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Happy Monday !

For several of us, it is a holiday so the kids are not at school etc. Here in Canada, they didn’t had school last friday either… My husband is at work today though.

It’s been a long long time since my last blogpost. I must confess I was in a kind of roadblock regarding writing here. But it’s gone so here I am again. Did you miss me ? 😉

To come back softly I want to share some love today. There are amawing things going on in our Creative community. No specific order (other than how it appears in my sleep deprived mind):

Connie, from Dirty-Footprints Studio is gathering her 6th (!!!) tribe of Fearless painters to grow, live, breath BIG. I was in the first one. And if you follow my blog for a while now, you know how it changed my life. Thanks to it I overcome my fear of being seen and started recording videos (still a long way to go but I am getting there); you can read more about it in this blogpost.
During my time in the Tribe, I also finally stated to myself the raw truth: I am an Artist.
It was one of the bestest way to spend my money, the day I decided to follow my gut feeling and to just sign up and show there, not knowing exactly what it would be, how it would help me as an artist but also as a woman, to become the Me I know I am inside.

You can sign up right there.

Goddess Leonie, from GoddessGuidebook.com is sharing her wisdom in a new e-course: Become a Business Goddess ecourse. It seems to be jam-packed with a lot of informations, and knowing a bit Leonie, this will be all of her heart and generosity poured into this class.

Here is what she says about it:

So what’s in this course?

You’ll get:
8 Ways to make Money Online
The Blueprint of how I did it: with all ze juicy goss
The Practical Parts: website, pricing, techie bits
100 Ways to market magically, mindfully & joyously
How to stay sane & joyful when business gets BUSY

AND some deeeelicious bonuses:
Profiles of Business Gods & Goddesses
The Becoming a Business Goddess workbook
The Magic Money Maker kit.

There’s over 150 pages of wisdom + genius + experience + love in this baby. All the business goddess goodness you could need.

Sounds amazing to me. And for only $20 more, why not suscribe to her Goddess Circle ? While in it, you have access to ALL her classes past and the new one that are released during one year ,with no additional fees !!! Yep.

For the francophone people out there, Nessa from Pretty Days is back on track ! Soon will start her Wonderland Art Journal class. She has a colourful free style and this sounds like so much fun. Check it out: Wonderland Art Journal Info.

It will begin on May 1st.

If you don’t know Nessa, she is a scrapbooker, painter and art journaler. Her world is very colourful and complex at the same time.

This week, Kelly Rae Roberts is sharing some bits of her Flying Lessons ebooks on her blog. The first post is there: it’s about passion, inspiration and commitment.

Her class was amazingly useful and about a year later I still refer to it in my choices, when I have a doubt. I think this is a good combo with Goddess Leonie soon to come Business Goddess class as their approach are different but very complementary.

Kelly Rae’s ebooks are pretty, printable, and you won’t regret the money spent. Trust me.

Learn more about her ebooks there.

My dear friend Samantha Kira, from JournalGirl.com (where I am a proud sponsor) is working her ass off to provide us wonderful online classes.

The regristrations for Through the Lens, her class about making art videos, are now opened; you have the option to receive a DVD for a little extra. It will be a self-pace workshop. She will soonish have a journaling class that will rock our socks !!

And in other news, I am beyond the moon because this summer I will attend a Journaling class with Teesha Moore called «Little Journal of BIG Intentions». And…. the Universe conspired to realize what I asked for a few months ago: I will also attend a 2-day workshop by Flora Bowley, still at Teesha Moore‘s ArtFest annex in Seattle. This makes me really really really happy, trust me. I know this can sound silly but… i just don’t care.

I am really excited about these. I don’t attend a lot of in-person workshops, and decided to chose more wisely the online classes I sign up for (I went over crazy last year so now, I am more picky).

Oh, and for you who have an iPhone, you can find me on Instagram, my name there is simply nolwennp. I share itsy bits of my daily life and art there. You can see the pictures there: http://instagrid.me/nolwennp

I wish you a wonderful week. I missed you <3

Hello darling sunshines !

