Make Your Home More Relaxing With These Decor Tricks

Bella Breakdown A house becomes a home when you feel like it’s the one place you can truly unwind and relax. There are simple ways to change your decor to make your home more relaxing. If you’re looking to update your home decor, this might be a great chance to try these decor tricks. Beach-Themed Flooring Flooring can instantly update any room and tie a decor story together. This can be achieved by using blue carpet (like ocean water), tan wood or tiles (like sand), textured ripples rug (like waves). This color story for your floors will have you...

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How To Turn Your Home Into The Ultimate Relaxation Station

Bella Breakdown Every single day you come home to your space, so it is important to ask yourself what you want from the areas that are the most important to you: your living room, your kitchen, and your bedroom. I personally desire a clean, calm, and relaxing space that lets me take a deep breath and stretch out, leaving the day behind as I enter into it. If you are like me and you want to come to your home and instantly feel at peace, but you feel as though you would have to make drastic changes, never fear!...

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Golf: More Than A Sedative For Dad

Bella Breakdown Golf gets a bad rap. We minimize it to the sport that seems to only be on television so our dads can take a swift Sunday afternoon nap. Let’s not get so hasty with our ideas about golf. It actually might not be a bad thing to try once in a while. Golf can provide a lot of great physical and mental benefits. Ditch the golf cart and the caddy, and opt to stretch your legs out on the links. If you carry your bag you’re also helping to strengthen your body, specifically your heart. Now, we...

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Anti-Stress Lavender Putty

Bella Breakdown This clay has a lavender scent that will help calm and ease anxiety. In a bowl, combine flour, salt, cream of tartar, oil, lavender essential oil and boiling water. Mix well. Stir in some lavender food coloring and purple glitter. Wait 20 minutes until the putty has cooled. You can now knead it and stretch it while taking deep breaths to calm yourself...

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Mastering the Art of Doing Nothing

Bella Breakdown Whew! The holidays are over! I have to confess, as much as I LOVE the holidays, I am truly exhausted afterward and a bit relieved that they are over. I try to get in as much as possible during that time to make it special for my kids and our family. Therefore, I usually end up getting sick and crash afterward. Since this fun and busy time has passed, how can we work on simply just being? For most of us busy parents, doing nothing is simply not in our DNA. We are caught up in the...

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