With the season transitioning into fall, it gets exciting as we prepare for another holiday. This is the time we all break out our fall colored décor, prepare our Christmas bins, and get our wallets and budgets ready for the gift-giving season. It can be an absolutely beautiful time of year, but also a stressful one. If you come from a dysfunctional family or even married into one, this new time of year can seem intimidating as you become unsure of how the holidays will go or who even on the flip how to afford gifts for your family. Diy gifts has long been a favorite of mine as there are so many cheap ways to create amazing and useful gifts or household items. When beginning to think of arts and crafts the most essential thing, I would say, is the workspace and where you will do your crafting. Sometimes just the small cleanup of a space and addition of a burning candle and light music can not only add to the spirit in the air but also clear your mind as you are able to think more clearly and openly about what you are working on or hoping to accomplish.
Must Needed Décor Grabs
I think many of us can agree that adding fake or real pumpkins during the months of fall is a must. The orange, yellow, or white images they can display really pull a home together from a room, living room, or even front door for trick or treating. Inexpensive ones can be found from places like a Dollar General or Fred Meyer. They can be painted and turned into all kinds of cool diy displays for your aesthetic pleasures or family fun! Garlands, throw pillows, storage bins, plants, or fun skeletons or creepy spiders are all other fun little items you are able to add here and there across your home or workspaces for some crazy Halloween inspired looks. One of my favorite looks I am hoping to try myself are the plastic pumpkin baskets from dollar tree; you can use acrylic paint to change their color into something that matches your personal style, glue them together, and then add some twine or rope for an even cuter design!
Its the Mental Health for me
Its easy to think of foods to eat or places to go to help our minds de-stress, and during the seasons shopping and collecting items for loved ones can also be a wonderful way to give ourselves the breaks we need – but I urge you all to look into your home and the spaces you have created. Begin making mental notes for making your beds, opening your windows in the cool evenings, lighting aromatherapy candles, taking long hot baths or showers, loving yourself, listening to instrumental music for a fun change, and truly encouraging yourself to begin not only caring after your body, but also your minds. Yoga while the sunrises, or an early morning hike to stretch your body and clear your mind, or a dip in the pool for a morning swim (cold but hey, refreshing!). As we near the end of the year, new years resolutions are always a result of this, and yet it never hurts to start now. Begin switching your behavior to make it a habit; we develop ways in which we conduct ourselves throughout the day and sometimes we do things that continue to negatively impact us in ways we forget as it simply becomes second nature or the norm. Incorporating new routines and behaviors into our lives that may create a new way of thinking positively or feeling as though we have more energy throughout our days just by the clean space we made at home, or the music we stopped listening to. It sounds trivial but many have seen the increase in productivity trying these simple and easy methods out!
A Happy You is a Healthy You!
