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Welcome to this new Gratitude Friday ! Feel free to share with me your (partial or full) gratitude moments in the comments; that way I can hold joy for you ✿ (you know that makes me happy to make you happy).

This week, I am grateful for:

• Envisioning my future
• Being back in my Studio more regularly
• Music
• Both my kids going to the next grade next year
• Our swimming pool
• The coming week of vacations with my husband and our kids
• Fitness
• Discovering the good deal via LifeBook (I finally am taking the classes I have been eyeing for months, from Jeanne-Marie Webb)
• My new creative project
• Connecting more
• Trusting that my life will be what I desire if I work hard for it and believe in myself
• Being part of the Strumpet Stencils design team, with a supportive group of women
• My best friend and her love for me no matter what

My song for this week:

I sometimes have crazy ideas that pop in my mind… I usually shove them off quickly to go back to more rational ones. But this idea came back again and again, so I decided to give it a go.

I am still struggling though, with the fact that paintings take physical space in our home. With the fact that I wish people would love them so much to give them new homes. But what if instead of coming from a place of Fear, I was shooting for Joy and Hope instead ? I am okay with “what if…“.

Trading art ?

A friend *thank you Sal* suggested that I could do art trades with other artists and I really like this idea. If you remember the tour of my ArtCave, you may remember that I have a FanGirl wall with paintings I bought or was gifted. This is my favorite wall in my Studio. So if you’re interested, maybe I can trade one of these 100 Nixies with you 🙂

I also decided not to give myself a time table.

It will take the time it will take but I know that actually giving myself a “it has to be done by this specific date” would put too much pressure on my shoulders. And this is about practice and joy. Painting for painting. Painting for exploring. Doing it for myself first.

I think this project will help me not giving up on my Nixies, on my art, on my creativity. At least, this is what I hope… and sometimes, hope is all you need to keep going forward.

My path is my own and I need to stop comparing it to my friends’ or other artists’. I love being part of a community but I often feel invisible and hurt. It is a shitty ego issue I have to deal with, I guess 😉

Do you sometimes give yourself creative challenges ? What are they ?

Hey guys ! Welcome in this second video about creating your own art journal. In this one, I share with you how I decorated my canvas cover, both the outside and the inside.

I love the Strumpet Stencils for their diversity and quirkiness. They fit me perfectly 😉

Enjoy the video:

I love painting with my fingers, it gives me more control when blending my colors together. I kept my use of the stencils pretty easy because I wanted a simple cover.

I only have two signatures in this journal, and you can watch me create those pages on the first video. You can see my sewing is totally wonky: it is what happens when your hands give up on you. But I decided it was giving my journal some more personality 😉

Supplies used:

Some pictures:

Welcome to this new Gratitude Friday ! Feel free to share with me your (partial or full) gratitude moments in the comments; that way I can hold joy for you ✿ (you know that makes me happy to make you happy).

This week, I am grateful for:

• Morning walks
• My best friends
• Love, in general
• The moments we laugh until we almost pee ourselves
• Food
• Music
• Books (I am currently reading Leah on the offbeat by Becky Albertalli, which is a companion book of Simon vs the homo sapiens agenda)
• Creativity
• Choosing to stay alive, every single day
• Talking about things that hurt with my Mom so peace can be welcomed

This week’s soundtrack:

Hello beautiful people !

I am back with a new fun video for Strumpet Stencils. You may know that our cool team is starting a collaborative project of traveling art journals. We each create one and send it to someone that will create on it before sending to someone else etc. I can not wait to see what my amazing teammates will create in mine <3

I created a 2-part project where I share with you both the pages then the cover. A variety of papers and sizes were used for my journal and went for a canvas cover.

For my pages, I used my Gelli plate but not only. I really hope you’ll enjoy watching my process (and if you do, feel free to let me know by commenting and sharing it with your friends)

Here is the video:

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What is your favorite way to break up the blank page syndrome ?