I really have to go back into my regular scheduling in blogging. I have so many things to share but spend so less time on my computer…

Here is the painting I am currently enjoying working on. It is on 9″x12″ canvas board (trying to figure out the best to finally sell some originals as well, without having to ask for expensive shipping fees):

I actually hate the background how it is now. There is something off about it. But is is okay because I will start over and cover it up, will see what happen then ! I learned to love every single step of the creating process, even when I actually don’t like what is happening.
If you look closer, you will see the lotus on her body. We can see it better in reality than on the picture but it is subtle.

I am playing with faces, trying to make them express something. But they are still kind of blah. So I practice. However, I like her.

What are you creating right now ? does not have to be a painting, i would love you to share with me in the comments if you’d like <3

I told you a few weeks ago about my new big journal (11×14″). I dedicate it to my Dreams, small and big, and to my Wishboards.
A lot of huge pages to fill, inspired by the fantastic Andrea Schroeder, I draw maps and discover new paths in order to make them reality.

Here is the first page:

Very simple page, only created with PanPastels (face and background) and the Color Shots from Lindy Stamp Gang (unfortunately the picture does not justice to the vibrant shimmers).

On her body, I wrote my statement:

I plant Wishes’s seeds.
I water them with Love.
Watch them grow.
And then I harvest all these Wishes that became Reality.

It is time for me to take care of my life, to shape it so it will look like my longing. You know, this gut feeling telling you «Change your life now before it is too late. It can be exactly what you want it to be, not what it should be.».

I am a firm believer of the «Do not complain about something you do nothing to change»; and often with people it go smooth or it clashes about it. However, I apply this saying to me first. My bigger challenge in these cases is to find which way to go to modify what I actually do not like as sometimes, none of the way looks better than the other(s). My solution ? Sending a clear wish to the Universe after having enunciated the situation, asking for help; then I forget about it until the key comes there (and trust me, it happens all the time that the solution is way different from what I thought at the beginning !).

What about you, what seeds are you currently planting ? How do you care for them ?

I need to clear my heart today… So I decided to share what I am loving right now with you.
I love reading what my fellow bloggers share in their “Inspiration” or “What I love” blogposts so I thought that regrouping what I do am exciting about could be great.

But don’t forget, you can help me spread the word about my Etsy shop opening and win an handmade journal. Learn more about it here.

I am currently loving and excited about….:

• Samantha Kira new mini-journal class. Learn how to make fantastic fabric and button journals, with a lots of versatility. {a new-journal making mini workshop}

• Connie has gathered 21 fantastic artists to share their art journal secrets. It is the second round, the first one was awesome. You can learn from Goddess Leonie, Willowing, Lisa Wilson and so many more; the techniques and themes are very different from each other and cover a lot of areas. Exciting !!! Learn more about it: 21 secrets Spring 2011 edition.

• PanPastels are soft easy to use pastels… I love them. I think they are becoming my favourite medium for shading faces. I have a lot to learn but I am loving it ! I will share soon the page in my Journal I started with them yesterday night.

• Lindy Stamp Gang is now offering their awesome Starburst products in what they call «color shot». This is the same amazing ink doubled with amzing shimmers, but in a pot instead of with a sprayer. SO now, I can use them to paint. And this is gorgeous. I love their product so so much. It makes me happy and I want them all… they even make me like vintage-y brown colours, coupled with colours shimmers (they call this «MoonShadows» what a name !). And they treat us well by having sales very often during the year (they are currently having a 20% off everything for St Patrick day !). They also have amazing two-toned embossing powders, stamps etc. And you can buy seperately the caps to change your sprays into daubbers, crazy !

• I started a new Art Journal yesterday night while the girls where already in bed and dear Husband was playing video games. The first page is not finished as I type this but will be today. I already love it. This is the journal I finally decided to play in:

• I am happy to read the big dreams shared on my opening shop comments.
• We are FINALLY having a dry day in Vancouver, with some sunshine coming through the clouds.

Coucou !

As promises, here is the flip-through video of my second Art Journal. I love it ! But I have also noticed that the feeling is different from what I felt when I finished the first one.

I love glancing through the journals and see the evolution in front of my eyes since July 2008 when it began for me. It is just obvious and magical. I see the positive changes that happened in me, the discoveries. And my journal is now essential to me alongside my spiritual path…

This week, I wondered a lot about what would my daughters see about me in these journals in a few decades. Will they continue to explore and play in their own journals as they love to do now ?

Here is the video:

You can head on my YouTube channel to watch my previous videos if you want: http://www.youtube.com/user/NolwennBC