Home decoration goes all the way back to the ancient Chinese. In those old days, they used a technique called 'feng shui' to organize their households. This complex set of rules and theories helped them create flow and harness energy in their domicile.
Today some people still use this classic technique with their interior decoration. But others just go with what feels right. Your home should serve as a reflection of yourself. And many people don't need a centuries-old theory of energy flow to help them figure out what they like and where the couch should be.
Hanging decorative plates are a great way to display your personality around the house. You can find ones with clever sayings, gorgeous scenes and fun characters. Take a look at these examples of decorative plates that might fit in with your overall home motif.
Primitive Wood Quilt Star Plate - Hearthside Collection
Looking to add a rustic feel to your home? If your house already features gorgeous exposed wood rafters and an all around old timey feel, this decorative plate will look fantastic with the rest of your decor.
This plate has a design that features two stars laid upon one another. Designer Kathy Graybill created this heavy wood masterpiece. First, it was painted by hand and then meticulously antiqued. The antiquing process helps to make it look aged. You can find this gorgeous 12-inch plate in a variety of different colors.
Primitive Pineapple Painted Wood Plate
When summertime rolls around, many families have the tradition of going to the old beach house for a vacation. This is the week when everyone gets to relax and have some fun. Seafood meals are frequent on the grill and days are whiled away sitting in the sand and soaking up the sun.
Add to the tropical feeling of your summertime getaway with this primitive pineapple wood plate. In the center, you can find a pineapple design that has been hand painted. On the outside of the plate there are also simple flower and stem designs.
Remember that this plate is only for decorative use. As tasty as that pineapple looks, you don't want to eat off of this gorgeous decorative plate!
Primitive Frosty Greetings Snowman Plate
Wintertime can be a grind. You spend month after month indoors in close proximity with your family members, significant other or roommates. To help avoid those cold weather blues, many individuals have the bright idea to decorate their house in a fun and festive way.
This celebratory snowman plate bids "Frosty Greetings" to anyone who walks into your cozy abode. The center features a smiling snowman face with a big carrot nose that has been hand painted. On the outside of the plate, the friendly snowman is surrounded by four distinct snowflakes. Don't let the ice and snow get you down. Celebrate the season with this cheery decorative plate.
Primitive "HOPE" Mini Wooden Plate
Hope can be a very powerful tool. It inspired Tom Hanks' character in the feature film 'Castaway' to never give up on getting off that island, and it helps other people get through the tough times every day of their lives.
With this hanging plate, you can remind yourself each and every day about the power of hope. It comes equipped with a jute hanger and magnet and measures just 4 inches in diameter. This inspirational plate is great for your own home or as a thoughtful gift for a friend.
7 Inch Primitive Willow Tree with Stars Plate
One of the most recognizable signs of easy southern living is the weeping willow tree. This image brings up thoughts and memories of sitting all day by a lazy river, dipping your toes in, taking a swim or catching some fish.
Even if you don't live in the southern states, you can still catch some of that laid back and friendly attitude with this weeping willow plate. The hand painted willow tree sits in the center and it is surrounded by single red stars.
The willow tree has long been a frequent symbol in folk art, probably because of its extremely distinctive look and the fond memories that it helps people to recall. This plate measures 7 inches in diameter and will look gorgeous when displayed on your mantle.
4-1/2 Inch Primitive Schoolhouse Plate
Another common design in folk art is the classic old schoolhouse. This 4-1/2-inch plate has a fun hand painted schoolhouse design that even features the school bell at the top. On the top of the plate are the letters "A B C" and at the bottom "1 2 3." Either side of the plate shows an apple. But don't just give an apple to the teacher in your life. Give them the thoughtful gift of this beautiful plate.
Decorative plates are a great way to reflect your true personality and inspire those that come into your home. Any of these beautiful hand painted item will help to warm up your domicile for years to come.
