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How to Decorate With Wood Hollow Crafts

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Wood Hollow Crafts is a company that sells unique handcrafted welcome signs that can be hung on a door (usually the front door!) These wood hollow crafts are famous world wide amongst animal and pet lovers because each sign features some kind of creature dangling from the welcome plaque.

The product is actually not that complex either in design or concept. Basically, a wood hollow craft is a hand-painted wooden animal, which resembles a flat puppet with movable arms and legs that is created in the image of a dog, cat, bear, tiger, koala bear, elephant and just about every other kind of animal that ever boarded Noah’s ark.

However, if that isn’t quaint enough, these charming wood hollow craft animals also come with interchangeable outfits that can be added and removed from the wooden figure. This means that you can dress up your wood hollow craft frog, dog or hog as Santa for Christmas or as a Yankee Soldier on July 4th.

The tiny outfits are attached to the wooden slats used to create the animals with tiny strips of Velcro. This way when it is rains, you can dress up your wood hollow animal in a raincoat and when it is sunny, attach a swimsuit and sunglasses. Some people become very fond of wood hollow craft animals as they almost become avatars of your own mood or personality to the outside world.

Wood Hollow Crafts also features specialty outfits that suit occupations, hobbyists or sports. This allows you to dress up your favorite totem animal as a postman, policeman, nurse, fireman, football player, tennis player or baseball player. Your choice of outfits for your wood hollow craft animal is as unlimited as your imagination.

Teddy Bears with interchangeable outfits are also a specialty of Wood Hollow crafts. The teddy bear wood hollow products have only been around since 1998 but they have been a big hit with the public. These smiling bears have been seen adorning everything from outhouses to nursery room doors.

The company also specializes in providing stock wood hollow welcome signs that feature just about every kind of dog breed that you can imagine – from basset hounds to dachshunds to Labradors. The company also promises that if they do not have a wood hollow likeness of your pet, that they will create one especially for you. All you have to do is send them a good clear photo of your favorite four-legged friend and they will customize your welcome sign for you so that it is an exact recreation of your pet. If you suggest some of the dog’s favorite activities, they will also customize the wooden clothing to suit your pet’s personality.

How to Decorate Baby Shower Invitations

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The written invitation sent through the mail, is considered to be the most gracious and respectful way to invite people to a baby shower. Usually the invitation is an expression of the theme of the party. This type of invitation can include a postage-paid envelope with your address on it as well as RSVP card, or simply your phone number or email address written inside the body of the card. Cards of this type are sold at most stationary stores. Popular stationary colors for invitations include pink (for a girl), blue (for a boy), yellow (for sex unknown) and white.

If you send out invitations by mail it is recommended that you do this at least four weeks before the event to give people a chance to respond.

A more casual, but definitely traditional approach is to simply invite individuals by phone. Hostesses on a budget or busy individuals may prefer this more immediate method.

Some individuals may prefer to send out e-vites. In this case, there are many sites on the internet that provide free pre-designed electronic cards that you can send out en masse to your guest list.

If you have glitter, markers and glue, you can create a homemade card. Homemade cards are considered to be especially heart-felt because of the time and effort put into their creation.

If you decide to make a homemade card, a color Xerox machine is your best friend. This way you can replicate a single card many times over. Cards can also be crafted using drawing programs and PhotoShop on a computer and then printed off as needed.

An easy idea for a homemade card is to acquire a picture of the mom-to-be and hand decorate it with gold and silver marker and glitter. Cards and envelopes can also be hinged and fastened with ribbons, yarn, safety pins and clothespins.

It is also quite easy to make a collage of images that match the theme of your party. For instance, if the theme is ducks, you can easily manufacture a card from images clipped out of a magazine and color Xerox it. The same can be done with stars, storks, teddy bears, angels and other classic images associated with baby’s arrival.

It is the responsibility of the person throwing the party to have a conversation with the mother-to-be and decide who is appropriate to invite. Some expectant mothers are a little shy and prefer to be surrounded by a close circle of girlfriends. Other mothers-to-be like a glossy event that almost has a business-like affair.
If the shower is a surprise party then it is perfectly o.k. to phone up her relatives and other close friends and grill them for information about who is on the mother-to-be’s good side and whose faces she would be most pleased to see at the event.