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When you host a party a decorated cake is often times the factor that links the theme of the party together. If you're like me and are not the most skilled cake decorator, you should know that there are simple cake decorating techniques you can use to make a beautiful and fun to watch cake quickly and easily. This article will review some of them techniques.Easy Cake Decorating Tip number one - Using Premixed FrostingsOne of the most basic tips for decorating a cake is easy to use ready-mixed glazes. Today you can find a number of different types of frosting flavors and colors in the baking department of your local supermarket. These glazes even come in to decorate the tubes with different shaped tips, which makes it easier to write and make decorative frosting designs on cakes and tarts. Easy Cake Decorating Tip number two - Use edible flowers another easy way to decorate a spring or summer theme cake is to use edible flowers. First Cover the cake with a base coat of frosting from a jar or homemade. Since before the frosting has a chance to set up use edible flowers. You can find these flowers at your local florist, or trackback from your own garden. For a list of edible flowers and their flavors, you can visit the following link: http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/blflowers.htm. Easy Cake Decorating Tip number three - Use ToysOne decorating technique that I have used before to decorate my son's birthday cake is to use small toys. For example one year I made a monster truck themed cake with premixed vanilla frosting, fudge premixed chocolate glaze, green sprinkles, a small model monster truck, and small trees toy. I started by making a chocolate road that winded over the cake. Then I used vanilla frosting to cover the rest of the cake. I then sprinkled green sugar crystals on the vanilla frosting makes it look like grass. To finish the look of the cake, I placed the truck on the chocolate path, trees and toys in the grass. This is a very inexpensive way to make a professional looking cake. You can even make toy decorations, a birthday gift or party service. Easy Cake Decorating Tip number four - Use finished Frosting Inserts another easy way to decorate a cake is to buy ready-made frosting Character Design Kits. These packages have a character design made of frosting and sugar and sugar-sensitive. To use these decorating package that you will only need to frost your cake with a basic glaze and then remove the backing from the glaze character design and place it on your cake. The character design will blend into your glaze enough that it becomes part of the frosting makes it look like you retouched the character designs directly on the glaze. You can then place a "Happy Birthday" sugar letters on your cake, add candles and you're done. They decorate the package costs just a few dollars and they come in a variety of popular cartoon characters including Warner Brothers characters and the Disney characters.

Are you invited to a baby shower and want to give a creative gift baby shower? Trying to find a creative gift baby shower can be difficult, because you have to think outside the box. What will mother-to think? Will this gift be appropriate for the new baby? Is this gift in my price budget? Most pregnant mothers who have a baby shower is usually recorded at one of their favorite stores, but that does not mean you have to obey it. A baby registry is just a way to give people some ideas on what the mother needs or likes. Usually when there is a baby registry the best items always seem to go first. Not all of us can buy baby gift directly leaving your choices are limited. Why not create your own baby shower gift? You can make your baby shower gift as creative as you want. I'd suggest making a homemade baby carriage love.Creating your own baby carriage for a baby shower is fun, cute, creative, and will defiantly make your guests go "Ooh" and "Awe" of this special homemade baby gift. Homemade baby gifts are always the best choice, because you can do them at your leisure, come from the heart, not to worry about the baby registry, and save money. So what is a home-made baby carriage out of love? A homemade baby carriage out of love consists of bundles of joy and fun for the little boy or girl to enjoy when they are born that rattles blankets, blocks, teethers, bath items, time, etc. You can do this baby carriage for a girl with the pink , blue for a boy, or use green or yellow if you are not of gender.Items needed to create your homemade child trailer of love: red wagon (Radio Flyer has a large variety to choose from Prices can range anywhere from $ 20 . -. $ 150 depending on your price budget Check that the trailer is big enough to fit all gifts baby shower white paint to write child's name or a creative say Paintbrush Soft plush toys, rattles, bibs, books, peek-a boo -. mirror, teether, bath-recurring items, diapers, bottles, baby bottles and bricks. There are so many opportunities here to use your creativity. You can go with a theme for the boy as Harley Davidson or the NFL and the girl Precious Moments or Disney. To make this baby carriage more special add a gift for Mom. You can give her something simple like a coupon