The secrets of your umbrella

 
Hello! 
Our team has already got under its first autumn rain. Luckily we had umbrellas with us! In gratitude to this invention of mankind, we would like to tell you some interesting facts about umbrellas.
 
1) The umbrella appeared in the 10th century BC. According to a Chinese legend, which tells about the origin of the accessory, a simple carpenter made a roof for his beloved wife.
 
2) Previously, umbrellas were 1.5 meters high and weighed 2 kg.
 
3) Umbrellas for the Egyptian pharaohs were made from palm leaves and bird feathers. Their main task is protection from the sun. The translation of the word speaks about the original purpose of umbrellas. The English "umbrella" was formed from the Latin "umbra" - a shadow.
 
4) May 4, 1715 was the Birthday of the folding umbrella. It was invented in Paris. The umbrella that protects from the rain was invented in 1750 by Jonas Henway.
 
5) In 1850, the design of the umbrella was improved. People began using materials such as rubberized fabric and steel knitting needles. The author of the invention was an Englishman. He's name is Samuel Fox.
 
Did you like these facts? Has the umbrella become more interesting to you? If yes, take a look at psp tubes with umbrellas from our catalog!
 
 

Prepare your Christmas gifts in advance!

Hello! There are less than 100 days left until Christmas, the main family holiday. Now is the best time to think about gifts and buy everything in advance, so you can not only please your loved ones, but also save money. And you can also make sure that the surprise is ready and perfect.
 
Our site PortrayMe.Art offers wonderful Christmas gifts: family and individual portraits of children and adults. Everyone can find something to their liking. This is a good opportunity to give them a fairy tale and the opportunity to feel like a crowned person, a wizard or a brave knight. Delight your friends and family with original and memorable paintings this winter!

Autumn Sale -25% off on Exclusive Club

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Write your story with our portraits!

Do you know your family history? What was your great-great-grandfather's name and what kind of person was he? Are you proud of your family?
 
Previously, knowing the history of one's family was a privilege available only to aristocrats. The goal of the PortrayMe.Art project is to give everyone the opportunity to write their own story and keep the memory of the happiest moments of their lives. Turn your memories into exquisite royal portraits that will decorate your interior and reach your children and grandchildren.
 
A beautiful portrait is a wonderful gift that can be more important than a new smartphone or expensive clothes, because paintings contain feelings. Looking at the canvas depicting the best moments of their life and people close to them, a person will mentally return to this happy time with their friends and family members.
 
PortrayMeArt will also let you overcome time, distance and even death through the power of art. Our artists and designers can produce a portrait of your friend living on the other side of the world, or your deceased relative.
 
With the help of our paintings, you can share important moments of your life with people who have long been gone from this world, and bring memories of them to your children.
 
Our site offers a wide selection of various royal portraits: children's, women's, men's, couples and family. What's more, we also have royal portraits for pets!
 
Our designers and artists love challenge and are ready to bring all your creative ideas to life. Just write in the comments to the order what the portrait should be and attach reference photos. Our team will contact you and discuss all the details. Happy shopping!

Happy International Literacy Day!

Hey there! It's International Literacy Day today. A great opportunity to think about how important your education was and to thank the people who helped you receive it: your parents, teachers, spouse or kids. 
If you needed a motivating kick to start learning something you wanted to master for a long time, then here it is! No matter what age you are and what your lifestyle is, nothing should stop you from gaining the knowledge you dream of. You deserve to have a little "me time" everyday and study Spanish or Phyton.
 
We prepared a list of free recourses that can help you learn something new:
 
1. Eatthismuch.com. A wonderful source to learn about proper nutrition and how to achieve your diet goals. Just enter how much calories a day you want to eat and what type of diet you prefer, and the website will plan all the meals for you, as well as supply you with recipes. 
 
2. Lesswrong.com. It's the best platform to learn more about logic, rationality, psychology and neural science. Try it and your way of thinking will change for the better. You'll be able to do anything more efficiently. 
 
3. Teachyourselfcs.com, leetcode.com, freecodecamp.org are the best resources to study IT, programming and coding. You should totally try them if you're interested in this department. 
 
4. EdX.org will allow you to study whatever you like at the world's best institutions. The best universities offer their on-line courses there and some of them are completely free. 
 
5. Duolingo, Memrise and Busuu are good platforms that will help you learn new languages. Their exercises are easy, fun and effective.

And to celebrate this day with your favorite hobby, check out our smarty-pants psp tags!

Good September Sale

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Portrayme.art

Hey there! As you know, not long ago we launched a new website, portrayme.art. Our popular artists Misticheskaya, Stan_Dudin, Katharine and Trinita were kind enough to join us. 

