Sweet 16th Birthday Party Ideas
December 31, 2009
Is there any party more delightful than sweet 16? If you’re stuck for 16th birthday party ideas, then you need to sit back and start counting! It’s easy enough if you remember that a sweet 16 party is all about that magic number. How many sweet sixteen balloons do you buy? Sixteen, of course!
Turning 16 can be the perfect time for an all-girls party or for a co-ed gathering. No matter what you choose to do, talk with your sweet 16 birthday girl first for her ideas. She might be hoping for a good old fashioned slumber party or something a bit more elegant that announces she is approaching adulthood.
Sweet Party Ideas
Ideas for an informal 16th party can take advantage of the classic teen foods like pizza, ice cream sundaes, sub sandwiches, nachos, and lots of soda. When thinking about a more "sweet" party, consider sixteen delicate and tiny birthday cakes surrounding one floral arrangement. Another idea is to keep the guest list to sixteen friends.
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Beneficial Mycorrhizae - Your Plants Best Friend
December 30, 2009
Beneficial Mycorrhizae - Your Plants Best Friend
by: Jason Willkomm
Innoculating your potting soil mix or hydroponic reservoir with beneficial mycorrhizae has many benefits. With the chelating enzymes the fungus release, the plants uptake more useable nutrients. With the funal hairs acting as a secondary root system, plants grow big faster. Overall, plants grow up healthier.
When fungal hairs, called hyphae, were first discovered surrounding plant roots on a 460 million year old fossil, it was believed the fungus must be robbing the plants of their energy. Further research has since proved this to be false. In fact, these very fossils became the evidence that suggests a relationship existed between the plants and the fungus that benefits both. The evidence goes on to conclude that it was exactly this symbiotic relationship that allowed plants to begin successfully growing on land about 55 million years ago.
In this arrangement, specialized fungal hairs form organs called mycorrhizae along the plants roots. The plants provide energy to the fungus, and the growing fungus produce enzymes that convert (chelate) organic material into minerals that are easy for the plant to absorb. The fungus also acts as a moist cushion against heat and drought. The fungus exudes antibiotics that protect roots from disease, and the action of the fungus protect the plant against toxicites in the soil as well.
Key Largo - Frater Albertus
December 30, 2009
Key Largo:
The fans turn lazily in front of the door
They open wide showing mangroves galore
An egret in the everglades stalks its prey
Haltingly it walks along its way
On another bright and sunny day
A woman’s floppy hat shades her beauty not so brittle
The silken scarf that holds the hat flutters just a little
She pauses in the threshold of the door
Surveying what she’s looking for
She is looking straight at me
Her beauty flaunted all to see.
‘Where are you from?’ while noticing I had a frown
On the other couch she elegantly sits down
In the small hotel lobby bar
‘A city north and very far.’
My heart begins a frantic beat
Her flush was not just from the heat.
‘Let me guess? Toronto, it is pretty’
‘A New Yorker?.. It is gritty.’
The open lobby with chaises rattan
Encompassed us as the hours ran
Mimosas came and munchies went
Philosophizing led us to invent
All manner of reasons the head to spin
While we shared a special grin.
How To Select the Ideal Home Weather Station
December 29, 2009
How To Select the Ideal Home Weather Station
by: Graham McClung
Have you ever considered buying your very own home weather station? Not that I’m selling them, but I believe I may be able to help you decide what to look for.
There are certainly many good reasons for having a modern weather station set up and working in your home.
Not the least of these is that they have never before been so easy to install and use, never had so many useful features, and certainly never been such good value.
How Your Own Home Weather Station Will Benefit You
The overall benefits of a home weather station are huge.
Modern home weather stations bring the outdoors inside to you, as outside weather sensors frequently and regularly transmit weather information to an attractively designed receiver/display unit, which can be set up almost anywhere in your home.
Home weather stations can provide crucial information about approaching bad weather, as well as giving you valuable data you can use to help maintain your garden, greenhouse, pond or aviary, or even to decide what to wear when you venture outside.
Types of Digital Cameras
December 28, 2009
If you are in the market to purchase a digital camera, you have surely seen several different types of cameras. It isnt exactly clear what the differences between the types are, and it can be confusing trying to choose the digital camera thats right for you. In this article, we wil discuss the different types of cameras so that you can better understand what to look for in purchasing a digital camera.
Point and Shoot Digital Cameras
Most consumer cameras on the market today fall into the category of Point and Shoot digital cameras. These cameras usually provide resolutions of between 2 and 4 megapixels (million pixels). These cameras are the digital version of your typical 35mm consumer camera.
A point and shoot digital camera is designed to do just that - take snapshots. They provide limited flexability with options, although many newer models have some limited options for special effects. The image quality from a point and shoot digital camera is generally good enough for common uses, such as auction photos, and even 4 X 6 prints.
If you just want a standard, entry level digital camera for family snapshots and auction photos, then a point and shoot digital camera is a budget conscious choice.
Creative Kid Birthday Cake Ideas
December 27, 2009
A Creative Dream Come True
A hush falls over the room as you bring out your child’s birthday cake.
