to thank my SweetPea (one of my BFFs), without who we certainly wouldn’t get out to see the torch.

This week, I am truly thankful for:

⚙ We saw the Olympic Torch near our home (like 100m away). We didn’t know if we would attend and it was not planned as I was suffering from a terrible headache since 4pm that had me in tears for almost two hours; so I was in bed trying to get rid of it when we heard the helicopters and the crowd startint to cheed outside. At the last moment, we decided to jump out of bed, dress up really quickly and see if it was not too late. We arrive just on time, the torch passed a few minutes after our arrival. It was very emotional, I’m surprised. I’ll try to upload the video Cheridoo made. The city is dressed with Canada flags everywhere (on the buildings, on the houses windows, on the cars, on the buses, on tv… everywhere proud is shown), Smurfs are everywhere (aka people requisitionned for various things during the games, they’re wearing Smurf-Blue clothes).

⚙ At the end of last year, I applied to become an Advanced Reader Reviewer for Louise Hay Edition (it publishes books written by Lisa Williams, Deepak Chopra, Doreen Virtue, and a lot of other authors . Regularly, I reminded the Univers how badly I wanted to be part of it. Yesterday, I received a package with the logo of the edition with a letter telling me that my blog was accepted and that it was a book they send me to read and then review here.  I’m so honoured and glad to have been chosen. Thank you !

⚙ I received my Silhouette die-cut machine. So excited to be able to customized my artwork thanks to it.

⚙ Talks with my SweetPea and with Paola. Glad also to have some news from my friend Isa. It makes me realize that Friendship is also about letting Friends live their life and be silent for a while, but still be there when they “come back”. I ♥ U

Thank you for all that is brought to me by Life, I’m deeply grateful and will put it for good use, I promise !

Bonus of the day, a video that will show you the strength and beauty of the torch relay, and how my city rocks:

I love how this year prompts from Jamie are different !

This week, we travel… where do I want to travel ?

I have a confession to make: I never really travelled, and I’ll turn 25 this year. The farthest I went is where we live now: Vancouver (Canada) from France. I always wished I could discover the World and its wonders… India, Japan, Nepal, Peru, the Andes, New Zealand. Discover the people who live there and their beauties.

I know, one day we’ll be able to do it.

So I begin with small steps and today, I simply wish to discover our adoption country: Canada. We live here for a year now, and never went very far (we don’t have a car, actually). I want to see an Aurora in Yukon, I want to visit the old Montreal in Québec, I want to meet and greet with awsome Artful Goddesses in Toronto, I want to see it all. Every part of Canada is so unique, I want to feel myself at home in this country we chose to build our lives in.

And more spiritually speaking, I wish to travel on my own path, back & forth.

It’s still Tuesday here in my timezone, but I take time to write about today’s Wishcasting Wednesday before I go to sleep and while my Husband is working on its own computer…

What story do you wish to let go ?

This week question reminds me of a subject we worked on during the Alchemy of Manifestion workshop I attended at the end of last year.
What story do you tell over and over but that do not serves you well ? In another way, we can wonder what negative story we lived and tell but that telling it this way is not positive for us. Does it make sense for you ?

It was hard a few months ago to find a story of this kind, but it is easier today because I am working hard on letting it go.

I am working so hard on it that I’m actually writing a book about it, to sort all these past feelings and this Old Me, in order to let the New Me takes place on solid and strong bases.

I know there will always be some bruises in my Heart and deep in my Soul, but I want to trust the gut feeling that this belongs to the Past now. Writing helps a lot, and journaling with drawings too. And I hope that I’ll be published so people may be find my story helpful for them and they’ll feel less alone.

I wish to let go the story of the Old Nolwenn and to be opened for the story of the one I am now and the one that I’ll become…

Heya !

I wanted to share a few things with you this week, but I was grabbed by time and didn’t share anything… but I decided not to put pressure on my regarding my publication frequency on the blog, so…

Today, I wanna change a little bit my habit and was inspired by Anik, who shares every week her Gratitude Friday and freely changes the “rule”, which I like a lot.

I wanted to thank people who had/have a role in my life has it is today. So it both a themed Gratitude Friday and kind of a “chain” one.

I am really thankful for having:
▧ The #1 in my Heart: Mamounette, my mum. She is a Warrior Goddess who is not aware she is one, she is a Fighter and I am proud to be her daughter. She never lets me down and always cheers me up when I need it the most; she knows I don’t speak but she reads in me like an opened book, even while I’m thousand miles away. She’s the best mum ever.
▧ My father, which I barely do not know, even if it makes some effort to fix this fact as he can. I learn to accept him as he is and not as I imagined him during my childhood. I appreciate he tries to build a relationship with me, even if we met only once,  I was 22 years old. Its absence forces me to grow up sooner.
▧ My aunties, D. & M. even if the last one died more than a decade ago, her death modeled who I am now. It’s weird how the absence of someone influences maybe more than the presence itself. Auntie D. was always there for me, and she is really close to my Mum; I know she takes care of her.
▧ The friends that were in and out of my life, from early childhood until now. Friendship is something I really have difficulty with, trust and keep a friend over the years… Most of my friends are from the Internet, but I met most of them in real life, we seperated by an ocean but I now it’s a matter of time until we see each other again, I feel that with some (the women I call my “Soul-Sisters”, Paola/Sophie/Cocotte/Isa, for example), we have something to build (I wink at my friend Sophie, I’m sure she knows what i am talking about, this gut feeling). It’s hard to go on when you feel betrayed, but I learnt the hard way that our heart is meant to be open. There is no coincidence and in every bad moment/meet, there is a positive life lesson hidden.
▧ The boys I fell in love with. I only have three real couple relationships, as the adage says “the third one is the good one”, it was true for me. I would not have met Anthony without the two previous relationships, I learnt a lot through them, so I am thankful even if I was badly hurt at the end of each one.
▧ Anthony, the One, my SoulMate, the love of my life. I am so thankful he entered in my life more than six years ago and that he is still there (I’m not always an easy going woman, I confess). Thanks to him, I gave birth to two wonderful girls.
▧ The pagan community, who taught me a lot when I needed it during teenagehood, and where I met some amazing persons (yes, you). Today I am not a part of it as I was before, I went away for a path that suits me better.
▧ The blogosphere in general, full of people willing to change the World as they can, sharing their gifts. It is full of nuts but I only want to see the beautiful souls out there, it is really a web.
▧ Thank you to S. and Alice, who gave me a glance to the wonderful life that is in front of me.
▧ Thank you to all of you who entered my life, even without knowing you are a part of it. You inspire me.
▧ And finally, I want to acknowledge myself for being me, because my Soul chose this body, these two parents I have, this path, with all the obstacles on it, the encounters I had and will have, the doubts, the wonders, the creepy things, the rainbows. No, everything is not written, I have to power to build my life as I want it to be, but the big facts are chosen from before my birth.

Woo and thank you for having read all of this if you did 😉

ENJOY THE JOURNEY.