Traditional Bridal Jewelry

The Symbolism of the Bride's Jewelry

The jewelry chosen by the bride and groom to be worn on their wedding day, and perhaps forever after (or at least as long as the marriage lasts) will symbolize different values and hopes for the marriage.

The central piece of bridal jewelry is the wedding ring. For example, a simple silver band would emphasize the spiritual bonds between bride and groom, whereas a ring studded with diamonds would reveal hopes for a prosperous union.

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Angel Christmas Decorations

The Annual Search for My Angel

Every Christmas I go on a concerted search for a new angel. Let me explain. I like to place an angel at the heart of my Christmas Decoration Scheme each year. I often choose a new theme each year, so the new angel has a few criteria it must fulfill.

It hasn't taken me long to figure out that the best way I can supply my needs is to browse for my Christmas angels online.

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The Bling Bling jewelry Style

The Bling Bling Accompaniment

Every wonder where bling bling jewelry got its name? Picture a Hip Hop or R&B artist going through their routine, rocking from knee to knee and doing their pointy-finger thing. If you add a few kilos of gold jewelry to the arms and neck, kill the music, you'll hear a cacophony of clanging and, you guessed it, a higher pitched 'bling'.

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Shopping for Baby's First Christmas Stocking

The First Steps

Sorting out your Christmas shopping can be an arduous task. Even so, shopping for your baby's first Christmas presents should be fun and exciting. You are celebrating the first great public festival of your baby's life. For many, Christmas is the time where the whole family comes together. What better time to take advantage of the situation and welcome your baby into the family fold?

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American Indian Beads and Jewelry

Subtle and Intricate in Design

The best examples of American Indian beadwork can be found in jewelry such as earrings and necklaces. The designs are often surprisingly subtle and detailed in nature.

The tight construction of some necklaces gives them a solid appearance from a distance. However, once you are close the individual beads emerge in all their glory and the necklace appears diaphonous.

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A Guide to Home Improvement

The Principle Ways to Improve Your Home

Our accountants advise us to spend between 2% and 3% of our salaries on home improvement. In a buoyant property market this can provide you with a significant return on your investment. It also keeps your home fresh and modern so if you should need to sell in a hurry you should be able to secure a quick sale.

That's all very well, but a true home improvement guide should also reflect something of the personality and whims of its owner. Just as we develop through life, so too should our humble abode.

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A Bachelor Degree in the Culinary Arts

Gourmet cooking is a very competitive business. The standards are high. Modern chefs have to have a large amount of information and skill at the their fingertips.

It's not surprising, then, that courses leading to bachelor degrees in culinary arts are difficult to get into and demanding to the successful candidates. However, the rewards are high. If you have a passion for food, a good memory and nimble fingers, a career in the culinary arts could be for you. And otaining a degree could be the best way to go about starting it.

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Prelit Christmas Tree

I know Christmas is coming when I start wondering where I left the ladders. I use them to get up to the attic. That's where all the Christmas decorations are. However, Christmas really begins when I set down in the kitchen with a cup of steaming coffee and hit the switch on my prelit Christmas tree.

Yes, it's the prelit Christmas tree that does it for me. We go back a long way, that Xmas tree and I. Some people feel sentimental writing Christmas cards, others when they bite into their first slice of Xmas cake. I may have a more prosaic start to Christmas, but the moment I light that tree still sends a shiver of pleasure down my spine.

Fibre Optic Christmas Tree

Yes, a fibre optic lamp is about as kitsch as you can get. At least I thought so until I unwittingly met my fantasy Christmas decoration in a department store last year - a fibre optic Christmas Tree.

I missed the 70s. At least I missed them in any meaningful way. I had just got of diapers by the end of the decade, with a little help from others, and I've stayed away from them ever since. However, my parent's house didn't make the transition into the next decade, nor the decade that followed, by casting off its old clothes and donning the new. Orange rugs, lava lamps and bean bag chairs all made it into the 80s and formed much of the landscape of my teenage years. However, the pride of place went to a fibre optic lamp. Half spaceship, half alien grassy moll, it was rarely turned on after it zapped my mother once while she was doing the vacuuming.

Well, now it's back with vengeance in the form of a Christmas tree. My dreams, once again, have come true.