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Wedding showers are currently very common celebrations; it ushers in the celebrations leading to the wedding. This is a time when the bride is given some rest from the arrangements of the wedding, and is showered with affection, care and an atmosphere of fun and frolic is prevalent.
Different Types Of Wedding Shower Theme
Let the theme of the wedding shower scream out "Pink". For the invitations, you can have a plain pink background card with golden glitter borders; this can be easily crafted at home. Pink is such a pleasant colour, let's have pink and white balloons tied together and bunches of these tied in the doorway and around the chairs.
You need to have a cake for this theme, according to your baking skill you can make a pink rose cake, which are iced with whirls of butter cream frosting, or can go for pink colour iced cup cakes. For the centrepieces on the tables, spread around pink colour beads and this would look really elegant and simple. Strawberry flavoured lip gloss would be an excellent return gift, packed in pink transparent wrapping paper. Let the place blink with "pink"
Beauty Wedding Shower
Who does not like to be pampered, let's focus on the bride and give her a break from all the stress of the wedding arrangements. Let the girls get indulged in beauty treatments from the professionals. Currently there are varied spa treatments, ranging from full body spa massage, only facial treatments, and special packages for the brides.
After having a lovely spa treatment, head to a Chinese restaurant and gauge on delectable Chinese food and have some lovely green tea to digest the events of the day.
Cooking Shower
A hearty meal makes all of us happy and brings a smile on our face. This is a simple wedding shower to arrange for, ask each invitee of the wedding shower, to make one dish and let the host have the, list of the dishes being made, so that there is no confusion and duplication.
Let the menu range from lip- smacking appetizers, exquisite main courses and lovely choice of desserts. Bride to be will be so happy to be treated in such royalty. For this theme just keep the decor of the venue simple, with fresh flower arrangements such as red roses and floating flower arrangements.
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Sparkle As A Diamond
Diamonds are women's best friend and Let your wedding shower bash bling, with diamonds. Make the invitation cards twinkle with small sparkles, and design it in the initial of the bride and stick it on the card. For the decoration have a stunning silver crystal tree, arranged near the entrance, this flashes the theme across.
The centrepiece of the table should be very simple, just drop few artificial rings with white stones in the middle of the table, these are available well within the budget. A diamond theme couldn't be carried out without a diamond shape cake, make a fruit based cake with a white fondant icing and carve out a ring with fondant icing and place it on the top of the cake. Let the sides of the cake be decorated with silver beads and sparkles.
Small silver flower vases would be the perfect return gift for this theme, pack these in attractive translucent gift wrappers and tie a white transparent ribbon around it. Every bride dreams, to sparkle for her wedding, make this dream come true for them with the commencement of their wedding shower bash. Bride, is the princess, and delight her with surprises.


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Would you pay $160 to cook yourself dinner for 3.5 hours? What if you could hang out in an office building lobby while doing it? OK, but what if I told you that you'd be hanging out with some really awesome, hip dudes in custom suits and pointy shoes?
If you answered yes, hell yes, and good God sign me up, you'll be happy to know that a group of New York entrepreneurs, Michael J. Cirino, Daniel Castaño, and Jonny Cigar, have been traveling the country staging communal dinner parties much like the one sketched above. Wine and cocktails included. Collectively known as a razor, a shiny knife, they let guests try their hands at science-y cooking methods like liquid nitrogen freezing, meat glue, and sous vide. Might sound like fun—after all, if you're not a pro chef, you don't have access to the high-tech equipment needed to do this stuff, right? *
A story in the LA Times about one such dinner staged a few nights ago in a Wilshire Boulevard office lobby, however, promised something much more sublime than a cooking demo. So that you don't have to read the article, I have abridged the good parts for you here for you, in poem form. Every word in poem taken verbatim from article.
Croquettes at the Tar Pits
McCarren Park in Brooklyn. The year was 2007
They were hungry
"smelled like hipster."
Michael J. Cirino
dark-haired, heavy-lidded performer
swear words
old-fashioned silver spoon in his breast pocket.
Jonny Cigar
non sequiturs
The Clown by Heinrich Böll tucked into his outer side pocket
This poem pairs well with the wine
Wilshire Blvd
A giant cluster of satellite dishes
emit a rapid, electronic beeping noise
truffle gelée
Condensed duck leg bonded with Activa
White Elephant cocktails "gently muddled"
* (Actually, you can cook sous vide at home with a Food Saver, you can rent a liquid nitrogen tank from most welding shops, and transglutaminase, a.k.a. meat glue, can be found online. Or you could just pay $160 and not worry about it.)
Image source: Flickr member Andi Licious under Creative Commons

