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JANUARY [YEAR]

D+R 2022

IS THE TIME RIGHT FOR REFILLABLE BEAUTY ?

The beauty industry is plagued by its. waste problem: About 120 billion units of beauty packaging are produced every year,

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HOW TO REDESIG A STUNNING HOME

Establish what you don’t like for each room. Remember who lives in those rooms and what they will be used for..

VICKI SAWYER You’ve probably seen her work somewhere in a gift shop, the grocery store selling her amazing paper napkins with birdies, art galleries, online.

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THE ART OF GIVING Everyone favours gifts that are personal to them and there's always room for a special mug in someone's life. By giving a mug as a gift, you are extending a special reminder to someone that they are loved and cared about. You can't get more personal than that!

Raised Design 10oz Bee Mug Dishwasher and Microwave Safe Comes Gift Boxed

7 Gifts for Women, Based on Your Relationship

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For mothers: a long-distance touch bracelet set.

For sisters: a compact swivel cheese & tapas board.

For daughters: an unwind lavender gift set.

For grandmothers: a just-ripe fruit bowl.

For aunts: a mindful breathing necklace.

For best friends: a wine chilling coaster with glasses.

For neighbors: a hand-blown glass olive oil pourer

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TREAT YOURSELF WITH THESE GIFTS FROM NATURE

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WANT to plan an interesting still life photoshoot with your camera?

1. Plan ahead of time The well-known saying, If you fail to plan you are planing to fail is also true for a photoshoot.

By making use of a mood board, you can plot all your ideas in one place and visually can see what feel and look one’s after.

We created a couple of ideas on how to prepare for your next social media story.

2. Create a mood board Mood boards help one to create a feel and look that’s visually pleasing to the eye. Keep an open in as to what the right solution for your ideas might be. Once you know what direction you want to take, collect inspirational photos.

Use a diagonal line from one corner to the other to line up the subjects in the picture.

When you’re on set, the sketch is not set in stone. It gave you a good idea what to move around on the set, things might change. By keeping your preplanning in mind, one can change things up while keeping the rules of thirds and negative space composition in mind.

Ask yourself questions like, what is the story I want to tell, in this case the story I am imagining is someone who is writing for long hours on end and got tired. All these elements are contextualized in a bed room, an intimate moment.

Midday light fills the room.

3. Notebook + Ipad Make a square to imagine the parameters of the room and which part you will take the photograph.

Write the plan down to help you not forget what you will do.

Take into account what format you want to use it for, like for facebook, Instagram, pinterest? This way it’s easy to upload the image into your social media feed.

Using the rule of thirds to place the important subjects on the lines. In this case the red shoes and teacup are the main characters in this image which lies at an intersection point.

The red shoes, because of their bright colour, dominates this scene.

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WHIMSICAL ARTIST VICKI SAWYER

I love to paint, and if I can positively affect someone with my art, then I have reached my goal, to serve.

You’ve probably seen her work somewhere in a gift shop, the grocery store selling her amazing paper napkins with birdies, art galleries, online.

Vicki Sawyer’s art is loved across the globe.

Inspired by the natural world...

"I grew up in a charming 1850 home we shared with my grandparents near Pittsburgh, PA. My grandfather, who farmed the land and raised chickens, taught me how to identify plants on our hikes together. My mother's joy in painting and the arts taught me to be visually aware, and my father's love for birds kick-started a lifelong curiosity for the expansive beauty of the bird and animal world.”

Vicki's career was established with a degree in art from Penn State University, which led to work in graphic design, handmade doll creation, and professional mural painting. During her mural painting years, she developed a portfolio of hundreds of murals featuring birds, insects, animals, grasses, and wildflowers. Her experience confidently led her to move into canvas painting of the natural world. This switch, made fifteen years ago, marked the beginning of her expansive career as a fine art painter with a growing library of over 2,500 works.

"I want my work to evoke feelings of peace, joy, 4/19/2022 and often humor.

