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I can’t believe we are actually January 2nd already.

It means that 21 Secrets is officially open to registration today.

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I am so excited that people will join us, the 21 teachers, in the wonderful adventure that will start next April. 21 workshops all centered around the world of Art Journaling.

You can see my previous posts to discover the teachers and the workshops.

I hope you will be up for months of discoveries and healing with me and the other teachers 🙂

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Happy new year to all of you.

Today is the second edition of this monthly section 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.
You can read her blogpost right here.

While reading my Letter to the Universe from last month, I realize that almost all my wishes were granted: thank you.

Dear Universe,

January means new beginning(s), new hopes. Please, make all these small and big wishes we put in our Bottle of Wishes today (January 1st) come true throughout 2012.
I would love to finally get back on track with my health. Eat better. Exercise more consistently. Feel me in this body I was given.
Please, I am putting a lot in this new adventure that 21 Secrets is for me. Make it beautiful. Make it successful. Make it full of good surprises and more.
Mom is leaving us to go back in her home in France. My heart is already sinking in thought of her absence by our sides. I would like her departure not to be unbearable, please.
If you have some good music to make me discover, I’ll take it with joy.

I don’t ask much, I am just afraid of falling apart. Hold my hands and show me that it will be okay.

Thank you from your dearest me,
Nolwenn

I know, I know… yet another post on the blogosphere about the end of the year. But I’ve been thinking a lot about this year already coming to an end, what I experienced (good and bad), about what I learned during the past twelve months.

It seems like yesterday I was making my plans for 2011. Did I meet all my goals (and there were not plenty of them!) ? No. I’m okay with it though. Because I learned A LOT this year.

Thanks to Goddess Leonie 2012 workbook and planner, I realize that I have made some big accomplishments (in my opinion):

I opened my Etsy shop, Inner Worlds, pushed firmly but kindly by my Fearless painting guru and friend Connie. It was a huge step for me. Showing the world i was actually there, asking for money in exchange of my art (i do still struggle with this sometimes, to be honest). And i made over 20 sales (may not seem like a good number for you, but I was sure not to sell a thing when I started!).

In february, I followed my gut and the idea of a personal project I simply called “365-selfportraits challenge“, i started it in march. And it taught me to see me differently, to gain perspective on how I perceive myself. Even if i did not fulfill it, I so love self-portraiture that i may start it over in 2012. I want to do it for my girls and will ask them if they are interested.
I may do a more general 365-picture a year in 2012, I don’t know yet…

I learned that there is growth in very bad health news. That despite what people think, positive thinking and Reiki do help. Even with cancer.
I am now a Practical Reiki Master and I am fully engaged in my healing learning process, helping anyone who kindly ask.

2011 taught me to trust deeply, without a doubt, that everything is okay and will get better and better.

I learned to give my friendship, sometimes to give it back. Despite how hurt I could have been. To give second chances. But there won’t be third chances though.

I learned that miracles DO exist. Now, the missing pieces in my family tree are coming together. It feels good not to be a secret ghost anymore.

I followed my guts, asked the Universe, and received. This is how I went to Seattle, twice, to attend workshops in Teesha Moore’s Artfest Annex. The first was from Teesha herself, this is how I finally met two online friends: Violette and Kym. Both were true life-changing experiences. I bloomed as an artist.

This painting was done during Flora Bowley’s workshop and means a lot to me. I look at wondering how on Earth I could have painted it. Me. It is now hung on our wall, so I see it everytime I open the door.

Lots of my personal symbols. My heart is in there. Even with any Nixie lol

I just love the imperfections that fill it, me the perfectionist Virgo…

I am kinda back to writing, my first love. This book is still nesting in me, words wanting to go out but struggling because I keep them safely inside. I know I should not. And may 2012 be the year when they finally go out. For now, I am just sharing the stories my Nixies are whispering to me while I am giving birth to them.

2011 was tough. But eye and heart opening. And this is with a big THANK YOU that I let this year go to welcome 2012 in a few hours now.

I wish you all a wonderful new year.

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 !

Christmas will be there in a week. My girls are both in vacation today. Baking cookies is planned, and we bought our first gingerbread house kit to create together.

This week, I am thankful for:

• Mom is here to celebrate with us. The last two years it was just the four of us.
• I will be able to rest, not to stress over what to cook for Grenouille’s lunches at school, neither to hurry in the morning to get her ready for the schoolbus.
• Goddess Leonie’s 2012 workbook + planner I printed and put in a binder, to review for you. It looks amazing and I feel like it could change positively a lot of things for the year to come.
• My husband and I celebrated our 8th dating anniversary. We went to see Hugo and have dinner together. It feels good to be just the two of us sometimes. It feels good to have mom around.
• I am in a creative groove. I love the Nixies that are emerging. I paint again just for the joy of it.
• I am creating my first Brown Nixie and you have no idea how happy it makes me. For a lot of reasons.
• The pain is not that bad this week. And I sleep again almost normally.
• My Nixies cards are flying all over the world to their new homes. And twice it was moms who ordered them for their daughters. Makes my heart sing.
• The questioning about what I do. About my life purpose. And the answers at those questions.
• My family saying “you smell good” even if I don’t have any perfume on, it happened a lot this week, strangely.
• The excitement of my girs regarding Christmas. I love them both so much.
• I art journaled again and oh my goddess it feels good.
• I sent my December edition of Inner Whispers. Not all the subscribers have read it apparently, but it’s ok. I created an archive page (see the horizontal sidebar, titled Inner Whispers), you can read the previous editions (and the current one).
• I am listing lots of new art prints in the shop. And I have a 15% off prints ! So it’s time to get your dose of Nixies before Christmas. Enter PRINTS15 at checkout.

If you wrote your Gratitude Friday on your blog, don’t forget to enter your NAME and URL below so I’m notified and can come to read you (you can also join by commenting this post):
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I know it’s been a very long time since my last participation in Jamie’s Wishcasting Wednesday. I won’t tell fake excuses. But today felt like the good day to wish upon a star.

It is the end of the year. Already. It may sound like a cliché but I like December to reflect on the progress I have made, and to think of what I want the year to come to bring me, to look like. Even if I do love the surprises put on my road by the Universe, it adds a bit of fun don’t you think ?

Today, my deepest wish is to know that women feel empowered by the Nixies I create. I wish to send them everywhere in the world, I wish that people feel a connection with the messages of their stories. I wish to grow and expand and finally soar as an artist.

I wish to finally feel like I belong in this artistic community, that I am not an impostor.

I wish to continue to enjoy every step of the way. To love each of the Nixie that comes to life. I wish to deeply trust that I am doing the right thing. That it is not a mistake again. That this is more than just another hobby.