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A lesson in letting go

Last week-end a was given a challenge: to create four, 3-dimensional letter S. Added to the letters created by the other members of the collective it would spell the name of our group: Les Impossibles - meaning the impossible ones, in the sense that we are impossibly creative women artists, united by our common passion for creating artist books. So I went home, all excited, and started rummaging through the mountain of stuff I've been accumulating over the years while my mind was racing with lo… Continue

Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on February 21, 2009 at 6:53pm — 9 Comments

Happy Valentine's Day

Just a quick note to all the wonderful people here at CCS to wish them all a Happy Valentine's day! Love! Chocolates! Kisses! And more love! Here are a few Valentine Day cards I made recently for a cardmaking workshop I was supposed to give. Except not enough people signed up for it. Well, at least it gave me a chance to play and make Valentine Day Cards. Claude Aimée

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Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on February 14, 2008 at 11:16pm — 9 Comments

Let it snow, let it snow, let it stop!!!

Since I last posted about the snow, it hasn't stopped falling. The first big snow fall came a few weeks ago. We got about 30 cm (1 foot) of snow. The snow plow deposited a mountain of snow just in front of our driveway. It took about 3 days to clear everything. That was followed by more days of light snow, bitter wind, a cold spell. The winter routine is settling in: shoveling snow, getting some wood from outside and feeding the wood stove in the kitchen, making soups and stews to warm the belly… Continue

Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on December 20, 2007 at 7:02pm — 11 Comments

First Day of Snow

I woke up this morning and the ground was covered with a thin carpet of snow. The sky is white and in the tree just outside my window there are 6 cardinals hopping from branch to branch. It's the first time I've seen so many in one spot. Maybe they are having a little jamboree to celebrate this special event.

The chickadees don't seem to mind the cold weather and fly excitedly to the feeder, grab one seed and take off as fast as they came. The small downy wood pecker is pecking at the s… Continue

Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on November 20, 2007 at 6:09pm — 16 Comments

I missed you, folks!

The last few weeks I've been busy with a lot of projects and things I had to take care of. I also had to work on my project about starting a business. The course I'm taking is going well, I learn a lot every week and it helps me demystify a lot of things about the business aspect of starting a business. I've had a lot of homeworks to do and it took a lot of my time. I made sure I continued doing a bit of creative something every day or almost and didn't stop my morning writing. But I truly misse… Continue

Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on November 2, 2007 at 3:09am — 7 Comments

More collage poems

Yesterday I felt like cutting up more words from magazines. This time I attacked four decoration magazines. The words are different from the Oprah magazines so it gives me even more choice of words and sentences to play with.

I cut up some colored paper then start rummaging through all the words scattered on my drawing table. The cat had to come visit just as I was picking words and sprawled all over the sea of words. I had to wrestle with him to be able to get to the words. He finally… Continue

Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on October 8, 2007 at 4:34pm — 13 Comments

Fulll figure women

I was looking at my sketchbook last night, the one I carry to the live model sessions I go to from time to time, and I posted some of my sketches in my photo album.

The ones I particularly like are the full figure women sketches. I find that curvy women are such a delight to draw. The model who poses for us is particular beautiful, stunning with her curly red hair and tall and large body that she moves with elegance and lots of confidence.

She's a real inspiration to me becaus… Continue

Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on October 6, 2007 at 4:00pm — 5 Comments

Bobbi Pins

Another double posting...

This morning I was still reading Writing Down the bones and the word Bobbi pin came up many times and each time it seemed to jump out of the page. I could almost hear a bell going off as I read the word Bobbi pin, RRRRRRRing! So I decided to write 15 minutes about it.

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Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on October 1, 2007 at 12:45am — 14 Comments

Fooling around with syntax

Please excuse the double posting but I think people who are not part of the writer's clique might be interested...

Yesterday as I was rea
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Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on October 1, 2007 at 12:01am — 5 Comments

Morning Pages


Long befoe I read Julia Cameron’s The Artist Way, I used to write morning pages off and on. It became part of my morning routine about two years ago. When I don’t write in the morning I feel grumpy, out of balance, lost. It’s as if I were preparing to go on a trip but stepping out the door without a road map.

When I write in the morning, I’m doing some housekeeping, getting rid of dusty old thoughts, sweeping away nagging fears, examining problems that are in the way, figuring out… Continue

Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on September 30, 2007 at 3:07pm — 15 Comments

Another dozen of ATC's!

I just posted another dozen of ATC's in my photo album. I'm not at number 103. I've made them since I joined CCSpace 2 months ago. I had made about 5 or 6 before that but had not pursued the project but because of the 30 Days of Creation challenge I decided to pick up where I had left - almost a year before - and have been merrily creating them. Thanks DJ for starting the 30 Day challenge. It's been a real inspiration!

