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Honoring Breast Cancer Awareness Month With the Morgan Pressel Foundation
Morgan established the Morgan Pressel Foundation in honor of her mother, who passed away from breast cancer when Morgan was just 15 years old. The foundation is dedicated to raising funds and awareness for breast cancer research, early detection, and treatment. Since its founding, the Morgan Pressel Foundation has raised and contributed millions of dollars to cancer research institutions and charities, such as the Boca Raton Regional Hospital and the Lynn Cancer Institute in South Florida.
A key initiative of the foundation is the Morgan Pressel MammoVan, a mobile mammography unit that provides early breast cancer detection services and breast health education in an accessible, comfortable, and high-quality environment. Emphasizing the importance of early detection, the MammoVan helps identify breast cancer at its most treatable stages, ensuring that vital services are within reach for more women.
By supporting this limited-edition Pink Check blanket, you’re helping to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those affected by breast cancer. To learn more about the impactful work of the Morgan Pressel Foundation or to contribute directly, please visit their Facebook or Instagram page.
How To Care For Your Blanket
One of our top priorities when designing Lola Blankets was to ensure they would be easily machine washable while maintaining their softness over time—something that many other blankets on the market were lacking.
In this article, we’ll show you how to wash your Lola Blanket to keep its softness and quality for years to come. Made with ultra-soft vegan faux fur, our blankets need a little extra care, but rest assured—they’ll stay just as soft, wash after wash.
1. Prep
- Give your blanket a shake to get loose any particles and dust.
2. Machine Wash
- Use a large capacity washer to allow your blanket to have room to move around freely.
- Machine wash alone in cold water on a gentle or delicate cycle. Do not use hot water.
- Use mild liquid detergent—do not use bleach or fabric softeners.
- Do not iron or dry-clean your blanket.
3. Drying
- For best results, air dry your blanket by laying it flat or hanging it up.
- Tumble dry in AIR mode to restore fluffiness
Extra Softness Tips:
- Avoid washer overcrowding by only washing your blanket by itself
- Use gentle detergent, and never use fabric softener.
- Run on AIR in the dryer for 15 minutes to refresh softness.
Quality You Can Invest In: Lola Blankets
Lola Blankets are made of the finest vegan faux fur, double-hemmed, and certainly will stand the test of time and use after use. By following the above care instrucitons, your Lola Blanket will stay soft and luxurious for years to come.
What is Core Sleep? Understanding the Essentials for Optimal Rest
While quality trumps quantity, we're always hearing so much talk about the 7-9 hours of sleep recommended nightly. Ever wonder what that really looks like on a granular level? Enter core sleep: a very important concept in regard to optimizing rest. What exactly is core sleep, and how can we understand it to improve our wellbeing?
What is Core Sleep?
Core sleep is the deepest and most restorative parts of the cycle that include deep sleep (also called slow-wave sleep) and REM sleep. These stages are critical for physical recovery, memory filing, and emotional processing.
- Deep Sleep: Your body does important repair work in this stage. During deep sleep, muscle growth, repairing of tissues, and strengthening of the immune system are at their peak. The brain also detoxifies during this process by getting rid of waste that has accumulated throughout the day.
- REM Sleep: This stage contributes to vital cognitive functions like learning, memory, and mood regulation. During REM sleep, a time of most vivid dreams, the brain is being activated, enhancing creativity and helping to develop skills of problem-solving and emotional resiliency.
The Importance of Core Sleep
Understanding and maximizing core sleep is important for several reasons:
- Physical Health: Deep sleep helps the body to repair and grow, thus generally improving health and physical vitality.
- Mood and Mental Health: REM sleep will help in the processing of the emotional content of all events, reducing stress and anxiety levels.
- Cognitive Function: Deep and REM stages of sleep are important for the memory consolidation phase and foster good cognitive function; thus, enabling one to stay sharp and focused during the day.
Boosting Core Sleep with a Weighted Blanket
Now that we know what core sleep is and why it's important, let us look at the ways through which it can be enhanced. A weighted blanket would do the magic. Let's talk about the benefits:
- Better Quality of Sleep: Weighted blankets apply gentle pressure, dispersed uniformly over a person's body. This pressure helps stimulate deep pressure, almost like one gets when they are hugged tightly; it creates a feeling of being secure and at peace, greatly enhancing the quality of sleep.
