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Getting back into the swing of things after a long Fourth of July weekend can be exhausting! Here are a few ways to easily energize in the morning before your busy day.

Peppermint Oil or Lemon Oil

Add 1 drop of lemon or peppermint oil in a diffuser for a uplifting aroma. You can also dab a little peppermint oil or lemon oil on your wrists, ankles and forehead as well. The oils are absorbed through the skin and can help to energize and rejuvenate you.

Green Tea

A refreshing cup of green tea is a great way to start your morning. It is a healthy alternative to a cup of a coffee. With caffeine and antioxidants, green tea provides many uses such as an increase in energy, immunity and can help to support weight loss.

Morning Yoga

Morning yoga is an excellent way to stretch out those sleepy muscles. Yoga is far less strenuous than other morning exercises and it will leave you feeling revitalized throughout the rest of your day.

Caffeinated Soap

Save on coffee and time with caffeinated soap! Use this soap during your morning shower and allow your skin to absorb its uplifting effects.

Blueberries

Scoop a handful of these succulent berries for your morning snack. Blueberries boost energy and promote brain function.

Fun Morning Mugs

Smiling and laughing when you first wake up can leave you feeling good all day long. This fun mug wakes up with you when you pour hot liquid into it.

These are just a few quick morning pick-me-ups, what other ways do you energize in the morning and throughout your day?

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Summit Nesting Tables is a minimalist design created by Brooklyn-based design firm  Moving Mountains . As the company name suggests, Moving Mountains is an industrial design practice that wants to move beyond its boundaries to the convergence of design, art, and fashion. The studio prides itself on creating a diverse range of domestically-made products focused on a refined sense of simplicity and functionality. With that being said, all furniture pieces are made by hand, and crafted with solid wood. The nesting tables can be stacked to build a mountain, or nested to create plateaus

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Summit Nesting Tables by Moving Mountains

TILT , who brought you the collaborative furniture we recently posted about called Quiet and Call , has also released another chair as part of that collection called Open Book. While this isn’t the first bookshelf chair we’ve seen, this chair goes the extra mile in terms of function. In fact, it goes so far as to combine chair, bookshelf, lap desk, side table and magazine rack all in one, while at the same time giving you a little bit of privacy on one side. Whew. Photos by Patrick Quayle

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Open Book Chair by TILT

Finnish designer Mika Tolvanen designs everything from lighting, furniture, and consumer goods, and has leant his design talent to companies like Muuto, FontanaArte, Frag, Blå Station, and Zanotta over the years. After graduating from Royal College of Art in London in 2003, he set up his studio in a former coffee shop in the Töölö neighborhood of Helsinki. Continuing to produce timeless classics with his signature Nordic slant, Tolvanen takes a pause to reveal what keeps him inspired in this week’s Friday Five . 1. You can find interesting things anywhere

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Friday Five with Mika Tolvanen

Designed and individually handcrafted in Yallingup, Western Australia by Nathan Day Design , these Crossbow tables are one of my favorite combinations: a glass top and a wood base. I love how the bases are sculptural and the glass merely floats on top, serving as a window through which you can view the sculpture. Each table is made of cherry wood and, since each are handcrafted, you can choose your custom size

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Crossbow Table by Nathan Day Design

As of July 4th, Periscope Gallery in Tel Aviv is hosting Zemayesh , an exhibition by Eli Chissik of colorful, artistic furniture from scraps which he has called “wood-con-fusion.” Using raw materials and offcuts from carpenters, the artist creates rich, new hybrid furnishings that cross over from furniture to sculpture. Assembling random MDF plates, colored Formica, and solid wood, Chissik builds texture and paint and layers into graphic elements, which soon become functional objects. Through personal interpretation, Chissik revives iconic elements characteristics from different periods, and gives an abstract interpretation to the past under names such as “Dada”, “Bauhaus” and others. Photos by Efrat Kooper.

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Zemayesh: Eli Chissik Furniture Art Exhibition

Tomorrow Design Milk will turn 7. We are officially elderly. Please enjoy these llamas in party hats. Thank you to all of you out there who read our site every day

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Happy 7th Birthday, Design Milk!

Italian ceramicist Paola Paronetto’s  Cartocci collection of paper clay objects has grown over time and most recently with new, oversized bottles and bowls. The line gets its unique texture from adding paper pulp and fiber to the ceramic mixture, giving each piece a delicate and tactile quality that screams fragile.

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Cartocci Paper Clay Objects by Paola Paronetto

Netherlands-based designer Wout Wessemius takes a look at rubber, one of his favorite materials, in a series of home furnishings, and eventually outdoor structures, called Project RUBBER . Curiosity led him to see just what the material could do, so he began by using old rubber inner tubes and stretching them around parts of furniture and objects. Wessemius not only stretches it tautly, he lets the rubber drape loosely for different effects. Depending on how the rubber is attached, various looks can be achieved.

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Creative Furniture Made With Rubber by Wout Wessemius

Stilleven isn’t just another ladder-like bookshelf or table. Stilleven is an object for reflection. Designed by Valentín Garal for Peca , Stilleven appeals to those who collect and exhibit. Most of us collect things and hold on to items that have precious memories attached to them, and typically we display them somewhere so that we can hold on to those memories. Stilleven allows you to do that in its protected wool display case that incporporates a storage shelf and a mirror

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Stilleven by Valentín Garal for Peca