Pillow Talk
August 11th, 2011 | 
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There’s been some amazing advancements in bedding; in fact modern bedding can actually improve the quality of your sleep and enable you to awake refreshed and ready for whatever the day throws your way. You owe it to yourself to explore new bedding innovations and it’s easy – just browse online at the major bedding sites and see what’s out there.
Take pillows – in the good old days the big questions was “foam or feather” – today there’s a host of options ranging from organic cotton pillows to some wonderful down-alternatives for the feather fanatics.
But the filling is just part of the fun; the array of pillow shapes and sizes will blow your mind. So, if you don’t mind, how about a little pillow talk!
Tired of sleeping alone and just want to snuggle – get a body pillow. The Body Therapy® high-loft memory foam five foot long body pillow is a dream come true. The memory foam contours to your body for enhanced support while the cushiony and huggable high-loft fiber provides down-like softness and comfort.
Another great option is a boomerang multi position pillow – this V-shaped pillow provides support for various sleeping positions and you can cradle your neck, rest your back or just hug it for comfort.
Bead-filled pillows are soft and squishy and just beg to be hugged; you can manipulate them into almost any configuration for the ultimate in support and comfort and they will return to their original shape – how cool is that!
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Amazing Artemisias
WHO IS ARTEMIS?
Amazonian moon goddess. Goddess of the hunt. Goddess of the wild things. Goddess of the midwife. Goddess of the herbalist. Mother of all Creatures. Leader of the sacred bitches. Great she-bear. Diana. Selene. Ever Virgin; owned by no man. We will visit her sacred wood on a shamanic journey. Who knows what will happen then.
HOW DO ARTEMISIAS GROW IN YOUR GARDEN?
Most Artemisias are perennials and grow best from cuttings, not seeds. Sweet Annie is the exception, being a self-seeding annual. Although you can buy tarragon seeds, you can’t grow true tarragon from them. Wormwood and southernwood and tarragon (the last not winter-hardy in many places) are woody perennials which regreen each year on last year’s new wood; I prune only dead wood from them. Cronewort is an invasive perennial that creeps underground; it dies back to the ground each year and can be heavily harvested (clear cuts are ok) without damage to its further prolific productivity.
Most Artemisias require little care. Lack of soil nutrients and lack of water do not faze them. Many are native to deserts, and know how to thrive in hot dry weather. Except for tarragon, all can overwinter without fuss.
Flowers are usually small and green, in other words, nearly invisible.
WHAT DO ARTEMISIAS CONTAIN?
- bitter principals: wormwood
- coumarins: cronewort, tarragon
- essential oils (complex, variety specific, with hundreds of components per plant): cronewort (high in camphor, thujone), tarragon, wormwood (high in camphor, thujone)
- flavonoids: cronewort, tarragon
- glycosides: cronewort, tarragon
- hormones: cronewort (sitosterol, stigmasterol)
- sesquiterpene lactones: cronewort
HOW ARE ARTEMISIAS USED?
Artemisias, with their grey-green or white-green foliage bring beauty to the garden throughout the growing season. They also make long-lasting, aromatic and beautiful indoor decorations: bouquets, wreaths, swags. They are popular strewing herbs, too.
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Tags: Feng Shui tips for everyone
Feng Shui is a process that affects your internal landscape just as much as it affects your physical environment. In order for your spirit to be nourished by the enhancements you make to your home, you must start the entire process by looking inward, and this is an important Feng Shui tip that most Feng Shui consultants like me would offer to all Feng Shui beginners. This in fact is the essence of spiritual Feng Shui which looks at the Feng Shui at a higher level than the other types of Feng Shui which mostly aim at improving at a niche level; be it your office, home or bedroom.
The Spiritual Feng Shui sees the whole concept of Feng Shui at the universal level, the level to which your soul belongs and relates. If you practice spiritual Feng Shui you can never think of improving your life at the expanse of harming your neighbor or your environment. The Feng Shui tips that are offered in the article not only aim to highlight the important points one has to remember before practicing it; it also introduces the Feng Shui beginners to the new horizons that the spiritual Feng Shui can open up for them.
Though the spiritual Feng Shui communicates to your environment, your home, your office through the bodily objects, it heals your soul — to know how it works it is important for you to remember the following Feng Shui tips. All these free Feng Shui tips have valuable advice contained in them so try to imbibe them before you start your practice.
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A New Way To Spray Makes Painting Easier
Painting can be an easy, economical way to spruce up your home, inside and out. Each year, millions of Americans put a new coat on their homes, touch up furniture, paint fences or decks. Apart from being tedious, it can be messy, take forever to complete and, in many cases, may not result in the smooth, professional finish you were hoping to achieve.
A new painting technology overcomes all this and at the same time saves you time and money. Touted as “The New Way to Spray,” High Volume/Low Pressure (HVLP) spray-painting systems make large or detail jobs faster, easier, more precise and more controlled than the traditional paintbrush, electric gun or compressor system. Manufacturers say HVLP users find painting friendlier and more enjoyable due to its efficiency in application and control-and no previous spraying experience is required.
The preferred choice of many Europeans, HVLP systems, from companies such as Earlex, Inc., use one-third less paint to do the job because of exceptional paint transfer efficiency, minimal over-spray, almost zero bounce back and less waste common with other methods.
These versatile systems let users spray any surface, from siding to decking, doors, walls and ceilings, furniture, wicker, fences, sheds, kitchen/bathroom tile-even flowerpots. The gun rarely clogs and cleanup is “faster than a paintbrush.”
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