Snuggie Saturday

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Ahh Saturday!

Saturday’s for us tend to be full of projects or peace. Today we are doing a little bit of both so that we bring more hygge vibes in everyday. We’ve got projects (who doesn’t right?) but we will also take time to read by the fireplace.

Delaina was hoping to announce a new sleep video today but she has run into some technical fumbles so fingers crossed that it’s lulling us to sleep by Saturday.

Kristin is having fun designing new puzzles for our next activity book. We think it will reel you in. 😉

We wish you a Snuggie Saturday full of warm drinks, laughter, and pleasant memories.

What are Saturday’s usually like for you? 

Cozy Up!

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Hiya;

Part of our cozy time today will be watching yesterday’s snow melt.
 Enjoy today’s Pan-tastic music. And don’t forget to take some time to charge your battery with cozy time.

🎶 Delaina’s Handpan Music on YouTube

Get cozy in your own strength and create a Pan-tastic day with Delaina’s handpan music video. Listen to it anytime you need healthy vibes to fill your body with nurturing energy. Beyond YouTube you can find Delaina’s cozy music on Insight Timer and your favorite streaming venue.

🖨️ Printable Activities on Our Etsy Shop

Cozy up by the fireplace or a warm cuppa and play our “12 Playlists of Christmas.” You can grab your full color copy for less than $3. The playlists open in Spotify.

🔧 Handyman Activity Book for Aging Adults

We aren’t Norwegian but we are pretty sure solving the puzzles in our Handyman Activity Book with a loved one is hygge. You can grab your copy of The Handyman Special from our direct link or from Amazon.

✨ Poetry Books

We might be biased but surely curling up in a comfy chair with a poetry book like Paper Birds or the Anniversary edition of She Too is hygge.

🌀 Coloring Books

Get Cozy with some soul-nourishment coloring. Our Mantra Mandalas put a spin on the power of repetition to evoke the feeling of words while you color.

📚 Large Print Fictions / Upcycles

Grab some blankets, turn on the fireplace and let our large print fictions warm your heart.


In love, light, and cozy vibes,
Delaina and Kristin

What are you looking forward to the most during Cozy Season?

Gratitude Thursday & Thanksgiving

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Hiya & Happy Thanksgiving!

Our hearts are full of gratitude for you. You make the world a better place. Thank you for your love, support, and presence.

Here is a greeting card for you: https://jlcards.com/AG8a4k

🎶 Delaina’s Handpan Music on YouTube

Breathe in gratitude and create a Pan-tastic day with Delaina’s handpan music video. Listen to it anytime you need healthy vibes to fill your body with nurturing energy. Beyond YouTube you can find Delaina’s soothing music on Insight Timer and your favorite streaming venue.

🖨️ Printable Activities on Our Etsy Shop

*Download Drop! This year we created a “12 Playlists of Christmas” pdf in full color and opens in Spotify.

We also have a Thanksgiving theme word find to help you entertain your aging loved one with.

🔧 Handyman Activity Book for Aging Adults

If you are brainstorming ways to build memories with an aging loved one check our Handyman Activity Book is packed with puzzles, tools, and simplified challenges that promote purpose. You can grab your copy of The Handyman Special from our direct link or from Amazon.

✨ Coloring Books

Ready for a little soul-nourishment? We put a twist in our coloring books. Our Mantra 

Mandalas use the power of repetition to evoke the feeling of words while you color.

In love, light, and holiday vibes,
Delaina and Kristin

What is your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

Gratitude Wednesday

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Hiya;
One of the things we are grateful for is our business. It’s just the two of us here at Content X Design. At the start, we published marketing content for small business and inspirational content for adult students. Eventually we moved fully into a small press.

 When family needed us to step into the role of full time caregivers we did grateful for the flexibility of our business. We simply scaled back on publishing books and started publishing pdfs and music that helped us take care of our loved ones.

 Because of that we have an ever-growing line of caregiver resources—Hello Caregiving. And just this year we managed to publish full length books again. We published two poetry collections, Paper Birds and the Anniversary edition of She Too. Along with our first full length activity book, The Handyman Special.

