Just Roll with It; Recipes for Easy Embossed Cookies is a simple guide and playful companion for successfully using your engraved rolling pins. Stacy Krems, owner of the Colorado home-based business Sweet Rolling Pins, shares a wealth of recipes and essential tips for making the perfect rolling pin cookies from scratch. Stacy loves sharing her secrets for producing perfect embossed cookies and provides many surprising innovations to make cookies fun and exciting. In Just Roll with It, however, Stacy points out that more important than perfect cookies is simply the time we spend together in the kitchen with those we love. "I love baking," Stacy says, "because it reminds me of endless summer days spent in the kitchen with my grandmother. Her hair in curlers, Crisco in hand, and we'd bake for hours. It wasn't the baking itself that was so special, it was simply the time spent with her. It's those precious moments I would love to have back now that she is gone. I feel like our rolling pins are a conduit for that, getting in the kitchen and making memories with someone you love. Even if the cookies burn, that doesn't matter. What matters is the time spent together, creating special memories. That is my wish for everyone who uses one of our Sweet Rolling Pins, and who reads this book!"
Gain clarity, focus, and peace coloring FarmDalas - over 50 Farm mandalas & mantras/affirmations included... Mandalas are a form of therapy used by thousands worldwide. People seeking to calm their thoughts and increase their productivity focus on coloring mandalas every day. Now, anyone with a love of Farms and a desire for clarity, have a source for those reflections in the "FarmDala Coloring Book." Unlock your creativity with the more than fifty FarmDala designs included in the "FarmDala Coloring Book." Also included are over fifty mantras (also called affirmations) for meditation during the coloring process. Choose your medium, choose the FarmDala to color, and enjoy. Turn your thoughts inward. Each of the designs were created for Farm people and pet lovers to focus on coloring to relieve stress, increase the positive energy in their lives, and have fun in the process! And, when you're looking for more mandalas, check out other 'Dala' books by Laurren Darr: DogDala, PugDala Coloring Book, CatDala Coloring Book, OwlDalas Coloring Book, HorseDala Coloring Book, and ChickenDala Coloring Book. Laurren Darr has been plumb pet crazy since childhood. She immerses herself in creating through writing and art. Laurren has found that including creative habits in life is beneficial to health while feeding the soul. Advantages of coloring: Many promising studies have been conducted on art therapy. For those who are less inclined to create art as therapy and wanting a simpler solution, they are using coloring books to enrich their lives. Physicians and therapists prescribe coloring for many different illnesses including depression, PTSD, dementia, and even cancer patients to reduce their pain and stress levels in treatment. Everyday, people are also looking for natural and joyful ways to lessen pain and reduce the tension in their lives. By coloring, the mind focuses. This, in turn, allows the brain to replace mind chatter and negative thoughts with positive thoughts. There are many benefits to having a coloring book routine, which include: Achieve a meditation state of mind. The alpha brain waves are present when the mind is sleeping or in a deep zen-like meditative state. When a person is coloring, the brain can get into this soothing, restorative mode. Assuage stress, worry, and fears. This happens in the amygdala portion of the brain where emotions and motivation are integrated. The amygdala gets calmed during the coloring process. Improve fine motor skills. This happens through the repetition of coloring and focusing on a task using your hands to stay within a finite area. Increase creativity. Coloring unlocks the right side of the brain and keeps it stimulated, allowing for more creative thoughts and solutions. This also leads to increased productivity. Relax, gain clarity, and focus. People can also reduce their blood pressure while coloring."