#tce sunny

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Lonely together #streetshot #streetphotography #daylight #sunny #lock #canon #70d #50mm #igedit #bycicle #parking (at Bankstown Station, North Tce)

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These Air Purifying Plants Can Improve Your Mental and Physical Health

Guest post by Mona Freund

It’s no secret that spending time outside is good for us. Studies show that only two hours per week spent in nature can be beneficial to our health. It doesn’t really matter whether you get this outside time while hiking, gardening or simply sitting in your backyard. If you’re not fortunate enough to own a backyard, you can still bring a touch of green and fresh air into your life by adding plants to your interior decor. Plants increase our ability to focus, boost our happiness and reduce our stress level, which makes them the perfect addition to any inside space.

Besides improving our mental health, plants are amazing natural air purifiers. The air in your home can be compromised by dust, pet hair, mold, or smoke among others. Regular vacuuming and dusting, as well as, opening the windows in your home once or twice a day can minimize the amount of pollutants in the air. While these practices are important, there is more you can do to improve the air quality in your home: Add indoor plants!

A NASA study published in 1989 tested a variety of houseplants for their ability to filter volatile organic compounds (VOCs) out of the air. VOCs are airborne toxins that stem from chemicals. The results of the NASA research were astounding: Peace lilies, for instance, were able to remove 79.5% of benzene from the air in the test lab. Benzene is one of the five most common VOCs that we encounter in our daily lives. It can be found in gasoline, glues, detergents, and furniture wax. Other common VOCs include the following:

●       Trichloroethylene (TCE): found in adhesives, paint removers and cleaners

●       Formaldehyde: found in cosmetics, manufactured wood, cigarette smoke and permanent press fabric

●       Xylene: found in paint and varnish, cigarette smoke and automobile exhaust

●       Ammonia: found in fertilizers, window and industrial cleaners

VOCs are not always harmful to humans and animals. In fact, most mammals produce small amounts of VOCs themselves. As with many things though, high exposure can be detrimental. While formaldehyde is commonly used as a preservative in cosmetics like shampoo or face cream, overexposure can cause irritation to the throat, mouth and nose. TCE used to be a surgical anesthetic until it was found to cause kidney cancer, which resulted in it being outlawed in the United States in 1977.

The good news is, regardless of how much space you have and how good you are with keeping your greenery alive, there is a plant that fits you and your lifestyle. If you want to improve the air quality in your home, check out the flowchart below to find out which air purifying plant is best for you. Adding two plants per 100 square feet is a good start. If you need some inspiration for sprucing up your home with plants, the visual also includes tips on how to add greenery to your home office, living and bedroom.

Take good care of your new natural air purifiers and never underestimate how much they do for you and your health!

Mona Freund grew up in Germany, spent some time on the East Coast and has now found her home in sunny San Diego. When she's not creating content for FTD, she can be found surfing, baking chocolate chip cookies or talking to her tomato plant 'Hank' to help him grow faster.

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Luxury Outdoor Living

Unable to get away this summer? Enjoy the relaxation of resort-style living right here in your back yard! All of our outdoor pieces are constructed from high grade teak, aluminium or iron frames with 100% polyester rope - the same kind that is used by the worlds best mountain climbers! You can't beat that when it comes to a combo of style and durability. 

Whether your outdoor space is small or even bigger than your home itself, we’ve put together some tips to add an element of resort luxury to your everyday outdoor settings:

1. Functional Seating Areas

Transform your outdoor area into a private alfresco experience by creating a designated seating area that also serves as a place to demolish snacks and drinks.It can be tricky to find outdoor pieces that are stylishly designed yet still durable enough to withstand frequent use. Our Sarah Dining Range, Shani Chairs, & Naki Dining tables are the perfect pick. Dine in style with these pieces, and rest assured they are as strong as they are stylish!

2. Soak Up The Sun

There’s nothing quite like the level of relaxation experienced on holiday, and nothing says holiday relaxation like a plush day-bed styled sofa.

You can’t go past our Havana Outdoor Sofas when it comes to finding the perfect piece for those afternoon snoozes or post-swim lounging. They’re so comfy, you’ll never want to get up!

