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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 Lovelies !

Yep, it is this day of the week already, Friday. Was waiting for it ! I can’t believe April is really there now. It seems that 2011 will pass very quickly; which I am good with at I was predicted a life-changing year 2012. Posing the right bases in 2011, harvesting the positivity the year after 😉

This week, I am thankful for:

• The support received from the Ladies in our Facebook group «52 paintings in 52 weeks».
• The artworks I created this week. I am finding my groove again, it seems to have gone somewhere far away but it eventually came back home.
• The few days of sunny weather. Feeling the sun’s warmth on my skin is priceless. I wish they was not announcing several continuous days of rain AGAIN, I can’t take it anymore, this grey gloomy weather is killing me.
• Cheridoo got us new cellphones. So yes, I won’t have the last version of the phone I wanted but I am still happy.
• My girls are back to school, which makes every one of us happy. I am blessed to have kids that LOVE school. Summer break will be long….
• My gluten free bread is not a disaster. We all tasted it this morning for breakfast and it was a success. I am really trying to improve our way of eating and I do not eat meat anymore.
• The book «The last song» by Nicholas Sparks. Almost finished it. It is my first book from this author, whom I know mostly because almost ALL his books are successful movies. I am reading lots of good books this year !
• The Receiving project 2.0 begain this week; Jo Anna Rothman rocks it all !!! I can’t wait to continue our session together today.
• Some people are suddenly coming back in my life after having deserting it. It is strange but I welcome them back with a smile.
• The radio mode on Grooveshark. I (re)discovers some songs. Good to go outside what I listen to everyday and to be surprised. Right now it is playing «Ghosts» by Michael Jackson ♥♥♥
• Our family getaway in the US last week end. I really enjoy this kind of moments together.
• New opportunities are knocking at my door.
• I feel loved.
• It is only 9am but I decided that I will finally receive the two packages I am waiting from the US, sent like 2 weeks ago (I am pretty sure a US package arrives fasters in France than in Canada…).

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Hello darling sunshines !

I really have to go back into my regular scheduling in blogging. I have so many things to share but spend so less time on my computer…

Here is the painting I am currently enjoying working on. It is on 9″x12″ canvas board (trying to figure out the best to finally sell some originals as well, without having to ask for expensive shipping fees):

I actually hate the background how it is now. There is something off about it. But is is okay because I will start over and cover it up, will see what happen then ! I learned to love every single step of the creating process, even when I actually don’t like what is happening.
If you look closer, you will see the lotus on her body. We can see it better in reality than on the picture but it is subtle.

I am playing with faces, trying to make them express something. But they are still kind of blah. So I practice. However, I like her.

What are you creating right now ? does not have to be a painting, i would love you to share with me in the comments if you’d like <3

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 Beautifulz !

No, my title has nothing to do with Christina Aguilera; even if I like her and we finally watched Burlesque (which we really enjoyed).
It is April 1st and I don’t even have an April’s fool to do. rhoooo.

How was your week ? I hope it was not too harsh on you. But if it actully was, I hope this Gratitude Friday ritual will help you see some light.

This week, I am thankful for:

• My back to basics into portraits with Suzi Blu classes. I feel the urge to make mine better, even if I refuse to change them completely (they may stay mouthless, yes). I need to add depth and emotions into these pretties.
• Advices and support regarding this new practice. It is important to me.
• My art was shipped in several different US States and I hope it will continue and will also fly everywhere in the Universe !
• I finally signed up for fellow Vancouverite photograph Vivienne McCaster‘s online class «You Are Your Own Muse» (aka «YAYOM») based on self-portraits. It was the perfect timing and I thank my husband for having given me his green light for this. A pity it starts in a while (end of may).
• The perspective of becoming a vegetarian is sending me over the moon. I may keep some sea products sometimes, so it won’t be a real vegetarianism (don’t blame me please). I ate a lot of vegetarian food in Toulouse (France) but never found products as good here, I hope I will find some things at Whole Foods and it wont cost us an arm (my husband and daughters will still eat meat).
• Sewing again with my machine in order to create new fabric journals for the shop.
• Creativity flow that does not run dry.
• Thinking about our family week-end getaway.
• My mom I love like crazy. I miss her badly. Can’t wait for this winter so she will come back in Vancouver.
• This canvas, that allowed me to get through very painful feelings:

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I told you a few weeks ago about my new big journal (11×14″). I dedicate it to my Dreams, small and big, and to my Wishboards.
A lot of huge pages to fill, inspired by the fantastic Andrea Schroeder, I draw maps and discover new paths in order to make them reality.

Here is the first page:

Very simple page, only created with PanPastels (face and background) and the Color Shots from Lindy Stamp Gang (unfortunately the picture does not justice to the vibrant shimmers).

On her body, I wrote my statement:

I plant Wishes’s seeds.
I water them with Love.
Watch them grow.
And then I harvest all these Wishes that became Reality.

It is time for me to take care of my life, to shape it so it will look like my longing. You know, this gut feeling telling you «Change your life now before it is too late. It can be exactly what you want it to be, not what it should be.».

I am a firm believer of the «Do not complain about something you do nothing to change»; and often with people it go smooth or it clashes about it. However, I apply this saying to me first. My bigger challenge in these cases is to find which way to go to modify what I actually do not like as sometimes, none of the way looks better than the other(s). My solution ? Sending a clear wish to the Universe after having enunciated the situation, asking for help; then I forget about it until the key comes there (and trust me, it happens all the time that the solution is way different from what I thought at the beginning !).

What about you, what seeds are you currently planting ? How do you care for them ?

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 am so happy Thursday is over. This was a very very rough one, my heart is still heavy, my Soul crashed. But this is also why I started this weekly ritual of Gratitude Friday, to lift my spirit up. Is there a thing when kids are 4yo that cause them to do whatever they want and be just… mean ? Am I a bad mom that did something wrong to go through such a hard time with my younger daughter ? I am just lost right now. Hoping it will get better, easier, funnier. And that Love will win.

I still found moments for which my heart is filled with Gratitude in this black & white week (it was either fantabulous or disastrous, so yes, either all black or all white. Hoping to find the balance in the shades of grey… soon.):

• I sold a total of 4 prints during this first week of opening, this is huge for me. And I am super excited to list some new products soon (originals to come).
• I wrote a blogpost about my struggle to accept my Uniqueness, it was written with tears and share with anxiousness. But the responses I receive, either in the comments, by email, on Facebook, that was just beyond everything I could have imagined. It makes me so happy I hit the “Publish” button instead of keeping it in the draft of my WordPress…
• Spring seems to settle down here, can’t wait for the first bbq and the first picnic on the beach.
• I started a new serie of 7 paintings, each on 10×20″ canvas, that makes my heart sing.
• We found very good food in Granville Island market, that makes being away from France less difficult.
• My mom was honest with me and I appreciate that.
• I have amazing friend showering me with their love and support. Wish plane tickets were less expensive, are the distances shorter. Need some real hugs.
• As a treat for the opening of my shop and actually having some sales already, I ordered a print of Jesse Reno’s Octopus painting I fell in love with during his workshop last September. I was not able to afford the original, but having a print of it is awesome. I am happy he offers this option now.
• Made some chocolate mousse to soothe my heart. It has magical powers.

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