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unconsumption: Want to create some big memories for your soon-to-be-married pals? Check out this lovely pallet art tutorial from Katie at Sweet Rose Studio, and make a unique piece of art that the happy couple will cherish for years to come! Brides and grooms: If your wedding is in a hard to find location, this idea would also be perfect for making large, sturdy signs to guide your guests to the right spot. It would certainly have worked better than the flimsy cardboard that my husband and I used! (via How-To: Pallet Art Wedding Gift @Craftzine.com blog) Unconsumption readers know we have an extensive history of covering pallet-creativity. Browse here.

unconsumption:

Want to create some big memories for your soon-to-be-married pals? Check out this lovely pallet art tutorial from Katie at Sweet Rose Studio, and make a unique piece of art that the happy couple will cherish for years to come!

Brides and grooms: If your wedding is in a hard to find location, this idea would also be perfect for making large, sturdy signs to guide your guests to the right spot. It would certainly have worked better than the flimsy cardboard that my husband and I used!

(via How-To: Pallet Art Wedding Gift @Craftzine.com blog)

Unconsumption readers know we have an extensive history of covering pallet-creativity. Browse here.

Nostalgia and its friend tuna noodle casserole (Taken with instagram)

Nostalgia and its friend tuna noodle casserole (Taken with instagram)

When you are completely wound up about something and you pause, your natural intelligence clicks in and you have a sense of the right thing to do. This is part of the magic: our own natural intelligence is always there to inform us, as long as we allow a gap. As long as we are on automatic pilot, dictated to by our minds and our emotions, there is no intelligence. It is a rat race. Whether we are at a retreat center or on Wall Street, it becomes the busiest, most entangled place in the world.

—Pema Chodron (excerpt from a lecture)

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A new fan means….bubble wrap!

Happiness is …. Dark chocolate covered almonds from the peanut shop in Nashville (Taken with instagram)

Happiness is …. Dark chocolate covered almonds from the peanut shop in Nashville (Taken with instagram)

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis
on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without
rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment.
Only this moment is life.

—Thich Nhat Hanh (via @zen_habits)

Celebrating Monday!

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

lacyrhoades: The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money, then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health, and then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

lacyrhoades:

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered

Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money, then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health, and then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

All men dream; but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty
recesses of their minds
Awake to find that it was vanity;
But the dreamers of day are dangerous men.
That they may act their dreams with open
eyes to make it possible.

—T. E. Lawrence (via 52 Weeks of UX)