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Create a beary special teddy bear birthday party for your little cubs. It is the perfect choice for a first birthday. Be sure to invite your guests to bring their favorite fuzzy friend with them to your party. To help get you started and get your creative juices flowing, here’s some ideas for themed invites:
TEDDY BEAR SHAPED INVITATIONS #1 – Create teddy bear shaped invitations from brown card stock. Type or handwrite party details in calligraphy on a piece of cream-colored card stock or scrapbook paper that is cut in the bear shape slightly smaller than the brown card stock bear. Glue to brown card stock. Embellish the edges with brown glitter.
TEDDY BEAR SHAPED INVITATIONS #2 – Follow the above instructions and glue wiggly eyes, a black pom-pom for the nose, black yarn for the mouth, and a pink bow at the right ear for a girl bear or a blue bow at the neck for boy bear. Embellish the edges with glitter.
TEDDY BEAR COOKIE INVITATIONS – Make your favorite sugar cookie recipe and cut out teddy shapes using cookie cutters. After they have cooled, decorate the cookies with frosting, edible glitter, sprinkles, sugar crystals, etc. Place a cookie into a Ziploc bag. Divide a piece of cardstock into four equal pieces and download a picture of a teddy bear onto each portion of the cardstock. On the front put, “Someone Beary Special Is Turning 1. Join Us For Some Birthday Fun!” On the reverse side, put all of your party details. Cut the cardstock into four pieces using decorative scissors. Staple the invite to the back of the Ziploc bag. The front of the bag will reveal the decorated bear and the back will reveal the front-side of the invite.
TEDDY BEAR INVITATIONS – Using the instructions noted in the Teddy Cookie Invites above, create the written portion of your invitations. Hole-punch the upper left-hand corner and string a ribbon through the hole. Tie the invite to the neck of a small stuffed or beanie-type bear and hand-deliver.
PHOTO INVITATIONS – Either dress your baby in a teddy bear costume or pose them with their favorite bear and take a picture. Cut 8 1/2″ x 11″ shiny pink (girls) or shiny blue (boys) card stock into 2 pieces and fold in half. Using decorative scissors, trim edges of the photo so it is slightly smaller than the card stock. Glue photo to front of invitation. Put “A beary special baby is turning 1″ above photo and “Please join us for some b’day fun!” below the photo. On textured white paper (finished size 4 1/2″ x 7 1/2″) either type or handwrite in calligraphy the party details:
Baby Bear: (Birthday Child’s Name)
Bear Facts: (Date & Time of Party)
Crawl On Over To: (Address of Party)
RSVP to Mama Bear: (Parent Name & Phone Number)
Bring your special teddy so he/she can join the fun!
Bring your own highchair, walker, whatever you want them to bring.
Using decorative scissors cut insert and glue to inside of card stock. Decorate the inside with stickers.
EMBELLISHED READY-MADE TEDDY BEAR INVITATIONS – Buy ready-made invitations and embellish the picture with glitter, sequins, pom-poms, and bows.
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Britney Spears is back with a new CD, a new tour, and a new attitude. After shaving her head, being hospitalized, and fighting for custody of her children, Britney is back on her feet and ready to sing.
Debuting with her chart-topping song “Womanizer”, Britney continued to make her comeback known with her two other hits, “If U Seek Amy” and “Circus”. “Circus”, which illuminates Britney’s drive to be in the spot light, is the theme for her ongoing tour.
All eyes on me in the center of the ring just like a circus
When I crack that whip, everybody gonna trip just like a circus
Don’t stand there watching me, follow me, show me what you can do
Everybody let go, we can make a dance floor just like a circus
-“Circus” chorus lyrics.
Britney’s tour includes elaborate costuming, shows, props, and stunts. For the majority of her tour, Britney is wearing a circus ring-leader type uniform that is more edgy than risqué, and with masculine shoulder pads and a whip, she dominates the stage.
Joining her on stage is a mass of different people in various intricate costumes, including clowns, animals, and showgirls, all with a sexual and modern twist. Her back-up performers can be seen jumping through hoops, juggling, performing acrobatic tricks and stunts, and of course, dancing with Britney.
All of the costumes and performers have a sexual sadistic/masochistic theme. At one point during her performance, Britney peels off her dominating Ring Master costume, to reveal a raunchy three-piece corset and panty set. She is then “thrown” into a cage with leather clad men wearing muzzles. Around her are chained acrobats, tight-rope balancing women in scant clothing, and shirtless muscle men. All in all, Britney’s show is wild.
Tickets for Britney’s concerts have been a hot item since they went on sale in January, and all but a few are sold out. Those who still need tickets have a slim chance of obtaining them unless they can find a local seller, or multiple radio stations are giving away Britney tickets in contests.
Fans have been eagerly anticipating Britney’s tour, some even going so far as to buy near-matching costumes to look like Britney’s Ring Master outfit. Others have dressed in corsets, thigh-high vinyl boots, and top hats to keep with the Circus theme of the concert.
The official Britney Spears’ website lists a few ways to copy Britney’s Circus look, including where to find most the pieces at local retailers such as Forever 21. Costume site Yandy features a Lion Tamer costume that strongly resembles Britney’s Ring Master costume.
Britney’s tour runs through March 3rd, 2009 to June 17th, 2009 with tickets available through Ticket Master. More information can be found at Britney Spears’ Tour Site.
Up from Northamptonshire to Tewkesbury the River Avon passes many beauties and impressive landscapes and structuers but among all the others, the Warwick Castle stands up gloriously. To an observer it seems as if these two natural elements constantly complement each other, Avon on beauty and the castle on strength.
Built by William the Conqueror it was supposed to serve as a defense base for the area but fate had another plans for it. The castle was used as a prison in its lifetime frequently. The most famous prisoner that was held in it was Edward IV king of England along with his wife Margaret of Anjou.
Nowadays most of castles and fortifications seem to be out of their initial purpose and they only act as historic places for attracting curios tourists but The Castle of Warwick has managed to play a more important rule, it has become residence of ghosts. It is said that the castle has been haunt by Sir Fulke Greville. Fulke, a poet, was very keen on the castle and spent a lot to restore it and for some reasons it turned one of the servant furious, he believe that their master paid a lot more attention to the castle but not enough to him. In anger stabbed the master and in a short while turned the knife back to himself and committed suicide. It is said that since then there has been many unexplainable incidents that leaves no option expect believing that the castle is hunted.
The Warwick Castle is enormous. As any fortress is enclosed inside a thick and tall wall with six towers which were used not only for monitoring any suspicious movement around it but also as prisons. Bear and Clarence towers monitor the main entrance, Guy’s and Caesar towers are residential with a dungeon in the basement of Caesar tower.
A full access ticket costs around £22 at the time of writing this article which is quite a reasonable price for such adventure. With easy access, low admission price and plenty of places to rest and eat the Castle of Warwick invites everybody for once in a life time experience.