by Gayle LeesonAs a writer, I have to wait a while to see my finished product, whether it's an ebook, print book, or audiobook. And that can get a little frustrating. So, sometimes, I like to do something artistic that can be done in a matter of hours.Case in point, the freehand embroidery I did on Saturday while watching television with my son. I took the design from a photo I'd seen on Pinterest and practiced drawing it several times before lightly penciling the design on the fabric. The rest was simple. Just follow the lines, add some cross-stitch, and make some fringe for her lashes. That fringe is what took the longest. I like it. I think it's a...
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, self-care is an essential part of your routine. It’s a time of major adjustments for many of us – our new norms include social distancing, working remotely, homeschooling, and trying to make time for ourselves while staying at home. Now, more than ever, it’s important to check in with ourselves. Make time to step away from the noise, unwind, and do what makes you happy. Here are some tips on how to practice self-care while in quarantine. Jump to: Practice Forming Healthy Habits Try New Hobbies Upgrade Your Home< Prioritize Mental Health Inspiring Self-Care Quotes Practice Forming Healthy Habits Due to COVID-19, we are all spending more time at home. Staying healthy while in quarantine is...
Mother’s day is a couple of weeks away, and as a daughter myself I never really know what they want (besides a card saying how we owe our entire lives to their generosity, love, and beauty). For one of my holiday gift guides I asked my boomer MIL what her friends want or don’t want for Christmas and what came out of that text chain was pure honest gold – we all learned so much about what that generation of women really want* (spoiler – gift cards for new experiences, not things). But now what?? The world has changed and that fly fishing school that Suz so desperately wanted to take lessons at might be closed for a while. So...
Spatial reasoning activities for kids help them in understanding shapes and making their mental notes. Like a simple drawing of a house can be described as an arrangement of two rectangles, a parallelogram and a triangle. Spatial reasoning is the ability to manipulate shapes and orientate them mentally. It is the ability to understand how different shapes fit together to make recognisable objects. Tangram is the famous game and one of the most popular spatial reasoning activities for kids. It involves geometry, problem solving, visualisation and pattern predictions. Spatial reasoning for kids crucial as it affect your child’s early math skills and are an important predictor of achievement in STEM fields. Visual-spatial skills are of great importance for success in solving many tasks...
The purpose of the book “Digital Hybridity: How to Strike the Right Balance for Digital Paradigm Shift” is to shed some light on how to strike the right balance of stability and changes; being transactional to keep spinning and being transformational to leap forward for making a seamless digital paradigm shift. Digital organizations should apply the hybrid management approach, focus on building a diverse, networked, and extended modern working environment in which the powerful digital platforms and computing technologies enable seamless conversations, delayer overly rigid organizational hierarchy, inspire idea-sharing and brainstorming, and engage employees and partners to achieve the high-performance result.The Pervasive Digitalization via Continuous Balance Cycle The Pervasive Digitization via Continuous Balance Cycles Over the last couple of decades, due...