Rabu, 15 November 2017
Selasa, 26 September 2017
Decorating Roll Up Bamboo Shades
Plastic or real bamboo roll up shades can be decorated with a designed waterproof shower curtain in front so when you roll it down for your Jacuzzi or other relaxation area it will be most pleasant to your eyes, and also serves as a privacy shade. The most popular are done in tropical print to add to a special area of relaxation. To attach it use hooks that you would use to hang the bamboo shade up with. Then attach it to the front and use the ropes on the sides to weave the shower curtain onto it. Everyone loves a view, so choose a curtain most pleasant to your eyes. Tired of that scene? Change it as many times as you like!
This simple addition will amaze you and your friends, they'll all want to know where you came up with such a good idea. Remember you can change the scene as often as you would like. You can use the cloth type curtain or the waterproof type if it's for an outside area such as a hot tub or pool area.
This project is really that easy and makes a big difference in the ambiance within an area. Give it a try and you can keep playing around with the different looks and locations. Go to my site and e-mail me to let me know how you used your shades to decorate an area.
This simple addition will amaze you and your friends, they'll all want to know where you came up with such a good idea. Remember you can change the scene as often as you would like. You can use the cloth type curtain or the waterproof type if it's for an outside area such as a hot tub or pool area.
This project is really that easy and makes a big difference in the ambiance within an area. Give it a try and you can keep playing around with the different looks and locations. Go to my site and e-mail me to let me know how you used your shades to decorate an area.
Kamis, 14 September 2017
Online Business: The Underground Railroad for Corporate Escapees
Millions of people everyday spend eight hours or more in a small padded cubicle. The curious thing about it is they choose to do that. They willingly sacrifice a quality of life because they believe it is the only way to support their families. That may have been true 10 years ago but it isn't any longer.
Starting an online business can be the salvation for which many want-to-be corporate escapees are looking. Unlike starting a brick and mortar business, the start-up costs for an online business are very small. Initially, an online business needs only a part-time owner. Corporate prisoners by day can build their underground railroad by night.
There are three key components to running a successful online business. They are determination, profitable products, and marketing skills.
Determination
Of the three critical components, only "determination" can't be taught. Not everyone is suited to be an astronaut or a truck driver. And, not everyone is suited to run one's own business. Determination is a single-minded drive that moves one beyond the minor setbacks of the learning curve. If you tend to start but never finish projects, an online business is not for you. An online business takes staying power.
Profitable Products
Many people have tried their hand at online sales through eBay. After many unsuccessful attempts at finding profitable products, they give up. Finding profitable products can be learned but there are tricks of the trade.
Knowing this, many people get sucked into paying some "eBay guru" thousands of dollars to do it for them. Unfortunately, they find out quickly that they have to find the products themselves. An individual who wants their own online business wants to find their own products. But how?
Depending upon your financial situation, there are six proven ways to find profitable products to sell online. They start with those requiring no investment and end with those requiring thousands of dollars of investment capital. Regardless of the price of the product, the higher the investment, the lower the unit cost of the products. The lower the unit cost of the products, the higher the profit margin. The higher the profit margin, the more money the company makes.
Many people attempt to start an online sales business at the bottom of the product acquisition food chain, with dropshipping. Dropshipping requires little or no initial investment. With dropshipping, you sell someone else's product. When you sell the product, you pay the supplier to drop-ship the product to your customer with the fee coming out of your profits. Typically, the profit associated with dropshipping is very small or non-existent.
A better alternative for those people with little money to invest is consignment selling. Consignment selling is where you sell someone else's product, but you collect a fee of between 10% and 25% of the final sale price. Sounds good, right? It is but it takes a person who is a real self-starter and can negotiate with people. Family, friends, neighbors, local crafters, local businesses without a web presence are all candidates for consignment sales.
With your profits from consignment sales, you can move on to acquiring bulk and surplus products. Working with surplus brokers requires some initiative and internet surfing skills. There are hundreds of surplus brokers on the internet. Choosing the right one is a problem and requires some research skills. However, the profit margins are higher on surplus goods than the other two techniques discussed above. For instance, a Janome Memory Craft sewing machine was acquired at surplus for $99.00 and sold on eBay for $430.00, a very nice profit.