If I can move someone with my art then I have achieved my ultimate aim." usually paint birds and animals life size but on occasion, I paint them bigger to attain more detail and create the strange and playful look of a larger than life bird. This piece is just that. It's titled, "A Moment to Celebrate" and the birds included are an American Goldfinch, a Black & White Warbler, and an Eastern Bluebird, all wearing classic party hats made of natural elements. This piece is 13" x 19" with the birds painted around 3 times their natural size!

Cheers to livin' it up larger than life On a walk one day, I believe God put the thought in my head, “If birds can build nests, then they can make hats.” I took that inspiration and flew with it. I research birds and their environment, because they would use those natural elements to make their hats. Then I started thinking that birds could help make hats for animals. And then, there had to be masks, too. Lately, most of my paintings involve birds in party scenes. This requires attention to minute details in the birds’ expressions.

Serious whimsy animals - Vicki Sawyer paints birds in hats and critters in costumes "I label my art as serious whimsy. It's seriously painted, but whimsical.”

Vicki created a world that didn’t exist, or should we say we didn’t see until she shared her world with us. Who knew birds have tea parties with hats so elaborate we can’t get enough of it. Then there’s Erwin with his sunflower seed goggles, o dear! He’s such a hunk. Scooting around Vicki’s animal world makes you feel you belong there, it’s how she brings the animal world and human world together in a whimsical way that makes it so easy to transition from the one to the other. Familiarity to the point you buy portraits of everyday birds and animals to hang it on the walls in the home. These lovely creatures become like family.

Many of her customers seem to favor products that feature groupings of Sawyer’s birds in stylish headgear, images that she notes take “a lot of time and detail.”

One fan wanted more than a card. “The rooster with the vegetables on its head is now a tattoo on a chef’s arm,” she says, “and someone else has a tattoo of some of my owls.”

Not all Sawyer’s fans express their appreciation with body art. Some send her notes. “I get the sweetest emails. Some say my art has made them laugh and others tell me to keep doing what I’m doing, because I bring so much joy to the world,” she says. “That’s exactly what I want to do.”

Her timeless art has no boundaries, what’s good for one generation is good for the other.

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How to redesign a stunning home

How to choose color The first question to ask is always “what do you already have that you will keep.”

Redesigning a home can be a very creative and satisfying process, both for the home owner and the interior decorator. Both will take one room at a time and evaluate each room to see what will stay or go.

Establish what you don’t like for each room. Remember who lives in those rooms and what they will be used for. Also keep in mind that the house could be sold in future and how well it will sell.

There comes a time in every room’s life when it needs a little change. The curtains start to look dated. The rug just isn’t what it used to be. The furniture gets worn and the floors loose their luster. Is it time to abandon the house and just move to another one? No! Redesigning your space can make a world of difference.

After you’ve doe all the homework, it’s time to design.

It’s important to let the interior designer know what you want to accomplish overall.

Start with the floors. At this point the interior decorator will discuss the floor options. The floor and colour are the basic stones to build good design.

It’s good (and fun) to go through Instagram, Pinterest and various websites to see what’s out there and what will suit your style.

There are so many interior design products on the market, it can become quite overwhelming.

That being said, it’s satisfying to know you have explored the wide range of floor options. This gives you a good understanding of what the interior decorator might suggest and how you can react to that.

Whether you’re on a slim or generous budget, there are methods you can use to change the interiors of your home.

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COLOUR

1. Choose a colour scheme from the largest pattern in the space.

If you've got patterned upholstery, an Oriental rug or large piece of artwork, pluck colours you like from the pattern. For a neutral wall paint colour, look to the pattern's whites and beiges.

2. Start with the formal areas of the house.

Specifically, the living room, dining room and entryway. Choose a colour scheme for those areas first, then pull one colour from the scheme. For example, take the red sofa and tone it down (say, to burgundy) for an accent in more private spaces such as the den, office or bedroom.

3. Decorate your space from dark to light, vertically.

A real "cookbook" way to make any space look good without much risk, McCauley says, is to use darker colour values for the floor, medium colour values for the walls and light values for the ceiling.

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4. Study the colour of your clothes.

Most people buy clothes in colours they like to wear and think they look good in. Similarly, you should decorate your rooms in colours you look good in. "If you don't wear yellow, don't get a yellow sofa," McCauley says. "You're going to look sickly on it."