 Business and life go hand-in-hand for us and we are going to keep evolving in our business as we do in life. Because of that, we are publishing our books, as much as possible, through IngramSpark so that our values are inline with our business goals.

 Just in case you are participating in the economic protests and standing with small businesses like ours. All of the book links we have shared above will take you to our Content X Design links on IngramSpark.

🎶 Delaina’s Handpan Music on YouTube

Flow into a Pan-tastic day with Delaina’s handpan music video. Listen to it anytime you need healthy vibes to fill your body with nurturing energy. Beyond YouTube you can find Delaina’s soothing music on Insight Timer and your favorite streaming venue.

🖨️ Printable Activities on Our Etsy Shop

*Download Drop! This year we created a “12 Playlists of Christmas” pdf in full color and opens in Spotify.

We also have a Thanksgiving theme word find to help you entertain your aging loved one with.

🔧 Handyman Activity Book for Aging Adults

If you are brainstorming ways to build memories with an aging loved one check our Handyman Activity Book is packed with puzzles, tools, and simplified challenges that promote purpose. You can grab your copy of The Handyman Special from our direct link or from Amazon.

✨ Coloring Books

Ready for a little soul-nourishment? We put a twist in our coloring books. Our Mantra Mandalas use the power of repetition to evoke the feeling of words while you color.

In love, light, and holiday vibes,
Delaina and Kristin

What is your favorite part of Thanksgiving week?

Gratitude Tuesday

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Today driving around we find ourselves mesmerized by the giant leaves churning in the wind. The ground is a golden sea. The heavy scent of soaked leaves becoming soil has our senses tingling. This planet is so amazingly beautiful. How wonderful it is to rest in light healthy hibernation.

🎶 Delaina’s Handpan Music on YouTube

Here is today’s Pan-tastic  handpan music video. Listen to it anytime you need healthy vibes to fill your body with nurturing energy. Take some time this week to let  Delaina’s soothing handpan music guide you into the energy of pure peace and reset.

🖨️ Printable Activities on Our Etsy Shop

Download Drop! If you are like Kristin and I, you start listening to Christmas music on Thanksgiving day. This year we created two––12 Playlists of Christmas pdfs. One is in full color, the other is black and white. You can download, print, and scan with your phone. The 12 QR codes take you to a specific Spotify playlist making it easy-peasy to start singing along.  

🔧 Handyman Activity Book for Aging Adults

If you are brainstorming ways to build memories with an aging loved one check our Handyman Activity Book is packed with puzzles, tools, and simplified challenges that promote purpose. You can grab your copy of The Handyman Special from our direct link or from Amazon.

✨ Coloring Books

Ready for a little soul-nourishment? We put a twist in our coloring books. Our Mantra Mandalas use the power of repetition to evoke the feeling of words while you color. 


In love, light, and holiday vibes,
Delaina and Kristin

What is your favorite part of Thanksgiving week?

Self-Care Saturday & Sunday Too

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Hello!

Make today a Self-Care Saturday. Turn your nurturing vibes inward and claim space for your health and well-being.

Inspiration. We love a good quote and will sometimes search the internet for motivating words when we need a little inspiration. One quote we love is written by Kamand Kojouri. “Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! Forget your life, live! Forget yourself, and be!” The quote encourages us to let go of self-judgments and celebrate life. We turned this quote into a printable poster and made it available on our Etsy shop.

Music. Music is a great way to breath in calm and exhale stress. To help you settle into your soul and tune into chill Sunday Vibes which are also Self-Care Vibes. Here is a video Delaina created earlier this year.

Coloring. You might have noticed that we love the calming effects coloring offers. We have published sixteen coloring books that use the meditative magic of mandalas. And we have also created smaller printable coloring pages bundles available at Etsy and our Fourthwall shop.

 In love, light, and self-care,
Delaina and Kristin

Please let us know what you do to show yourself some care and what your favorite self-care tool is.

New Inspirations

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Hiya!