In addition to the three product acquisition methods discussed above, the biggest profit margins and more reliable supply of products is achieved by working with wholesalers or importers. Working with wholesalers, they require you have a legal business and a resale certificate from your state's taxation board. Working with imported goods is more difficult. If you attempt to go directly to the source in China, as a novice, you can lose a great deal of money very fast. Consider working with a reputable customs broker if you choose to acquire product in this way.
All of these acquisition skills can be learned; but without determination, you will not succeed.
Once you have acquired your product, marketing skills are needed to successfully sell your product.
Marketing Skills
Two people with exactly the same product for sale will not experience the same success. The one who wins will have superior marketing skills. Marketing skills include the ability to find customers and then motivate them to buy your particular product.
Marketing starts with identifying the particular customer you will sell to. You do not sell a skateboard to a 13 year old with the same conversation you sell that same skateboard to his mother, or grandparents. Marketing requires you get into the mindset of your customer in such a way that you start to think like them. Without knowing their motivations and concerns, you will never sell them anything. Great marketing is targeted to a specific group of people.
After a thorough understanding of your customer is achieved, you need then to design your offer in a way that appeals to them and encourages them to buy now. All of these skills can be learned and must be learned to run a successful business, online or not.
With a great offer in hand, you need to find customers. Where does your targeted group of customers hang out? What do they read? Where do they go on the internet? You must get your offer in front of their eyes. They won't find you.
There are literally hundreds of methods for communicating your marketing message online and via traditional methods, like advertising. The only ones that will work will be those that find your target market. You can send marketing messages all day without success. If your potential customer is tuned into some other location, you'll miss them.
Marketing skills can be learned. Acquiring profitable products can be learned. But both of these critical skills rest on a foundation of determination. Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Certainly! If the "old dog" is determined to learn.
An online business is not for everyone. However, it can be your way out of corporate America. Never again will someone else set your work hours for you. Never again will you miss a child's recital because you couldn't get away from work. Never again will you sweat making your next house payment. Ready? GO!
Starting an online business can be the salvation for which many want-to-be corporate escapees are looking. Unlike starting a brick and mortar business, the start-up costs for an online business are very small. Initially, an online business needs only a part-time owner. Corporate prisoners by day can build their underground railroad by night.
There are three key components to running a successful online business. They are determination, profitable products, and marketing skills.
Determination
Of the three critical components, only "determination" can't be taught. Not everyone is suited to be an astronaut or a truck driver. And, not everyone is suited to run one's own business. Determination is a single-minded drive that moves one beyond the minor setbacks of the learning curve. If you tend to start but never finish projects, an online business is not for you. An online business takes staying power.
Profitable Products
Many people have tried their hand at online sales through eBay. After many unsuccessful attempts at finding profitable products, they give up. Finding profitable products can be learned but there are tricks of the trade.
Knowing this, many people get sucked into paying some "eBay guru" thousands of dollars to do it for them. Unfortunately, they find out quickly that they have to find the products themselves. An individual who wants their own online business wants to find their own products. But how?
Depending upon your financial situation, there are six proven ways to find profitable products to sell online. They start with those requiring no investment and end with those requiring thousands of dollars of investment capital. Regardless of the price of the product, the higher the investment, the lower the unit cost of the products. The lower the unit cost of the products, the higher the profit margin. The higher the profit margin, the more money the company makes.
Many people attempt to start an online sales business at the bottom of the product acquisition food chain, with dropshipping. Dropshipping requires little or no initial investment. With dropshipping, you sell someone else's product. When you sell the product, you pay the supplier to drop-ship the product to your customer with the fee coming out of your profits. Typically, the profit associated with dropshipping is very small or non-existent.
