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Feng Shui Kitchen Decor to Attract Love

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Here are some great Feng Shui tips (the ancient art of Chinese Object placement) to attract love.

The kitchen is the domestic place of love and in Feng Shui things displayed in pairs attract soul mates so go ahead and use “male and female” salt and pepper shakers to magnetize the opposite sex. You can use the symbolism of salt and pepper shakers to attract a mate as well. A pair of chickens or ducks in the shape of salt and pepper shakes can symbolize a great love.

To enhance fertility, display copper fish molds. Copper is a favorite metal of the Chinese goddess Quan Yin and also of the Roman goddess Venus. Fish symbolize fertility so be sure to hang them on your kitchen walls. Round shapes are also conducive to creating good relationships.

Ceramic tiles bring love. Decorate walls and tiles with ceramic as opposed to linoleum. Pink or rose colored ceramic tiles as well as walls painted in rosy tones bring love especially if this color is in the kitchen or bedroom.

Crystal Ware can clear bad energy. You don’t have to use stones like quartz to clear bad emotional energy from a room. Any type of crystal glass, vase or statue can also be used to create loving chi anywhere in your home.

You also can’t go wrong with heart shapes in the kitchen. Hearts, especially twin hearts are a good theme for linen, wallpaper and statuary in the kitchen. Heart shaped cookie cutters and salt and peppershakers also attract love.

Considering baking your heart out! Heart shaped molds or cake pans may be hung on the wall to enhance the love attracting properties in the kitchen and of course every time you use on of these you are cooking up passion.

Light colored wood attracts love. Furniture should be made of a light colored wood. Woods made from fruit trees such as cherry attract love. Avoid heavy, metal or glass black furniture that create blocks to the free flow of energy.

Finally always make sure that your appliances are in good working order. If appliances are broken it can symbolize broken relationships.

Finally keep your home absolutely clear of clutter. There is an old saying that “Venus won’t enter an empty home.” Venus was the Goddess of Love. Keep your home absolutely pristine and clean so that love will feel willing and able to enter your life at any time.

Decorating A Graduate Tea Party

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Serve up an elegant graduation tea party complete with old style tea sandwiches, canapé, classical music, and amusing treats like tassel pasta and edible diplomas.

 

A Graduation Tea Party should be a short sweet and elegant affair where many guests are invited. It is one of the few tea parties where it is quite common to have as many to thirty guests to hundred guests at one time. Of course all of this depends on the number of guests that you want to invite at one time.

 

As graduation tea parties are quite large in number, it is usual to serve mostly sandwiches to save on mess and preparation time. A soup and Jell-O salads are also served to round out the meal a bit.

 

On the invitation ask you guests to dress casually but formally. Make it clear that classic music will be on the menu as well as several classic games of strategy and skill – poker, chess, checkers and croquet in the back yard. Winners of these games can expect to receive small party favors such as tiny silver picture frames, pens and bookmarks,

 

The design theme for this party should be black and white to match the formality of the occasion of graduation. A nice touch is to display photographs of all of the other graduates in the family on the walls and pictures from old yearbooks. One contest that could be held is “worst year book “ photograph for which the winner wins some kind of booby prize.

 

As this party is very grown up, you should use your very best silver tea service and crystal bowls. Square black and white plates also add an interesting touch to a staid looking table. White Oxford China with your laciest white tablecloths would be best for giving the whole affair a formal yet humorous flair.

 

If you like you could also attempt to make an ice sculpture of your school’s mascot or have on ordered up professionally. You can also give this type of party of personal touch by offering napkins or souvenir matchbooks engraved with a favorite saying or a motto.

 

Of course you shouldn’t forget the cake. You can get cake molds in the shape of graduation albums and all sorts of objects that relate to graduation ceremonies.