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If your little daughter is preparing for an important costume event this Halloween, you should start thinking about a nice costume she can wear. Many times, if you have the required patience and some basic sewing skills, will be able to create a much better looking dress than the ones that are ready made. Start designing your little princess a fairy princess costume, which will definitely make a good impression at any party, not just the Halloween costume event.
First, you will need a three quarter length shiny silver dress. This must be a simple, sleeveless dress, which is comfortable for your daughter to wear. You can choose a silver satin dress for example, because satin is a fabric that is non-irritating and very comfortable to wear. This dress will become the centerpiece for your fairy princess costume. Next, you will need three sheets of organza of different colors. Choose among pastel colors, for example: light turquoise, light blue, soft peach, pink, mimosa yellow, teal, jade and all the other wonderful colors of the rainbow, in pale tones.
Using the three different colored sheets of organza, you will create three wider layers for the dress. Start by adding the first layer below the chest of the silver dress. Make sure that you will create slightly ruffled layers, and continue adding them, until you cover up the whole dress. Organza is a delightful see-through fabric, very easy to work with, so you will have no difficulties in creating this splendid fairy princess costume. If the silver dress is too long, and three layers of organza are not enough, you can add one or two more layers, but always of different color.
You will soon realize what a wonderful fusion of colors you have created, and what a stunning little fairy princess costume has come to life. Before you actually sew the layers to the dress, it is better if you pin these onto the dress, and make the necessary adjustments. Only when you are fully satisfied with the layers, you can sew them onto the dress. You can use beads of the same colors as the fabrics you have used for the layers, in order to make some nice decorations. Pastel organza, works magnificently well with perlized beads, so you can indulge yourself into creating something magic for your little daughter. You can buy a ready-made fairy wreath for her, and a pair of see-through fairy wings. Now she is ready to enchant everybody with her wonderful fairy look!
When she is not out researching new costume fabrics and styles, Daniela Davis is writing about how to choose a Fairy Princess Costume that matches best the most beautiful Fairy Wings Costume, for the most exciting Halloween celebration.
Chinese Customs in Gift-giving
Purchasing a gift is not always easy especially it is for someone from a different culture. This article provides some interesting information if the gift is for a Chinese person.
As China is a big place with many provinces the culture can vary depending on which province the person comes from, but there are some general themes that can be followed to avoid embarrassment.
What you need to know?
To the Chinese, anything that brings prosperity, longevity or good fortune are fine and anything related or ‘sounds like’ death must be avoided. This rule applies to both numbers and colors that are being used in almost any occasions.
Note: The pronunciation is referring to Cantonese.
Bad numbers - number 4 is the most unwelcome number simply because it has a similar pronunciation to ‘death’.
Good numbers – number 8 sounds like prosperity and number 9 for longevity. Series of 8’s or 9’s such as ‘888’, ‘99’ are even better. Numbers ‘168’ and ‘138’ are also very popular for they sound like ‘continuous fortune’.
Bad colors - black and white are usually for funeral or mourning. Therefore, you should only send white flowers to a funeral. Gift wrapping paper should not be plain white or black. An exception, although wearing black or white to a wedding is not a tradition, it is acceptable if the wedding ceremony is held in a church which follows the western style.
Good colors - red and gold are for celebrations such as birthday and wedding.
Items to avoid - sharp objects such as knives or scissors as they would ‘cut-off’ a relationship. Umbrellas resemble separation. Clock sounds like “attend a funeral”. Handkerchiefs are for mourning. Books are not for Cantonese people who love gambling because it sounds like “loss”, otherwise they are fine.
Do not be offended if your hosts do not open the gift in front of you as it is not polite in the Chinese culture unless you insist. Also, they do not normally accept your gift immediately in case you feel they are greedy.
What are the popular items?
Cash
Cash can be used in almost all occasions. For happy occasions, it should be put inside a ‘red envelope’ that has some words of blessing pre-printed on it. Red envelopes can easily be found at most Chinese grocery stores but always check with the staff to find one for the occasion you want if you do not understand the Chinese characters on the envelope otherwise you might give away one for the wrong occasion.
