Tag: self-care

• May Ziadeh, a Biography by Jade Nicole Beals

  

  July 21, 2022 (completed Jan. 2023) featured photo, Miss May A biography I wrote about the author, May Ziadeh, an author I’ve written of often on the blog, with biographical facts, and immersive writings in my own experiences beginning in May 2021. At the end, a summary and reflection of the book My Life With […]

  01/10/2023 10:11 am

  beauty, biography, book review, catholic, creativity, egypt, friendship, fruit, Kahlil gibran, lebanon, letters, literary salon we keep, love, may ziadeh, Mental health awareness month, nonfiction books, philosophy, psychology, self-care, spirituality, uplifting, wellness

• My 4 Simple New Year’s Resolutions

  

  So this is a kind of hands off theme! Do you have any new year’s resolutions?

  01/01/2023 2:47 pm

  beauty, holidays, home, massachusetts, memoir stories, my photography, nature, peeko, self portraits, self-care, supportive, wellness

• Best Bath Tips for Relaxation and Favorite Spa Fruit (with photos)

  

  For the new year…treat yourself extra good, especially if you are, for example, an artist, and no one but you may let you know it is time for your vacation…now 🙂 I recommend no phone in the bath though, this was an exception. 🙂 Cucumber slices for eyes, a few moments, eat a few, let […]

  12/30/2022 2:41 pm

  artists, bath, beauty, fruit, holidays, my photography, relaxation, self portraits, self-care, sensual, vacation, yoga

• For Now, This Year

  Do you have any New Year’s Resolutions? Here are 2 of mine: —To keep my hands off my face and my hair. —To write, proofread, post, and to keep blogging simple for you readers and myself as well: Not deleting posts as if they’re not interesting, as I have often recently and wish to change […]

  12/29/2022 1:21 pm

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• I Started Over, A New Short Story, and It’s Completed!

  But you will not read it in this post. 🙂 I was writing a secret short story as a gift to be given to someone (no one knows but me) at the upcoming Christmas gathering with my family in New York… The one I started writing the other day I was not too happy with, […]

  12/22/2022 12:36 pm

  brooklyn, creative process, holidays, music, positivity, relaxation, rest, self-care, short stories, sun, writers, writing process

• A Glam Christmas Party, at the Party

  

  This was such an original idea by my cousin in law to have a dress up glam Christmas party and definitely my kind of fun. Pictures in… a photo of a selfie happening 💋 I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season…who knows, maybe you’ll want to have a glam party yourself….Break up the […]

  12/18/2022 9:53 am

  angels, artists, creativity, fashion, fun, holidays, home, local events, massachusetts, memoir, party, portraits, self-care, wellness

• All New Bookshelf as I Build My Own Home Library

  

  🎂Happy 247th birthday Jane Austen! Dramatic shelf height last yr, now all new arrangement, with a few additions I will tell about as I read (of those three, I’ve read Jane Eyre and Song of Solomon). You may know I am forming my home paper book library. Previous photo showed the before; now the shelf […]

  12/16/2022 11:22 am

  angels, books, classics, holidays, home, home library, interior design, love, lovingkindness, my photography, novels, poetry, self-care, wellness

• Get the Party Started and then Welcome Relaxation

  

  Besides sketching with pencils at the library, yoga arm balance against the wall is great fun, for an evening lift you up and then an eventual release of energy from the whole day—a quick hold, come down slowly, just a few, and then to relax, and to recline. 🙂 💕Jade

  12/13/2022 7:16 pm

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• Singer Amy Lee’s Birthday and a Sketch at the Library

  

  Well, it looks like this blog in recent weeks has been me floating toward you upon a great sea of famous author and singers’ birthdays…I am keeping up. Today, I had looked online after thinking (there is another birthday?)…It is singer Amy Lee from Evanescence’s birthday. Last yr or before, I was so overwhelmed with […]

  12/13/2022 5:07 pm

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• Care Cat, Teddie, and the Moon and Stars Pocket

  

  …🐱Peeko and 🧸Teddie, ‘This is a very serious meeting’ a highly confidential meeting at the coffee table. 🙂 Peeko looks like he is trying to copy Teddie’s stance, and with his own classic ‘Peeko pout’ for effect. You might have read about my wellness replenishment index cards post I wrote, for artists or anyone who […]

  12/11/2022 6:28 pm

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• A Day in Pictures: A Creative Literary Morning

  

  morning sencha tea, dreaming eyes, letting light into my eyes and face, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847) for later on. after tea, may read Jane Eyre: I partly lived inside this book in my current life and did not remember that?😅 my novel printed draft so far, first 6 pgs, 3000 words, and handwritten […]

  11/29/2022 10:42 am

  19th century, antique, art, bath, beauty, charlotte bronte, dreams, handwritten, literary salon we keep, love, lovingkindness, morningtime, my photography, novel, photo series, poets, psychology, reading, relaxation, rest, self portraits, self-care, teatime, uplifting, writers, writers events, writing process

• 1…2….3…4! Literary Salons Today, Tuesday

  November 29, 2022 …And this cat is ready for nighttime relaxation; he picks and chooses where and what he will attend and what he will read…at home…We await his full results from the vet to receive this week; he seems contented and eating well. *** A Tip For Book Lovers who Like Baths: If you […]

