How to Source Wedding Decorations & Gifts Online

How to Source Wedding Decorations & Gifts Online -If you are organising a wedding this coming spring and need to find some beautiful decorations for the reception, the best place to start your search for inspiration and wonderful innovative ideas is online. There's a multitude of wedding sites and other ecommerce retailers all of whom offer great deals and discounts on brilliant wedding decorations and gifts that will make a special event "extra" special all round.

Buying Bespoke Wedding Invitations Online

A wedding is a very special occasion and you want yours to not only be one of the most memorable days of your life, but a day where every little detail has been thought through to make it even more special. This includes ordering bespoke wedding invitations to send out to wedding guests so that right from the word go everyone is treated to your own unique style of doing things. It's a great way of preparing them for the big day that's ahead. Sourcing wedding invitations online could not be easier and having them personalised is a seamless experience that will impress your guests in a really nice way.

Sourcing Wedding Balloons

Wedding balloons can add a touch of frivolity to a reception in a fun and colourful way and the best part is they fit in with almost every wedding theme and all sorts of colour schemes. If you have lots of children at the reception, balloons will be a massive hit with them because all kids adore balloons and more especially popping them!

Making an Impact with Confetti

It is the small details that can really make an impact at a reception and this includes how tables are set and the type of decorations used to embellish them. Confetti artfully placed on tables can add a very nice touch to the occasion and there are lots of designs to choose from. This means you can choose one design to use at the church and another for use as wedding table decorations. You can find a whole lot of innovative ideas on the Internet from hearts to gorgeous flower petals of every shape and kind.

Streamers & Garlands

Decorating the wedding reception is a lot of fun but finding all the items you'd like to use is just as exciting too. Once you've chosen your wedding theme and then sorted out colour schemes, sourcing beautiful streamers and garlands on the Internet will add that finishing touch to the scene in a wonderfully colourful way.

Wedding Gifts

Naturally, as the bride and groom you would also need to find the perfect gifts to offer all the people who helped in the preparation of the big day and who helped make sure the day itself went smoothly making it a seamless experience. You can find all the inspiration you'll need for gifts you'd like to offer your parents, parents-in-law, best man, maids of honour and everyone else who made the big day so enjoyable.

You can find the gifts from the comfort of your own home just by browsing a few websites and as a real bonus, you'll find you don't have to spend a fortune because sourcing wedding gifts from an e-commerce retailer means you'll find the best deals on top quality items which are then delivered straight to your door.

Conclusion

Planning a wedding can be a time consuming business that sees you having to run round all over the place for fittings, tastings as well as rehearsals. When it comes to making life a bit easier for yourself and all your helpers, sourcing many of the items you need for the reception online is a wonderful option. There's a great choice and it's the best place to find inspiration if you are stuck for a few ideas. As a real bonus everything your order is delivered straight to your door.

Blue and yellow gold wedding

 For Blue Monday, let me share a few images of our wedding day. The wedding theme was blue and gold! My husband loves this shade of blue.

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Standing Cats

You may find many cute standing cats online. One famous standing cat in the internet is Rocky. He and his owners are French (Daisy and Yann). Rocky used to stand up because he couldn't see the birds through the windows, so he stood up. Rocky could stand up till more than 30 seconds.

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Rocky -image:boingboing.net

Basically, every cat is able to go bipedal. In one morning, I saw our cat Mocca stood up to see something that attracted his attention in the front of the fences.

Captured from his back, Mocca wasn’t really standing up as his front legs still leaned on the fence :) Anyway, for me, it's still interesting to capture.

My entry for Camera Critters  and Saturday's Critters

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Kids Today – a Fresh Perspective on Childhood

Kids Today – a Fresh Perspective on Childhood -Kids never stop learning, and every new experience is also a learning experience, one way or another. While a lot of learning happens in school and during classes, everyday activities for kids are just as important as scheduled study time. But as adults, sometimes it seems impossible to try and imagine how kids themselves experience the world; while we can remember our own childhood, life for children has changed a lot.

The Kids Today project, a series of six videos made by Surf Excel that extends their long established interest in child development and activities for kids, was created because of this problem. The project aims to explore a children’s perspective on life, showing us how kids learn, play and have fun – and the results are intriguing.

Understanding kids in today’s world

Being a parent is always challenging – especially in today’s world, which moves at a very quick pace and leaves little time to stop and think. Mums especially are often torn between letting their kids simply enjoy being kids, and making sure they acquire the necessary skills to become successful and accomplished adults. Our children are busy with schoolwork, have plenty of extra-curricular activities scheduled, and are easily distracted by computer games and television programs. It is important, as parents, to understand what they are going through in order to help them find a healthy balance between work and play.

The Kids Today Project – a fresh perspective on childhood in six short films

Kids Today Project claims to provide a fresh perspective on childhood – and that’s what you get with these videos. Using the EyeViewcamera,which was designed specifically for the project, Surf Excel has managed to collect some pretty astonishing footage. A comfortable head camera, built to stand up to the rough and tumble of life as a kid, the EyeView is the closest you can get to seeingthe world through the eyes of a child.

Busy time, play time

The short films show what life is like for kids – and it looks busy. They often spend more time studying than their parents do at work, all while balancing a schedule of classes, activities, and play time, which is sometimes all too brief.

The series has six parts, focusing on different aspects of modern childhood. For example, one shows a day in the life of children, from when they get up to when they go to bed. A notably timely video explores how children fit into city life, which, according to the kids filmed, often feels overpowering and noisy, and even scary. Interestingly, their biggest complaint is that the city restricts space to just play and be a kid.

Kids Today is dealing with questions of what it’s like to be child, constantly growing, constantly experiencing change, with so much to do and discover at the same time. The films reach some interesting conclusions, the most important of which is that playtime – experimenting, exploring, and getting messy – is really an important part of childhood: Not only for fun, but for development, for making friends, figuring out how the world works, and sometimes, just to relax from a busy day.

So what lessons can parents take away from this? Life can get messy for kids at times, and that’s how it should be. It’s important to embrace messiness as a part of childhood. And, for all their busyness, kids today are just like us when we were their age: Inquisitive, fun loving, adventurous, and playful!

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