Create your own agenda

I do love my agenda though is not a small one i take it everywhere with me! Why don't you create your own? Add the photos of your beloved ones along with specials postcards, plenty of vintage papers, where you can  write never ending list of your goals, projects, secret desires. 

My agenda pretty much defines me, it's handmade original and unique. In this world of globalization it is good in my point of view to resist and follow our own path.

What are your passions? (quote minimum 10)

What makes you unique?

What do you bring to the world? 

Are you happy with your life?
Do you like yourself?
I know i have been questioning a lot lately, must ask my astrologers pals what is this all about! But i like it to challenge myself and specially to have goals.


What is there for you?
Do you live life to the fullest?
My secret desire would be to sleep 3 to 4h taking a magic pill that would give me a lot of energy to carry on with day to day life without being tired!

Yet with the years passing by i realize that i have already a lot of energy and that my creativity is blossoming.
   Do you take care of yourself?
 Some friends will say it's easy for you because you are childless....blabla blabla. I used to have my own excuses, the jet lag, being away for  more than 15 days in the month. I have learned to define my goals. My husband 9 years ago didn't even know where was the supermarket and cooked basically two sunny side up eggs! Now, he's the one filling up the fridge and mostly the cooking. It wasn't easy "to trust" him at first, i mean i know every corner of my favorite supermarket and don't come home missing the eggs or the bread! Then i am maniac had to let go on how everything was arrange into the fridge! Major issues...but i stick to it as my therapist tell me to and can say that i like the results.
Yesterday, i was with a longtime friend, mother of three children, who was telling me how she was worried seeing so many of her friends more and more depressed.
What is it with this world nowadays that effectively more and more people lost track of their lives? France is in europe where people take more prozac. Why? What can be done? The information as never been so widely covered and yet people are falling into depression. 
What is missing in their lives that provoke such pain?

Sunday another Craft and design always happy to meet crafters friends and spending a day in a open garden.

Have fun

xo

Homesick...

I have been in Paris for 4 days  heading to Rio de Janeiro tonight both are extraordinary cities but still I miss my husband. I miss his smile, his touch, his kisses, his tenderness and passion ...after 9 years of marriage i should be more independent but i am not and don't plan to be. All my female friends are the same i guess it runs on our genes then for the fortunates ones came the unconditional love for their children but i acknowledge everyday how women's life are bound to their man. A friend was telling me that she should be more assertive, that she should have more rules...which i replied that a woman in love function with her heart not her mental.
Nothing prevails the emotion of being connected, being united, feeling whole.
I will drink a caipirinha to love
Have a good week end
xo

Online shop...Etsy

Eureka! I have open my Etsy shop come and visit me...
I choose the banner above for my shop so i'll know my grandmother and mother will keep an eye on me and will certainly show me the way with their inner intuition and wisdom.
Hope you'll like it. My first choice  is the  Once upon a time album who is very unique and special.

I want to thank  my artfriend Catherine Whalen Mitchel who deeply encouraged me to go for it! I know i have a true connection with the United States and my artfriends.
A new adventure begins...I am very enthusiastic about it. Wish me luck
Have a good week
Xo

I love my bed...

Arrived  from Mumbai this morning ... with the sense of longing and wanting to come back soon. Either you like or dislike India i don't get to see much in between...Just finished this superb book by Javier Moro the non authorized biography of Sonia Gandhi. What an extraordinary destiny! This italian woman coudn't envisioned the life that was ahead of her when she falled  in love with Rajiv Gandhi back in the sixties. She was eighteen and fought for her love against the will of her father who wasn't that happy to have her daughter to depart from distant India even to married a prince. The book is superbly written and we get to see both the life of Sonia and Rajiv and the one of Indira Gandhi. Not to be missed...

Check also on Katie Kendrick's blog joyouslybecoming.typepad.com her new mixed media video. I absolutely love it, can't wait for tomorrow to try her methods. She is so talented i am very blessed to know her.
Have a good week-end
I will plenty of ideas popping in....
Xo

Valentine's day

Did you have an Happy Valentine's day? 
Did you dance and look yourselves in the eyes thinking that i'm truly blessed?
I deeply love this man
I deeply love this woman
Why? 
What makes you love one another?
What makes you stay together all over the years?
......
TO LOVE AND BE LOVED
xo

Treasure heart album

 Just finished my Secret album that i am very found of. Don't know for you but my last work is always my favorite...till the next one. I am preparing my Etsy Shop trying to understand how it works and am receiving everyday their newsletter which is quite interesting. They are very structured and helpful. 

