Are you looking for tattoo ideas? Tattooing is almost as old as mankind so there is no shortage of ideas. Ed Hardy, the famous tattooist now has his designs on everything.

Here is a brief resource of tattoo ideas that might help you decide what kind of mark you would like to leave on your furniture.

Animals –Pictures of animals were engraved on the flesh as it was believed that the person that bore the animal’s picture would also adopt that animal’s strengths. Birds, butterflies, bugs and insects are also popular tattoo ideas.

Biker – Biker tattoos are motorcycle fetish tattoos and many of them feature sex and death type motifs along with machine parts such as flaming exhaust pipes or complicated engines.

Biomechanical – Biomechanical tattoo ideas are the ones that look like the space monster in the movie “Alien” and feature a blend of technology with human or animal organs.

Cartoons – Tattoo ideas based on animated characters or scenes are more popular then ever thanks to the popularity of Japanese anime.

Celtic Designs – Celtic tattoos have a strong style that is defined by solid blocks of color. They are black or blue and are based on the Celtic cross or the Celtic Knot.

Celestial Motifs – If you are into astrology then consider getting a tattoo based on the sun, moon or the stars

Prison Tattoos – Prison tattoos are very unique. Classics such as the dagger through he heart that says mom or the skull that is decorated with roses are very much in vogue.
Eastern Symbols – Given the popularity of Yoga, Feng Shui and other Asian traditions eastern symbols such as the OM or I CHING symbol have become more popular than ever.

Egyptian – The Egyptian black cat Bast or the Egyptian symbol called the Ankh are ancient yet timeless tattoo ideas.

Fairies, Pixie and Nymphs – If you are pagan or into magic these airy creatures of the forest make beautiful little designer tattoos.

Fantasy – Characters from fantasy animations or video games also make great tattoo ideas. So do characters from children’s storybooks like Babar or The Grinch.

Flowers – A tattooed flower is one of the oldest and most classic of tattoo ideas. Perhaps the most popular flower tattoo is a rose.

Mermaids – Mermaids are in a class of tattoo ideas all by themselves. They were a favorite of sailors who believed that the mermaid could save them from drowning.

Pin Up Girls- Some of the nicest tattoos ever drawn were based on famous pin up girls such as Mitzi Gaynor or Marilyn Monroe

Symbols of Faith – Religious symbols, particularly Christian ones such as a cross or Christ on the cross have always been worn on the flesh as symbols of one’s devotion to religion.

As you can see there is now shortage in life of tattoo ideas!

Here are some pagan and Feng Shui suggestions for decorating your place so that you can attract more love to your life.

You can attract sexual passion by placing fruit bowls in strategic places. To attract more romance and physical love in your life fill a fruit bowl with produce such as cherries, grapes, pomegranates, raspberries, avocadoes and bananas and place it in the south east sector of your home.

You can also sweeten life up in general with a jar of honey. Honey is the nectar of the Gods and symbolic of love and fertility. Keep a jar in the center of your kitchen table where the sun’s rays can catch the honey in the light to create good chi.

To keep things spicy in your marriage hang a picture of a pair of quinces in your kitchen. Quinces are historically eaten as aphrodisiacs. They also help the male to achieve sexual stamina and females to achieve orgasms.

Want to keep a lover faithful? A sprig of honeysuckle kept in the southwest corner of your home can help achieve this. The reason that silk blooms are so popular in China is that they never die. Wilting blooms symbolize a dying romance but fake flowers keep love alive. The key is to make sure they stay clean.

To keep the positive love chi flowing in your relationship take a picture of the two of you and then frame it with two roses or keep two roses in a vase nearby to symbolize your union.
Certain areas of your home are doubly blessed in one sector. For instance the southwestern corner of bedroom might also be the southwestern corner of your home, thus bringing you double the love and luck with your relationships

To attract your soul mate put up pictures of famous couples that you admire – such as a favorite writer or movie star pair. Their energy brings a similar successful energy into your space.

Be careful where you hang movie or theater posters especially if they depict violent or sad scenes. The images that you hang on your wall can help you to manifest the same dramas in your own life script.

Don’t forget the outdoors! Fruit trees bring fertility! In the west area of your garden plant — oak, pine, banana and any type of fruit tree (but especially the apple). This area is also symbolized by “small metal” hanging wind chimes in trees also brings births.

Building an altar of intention is the fine art of building a shrine to what it is you really want in life. It is all about pouring your will into objects and then arranging them in a way that sends a message to the universe that you are willing to receive what you have asked for in the best way and at the proper time.

Altars of intention are very personal and idiosyncratic constructions. The key to them is to be as creative as possible and also to make sure that the objects that decorate them are suitable. You must add objects that represent your intentions or you might not quite get what you asked for.

