Obrigado... Merci...Thank you

Foi um workshop muito divertido e criativo. A Mena organizou tudo lindamente com a sua generosidade e bom humor. Eu adorei mais uma vez fico sempre admirada como as casinhas ficam todas diferentes e tão cheias de encanto.

Sei o quanto é bom termos momentos só nossos, em que o "mundo fica lá fora", esquecemos os problemas durante 3h, conversamos, partilhamos os nossos desejos, sonhos até cantamos (a Sonia com a sua voz maravilhosa que o diga...) Ao longo destes anos quer seja em Paris, nos USA ou agora em Lisboa encontro sempre a mesma boa- vontade dos participantes.Que benção poder partilhar e fazer parte desses momentos. A nossa "mascote oficial" a linda Inês , muito concentrada. Veio com a sua mãe Adriana, que tem tanta criatividade a tal ponto de colar o caramelo, que em principio foi destribuido para ser saboreado... na casinha que idéia gira (por isso é tão elegante, eu teria-o engolido em dois segundos! e foi quase preciso empurrá-la para ir fumar com a Mena de tão criativa que estava). Que bom, o scrapbooking tem esse efeito! Ficamos a espera do prometido couscous da Sonia, casada com um françês, e que não sabendo que eu também sou meia françesa trouxe um dicionário, claro nunca mais nos calamos...bla bla em françês. A Mariana e a Xana sempre muito adiantadas gozaram imenso com as " quotas" que não pararam de cantar(sim gostamos da música do top gun, agora menos do tom cruise é mais a onda do George Clooney!) et voilá... CASINHAS LINDAS PARA OFERECER It was a wonderful afternoon, with those talented and criative ladies. LOVE IT.

Blessed are those who are able to create

HAVE FUN...ENJOY ...

The Camino

Estas ultimas semanas foram bastantes turbulentas...tomei de acordo com o Luis uma das decisões mais difíceis até agora nas nossas vidas e curiosamente, após o abalo inicial sinto-me toneladas mais leves. A vida é curiosa. Cresci com a idéia transmitida pelos meus pais que nunca se deve desitir o que acho louvável e tenho tido ao longo dos anos muitos "combates" para ultrapassar.

 As minhas perguntas são as seguintes:

Até onde temos, podemos ir sem por a nossa saude física, emocional,mental e espiritual em risco?

Será que vale a pena forçar?

Como saber se estamos a forçar ou simplesmente a lutar para?

Quando parar? e porquê?

Como virar a página? e as dúvidas? Será que fiz bem? Será que foi a boa decisão?

Acredito profundamente em Deus mas...não pareçe!

Se assim fosse não tentava a todo o custo fazer e ter aquilo que eu decidi! 

De onde nos vem esta ansia de dirigir, de achar que temos o controle?

Porque escolhemos sempre o caminho mais árduo para perceber?

Aqui ficam alguns dos meus pensamentos...enquanto preparo tranquilamente o meu workshop das casinhas para este sábado 14 novembro.

Largar...deixar fluir...são os meus próximos objectivos.

I've been through heavy turbulence this last weeks... My husband and I have come to the conclusion that it was best to let go all those fertilization treatments...and though it was one of the toughest decision I ever made I feel such a relief.

It's over i can't take it anymore and all of a sudden i feel so much lighter!

Life is strange. I grew up with the idea "never give up" inherited by my beloved parents.

But there comes a time when you feel that your physical,emocional,mental and spiritual health are seriously at risk and there's this inside voice telling you"to stop".

 

I deeply believe in God...but from the outside it doesn't look like!

I want things my way!

 Where do we have this crazy idea that we have the leadership of our lives?

That we are in control?

Now that I reach 40 I want to let go...stop fighting day after day till harassment.

Those were my thoughts in my cozy studio while organizing my workshop with the little houses.

HAVE FUN...ENJOY

Friendship....

Os amigos tornam tudo possível...mesmo o impossível!

Os amigos ajudam-nos quando temos de tomar uma decisão difícil.

Os amigos sabem o que fazer para te animar...mesmo quando a vida parece estar ás avessas!

