Gloria B. Collins

A Beautifier of Life through Slow Home Living

10 Tips for Entertaining Overnight Guests in Your Home

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Entertaining overnight guests in your home can often leave you feeling overwhelmed and preparing for an extended visit, so guests feel comfortable in your home, can be rather challenging. No fear! I'm here to share with you some tips which, when I follow, make the time with my guests enjoyable and memorable. No matter the headcount, preparation … [Read more...]

9 Self Care Tips to Reduce Stress

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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...]

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

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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...]

Urban Camping in SoHo New York

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Get your girlfriend and head to the Arlo SoHo Lunching with a girlfriend to catch up and to share the good the bad and the ugly is always uplifting, especially when it turns into urban camping. Recently my friend Dawn of PlumAGE 59 and I met up in SoHo and enjoyed camping in NYC. If you’re unfamiliar with Urban Camping, this article … [Read more...]

Why you should sketch every day.

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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...]