Friday, 5 October 2012

A Surprise Backyard Proposal

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Do you lovelies love proposal stories? They are one of my most favourite things! Doesn’t matter how simple or elaborate, there is just something so special about that moment in time. And love that so many couple’s these days are capturing those moments! Today’s was captured in both photos + film by the lovely duo of The Parsons. Here is Amy + Chris’ story as told by Ashley Parsons…
When we decided to host Amy’s birthday dinner in our backyard months earlier, we couldn’t have had any idea just how heavenly the night would become…as Chris had decided it was also the night he was going to ask her to become his wife. So we potted succulents, washed off the big table, and brought out the burlap, the lace that used to cover my nana’s table, and the antique English china my mom gave me when we were engaged. We poured the wine, filled the shasta oven-turned-cooler with beer, plugged the lights in, and turned the music on. Friends came from near and far, bearing casseroles and pies (Amy bringing her specialty sweet potato pie) and we had a night of laughing, crying happy tears, and toasting amy. Chris gave his toast last. We all thought it only fitting, since his came with a ring at the end.

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Dreamy!! Hope u guys enjoyed :)

Tissue Flowers

Hie Guys :) 

I found this amazing DIY tutorial on the internet and wanna share with all ladies here. These beautiful Tissue Paper Flowers could be a great idea for your wedding centerpiece decoration.

A vase of pretty tissue paper carnations! Below is a close up of the flowers – aren't they lovely?

Want to make your own? Keep reading to find out how!
You will need:
  • Tissue paper
  • Scissors
  • 2 large paper clips
  • Pipe cleaners (chenille stems) or floral wire
  • Coloured marker pen
  • Optional: floral wire, floral tape, wire cutters

Tutorials:
You can make your carnations any size, but I found that a 3″ (7.5cm) circle gives a realistic-sized flower. Fold your tissue paper in half again and again until it is just larger than your circle size. I used a 20×24″ sheet of tissue paper, which let me cut 48 circles at once – enough for 4-5 carnations!
Find a suitably-sized circular container and draw around it with a pencil onto your folded tissue paper.
Start to cut out the circle, holding all the layers of tissue paper together. If you can't cut through the whole thickness, try cutting half the layers at a time, then draw another circle to cut out the other half. I found that I could cut through 48 layers with no problem, as the tissue paper is so thin. You don't have to cut too exactly, so don't worry if some of the layers don't come out as perfect circles. Use a large paper clip to help keep the layers together.
As you continue to cut, add a second paper clip on the opposite side of the circles to keep all the circles together.

This next step is the key to making the flowers look more realistic than standard tissue paper flowers. If you are in a hurry or making them with children, you could skip this step and still end up with nice flowers. It is a bit tricky and takes a few minutes to complete, but I think it’s worth it!
Take a marker pen with a complementary colour (a cheap kids’ pen is fine). A bold colour will give a more effective result. Use your non-writing hand to hold the edges of all the tissue-paper layers together, and use the side of the pen nib to begin to gently colour the edge of the circles. Take this slowly – if you press too hard, the tissue paper layers will separate. Colour a small section of the edge at a time, and go over each section a few times to ensure the colour is intense and the ink has saturated all the edges.
Continue to colour around the edge. When you are about halfway through, move the paper clips to areas you have already coloured, and fill in the gaps.

Note: I have switched to the white tissue paper for these photos as the coloured pen shows up more clearly!
Erm, yes. You may well end up with a coloured finger by the time you have finished (see below) as you have to hold the papers close to the edge to keep them together while you colour them! Don’t worry – it’ll wash off..
Remove the paper clips and select enough circles from the pile to make one flower. I used approx 12 circles per flower, but 8-10 circles would be fine.
Keep these circles together and poke two holes near the centre of the circles. I used the end of a pipe cleaner to do this, but if your pipe cleaners aren’t sharp enough you could use a large needle or similar.
Fold down about 1 inch of the pipe cleaner, and push the long end through one hole and the short end through the other hole.
Pull the ends all the way through, then twist the ends of the pipe cleaner together underneath the flower to keep all the circles together:
Now to make the petals. Separate the topmost circle and crumple it upwards from the centre. Scrunch up the paper randomly, but try to concentrate on the base of the petal (the centre of the circle) and leave the coloured edges alone.
Now repeat with each circle in turn. Crinkle each circle up individually, and try not to have the folds in the same place each time. You can see (below, right) how I am squeezing my fingers around the base of the petal each time I add a new circle. This stops the coloured petal edges from being creased into folds.
Keep scrunching… When all the circles have been crumpled up, you will end up with a lovely carnation like this:
And that’s it for the basic tutorial! If you are making these with children, you probably want to stop at this point. If you want to make the stems look more realistic, here are some ideas:
Make a double-headed stem by cutting down one pipe cleaner to half its length (use wire cutters for this) then twisting it together with another completed stem:
If you aren't satisfied with my green furry caterpillar stems, so you can convert them with some floral wires and green floral tape:
Cut the floral wire to the same length as your stem.
Holding the wire and pipe cleaner stem together, start to wrap the floral tape tightly around them. Start about 1″ down from the flower head (below, left) and wrap up the stem to the head. Then wrap all the way down the stem to the bottom. To wrap without the tape getting tangled up, hold the tape steady and at an angle to the stem with one hand (below, right), and use your other hand to twirl the stem around, winding the tape around itself as it goes.
The floral tape will stick to itself, so there is no need to use glue to fasten it down. Remember to stretch the end of the tape as you wrap the end of the stem, to help it to stick securely.
Make just one as a paper buttonhole. Make about a dozen, and you have a beautiful bouquet!
Not that difficult right :)
Will keep you posted about more crafts soon..
Until then, have fun :)
Gudnight.. 