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She's going to be wearing a purple sweater. The material I've chosen is see-through in places, which is why the foam as been painted purple. Also YES her boobs are big and NO they will not look that big once her sweater is on. Pervs, the lot of ya.
Fun Fact: I learned to knit this semester! Behold, my first knitted project:
But of course, I couldn't stop there:


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A Co-operative society which has made a contribution to communities in Warwickshire is to be presented with an award by the Queen in recognition of its work.
The Midcounties Co-operative is one of 12 companies to receive the Queen's Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development.
The member-owned society has received the award because of an energy-saving and waste recycling initiative which has saved £1 million.
Ben Reid, Midcounties Co-operative chief executive, said: "We're proud that our social, environmental and community achievements have been recognised. We have a wide portfolio of businesses which provide essential services to the communities we serve. As the society has grown, our sustainable practices have evolved and now benefit an even larger community."
The Queen's Award will be presented in July. The company has also previously been recognised by the Carbon Trust for reducing emissions.


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Tomorrow, six of my law school girlfriends and I will be getting together for an impromptu Girls Weekend – just what the doctor ordered. I can't wait to see them and am looking forward to our "We Are The Real Housewives" hotel sleepover tomorrow night. It's going to be a purposely chill, easygoing weekend, with minimal planning except for a spa party at a nail bar tomorrow afternoon.
On deck:
And a whole lot of laughing until we cry.


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You never quite know who you are going to see whilst painting on location. I was crossing Ponte Vecchio when working in Florence recently and noticed BBC's Fiona Bruce being filmed by a camera crew. I'm not sure for what programme, perhaps another series of Fake or Fortune?
I've painted several watercolours on location of Ponte Vecchio, usually from Piazza Michelangelo, however on this occasion, I decided to do one standing next to the window of a rather expensive ice cream shop at the end of the bridge on the other side of the road. After being charged €6 for the smallest tub of ice cream available, I embarked on a small sketchbook study of the bridge bathed in the late afternoon sunlight.
The Duomo in the distance was both my starting point and focal point of interest with the strong angles from the foreground buildings taking the viewers eyes towards the main part of the subject, the bridge itself with its shoppers and colourful flags. Using this simple study and some of the reference photographs I took, I hope to work this up into a larger original watercolour in my Studio.