A better alternative for those people with little money to invest is consignment selling. Consignment selling is where you sell someone else's product, but you collect a fee of between 10% and 25% of the final sale price. Sounds good, right? It is but it takes a person who is a real self-starter and can negotiate with people. Family, friends, neighbors, local crafters, local businesses without a web presence are all candidates for consignment sales.
With your profits from consignment sales, you can move on to acquiring bulk and surplus products. Working with surplus brokers requires some initiative and internet surfing skills. There are hundreds of surplus brokers on the internet. Choosing the right one is a problem and requires some research skills. However, the profit margins are higher on surplus goods than the other two techniques discussed above. For instance, a Janome Memory Craft sewing machine was acquired at surplus for $99.00 and sold on eBay for $430.00, a very nice profit.
In addition to the three product acquisition methods discussed above, the biggest profit margins and more reliable supply of products is achieved by working with wholesalers or importers. Working with wholesalers, they require you have a legal business and a resale certificate from your state's taxation board. Working with imported goods is more difficult. If you attempt to go directly to the source in China, as a novice, you can lose a great deal of money very fast. Consider working with a reputable customs broker if you choose to acquire product in this way.
All of these acquisition skills can be learned; but without determination, you will not succeed.
Once you have acquired your product, marketing skills are needed to successfully sell your product.
Marketing Skills
Two people with exactly the same product for sale will not experience the same success. The one who wins will have superior marketing skills. Marketing skills include the ability to find customers and then motivate them to buy your particular product.
Marketing starts with identifying the particular customer you will sell to. You do not sell a skateboard to a 13 year old with the same conversation you sell that same skateboard to his mother, or grandparents. Marketing requires you get into the mindset of your customer in such a way that you start to think like them. Without knowing their motivations and concerns, you will never sell them anything. Great marketing is targeted to a specific group of people.
After a thorough understanding of your customer is achieved, you need then to design your offer in a way that appeals to them and encourages them to buy now. All of these skills can be learned and must be learned to run a successful business, online or not.
With a great offer in hand, you need to find customers. Where does your targeted group of customers hang out? What do they read? Where do they go on the internet? You must get your offer in front of their eyes. They won't find you.
There are literally hundreds of methods for communicating your marketing message online and via traditional methods, like advertising. The only ones that will work will be those that find your target market. You can send marketing messages all day without success. If your potential customer is tuned into some other location, you'll miss them.
Marketing skills can be learned. Acquiring profitable products can be learned. But both of these critical skills rest on a foundation of determination. Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Certainly! If the "old dog" is determined to learn.
An online business is not for everyone. However, it can be your way out of corporate America. Never again will someone else set your work hours for you. Never again will you miss a child's recital because you couldn't get away from work. Never again will you sweat making your next house payment. Ready? GO!
Selasa, 29 Agustus 2017
Kids Halloween Parties: No Tricks, Just Treats And Lots Of Fun Halloween Enjoyment
Door to door trick or treating may be a thing of the past, but Kids' Halloween parties, done with imagination and creativity, can be an alternative not only every bit as much fun, but much safer than the door to door trick or treating you might have done in the past. You remember running excitedly from house to house on Halloween, yelling, "Trick or Treat!" and receiving goodies from everyone. A safer, more acceptable alternative is to easily and inexpensively entertain little ghouls and Goblins at your very own kids' Halloween party.
It is important to make a guest list for your child's Halloween party, and enlist the help of other parents who want a safe, but fun, alternative for their own children, to provide adequate supervision. Keep in mind that, to keep children entertained and occupied, you must provide more than treats. Games, contests, and activities are important as well.
Here are some safe, fun suggestions sure to entertain at your kids' Halloween party:
o A costume contest where each child votes for the best costume at the party, and the winner receives a prize.
o Pumpkin decorating contests. Each child is given a miniature pumpkin, and allowed to decorate the pumpkin with sequins, glitter, markers, yarn, etc. The children then vote on the best decorated pumpkin, and the winner earns a treat. Each child is allowed to take their decorated pumpkin home with them after the party.
o Musical ghosts: the children form a circle, and while spooky music plays they pass the 'ghost' (a white, plastic bag filled with goodies, tied with a rubber band, and painted to look like a ghost head) and the child holding the 'ghost' when the music stops is 'out' until only one child is left. That child is the winner, and earns the ghostly treat.
o A game sure to find approval is "Who's the Mummy?" where the children divide up into pairs, and each pair is given a roll of toilet paper. With one child wrapping, and the other child being the mummy, who ever wraps the whole roll fastest wins the game, and a treat.
o Another great game for your kids Halloween party, would be a quest to find the ghost who ate the candy. Small, white bags, with ghosts' faces drawn on, are filled with Halloween candy, and hidden throughout the party area. Children would be given hints and instructions, and allowed to search to find the bags filled with treats.
Though the days of children being able to go door to door yelling "Trick or Treat" may be a thing of the past, and your children's memories may be different from your own, your Kids' Halloween party can create wonderful memories to cherish, and be passed down from generation to generation, while keeping your children not only happy, but safe, at their very own Kids' Halloween party.
It is important to make a guest list for your child's Halloween party, and enlist the help of other parents who want a safe, but fun, alternative for their own children, to provide adequate supervision. Keep in mind that, to keep children entertained and occupied, you must provide more than treats. Games, contests, and activities are important as well.
Here are some safe, fun suggestions sure to entertain at your kids' Halloween party:
o A costume contest where each child votes for the best costume at the party, and the winner receives a prize.
o Pumpkin decorating contests. Each child is given a miniature pumpkin, and allowed to decorate the pumpkin with sequins, glitter, markers, yarn, etc. The children then vote on the best decorated pumpkin, and the winner earns a treat. Each child is allowed to take their decorated pumpkin home with them after the party.
o Musical ghosts: the children form a circle, and while spooky music plays they pass the 'ghost' (a white, plastic bag filled with goodies, tied with a rubber band, and painted to look like a ghost head) and the child holding the 'ghost' when the music stops is 'out' until only one child is left. That child is the winner, and earns the ghostly treat.
o A game sure to find approval is "Who's the Mummy?" where the children divide up into pairs, and each pair is given a roll of toilet paper. With one child wrapping, and the other child being the mummy, who ever wraps the whole roll fastest wins the game, and a treat.
o Another great game for your kids Halloween party, would be a quest to find the ghost who ate the candy. Small, white bags, with ghosts' faces drawn on, are filled with Halloween candy, and hidden throughout the party area. Children would be given hints and instructions, and allowed to search to find the bags filled with treats.
Though the days of children being able to go door to door yelling "Trick or Treat" may be a thing of the past, and your children's memories may be different from your own, your Kids' Halloween party can create wonderful memories to cherish, and be passed down from generation to generation, while keeping your children not only happy, but safe, at their very own Kids' Halloween party.
Kamis, 10 Agustus 2017
Different Types of Flowers to Make Use of When Decorating a Wedding Cake
Flowers are essentially the most traditional kinds of tops on frosted cakes. There are different types of flowers used. Allow me to share a couple of of them.
Royal Icing dries solid and is used for many decorations like daisies, roses, violets, pansies, etc. Royal Icing is edible and is candy-like. Flower designs are usually made by piping buttercream into roses or flowers with or without leaves.
Gumpaste is best utilized when you want very hard flower designs and other decorative items. It's a sugar dough which may be rolled out and shaped into stylish flowers. These flowers are probably the most realistic and can be made on toothpicks or floral-wire in flower arrangements. Gumpaste arrangements are especially stunning cake toppers that may be kept as a memento for years to come. They can be made ahead of time, allow them to air dry, and keep in an open container, in any cool, dry place, until you place them on the wedding cake. Even though these designs are exceptionally beautiful, you should plan on paying Bakeries and at Home Cake Decorators extra for them due to the time it requires to make each gum-paste flower.
Fresh designs might be stuffed, like squash blossoms and then fried or used in stir-fry dishes. Safe to eat flowers may be crystallized; frozen in ice cubes and included with beverages; made into jellies and jams; used to make teas or wines; minced and added to cheese spreads, herbal butters, pancakes, crepes, and waffles. Many flowers can be used to make vinegars for cooking, marinades, or dressings for salad. Edible flowers can be used fresh as a adornment or as an essential part of a dish, for example a salad. When decorating a marriage cake some can make a large spray type arrangement on top and/or scatter some petals around the fringe of the wedding platter for a lovely final touch. You can find a lot of great ideas on the Cake Central website. They have thousands of great cake decorating ideas.
Fresh flowers are very popular and exquisite, but some can be hazardous if eaten. Take caution when deciding on the kinds of flower designs inside the arrangements for your cake. Use those that have not been sprayed with pesticides (or gather some out of your yard which are organic and natural). There are different ways to decorate with edible flower designs: Put together large corsage type arrangements, which are easy to place on the wedding cake when delivered. Another way is to clip greenery and flower designs just before the wedding and place them on top of the table surrounding the wedding cake. Or, shower some petals around the fringe of the cake platter for a stunning finishing touch when the cake is served.
Using fresh flowers also implies that you get together with the florist and chat about delivery times. It is not possible with transporting cakes to place flowers on before serving when you're having a function. A wedding cake is generally set up the morning of the wedding, regardless of whether the reception is for that evening. The flower designs need to be fresh and cold when setting up the wedding cake. Most highly regarded florists are accustomed considering the needs of fresh flowers resting on the cake.
Royal Icing dries solid and is used for many decorations like daisies, roses, violets, pansies, etc. Royal Icing is edible and is candy-like. Flower designs are usually made by piping buttercream into roses or flowers with or without leaves.
Gumpaste is best utilized when you want very hard flower designs and other decorative items. It's a sugar dough which may be rolled out and shaped into stylish flowers. These flowers are probably the most realistic and can be made on toothpicks or floral-wire in flower arrangements. Gumpaste arrangements are especially stunning cake toppers that may be kept as a memento for years to come. They can be made ahead of time, allow them to air dry, and keep in an open container, in any cool, dry place, until you place them on the wedding cake. Even though these designs are exceptionally beautiful, you should plan on paying Bakeries and at Home Cake Decorators extra for them due to the time it requires to make each gum-paste flower.
Fresh designs might be stuffed, like squash blossoms and then fried or used in stir-fry dishes. Safe to eat flowers may be crystallized; frozen in ice cubes and included with beverages; made into jellies and jams; used to make teas or wines; minced and added to cheese spreads, herbal butters, pancakes, crepes, and waffles. Many flowers can be used to make vinegars for cooking, marinades, or dressings for salad. Edible flowers can be used fresh as a adornment or as an essential part of a dish, for example a salad. When decorating a marriage cake some can make a large spray type arrangement on top and/or scatter some petals around the fringe of the wedding platter for a lovely final touch. You can find a lot of great ideas on the Cake Central website. They have thousands of great cake decorating ideas.
Fresh flowers are very popular and exquisite, but some can be hazardous if eaten. Take caution when deciding on the kinds of flower designs inside the arrangements for your cake. Use those that have not been sprayed with pesticides (or gather some out of your yard which are organic and natural). There are different ways to decorate with edible flower designs: Put together large corsage type arrangements, which are easy to place on the wedding cake when delivered. Another way is to clip greenery and flower designs just before the wedding and place them on top of the table surrounding the wedding cake. Or, shower some petals around the fringe of the cake platter for a stunning finishing touch when the cake is served.
Using fresh flowers also implies that you get together with the florist and chat about delivery times. It is not possible with transporting cakes to place flowers on before serving when you're having a function. A wedding cake is generally set up the morning of the wedding, regardless of whether the reception is for that evening. The flower designs need to be fresh and cold when setting up the wedding cake. Most highly regarded florists are accustomed considering the needs of fresh flowers resting on the cake.
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