for free babysitting, boy or girl nursery frameset, Lamaze bath time for mother and baby, baby boy or girl gift basket charm, a spa gift certificate or something simple like a pair of personalized slippers. Big Pink, blue, green or yellow ribbon to place the cart in front of the blankets to place on the bottom of the baby carriage before filling up the Cellophane to cover baby items colored bands starting with the white paint and create your children to say or name of the cart. While this is drying, gather up all the items that need to be set in this adorable and creative baby carriage out of love. When the paint has dried, put blankets in the wagon on flat. then carefully place each item in the cart . When you have all the items in the child's wagon cover it with cellophane. Turn the cellophane at the top and secure with tape and a bow. Now place a big bow on the side of the wagon.'s baby carriage now created with bundles of love for mother and child to enjoy. Now if not creative enough for you I have other creative ideas baby shower gift you may be interested in.Mommy's baby view car mirror Brown Bears-This cool item will give mothers complete safety while driving, and can be used as a crib mirror. The item can be found at The Corner Stork or other online retailer for $ 29.95 Tot CPR Class-This gift is very helpful and could possibly be the best gift of all. God forbid if something happens to your child this class could save their lives . Prices vary depending on the area you live in. Give the gift of charity-You can donate a certain amount of money to charity and have the child's name placed on a sidewalk or street signs to honor them. The main key is to be creative and have fun. Try thinking outside the box maybe instead of the popular diaper cake makes the mother to be a diaper wreath. If you want unique and creative ideas you have to do the opposite of what others do.

"The question of what is beautiful is possible both to educate and shameful and undemocratic to call," says the author Alain de Botton with a dose of irony. In his latest book "The Architecture of Happiness, he does the impossible, the shameful and undemocratic, and he's doing wonderful. De Botton identifies beauty and explains our emotional reaction to it. His area of choice for the study of subjectivity is the architecture, but his ideas apply to all arts.De expand Botton defines elegance in the architecture as "a quality present whenever a work of architecture in the successful implementation of an act of resistance - holding, spanning, sheltering - did not move with grace and economy as well, where they are not the modesty of the attention has overcome the difficulties. "De Botton goes a step further:" In the literature, prose, was one we designed and arranged ingeniously small set of words to admire you a great show of ideas "Could he be on his own book.. Few books on these subjects are so ethereal accessible or so, yes, written elegantly. "It is easy enough to recognize when a room lit properly and navigate stairs easily, but so much more difficult to convert to an intuitive sense of well being in a logical understanding of the reasons for them," de Botton writes in full awareness the enormous task he has set for itself. "To describe a building beats so nicely, therefore, more than a mere aesthetic preference, it means a special attraction to live, this structure is through the roof, door handles, window frames, staircase and device for conveying a sense of beauty is one. Signs are that we are on a material articulation of certain of our ideas of a good life. not "through a" good life, "de Botton necessarily comfortable, stylish and simple. It offers the thesis that good architecture can not only structurally, but spiritually uplifting. The belief is that "instead of corrupt us, rather than could an idle indulgence for the decadent, exquisite environment us to perfection edge. A beautiful building could strengthen our resolve to be good. "The Architecture of Happiness makes things difficult, like abstracts, symbolism and ideals appear simple. De Botton is a careful, learned, witty and gentle leader who asks only that people are feeling to their environment. His beliefs are so smart, they seem not so much as opinions as principles. He rejects architectural innovation in the interest of novelty. "Intent (A) n architect out to prove otherwise at the end can be seen as disturbing as the over-imaginative pilot or doctor. As important as originality in some areas, restraint and respect of procedures as an important virtues arise in a variety of others. "(Are you listening, Mr. Gehry, Mr. Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind?) Aiding tremendously in this journey is the most productive use of photographs and, more importantly, their perfect placement on the relevant page of the text. It is a pleasure to have de Botton explain, for example, have the balance of a Barbara Hepworth sculpture or the rhythm of the Doge's Palace facade with no more than an eye for Flick reference.We such a book for us to remember that beautiful building, at their best hand, have the power to improve ourselves spiritually, or at their least to us happy.The architecture HappinessBy Alain de BottonPantheon Books, 280 pages, $ 25