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Tips for Maintaining Mental Health During Covid-19 (coronavirus)

June 4, 2020 By Gloria B. Collins

Tips for Maintaining Mental Health During Covid-19 | Gloria B. Collins

Learning to manage and cope with anxiety during the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, whether living in a hotspot or an untouched charming rural town deep in the mountains, this is an extraordinary time for us all. The Covid-19 global pandemic causes us all to question so much about our daily lives. It threatens our family, friendships, work, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alone Time, Gardening, Growth, Leisure, Slow Home Living

The challenges of turning a hobby into a business

January 29, 2020 By Gloria B. Collins

The Challenges of turning a hobby into a business | Gloria B. Collins

Sometimes, when we turn a hobby into a business, we can often lose the very nature of its intention which is to bring us joy. Creating more joy in our life takes effort! And yes, that means that even joyful hobbies require us to keep showing up to do the work. But, hobbies push us to learn new skills which calm our mind and leads to true … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alone Time, Flowers, Gardening, Hobbies, Slow Home Living, Uncategorized

How to Navigate the Holidays: tips to navigate the holidays with less stress, less debt, and a joyful heart

December 6, 2019 By Gloria B. Collins

How to Navigate the Holidays: Tips to navigate the holidays with less stress, less debt, and a joyful heart | Gloria B. Collins

Are you wondering how to navigate the holidays and stay aligned with your inner values? This blog post is for you! ‘Tis the season for sharing time with family and loved ones. Fair to say, we look forward to creating beautiful and joyful memories with and for our families but frequently stress pays a visit and, if not managed, triggers us to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alone Time, Family, Growth, Slow Home Living

9 Self Care Tips to Reduce Stress

March 31, 2018 By Gloria B. Collins

Are you looking to reduce stress? Here are 9 self-care tips to reduce stress that you can start practicing today! Let's talk about how stress affects us and how to deal with it before it manifests in the body. If you're like me, you are a perfectionist. Most people don't realize the energy involved to produce beauty with flowers for large events … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family, Growth, Hobbies, Leisure, Sketchbook, Uncategorized, Water Colors, Work Tagged With: alone time, relationships, self care, self care tips, slowhomeliving, Stress, stress and illness, stress management, stress relief

Reducing Stress with Art: How to release stress one drawing at a time

February 9, 2018 By Gloria B. Collins

Stress is something we all face and we each try to find ways to best manage it. Though there are many ways to go about stress management, I have found these 9 Self Care Tips to Reduce Stress and often find myself reducing stress with art. That’s right, my stress relief is often found one drawing at a time. My best stress management … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alone Time, Flowers, Growth, Hobbies, Leisure, Sketchbook, Slow Home Living, Water Colors, Work Tagged With: drawing, flowers, paper for drawing, stress management, watercolor, watercolor sketchbook

Why you should sketch every day.

January 19, 2018 By Gloria B. Collins

A sketch every day Not only do I know that sketching every day helps to reduce stress, a sketch every day will also offer you an opportunity to document the things that inspire you. I keep flowers alive during the dull winter months by doing a sketch every day.  A few minutes each day is how I started in December. My focus was to create … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Flowers, Gardening, Growth, Hobbies, Leisure, Sketchbook, Slow Home Living, Water Colors, Weddings Tagged With: Art, Sketchbook sketching every day and Illustrated life, wedding flowers, wedding flowers garden florist Hudson valley Florist Hudson valley weddings. Roses Daily sketch watercolor

Watercolor Painted Invitations

February 12, 2016 By Gloria B. Collins

Are you looking for watercolor painted invitations? Welcome and hello! As a slow flower florist, I appreciate the hard work to grow and arrange the fragile beauty of the blooms a bride chooses for her wedding. I’m also an artist that enjoys extending my creative abilities to the invitations sent for such a special occasion. Sketching … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Flowers, Sketchbook, Water Colors, Weddings Tagged With: Event flowers, flowers, tulips

Taking chances in art, life, and business

December 5, 2015 By Gloria B. Collins

If you’ve been following my blog/journal recently, I’m sure you’ve noticed that I’ve been taking chances with my art.  All of the watercolors and sketching I’ve been working on recently are proving to be challenging and creative, both of which are necessary to keep my wedding business unique, different. In a cyber world where we all have our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Flowers, Growth, Hobbies, Sketchbook, Water Colors

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