 Questions they suggested us to answer:
Why are you doing what you do?
Why do you pursue it?
Why do you think you can succeed?
What do you want to be known for, talked about?...Now is your turn to do the homeworks!

 I am "dating" Etsy shop for over a year now but haven't sense is the right time yet to plunge, maybe because i'm afraid of the extra work and how will i manage it all? But as time passes by i'm getting more and more excited with the whole idea... they are very challenging which i love
I realized that i value family above all things, within our family we are deeply loved, encouraged and stimulated and my treasure hearts albums are just that a reminder, a totem of who we are where we come from and where we want to go. My goal when creating is enlightening our past, bringing back good memories of this special recipe made by grandmother, when opening this little box Mom's perfume Shalimar filling the room, rereading my love letters with the same joy... having our own special and unique Life within the album and keeping it up with new photos new insights .....

Have you seen "the King's speech"? What an extraordinary movie very authentic and touching, hope Colin Firth will receive the Oscar. He sure deserves it!
 Raining a lot, feels like a good afternoon under the wool plaid with a huge book and plenty of tea is expecting me, cool....
Have a good sunday
Xo

Questo mi piace...

I completely fell in love with Rome...Like Venezia it's a magical city where beauty lies in every corner, every fountain, every church... San Pietro Coloseo Circus Massimo appia Antica via del Condotti Palazzo Farnese ... gelati tiramisu ristretto con panna montata... and the sales are awesome!
Hopefully i will return...i did send two cents at Trevi Fontain, one for a special wish and the other one to come back...let's see if the tradition is right?
Have a good week-end
Grazie tanto mille

One of a kind...

Heading to Paris and tomorrow one of my favorite cities in the world Mumbai ...will definitely enjoy the best chicken masala in town then Paris again staying with friends then.....well you don't really want to know my head is turning already......Will be back in february! See you
Remember to dance laugh enjoy
Have fun
Xo


PS: my album page is a text reminding us how each one of us is special and unique

Do i give enough?

We all live thinking we are imortals. I mean of course we know we are going to die but it seems so far away in the rush of all the important things we have to accomplish! My beautiful grand mother passed away when i was still a teenager and there isn't a single day that i don't thing of her in a way or the other.
The longing of her smile her hugs her odor "opium" all the secrets we share. I thought she would live forever never see her aging. 
A very close friend had an unexpected and sudden death in her family, the wave of despair comes and paralysed her. No words will comfort her.
I took me a while before going to sleep with the same endless questions  
 Do i give enough? 
Am i a good wife?
Am i good sister?
Am i a good daughter?
Am i a good friend?
Am i ........
Looking back i don't remember most of the discussions i had with my relatives or friends. So why have them in the first place? How can we erase the useless ego?

If i should die tomorrow...Do i have any regrets? Did i make up with past friends? Did i say how much i love my father for all the confidence he gave me? Did i say my mother how much i love her and admire her? Did i say my little big brother how much i am proud of him? Did i say my red hair friend how much she is a fighter and an example to follow? Did i say my astrologuer friend what an extraordinary intuition she have and how brave she is? Did i say my favorite single mother how she is a courageous?

Do i say enough how much I deeply LOVE  my half and how much i admire him? 
But more than saying it...am i living and acting with love? 
Do i listen enough?
Do i pay enough attention?
Do i ?.........
What remain of us when we leave? 
Have a good week...
Xo

Are you open?

Just finished two extraordinaries books "The Help" Kathryn Stockett and "Shanghai girls" Lisa See.
Both about discrimination and injustice and how women fight back, never giving up their dreams and their ability to give no matter what.
We are transported back in the sixties, Mississipi, how black women cooked, cleaned and raised little white children and have their own private toilets because of the diseases they might carry for example or others discriminations each one worse than the others.
"Shanghai girls" is the beautiful story of two sisters back in the sixties too, who after their father lost his fortune were sold and went living in chinatown Los Angeles and couldn't get out of it no matter what.
I am fortunate to have been raised by a french mother and a portuguese father both open to the world. I remember the parties in our house where my father was at the time responsible for black and arab countries. I remember mom wearing the traditional boubou offered to her by the Senegal's ambassador. I knew from childhood that we are equals in rights. In reading those powerful books i tried to imagine what would have been my reactions in those terrible years. Would i have been brave? Would i have been coward? I realize that the ultimate gift my parents offered me are the openess and the tolerance.
I am at home anywhere in the world in a rich or in a poor house i will adapt and be thankful for it.

There is still i believe much to be done towards tolerance, information or most of the times the lack of it is the main responsible for all the fears towards the "ones that are supposedly different".
Hope you like my new "memories" album...
Have a good week
Xo