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THE TAO OF DANA
Vintage DIY Inspiration To Create A Magical Garden Anywhere!
(ruffled blog) Old tea tins, soup cans and tea cups can become the home of new seedlings. In merging the vintage and the botanical when cobbling together a garden, you get the ultimate in eco-friendly and dynamic. Here is some very easy, clever, and feng shui...
Feng Shui To Come Back To Earth When You Are Spaced-Out!
Have you had a hard time lately showing up 100% for things? Whether you're extremely happy or wildly overwhelmed, if you woke up late or found yourself with a mountain of unexpected obstacles greeting you as you walked out of the house, there are days when your mind...
The Long Haul vs. The Shortcut!
(inspirational collages) I'm not too sure that you can be constantly plotting ways to find the easy way and building stability at the same time. I once knew a guy who was always looking for a shortcut. A faster way to get to anywhere we were going. A faster way to...
Neutral And Natural Inspired Spaces!
(via) Things are easier when they are organic. Everything from conversation to a great composed salad seems to combine and flow from a place of inspired ease. Here are a few rooms full of Nature and amazing design to inspire more organic currents moving through your...
Using Color To Expand Your Creative Spirit!
Color has influence. It is alive in a sense, a series of waves, bounced off of an object and then spun through our mind and body to become what we know as a hue. Color influence affects our whole life. Western Medicine has softened itself to the idea that the mind...
Best Of The Tao Of Pooh!
(via) Yoou also don't force it, find it in a magic spell, work for it, starve for it or do anything but live it, and give it. It's waiting for you everywhere. Not in your mind. In your life. Go outside & play! xoxo Dana
The Power Of Moving Toward What Is Naturally Attractive!
If you didn't know me, you would think I was a New Age crystal farmer! Lately, I have been taking baths with white quartz, sunbathing my stones to charge them up and sitting on large hunks of citrine. When someone pointed out with an eye roll that...
Threads Of Genius Stitched By Ana Teresa Barboza!
Threads of genius. That's how I describe art that is embroidered into expanses of landscape, floral veils and animals that shine with life. Ana Teresa Barboza elevates craft to a level of the cherished and the precious. Watch them unfold and re-create themselves...
Softening Up Your Space To Create More Emotional Freedom In Life!
(via) Faux fur is my ever-ready invitation to sink into a space. Softening things up softens up barriers, melts down the rigidness of space, or thoughts and even emotions. Some soft in a space can be key to freedom from the routine, the tense and the...