  11/29/2022 8:57 am

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• Bedtime Story: Raindrops

  …There are little raindrops on the window that I can hear; I have just brushed my teeth, combed my hair, washed my face, patted it dry, placed on moisturizer with my fingertips moving in little, soft circles, and I am all ready for bed. The raindrops sound more like pearls on a woman’s neck than […]

  11/28/2022 8:58 am

  beauty, fun, my short stories, narrative, night, philosophy, prose poetry, self-care, short stories, short verse, uplifting, wellness

• A List of Art and Writing, Plans, Dreams, and Hopes while Currently Sitting

  

  * I hope my hair will continue to grow a little longer; I am mindful of the ends now, and gentle detangling, comb and brush. * I am content sitting now, my feet don’t touch the floor but freely I swing them up, can stretch and flex them well like this, posture is great with […]

  11/14/2022 8:07 am

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• Re: Body and Mind

  …If your mind is boring you, enter the physical body and atmosphere: put on an outfit you feel like wearing, adjust the clothes comfortably, moisturize, tie a soft hair tie around your hair, notice it didn’t come as a finished ring, and position the tie around your hair, tightly and loosely, comb loose strands with […]

  11/11/2022 7:27 pm

  beauty, free writing, fun, love, lovingkindness, night, philosophy, poetic, prose poetry, self-care, self-reflection, sensual

• So Begins Chapter Two, and Writing Together in Massachusetts

  

  Friday, FEATURED This one is black tea with almond milk, afterwards Another morning of green tea (gyokuru) followed by writing my novel, this time I wrote my draft of Chapter Two, but I feel that this chapter will still continue after the point that I stopped at at 1305 words today when I continue writing […]

  11/11/2022 4:44 pm

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• Homemade Products for Healing and Rest: Showcasing…Pillow and Moisturizer

  UPDATE: I found over time this pillow is too hard for me personally, even if I’d enjoyed the design / stability. I would like to sleep on a cotton pillow; I’ve found how / where you place your head on a pillow can allow you more space and comfort. This pillow may be good for […]

  11/06/2022 3:07 pm

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• Bringing Calm with Arranging Books with Honeybear…A Milk and Honey Moisturizer

  

  November 2, 2022 My books were greatly out of order, book 2 showing before book 1 of a series, poetry, non-fiction, novel in a row…But I found that a little fun. I wanted to bring some calm and beauty and simplicity to the bookcase and my mind this afternoon…I also spaced the books a little […]

  11/03/2022 9:27 am

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• A New Lamp Shade (To Be Shown Next Time)

  

  The missing part with the very dim lampshade: a metal fastener that goes right around the light bulb socket and now allows a lampshade with the corresponding washer size to attach to this current lamp base! A frosted lightbulb is another option to use for a calmer light, and I will also look for a […]

  10/31/2022 8:52 am

  art, artists, ayurveda, home, interior design, love, my photography, night, peeko, reading, relaxation, self-care, uplifting, wellness

• :*

  

  (This was really meant to have no caption and is not explained in words, was not even about jewelry or gold, in reply to my accidental horror of captions I’d find in my new revisions :D, but I let it rest this way…:) Had you found this photo or post suspicious, and are you suspicious? […]

  10/16/2022 7:04 pm

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• Poetry Day

  

  I think I might have told you that I would be sure to write a new poem on Poetry Day, today, Thurs. Oct. 6. I didn’t. 🙂 I didn’t plan to, I’d realized after. (update: —But that night, one came on its own that I wanted to write: “Autumnal,” and I wrote it first by […]

  10/06/2022 6:15 pm

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• Pictures, Delights, Easels and Paints

  

  What did I drink when I just typed all this (post formerly here)? Water. Am sorry to myself too, am going to eat something delicious like chocolate, my mind keeps returning to paints and pictures, I just put together this simple wooden portable easel, that is me in the reflection (not a ghost), and I […]

  10/05/2022 3:18 pm

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• My Wooden Easel and Art Supplies

  

  I brought in my portable wooden easel tonight. I cleaned it well with natural soaps and water, cleaned, neatened bristles, and arranged all my brushes, and set up all paints inside. I also placed on my blank 9 x 12 canvas, deep cleansed and airing out the wooden easel with the cool open window. I […]

  09/15/2022 8:02 pm

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• Peeko, and What We’re Up To

  

  Update Thurs. 7 am: Peeko is feeling better! 🙂 He ate all of his late dinner and all of his breakfast today. … Today’s ‘one thing or two’ main project picked for the day and that’s all—in bold—among other things I may pick to do: *a fully physical day: yoga—extended hold of each stretch. eating […]

  09/10/2022 12:06 pm

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• My Replenish and Restore Index Cards—for when things are very exciting & stimulating—even if good

  

  I wrote this for Artists or Authors or anyone designing a schedule, and if not doing that daily, some ideas for relaxation are here for anyone. I thought of this idea today, as I can be very excited by creativity…information…ideas…comments to and from…on my screen, and then become stimulated (‘tho often starts in a good […]

  08/19/2022 5:27 am

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