Earthy Decor Finds & Openhearted Quotes is part inspiration, part encouragement, part self-kindness, part humorfest (here’s a few more!), and part daydream. Hopefully this finds you energized and optimistic, but should you be stuck in another state (unhinged? enraged? unsettled? uninspired?), a welcome distraction or fresh perspective may be in the mix.
Openhearted Quotes & Earthy Interiors
Transcendent Tablescapes
Oh this book!
From a well-known interior designer who knows her way around a tablescape and exotic places, THE WORLD AT YOUR TABLE blooms with tabletop treasures and inspiration to elevate even everyday meals.
The author, Stephanie Stokes, addresses the design principles such as color story and indigenous materials undergirding her tabletop designs.
Even if you aren’t entertaining or traveling as much these days, I bet you will be inspired by the beauty of collected treasures mindfully gathered to create a backdrop for a meal to be remembered.
Aren’t the color stories here evocative and mouthwatering?
Isn’t the idea of being imaginatively transported (if only for a few hours!) and enjoying collected treasures and past memories a wonderful approach to tabletop design?
Feel Good Clean Beauty Glow
Down to Earth Meal Prepping
Another feel good title is from lifestyle journalist Ronda Carman, with lovely photography by Matthew Mead.
When earth shut down in 2020, Carman realized the importance of making good use of pantry staples.
A well-stocked pantry allowed her to easily create delicious dishes, and she shares all the fruits of her labors in this delicious volume.
Ricotta pancakes this beautiful and enticing, anyone?
Tomato soup has me longing for summer tomatoes! (Wish I had taken the time to can a few to enjoy in winter!).
Personal & Spiritual Growth
I am not a fake it til you make it to feel good kinda girl, but plenty of messages in the culture reinforce the sentiment.
Is it the age? Is it the limited capacity for pretend?
What I know is my moods sure can swing, and my nervous system is often not at rest. My work is largely about learning to stay in order to grow in spiritual maturity. There are daily humiliations so the work is ongoing.
So much unprocessed emotion lands in the body, and because my body does so much hard work and healing for me already, I want to do what I can to prevent dis-ease.
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There’s all this mystery and grace involved, and I am grateful for the resources and guidance others share so graciously.
Self-Kindness & Self-Awareness in the Everyday
Daily practices are important so that needs, desires, emotions, and beliefs can be held and nurtured.
Mornings are my favorite. They are a time for practice, meditation, devotion, and prayer, but maybe you prefer a different time of day for quietude.
Do you enjoy the meditative quality of gardening?
Springtime Growth!
I have learned to yield to the wisdom of nature wherever I roam. Right now, it’s in the desert, and there are some challenging lessons. If we truly want to grow, why not study the masters? Do you come alive gardening or caring for houseplants?
Grow Fruit & Vegetables in Pots…From Aaron Bertelsen of the acclaimed English garden at Great Dixter, is beautifully illustrated and offers clear, practical information to grow fruit and vegetables in containers.
Bertelsen guides you through what to grow, which pots to use, and which varieties to choose alongside advice for cultivation and care. 50 delicious recipes make it simple to enjoy the fruits (and vegetables!) of your labor.
Aged Terracotta Pots
Personal growth and spiritual formation journeys can sometimes find us feeling untethered. Connecting with nature and others helps us re-member where the fruit is. Dp these earth-fired pots calm your senses as they do for me?
Hand-crafted for one-of-a-kind appeal, each Earth Fired pot + saucer set is made from clay with a highly variable mineral content, which can cause color variation from pot to pot.
During a unique aging process, natural moss develops on the surface of each pot for an antique appearance. Who says aging is not patina perfect and textured with NEW interest?
Watering Can
While this is not likely the secret to keeping houseplants alive, what is it about beautifully made everyday essentials that lift the spirit so?
It’s the little things.
Soulful Lessons from Teak Root
Because the roots of teak trees (grown in South and Southeast Asia) are resistant to rot, they are removed from the ground to make room on the land to plant more. But they are not discarded; they bring new purpose.
When I consider this cycle of growth, excavation, and repurposing, I can’t help but reflect on my soul. What has taken root that would be better served brought into the light and offered to a greater good?
As we devote thought and energy to transformation, it is impossible not to see lessons and examples bloom everywhere!
Are these the cutest or what?
Teak and teak root can be expensive. This little assemblage of wood mushrooms is easier on the pocketbook and makes me smile:
Wouldn’t they be perfect in a woodland-themed kids room?
Teak Root Serving Platter
These also make me feel good to see and imagine what goodness they could hold in months to come.
Market Tote
I know it’s still winter, but I am uplifted by thoughts of what is to come.
One of my favorite parts of summer is discovering fresh vegetables and the unexpected at the farmers market. I haven’t met a market tote I didn’t love, and I have always had a crush on those totes provided at Anthropologie for shopping.
My favorite source for French homewares is still Vivi et Margot.
Do you follow Charlotte who inspires us from Provence?
This struck me as rather genius for those who love their market totes but also love having their hands free…
So great for bike rides too if that’s your jam.
Clementine Cheer
I love the fragrance of oranges and clementines! Escape to 2017 and try eating one in the shower (circa 2017 TikTok, doncha know.)
Eating oranges anywhere is always a good idea.
Lantern Bracket
Forgot about these!
Please PIN this so the message may spread through the land and healing may begin in hearts and bodies and minds…
Seagrass With Stripes
Did you know the leaves of seagrass often protect baby animals as they hide from predators? And also how seagrass is not so much a food source when it is growing and alive but after it dies and decays?
If these seagrass pieces don’t shout WARM WEATHER, I don’t know what does.
Holy moly, what if we could all do this immediately…
Allergy Season Mask
Both my husband and I have migraines this allergy season. Everybody has an opinion about how to cope, and here’s another to add to the list.
Handmade in their Austin, Texas studio, this soothing mask filled with lentils is as beautiful as it is practical. Try it for headaches (use it warm) and tired, puffy eyes (use it cold).
How to Use: For heat therapy, place the mask in the microwave. Heat in 30-second increments until desired warmth is achieved (no longer than 1.5 minutes). Always test the temperature of your wrap before applying to your skin. For cold therapy, store in the freezer until ready to use.
Here is another one of those messages that seems so important to PIN and share as we live through an era of addiction…
Coconut + Vanilla
What a killer combo.
Feel Good Loungewear
I am ALWAYS feelin’ loungewear! And when they are made from organic cotton from India?
Thank you for spending part of your day here. I am sealing this with love, wishes, and wonder (a great big, keeping the stars apart, psychedelic cosmic wonder flowing spiral-like from deepspace wholehearted LOVE).
Peace to you right where you are.
-michele
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