Étiquette : quotes

One card a week 14

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lately, something really got my attention: peer pressure. Not on me, I am to wild for that hahaha, but on my pupils, or even in general. This subject came in several conversations I had… So it made me ponder: why don’t I feel this pressure?

I am completely deprived of contest spirit… completely… since as long as I remember. I just don’t care about winning. I don’t see life as a competition either. I don’t try to be popular or even part of a group. I may have tried as a teenager, a couple of months, and it just crushed me. So when I realised it wasn’t made for me, I decided to walk on my own path, without caring about others… it wasn’t the easy way, especially in my high standard high school… but I wanted to go to university anyway, no need of high grades, or even letters of appreciation from anyone (I love France for that!) as the university was in my home city… no probs! I decided to study to get my high school degree and not to please my teachers… bad bad grades all year long, but pretty good ones for the exam, I passed without any problems.

Thing is, I am far better when left alone to deal with things. I went to study in Spain for my master degree. I didn’t go to the University there, I ‘only’ had to write a thesis on a subject given to me by my researches director… who I only saw three time that year, plus the day I passed my master’s degree, which I got easily. Loved that work of researches, loved that freedom. A few years later, when I studied to be a shool teacher, I had a 4 month old baby, worked full time… Still, I passed.

That is who I am: the freer the better. As long as I see an interest in what I am doing, or love what I am doing, then I will give my best. Not to impress anyone, but because I want to. This is something I like in my job: I am free to organise as I want, as long as my pupils learn what they are supposed to. I am free to choose the material I use, the way I teach. That’s probably one of the reasons I keep looking for new ways, new challenges.

Anyway, here is your challenge for this week:

quote: « When you come to a point where you have no need to impress anybody, your freedom will begin.”

pattern: fiore

Here are the rules of the challenge:

  • Each thursday, I’ll give you a quote and a pattern to play with. You can use both, you can use only one of them, it’s up to you.
  • You have till the next wednesday to make your card and share it with us in the facebook group (just ask to be added, and I will open the doors wide open to you )
  • The goal of this challenge it just to offer yourself a time to have fun with pens and cards, to ponder on words, to enjoy a ME time. We tend to forget about ourselves so easily! And sharing is such a beautiful thing to experiment in our life!

Here is my card :

Une carte par semaine 14

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La semaine dernière a été très difficile à vivre, mais j’ai eu la ‘chance’ d’être arrêtée pour la semaine. Je ne me sentais pas capable de travailler, la tête un an en arrière, le corps épuisé par l’énergie que je dépensais pour juste « fonctionner » comme d’habitude… Bref. Je ne suis pas allée travailler. J’ai bidouillé, j’ai pleuré, beaucoup, et je me suis demandée ce que j’allais faire cette nouvelle année sans elle… j’ai beaucoup pensé à Emma, bien sûr, à tout ce qu’elle aimait et était.

La citation de ce challenge la représente complètement, et c’est ce que j’ai décidé d’honorer cette année qui vient. Je vais essayer de faire danser la vie. Peut être pas la mienne, c’est encore bien difficile, mais celle de mes élèves, de ceux qui m’entourent, de ceux même qui me lisent. Et cette musique en moi, ce sera celle d’Emma.

Voici donc le challenge de cette semaine:

Citation: Il faut avoir une grande musique en soi si ‘on veut faire danser la vie. » Friedrich Nietzsche

Mot: Musique

Motif: Ribbon candy

Je vous rappelle les modalités du challenge:

  1. Chaque lundi, je poste le sujet du challenge. Vous avez jusqu’au dimanche soir suivant pour poster vos propositions sur le groupe facebook.
  2. Je vous propose plusieurs possibilités: une citation, un mot, un motif de zentangle. A vous de choisir d’en utiliser un ou plusieurs. Les liens vers les tutoriels éventuels seront inclus.
  3. Vous pouvez dès lors décorer votre carte, ou encore votre page de cahier.
  4. Surtout, amusez-vous, prenez ce temps pour vous, profitez, laissez parler votre créativité. Partagez aussi, chacun peut être une source d’inspiration pour les autres!

Et voici ma carte:

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Étiquettes motivation

Pour en finir avec cette semaine, voici mes étiquettes de pensées motivantes, en 3 versions:

  • Version 1: fond coloré et texte blanc, aux couleurs de l’arc en ciel. Histoire de mettre un peu plus de peps!
  • Version 2: fond blanc mais cadre et texte en couleurs, pour économiser plus d’encre.
  • Version 3: fond blanc, cadre en couleur et texte en noir. Pour plus de contraste.

Un petit aperçu:

pensées motivantes 01

pensées motivantes 02

pensées motivantes 03

J’ai rassemblé les 3 versions en un seul document pdf.

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à vous de jouer!

A lundi, pour le challenge! Si tout va bien, je pourrai vous montrer mes étiquettes en action d’ici le week end prochain. Et puis j’ai d’autres trucs bidules à partager… A suivre donc!