3. The Reading Nook

What is the number one most popular activity whilst on holiday? Reading! You have simply got to find that super comfy chair to sink into with a good book and an ice cold cocktail. Our Lisa chair provides ultimate comfort with a huge plush seat cushion and egg shaped seat that really allows you to ’kick back’ and relax.

4. Group chats

Are you a social butterfly? Always hosting all your mates? You need to invest in decent group seating for all those nights of summertime entertaining. Shop from our Mischa or Ipanema ranges to create a setting that has room for everyone to sit and chat from sunny lunches to bbq’s and beersies into the night.

5. The Little Things

Lets be honest, at the end of the day its the little luxuries that make island holidays so irresistible. Our range of summer-time homewares will do the trick!  If you don’t have the space or budget for big outdoor furniture and want something summery that can be easily added to your existing decor, check out our fave summer essentials below.

Shop our outdoor ranges here or in store with us at 3 Pompallier Tce Ponsonby or 436 Broadway Newmarket. 

We recommend giving your preferred store a quick call to check their display stock levels before making the trip in to see us. You can find our store numbers here.

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Saturday afternoon snaps

Sunny skies, powering offshores and a swell trying its best to get in…

No Mans set 1700

Get my good side, Long Reef

Working a little one right to the sand, Northy 1650

Sweeping cutty, Northy 1645

Looking mighty fine. Cooks Tce, 1630

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some more doodles

[image 1: avie, an anthropomorphic witch chicken, looking in shock as the seer, a hooded figure with a single eye, emerges from her eyesocket. they're both covered in splatters of a pitch-black fluid. end id!]

[image 2: the seer and paulina, an anthropomorphic parrot. the seer is looking at her, surprised. polly says: "ohhh she let the "y'all" slip. she's maaaad" as she looks back with a snarky expression. end id!]

[image 3: sunny and moonifer, a cartoonishly sentient sun and moon respectively, in the sky above some mountains. sunny is looking at moonifer with a flirty expression, and says "Hey, Moonifer~" moonifer, looking scared and confused, responds: "Wha? Huh? Who?" end id!]

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was bored

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sunny animation test :>

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meanwhile on mount chillier

happy almost halloween im putting them in the zombie scenario

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i think im going to infodump about the tce cast a little more than usual because this project has been the only thing keeping me sane lately... i hope you dont mind 'w'

if you were wondering...

avie is 22, polly is younger by a few months. the exact date tce takes place on is ambiguous, and i dont know when the characters birthdays are.... but i'd just say polly's 21

everest is somewhere in the 17-19 range?

the seer and the celestial duo are immortal so they're hard to give an exact age to... they were alive for the Magic Age, which is, like, "so old that almost all modern knowledge of it is legends and word of mouth" old, so. either way i think sunny and moonifer are older than the seer

amadas was built in the 80s, but it kinda has a ship of theseus situation going on as it replaces its own parts and rewrites its own code... so... its arguable whether amadas as it currently is, is actually that old...

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out of the 7 main characters in TCE: avie, everest, the seer, sunny, and moonifer can use magic...

the seer and the celestial duo are inherently magical beings, so they can basically use it by default

on the other hand, avie and everest are mortal-- they weren't born with the ability or anything, though... magic is something anyone can learn if given enough time and dedication. witchcraft is a skill, and for a lot of mortal witches, a hobby

aside from AMaDAS, who is a robot and cant do magic anyway, polly is the outlier in that she's completely non-magical-- she might've dabbled in it once or twice, but i don't think she was ever interested (or motivated) enough to pursue it all the way... and that's just how it is sometimes

sidenote: the state of witches in society is that, it's not really a mainstream thing... the average person definitely knows about magic to some extent thanks to the celestial duo, and they might have a vague idea of what modern mortal witches are like, but they probably don't know the ins and outs of the practice. think of it like a somewhat niche subculture

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truly, the most difficult part of drawing art set in the tce universe is remembering to draw sunny or moonifer in the sky instead of the regular sun or moon

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