5. Use the colour wheel.

In general, analogous colour schemes — colours next to each other on the colour wheel, such as blue and green — are more casual and relaxing, and work best in informal or private spaces. This is a good strategy for a bedroom, where you want to rest and recover.

6. Go with the architecture.

If you have a small room in your house, don't paint it white to make it seem bigger.

Instead, cosy up to its architecture with a rich, warm colour scheme. Let your big rooms expand with light, and your small rooms wrap you up and nurture you.

Whatever colour scheme you choose, McCauley advises putting something black in every room.

"The black clarifies all the rest of the colours in the room," he says.

Try a black lampshade, a black vase or a black picture frame.

Use the rule of 60-3010.

"When decorating a space, divide the colours in the space into components of 60 per cent of a dominant colour, 30 per cent of a secondary colour and 10 per cent of an accent colour," McCauley says.

The walls will most likely be the majority, the upholstery would represent the secondary colour and accessories such as a floral arrangement or throw pillows would make up the rest. "Works every time!" he says. "The colours are properly balanced and there is a shot of colour (the 10 per cent colour) for interest."

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You may be interested in two books: 'Color in Three Dimensional Design' by Jeanne Kopacz and 'Color Palettes'

by Donald Kaufman.

In the words of Owen Jones –“form without colour is like a body without a soul”.

PAINT IT BEAUTIFUL

Follow your personal style.

If

you decorate honestly, other people will appreciate it because it's you, even if they'd never decorate their own house in the same way. That means if you want to make every room in your house red, white and blue, go for it. You can make any colour look good as long as it's your taste.

Keep in mind there are good painters Modern design stair case highlighted by bright orange

and not so good painters out there so make sure you find an expert in the field.

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Will cement planters keep my plants happy?

Cement pots come in all shapes and sizes. They are durable, porous, and provide insulation. Also, they are water resistant.

One of the biggest benefits of cement pots is that they are very durable compared to other materials like terracotta or ceramic.

Once you start growing a plant in a cement pot, it can last you several years. You could damage the pot if you drop it or leave it outside when the weather is freezing.

Cement pots are porous There is less risk that you will overwater the plants in such cement pots because of this porous nature. This will mean that you need to water the plants a little bit more often than if you had a sealed pot without the pores.

Face and head planters have been around for a while – and do much to bring a giggle to the garden or the interior space.

Add our Greek goddess to your garden or patio pantheon to make a dramatic statement.

All these decorative and durable resin planters are artfully hand painted to replicate the weathered, antiqued beauty of classic Greek sculpture.

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Interior decorations such as these plants in a pot is a joyful sight to see. However, you can also decorate your patio and garden with such interesting pot planters.

Let your green thumb create magic with these planters for indoor or outdoor use.

There are plenty of ways to bring creative container garden ideas to life that will seamlessly fit in with your existing aesthetic. For an earthy, nature-filled idea, create one of Martha's favorites: a moss garden. “There are plenty of ways to bring creative container garden ideas to life that will seamlessly fit in with your existing aesthetic. For an earthy, nature-filled idea, create one of Martha's favorites: a moss garden. She collects the moss along with other lush greenery around her Maine home to plant in decorative faux bois containers. The final result is an enchanting forest impression inside, or out. Containers are a key aspect of container gardening, that also offer up some fun and creativity for the gardener.”

Borrowed from nature and arranged in pots, lush moss gardens are like miniature enchanted forests. - M Stewwart DaisiesRubies Roman faces pot plants

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The Aged Venetian Fruit Bowls The Aged Venetian Fruit Bowl has been so well received that it has appeared in numerous national magazines. And this shape, which comes in four sizes, has been universally praised by our customers. They serve equally well as a planter, centerpiece and as a decorative item.

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Campo de’ Fiori designs and manufactures all of our offerings, from naturally mossed terra cotta planters, to carved stone, forged iron, cast bronze, distinctive lighting and zinc. Each piece is made by the hands of skilled artisans from materials drawn from the earth and to which they are ultimately welcomed back Aged Terra Cotta Planters Campo de' Fiori derives its name from a small piazza in Rome where owner Robin Norris' mother used to buy fresh flowers and vegetables for the family home, Palazzo di Campitelli.