It is also important to realize that you don’t need exotic items or precious ideals in order to make this shrine work for you. The simplest of food stuffs and everyday items will do to make a shrine of intention. You can also use pictures that you have cut out of the magazines or newspapers or download images from the internet. Natural objects such as flat rocks that you have picked up off the ground, leaves from trees, flower petals and other found items also work well on an altar.

The tricky part is to make sure that what you are building towards and placing on the altar matches your intention. For instance if the altar is about creating more money then put things on the altar that symbolize money such as a bowl of coins, a check written to yourself for the desired amount or pictures of prosperous individuals that you would like to emulate. You can also put gemstones, shells and other natural items that were once used as currency on this type of altar.

It is also nice to put few candles or incense on the altar. Try to choose color candle combinations that suit your intentions. For instance, if prosperity is the intention than try placing green, gold or silver candles on the altar. These types of colored candles are typically related to money drawing intentions and manifestation rituals.
If you want to light incense you should choose aromas that are appropriate to your intention. Bayberry draws money. Rose incense is used to attract love. Patchouli is powerful incense for manifesting intentions of a more spiritual nature.

The upshot is the more personal your altar is the more likely the objects presented on it are to bring you exactly what you want. It is about purity of intent and putting your heart and will into it. It is also about certitude and believing that we live in a generous universe and that your wish will absolutely be granted to you.

If you have a master bedroom attached to a master bathroom you are probably looking for decorating ideas that can help coordinate both rooms.

The easiest way to do this is to match the colors of the linens. For instance if your bed sheets are blue and your walls are brown then you might also want to have blue and brown towels, soap dishes and other accents in your bathroom.

Different patterns can also play a part on the overall look of your decorating scheme. For instance, if your bedroom has wallpaper that has stripes then you may want to continue this motif onwards on all of the walls of the master bedroom.

You could also be more subtle and simply also have a striped curtains picking up the motif of the bedroom.
Another way to deal with a pattern is to have stripes or polka dots or whatever pattern suits you and have them be one color in the bathroom and another in the bedroom.

For instance you could have pink polka dots on the coverlet and curtains in the bedroom but the towels, bath mat and shower curtain in the bathroom could have blue polka dots. Items also do not have to be all of the same color in order for you to be able to “riff” on a decorating theme.

These rooms can also be coordinated in terms of what materials you use to build or decorate them with. For instance if your bedroom consists of heavy wooden mission fixture then a wooden countertop and wooden toilet seat might look good in your bathroom. Instead of tiles, stones or pebbled tiles also might look better in the bathroom. The great thing about wooden furniture is that it suits just about every type of flooring and wall covering including plush carpets, tiles, stone, wood, brick and plaster.

Another way to decorate is by era or style. For instance, a retro seventies style bedroom could contain a round bed and also boast a red and orange color scheme. The bathroom could also have a red and orange color scheme as well as modular shaped bathroom accessories to suggest the seventies. Clear plastic accessories such lamps, garbage pails and soap dishes could help unify the look of both rooms so that they appear authentic.

Also remember that both rooms do not have to absolutely match to signify a totally coordinated effort. It only takes a few similar design accents to give both rooms a pleasant unity.

Here are some more ideas if it is your job to throw the baby shower for a mom to be and you do know what the sex of the child happens to be!

The Blue Shower clearly indicates that the child is expected to be a boy and everything from the invitations to the tablecloth to the cake can be expected to be this color. Sometimes, guests will be asked to wear the color blue to the party or encouraged to bring gifts (especially clothing and linen) in that color.

It can be challenging to come up with blue foods, however it is possible to make a blue cake in the shape of a baby bootie, or serve up blue raspberry Jell-O with fruit floating in it. There is also a liqueur called Blue Curacao that can be used to turn a punch into a Tidy-Bowl hue.

Blue candles, blue dinner ware and blue napkins can also help emphasize the overall theme. Mother’s chair can also be draped with a blue shawl or cozy blue blanket and pillow.

Violets and blue roses suit the color scheme of this kind of shower and guests often leave with party favors wrapped in blue ribbon, tulle or netting.

The Pink Shower clearly indicates that the child is expected to be a girl and everything from the invitations to the placemats to the icing on the cake can expected to be this delicate shade. Sometimes guests will be asked to don the color pink to support the overall theme or encouraged to bring gifts (especially linen and clothing) in that color.

Fortunately, there are many pink foods that can be served to support this theme. Salmon mousse and crab dip is two savory suggestions. Cookies or cakes can be frosted with pink icing to resemble the features of a little girl. Dishes such as strawberry trifle, pink Jell-O, strawberry mousse and cream puffs colored with cherry juice would also add to the overall girlish theme. Beverages such as pink lemonade and raspberry lemonade or cocktails made with cherry or strawberry liqueur could also be served.