- Reduced Stress and Anxiety: The weighted blanket deep pressure encourages the brain to produce more serotonin and melatonin while producing less cortisol. This would lead to reduced stress and anxiety, which will help a person fall asleep and be able to stay asleep.
- Increased Comfort: Tactile comfort is provided by weighted blankets, and this in turn increases relaxation. The soft, luxurious feel of a blanket might make bedtime something that one looks forward to, thus promoting a restful night's sleep.
Experience the Finest Comfort with Lola Blankets
If you're ready to feel the benefits of a weighted blanket for yourself, look no further than Lola Blankets. Meet the softest weighted blanket on the market. Scientifically proven to improve sleep, as well as stress and anxiety, Lola Weighted Blankets are created from real therapeutic weighted fabric, luxuriously soft faux fur, and breathable bubble stitching. We designed this blanket with maximum comfort, and effectiveness in mind, so you can find optimal core sleep every night.
Conclusion
Core sleep is the most important part of our nightly rest, having the greatest impact on our physical and mental well-being. Understanding and taking care of the restorative sleep stages of our sleep, combined with the creation of our sleep environment—including better tools like weighted blankets—can dramatically improve our overall health. Lola Blankets enriches your sleep so you will wake refreshed, energized, and empowered to meet the challenges of another day. Get quality sleep today and find again within you the power of core sleep.
If you want to get started with your improved sleep through a weighted blanket, shop our range of Lola Blankets and find your perfect match. Life-changing softness and sweet dreams await.
How Cara Fox Is Making Homes Into Havens
Cara Fox of the Fox Group in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a visionary in interior design, and an expert at transforming homes into havens of comfort and style. We were lucky enough to team up with her to produce our latest blanket collection, Lola Blankets X The Fox Group, where classic design meets luxurious softness.
Cozied up in her beautiful—and we mean beautiful—New England-style home nestled among blooming cherry blossoms and the Wasatch Mountains of Salt Lake City, Utah, we sat down and asked her a series of questions regarding her inspiration behind this collection—also secretly hoping to catch a couple of her ingenious design tips. Among us were her two affectionate golden retrievers, 2 cats and one rescue kitten (keep reading for more on this), plus 5 trusty horses. A loving home and haven if we’ve ever seen one.
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“You have designed three Lola Blankets. Can you explain the inspiration behind the three blankets?”
“When designing these blankets, we wanted to put a pattern on a really cozy, luxurious blanket. The inspiration was to draw on the most classic pattern & color out there — a buffalo check and a blue, so thus this blanket line was designed.”
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“Can you explain the gingham prints specifically and the colors?”
“I think these blankets are so special because of this gingham pattern. If you know a lot about cozy blankets, then you know how hard it is to get a pattern on them. So the fact that we were able to get a buffalo check pattern on all these gorgeous shades of blue makes it multifunctional. It’s beautiful, it’s cozy, it’s warm. It makes you want to just snuggle up and I love that it has pattern and style.”
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“Describe the colors that you chose for these prints.”
“In my opinion, the most classic colors are blue and white. I knew that we wanted the blankets to be blue and white. I love all shades of blue and I don’t think I could even pick a favorite, so I knew that this would be the perfect blanket because it can go in any blue room. It goes with any blue. And then the taupe and the cream gingham goes with any room, any house, every style of home — so in my mind, Lola just created the perfect blanket here.”
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“Describe how they feel.”
“Trying to describe these blankets… I have to tell the cutest story. I rescued a little three week old kitten a week ago and the only thing that she would snuggle up in, the only thing that she would stop crying in was this blanket… this is the softest, butteriest, coziest almost like a “lion cuddle bug”. Any type of cozy animal, but really clean - that is how I would describe these blankets. Imagine the softest fur in nature, that is what you have here.
For you animal lovers out there, this is the best of both worlds. You feel like you are snuggling your big fluffy golden retriever but it does not shed which is really unique to these type of blankets.”
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“How do Lola Blankets make your home more of a haven for the soul?”
“When our dog passed away, that night we just snuggled in Lola Blankets. It was so sweet, it just warms your heart to snuggle in something cozy. I think it is part of our connection with animals.”
"For twenty years, my slogan in interior design has been “make your home a haven” and I knew that had to be the slogan for these blankets because it brings warmth, character, and snuggly feelings to every room. It sounds cheesy but I call these blankets magical because you just want to snuggle and relax and love your home.”
Watch the full interview here:
