How to Make a Rose Flower Photo Frame

You must be wondering how to add a little bit of creativity to your home. What better way to decorate a home than with flowers? Many utilize flowers in so many areas and aspects of their life, such as in their homes, offices, schools, rooms, and so many other places. So how can you make use of a pressed rose in making a frame that you can use for holding your photos? Keep reading to find out how to make a rose flower photo frame.

There are lots of photo frames with different designs and ideas that can be used to beautify a place. But how does a rose photo frame beautify a place? Roses known for their outstanding beauty and looks are flowers that stand out a lot. They have a natural feel and add a serene feeling to the place.

Wooden Rose Photo Frame

This botanical art gives your home that comforting feel as it utilizes properly pressed roses from your garden. This project uses a wooden frame with decorative paper of your choice to be placed inside. It’s lovely home decor that’ll help enhance the natural beauty of your home. Here's how to make it in this frame.

Steps in Making a Wooden Rose Photo Frame

You're going to be needing the following materials in other to make this photo frame:

·                 A wooden photo frame (used or new)

·                 Glue

·                 Ruler

·                 Scissors

·                 Rose

·                 A decorative sheet of paper

Step 1

First, you need the glass from the picture frame. After doing so measure the back of the photo frame.

Step 2

Now place the measurement on the decorative paper and cut out the extra; make sure the paper is the same size as the photo frame before proceeding.

Step 3

Place the properly pressed flower onto a piece of cut out paper, align in the style of your choice, and glue.

Step 4

Now place the decorative paper in the frame as the background and glue the smaller paper with the flower to it.

Paper Roses Frame

This is a fun and attractive kind of photo frame as it involves being imaginative and creative in your way. The photo frame is made of well-cut out brown cartons and the roses are paper roses, which you can make yourself or get. So here's how to make it.

Steps in Making a Paper Rose Photo Frame

·                 A-frame

·                 Papers

·                 Ruler

·                 Glue

·                 Scissors

·                 Photo

·                 Roses (preferably paper)

Step 1

First, measure the back of the frame and cut out the decorative paper you'll use for it making sure it matches the size of the back of the frame.

Step 2

Now carefully glue the paper to the frame.

Step 3

Now align your paper roses on the side of the frame and glue.

Step 4

Wait for it to dry and now you have your very own rose photo frame.

We've now seen a few of the many ways you can create your rose photo frame. The beauty of how your photo frame turns out all depends on your creativity and skills. Now complement your home with these lovely photo frame ideas and designs.

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How Gardening is Good for Your Mental Health

Have you been feeling depressed lately, or it's just been a regular thing now? Did you know that gardening is a way of relieving a person from depression and loneliness? Gardening has been researched to be one of the many ways to relieve a person from a low mental state. Horticulture has so many benefits and ways it can improve a person's mental well-being. Let’s take a look at what gardening is and the benefits of it.

Effects of Gardening on Mental Health

A British study shows how just spending as little as 10 minutes a week gardening can greatly improve the health of a person and reduce the risk of heart disease. The best part is that not only can you get a green thumb with gardening outside but also inside as you can also nurture your chosen indoor plants, herbs, and flowers in the comfort of your home.

It has become very clear that gardening is more than just a trend or recreation, as it has helped many in escaping from their depression and loneliness. It has a lot of key benefits and so many ways of improving the emotional and mental health of a person. Here are a couple of benefits of how it can relieve a person from depression, loneliness, and anxiety from just getting green-fingered.

Benefits of Gardening

Research over the years shows how it has greatly improved the feel-good hormones in a person. As it involves hand in effort and nurturing, in turn giving the person a sense of pride and achievement from nurturing their plant. It also releases stress.

Relieving a person from stress is one of its many main benefits. Research has greatly shown how just relaxing in gardens, outdoors, and a green environment in general greatly improves the mental health of a person as their minds travel far and are less focused on the cause of their stress.

Gardening can give an individual a welcome break from their work day. Results show how those who spend time gardening have a lower stress level than those who spend time working on the computer.

Help Gain Vitamin D

As an activity that involves coming in contact with direct natural sunlight outdoors, gardening helps in strengthening your immune system and providing you with the necessary vitamin D to help a person to resist any chronic disease or illness. Also getting your hands in the soil will help in staying fit and healthy, and it involves partaking in little handwork or exercise, in turn helping people to remain fit.

These are a few of the ways to benefit from gardening. It's an activity that's fitting for all, as it’s a low-cost activity and doesn't require much to start. So if you have a balcony or window, you can start now and make this trend the remedy to your depression.

You can also check out some nice herbal and mood uplift products like Gaia Herbs’ Mood Uplifter and New Chapter’s Mood Support Probiotics, which may help balance your mood.

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