Obrigada amiga pela tua generosidade, alegria, força de vontade, coragem,auto-estima,exemplo,humor,bondade...

Je t'aime de tout mon coeur et merci d´être venue.

My maid of honor came visit me and even if she couldn't stay long it fulfill me. She's one of those special person that you want to look alike. She litteraly shines whenever she goes with her natural beauty, smile,ongoing personality, warmth,generosity,tenderness,courage...

I want to be just like her when i'll grow up.....

thank you Isabel xo xo

Happiness

 

Quoting the Dalai Lama "if we approach our choices in Life keeping in mind that what we are seeking is Happiness, it is easier to give up the things that are ultimately harmful to us, even if those things brings us momentary pleasure. The reason why it is usually so difficult to "Just say No!" is found in the word "no", that approach is associated with a sense of rejecting something, of giving something up, of denying ourselves.

But there is a better approach: framing any decision we face by asking ourselves, "Will it bring me Happiness?"

That simple question can be a powerful tool in helping us skillfully conduct all areas of our lives, not just in the decision whether to indulge in drugs or that third piece of chocolate cake.

Approaching our daily decisions and choices with this question in mind shifts the focus from what we are denying ourselves to what we are seeking- ULTIMATE HAPPINESS

With this perspective, it's easier to make the "right decision" because we are acting to give ourselves something, not denying or withholding something from ourselves...

an attitude of embracing life rather than rejecting it

Love it...

HAVE FUN  enjoy...Be happy

The man I love

Ao longo de estes anos todos a viajar tenho-me apercebido que finalmente procuramos todos a mesma coisa AMAR E SER AMADO e o quanto é complicado viver a dois. Tenho que reconhecer que tenho mau feitio, a minha amiga astróloga Ana diz-me que é o saturno com quadratura a.......o que sei é que sou muito impaciente e bruta, de diplomata infelizmente não tenho nada deve ser o meu signo Leão ascendente sagitário! Fogo-fogo! Felizmente tenho a benção de partilhar a vida com o Luis, que nasceu para ser relações públicas e que é um dos poucos homens  que conheço que mudou de postura, que aceita modificar as suas crenças quando já não são válidas... que faz jejuns a água durante 15 dias sózinho, que tem sede de aprender coisas novas e de experimentá-las como a auto hipnose por exemplo...Neste mundo ainda machista é verdadeiramente de louvar. Tenho a sorte de ter um homem aberto a novas realidades, profundo e corajoso. Porque é realmente preciso ter um cáracter fora do comum para nos transformarmos...Deu-me ao longo destes anos provas de amor incondicional. Preciso de admirar as pessoas que amo e....aí vem o meu "mau feitio" gosto de lutadores e não de vítimas. Tive um exemplo com o meu avô paterno Marcel Jung que foi um homem que se revelou nas 3 doenças supostamente incuráveis que teve ao longo dos anos. Amputaram-lhe uma das pernas quando a paixão dele era dançar, teve a "maladie de crohn" e "spondylarthrite ankylosante"...e mesmo assim NUNCA BAIXOU OS BRAÇOS como o LUIS . Não me interpretem mal, compreendo que tenhamos momentos em que esgotamos as nossas forças, em que só o facto de se levantar de manhá torna-se pesado, em que pareçe não haver soluções...Eu tenho uma grande empatia com o mundo que me rodeia mas vejo muitas pessoas a minha volta olharem únicamente para o "umbigo" e sugarem as energias dos outros sem se aperceberem disso. "Ter  as mãos ocupadas" diz a minha querida amiga Jaqueline e todos os dias tento seguir o seu conselho...a very wise woman indeed... e olhar para o que temos invés do que não temos diz o Dalai Lama"the art of happiness"

Problemas? quem não tem... é a maneira como os enfrentamos que faz a meu ver toda a diferença. E ser feliz "no matter what" acho um dever perante os outros, rir quando apetece chorar, dançar... e sobretudo DAR MUITO, DAR.....sem limites BE HAPPY...HAVE FUN

