The feel-good things we forget ❤️✨

Aren’t we just precious when we go for long periods of time without doing the things we **know** makes us feel good?

Talking to myself specifically 🙋🏻‍♀️😁

Spent the weekend undusting the watercolor set and stretching the brushes.

Felt so our shape yet SO SO SO good! Smiling all the way through 😃

“Funny” thing about feeling good is that if we can only feel as much as we have tolerance to it.

Just like we have a tolerance for feeling bad — you know how “rock bottom” is different for everyone?

Yeah, that’s because we all have different levels of tolerance for how much bottom is bottom.

If we grew up in an environment that had us getting used to very low bottoms, we just keep that standard the same as adults. Unless we intentionally change that.

Same with feeling good.

We learned  to put a cap on it a long time ago and if we don't stretch our muscles on feeling really really good continuously and for long periods of time, we just won't let ourselves "go there".

Funny, huh?

And so this past weekend got me thinking about it —  how I Love painting so much yet that is “too much goodness” on top of all the other ones going on in my life. So “no, keep it boxed a bit longer. You don’t want to ruin the rest. You can’t have all the fun like that, Raine!” << My mind would tell me.

Crazy the ‘lil games our mind engage on, isn’t it?

Anywho, wanted to show you this darling:

 

As well as a tiny bit of the “making of” :
{there’s a song that goes with it on the full version! 😍 Click here to see it}

and also to poke you a bit in case you fell on the same trap as me.

Tell me, love:

What have you filed away in the corners of your being that is asking to come out?

A new week {or the middle of the same one} is always a good time to bring it to life! 😉

We’ve been waiting for it! ❤️

And speaking of which, {meaning continuing with the small things that brings us fun….}

Guess who just did a WAY overdue trip to Barnes & Nobles?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This darling unpretentious one….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not only a regular notebook to write on:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But a tiny one on top of it with dots to draw and doodle on 😍

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I melt!

Seriously love, if you live in USA or are passing by around here, don’t walk, RUN to Barnes & Noble!

This new selection is to live for!

Have a juicy and feel-good-activity filled rest of the week!

Many Smooches,