One card a week 13

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This week quote is actually my new moto…

I tried, I really did try to mute myself and behave the way I knew I would have blended with everybody. Thing is, I am who I am. I have values I stand for, and I really do try to ponder what I say and what I believe in…

Life taught me lessons the hard way, and I cherish those lessons, as they made me who I am. It wasn’t an easy process, it was a painful, thoughtful, growing path. I do what I feel I have to do, and I do it heartfully. Sometimes people appreciate it, sometimes they don’t. But I keep being myself.

Being myself was in fact a really freeing process. I do not try or even think to please people, to follow the new trend. I am just being myself, and I live it rather peacefully…. I do not feel any pressure, I just follow my heart and do what I feel is the right thing.

I also know that sometimes, what we do is like a wave: it softly reaches one person then another, and so on. We just don’t really know who will be touched, how deep, how far… So I really do think twice before I do or say anything that might hurt people… But in the end of the day, I will do what I feel is the right thing, even if I send a wave that will come back to me. Be this is who I am. And I am not scared to face what I do or say. Integrity is the value I held the highest I think. So there is nothing to be ashamed for. And the waves I make are most of the time soft, caring waves… Why should I be scared? I am happy to send them and to have them back!

So this week, free yourself! Be who you are, truly are, and make waves you’ll be happy to have come back to you.

Anyway, here is this week challenge:

Quote: « Don’t worry if you are making waves simply by being yourself. The Moon does it all the time. Scott Stabile

Pattern: feria

Here are the rules of the challenge:

  • Each thursday, I’ll give you a quote and a pattern to play with. You can use both, you can use only one of them, it’s up to you.
  • You have till the next wednesday to make your card and share it with us in the facebook group (just ask to be added, and I will open the doors wide open to you )
  • The goal of this challenge it just to offer yourself a time to have fun with pens and cards, to ponder on words, to enjoy a ME time. We tend to forget about ourselves so easily! And sharing is such a beautiful thing to experiment in our life!

Here is my card : I have to say it’s one of my favorite!

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Une carte par semaine 13

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Lorsque nous nous penchons sur notre passé, ce qui nous donne la force de continuer, de rebondir, de nous battre, ce ne sont pas les moments de tristesses, d’adversité. Ce sont les moments heureux. Parce qu’on espère toujours pouvoir en vivre d’autres, et que cette simple pensée est un moteur incroyable. Alors si pour moi, le bonheur n’est pas une finalité, cette semaine particulièrement je vais m’efforcer à penser à tous ces petits moments de bonheur, m’y accrocher, et me dire que oui, on a vraiment bien vécu…

Voici donc le challenge de cette semaine:

Citation: « Sois heureux un instant, cet instant c’est ta vie. » Omar Khayyâm

Mot: instant

Motif: gotcha

Je vous rappelle les modalités du challenge:

  1. Chaque lundi, je poste le sujet du challenge. Vous avez jusqu’au dimanche soir suivant pour poster vos propositions sur le groupe facebook.
  2. Je vous propose plusieurs possibilités: une citation, un mot, un motif de zentangle. A vous de choisir d’en utiliser un ou plusieurs. Les liens vers les tutoriels éventuels seront inclus.
  3. Vous pouvez dès lors décorer votre carte, ou encore votre page de cahier.
  4. Surtout, amusez-vous, prenez ce temps pour vous, profitez, laissez parler votre créativité. Partagez aussi, chacun peut être une source d’inspiration pour les autres!

Et voici ma carte:

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freebies!!

Ce n’est vraiment pas un moment facile pour moi, alors hop hop hop, je me bouge et je transforme ces émotions compliquées en quelque chose de positif: voici les 4 dernières cartes sur un même document, à imprimer et à utiliser comme bon vous semble. Les 2 challenges, sur 2 supports. A vos imprimantes!

It’s not an easy time for me these days… So I decided to shake all this negativity away and do something positive. Here are the last 4 cards of each challenge on 2 pages, to print and enjoy!

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One card a week 12

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We all experiment difficult times, where everything seems to loose its meaning. We then feel lost, drown, while we only have to let go and just let it happen. Then, when it stops and life becomes more peaceful, we see life a different way, we are free of all this negativity.

Well, I have to admit that really depends on the kind of difficulty we have to go through. Most of the time, the cleansing is effective. But sometimes, we only feel empty. It’s up to us to being able to step back and see what these difficulties can bring us, and not what they took us. Not an easy task, but a task that can change everything.

Anyway, here is this week’s challenge:

quote: « Life sometimes takes you into troubled waters – not to drown you, but to cleanse you. »

pattern: warped eggs

 

Here are the rules of the challenge:

  • Each thursday, I’ll give you a quote and a pattern to play with. You can use both, you can use only one of them, it’s up to you.
  • You have till the next wednesday to make your card and share it with us in the facebook group (just ask to be added, and I will open the doors wide open to you )
  • The goal of this challenge it just to offer yourself a time to have fun with pens and cards, to ponder on words, to enjoy a ME time. We tend to forget about ourselves so easily! And sharing is such a beautiful thing to experiment in our life!

