Plan the Perfect Party With These Tips

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Weddings, birthdays, graduations, retirements and other major life events deserve to be celebrated in style! Events like these are often long-remembered for two major things: venue and food. These two big-ticket items are typically at the forefront of your guests' minds as they enter into the party, so be sure you know how to choose the right options before signing on the dotted line!

Picking a Venue

When picking a venue, you may want to consider hiring a planner that focuses on event management. These professionals often know the ins and outs of event planning, which event spaces are open and affordable in your area and how to help orchestrate your entire event. If you are looking to do things on your own, thoroughly research each place prior to making any commitments — monetary or other. Your space should be able to house the correct amount of people and then some; always plan for a few extra folks who did not RSVP or for those who decide to bring along a friend or two. 

Deciding on Catering

Catering is a key factor in the success of a properly thrown party! If you are in need of special event foods, like birthday catering New Glasgow NS, make sure you pick a place that takes care of all your food and service needs, like set-up and supplies. The last thing you want to think about on the day of your big event is making time to put together tables, linens and more when you have so many other things on your plate to deal with. 

Planning your next big event doesn't have to be so intimidating! With these tips, you're on the right track toward finding and creating an event space that will blow your guests away and have them talking for weeks to come.

How Do Horses Jump So High?

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If you have ever watched a horse competition on TV, the jumping may have looked so smooth that you thought it was natural. If you are a long-time horse owner though, you know horses are not born with a gift for competition-winning jumps. For a horse to jump fences the way you see on television, horse owners need to gradually train horses to build that skill. There is special equestrian equipment to do this. If you are a horse owner who wants to train your horse to jump like you see on TV, it is best to start with easier obstacles and work your way up.

Ground Poles

If your horse has no experience jumping, it is best to start with ground poles. First, gently train your horse to walk over one pole. Then, as your horse gets used to this, add more poles. Build this exercise up to where you can put poles five feet apart from each other in a straight line. Trotting over the spaced poles will teach the horse how to coordinate its steps depending on the distance between obstacles.

Cavalettis

Once your horse has mastered trotting over the ground poles, you can use cavalettis to teach it how to jump higher obstacles. You can create a horse rail with some bends and place the cavalettis 20 meters apart from each other along the rail. Learning to trot and jump over the cavalettis will teach your horse how to have smooth rhythm with higher jumps.

Roll Tops

When your horse feels comfortable jumping higher obstacles, you can add a roll top to your horse trail. Facing a roll top will teach your horse how to jump and land elegantly. Horse jump roll tops allow horses to use their backs, hips and legs in an aerobic and athletic way. Place roll tops 25 meters apart from other obstacles to give your horse the chance to take impulse.

Jumping high is not a natural talent for horses, but it is one that can be gradually accomplished. Remember to be patient and careful. And do not forget your helmet! 

3 Tips to Prevent Illness This Winter

 

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It’s winter again. It’s the time of year when you are increasingly susceptible to nasty colds and other viruses that can ruin your Christmas. The cold weather plays havoc on your immune system, making you and your family significantly more likely to catch one of the many diseases that spread easily in the winter months. 

The last thing you want is to spend your festive period sneezing into tissues or confined to your bedroom with a hot towel over your forehead. Your ability to avoid illness will depend largely on adopting good habits and taking precautions to keep yourself safe.

To help you avoid getting sick this winter, here are some handy tips for staying well.

Providing Your Home With Some Elegance

 There are a lot of things that you might want to get out of your own home. But one common quality that a lot of people are looking for when they design their own homes is to have some more elegance. There is something about this which makes any home a lot more enjoyable to be in, and it generally goes hand in hand with an increase in the feeling of modernity in the home too. So if this is something that you are hoping to achieve in your home, you might want to know how to make it a reality. Let’s take a look at some of the things you should bear in mind.

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Colour

One of the first things you should always look into when you are hoping to make top-down changes to the home is colour. By playing around with colour in clever and interesting ways, you should always find it possible to provide the home with whatever kind of interesting and enjoyable things you are hoping for. When it comes to instilling some elegance in the home, this is certainly something you can do by changing up how colour is used, and it is something that you can do more easily than you might suppose.

The main thing to think about here is that whiter colours induce a fresher and cleaner feeling home, which is very often central to the feeling of elegance that we are talking about here. It is a calming colour, and especially if you go down the pastel route to achieve it. Pale yellows can achieve the same kind of effect, but with a more optimistic outlook, and pale blue gives off something of a cooler vibe. All in all, using colour carefully and cleverly will help you to give your home the extra elegance that you have been looking for.

