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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 !

Hard passages are happening one after the other in my life currently. So settling down and remembering all the good that happens in between is just what I need right now.

This week, I am thanking The Universe for :Cette semaine, merci l’Univers pour:

• Our new car. We thought we were crazy to change but it will make our life simpler and we’ll enjoy the roadtrips to come better. And the people at the garage are very nice, we also had a good trade for our car.
• I received the book I ordered after it has been suggested to me in one of the Facebook group I belong to. I am taking my life in my hands and do whatever it takes to create the life of our dream.
• Speaking of book, I am also reading the new book by Deborah King, «Be Your Own Shaman», it says stuff I already know and goes in territories I needed to explore.
• My new video is online. I will publish a proper blogpost explaining it later today or during the week-end. I really enjoyed this technique I tried for the first time while recording it for you. You can still watch the video here on my YouTube channel.
• I am about to finish a pretty handmade art journal that will be listed in my Etsy shop during the week-end. Did I tell you I like it very much ? One of the prettiest I’ve made to date.
• I am opening spaces for sponsors on my blog. If you are interested, just email me. I have already one spot taken on my francophone blog.
• Despite the worries, my daughters are healthy and I know I should not be that much on the back of Grenouille regarding what she eats.
• Julie Balzer’s videos: http://balzerdesigns.typepad.com
• My husband nd my mom are beautiful souls, I am bless to have them in my life.
• Last week, I got a very good deal on canvases at the warehouse garage sale of the art supply store I usually go. I bought a HUGE 48″x48″ for $16 dollars (!!!!!!!), i am crazy to see that big but I have an idea in mind that implies my entitre family 😉 shhhh don’t tell them yet.
• We ate some deliciouuuuuuuuuuuuuus fish & ships at Granville Island last week-end, and it was sunny outside (which is something rare these days in Vancouver. I hope the sun did not forgot we exist in this part of the world…). I LOVE fish & ships.

What were your beautiful moments this week ? What made you smile and feel happy ?

Oh I almost forgot. I wanted to share this song I discovered this week that makes me happy happy:

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This week prompt by Jamie is dear to my heart.

I am one of those who feel like I never know enough. I am very curious, I love learning new stuff (in all areas of my life) and because of that I am pretty easily bored (not good).
This is also why I love books that much and got never enough of them 😉

I don’t want to know everything. But I would love to have a domain of expertise someday.

Today, I wish I would know how to tap whenever I want in the Universal Source. For Love, for Answers, for Inspiration. I am learning to do so more easily.
I wish I would know how to be gentle and kind no matter what.
I wish I would know how to give more life into the girls I see in my mind and try to create in my paintings.
I wish I would know what to do to become what I am dreaming of.

There are so many things I wish I’d know…

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 !

No, I didn’t wake up at 2am last night to watch the royal Wedding. So I am fresh today and happy to write this Gratitude Friday, especially since I haven’t wrote it publicly for two weeks in a row. Oops.

This week is nearly over, I am happy it is finally Friday though.

I am grateful for:

• My Koala (my 4yo daughter) is healing fast from her accident. She cut open her forehead last saturday while we were visiting a house. She is now stiched up and healing.
• Grenouille (my 5 ½ yo daughter) is gaining weight (her weight is a struggle so this is a very good new to us).
• I was one of the 400 lucky who received a small goodie from the Smash brand. Exciting, it really looks an awesome thing. If you have no idea what I am talking about, check their blog: Smash Stories.
• I also won a $25 gift card at Deserres, from a blog.
• I signed up for two amazing workshop later this year, both happening at Teesha Moore’s ArtFest Annex. The first one is «Little Journal of BIG Intentions» taught by Teesha herself. The other is a 2-day workshop by Flora Bowley in November. I wished so so hard that she will have a workshop closer to me, and then it happened… never be ashamed to cast some wishes. You never know how positively it can be granted.
• My mom is doing really great and i am always hanging up from the phone more happier for her. Can’t wait to see her and hug her at the end of the year.
• I received amazing email from my Soul Sister, she always knows exactly what to say to me.
• This painting is almost done and makes me swoon. I am experimenting new techniques and love some of them. Getting back on the horse of creativity after a hard 2 weeks of neverending questioning.
• I love playing in my Art Journal again. It is my safe place, where I can vent and dream at the same time.
• I received a lot of support regarding my fear of recording me speaking to put over my next Art Journal video. Speaking in english, in front of everyone (if I can say so) paralyzes me. But I will do it, I have to figure out some sound issue.
• My new eating habits make me happy, I feel better in my body, I am losing weight AND I eat good stuff.
• You can read my feature over Roots Of She this week: Creative Harvest. So honoured to be there.
• I was also part of Kind Over Matter’s «Seven Souls, One Musing».

I know how hard it is sometimes to find these specific happy moments when all seem so dark, so «I can’t do anything about it». But give it a try. Make it simple. You can do it, I promise.

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This is my first official Wishcasting Wednesday of 2011. Shame on me. But to my defense, I usually answer Jamie’s prompt in my head or in my written journal.
And I am publishing a day late as I prefered painting that being on the computer yesterday.

Focus Focus Focus. This is a big part of my daily life as I have very hard time to focus. On anything. I am always doing several tasks at the same time, because my mind gets bored, or I think of something else and it just can’t wait (unless I will forget).

I wish to focus on my creative business as it seems I have abandonned it a bit during the last few weeks, trying to create perfect stuff I am never satisfied of (and that never ends in the shop).

I wish to focus on Love and what I actually have. Because I have way more than I think (not speaking of material stuff there).

I wish to focus on my health. Continue eating better, starting working out again regularly and not two days and then giving it up for fake reasons. I lost 3 pounds, a lot more to go. But i know now I can achieve it with steadily perseverence (can we say that ? lol).

I wish to focus on the process more than on the final artwork. To simply have fun, enjoy, experiment, discover.

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