Source: Bridal Cookie

Thursday, 4 October 2012

Daily Distractions ;)


Hey :)
Something light and funny for you today ;) am sure you would enjoy like I did..
Living with your boyfriend or husband can be great. You're never lonely. You have built-in eating and drinking partner. And middle of the night snuggles are the best! But...and this is a big "but"...somethings aren't always so great. You know what I'm talking about. Towels on the floor. Losing control of the remote to the Stanley Cup Finals. Piles of unwashed dishes. Oh, is that just me?!?
I think not. These hilarious comics from the geniuses over at The Oatmeal prove that we're all in the same boat when it comes to the good and bad of living with a significant other.
I will leave you guys with this :)
Gudnite n have fun!!

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Triptych Temples

Hello :)
I have something very interesting for you. I was always very fascinated by history :) wanted to know how exactly the ancient lost civilizations were so much more advanced and how they were so ahead of us in their architecture :)

In the same context I have the following information for u :) lets hope it intrigues you all too..

The Triptych Temples Of Atlantis

Unprecedented New Archaeological Evidence That A Highly Advanced “Lost Civilization” Once Flourished—In A Remote Age Older Than Recorded Time

Did the world’s first cultures inherit the same high wisdom from the same more ancient but now-vanished Mother Culture?

The ancient pyramid cultures all built these Triptych (Three-Door) Temples. Does this mean they shared the same religion?
Like the pyramids, the presence of these Triptych Temples worldwide throws enormous weight behind the “Atlantis” theory—the idea that civilization has much older roots than presently accepted by science; that there is a major forgotten episode in human history; that an advanced ancient culture once flourished but was destroyed in a cataclysm; and that history’s first known cultures were inheritors of its legacy.
There are two different versions of history:
We already know the mainstream version found in history books.
But there’s another, more mysterious hidden history that’s not so widely known.
This little-known history describes the world’s first cultures as having inherited vast knowledge and ability from an older, more sophisticated but now-vanished Mother Culture, a great kingdom named Atlantis, once home to an advanced and spiritually sophisticated people.
This hidden history was proposed and maintained by Victorian-era scholars and archaeologists in the 1800s, after they discovered a series of mysterious ancient cultural parallels worldwide:
Above: No records exist of any contact between these civilizations. How, then, can we explain parallels like pyramid construction, corbel arches, and mummification?
To the Victorians it seemed inconceivable that these similar societies could have evolved separately; it was more logical to think they all evolved from the same parent source—Atlantis.
The Atlantis model of history stood unchallenged for decades. But it was suddenly abandoned in the mid-20th century when a new wave of Western scholars declared that not enough evidence exists to support it.
Now, the discovery of these parallel Triptych Temples offers groundbreaking new evidence supporting the Atlantis theory.
These Triptych Temples have not only escaped the attention of modern scholars, but also the attention of the great Victorian-era scholars who studied ancient cultural correspondences:
Why and how do all these temples exhibit the same parallel architecture, as if constructed by masons sharing a similar knowledge base? Do these Triptych temples indicate a shared religion inherited from the same Mother Culture?
In fact, the Triptych is the forgotten Universal Religion of Antiquity—the legacy of the much older Lost Civilization of Atlantis.
This Universal Religion of the Triptych was contained and kept alive in what modern scholars call the ancient “Mystery Schools.” Held in the highest secrecy and reverence, the teachings of the Mystery Schools were said to contain the secrets of the universe and the keys to great and magical practices.
Members of the Mystery Schools were endowed with extraordinary insight and superhuman qualities and abilities. Forefathers of modern western thought—Homer, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—were initiates of the Mysteries, who changed history with their philosophies and advanced knowledge.
With the dawn of Christianity came a period of great change. In a quest to gain authority over the masses, the Church began to root out all traces of the wisdom of the Mystery Schools. Even Plato’s famous Academy, which flourished for over 900 years from 387 BC until 529 AD, was closed down by Emperor Justinian, who claimed the Academy was Pagan.  As a result, students of the Mystery Schools went into hiding. To safeguard the wisdom, they shrouded their ancient secrets in allegories and symbols and placed it all under the guardianship of various streams of “esoteric” societies, the members of which have included Galileo, Copernicus, Da Vinci, Kepler, Isaac Newton, and Napoleon.