Decluttering

You might have heard a lot about the importance of decluttering for many reasons in the home. But one of the main effects of keeping the home free and clear of clutter is that it makes the entire home so much more elegant looking. That’s because there is something about the cleanliness of a clutter-free home that means that you are not going to feel too overwhelmed by objects, and this freedom is something that is really indicative of the kind of elegance we are aiming for. So make sure that you give your home a good, deep decluttering - and that you work hard to keep it as free of clutter in the future too. It really will make all the difference in the world.

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Install New Doors

It’s always a good idea to take a look at the doors in your home if you are keen to make big changes overall, as they are an important part of doing so in any case. If you are trying to achieve more elegance in the home, then you can do that by installing some frameless sliding glass doors especially. These doors have an inbuilt elegance to them, and if you have them at the back of your home you are going to find that it improves the light level throughout the home, which in turn only helps with the elegant feeling even more. That is something that you can always be glad for, and it’s likely that you are going to want to consider it well.

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The Importance Of Restraint

It helps to have a good sense of the kinds of leading qualities that improve the elegance in the home too, and one of the main ones there is always going to be restraint. By showcasing enough restraint, you should find that you are going to increase the amount of elegance by exactly the same degree. How do you showcase restraint in the home? Simply by following the idea that less is more. If you aim to keep things very simple and stripped-back, you will find that this minimal effect increases the amount of elegance hugely. It can take some practice to actually learn how to put this into place, but it is worth looking into for the huge difference it can make to a home. Think less about what you are doing, and hold back a little more.

Choose Hardwood

Some changes are just always going to bring about the desired effect if you hope for a more elegant home. The perfect example is to choose hardwood flooring over carpeting wherever possible. Most people would agree that having carpeting is not going to bring about the desired effect, so you need to make sure that you are going to choose hardwood instead, which has a way of modernizing a home in just the right manner. If you are keen to do this, do make sure that you spend whatever money you can afford on the best possible quality hardwood flooring, as otherwise you are going to struggle to make it have the right effect.

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Detailed Trim

Here’s another little detail that can really help to make a home that much more modern and elegant. By selecting a detailed trim for your main walls, you can make that room feel a little more opulent but in a way that doesn’t threaten to overpower it at all, thus providing you with the perfect balance for a much better sense of elegance. Alternatively, you can think about wainscoting to accent the walls in an interesting and clean way.

Don’t Overlook The Furniture

As you make all of these changes, you should also make sure that you are not overlooking the importance of furniture. If the furniture is not quite in place in the right way, or doesn’t look the part, then all of your other efforts are not really going to make the difference anyway. Your furniture has to look the part and add to the elegance if you are going to have a much more elegant home, so make sure that you are thinking about this from the very start of your design plans.

Get Prepared For Your Baby Shower

 

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The arrival of a baby into the world is always a reason for happiness and joy in all cultures, although there are a diversity of celebrations, traditions, and rituals to celebrate the birth of a new being. Often, women have baby showers to celebrate their little one’s arrival into the world and this comes with plenty of excitement. From design to cuisine, there is plenty to think about.

It may seem to us that it is a relatively recent custom, but the truth is that it already existed in ancient times: it was how the pregnant woman received advice and wisdom from the most expert mothers in the community.

• It is known that the women of the Egyptian, Roman and Greek empires already celebrated the arrival of a baby by offering gifts to the mother. It was a family meeting that took place after the birth since then there was a lot of mortality in pregnancy and childbirth.

As then everything that had to do with the care of children was the responsibility of the mothers, in these meetings only women met, a tradition that has survived until today, although it is also true that more and more men are joining the baby shower.

The place of the celebration

Everything will depend on the budget. You can do it in a big way, in a luxury hotel like the Duchess of Sussex (something unlikely), opt for a reservation in a more familiar restaurant, or even do it at home if there are few guests. In fact, in the United States, it is very common for each guest to bring a dish prepared by him ('potluck' parties), so you can also opt for this alternative. The important thing is to show your friends that you want to share your happiness with them because they are very special. And for that, no great waste is needed.

Food

The most traditional thing is to set up a buffet table and have everyone serve what they want. It does not need to include an array of five star dishes, far from it. What the baby shower should have is a sweet table that has jelly beans, cupcakes and a special cake with the baby's name if it is already known. Sweet and light! You can do it yourself or order it from specialized sites. There are plenty of cute things available! And of course, do not forget the drinks to toast the next member of the family and that it has to include some non-alcoholic options for the future mother.

Gifts

Of course, they are not mandatory, although they are still a tradition. Of course, whoever organizes the party can promote 'a wish list', with gifts that they desire. You may want to do something a little more special though, such as giving them a session to create newborn photos with a professional. Perhaps look at creating them something yourself if you’re crafty or creative - a special song, a poem to the frame. The opportunities are endless.