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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 !

I have nothing much to say about the date of today, I like it and make plenty of wishes. In our family (meaning my husband and kids) we use to make wish when we notice that on the clock it is like 2:22, 5:55 and times like these. So today is just a bigger day to send wish to the Universe (for me).
What about you ?

I have to make it short (hmm sort of) today again, you’ll see why.

This week, I am thankful for:

• Me become more fearless. I recorded and published my first spoken tutorial video. It is in French but you can still watch it on my YouTube Channel. I am thankful Teesha Moore gave me her permission to do so.
• I also attended the awesome Vivienne McMaster’s first creative business meetup on Wednesday. I was scared but all went well, I met her and some other fantastic local artists.
• The new painting I finally finished this week. Her name is Misty. I love her mucho.
• I am leaving Vancouver in a few hours with my husband. Heading to Seattle for the week-end. Without the kids. I will attend Flora Bowley’s workshop at the Artfest Annex and enjoy some alone time with my love. Thank you mom.
• Speaking of my mom, she took a very good care of me yesterday when I injured myself very badly (you know, when it hurts that much that you almost faint and can’t breathe and can’t stop sobbing).
• The (very) hot bath I indulged myself with, where I put some Epsom salt and Patchouli essential oil.
• The friendship and love and honesty and support from Anu (she is an amazing emerging life coach, you shoud definately check her out !)
• The fantastic feedback I get from my customers.
• Freshly homemade food at every meal.
• The chance to have an health insurance and that I don’t have to pay for my meds.
• I received an Angel Alignment session and reading. Very powerful.

I won’t be around this week-end but I have an AWESOME news for you that I will share on Monday <3

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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 !

How could it be already November ? I mean… it was like a few minutes ago I wrote down my goals for 2011 that it’s already almost gone. Luckily I have some big plans for 2012 (and better be, as we will all die at the end of it. Mwahahhahaah).

This week, I am thankful for:

• Good food in the belly. Cooking hurts now but the rewards are worth it eventually. I hope I am giving the love of cooking to my girls.
• Creativity, not only painting.
• Halloween was great. The girls loved their costumes. My husband won the pumpkin carving contest for his team at work. The neighbours were generous in candies and treats, with a smile.
• My husband, who ships my orders for me everytime, without complaining.
• Real friends.
• «Ceremonials», the new album of Florence + the machine. Florence Weilch shows me that even our dark experiences, thoughts, can become something beautiful. Andthat being a bit different is not a bad thing after all.
• The weather is not that bad, just very cold.
• Schoolbus.
• Etsy. I am finally more and more fearless about promoting my art there and am taking steps. Makes me happy.
• My mom’s love and support

I wish you a wonderful friday.

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Amelia… I would never have thought to discover her on one of my canvas, nor sharing her life story. This is with a Nixie like her that I am happy to have decided to share their stories instead of keeping them all to myself.

She is one of these nice surprises that make me pick up paint and charcoal everytime I can to meet the Nixies that come to life from it, with a specific message to tell and then to be shared with the World.

Here is Amelia:

She was made on a 8×10″ canvas board.

I began by laying some colors I was drown to on the surface. Just playing around. Then I wanted to use the «Fragmented» Canvas by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer (Made by The Crafter’s Workshop. It is a stencil I love and it offers plenty of possibilities (I used it several times in my Art Journal since I got it). This time, I kept it simple and used it with pure acrylic paint. Simple can be good too.

At first, I had in mind to paint her hair with color but needed a white base to be sure it would be opaque and not too transparent (one of my previous recent painting was a disaster, partly because of this). But then I just fell in love with this white, letting us see the background through it just enough. And of course, I decided to leave it like this.

Her top is all glittery because a Nixie with a story like hers definately needs some glitters in her life.

Amelia has this je ne sais quoi of different from the others…

Amelia is a dreamer. You can see in her eyes that she is halfway here, halfway there. Where is «there» exactly ? She will never (ever) tell it to anybody; she escapes in her inner bubble where her World is finally perfect, where she surrounds herself with protection, softness and love. Where no one will hurt her again.

She spends most of her time alone because she is afraid of letting people in. Not that she actually likes being alone, but she is sure that it is better than being in pain because of others. She knows, deep inside of her, that she should not be afraid that much, but Fear overpowers her.

Imagination is all she has, this is her secret sanctuary. This is what saves her.

She often feels shattered, broken into a million pieces because of what happened in her past. She does her best to heal though. She knows she is stronger than what she thinks. And she indeed is.

She decided to help others to overcome their past, Amelia knows the power of sharing her experience so others who have similar backgrounds do not feel alone like she does…

Of course you can buy her print in Inner Worlds, my Etsy shop.

Some details (as usual, click to enlarge):

Thank you so so much for all the suggestions you gave me ! I was amazed by the originality and the fact that some came several times from different people 😉
It helped me also to have an idea of how the girls I create are perceived.

Without further ado… TADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM

My girls are now named NIXIES.
I love love love love it. A lot.
Thank you Joyce for suggesting it. Please, contact me by email with your snail mail address and the print you would like to receive from me.

There wasn’t a lot of votes but that’s ok.
I randomly chose a winner via random.org: Amy it is you 🙂 Email me as well so I can ship you your print (of your choice).

I am listing new Nixies in my Etsy shop right now (at least one, hoping not to be too tired to list two others, if I am it will be done in the morning on Wednesday).

As I told several times already, I am in love with using my phone to take pictures along the day, just to snap the moment and remember it.

I thought it would be nice to share a bit of them randomly with you 🙂

Cooking everyday:

A bit of art journaling:

And new girls being created (have I told you how in love I am with making them ???):

And happily watched my girls and my mom doing some crafts for Halloween