The project we made together focuses on creating custom portraits of people and animals. It currently offers AI pet paintings and royal portraits for both humans and animals. AI portraits are made by a special neural net developed to create drawings in various styles based on reference photos. The royal portraits are drawn by hand. Their idea is rather simple: The artists create premade templates. A customer chooses what they like best and then send us their photo as a reference. After that our artist draws their face on the template and the support team sends the preview to The client. If they approve it, we print the painting and send it to them. If there is something the client dislikes about the picture, they can ask for an edit, which is completely free. 

We take pride in our custom portraits, as they are definetely a work of art: detailed, beautiful and made in rich noble colors. They make great gifts for any occassions, from weddings and birthdays to Mother's or Father's Day, and will sure surprise even the most demanding person. They also earned some amazing reviews by our customers. You can find them on Google, Trustpilot or Facebook. 

If you're interested in our royal portraits, do not hesitate to visit portrayme.art/templates/royal. Maybe there's your future favorite painting waiting for you! 

 

August Loyalty Bonus

To qualify for this bonus by Alehandra_Vanhek, you need to purchase at least 3 items from the catalogue (you can purchase for yourself or as a gift to your friend) in the period from August 1st, 2022, 00.01 GMT + 1 to August 31st, 2022, 23.59 GMT + 1.

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Prepaid Projects, exclusives, bonuses and gifts you received from your friends or forums DO NOT COUNT.

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If you happened to miss the monthly loyalty bonus, it becomes available on the first day of the month that follows to members of the Exclusive club automatically.

 

End-of-summer Sale

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Tricks to cope with stress and enjoy your hobby

Hello! Probably everyone has heard that hobbies help to cope with stress. Doing what we love, we can relax and gain strength, take time for ourselves. However, in order for leisure to be beneficial, you need to be able to relax correctly.
 
If you are nervous, mentally returning to your problems and daily chores, you do not relax, but rather increase stress. Our brains are not designed for multitasking. Evolutionarily, we are adapted to respond quickly to environmental signals and live in the present, which is why regular disturbing thoughts about the past and future make us so tired. If on the way home from work you endlessly jump over thoughts about the events of the working day, about the upcoming tasks, about the fact that the house has run out of milk and that you need to wash the curtains next week, it's time to change something. Such a jump of thoughts and experiencing stress, even when nothing threatens you, not only exhaust a person mentally, they undermine their physical health and shorten their life.
 
One of the main secrets of a good, uplifting rest and a happy, peaceful life is mindfulness. The practice of mindfulness is not at all about many hours of meditation sitting in an uncomfortable position in the mountains of Tibet or on the banks of the Ganges. It is enough to be truly present in the moment, to be able to turn off the autopilot and focus your thoughts on what you are doing at that moment. In this case, the hobby will bring pleasure and benefit, relaxation for the mind and body.
If you want to practice mindfulness, try the following tips.
 
Concentrate on your activities and how they feel. For example, if you are doing psp tagging, do it as if you were seeing psp tube for the first time. Take a look at the picture - what colors is it, what associations and emotions does it evoke in you? What message would you like to convey with a psp tag with it? What tools do you want to use? What background is perfect for it?
Such a strategy can be used not only by doing a hobby, but also by doing physical exercises, eating or drinking, reading books.
 
Turn off autopilot mode and resist extraneous thoughts. Try to track the moment when you start thinking not about the current activity, but about other things. Stop thinking about the upcoming renovation or your aunt's birthday, for which you still haven't bought a gift. Tell yourself that nothing bad will happen if you think about it later. Now you deserve to completely immerse yourself in your hobby and spend time only on yourself. Then, with a little effort, bring your attention back to the here and now.
 
If you are nervous or angry or sad, try to be aware of this emotion, but do not succumb to it. Let it surround you like the sea, but not cover you with a wave. Look at it from the side. Don't give it a moral assessment, just accept it existence as a fact. Don't beat yourself up for feeling this way, because it's not your fault, and blaming yourself will only make things worse. Learning to contemplate your emotions without being influenced by them is learning to separate your feelings from yourself and control them. It is quite difficult, but in time it will work out.
 
Focus on the sensations in your body. Are you comfortable sitting? Are the clothes you are wearing now comfortable? Are you warm or cold? Are you thirsty? Maybe you should make yourself a cup of tea? Try to provide yourself with the most comfortable environment and listen carefully to yourself. The human brain cannot simultaneously focus on somatic sensations and thinking about the future. 
 
Use this trick to relieve stress. Hope they help! What tricks do you use to relax? Tell us in the comments! 
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