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🖐🏻Hands🖐🏻⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 💫This month, 🖐🏻Hands🖐🏻⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 💫This month, I’m taking part in @joannehawker’s #marchmeetthemaker challenge - I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone else is getting up to! ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🖐🏻Today, day 2, our prompt is ‘Hands’.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🖐🏻So here are mine! ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🖐🏻I would love to get to illustrating a lot more - it would do the world of good for my confidence in my illustrations - but the reality is that at the moment, I only really get to the space easily (i.e. paints out, no little pickly hands…) I can paint every Monday morning, at my friend @artshazia’s studio which she so kindly lets me use. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🖐🏻Every Monday hasn’t been happening of late with all the bugs we’ve been passing round the family (today that is me!) - February really has been a bit of a humdinger for us - but I hope with Spring on the horizon this will change and I’ll get back to flicking paint around in the studio next week. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🖐🏻Meanwhile, I’m focussing on other parts of the project for releasing ‘Samuel and the monster’ in April, which means distinctly less painty things like: ⁠⠀ 🖐🏻buying ISBN numbers ⁠⠀ 🖐🏻finalising last bits of the page designs⁠⠀ 🖐🏻figuring out how the heck I sell via Amazon⁠⠀ all important parts of this creative project, but not very illustrative!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🖐🏻Looking forward to seeing everyone else’s pictures and stories!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📷 Captured by the ever so gorgeous @catherine_frawley as we were gathering images for my website, I had a little play around with my paints and painted up a little image of the monster from ‘Samuel and the monster’.⚡️
📕Story📕⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨38 years ago, a litt 📕Story📕⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨38 years ago, a little girl was born on a cold winter’s night in January.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨For 28 years, she was a Very Good Girl (apart from one incident when she was 16 when she got in a lot of trouble at school, but we won’t talk about that!).⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨For 28 years, she hop-skip-jumped all around the world, without much of a thought as to what she really wanted. She was just happy hop-skip-jumping. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨For 28 years, wherever she was in the world - California or Australia, Scotland or Texas, Dubai or Ecuador - she was fascinated with the words surrounding us.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨For 28 years, she loved how writing made her feel, that feeling of putting pen to paper, and ink spooling out across the blank sheet of paper. Even when her Texan school teacher asked her to relearn how to write in cursive, she just loved pen and ink.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨For 28 years, she loved doodling and drawing pictures alongside these words, often in the margins.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨As I said, for 28 years, she was A Very Good Girl.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 💥And then, she disobeyed all of the rules. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 💥She quit her ‘safe’, decently paid corporate job.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 💥She started a swimwear company. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌀And she started her journey of figuring out what she really, truly wanted.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨One cold winter’s night, ten years after quitting that job, and exploring creating life on her terms, she realised that what she really, truly wanted, was to be a Children’s Author & Illustrator.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨And so that is exactly what she did. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨She wrote her first children’s book, ‘Samuel and the monster’, which she will self-publish on April 16th. I guess you could say, that it is on April 16th we will find out if the girl lives happily ever after…⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨Or will she just keep writing children’s books?⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ And that, dear reader, is my story so far...⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ (Not) The End (Yet).⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📷 @catherine_frawley 🐒
🐒Let’s lighten things up!🐒⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌳I got a little serious here this week, because the words we use with ourselves can be a serious matter. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🎈It's time to lighten up!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🍄You might have seen some pics of my recent belated birthday party, when my terribly indulgent friends dressed up as their favourite children’s book character from their childhood. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🔮Everyone blew me away, pulling out all the stops on a random rainy Sunday afternoon.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 💥We had some cracking costumes: Pippi Longstocking and Mrs TiggyWinkle won the joint prize, but the choice was tough, with two most excellent Mary Poppinses, a Matilda, the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, George from The Famous Five and I came as Eloise + Raisin was Weeny her sidekick pug. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 👇🏻👇🏻Tell me, what’s your favourite children’s book character from when you were young?!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🍑Have an inspiring weekend, folks!!!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ xox⁠⠀ Alexia
🌀Repetition is the mother of all learning🌀 ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🙈Repetition is the mother of all learning.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🙉Repetition is the mother of all learning. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🙊Repetition is the mother of all learning.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 👉🏻So the messages we repeat to ourselves are SO important!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🔮@heyamberrae’s book ‘Choose Wonder over Worry’ is a great tool for learning to deal with all the voices when they crop up and I’ve used it many a time to delve into some of the messages cropping up for me.⁠⠀For me the chapter on ‘envy’ was so useful - envy has often proved a really helpful compass as to paths I might benefit from exploring. In fact, envy was a reason I gave up my swimwear company for my bigger dream of being a children’s author/illustrator! But that’s a story for another day... ⁠⠀ 🙊Speaking of repetition…have you signed up my newsletter and joined 🌳The Pea Tribe🌳 yet (link in bio)?⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌏This week is the last week to be entered into the random draw to win the illustration of a magical world I’m painting this month.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ xox⁠⠀ Alexia ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀
💫What’s your story💫⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌱With 💫What’s your story💫⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌱With my eldest son, Samuel, I’ve been shocked at how early the ‘stories’ we create with our words can start, the first seedling of a limiting belief. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌀I noticed Samuel saying ‘I can’t (do X)’ or ‘I’m not good at Y’ as young as 4 years old. I was determined to turn this around. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🙊On the night that the idea for ’Samuel and the monster’ was born, as I was helping to change Samuel’s state and the words he used, once we’d determined there were no longer any monsters to worry about, we chanted some affirmations together, using the theories I’d learned with @theyesmummum, that our words can turn our beliefs on their head. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨‘I am Samuel⁠⠀ I am Samuel⁠⠀ I am Samuel⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ and I am AMAZING!’ ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🚀We yelled together. I saw his conviction and confidence change as he stood in front of me. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 💌As a side note, Hollie (@theyesmummum) sells incredible affirmation cards that address any and all stage of life, including young children, teenagers, new mums, bosses. I highly recommend them.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 👇🏻👇🏻Do you use affirmations in your daily life, I'd love to hear how they have helped you. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ xox⁠⠀ Alexia ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📷 @catherine_frawley 🐝
🔮Our words create our worlds🔮⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📕As a lifelong student of language - English and others - I find the language that we use with ourselves completely fascinating, both out loud, and also in our heads.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 💕A lot of the things we might consider berating ourselves with, we wouldn’t DREAM of saying to a friend.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨My journey in learning how to harness the power of our internal words started on our hypnobirthing course with @theyesmummum, before we had Samuel nearly five years ago. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 💫Hollie gave us scripts, tools and exercises to gently turn any negative messages of pain and fear into empowering, encouraging words and phrases. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 👶🏻👶🏼But the real proof was in the pudding, when all these scripts played an enormous and important role in both (very different) births of my boys. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌀Since then, I’ve enjoyed building more and more use of daily affirmations, incantations and ‘power thinking’ (not the same as positive thinking, a topic for another day). They have been life-altering. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌈Of COURSE I still regularly hear that little niggly voice that might creep in whispering nasty things, but now I’m better trained to catch them before they start to spiral, acknowledging them, and filling the vacuum instead with more encouraging words for myself. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 👇🏻Where have you most benefitted from the power of your words?⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ xox ⁠⠀ Alexia ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📷 @catherine_frawley 🦋 🌳I’ve realised I should explain this pic...it is the home of a certain little magical someone who has taken up residence in the tree at the bottom of our garden...we’ve not met her yet but we’ve heard LOTS of stories about her world...
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