Pink candles scented with cherry or strawberry suit this theme as well. Mother’s chair can also be draped with a pink shawl or comfy pink blanket or pillow.

Roses, peonies and daisies mixed with baby’s breath are suggested flower arrangements for this kind of event. Guests can leave with cinnamon hearts or pink candies wrapped in pink ribbon or netting or a tiny bottle of bubbles.

One popular baby shower theme is based on old Nursery Rhymes. This kind of shower encourages guests to bring books as gifts, although snowshakers, ceramic figures, linen and baby clothes decorated with popular characters from rhymes and fairy tales are also a good choice. Money can also be collected for the mom-to-be in Mother Hubbard’s old boot.

A paper tablecloth can be decorated with written out nursery rhymes and paper cutouts of popular nursery rhyme figures can be used to decorate the walls.

A decorative centerpiece can be made of “silver bells and cockle shells” (lilies of the valley and seashells.)A small pot of ivy is a suitable party favor to present to departing guests.

You might also want to try a Clothesline Baby Shower. This kind of shower encourages guests to bring clothing as gifts for the newborn. The clothesline is strung up across the party area and as guests arrive they pin their gift to the clothesline. Paper money is also sometimes pinned to the clothesline.

If you are invited to a clothesline baby shower it is also acceptable to bring a pack of disposable diapers as a gift.

If the mommy likes vintage and frilly stuff then try throwing a Victorian Tea Party Baby Shower.Dust off the old china and iron your oldest and prettiest linen and lace tablecloth for this kind of party, which is patterned after the Victorian era. For this kind of party, guests are sent official invitations in white envelopes that ask for an RSVP. Another twist on this kind of party is the “Mad Hatter” theme in which each guest is encouraged to wear their most outrageous hat to the event.

Finger foods, cookies and pinwheel sandwiches made of cream cheese, egg salad and tuna are usually served at these parties along with copious amounts of tea served from the oldest silver teapot you can beg, borrow or steal.

An arrangement of tea roses, violets and baby’s breath makes a fine centerpiece. Another nice touch is to make a display area that features framed photographs of the mother’s relatives so guests can get a peek at the family tree.

An excellent party favor for this kind of shower is a tiny picture frame or silver spoon slipped inside tulle or a satin pouch.

If Mom does not have a lot of money you can also do a Freezer Shower. e idea behind this party is to spare mom the expense and inconvenience of having to cook while she has so much else going on. Guests are encouraged to bring homemade meals that can be stowed in the freezer.

Casseroles, lasagna, stews, soups, moussaka, spaghetti sauces, curries, pilafs and cakes are foods that freeze well and that will keep mom well fed for months.

A potted herb, such as rosemary, sage or thyme is a nice party favor for your guests to take away and put on their windowsill.

Here are some more great ideas for throwing a baby shower!

The Duck Shower is uni-sex and is a good idea if nobody knows the sex of the baby. Ducks can be used to decorate everything from the invitations to party glasses. There are a great variety of commercial products available to support this theme on the market right now including floating toys, glasses and liquid dispensers with ducks floating inside, rubber placemats, baby furniture and soaps. It is a very popular motif as it is considered to be uni-sex.

The color scheme of at a duck shower is usually yellow. Plastic or rubber yellow ducks are used as decorations. A nice touch is to float a few rubber duckies in the punch bowl. You can also freeze small yellow ducks inside ice-cubes and drop them into drinks.

Flowers such as daffodils, freesia and yellow daisies and bright yellow candles also suit this event.

The cake is usually yellow inside, and the guests usually take a rubber duckie or two home with them as a party favor.

This popular theme is also supported greatly by the commercial market and guests are encouraged to bring china, clothing, linen and toys that boast this motif. Sometimes a mother who adapts this theme is looking to collect china based on the books of Beatrix Potter. Books by Beatrix Potter as well as the classic “Wind In The Willows” make great gifts at this kind of shower.

In this case the cake is often vanilla or chocolate and baked in the shape of a rabbit. Cheese fondue and vegetables such as carrots and celery are also popular snacks. If the shower is a sit down dinner, hosts might consider serving a rabbit-less dish such as Welsh Rare-bit.

A blue and white color scheme suits this theme, as do flowers of the field such as daisies, violet and baby’s breath. If they are in season, furry pussy willows are also a nice addition.
Guests can take home chocolates tied with blue or pink net or ribbons as party favors.

Another nice idea is the Noah’s Ark Shower -

The Noah’s Ark shower encourages guests to bring a stuffed animal to the shower. The animals are usually deposited into a cradle or toy-box that is set up before hand. If the mom is young and hip, guests may be encouraged to bring linens and clothing in wild patterns and prints. A nice group gift for the mother is a charm bracelet, and each guest is invited to purchase a different “animal” charm.

