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Simplify Your Life – a guided course and workbook with actionable challenges and reflective journal prompts to help you identify what clutters your life (and time) and find ways to create more space and flexibility.4 questions to inspire a simpler life and define your priorities.Simplify Your Self-Care – A 5-day email challenge designed to help you sustainably look after yourself so you can carry on looking after everyone else.How to create a simple evening routine – wind down from the day.18 signs you are too busy and what to do about it.How to find simplicity in life (5 powerful tips to clear clutter and live intentionally).Here are some other resources which might help if you’d like to explore ways of managing your time and looking after yourself when life is busy and your body and mind need a little less stress and a lot more space! They’re just some little tips to help you feel calmer and more at ease even if your schedule is busy and your To Do list grows arms and legs. I really hope these ideas on how to feel less overwhelmed when life gets busy encourage you. Have a read through and see if some could help you? Here are some little tips that I use if I’m feeling overstretched and overwhelmed when life gets busy. Or maybe you just feel that if you let one of those spinning plates slow down, they’ll all come tumbling down? Maybe you’re hitting a busy season, or set yourself some high expectations every now and then. I’m making that conscious effort I talked about above to prioritise them instead of running around doing all the things that I feel I should also be doing as well. 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I'll pin the rest of the rows on, now that the first seamline one is done, before sewing them to see how close I need to getĪfter reading ALL the comments that I've seen so far, the loops are outweighing all the rest, so loops it will be. Thanks for the pattern hunt offer but I'll just keep adding until it looks like hair. Good idea on sewing a second time as it will be more secure. Think I will do one in front of the seam as it looks pretty sparse. I will add more than the recommended rows-one on seam line then 2 short ones across the back. (Loops stand at 2" high) Quickly discovered that one length of stitching slid off easily and start a new swatch is soo much easier. I am using cardboard cut down the middle-looping the yarn and stitching, sliding the yarn wrapping and stitching. If you want me to trace off the pattern from what I have or the old instructions I can pop them in the mail. I like a row at the seam line and a row of two in front of that. You end up with just horse shoe shapes as they get larger. I like the hair thick and do sort of a 'D' shape (flat side of the d to the bottom) and then keep working the back from there. I take a hairpin lace hook and wrap with the hair yarn. It can be cut but I just like the look of loops better. I have a copy of the old McCall's (50's) pattern if you want me to hunt the formal directions for this style. I have one a friend make for me like this. ![]() This is all just stitched at seamline around face and back neck. It sort of has hair laid out across the back (up and down) leaving loose bangs in front around the face and loose ends in back. The old 50's pattern doesn't have the loop look. Our electric has been out ALL day and finally we are back up and running. That's the "secret".ĭon't forget to embroider or draw the little "I love you" heart left of center on their chest! ) That first try looked as if I'd assigned hairdressing duty to the cat! Just remember a really good scalp massage after clipping loops and before the styling trim. ![]() This was after trying to slide it (unstitched) off the cardboard and THEN stitching it down to the head. I wrapped the yarn around cardboard and had cut an open ended slash down the center of the cardboard to run a row of machine stitching before sliding it off then stitching it down to the head. However.now that I am typing this and thinking back to what I did, I seem to remember adding an extra row of yarn hair (rows closer together) on Ann because I thought it just looked better, but then I buy 'volumizing' shampoo so my perception of hair may be somewhat skewed *snort* Andy wears a hat so it doesn't seem to matter. Once you cut the loops and then do a good scalp massage to fluff up that hair before you can trim it. My dolls have three rows of yarn hair sewn about an inch apart. I just checked my patterns (it's been awhile since I made them). 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The many Spell Lore sidebars that accompany specific spells go into some pretty deep, well-researched campaign setting information that talks about the origins and uses of some of the new spells. It's much more in line with mixing roleplaying and mechanical consequences than some of 5th edition's rules tend to get, which is why it makes a great sidebar/variant rule, playing with the idea of seeking out mentors, performing dedication rituals, and creating decision points after accumulating a certain number of experience points. The Changing Deities sidebar provides some mechanics for Clerics changing domains or Paladins changing their oaths. The Sidebarsīefore we get to the spells, let's talk about the sidebars peppered liberally throughout this book.Īmong the first is a Psychic Spell List in a sidebar that reflavors the Sorceror into a psionic-style spellcaster, allowing you to ignore or compliment the Mystic class - also available on DMsGuild - at your leisure! So, even if you don't care about the new classes, or don't want to learn new class mechanics to get a psychic character, this guide offers you something that is a popular means of re-skinning something old to get something new and maintain all the careful balance of the existing classes and spells. Nice touch! The spell lists include all of the spellcasting classes so far, which means you're getting the addition of the Artificer - making this a great book to quickly expand on that relatively new class since it's offered via the DMsGuild now. Additionally, a handful of the spells appearing in this book are revised versions of those found in other Dungeon Masters Guild (AKA DMsGuild) products, so this book truly leverages all of the mechanics that've been released for 5th edition D&D so far. 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