Feira Craft and Design

Foram dois dias cheios de risos, encontros, partilhas...novas ideias. Obrigado a Luisa, Mafalda e Florbela pela organização e a boa onda. Foi a minha primeira feira e se Deus quiser não será a última! Tivemos a sorte de ter sol quando previam chuva...visitantes curiosos, agradáveis, amigos que me deram apoio, muita criatividade, boa energia e muito.....café na parte que me toca! Vou recomeçar a spirulina que dá imenso energia e de que tanto preciso. Tive a sorte de ter ao meu lado esquerdo uma artista como a Joana 

(obrigado mil vezes pela excelente ideia dos sacos! ) que tem uma enorme criatividade e alegria e que espero voltar a ver de novo e ao meu lado direito a margarida  

 com porcelanas de limoges lindas assim com a Cristina

que tem uns peixes super originais e uma energia a carneiro! A Carla com os seus "stuffed"(nome da revista americana que tem peluches na mesma onda que os teus)...Resumindo ADOREI....dois dias óptimos como eu gosto sol, muita luz, boa energia, muitos encontros inesperados e divertidos, boa disposição, risos...partilhas, amigos  e 

sempre disponível fiável e presente a Mãe e o Luis. 

Comme c'est bon de se savoir aimée et entourée(merci fréro pour ton appui téléphonique)

No mês de novembro há mais...Obrigada                and remember HAVE FUN BE HAPPY.....enjoy

Therapy album

I had a lot of questions through facebook what does your therapy consist of? Hypnose is it dangerous.....etc. So i'll try to answer what it makes to me of course as i can't speak for others. As far as i remember i was always a big fan of therapy. I believe that despite our parents love we still outgrow with wrong beliefs about ourselves and that's where our troubles begin!

My main problem is, was the value or the lack of it....others are always better than myself prettier, clever, funnier...You get the pictures! I missed  always something and grow up deeply believing that i was inadequate. I had to be more, to make more efforts as i was less...God all this wasted years, so many tears, such despair. Little did i know at that time , that our thoughts make our experiences. So i continue during years my victimisation. 

Life isnt easy

Life is a struggle

blabla.....bla.

I started a therapy who produces good results then stopped and .....my old demons came back so i started another one.....

What i didn't realize up to very recently is the crucial importance of one thoughts and that they are a day to day discipline. Don't get me wrong i'm not into this new age think positive and you'll live in paradise! But today  i strongly believe through my experience that is very easy to fall again, our wrong thoughts take the lead and off we go.....upside down feeling miserable and victim again ( we all do...) We get what we believe. So the only solution is to change our beliefs and to achieve that is day by day being kind with ourselves, patient and LOVING. A comfortable and easy way is through auto hipnose, just insert the cd on your laptop and prepare yourself to a peaceful and creative journey of 30mn...and VISUALIZE. It takes discipline as we seem to have always something more urgent to do but what is 30mn in a day?My 40  made me think a lot and realize that time was running fast. I still have a lot of goals, dreams, challenges...and therefore little time for victimisation.My psy ask me to bring along a journal and i decide to make my own and personalize it. It was fun, creative and...very productive. The pouch contains qualities that i attribute myself and pick one every morning. We are the ones who change our lives, we have full responsability of what is happening in our lives and before accepting that no change is possible.

 

JE DIS OUI A LA VIE ET AU BONHEUR

YES TO LIFE AND HAPPINESS

SIM A VIDA E A FELICIDADE

 Keep your hand busy, best advise from my oldest and dearest friend Jaqueline that at the age of 80 bought a computer so she can speak with us through skype and visit online museems Wow! Quelle force, courage et joie de vivre. 

HAVE FUN.......ENJOY

It's all about inconditional LOVE

I just finished this altered book with a true nest dedicated to my grandmother, mom and myself.I hesitate at first as the nest seem so delicate and fragile but then...what a challenge. Made from an old book with pages tearing apart , found some newspapers from 1945, an old manuscrit bought in New York,my little drawers with tarot cards( both my mom and grandmother have an enormous intuition) I try to represent everyone of us. It was fun and easy, we share so many memories, complicity and most of all UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

As i was sewing the 1945 newspaper"le Figaro", i kept wondering about all that my beloved grandmother had gone through world war 2, the fear, Paris being occupied, living each day not knowing if tomorrow would come, finding basic food to give to her family...even in my worst nightmares i can't imagine what it represents living under constant fear. What courage those generations had. You will tell me every decade has his struggle, so true but yet we live in a free world and there's nothing compare to freedom.My mother fall in love in 1967 with a portuguese man, Dad and at that time Portugal was under a dictature that was very difficult to her. She had to wait till 1974 and Carnation Revolution for the democracy to install and the price was very high for a lot of people.Very controversial times. Now we have to face a different type of war but nonetheless scary. So Love is the answer and always will be. I know i kept repeating myself... I was very inspire and took a lot of pleasure, adding little signs here and there.   