Here is my card :

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One card a week 11

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We often see articles or blog posts about finding your true self, or your path, or your space, or where you belong… Thing is, I don’t really think that life is about finding our self… We all are different, with a different stor, a different background, different dreams, and so on… so to me, trying to find myself following someone else’s path is a waste of time, of energy, of expectations… You will never find yourself trying to be someone else. It’s hopeless, as you are yourself already. Thing is, you don’t really know it, you don’t realize it.

To me, we don’t find ourselves (so it’s really useless to look for it!), we create ourselves. With each choice we make, each person we meet, each lesson we learn. We create who we are, who we want to be, who we need to be. We are responsible of who we are. We just need to acknoledge this responsability and the opportunity it gives us to be whoever we want. We create ourselves. So I focus on that, not on a neverending quest. One step at a time.

Quote: « Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

Pattern: puffy 8s

Here are the rules of the challenge:

  • Each thursday, I’ll give you a quote and a pattern to play with. You can use both, you can use only one of them, it’s up to you.
  • You have till the next wednesday to make your card and share it with us in the facebook group (just ask to be added, and I will open the doors wide open to you )
  • The goal of this challenge it just to offer yourself a time to have fun with pens and cards, to ponder on words, to enjoy a ME time. We tend to forget about ourselves so easily! And sharing is such a beautiful thing to experiment in our life!

Here is my card :

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Une carte par semaine 11

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On a parfois besoin de se souvenir de ce qui compte vraiment, ce qui donne un sens à notre vie. Pour moi, c’est une évidence: l’amour que je portais à ma fille et qui me porte à présent. Alors si j’ai perdu tous mes repères, si l’avenir est encore plus mystérieux qu’avant, je n’ai pas peur. Parce que si j’ai su traverser tout ce que j’ai vécu ces 12 dernières années, c’est grâce à l’amour que je portais à mon soleil, mon étoile.

Cet amour m’a donné la force de surmonter mes doutes, mes peurs, de prendre un chemin certes plus tortueux que prévu, mais tellement enrichissant. Et je me dis que quoi qu’il se passe désormais, ça ne peut être que moins compliqué. Et que si je dois encore affronter les orages de la vie, je serai à l’abri, protégée par la promesse que je lui ai faite.

Fort heureusement, tout le monde n’a pas à vivre la même chose pour ressentir ce sentiment. Mais lorsqu’on a la chance d’avoir une étoile dans sa vie, la nuit est apaisée.

Voici donc le challenge de cette semaine:

Citation: « J’ai aimé les étoiles trop profondément pour avoir peur de la nuit. » Galilée

Mot: nuit

Motif: stella

 

Je vous rappelle les modalités du challenge:

  1. Chaque lundi, je poste le sujet du challenge. Vous avez jusqu’au dimanche soir suivant pour poster vos propositions sur le groupe facebook.
  2. Je vous propose plusieurs possibilités: une citation, un mot, un motif de zentangle. A vous de choisir d’en utiliser un ou plusieurs. Les liens vers les tutoriels éventuels seront inclus.
  3. Vous pouvez dès lors décorer votre carte, ou encore votre page de cahier.
  4. Surtout, amusez-vous, prenez ce temps pour vous, profitez, laissez parler votre créativité. Partagez aussi, chacun peut être une source d’inspiration pour les autres!

 

Et voici ma carte:

One card a week 10

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This month is a difficult one for me, as last year I was with my daughter while DIGP was taking her away. I had to watch her body surrender while her mind was fighting till the end. It was probably the worst month of my entire life. So painful. And I have to deal with all these feelings again a year later.

Thing is, even though it’s really painful, these memories are also great teachers. And this loss, the greatest loss of my whole life, as my daughter was everything to me, still hurt me but I also realise it changed me. It made me stronger, wiser, and more grateful for the little things. It made me more aware of what I wanted to do with this life experience. I found a will to go on, to share. It changed me as I now live for the both of us. And I love the idea that she gave me a bit of her way of seeing things, this little spark that adds a lot to my life.

So if it hurts so deeply to have lost her, it also gave me the strength and the will to fully live my life. It changed me.

So here is the challenge:

quote: « There are two types of pains, one that hurts you and the other that changes you.”

pattern: hi-cs

 

Here are the rules of the challenge:

  • Each thursday, I’ll give you a quote and a pattern to play with. You can use both, you can use only one of them, it’s up to you.
  • You have till the next wednesday to make your card and share it with us in the facebook group (just ask to be added, and I will open the doors wide open to you )
  • The goal of this challenge it just to offer yourself a time to have fun with pens and cards, to ponder on words, to enjoy a ME time. We tend to forget about ourselves so easily! And sharing is such a beautiful thing to experiment in our life!

 

And my card: