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Explore & Find Adventure!

I wanted to share another positive mental health tip for this blog post, and this one is a perfect fit with our parcel theme last month.

Our theme for August was ‘Hello Holiday’, and the contents of our parcels were all connected to getting outside, exploring, collecting memories, and finding a little adventure!

Travelling is something that lots of people do, and lots of people think about doing, and for some of those people, they want to travel the world, and go far and wide, and for others, they want to stay slightly closer to home, and the good thing is, it doesn’t matter which we do, exploring can be done anywhere.

Travelling allows us to learn new skills – or discover and develop skills that we already have. It enables us to face challenges, to experience different cultures, to learn new languages, and broaden our taste buds.

The key to finding the next (or first) exploring adventure, is to choose something that already interests us, whether that be tasting different foods, walking in the countryside, visiting old buildings, or maybe, photography, and let that begin the journey.

Exploring can be daunting, as it means throwing ourselves into the unknown, but no matter how far we go, exploring encourages us to step outside of our comfort zone, to find new adventures, and to escape to somewhere new – even if it is only for a short amount of time!

Karen x

August 2018 – Parcel Contents

It’s time for another blog post, and this week, I’m going to tell you all about our parcel contents this month. The theme for August was ‘Hello Holiday’, and the contents were chosen to help the recipient to make the most out of this holiday season, and be encouraged to go outside, explore, and find adventure!

August Contents:

Travel Memories Frame –

This month, our parcels are all about holidays. This wooden frame is shaped like a beach hut and has been created to display a collage of small mementos from your travels. It could include tickets, a map, passport photos, or even a little sachet of sand from the beach. I love the idea of gluing a few shells to the bottom shelf too!

Campervan Magnet –

 The next item is a beautiful clay campervan magnet – who doesn’t like campervans?! It has been made by Rachael, who has a lovely shop on eBay. Rachael makes a large variety of clay products and decorations. Her eBay shop can be found here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/luvarnie100

Wooden Plaque –

When we knew the theme of this month’s parcels, we knew we wanted to include this quote somewhere: ‘You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf’. We all face difficult times in our lives, and sometimes things just don’t go the way we expect them to, however, it’s not what happens to us in life, but what we do with what happens, that actually matters.

‘Explore’ Luggage Tag –

One simple thing that we all need when going on holiday, is a luggage tag – or several! It doesn’t matter how far we go, it could be across the other side of the world, or just exploring close to home, but we should definitely never stop exploring. Exploring encourages us to step outside of our comfort zone and find adventure!

 ‘Keep Driving Forward’ –

We will be including postcards by Katie Abey Design in our website parcels, and ‘Keep Driving Forward’ is our first. Katie Abey is a freelance illustrator based in Derbyshire, and she describes her work as being ‘illustrative doses of happiness and motivation along with a little dash of sarcasm’ – sounds perfect!

Smile Cards

As always, there should be a couple of these little cards in your parcel, I’ve written one for you, and the blank one, is for you to write a short inspirational or positive message, and give to someone you know, or leave somewhere for a complete stranger to find – but this is of course optional, there’s absolutely no pressure to do this if you don’t want to*.

Parcel Assistant

This month, you’ll be pleased to hear that your *Parcel Assistant is, Humphrey. Now, Humphrey may sound like he’s a cute little chap, but he is known to be very argumentative…so if you do have previous Parcel Assistants still living with you – I recommend keeping them apart!

Karen x

*Parcel Assistants are cheeky little pompom chaps who help (or hinder!) us with packing your monthly parcels!