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24 Jul 2011 No Comments
First of all I want to announce good news: Ievute Etsy shop has many new items! Take a peek and get a piece to enjoy.
Even better news: promotional code IEVUTE15 will give you 15% off of your purchase!
All item in my Etsy store are one-of-a-kind so hurry up and get your adored piece while it is still available!
Also, feel free to contact me if you want a custom girl. I will be more than happy to help you with that.
Hugs ~
ievute
24 Jun 2011 No Comments
in • Happiness, • Inspiration, • Life, • Self Tags: goal, happiness, love, • Self
It is Friday again. Oh how fast days and weeks are flying by… Next week is the last week of June. 2 more months and “bye bye Miss Summer..” ☹
To be honest, the last few times I sat down to write a post I was editing more than writing.. Some sentences sounded too personal. Other sentences didn’t make sense in a broader sense. Some other ones were just random rambles about seamless things. Also, I know that people come and read my posts and I am not sure what they like and what they would like to find on my page. I would love to share something what is interesting rather than some boring blurbs on things that are least interesting for my readers. So, if you are reading this post please leave a note or write me a short note with your thoughts, interests, ideas or just let me know that you enjoy my thoughtful posts as well as little rambles on simple ordinary things.
I, personally, enjoy simple ordinary things more than anything because they create big important things. Love is so much sweeter with a cute text message, food is so much more delicious if it is made with love, a compliment might make you feel good for the rest of a day and a glass of water when you are really thirsty is so much more delicious than the most expensive champagne…
I challenge you to pay attention to little things. Notice, appreciate and help big things happen ~
Oh, and don’t forget to write me a thing or two ☺
Hugs ♥
05 Jun 2011 No Comments
in • Happiness, • Inspiration, • Life, • Self Tags: happiness, love, • Life, • Self
I challenge you to take 1 Minute out of your day and enjoy one little thing that gets lost usually in the vastness of a regular day.. You might be surprised how many things/moments go unnoticed and even more so, how many of them are of a crucial importance to our well-being…
You are just one click away from one of them. Enjoy!
14 May 2011 No Comments
in • Happiness, • Inspiration, • Life, • psychology, • Self Tags: communication, happiness, love, • psychology, • Self
I want to share one of my observations with you. I hope that it will help you to be more loved, more confident, less afraid and less insecure.
I am sure you have met people who are very opinionated. There is nothing wrong with that. Opinions state our preferences, they let us understand what other people like and how they are. What I want to point at is negative opinions. A negative opinion sounds as a criticism and a person spends a reasonable amount of time drilling on it. It is never a sentence or two and it doesn’t sound nice. Usually such opinions are about other people’s talents (which we don’t have) or good things (that we try to put in a negative light because we don’t have them, but want to).
You might disagree with me but I believe that criticizing something or somebody doesn’t make you more likable or lovable. Criticism carries a hidden message about your own insecurities and fears. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be like another person or wanting to have something you don’t have. I find it more aspiring when people instead of criticizing admit that they would like to be like another person, have another person’s talent or have the item. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
It is more powerful to be honest with yourself and others. It makes you more lovable, likable and admirable. People might not say that loud but the truth is that criticism creates more insecurities and if we have a choice to spend time with a person who we know criticizes more than compliments and a person who is honest and not afraid to admit that she/he is not perfect, who do you think we are more attracted to as a person and want to spend time with? Who makes us feel better about ourselves and who can we trust more?
Nobody is perfect and everybody knows it. There will be always somebody better than you so get over it and start living your life with a smile in your heart. There will be always people who will criticize you in front of you and behind your back. You shouldn’t worry about that. Just remember, every criticism tells more about a person who is criticizing..
My advice is: find a chunk of compassion in your heart and carry it around. Whenever you face a criticism about yourself or something/body else, inhale deep and let compassion do its work. You might be surprised how much good it can do and how much more love you will grow in your heart shaped garden ~
13 Apr 2011 No Comments
in • Communications, • Happiness, • Inspiration, • Life, • psychology, • Self Tags: happiness, • Life, • psychology, • Self
If you are my blog fan you must have noticed how much I love exploring “happiness” subject. If this is your first time I encourage you to take a look at my “happiest” posts Peaceful Hurricanes and Chaotic Stillness, Power of Vulnerability, and Mistaken Expectations and Indifferent Choices. They all explore the idea of happiness and what it takes to be happy. I love when ideas and theories are based on facts rather than on one person’s opinion or unhappy person’s point of view. It is easier to be unhappy and humble than find positive side at darkest moments. I encourage you to stop for a minute, identify what happiness means to you and keep doing more of that!
20 Mar 2011 No Comments
in • art, • design, • DIY, • Inspiration Tags: crafts, • art, • design, • DIY
For me the final product/art-piece is as much interesting as the process itself creating the art-piece. All artists have their own processes and that is where it all gets interesting – often creative processes are so different that it is hard to wrap my head around them. Artists start at different starting points, some of them work intuitively while others have a very precisely calculated plan and order how to do things. The variety of starting points and infinite possibilities of variations doing things truly fascinate me.