Invitations can be bought or purchased featuring this theme or you can decide on an exotic print scheme for tablecloths and linen such as tiger stripes or leopard print. The party area can be decorated with animals such as elephants, giraffes, lions and zebras.

Tropical finger-foods and dishes such as curries, satays, samosas and rice pilafs suit this theme, as do pineapple-flavored items. A centerpiece featuring exotic fruits from the world such as pomegranates, kiwis and coconuts is also a nice touch.

Cakes can be baked in the shape of a favorite animal of the mother’s. An elephant, which is an animal that represents prosperity, is a popular choice. Animal crackers and goldfish crackers can be served as snacks.

Orchids, tiger lilies and birds of paradise make gorgeous decorations for this kind of party. Suggested party favors are toy animal key chains or animal pendants.

There are hundreds of themes for baby showers, and perhaps the perfect theme lies somewhere in the region of your imagination. For instance, if the mother-to-be is addicted to reading tabloid magazines, you might want to throw a shower that features a collage of celebrity babies. If she is into astrology, you might want to consider having the baby’s chart done or visiting a site on the Internet that helps you name a star for the baby.

Try a Baby bookworm Party! You might wantThe point of this party is to make sure that baby grows up with a well-stocked library, so guests are encouraged to bring a children’s book as a gift. Really creative hostesses may want to suggest that participants dress up as their favorite character from a children’s story such as Alice in Wonderland or Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.

Another clever idea is to serve typical foods, yet create placards that give them clever names. Egg salad or tuna sandwiches could be served up as The Mad Hatter’s Tea Sandwiches and pumpkin pie as Harry Potter’s Magic Pie. A cake can also be baked to resemble an open book upon which is a verse in honor of the mother is inscribed with icing.

A good game for literary types is Baby Scrabble, in which guests try to create words that only have to do with babies, or try to invent baby names.

For this kind of party, it is a nice idea to send guests away with a miniature bible as a party favor or a Polaroid photo of the guest with the mom. Make sure to take two pictures so Mom has a copy for her photo album.

You might also want to try throwing her a Sock Party! This party is created around the theme of tiny baby socks. The socks can be blue, pink or yellow depending on whether the parents know the sex of the baby. Usually the invitations are stuffed inside a small baby booty or sock that is mailed out to the guest. Guests may also be encouraged to return the baby sock with a cash donation that is then hung from a clothesline or a “sock tree.”

These kinds of showers are often decorated with what are called “sock flowers.” These are imitations of roses made by rolling back a pair or two of baby socks so that they resemble rose petals. A balled up sock represents the bud and the other socks are folded over to look like flowers and attached to a wooden stem. Mom is presented with a bouquet of baby sock flowers at the end of the shower.

The cake may also be created in the shape of a baby sock or baby bootie. Guests may also take home a party favor, chocolates or a charm, wrapped up in a baby bootie or shoe.

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.

There are a million and one ways to decorate a wedding cake. However here are a few more traditional ideas that you may not have thought of in a while.
It is very traditional for wedding cakes to be decorated with edible pearls. Edible pearls are not anything fancy. They are simply tiny balls of fondant that have been rolled into tiny balls. They are then dusted with real edible pearl dust to give them their solid and shiny appearance. Real edible pearl dust can be bought online and eating it is supposed to have the same effects on a man as Viagra. Interestingly pearl dust is also sometimes sprinkled into glasses of poured champagne at weddings to make the drink less acidic and give it an unearthly glow.

It is very hip to eat foods just as they were described in the Bible and Saffron Wedding Cake is derived from a recipe in the Bible originally referred to as a lover’s cake made out of Saffron. For centuries saffron is not only known as an aphrodisiac but as a spice its orange threads are thought to draw fertility and prosperity to whoever consumes it. However it came to represent wealth simply because the spice was originally so expensive to procure from India.

Aside from the saffron threads which turn the cake batter a golden yellow, the cake’s recipe also calls for currant, nutmegs, raisins and lemons which have been traditional ingredients in wedding fruit cakes for centuries as well.

Pink Champagne wedding cake is actually a 100-year-old tradition. The cake was invented during the roaring twenties and it is basically a white cake in which all of the liquids (like water or milk) have been replaced by pink champagne. This gives the cake a distinctive and celebratory flavor.

In fact to make it at home all you have to do is buy a white cake mix and simply substitute pink champagne or even a rose for the liquids specified in the baking instructions. The frosting is also easily made out of butter, sugar, milk and champagne as well. The cake never naturally turns out pink so a few drops of red food coloring are added to the frosting to give it a delicate pastel rose hue.

If you are Prince Charming and she is your Cinderella bride then you will definitely want to look into the wedding cakes that are shaped like castles. Palace themed wedding cakes also suit people who are having the literal “fairy-tale” wedding such as a medieval wedding or the Elvin style of wedding.