Hi everyone, this week I'm stepping in front of the camera again and sharing one specific way you can use Soul Portraits in Vision Boards and Books to really crank up your manifesting.  

As Soul Portraits are full of Reiki symbols, they are a totem that can truly enhance any visioning you're doing.  

Today I show you some of my vision boards from the past 15 years and a few more recent vision books, plus Luna makes a quick guest appearance.

If you don't have a Soul Portrait, that doesn't matter.   If you're a member of my newsletter tribe, you can still use the Soul Portrait DigiWallpapers within your visioning. 

Obviously, it is more powerful when YOU ARE the image, but to start the ball rolling, why not try integrating some of the great digiwallpapers that I have created.  

If you're new to this, then sign up to my newsletter tribe and you'll get access to 10 of them straight away, including Deepak Chopra, Marilyn Monroe, Julian Lennon, Marie Forleo, Oprah, Sue Bryce, Ghandi, Amanda de Cadenet to name but a few.   Once you're in, you'll get access to many more, plus you'll receive one every New MOON. How cool is that?  

Start visioning right now.  

Now I have a question for you ..... if you have a Soul Portrait that I have done for you, would you leave a comment how you're using it?  

I'd love to know where it is, do you have it on a wall, have you used it in your vision book?  Is it on a shelf, or in a meditation space?  Let me know in the comments below.

Till next time
Have a great week,
Jules xxx

Back in December I posted a photo on Instagram of an illustration I had recently finished and I received a message back from Pip who lives in France.  She was having a totally new kitchen in her french farmhouse and really wanted something of all of her family.    

So I initially thought it was 4 of them. Her children and herself and husband.

Before long, it was Humphrey and Maude, their two Bassett hounds, Ethel the miniature Daschund, Ralph (not quite sure if he is a Bassett cross) and there was Mary.  Mary is the beautiful grey dappled horse.  Oh and have I forgotten to tell you about Ruby the Greenwing Macaw.  

So here I was faced with 4 adults and their furry family - 10 in total.  I later found out that this was just a mere 5% of their family as they have so many animals that I wouldn't have been able to fit them on the paper! 

I got straight into it and did an initial sketch which I sent to her.  I knew it needed tweaking and that's why I always send sketches first to iron out anything.  She gave me access to her Facebook photos and there were just reams and reams of them. 


It made me realise that I actually wanted to go and take photos of them all, including all of the animals...... because it's the little markings that are important. I'm not a portrait artist who does things exactly.  You guessed that right?!?! 


When you get my piece, it's my interpretation of you.  In a whimsical and soulful way.  

I realised that after sending this to her that the doggies weren't looking that great!!! They were indeed more squatter and had legs and feet that were crooked!  So I re-sketched and looked at the composition again.   This was better.  I always like to know what clothes you want to be dressed in, so made all the changes that were asked.

I have to be honest, I have never drawn a horse before so was a little anxious about this.  But Mary had such a presence in her photos that I loved drawing her. Obviously I wasn't going to draw all of her but the face is start. 

She's a hovering horse!

I wondered if I could replicate the dogs and their little ways.  Using promarkers helps to add tone and depth but I needed something more.  So bring out the prisma colour pencils.  They were used to add detail and enhance the animal's features.  Then add in all my lovely pens and ink. 

I am really delighted with how this turned out and was excited to pack it off and send to them in France.  As I use a bleed proof paper, which is very thin, I was able to replace Humphrey and Maude at the centre, rather than at the end in the original sketch.  Having cut them out, I then backed this on to another piece of paper to give strength and enable them to mount and frame it.

This proves my point

Soul Portraits are not just for women, they're for all your family including furkids.

Till next week!

Much love
Jules xxx

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I am now half way through my 10 day journey Birthday Beautiful which began on Sunday 14th and ends on my birthday, Tuesday.   Joined by 20 women it really is quite a revealing journey, helping me and them to step forward, exploring Birthday Stories, Creating Birthday Inspiration Cards, Birthday Altars and Birthday Body Beautiful, just to name a few things I have planned.  

