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Showing posts with label spring decorating tips. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

SPRING FLOWERS DECORATIONS

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Bee on apple blossom, symbol of Michigan


Yesterday we talked about spring diets. Today we will talk about spring flowers decorations, bright colors like robin's egg blue rugs and a teacup the tender golden color of an egg yolk, curtains the chartreuse of new leaves, a hyacinth-mauve toss pillow.

Winter is mostly neutral: white snow, dirty grey snow, dark branches against a neutral sky. 


Lovely pink orchid


Wake up! It's spring and we can use the colors of spring to refresh and cleanse our palettes, invite a new color over to play, make a clean sweep of our rooms (what's wrong with old-fashioned spring cleaning, decluttering?). 


  • Include flowers and fresh spring greens.
  • This is the perfect time to bring juicy round bulbs and other living greens into our homes.
  • Try a bunch of leeks or parsley set into a pretty vase or jug.
  • Flowers and flower colors and shapes bring vitality into a room.
    Nature shows us the way! Bring spring flowers decorations and colors into your home. There's nothing like the natural world in Spring for giving us all a breath of fresh air when we need it most. 
         
  • Some of us live in arid or more temperate climates than others.  
  • To these, the advent of spring is less invigorating, perhaps, signalling the end of a pleasant winter and the beginning of relentless summer heat.
  •  Still, it's pleasant to celebrate the seasons, take the green and white of a flowering Saquaro or a yellow flowering barrel cactus.

    Move things around, make a quick pick-up if you don't have time for a major spring cleaning, give some time and thought to what you want to bloom and grow in your life this growing season and begin to imagine it. Decorating with spring flowers begins in your heart. Be creative.
    I hope these few tips on spring flowers decorations and the renewed energy that comes with spring help my readers to find their mojo after a long cold winter - even my Arizona readers and desert readers, more temperate climes, or the Australian readers on the other side of the world who are just entering autumn, find your quick and free fix for winter-stuck energy.

    You might also be interested in this post.
    Shannon McRae has some tips on organic Easter dyes that could be used for crafts or home decorating at any time.
     
Flowering cactus
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

SPRING DIET TIPS

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Change your diet for Spring

Spring is nature's awakening. Not only plants and baby lambs and rabbits, but our energy awakens. We sleep less and wake up earlier. The sun is over the yard arm much earlier. 
Spring Diet Tips include agriculture in India
Spring is a time to change our diet.
Follow the seasons
  • Time to let the comfort foods of winter rest. Spring diet tips include eating food that's grown locally.
  • Cook food for a very short time. This way you'll get more nutrients from your diet and spend less time cooking and preparing your food.
  • Avoid refined and processed food, especially white sugar or high glycemic foods which lead to a spike in insulin and weight gain.
Courtesy FreeDigitalPhotos.com Happy Sunflower
  • Spring is the best time to try cereal breakfasts, with fruit, for example, barley porridge with dry peaches. 
  •  Eat green vegetables every day if possible. There are endless variations on salads. Add some olive oil or other high quality oil to the salad, and vinegar is tasty. A classic combination is oil and vinegar, used for thousands of years dating back from the Greeks and Persians.
  • All kinds of cheese are well combined with salad. Tuna, olives, sprouts, go well with salads.
  • Cottage cheese, whole grain breads, even soup.
 Green Vegetables - Natures Bounty
  
Courtesy FreeDigitalPhotos.net Thai Spring Salad
  • Very high in antioxidants.
  • Contain few calories and are full of fiber, making you feel full longer and faster.
  • Green vegetables contain chlorophyll, a strong antioxidant and body cleanser.
  •  Don't overcook green vegetables. Cook only until tender. Steam, saute or roast.

    Grains, Legumes, Seeds and Sprouts

    • Delicious legumes, grains
  • Contain life energy
  • Self-cleansing
  • Self-healing
  • Can add to salads, sandwiches, and soups, or eat as a side dish or main entree


  
There you have them, some spring diet tips. Be healthy, fit and happy, friends.

Interested in spring decorating tips? Shannon McRae has some organic dyes you and your kids might like to try. Or try spring flowers for decorating, here. Have fun!




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