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As I recently told you, I am now glad to share with you my girls’ stories.

The first one is Keera:

Keera

She loves spending time alone in the park; surrounded by trees.
She has the habit to lay on the ground, paying attention to how her body feels the grass and the tiny details around her. No matter to her if it is during a hot summer or when the ground is covered by a blanket of red leaves.
She can spend HOURS there, watching the clouds dancing in the sky, chased by the wind and inventing stories of the fantastic shapes that evolves in front of her eyes. Keera likes closing her eyes, counting to ten and open them again to see how the sky evolved. She calls herself “The witness of the unexpected”.

Keera is the friend you can rely on, she will never tell your secrets and always find the right words at the right time; she is an excellent listener but does not talk much about herself.

She is the bamboo that can bend again and again to adjust to the extern ele,ents, but will never break.

I painted her on a wood cradle pannel and wanted it to show through. I love the simplicity of it; however, it tells a lot.

The picture above shows you the depth of the pannel and how the painting still go on the side as a continuity.

Hold On ! There is always some sun coming after the storm.

Prints are now available in my Etsy shop, right here. If you are interested in buying the original, send me an email 🙂

Hello dear hearts !

I am kind of struggling writing this blogpost, for more than two weeks now. I am beyond excited to share with you what’s been shifting in me, and therefore in my artwork, but also a bit nervous of what the reaction could be.
I think I am putting so much pressure on how it will be received that I am losing the joy of sharing. So I will make this shorter than what I thought and then present you my latest girls (I have to come up for a general name for them. I had one but I am fearing it is just unpronounce-able in english).

Each time a girl comes in my painting, she tells me her story. What her life is, what she has been through and her positive message. What she likes and what she can’t stand.
I usually only share the message, that appears clearly on the painting… but for a month or so I have been feeling the urge to share her story as well. It may not be a long beautiful essay but just some stuff about «what’s behind».

I am still wondering if I should put it beautifully and add it with the painting when someone buys it, with the original only or with the prints as well ? I know people could benefit from more than the positive message that is present on the painting, I just have to find the best way to do it.
Any thought of it ?

Here are a few peaks of theses ladies (I will share them next week):

Keera

July's face

Sherry

Alyss' Ginette

September has seen less paintings being born in the Inner Voices land. Not that I painted less, but I have to listen to my body when it yells at me because I am pushing it too far, too much, too many times. Learning to rest.

SO here is a picture of my easel, just so you have an idea. And you can see there are paintings on the floor as well as «in progress» behind the ones that are finished or almost:

I am struggling writing this blogpost about the evolution happening for Inner Voices. Words don’t really want to come out, maybe because of the pressure I put on the consequences they may have. But these consequences could be very good so I should just let them go. I know they are slowly coming out, and as soon as this article will be published I will be able to tell you more about these lovelies 😉

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 !

It’s almost 11am, nearly time to go pick up Koala from preschool, Grenouille was with me this morning has teachers at her school are having their «educative day» or whatever it is called. I am ready for Koala to go to kindergarten, and so she is. I laughed when my husband told me out of nowhere «if we have a third kid someday, s/he has to be born after june, would be easier when school time will come» mwahah

This week is quite good in general.

This week, I am thankful for:

• My Practical Reiki class, at the Reiki Awakening Academy. I learn in a fantastic atmosphere and there is always someone, my teacher as well as my classmates, to answer my weird questions. I do feel the energy and I am over the moon to be able to help people with it now. I have amazing feedbacks, it adds to my gut feeling that I did the right choice and it was the best for me.
• Thanks to it, I am now doing daily self-healing and it helps with my general pain level. I am still exhausted but I learn to deal with it.
• The moments where my friends and I kind of yell at each other (luckily there is computer screens to seperate sometimes lol) teaching me not to ask to much, to be more accepting (with them and with me).
• This new thing in my creative process makes me enjoy it even more (I really have to spill the beans and let the words out so you could finally know what I am talking about)
• My Cocotte (my BFF) and all the great musical discoveries I do thanks to her. This week, it is the singer Imany.
• Again and again the love (and stupid humour) of my Cheridoo, and our Trollettes.
• Schools of the Trollettes.
• The very nice email I received from a reader.
• Conversations I have with other artists, very successful artists I admire.
• My new «diet»
• Japanese cooking.
• ZenaMoon‘s candles.
• I listed one of my original painting and some other prints in my Etsy shop. July is one of them, I will present her to you very soon
• I began snapping selfportraits again.

July, while she was still being created.

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I firmly believe that one of my mission in this current life is to connect. Connect people with their beautiful inner self. Connect myself to my Higher Self. Connect people with each others……..

This quote is, in my opinion, kind of the sum up of one of my bigger value. Thanks to my friend Jennifer who shared it on Facebook right when I was waiting for the message that should be on this painting.

I know some people find it crazy to think that we DO create our world, our life, our universe, with our thoughts. That thought is energy and that energy is creation.

This can be scary, for sure. But don’t be afraid. At first, when I was introduced to positive thinking a few years ago now, I was totally freaked out. It was a time when my thoughts were mostly negative. And I decided to give it a try, and… it was the beginning of a better life.
It is not a miraculous trick of some sorts. And just think: what if for a day or two, you pay attention to what you are thinking and how it is formulated in your head. And for every thought that has a “not” try to shift it the other way around. Or to find something positive regarding the fact in your thought.

Regarding the painting, I started with this vision of a girl with a lotus flower on her forehead. That’t it, to be honest. And as usual, the face just came along.

It is totally out of my comfort zone, I am not a green kind of person, I used to HATE green.

I got attached to this painting, representing so much to me, where I am on my path right now.

The original is for sale, as well as prints, in my Etsy shop. I won’t lie, I am a bit nervous about selling the original because it is a big canvas board and the price is the higher I listed anything to this date. Pricing is SOOOOO damn hard. Fearing that people would think I am asking way too much.
But I also know in my heart that someone will love her as much as I do 🙂