With its candles glowing, your cake masterpiece sits at its place of honor for all to admire as the room fills with the oohs and aahs of your envious party guests. Your creative birthday cake is wonderful and it fits your party theme perfectly.
Your birthday child makes a wish and your guests join in singing the birthday song followed by cheers and applause. Then it’s finally time to enjoy the taste of your delicious birthday cake creation.
Now that’s the kind of reaction you want for your child’s birthday cake!
Kid Birthday Cake Ideas
Let your creative imagination run wild when you plan your child’s birthday cake, because just about anything is possible. Here are just a few ideas.
Princess Birthday Cake
Skate Cake
Butterfly Cake
Ladybug Cake
Hot Dog and Fries Cake
Volcano Cake
Bug Mountain Cake
Lego Cake
Madeline’s Hat Cake
Princess Castle Cake
Green Eggs and Ham Cake
Panda Cake
Treasure Chest Cake
First Birthday Cake Ideas
Free Instructions On How To Sew A Drawstring Bag In Minutes
December 26, 2009
Free Instructions On How To Sew A Drawstring Bag In Minutes
by: Jennifer Thoden
Drawstring bags are one of those sewing projects that can transcend all purposes. You can make them to hold small objects, like those seasonal colored glass rocks that you fill your vases with. You can use them as gift bags to cover wine bottles, hold small jewelry boxes, or any size gift. You can make them for decorative items for your home or bath.
Whatever your reason for sewing a drawstring bag, you will discover that making one is super simple. The construction is sew simple, that you can easily modify your dimensions, fabric and string to create a huge variety of drawstring bags.
So, decide on the size of your bag first. Are you making to hold a wine bottle? Something small?
Then pick out your fabric. You’ll need a little more than twice your bag’s dimensions. So, if your bag will be 12″ by 5″, then you want fabric that is at least 24″ plus 1 1/2″ by 5″ plus 1″.
Nature Worship
December 25, 2009
NATURE WORSHIP: - Wicca and witchcraft or other shamanic attunements akin to the kind of ethic and awe the great and beautiful (FREE) North American Indians had before the arrival of the ‘civilized’ men from the Old World.
“A Guide to Nature Spirituality Terms Selena Fox
Founder and leader of Circle Sanctuary, an internationally linked Nature Spirituality resource center and Shamanic Wiccan church based in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. Animism: ancient philosophy that views everything in Nature as having an indwelling spirit/soul, including the plants, rocks, waters, winds, t tires, animals, humans, and other life forms.
Animism is the foundation of shamanism and has been considered the earliest form of human religion on planet Earth. {Sorry, philosophy students, who are often told Aristotle and his work ‘Anima’ is original, these same students aren’t told about his Secretum Secretorum which is an alchemic treatise covering what he was taught that he sent to his pupil Alexander the Great.}
Earth-Centered Spirituality: honoring the spiritual interconnectedness of life on planet Earth, often as Mother Earth or Gaia, but sometimes as a gender neutral Earth Spirit. Sometimes called ‘Earth religion’ and ‘Gaian’ (Gaean) religion. Related Eco-Christian form is Creation- Centered Spirituality.
Dress To Impress! Find Your Sexy Halloween Costume And Shake What Your Mamma Gave You
December 25, 2009
Everyone loves to look and feel good, right? Well, why don’t you shake what your mamma gave you, and find a sexy Halloween costume that will knock the socks off of everybody!
Halloween is all about letting loose and having fun, so let your wild side show this year! Go ahead and buy that Playboy bunny costume, or that tight Spiderman bodysuit! The possibilities are endless?and they’re all here for you to explore!
When you hear the word "sexy" you may feel a little uneasy, but you owe it to yourself to go out there and have fun with it! On All Hallows Eve, you can flirt with anyone and get away with it!
Ladies, whether you choose to be a nurse, a French maid, a cowgirl, or a cheerleader, you’ll pour on the charm and make the guys putty in your hands! And guys, which woman doesn’t love a rugged pirate, a fireman, a doctor, or a policeman? You’ll have ladies lining up waiting to meet you!
Find countless sexy Halloween costumes and accessories on fantastic costume websites!
Candle Supplies
December 24, 2009
Candle Supplies
by: Starlina Stimmer
What would Christmas be without snowballs? So, what better scented gift to give, then primitive snowballs that will last all year
This is an breezy, simple craft to do and you will receive hours of enjoyment in making snowballs. I warn you this can be addictive.
It is just like being a kid all over again, when you create one of these delightfully cool snowballs or icicles.
Make old fashion Vintage looking Winter icicles, snowballs, and snowflakes for Christmas or Winter Weddings. A bowl of festive snowballs or icicles make a wonderful center piece for festive occasions. Surround yours with candle light.
They are fast, fun, and best of all, easy. Get ready to have a great afternoon with the kids in the kitchen.
Maybe you can even make a little extra money at the next craft show.
These creative primitive grungy crafts look great as decorations in your country decor. Try placing them in baskets, old primitive boxes, old pans, wooden dough bowls. Add a sprig or two of Christmas green, pinecones, a few red berries dried, or use your imagination and see what you can come up with.
