Tag: stationery
“It’s my party and I’ll suffer more from lack of zzz’s if I want to. Or even if I don’t want to.”
Alright, that’s not how that song goes but it’s what came to mind when reading about a new study from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. The researchers found that social butterflies don’t perform as well as introverts after limited sleep time in terms of alertness, suggesting that the socializing taxes our brains in such a way that we need to snooze to get back up to speed.
A good enough reason to sleep in after your next party…
P.S. Social butterflies need great invites for all their chic get-togethers. Loving the modern stationery, such as the invite above from minted.com.
November 2, 2010
Although packing your troubles away may be what you need to achieve closure, I love the idea of jotting down your happy hopes and dreams into an eco-friendly Botanical Paperworks journal and then planting it , growing your thoughts into a pretty wildflower garden.
(Admittedly, I was initially disappointed that only the journal’s cover is made with the wildflower-seeded paper. That said, writing on the seed-embedded sheets is somewhat difficult, making the smooth eco-friendy inner sheets a very welcome writing surface; plus this way, you get to hold onto your pages of brilliant ideas and musings.)
March 29, 2010
Photo: Knotty by Nature
If you’re having trouble dealing with a breakup or losing your job — or any of life’s trials and tribulations — read on.
New research from the Rotman School of Management has found that literally packing up something related to the issue you’re grappling with — a written recollection of the incident that you put into a box or an envelope, for example — helps improve your negative feelings about the event and helps to create a sense of psychological closure.
March 29, 2010
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