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Fresh Ways To Cover Your Floors In Plants And Trees!
(desire to inspire) Ever-present Nature will make your life better in so many ways. If you are looking for a jolt of freshness in your home to galvanize change and get yourself growing in ways that you have been stuck, fun ways to bejewel your floors with plants are...
The Women’s Global Education Project & Learning As Empowerment Around The World!
When globe-circling photographer Laura Grier told me about her work in Africa to encourage young women to attend school, I was transfixed. How small and myopic my world had become in Los Angeles that I had taken for granted the idea of education worldwide and the...
Fast Feng Shui To Put Your Priorities In Order!
(inspiration collages) This is it. You matter. You. Not what your parents want, what your friends say, what you imagined in movies or read online, not some silly standards or some societal pressure… YOU matter. Organize your life so that you matter most. That's the...
10 Ways To Know For Sure That It Is Time To Make A Big Change In Your Life!
(the supermoon is a big harbinger of change!) I am all about small changes. Progessive steps. Organic growth. But there are times when you wake up and know that its time for a real change. Its like a seismic boom. People around you may think you are crazy. You may...
Start Every Little Way Of Living Your Dream Life Right Now!
I once had a high school teacher who explained that if you want to drive a Ferrari when you grow up you should test drive Ferrari's as soon as you have your licence to drive. Interesting concept to get a dealer to allow a 16-year-old to drive a Ferrari, but I...
The Barely-There Lightness And High Style Of Wire Chairs!
(via) There are many design-shifting, space-making aspects of wire chairs that have me scouring the Internet for a pair for my own living room! Not only are they near-transparent- so they work in spaces that would feel restricted by "solid" chairs, they are very...
Doses Of Color Joy From Sandrine Merrien!
Fields of color and threads of ideas all in volume and blush and sunshine and clouds... the stuff that makes Sandrine Merrien's painting the art 'spiration of the day! Captured sunshine in ribbons and expanses makes for pure, light and happiness on a canvas. I'm...
Feng Shui To Love Your Life Much More!
(holstee manifesto, forever a classic!) EMPOWERMENT. The best way to love your life more, live with really easy-breezy passion (as opposed to forced, panicked energy of intensity), and feel more of the greatness of every day is to show up and feel empowered....
Your Clear Vision Creates Space For Everything!
(this & more gorgeous watercolor at striped cat studios on Etsy) My wish for you is that you aren't haphazardly throwing around your energy to see what and who sticks. My wish for you is to have really clear vision as to what you want and see yourself creating....