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I know, I am one day late, but… no, no excuse 🙂

This week, Jamie invites us to DARE !

What do I wish to dare, really ?
I wish to dare creating and animating my own workshops.
I wish to dare starting a WishBoard Circle in my city, Vancouver (Canada).
I wish to dare selling what I create.
I wish to dare embracing the Creative child in me everyday.

Because my Husband is shaking me, “you took a LOT of online workshops, but when will you finally teach yours ?! and when will you begin to sell your art ?”. And I don’t know what to answer… I guess I am just afraid…

Yesterday morning was “one of these mornings”. I had a really bad night, it was raining, greyish, my Trollettes were excited and not listening and a lot of negative thoughts made me feel really low and sad…

I have the chance to have the possibility to talk with my husband via gtalk while he is at work, so we are constantly “together”. He cheered me up and found the right words and pffffsshshh it was gone and my mood was up again.

I am often wondering about Friendship, it’s an area in my life I am not really at ease with. I won’t tell all my life since childhood here but I’m kind of fearful and have difficulty to trust; but on the other hand when I like someone and think the person could really be my friend I tend to become blind… and fall down sooner or later.

The few real friends, those persons I consider to be like my family all live in France. So it’s hard even if we catch up almost everyday thanks to the internet.

Yesterday, I was thinking a lot about this area I miss in my life, having girlfriends to hang out  with and so on… but as I said: I’m just blind in all ways possible. I have girlfriends 🙂 But i’m not a teenager anymore (thanks Goddess, because it was not the best years of my life AT ALL). I am a big Dreamer and I can be idealistic too (is it a word that exists in english ?).

Cheridoo (my husband; no it’s not his name lol) told me yesterday “your friends don’t have to be exactly like you on all subjects and hobbies and interests. you have this and that in common and that is what matters, doesn’t it ?”. And yes, it’s true. My friends do not have to have exactly the same hobbies that I love etc. And it’s what makes friendship beautiful and colourful…

After that pep talk with him, I felt the need to journal about it in my Moleskine. Because my Moleskine journal is dedicated to ME, even more than my Creative Journal that is most like a diary.

I am still searching my personal artistic style so I experiment different Trollettes (the girls I draw) face styles… The page has several background layers and you wouldn’t believe what it looked like at first 😉

After having finished this spread, I felt the sadness vanishing my Soul and my Heart, and felt relieved and lighter. It feels good now.

Making art can be a way to go beyond negativity and shift it positively 🙂

PS: this month of November is the “Art Every Day Month”, initiated by Leah of the blog Creative Everyday.
I try to create a little something everyday since November 1st but I am not able to show you what it is yet, because it may be a Christmas present 😉

By the way, this Journal Spread is my participation for November 9th 🙂

Hello everybody !

I deeply hope you had a wonderful week.

We are Friday again, which means it’s nearly the week-end: yeaaah

A small reminder on the Gratitude Friday principle: here.

This week, I am grateful for..:

✿ Halloween last Saturday. Our whole family dressed up and went trick or treating in the neighbourhood. We had a lot of fun together, and it allowed us to meet in person some of our neighbours. We saw amazing decorations, carved pumpkins and friendly people.

✿ Our Samhain meal was really good, and I am thankful to share its preparation with my husband.

✿ The Moon was full and bright on Monday, and I love the non-conventional WishBoard I made for the occasion.

✿ Yesterday was a rainy day, but everytime there was a shower, I was inside so I didn’t really get wet.

✿ Everyday, my daughters tell me how much they think we are beautiful, and I know they both really feel and think it.

✿ the people on the bus who are not affraid of my older daughter who is really out-going and asks a lot of sometimes personal questions to people she doesn’t even know. Most of the people she talks to while we are heading to preschool answers her friendly and play with her. It can be intimidating to be in front of a 4yo kid that asks your name, where you are going, what is your job and so on, thank you Ally the soccer teacher, S(o)uma the student and everybody else.

✿ The letter I received from a friend, by snail mail. And it made my day because I love receiving “real” letters, that people took time to write and send.

Today is Wishcasting Wednesday, the day of the week we send a Wish to the Universe.

Jamie suggests us to wish about an experience we’d like to live.

First, I thought “I won’t be able to chose one”. And I was finally inspired by Laura’s wishcast (thank you Laura).

So I wish to fully experience abundance in my life. It’s my power word of the year but Fear tends to make me forget about it too much.

I wish to embrace abundance, of true Friends, of Money (to use intelligently), of Love, of Joy, of New experiences…

Yesterday (Monday November 2nd 2009), the Moon was absolutely fabulous, round and clearly visible in the sky.
She came just after Samhain, which I was really glad.

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Because I am running out of images (I don’t have any magazines left, I should ask my family to send me some from France but the shipping charges are expensive), I had to think out of the box. So for this cycle, it’s not a WishBoard as usual, made of collages torn out of magazines/newspapers.

Last month, I was not fully satisfied of my WishBoard, so I started a painting to complete it. But for no appearent reason, I didn’t finish it. That is what I used yesterday as a base.

I painted a background with acrylic, and used acrylic ink to build a tree. I simply blow it until it pleased me.

I found some powerful words (for me), and glued them on the branches of my Wish Tree. I also made bubbles with other words and a single image.

I used several material (glimmer mist, radiant rain dubber from Luminarte, glitters, magic mesh…) until I was entirely satisfied.

I really really like it 🙂

This morning (we are Tuesday), I smiled when I saw what Leah created for the Full Frost Moon. Look at this: Leah’s Full Frost Moon. What a coincidence !