Lifestyle and Hobbies

Mother Earth provides us with a bounty of healing foods. These magical gifts help us reconnect with the natural world and restore balance in our body. One of the most empowering paths to wellness begins with prioritizing our own health, and our kitchen creations are a wonderful place to focus.

In traditional Day of the Dead celebrations, sugar skulls are given as gifts to the living and adorn the altars of the deceased. The art of handcrafting sugar skulls and decorating them with colorful paint and sparkling embellishments has been passed down through generations of folk artists.

“Spellbinding,” “bewitching,” and “ghostly” barely begin to describe Endre Penovác's otherworldly cats. Each one is rendered in the artist's distinctive watercolor-and-ink technique with a unique fadeaway style that has garnered him international renown. Endre's paintings are an act of faith and magic.

Endre's paintings are an act of faith and magic. Like these carrion birds, watercolor is a difficult medium to wrangle, but by diluting pigments with water to create tiny rivers of monochromatic tones, Endre instinctively strokes these feathered forms into shape, giving his mysterious paintings a haunting life of their own, even as they seem to be vanishing before our eyes

This whimsical and useful memory book allows you to record everyday adventures with your dog; the charming illustrations will delight you as you fill out the pages and return to them again and again.

This is the book every pet parent needs to chronicle the best moments with their canine furbaby. TikTok videos are great and all, but don't you want a brag book you can add to, look

Any travel guide to Rome will urge visitors to go the Colosseum, but none answers a simple question: Why is it called the Colosseum? THE HISTORY OF ROME IN 12 BUILDINGS is compelling, concise, and fun, and takes you behind the iconic buildings to reveal the hidden stories of the people that forged the Roman Empire.

Let someone know that they're not alone, whatever they've got going on and whatever they need: talking, not-talking, crying, laughing, worrying, late-night calls or early-morning texts, errands, or favors. Sometimes, simply offering to lend a hand is lending a hand.

True story: There are people out there who love you, no matter what. And isn't it lovely when they say it out loud - or in a card like this one by Lisa Congdon? It feels so good. And it feels even better to say it to someone else. We all need to hear it now and again. And again. And, yup. . .still needing to hear it.

Celebrate the magic of someone magical on the magical day they were born. Did we just say 'magical' too many times there? No we did not. Magic. Blank inside A2 size (4.25 x 5.5-inches) Offset printed in California with eco-friendly vegetable inks on heavyweight matte stock Comes with a matching kraft envelope By the great Lisa Congdon for Em & Friends.

This jubilant and thrilling card by Lisa Congdon works for almost any happy occasion, including but not limited to: birthday, graduation, new home, new job, new year, wedding, recovery, divorce, anniversary, and NO SPECIAL REASON AT ALL. (Like, if we could we would send it to every good human who made it through the past couple years.)