The ancient knowledge waned a little more with each successive retelling, and as Christianity grew to empire status, the teachings began to die out. Ancient Triptych temples fell into ruin as did the wisdom they once preserved. It appeared that many, if not all, connections to the original source were severed or so diluted that the true Mysteries were about to become lost.
It was during this era that a powerful secret society called the Masonic Fraternity—the Freemasons—stepped onto the stage of history and began what would become their triumphant quest to keep the details of the Mystery School teachings alive, and pass the torch on to a new generation.
Commissioned by the Church to build Europe’s Gothic cathedrals, the Freemasons secretly encoded the Triptych’s wisdom into the facades of churches, castles, cathedrals, stone landmarks, reliefs, monuments, and statues, where it remains concealed today.
This partly explains why countless medieval Gothic cathedrals built by the Freemasons all share the same master blueprint—a mystifying “Cathedral Code” of sorts, which is yet to be discovered, analyzed, or explained by modern scholars:
Above: Gothic cathedrals with Triptych entrances.
In fact, all the great Secret Societies (before they were taken over in modern times and co-opted for nefarious purposes, which many are being used for today) once shared the same Universal Religion of the Triptych; hence the universality of the Triptych entrance.
Above: Secret Society headquarters with Triptych entrances.
Written In Stone takes you on a journey through history’s earliest and greatest civilizations to show you the presence of the Triptych—an undocumented and mysterious ancient cultural correspondence. The book highlights how different peoples in different times and places understood and practiced the same Universal Religion / Sacred Science which they all symbolized by the same Triptych three-door entry.
It also shows how history’s operative Freemasons fully understood the ancient legacy of the Triptych, and secretly incorporated its design into the entryways of churches, castles, cathedrals and other sacred structures.
This quest for lost wisdom will carry you across the Nile in Egypt, to the ancient lands of Persia and China, into remote regions of India and Southeast Asia, high up the Andes Mountains, and deep into Mesoamerica’s thick jungles to discover and decipher ancient architecture and gain true insight into the ruins of the world’s most magnificent ancient empires.
We’ll see how the Renaissance itself was nothing short of a “rebirth” of the Universal Religion / Sacred Science in Europe, and a rediscovery of ancient Triptych wisdom:
Above: The real-life “Da Vinci Code”  is the ancient Triptych behind Christ! Leonardo da Vinci encoded the Triptych and its esoteric meaning in The Last Supper, a fact still not recognized by scholars.
We’ll also see how the Masonic Fraternity is no longer a true repository of the Triptych / Universal Religion / Sacred Science wisdom, having lost its original purpose, but does still hold the lost wisdom in its symbolism, ceremony, and ritual.
As a result, few Freemasons and even fewer Westerners know of the existence of the Triptych / Sacred Science; it is an enlightening and empowering tradition that enables humans to excel and reach seemingly superhuman levels of accomplishment. It’s no coincidence that Freemasonry has included many famous and world-changing men, including Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, and Mozart.

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Monday, 1 October 2012

Dream :)

Hey guys, so how was your weekend? Today I am in an all girlie mood :) coz I saw an awesome photo shoot of a beautiful wedding, I want to some day do something in my life with planning weddings :) somehow I just love the though of being there for the bride and making her dream wedding come true :) 

I am just going to post few of the picture ideas as to how make it more memorable. I know, its too weird pasting their wedding pics here, but I love this wedding and the way the groom looks at the bride :D ahhh!! Just see for yourself girls :)

  

Lovely cake :) love how the bouquet and the cake matches :)

 

Here come the happy bride :)

  

  

Haha!! I like this ;)

 

The Bridesmaids :)

  

   

The First dance :D

  

Simple and classy!!

  

:) :)

 

Let the games get started :)

 

Now I just hope that I get this opportunity to plan something like this soon :)
Let me just slip into my dream now ;)
Gudnite gurls, laters :)