This week is a little crazy – forget about me being relax, slow paced and present in each moment – i’m officially a full-time-headless-running-chick, preparing for the Fringe Bazaar where i’ll have a stand this Saturday and Sunday.
The place: Église St-Enfant-Jésus (in the basement), 5039 St-Dominique, Montreal. Come on meet me there, i’ll be more than happy to put faces on virtual id’s!!
I’ll be selling signed copies of my book, illustrations, and my 1 inch fridge magnets – PLUS – and this is exclusive for this fair, i’ve got about 100 of these new big size, 2,25″ shinny magnets featuring my art. Come and get yours! Drop and say hi!
Here are all the infos about who’s gonna be there, selling all handmade goodness with a smile on their face – See you there!
It’s now been a bit over a month since I’ve changed jobs and I’m already missing all the new music that was being sent to me and other colleagues. The last album I received (just a few weeks ago) was of Brooklyn artist Reid Paley. Anyways… an awesome surprise, he has collaborated with Frank Black, so what more can I say? I am a music lover and cannot get enough of it:)
Another surprise was when I was reviewing a tiny clip I filmed last year at Southpaw in Brooklyn. I remembered I was filming a wall of posters, because they have a poster of The Dagons who I had worked for the past three years, then I noticed that Reid’s poster was stuck right beside… small world, I knew there was something familiar about that guy…
Last week, Andrea asked, Where in your life can you invest in yourself and in your dreams?
Answers started to get out of my head easily, since living my dreams is almost an obsession: i run my own small human business, so to be independent from time and place, i put as much time as i can into my creative projects (Creacamp, my blog, my art, …), into my body & mind researchs, and i try to fit in every opportunity to travel.
I thrive on freedom in many ways, and try to grab as much as i can: being happy is my contribution to make this world a better place.
Ok, but my mind still ask ‘m-c, where in your life can you invest MORE in yourself and in your dreams?‘
What, wait, isn’t what i am already doing? Isn’t that enough? hm, do you mean, i could get… more?
It seems like i’ve set an invisible limit, somewhere hitted a wall, as if getting more would make me guilty of too much joy.
How could i dare being different and having more than the average?
How could i dare having more free time, money, traveling, fun, play, success, beauty, magic? How could i dare having so much icing on my cake while everyone around is so desesparately running for a little tiny bit of free time for themselves?
I can. Only I can give myself the final approval, the OK stamp to get more of what i already have, of what i already love. The idea that others will suffer, point and judge me for being shinny-happy and prosperous is an old and dirty controlling belief, which I must get rid of – this takes time, and has to be worked on consciously, on a regular basis.
Here i go, i almost forgot that i could get more! Staying with an average, acceptable happiness, i trapped myself again in a system of limited beliefs, afraid to be different and to disturb people around me.
Happiness should always be worked on, one step at a time, always moving forward, with clear thoughts, and actions.
Where in your life can you invest in yourself and in your dreams?
Thanks to the Firefox web browser plugin Add-Art, it is possible to automatically substitute all advertising banners on web sites with artworks. And if you are an artist you can even apply as a curator for artworks used for this plugin. Posted: June 12th, 2008 | Author:chris car | Filed under:Arts & Craft | 2 Comments »
Yesterday I discovered the Round the World blog by Dave, which is very inspiring. He is writing nearly every single day… currently from India. I like his reflections on life and traveling. And he offers very useful information on how to plan a trip carefully, no matter if you will travel for 1 month or for several years. Posted: June 11th, 2008 | Author:chris car | Filed under:Inspiration, Travels & adventures | No Comments »
Today i wish for everyone to let their doubts a little on the side, and create space for trust: trust in yourself, in your feelings, hunch, guts and dreams.
I did not made up my mind yet, but is there anyone from Montreal attending the Squam Art Workshops event? Some of my favorite bloggers will be there, and i’m sure there’s gonna be electricity-love-and creativity in the air! Posted: June 9th, 2008 | Author:m-c | Filed under:Arts & Craft | No Comments »
I don’t know why, but I picked up that book during our last trip to NYC… I did not know the author nor the title.
But it turned out to be an excellent book and I immediately ordered more books from the french writer Michel Houellebecq. I especially loved the mixture of philosophy, futurism and criticism on today’s culture and society.
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Un résumé de présentation à lire sur l’excellent blogue de Sylvain Allard, qui se concentre sur le design et les questions éthiques du Packaging, avec un grand P. Posted: June 4th, 2008 | Author:m-c | Filed under:Local blogs | 1 Comment »
Je sais que je ne suis pas très présente ici, je travaille sur un projet hyper important – celui d’en faire le moins possible, de balayer les soucis, et de profiter de la vie.
Vu dans mes stats, Marianne des Moquettes Coquettes me place dans son top 5, je suis flattée!
Aussi, j’arbore maintenant officiellement le look New Yorker vivant à Montréal, car je suis l’heureuse acquisitrice d’une monture achetée à NY, que je porte comme un bijou, fière de déranger dans un univers remplis de beige et de gris.
J’ai l’impression que cette 33ième année de vie amorcée vendredi dernier me verra enfin changer la palette de couleur adopté pour mes 16 ans: le noir quitte lentement mes tiroirs, ça doit être mes chakras qui sont enfin bien enlignés, après toutes ces années de yoga.
Et que dire de la température, sinon qu’il vaut mieux éviter le sujet.
Sur ce, je vous reviens plus tard, avec des thématiques sans doute pigées dans ma liste de sujets à traiter ici, car malgré moi, le temps me manque pour vous entretenir des choses qui m’animent c’est temps-ci:
achat ou location de voiture (être proprio ou louer communauto? À suivre, nos péripéties dans un monde où auto semble rhymer avec égo)
la méditation (j’ai débuté, mollo, mais oh que ça déménage d’être assise en indien pendant 30 minutes avec une image de paix en tête – eh oui, cela gracieuseté de Eat, Pray, Love – à vous procurer sans faute, la version franco Mange, prie, aime est en magasins!)
comment rouler une entreprise sans y laisser sa peau et son moral – après 3 ans, Meïdia est en restructuration pour rouler mieux et plus vite
je prépare la vente de mes créations car je serai sur place au Fringe Bazaar le 21 et 22 juin pour vendre mes livres signés et dédicacés, illustrations, aimants, et de nouveaux items dont je parlerai sous peu!
Et finalement, le livre The 4-Hour Workweek est un autre bijou de découverte qui me tient compagnie plusieurs heures par jour, accrochée comme une junkie qui veut sa dose.
Je reviendrai sur chacun de ces sujets, en tant et lieux – d’ici là, respirez!
ps: la question à répondre cette semaine, dans la colonne de droite – Are you working on making your dreams come true? J’attend vos réponses!
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