Category: Inspiration

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Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff 2015 Day-to-Day Calendar: and it’s all small stuff

Like exercise, heathful eating, and other things that are good for you, stress management should be practiced daily, and this calendar is the perfect tool.

Delivering Dr. Carlson’s expert, proven advice and strategies in easy, daily doses, this calendar shows readers how to deal with and move past life’s little stresses so that they can live with more patience, love, kindness, joy–and have a whole lot more fun to boot.

Product Features

  • brand new officially licensed calendar
  • keep track of time in style all year long
  • measures 5.38 by 5.38 inches
  • ships quickly and safely in a protective envelope
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Yoga For Pregnancy: Poses, Meditations, and Inspiration for Expectant and New Mothers

The physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits of yoga are invaluable during the profound journey of pregnancy. From increased strength and balance to a deeper feeling of connection with the life growing inside you, prenatal yoga will help you feel your best during this sacred time.

Yoga for Pregnancy offers detailed, precise instruction for over a hundred yoga poses to support you during pregnancy, labor, and postpartum. Accompanying sequences focus on a range of applications, from quick daily practices to poses for common pregnancy ailments. Woven throughout the book, you’ll find resources to help prepare you for an empowered labor. Filled with modifications, tips, and abundant illustrations, this is an indispensable text for both beginners and advanced practitioners alike.

Going beyond physical posture practice, Yoga for Pregnancy also includes guidance on meditation, visualization, devotional chanting, nutrition, herbal remedies, and other tools to inspire and nourish you and your baby.

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Moleskine Michael Graves Inspiration and Process In Architecture

This is a collection of books which reveal the creative process of leading international figures in fashion design. Fashion Unfolds gives an intimate look into the secret, multifaceted and fascinating world of past and contemporary fashion designers, like precious objects that reflect each designer philosophy. As well as hundreds of images each book includes unpublished interviews and essays by the industry’s leading journalists. These books reveal the poetry of processes and precision that have led to the most unexpected creativity. They are materials for study, providing inspiration and awe. American architect Michael Graves divides architectural design into three distinctive moments: referential sketches, preparatory studies, and final drawing. This book is a visual diary that shows the architects attention to the legacy of the past and how the observation of the world leads to the creation of new forms with tangible features. Graves has been active with his studio since 1964 and has been a professor at Princeton University for over 40 years. He has designed more than 400 buildings around the world, receiving over 250 awards for the excellence of his work.

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A Year of Daily Joy: A Guided Journal to Creating Happiness Every Day

Packed with inspiring words of wisdom and stunning National Geographic photographs, this elegant keepsake reminds us of the world’s countless wonders while encouraging us to reflect on the blessings in our own lives. Thoughtful quotations, easy-to-follow exercises and meditations, and space to record personal reflections set readers on a pathway toward inner peace and joy. A few minutes with this heartening little book will keep spirits soaring every day of the year.

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Hey Natalie Jean: Advice, Musings, and Inspiration on Marriage, Motherhood, and Style

The blog Hey Natalie Jean has won a cult following with writer Natalie Holbrook’s honest, inspiring, and often witty posts on topics like marriage, babies, nesting, style, and DIY crafts. Natalie’s first book, Hey Natalie Jean is one part manifesto and three parts ideas, projects, and advice. Beautifully illustrated and whimsically designed, the book offers 35 short essays and how-to’s that serve as a guide to life: making date-night magic in the middle of the mundane, successfully exploring the city with a three-year-old, and creating a satisfying daily routine that still leaves room for little adventures and lots of magic.
Natalie’s optimism, creativity, keen eye, and zeal for life are palpable, and she encourages others to make their lives beautiful with ease. This heartfelt, personal collection of essays and photographs show Natalie’s ability to identify and describe life’s lovely incidentals in the everyday routine of errands, play dates, and naps.

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Moleskine Marcio Kogan Inspiration and Process In Architecture

This is a collection of books which reveal the creative process of leading international figures in fashion design. Fashion Unfolds gives an intimate look into the secret, multifaceted and fascinating world of past and contemporary fashion designers, like precious objects that reflect each designer philosophy. As well as hundreds of images each book includes unpublished interviews and essays by the industry’s leading journalists. These books reveal the poetry of processes and precision that have led to the most unexpected creativity. They are materials for study, providing inspiration and awe. Studio mk27, led by architect Marcio Kogan, is one of the most important names of Brazilian contemporary architecture. Their work follow a precise path which is narrated in this book: sketches as the first intuitions of a project, preliminary drawings that give shape to the idea, diagrams that represent the architecture as never before, all the way to short movies to narrate the completed projects. These steps together form an unique and poetic statement of the world of architecture.

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Encyclopedia of Slide Layouts: Inspiration for Visual Communication

Are you harnessing the power of visual communication in your presentations? Do the layouts of your slides communicate your key insights, and tell a story that engages your audience? More than a collection of world-class slide layouts – find practical inspiration to ensure your next presentation communicates effectively, with very few slides, and drives your audience to action.

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Pedagogy and Space: Design Inspirations for Early Childhood Classrooms

The intersection of architecture and education is a new and burgeoning area of interest. This book blends architectural design information with theory-based content explaining the foundations of early childhood environments. Colorful photographs of intentionally designed spaces will inspire early childhood professionals and architects alike as they dream, plan, build, and revamp settings. Inspired by the groundbreaking architectural book A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Oxford University Press, 1977), this resource aims to glean architectural information regarding important design patterns in an environment and utilize them to provide insight into early childhood environments that are both developmentally appropriate and aesthetically pleasing.