Okay friends, we’ve got a few new things coming your way. We’re pretty excited about them so here we go:

First, we’ve created a new mug design and you inspired it. You have been following us for a while so you know how proud we are of our mandala art. But you might not know that it was our gratitude for you that kept us striving to create our Mantra Mandalas. We know a lot of you were disappointed when the plug was pulled on our Mantra Mandala Mugs. Well we have finally found a partner that will help us put those mugs back in your hands. To celebrate we added a splash of color as part of the new design. (Delaina’s decadent crush project.) We started with ‘Love’, because that is what we feel for you. And what better time to bring more love into the world than right now. Am I right?

Love Mug

Second, Delaina has finally convinced herself to try haibun poetry. You might be wondering what that has to do with new things. Well maybe it doesn’t. But she found a, new to her, poet and some great articles about writing haibun to share with you. If that sounds like something you’re interested in…click the links below:

 

And we saved the best news for last…

Kristin is ready to let you in on her secret project. It’s something we’ve been wanting to do for a while but life kept getting in the way. As it does. It’s an activity book to help with engagement and entertain the older guy in your life. We hope to have it ready in time for the Holidays. Fingers crossed, please and thank you.

We hope you are doing well, staying focused on the love there is in the world, and sharing that dynamic light that you are with the world through your voice and creations.

Let us know what you think about our new mug design. And tell us what your decadent crush project is?

In love, light, and haibun,
Delaina and Kristin

Thank you for your support and for being in our lives.

Celebrate Slow & Steady

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Hiya;

Slow and steady wins the race to joy.

Congratulations! You made it to Thursday. Let’s celebrate that fact.

It’s important to celebrate our steps forward no matter how small they feel. Progress is progress. Delaina wrenched her thumb the other day and has been wearing a brace to help support her hand and also as a reminder to take it slow and steady. 

Speaking of slow and steady, our Hello Caregiving YouTube Channel is pumping up. Yes, we added two fitness guys that we feel really get the ‘aging gracefully’ thing. But don’t take our word for it, check them out for yourself. They are under the “Resources” heading where you will also find “The Pocket Psychologist;” who we love because she is full of stress relieving tips. We can all use that, right?!

Also… Speaking of stress relief:

We have added some Mantra Mandala Coloring Pages to Fourthwall. Check them out if you are feeling the world to be a little drab. And please, if you decide to give them a try, share pictures of your creativity with us for a bit of fun. 

Here’s your gentle reminder: fill your day with the little things that make a difference to you. One fit, stress free, colorful moment at a time.

In love, light, and joy

Delaina and Kristin

P.S. What’s something fun you’ve done for yourself lately. We’d love to hear.

Coloring Books for Mental Wellness, Relaxation & Joy

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Are you searching for the BEST Coloring Books to promote Mental Wellness, Relaxation & Joy, but can’t handle all those tiny spaces?

Relax- You’re in the right place!

Introducing: Small Words, Big Shifts coloring books – a new series of 3 books with our new Mantra Mandalas.

Grab a copy here: ===> On Amazon!

Just like the title says, these books contain short words (Love, Thrive, Joy) that, when twisted into our delightful Mandalas, create larger spaces to color.

This was very helpful when my mother was recovering from Brain Surgery – One of her therapists recommend coloring, but she had trouble with the tiny spaces in our other books.  Thus the motivation for us to create  some uplifting, positive coloring with larger areas to color. TaDa!

Mental Wellness made easy – with our creative spin on Mandala based Coloring.

These books also work well, if you enjoy creating in a ZenTangle style – larger spaces lead to more interesting & creative ways to color.

The best part?

Coloring these abstract Mantra Mandalas enhances your Mental Wellness, without the stress that comes from coloring other types of art.

So go ahead, click the link (===> to Amazon ) and  buy a Mantra Mandalas Coloring book today so you can be a chill / zen sloth in no time!

Coloring Books in the News!

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Grown ups and coloring books are all the rage &

for good reason

Beyond what the Nightly News talks about there is something to be said about stepping away from the high stress – go go go – mentality that we have all grown so accustom. We need time to create in a calm and judge free way.

Coloring books for adults do just that. Add in some mantras and now you can even color your day in positivity.

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Mantra Mandala Coloring Books available on Amazon