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Making A Statement With Flower Girl Baskets

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Posted by :SuziQ On : January 16, 2013

Category: Decorating, Event Planning, Family and Friends, Shopping

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Flower girl baskets are a great place to add details and style to compliment the special occasion. Watching the flower girl stroll down the aisle selecting rose petals out of the flower girl basket and dropping them gingerly on the floor is one a highly photographed moment. Make sure your flower girl basket stands out and doesn’t look boring and plain.

Flower girls baskets are easy to make unique and one of a kind by adding embellishments including lace, beads, ribbon, pearls, and of course the flowers. By adding just a few simple details you can take your plain and ordinary flower girl basket from drab to fab. The best part about it is it doesn’t have to be expensive. Flower girl baskets can be very affordable, especially when you embellish them yourself.

You might even consider giving the flower girl basket tot he flower girl as part of her wedding favor after the wedding. I’m sure she would love it. What little girls doesn’t like to parade around in her dress up clothes and pretend she is doing something very special. After her having the chance to be the flower girl in your wedding she will have those wonderful memories to look back on and can use the flower girl basket in all of her adventurous pretend play.

Wedding Flutes To Make Your Toasts Memorable

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Posted by :SuziQ On : January 12, 2013

Category: Decorating, Event Planning, Family and Friends, Shopping

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Wedding flutes can be a terrific item to have personalized in order to commemorate your special day. You can get fancy wedding flutes or even simple and elegant wedding flutes, it all depends on your style and taste. During my searches I’ve even come across sets of wedding flutes that sit in a stand together and share a base.  I think these types of wedding flutes are precious and really make a statement, especially when the stems form a heart together.

Perhaps you would like your wedding flutes to be etched with your new monogram or the date that you are joined in holly matrimony, all of these options are available to you. Selecting the perfect champagne flutes for your wedding reception will make each and every toast that much more memorable.

I Want To Brag A Minute

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Posted by :SuziQ On : January 12, 2013

Category: Cleaning, Family and Friends, Home and Yard, Kitchen, Life

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Okay, I want to brag for a minute or so. I’ve been working really hard to keep my new year’s resolution to work out 3 times a week and so far I’ve been doing great with that. But, That’s not what I want to brag about. I want to brag about the fact that my kitchen has been spotless for the past 12 days.

My sink has been spotless every night before I go to bed and the dishes haven’t piled up because I do a load every night as soon as the dishwasher is full. Then in the morning I empty while I’m making myself coffee so the sink never has a chance to have a dirty dish left in it because the dirty dishes can go straight into the dishwasher as soon as we are done with them.

It has felt absolutely amazing to go to bed and wake up with a clean kitchen. I don’t know what inspired me but I hope that I can continue it because it feel s amazing. I suppose it will just take some discipline and determination to keep going and to not give up.  Why would I want to stop doing something that makes me feel so fantastic?

Educating Myself About Annuities

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Posted by :SuziQ On : January 12, 2013

Category: Life, Money Matters, Shopping

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I don’t really know that much about anything at all when it comes to annuities. It wasn’t something that anyone ever took the time to explain to me or teach me about. Well I keep hearing the term tossed around so I thought I would educate myself. I did a little bit of work by searching online and came across annuity advantage.com.

Annuity advantage.com gives you all kind of information for you to learn about, compare and even buy different kinds of annuities. Hopefully after a little while spent on this website along with subscribing to their annuity rate newsletter I won’t feel so in the dark when people are discussing annuities.

Listen To Pandora For All Of Your Music Needs

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Posted by :SuziQ On : January 12, 2013

Category: Entertainment, Music and Concerts, Technology

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Pandora is one of my all time favorite sites to go to to listen to music.  I usually always have it on in the background of whatever I am doing. I like that I can type in a song, artist, or keyword and it will create a station based just on that. I think it’s wonderful.  Of course there are stations you can choose from but I usually just type in something I’d like to listen to and go with that for the day.

I always have about 5 channels on my account. I do remove channels through the year and based on my mood. For example, I’m not quite ready to remove my Christmas music station. I think I might leave it on there until the end of next week and then get serious about putting all of the Christmas stuff away.

Do you use Pandora to listen to music online? If you do, do you have any favorite channels that you like to listen to? Are there any groups or artists that you have found since listening in on Pandora that you didn’t know about before you started using Pandora? I know I’ve come across quite a few artists that I didn’t know about since I started listening to music with Pandora and it’s been a true blessing.