I can see how they have evolved since the first one. Since the forma… Continue

Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on September 28, 2007 at 12:23am — 4 Comments

Got to show my face too!

Since Camille was bold enough to show us her beautiful face, all blended with the red, white and blue, I decided to post one that I just found the other day. It was taken 2 years ago at my sister Jojo's birthday party. The handsome guy with the irresistible smile is Tom, my husband.



So, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's my photo! (drum roll)

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Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on September 26, 2007 at 1:59am — 10 Comments

The power of 2 dozen women and one crazy creative coach

Last Wednesday I started a course on How to start my own business - with a creative approach. It's given by a group that promotes the entrepreneurial spirit in women. It's a 12-week course that will take me through all the various steps necessary to create my business from the legal and financial aspect, to how to market my products or services, make a business plan, develop my concept so that it can become a reality.
Without going into the details (I don't want to jinx it), I can say that… Continue

Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on September 26, 2007 at 1:17am — 1 Comment

Jojo comes to visit

Jojo is my sister Josée’s nickname. She’s the third child in the family, born three years after me. She has my mother’s delicate hands and bossiness, and my father’s love of music, words and art.

Jojo was born on August 22, 1955. A bouncy girl with a dimple on the right cheek when she smiled and eyes bright and shiny when she was about to get into trouble. In the hot summer of 1959 she contracted encephalitis, her temperature rised very high, so high that it affected some brain cells an… Continue

Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on September 26, 2007 at 1:13am — 4 Comments

Playing with words

This afternoon, I decided I would have a play date with my artist child.

One thing she really loves to do is to cut words out of magazine then assemble them in new ways and turn them into little poems. It's almost like scrabble-poetry-with collage.

So I made five world/collage/scrabble/poetry. I had loads of fun. I went through 3 big Oprah magazines. Lord there is so much stuff in those magazines. Many words and images. I spent the whole afternoon cutting, and fighting with t… Continue

Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on September 15, 2007 at 3:37pm — 15 Comments

E-writing (!!!)

This morning a friend of mine sent me this URL :

http://www.e-write.info/

With the following comment:
«On writing for the Internet...this text is disturbing from a literary point of view, yet undeniably hypnotic. Lots of bad grammar. Try to make it to the end of the page.»

I was curious so I went on the site and started to read it and I almost made it to the end of the page - by skipping some of it - and it's totally insane (Go read it for yourself)
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Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on September 14, 2007 at 10:21pm — 9 Comments

A sad morning

This morning I had to take Columbo (aka Dr. Happy) to the vet because he's got an ear infection. No wonder with the length of his ears. Anyway, he's getting better but needs more treatment. So that's encouraging. And that's the good part of the story.

What made me sad was that in the waiting room there was a old man with an very old dog. I said hello and asked him how old was his dog. I didn't notice that the man had tears in his eyes and could hardly speak. When I went to sit across f… Continue

Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on September 14, 2007 at 1:57am — 4 Comments

Enjoying the moment

This morning I decided to do my morning writing outside for a change, even though it was a bit nippy. I put on my favorite shawl and a big sweater, dragged the table to a sunny spot and sat there with my pen and notebook. Two of the cats came to sit next to me and the dog went to sleep nearby. The wind was blowing and making the leaves chime, I could hear a freight train in the distance, and the cheery chirping of chickadees closer by. A perfect moment of bliss. Every time I want to remember som… Continue

Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on September 12, 2007 at 11:05pm — 10 Comments

My mind is full of people

In my dreams I'm never alone. I'm surrounded by a very large cast of characters. Some I know, some seem to be passers by, others are probably reincarnational selves or people I've known in other lives. Add to that all the people I've crossed path with on the busy grid of real-life and those who emerge all the time in my imagination and that makes for a very crowded mind.

That's probably why they keep trying to escape by appearing in my artwork as often as I'll let them. If I look at th… Continue

Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on September 5, 2007 at 6:32pm — 8 Comments

Doctor Happy strikes again!

Well it looks like Columbo the basset hound will be staying with us permanently. Nothing could make me happier. And my husband Tom is very happy too. He has always loved this dog, with the sad face and the human eyes, as he says.

Since he arrived a few months ago, Columbo has been a constant source of joy and entertainment and has turned out to be a great coach for both of us as well. Every morning he wakes us up around six o'clock with a great big howl and a loud bark in his baritone v… Continue

Added by Claude Aimee Villeneuve on September 3, 2007 at 2:17am — 3 Comments

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