The amount inside the envelope should follows the numbering rules as mentioned before i.e. use even numbers except number 4. Also, if you are a couple then you should give two envelopes instead of one to cover for both.
If it is used in a funeral, which is normally used for donation to the charity or assist the grieving family financially, you can put small amount of cash in ‘odd’ number in a normal ‘white envelope’.
Food
There is no doubt that Chinese love foods, this is always a good bet especially for older people. When visiting someone in person, it is always a good manner to bring a food basket containing fruits, biscuits or table wine. If he or she is a smoker then a good brand cigarettes is also fine. In the upper range you can give away food such as dried oysters, dried seafood, mushrooms or bird’s nests. For individual fruit such as oranges or apples, count them in even numbers e.g. 6, 8 or 10 pieces.
Jewellery or ornament
Normally given in big celebrations such as wedding, new born baby, 21st birthday, 60th birthday, 90th birthday and so forth.
Baby - parents like to host a banquet for their new born baby after one month of birth. Jade, gold or silver bracelet or necklace is a good gift, otherwise baby clothes.
Birthday - If you know the person’s Chinese zodiac sign, another hot item is a gold plated Chinese zodiac figurine represents the animal sign of the person.
Wedding – jade or gold bracelet or necklace resembles long lasting relationship.
What sort of gifts for festivals?
There are many festivals in China, but you will most likely be invited to join a family celebration in the following festivals:
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) – this is the most important festival for the Chinese people which brings family members, friends and relatives together. It is a custom to give money in a red packet from married couple to single people or children. If you are single it is considered to be polite to bring a food/fruit basket to your hosts.
Mid-Autumn (Moon) Festival – This is the day when people would sit down with family and friends to watch the full moon and serve moon cakes and other type of food. Therefore, bringing some moon cakes or food along to your hosts is the best gift you can offer.
Dragon Boat Festival – Rice parcels as big as a purse are made during this festival to honor a patriotic scholar named Chu Yuan who drowned himself to protest against the emperor. Before his body was recovered, people made the rice parcels and threw them into the water to stop any fish eating his flesh. Another saying is dragon boats were used to scare away ‘water spirits’ because the dragon is the god of the oceans. Rice parcels are made out of glutinous rice, pork and egg yolk wrapped with bamboo leaves which are sold in most shops during the festival. If you are interested in cooking, bring along some home made rice parcels which will surely impress your hosts.
Other occasions
Return from a vacation – small souvenirs to your neighbors, friends, colleagues and relatives when returning from a trip.
Farewell – cash in a red packet or small gift such as a sailing boat meaning smooth sailing to the new destination.
Visiting someone at home – food basket.
Visiting someone in the hospital – food plus health drinks (e.g. Ginseng) that will help speedy recovery.
Conclusion
Generally speaking, dealing with people from a difficult culture requires understanding. Some of the traditions have been practiced for a long time but are diminishing in the new generations. Chinese people are normally understandable in terms of culture conflict since they have over 2000 years of history and have different culture in different provinces. It is beneficial to know the customs but they do not need to be strictly followed as long as you stay away from the ‘death’ associations you should be safe.
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Know any good books?? I'm desperate!?
Okey, So I have read:
Harry Potter Series
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn
Touching Spirit Bear
The Silver Kiss
Kissed By An Angel ( My all time FAVORITE!)
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Take Me There
Waiting For You
Being Dead
13 Reasons Why
The Nature of Jade
Manga:
Fruits Basket (my fave)
Vampire Knight (my 2nd fav)
Bleach
Tsubasa Chronicals
and some others I dont really remember.
I'm currently starting to read Evermore by Alyson Noel. I just recently bought it today, I hope it was worth buying, the cover summary got me interested.
Well PLEASE give me some new suggestions. I dont want to be bored all the time and have no good books D:
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In China, it's all about the jade cabbage
Jade elephants?
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