Love is the ultimate healer

Love is where i want to go. 

Love is what i want to give and receive

Love is the best thing to experience  Have fun and enjoy

Flea market in Paris

For us who love to craft, Paris is a magical place. I convince Luis to come with me to "les puces de clignancourt". First stop, I recommend a baguette with saucisson(not light but so tasty) along with a bordeaux, chinon ou côtes du rhônes and enjoy, then you are able to fully appreciate the vue. I know french don't have a good reputation so I was more than happy to hear back in Artfest that I was an exception(must be my portuguese side!) once you've overcome the fact that french are bad humored towards everyone not just you! you can relax and start the search. It's like disneyland, so many treasures.I was completely excited to find a 18th doll little dress, it's absolutely gorgeous, the story that it carries, who did it belong to, what misteries lay within...I was close to tears with emotion, Luis at that point was sharing my happiness and content and help me find others small objects. It was a blessed day! We laugh, dance and hug a lot. Back in the studio, I look at my small doll dress and touch it now and then just to feel the texture, and even the smell of ancient. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT... My mother made me yesterday an hipnose session and had me commit to have two sessions every week, as she thinks i need to regain some balance and strengh in my life. Normally i should made them alone but of course i'm lazy and love her slow and deep voice.The results of erickson hipnose are quite espectacular if one pratices with regularity.I'm blessed and very fortunate to have chosen such a mom, who is always happy, giving her energy and her time around. HAVE FUN and ENJOY... BE HAPPY

I need to pray

 I need to pray.I come to realize over those years as my life hasn't turn the way I wanted it to be, that I forgot God. I remember back in my thirties how much I crave for love, how worry I was to remain alone. That was my ultimate desire , TO BE IN LOVE.Then I met Luis my beloved husband and remember this is it...Finally I'm Home little did I know that LIFE is an ongoing struggle(at least for me of course).

Don't get me wrong, I value the love we have together, deeply believe it's rare, profound and unique, but I HAD A DREAM....

The dream of the husband,2 childrens and the dog or a cat!!!!!

So common one could say,I don't want to climb the everest or save the world, just to add my small contribution by loving family and friends the best I can. That's where I forgot God and become very enraged for a moment and still am once in a while! How can this happen to me, I refuse despite the utter evidence that I'm in a fertility program that maybe it won't work, maybe I will never hold my child,maybe after all those years there's no happy end. I heard so many stories with so many solutions.I still have 3 to go...and now I've become so confused, do I really want a child or I relish the idea of beeing like everyone else, beeing part of the whole? Am I forcing God's will? Am I punished? My husband repeats me that it's like a mantra, an obsession. We tend to believe with all this positive new age current that everything is possible, we have the control of our lives....when did we came up with this absolutely crazy idea? God is in charge and will always be. Period, no need to argue or to bargain. My mental is ok with that but deep within I recognize it's difficult TO LET GO, REALLY BECOME A BELIEVER THAT GOD KNOWS WHAT IS BEST FOR ME.

How do you manage to achieve that? So many questions without answers...One just had to experience, bad or good in the end that's what we came here for? isnt'it?

I managed not to drown completely over this last four years, a new world of creativity and friends opened to me with mixed media. Be blessed. I'm proud of me as I choose the LOVE PATH, not always easy the bitter one was so close but I fight back. Maybe I will never become a mother but definetely I become a better person and don't we all have ours wounds to heal?

LOVE IS THE ANSWER...and always will be

Nb: If you're in Paris go Rue du bac to have this miraculous medals, there's a certain energy around.

BE BLESSED........HAVE FUN