Literally, Campo de' Fiori means "Field of Flowers" and the combination of flowers and the elegance of classical Rome combined to inspire its current incarnation. Before living in Rome, Robin also had the fortune of growing up, as he puts it, "in a small village where our elders were an eccentric bunch, given to inspired works and ramblings. We were blessed with beautiful woods, wonderfully odd homes, wild and tamed gardens, a mix of whimsical and practical objects and an irreplaceable sense of belonging."

In the Berkshires, he met his wife, Barbara Bockbrader, a highly respected horticulturist and plantswoman. Between Robin's classical eye for design and Barbara's sensuous plantings, something happened – seeds were sown and from those seeds Campo de' Fiori came to life. The gardens have matured through time, and along with them so has the keen interest in the themes that constantly repeat themselves in the natural world, themes increasingly found in the new designs being created at Campo de’ Fiori throughout the year. Their hope is that many will come to appreciate this sensibility and to share that "irreplaceable sense of belonging."

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Is the time right for refillable beauty?

The beauty industry is plagued by its waste problem: About 120 billion units of beauty packaging are produced every year, according to waste management company TerraCycle, and about 70 percent of that ends up in landfills. Brands have endeavoured to find fixes: Packaging made from recycled materials or reverting to more easily-recyclable materials like aluminium. But when it comes to an environmental impact, the goal is to produce fewer materials in general. With refillable beauty, shoppers can keep up with their grooming routines while creating less waste.

Creating eye-catching packaging, refillable or not, is also a timeconsuming and costly process. It was for that reason that Dries Van Noten went the refillable route.

“It … only made sense to make [our bottles] refillable,” said Ana Trias Arraut, the chief brand officer at Puig, Dries Van Noten’s parent company. “Why put time and money into developing bottles only to have them thrown away?”

But developing refillable beauty products brings on additional costs.

Product containers need to be durable enough to withstand multiple refills. Brands also should consider developing their own special refill systems so that consumers won’t go and buy competitors’ refills.

Longstanding fan of refillable beauty Millie Kendall, CEO of the British Beauty Council also has her reservations - “Whilst I love the idea of the sustainable refill, I do think there is some way to go to make the refillable beauty product that beneficial to the planet. Skincare and body products can be refilled, but jars and receptacles need to be sanitarily cleaned so that they are hygienic. I do worry about that aspect as it’s bound to throw up all manner of sensitivity and allergy issues.”

Some are of the opinion though refillable containers might have it’s downs such as being an expensive model to run, in the long run it will show it’s worth. The hope is that it will be beneficial to the customer and environment at the end of the day.

A sustainable routine doesn't mean you have to sacrifice luxury. The La Prairie Pure Gold Radiance Cream evens and smooths skin's texture, and the genius refillable design allows you to hold onto the stunning gold jar.

Meow Meow Tweet, on their website, give customers an option where they can send back their empties. Their returns of empty bulk

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Everything you need to complete this whimsical stargazing Hare is in the box. He is never happier than when gazing at the constellations through his telescope.

This Folk Animal kit is inspired by Corinne's love of woodlands and the wonderful creatures that inhabit them. Her designs are also influenced by traditional folk art but she gives them a modern fresh look through her eye for colour and knack for giving her creations oodles of personality.

This kit includes high quality super soft wool mix felt as well as 12 carefully chosen assorted DMC threads, a needle, toy filling and ribbon.

These kits also use the best, softest, easiest-to-use wool-mix felt (45% wool, 55% viscose) in distinctive shades that are often hard to find elsewhere. The felt is also very forgiving which makes it a wonderful material to learn sewing and develop embroidery skills.

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UNIQUE HOME ACCESSORIES AND MIRRORS: THE FINISHING TOUCHES On-trend accents. No matter who you are or what your style, modern decor helps make that new place feel like home. Think of each room as a blank canvas, just waiting to be filled with your personal blend of contemporary home décor.

From over-the-top to classic vibes, the right home decor accessories are out there. Maybe you're a minimalist; even still, a few house plants in cool planters help imbue the aesthetic with a little extra life. Unique home accessories show that the little details make a big impact.

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