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I know… I’ve been there too. But I send you tons of love in this Valentine’s day.

To make today special, I decided to offer you something: if you purchase a print (or more) in my shoppe, Inner Worlds, I will add a print of my new Nixie, Cherell.
This is a special treat as I don’t plan to sell prints of her for a reason you’ll know soon enough (she’s part of my sekret projekt :D).

What you see below is only a sneak peak of the print:

I really love Cherell and she whispers to me that she’d like to be shared today.

The sale will run until Feb. 15th around noon pacific time.

Go grab your print <3

This is my first participation at fellow Vancouverite personality, Danielle Laporte. I’ve been wanting to answer one of her burning question for a long time but of course, I never did.

Today’s question is just happening at a perfect timing for me (thank you to the Universe for your silly synchronicities).

Danielle asks a question on her website and simply invite people to share their answers.

I quote her:

When you establish your purpose for money, you have a rudder to help guide your purchases, investments, donations, savings—all the things that you do with money.
You also motivate yourself to go get what you want the most.

So… What’s my purpose for money ?

• Have everything I need/want to create artwork that heals me and inspires other.
• Own a beautiful home in Vancouver area. Spacious enough to fit us 4. To host family and friends. To work. Decorate it so it truly reflects who we are, as a family and a whole, and as individuals.
• Gift my close relatives and friends with what makes their heart sing to them.
• Buy organic on a regular basis.
• Travel and discover the World, even the close places. Visit family and friends that live so far away.
• Buy art that uplifts my Soul.
• Not to worry anymore to pay all our bills on time and still be comfortable.
• Have date nights with my husband once a month (= having a regular babysitter, paying for the restaurant etc)
• Make this big dream come true.

I am spending some much needed time in my art journal lately. Trying to process. Trying to prettyfy some stuff that happens.

Here is a page I made today (it was already dark, I may take a better picture *or not*):

On the other side of the spread is a sketch of a Nixie, Just a sketch… no shading, no color. And I did not know if I wanted the two pages to be separated or a spread. I still don’t know actually.

It says:

It’s ok..:

to be mad
to be sad
to wanna give up sometimes
to feel like today is the worst one in your life
to have big hope and small dreams
to scream at the top of your lungs just to LET it GO
to smile when you feel like breaking down
to join your hands in a prayer to Whoever would just listen to you
to cry and ask for help

It’s ok to have and express whatever emotion pass through you

(it just means you’re alive)

If I am sharing this page with you, it’s only because I feel like I was just the tool for the message. The channel so people could read these words. So people could know it is ok to feel whatever they feel.

I am struggling with my emotions right now. Not understanding them. Not being successful in processing them the way I wish I would. And I guess someone may feel the same somewhere and that this «permission slip» would reach someone who needed it.

Gratitude Friday is a weekly ritual I started in order to focus on all the small and big positive things that happened during my week. I invite you to join me, you’ll see how much being thankful can change your life. If you want to know more about it, read my introduction post.

Hello !

February… ok, I won’t tell it every new month of the year but honestly I don’t see where January went. Maybe it is because my mind is currently so full of everything, I don’t notice each day that comes after the others.

January made me realize how important it is to thank for everything we receive, good and less good. There’s a positive message in everything that is thrown our way.

This week, I am thankful for:

• Open-hearted discussion with this girlfriend that matters so much to me. And our mutual decision to take care of our friendship.
• Today is Cheridoo’s payday, I can finally breathe again (and buy food).
• Nothing is a coincidence I guess… I wanted to finally sign up for Flora Bowley’s class first thing this morning, and the registration for this session (that begins next monday) is now closed. It was not yesterday. Next term: June 2012.
• Mamounette (ie my Mom).
• Despite this stupid wrist/arm that has me suffering for more than 10 days now, I was able to paint and work this week. It’s weird how the only moment I notice I feel relief in my pain is when I paint.
• My girls that cover me with love and sweet words («Mom cooks the best meals in the world» «Mom is the bestest artist in the whole universe»… even if it is from my daughters’ point of view, they honestly feel what they tell me).
• The tv show Supernatural. Oooooh yes we waited forever to finally give in and watch it. We have several season to catch up with but this is good. And it is filmed nearby 😉
• I am currently reading the second book of The Hunger Games, Catching Fire. This is amazing. I am glad I waited for the trilogy to be completely released before reading it. I hate having to wait for sequels to come (and honestly, they all do several-book series now. Tsss). And this is something I can share with Mamounette as she’s read the first two books while she was here. I am trying to convince my husband to read them as well. Here is the link for Lien pour the trailer.
• My friends Kira that jumped on Skype to talk to me after something I poster on facebook. It is good to know I can vent with someone that totally gets what I am going through. And to know she cares.
• It is auite sunny outside so I am walking in my neighborhood just to get some fresh air.
• My friend Anu that listens to me patiently and support me.
• My friend Aurore that will give me skirts she does not wear anymore.
• My husband, who simply is my perfect match.

I realized I like to end my Gratitude Friday blogpost with some pictures from my week:

There is still time to sign up for 21 Secrets, that will open its doors in April. You won’t regret learning from the 21 of us.
Click on the image to learn more about it, and maybe sign up (note: the teachers are given an affiliate link so people can sign up using it and we are paid a percentage of your fee. I would love if you’d use my link above to sign up.)

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Today is the already the third edition of this monthly section, Paving Our Path, I do with my friend Anu from My Courageous Life. We write our hopes and wishes for the month becoming. Just paving our path with good intentions.

What a month January has been ! We’ve seen my mom go back to France (where she lives) after having her by our sides for three very great months and honestly, it’s been ten days or so now and it still feels empty without her…

While I am typing this, I am noticing something that is strange: I have no idea what I did write for my previous letters to the Universe. I can not tell you if what I wished for actually was granted or not (I will check though). This is what I call letting go (me the Queen Of I Keep everything tightly attached emotionally) 😉

And from this month on, we have a pretty button to accompany our blogposts, yaaay !
I will add Anu’s link as soon as I have it to share with you.

Dear Universe,

My heart feels heavy, and as February is the Month of the year where Love is all around, please fill me in; I promise to give back as much as I can, to anyone who needs it.
Please, help me to focus and inspire me to make the best class I could for 21 Secrets. I hope to help people heal by sharing my own process…
Give me the strength to go on my path of a better life for myself, better eating, exercising despite the fibro that seems to get harder and harder on me as the time passes. Help me to accept that pregnancies changed my body, and that what it looks like now after having given birth twice at now 26yo is not put into stone, I can still make it something I enjoy looking at in the mirror, a skin I feel good being inside of.
If you can send some clarity my way, some signs you know I will understand, feel free to do so. I am open to receive them now.
I feel lonely most of the time, a bit of company from someone more that 6 years old would be appreciated. Have you seen how I try to get off my butts to reach out ?

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Love,
Nolwenn