I am sharing my creative process with you (or at least parts of it). I noticed that sometimes processes can be inspiring – maybe mine will inspire you to take a pencil in your hands, some craft paper, glue and create something beautiful that represents your world and you. Don’t think too hard and just do it!
Start with an idea
Get basic parts down (in this case, a girl and a boy)
Add little necessary touch-ups
Enjoy the finished work!
10 Mar 2011 No Comments
in • Communications, • Inspiration, • Life, • psychology, • Self Tags: chaos, goal, love, • Life, • psychology, • Self
Some days things “just” happen. Good and bad, big and small, important and not so much.. Some days one minute we laugh and cannot contain our joy in our physical bodies and another we feel below the sea level. On such days peacefulness is threatened by the most hazardous chaos and emotional hurricanes elevate to never before seen (and probably felt) levels. I am sure you have gone through this a significant number of times.
I would like to share my observations what works when hurricanes take over and chaotic stillness becomes annoying. I will share only 3 very simple possible steps you can take (there are so many more of them!) to change the situation. Start with these 3 steps as, I believe, they are the foundation of all the other ones that are in between:
1. Calm down. It might sound a little bit way too simple but stop doing whatever you are doing, put aside everything, walk away from your computer and find a peaceful place where you can come back to your body and your peaceful mind. One of the possible things to do is to make yourself a cup of tea and while drinking it concentrate and think only about the tea, the smell, the flavor, observe the color and texture of it. Let it be all about the cup of tea. Let all the thoughts and worries slide away. Find something what you enjoy and what takes 2-5 minutes out of your busy day. Enjoy the moment and observe every millisecond of your peaceful return to pure happiness filled Earth. Try this!
2. Remember and decide what is important to you, deep in your heart, not in your brain. There are days when too many things happen at the same time and we lose a grip of what is important to us and what our priorities are. Don’t take the path that puts everybody’s responsibilities and faults on you. More
21 Feb 2011 No Comments
in • art, • design, • Inspiration Tags: crafts, jewelry, • art, • design, • DIY
I am introducing new accessories that I have been working on in the last few days. They are handmade one-of-a-kind items. White necklace was inspired by winter and the beauty of falling snow. I find snowflakes to be very elegant. There is something about them that stops a moment and makes me wonder.. The other necklace was inspired by the time of a day that happens when a day changes into an evening. I find it charming and very sophisticated. That is where my accessories come from – most elegant and personal places and spaces. I hope you enjoy them!
I am making them available to shop if you would like to own one.
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19 Feb 2011 No Comments
in • Business Tips, • Communications, • Inspiration, • Life
Today I attended TED x Berkeley. What an experience! I love (really love) ted.com. I find TED speeches to be inspiring and I feel that most of them are so rich in content that it is impossible not to learn something new.
It was quite an experience to participate in one of the TED events today. I learnt few new things and I met few new people. Shore Slocum, Anat Baniel and Gopi Kallayil presented ideas that made me wonder and think deeper. Shore Slocum was encouraging the audience to let go off things, accept opportunities, step through the opened doors and not to be afraid of changes. He was saying that situations unfold without us trying to control them and they leave us at a better place than we could have ever imagined to be.. At times he felt like a mini Tony Robbins. I found Shore to be truly inspiring.
Anat Baniel gave a talk about brain plasticity and led a 2 minute exercise session after which I could reach my toes with my straight legs effortlessly. What a complex and magical mechanism our brain is and how many ways there are to present information to it to get different outcomes/results. I was skeptical before Anat’s 2 minute exercise and was amazed and inspired to learn more after. Anat defined nine essentials that the brain requires in order to grow and develop new patterns and possibilities for lifetime fitness of mind and body to achieve true personal empowerment.
There was so much information today that I cannot really recall who said exactly what but I liked Gopi’s approach on self and how little things can lead to big changes. One step stood out a lot to me – taking 1 minute out of your day to do things that make you feel “yourself” and make it a routine. I feel there are so many people who set goals that are not achievable and 1 minute sounds not only doable, but also enjoyable. Gopi’s point was that in time 1 minute will become 5 minutes and after a while you might find out that 1 minute transformed into all 30… Isn’t this exciting?
I also learnt about biochar from Lopa Brunjes and about synesthesia of living organisms from Bryan Alvarez. All speeches were inspiring and none were better than other. All of them were so unique and heart felt that it was hard not to participate and engage with the speaker. I am so glad I had an opportunity to participate at TED x Berkeley. I admit, my day was geeky and so much fun!
18 Feb 2011 No Comments
in • design, • DIY, • Inspiration Tags: crafts, • art, • design, • DIY
I finished these only today. They were so much fun to make! Decorating, of course, was the part that I enjoyed most. Now I have super comfy, super cute, and super “ievutte” slippers to walk around the house. Oh how happy I am!
If you would like to make a pair for yourself, use this pattern from BurdaStyle. You might have to adjust the size and remember, reuse magazines and paper grocery bags when making patterns.
Have fun!!