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My sixteen year old daughter has been given the opportunity of flying to China, with her boyfriend, to stay for a week with her boyfriend's parents. My instant response, when my ex-wife phoned me to ask my opinion, was of course she should go, it's a fantastic opportunity. I then had to listen to all my ex's objections that ranged from the possibility that my daughter would get lost at the airport, all the way through to white slavery and international terrorism! I understand that every parent has their concerns when their children first spread their wings, but international travel is a part of life today, so the sooner kids get the chance to do it the better. That's my opinion anyway. Here are ten more reasons why I think it is so important that kids get travel as soon as they old enough, and sensible enough to.
1. It teaches them to plan and to organise
Depending on their age, kids probably will be dropped off at the airport and picked at the other end and, no, I wouldn't want my sixteen year old having to find a taxi at Shanghai airport. However, travelling will still teach kids to get organised, pack everything they need and make sure they get to the right a departure gate on time for their flight.
2. It prepares them for the future
It's a global economy now and, whatever career they choose, the chances are that, in the future, it will include some travelling at some time in their lives. Travelling long distances is stressful, especially the first few times you do it. So, why not let kids get some practice in now, while they do still have the support of parents and airline staff to help them?
3. It makes them more tolerant of other cultures
Even as an adult, my extensive travelling made me think totally differently about people from other cultures and other countries. When you meet people from other countries, you appreciate that, despite the outward differences, we really are all the same underneath the skin. The more people that realise that; the better it will be for us all.
4. It teaches them to appreciate what they have
Kids may well be shocked by what they see from their coach or taxi window as they pass through a foreign land but that too wouldn't be a bad thing. It is one thing to see people who have very little to call their own, or who do not have enough food to eat, on the TV news broadcasts, It's quite another to see those people for real.
5. It makes them more independent
Quite obviously, the first time travelling without parents to guide your every move, even if they are going to be met by someone when they get to their destination, is going to be a bit scary, but it will also help to stand on their own two feet. Going out in an unfamiliar country, so long as it's safe enough to do so in that country, will also teach them to be a bit more street wise and it will make them more confident about being on their own and fending for themselves.
6. They will learn how to be more patient and adaptable
Let's face it; anyone who has travelled will know the need for patience! Airplanes don't always fly on time, if they fly at all, and travel plans do go wrong. That's when you need to learn to be patient and to adapt your plans when you need to. Stamping your feet and having a tantrum certainly won't get you there any quicker, so you learn to make the best of what does go right.
7. They will learn that languages are more important than they thought
When you learn languages at school, it can all seem a pointless exercise, but when you travel, you soon find that even a few words of the local language can get you a long way. Even if all you know is how to say please and thank you, the local people will respect you for at least trying. That's far better than arrogantly expecting that the whole world should understand English and thinking that, if you shout loud enough, they will.
8. It teaches them to ask for help when they need it
Kids grow up being taught not to speak to strangers, for perfectly valid reasons, but it can give them the impression that all strangers are dangerous. Once they start to get a bit older and they travel, they will need to know that, actually, most people aren't mass murderers and lunatics! With their new found confidence they will learn to ask people for directions and for help when they need it.
9. It will make them more interesting people
Part of my ex-wife's issues about my daughter travelling stem from the fact that her own family have rarely travelled beyond the borders of their own town, let alone outside of the UK. I sincerely hope that, when she gets older, my daughter has more to talk about in a conversation than just the goings on in her own town.
10. It might give them the travel bug
I do hope that my daughter does get to go to China, although that is now in doubt for other reason than my ex-wife's travel phobias. Having had the opportunity to visit many different countries in my time has been one of the highlights of my life and, given half the chance, I will be off again as soon as I can. I got the travel bug years ago; I hope my kids catch it too.
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SRAM RED® eTAP INTEGRATES WITH GARMIN 520 AND 1000
Riders with SRAM RED eTap can now view their gear profile and battery status on their Garmin Edge 520 and 1000. Both Garmin devices now integrate with ANT+ and provide a data field for both gear ratio (front gear/rear gear) and front and rear derailleur electronic battery status.
"This was something we promised with eTap and we're excited it's now available as consumers continually demand greater access to their data," said SRAM Product Manager Brad Menna.
All of the updates for the Edge 520 and 1000 can be accessed via Garmin Express, which should prompt you to install the update the next time you plug your Garmin into your computer. No updates are required to SRAM RED eTap.
Click here to access to Garmin Express.
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Unusual friendship are completely different animals
Friendship is great! And when people say that friendship does not exist — they are deeply mistaken, because if animals can befriend each other, then people even more so.
Those who must hunt each other, happy to spend time together, share meals and work together to have a rest, walk and frolic. Looks like they are really true friends animal contrary to public opinion.
Mini Mani the wild boar and miniature dog
Thinni and Sniffer — dog and wild Fox
African elephant Bubble and black Labrador Bella
Dachshund Milo and Leo Benedictus
Chicken and puppies
Best friends pit bull and chicken
Sheep and elephant are best friends forever
Dog and fawn