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How to Decorate a Wedding Cake With Flowers

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If your wedding has a floral motif there is absolutely no reason that you shouldn’t have those flowers decorating your wedding cake as well. According to Buckhead Wedding Cakes a bride can have the flowers in her bouquet replicated in butter icing or fondant on her wedding cake too.

Many pastry chefs nowadays specialize in making quite realistic (and tasty) looking flowers out of sugar candy. These flower decorations are usually hand made and more expensive then flowers squished out of a tube but they are worth it because they are so elegant looking. A good pastry chef can replicate almost any type of blossom including orchids, roses and calla lilies.

You can decorate a cake with all kinds of edible flowers. Here is a look at what is edible
* Artichoke (flower bud)
* Broccoli (flower buds)
* Cauliflower (flower buds)
* Chamomile (for tea)
* Chives (flowers or buds)
* Chrysanthemum (flower)
* Citrus blossoms (lemon, orange, lime, grapefruit)
* Clover
* Daisies (Bellis perennis quills)
* Dandelions (Taraxacum officinale leaves, roots, flowers, petals, buds)
* Daylilies (Hemerocallis buds, flowers, petals)
* Elderflower (blossoms for drink)
* Hibiscus
* Honeysuckle
* Jasmine (for tea)
* Lilac (salads)
* Moringa oleifera
* Nasturtium (blossoms and seeds)
* Osmanthus fragrans (flower)
* Pansies (Viola x Wittrockiana flowers, petals)
* Pot Marigolds (Calendula officinalis petals with white heel removed)
* Roses (Rosa petals with white heel removed, rose hips)
* Sesbania grandiflora (flower)
* Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus buds, petals, seeds)
* Violet (‘leaf and flowers in salads, candied flowers for pastry decoration’)
* Zucchini blossoms (blossoms)
Decorating your cake with edible flowers is a popular contemporary trend. However there is also a not so popular trend to place inedible flowers around a cake as a decoration or a garnish. For instance pink lilies, which are not edible could flatter a pink and gold themed cake. However some people could have reactions to the pollen in them.

Recently the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) had to put out a warning about the flower Ranunculus. Ranunculus blossoms are so beautiful that they look like sheaves of tightly wrapped tissue paper. They have tightly wrapped buds that come in beautiful weathered shades of pink that you think would make them a perfect choice for a flower centerpiece or even as a topper for a wedding cake. However as good as they look they are poisonous. They should not be placed anywhere near food or even on a food table!

How to Decorate a Website With Free Graphics

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If you want to create a web site for your business your primary goal should be to attract as many targeted prospects to it as possible. Once you have attracted people to your site your next mission is to keep them and a great way to do that is to actually decorate the site. Visitors who leave your site after just a few clicks aren’t buyers. You need to keep them on your pages and you need to entice them to buy.

One way to persuade them to stick with you is to write content. The graphics are supporting elements that add visual interest as well as support your main advertising message. If you have the right graphics you can even use them to help make the navigation of your site easier.

Usually the best graphics are those created by professional illustrators. However not everyone can afford to hire a professional. If you are in this position then you might want to consider finding some free graphics.

There are many sites online that offer website graphics without charging any type of fee at all. All you have to do is to download the images and then incorporate them in your site.

Here is a list of the graphics that most webmasters have on their s web sites –
Backgrounds. These create the overall theme of your site and can be light, dark or decorative depending on your preference. The brighter the colors are the more likely they are to attract attention.

Bullets and Buttons. These tiny graphics enhance your navigation in and can also help organize the presentation of your content. These can be miniscule but amusing.

Bars and Borders. These are the decorative graphics vertically or horizontally decorate your site. You can use one to frame anything…information, a picture or a graphic!

Clip Art. These are illustrations graphics related to your content that you can incorporate in your page to help readers better understand your message better and to enhance your site’s overall look.

If you do download graphics there might be some terms and conditions to do with their use. Very often the owner of the copyright on the graphic allows you to have it for free as long as you give credit to the owner or provide a link back to their website. So, go ahead and find free web site graphics to add visual appeal to your page!