Here I share with you a snapshot from the video sent out on the eve of Birthday Beautiful.  

Keep your eyes peeled as something special is going to happen with this course!

Happy Wednesday,
Warm hot wishes
Jules xxxx

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This is me and my dad.  I was a bridesmaid at my cousin's wedding and I loved this dance with him.  

Looking over pictures recently for my Fun Bio Video that I created, I was taken back to my birthday of that year.  

We had a tradition in our family.  Every year we asked what we were getting for our birthday and we were given the initials at the beginning of our birthday month and we had to work out what it was. 

That year I was getting a BBR.

What the heck was a BBR?

I guessed, I guessed, I sampled different phrases.  

No clues were allowed.  

I just got told it was a BBR.

You know what it turned out to be?  A Bugs Bunny Radio

Yep, this is what my BBR looked like.

I was soooooo happy with it when I opened the wrapping paper.  I found radio stations that I loved and I whiled away the hours sketching Bugs Bunny (oh if only I could find that sketchbook with all my snoopy, charlie brown and bugs bunny sketches!)

This whole BBR thing got me thinking about my birthday coming up soon in July.  

I literally woke up one morning having this downloaded in my brain.

BIRTHDAY BEAUTIFUL

"What's that?" I asked. 

"It's your very own 10 day journey to your birthday - go start writing it."

"Oh that's cool!" said I.  

And here we have it.  My very first 10 day online journey called Birthday Beautiful.  So happy to be doing this.  Want to join the journey?

I have to be honest, I wrote this 10 day journey for myself, first and foremost. 

I wanted to re-create that feeling of anticipation and excitement, self care and self love.  

Those days of guessing what I was getting as a gift really sparked this off.

It made me ask some questions to myself and ultimately I'm asking you:

1.  Do you plan for your birthday?  Or are you hoping it comes and goes really quickly before you notice it?

2. Are there big ideas looming in your head of how you will 'be' on your birthday and then it turns up and you don't 'feel' like doing them?

3. Does your birthday hit an anti climax?

What I see when I'm talking to women is we hurriedly prepare something, perhaps moreso for others. We don't really truly think about what we want.  

• How often do we really plan what we'll wear for our birthday?
  
• What about the music we want to listen to that day?
  
• What food do we want to eat?
  
• What sights to we want to see?
  
• What smells do we want to smell?  
  

More importantly, can Birthday's guide us to feel Beautiful on other days?  

Do we have to wait for that ONE DAY to celebrate?

I have been pondering these questions as my birthday rears her gorgeous head again this month.  I'll be 45 and it's quite a big milestone for me.  Sometimes I feel sad on my birthday, it's an undercurrent; I'm not a sad person, but underneath the layers, there's a benchmark that I haven't met - the benchmark of not being a mum.

I'm pretty jolly and bubbly, but I sometimes wonder if I let this take over my birthday, so instead of feeling joyful and celebrating that I'm happy, alive, contented and doing what I love; I get a niggle of lack of achievement.  

I don't want that for my birthdays anymore.  So I'm putting heart into this new 10 day online journey to give ME the chance to plan that special day and to give YOU the opportunity to join me and plan yours too (or a special day of your choosing.)

It all kicks off on Sunday 14th July and I will lead us through to Tuesday 23rd July.  

You'll receive an email prompt from me every day, which will introduce a new theme and idea, plus a little soulful creative task for us to do.  

We will have a space to hang out online in The Birthday Tent, a closed private Facebook group.  Here we'll share the prompts and how they're feeling, what we're planning and how we're getting closer to our Special DAY.

You don't need to have a Birthday, make this a SPECIAL DAY and follow the prompts and creative activities.  

IT'S TIME!

Join me.

It's £10 for 10 days
£15 if you join with a friend (who maybe celebrating - what a cute gift)

I would love you to be part of my first online programme.

If you have any questions, let me know.  But in the meantime, why not tell me in the comments what traditions you have to Celebrate your Beautiful Birthday!

Till next week.
Much Joy
Jules xx


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