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45 Brilliant Wedding And Engagement Rings For Her

2023-09-02T02:04:00.000+05:00

A wedding/engagement ring or wedding band is a metal ring indicating the wearer is married or engaged. Depending on the local culture, it is worn on the base of the right or the left ring finger.

Spouses and partners strive to find more and more beautiful wedding/engagement rings that signify the beauty of their love for their partner. With time, they become timeless presents and heirlooms and a bountiful of lovely memories.

Check out these beautiful and intricate wedding/engagement ring designs that you can gift a your lady love and is sure to make her heart swell out of love.

10 Best Steve Jobs Quotes -- Fantastic Friday

2023-09-01T18:31:00.002+05:00

Welcome to this week's edition of Fantastic Friday, where we talk about happiness and inspiration and everything that goes in between!

1. “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”

2. “The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.”

3. “You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”

4. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

5. “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.”

6. “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

7. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

8. “I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

9. "We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them."

10. "It takes these very simple-minded instructions—‘Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number’––but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic."

#Barbie Weds Ken - Exclusive Photoshoot!

2023-08-11T23:42:00.002+05:00

“Barbie & Ken were married at Faraway Castle, in Plasticity. The bride bought her dress from The Fairy Godmother shop and her shoes from the Cinderella Store. The groom wore a suit from The Prince Charming Emporium. The couple met more than 50 years ago (yes I know they look young). Barbie was tired of waiting so she asked Ken to get married.” - Beatrice tells Rock n Roll Bride

I came across these awesome photos on the Web one day while browsing through Glamour. Enjoy these photos, I hope they being out the little girl in each and every one of the ladies reading this article, like they have in me. And for the men, well, you can just sit and watch and think how there will be a woman in your life who will give herself to you so generously! Do I see side glances? :D

Enjoy people!

Super-talented—and super-creative!—photographer Beatrice de Guigne masterminded this ingenious photo shoot then captured it all on film over three days. I found the photos over on Rock n Roll Bride and just had to share them with you! [Source]

Seriously, how fantastic is this? Who else is impressed?!

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Best Harper Lee Quotes

2016-02-25T14:35:00.000+05:00

Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Her work in To Kill a Mockingbird has been hailed as one of the pioneer works of literature in fighting racism. The plot and characters of To Kill a Mockingbird are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as depicted through the eyes of two children.[wikipedia]

Now that Ms Harpee Lee is no more among us, her work is once again making rounds as more and more people are turning back to their sweet memories of her much beloved novel.

In commemoration of Harper Lee, here are some of the most memorable quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around it. - To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for. - To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.

- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

I was born good but had grown progressively worse each year.

- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself.

- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Love her, but leave her wild.

- Harper Lee

Watch carefully,

the magic that occurs,

when you give a person,

just enough comfort,

to be themselves.

- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on Earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal'.

- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest on corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

As you get older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

You can see my book review of To Kill a Mockingbird HERE. Hope you enjoyed the post. If you like it, then please share it.

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The Best DIY Gift Wrap Collection On The Internet - Tutorials and Ideas

2013-12-10T02:52:00.001+05:00

Gifts are a wonderful way to cultivate relationships with friends and family. While handmade gifts seem to convey our wishes in the best way, handmade gift wraps are equally impressive. I love it when a friend or family member gifts something handmade to me. It shows how much they care. Gift wraps add another personal touch to the gift. I go through all my craft supplies every time I plan to give a gift to someone and will try to come up with something original and handmade for gift wrapping. The receiver's appreciation on that extra bit of effort makes it all worth it.

Sharing small collections of DIYs from over the internet is so my thing! So here I have come up with a collection of the 30 best gift wrap DIY from around the internet. They are simple, quick, fun to follow and to look at; but best of all, most of them are really cheap to make.

Have fun with this collection, and if you like making these gift wraps, please hit the share button! :)

1- DIY Tissue Paper Bow For Gift Wraps

This one is my personal favorite. Quick to make, all you need are a few tissue papers in nice, bright colors. They can add a wonderful look to your otherwise plain gift wrap.

Tutorial

2- DIY Paper Wreaths for Your Gift Wrap

Wreaths no longer need to a tough craft to master. These paper wreaths are quick and easy; and look how they add a simple touch to a small gift box.

Tutorial

3- Gift Wrap DIY Pillow Boxes

Use these pillow boxes to gift small accessories or jewelry. You will be surprised at how easy these are. Depending upon the size of the object, pillow boxes can be made for all sizes ranging from very small to small to medium.

Tutorial

4- DIY Valentine's Day Gift Wrap

Sending a gift to a special someone? Then you can add all the sentiments you need with this radiant felt heart. Doesn't it just ooze love all over the place? This is a perfect gift wrap for Valentines' day.

Tutorial

5- DIY Chalkboard Gift Tags

Chalkboard tags are a fun way to customize a gift. Follow this DIY gift wrap tutorial to 'chalk' up a little amusement right on top of your gift!

Tutorial

6- DIY Fabric Tags for Gift Pouch

Fabrics make a huge difference when it comes to lightening up a dull gift wrap. Instead of throwing away useless fabric pieces the next time, save them up. Follow this simple tutorial to learn how to use these to make personalized gift wraps.

Tutorial

7- DIY Pyramid Gift Boxes

Like with the pillow box gift wraps, these pyramid gift boxes make a wonderful way to gift small objects like jewelry, earrings or something short and sweet,

Tutorial

8- DIY Lucky Plant Gift Wrap

I've always wondered how to wrap up a gift plant. Common sense I guess ;) Use this technique to wrap up plants or anything circular like a vase, may be.

Via

9- DIY Cupcake Paper Gift Carnations

Don't throw away cupcake covers the next time around and you can get yourself a cheap, super easy gift wrap idea. Ideally, colorful cupcake paper would be best, but even if you've got a plain white one, you can always paint them to match your gift wrapping sheet.

Tutorial

10- DIY Newspaper Gift Wrap

Old newspaper lying around the house? Make yourself a super cheap gift wrap. Just follow the tutorial below!

Tutorial

11- DIY Festive Season Gift Wrap by Forever21

This one is my personal favorite. This simple, easy to follow tutorial is from Forever21 and I just love the colors they've picked for this gift. I have to try this one!

Tutorial

12- DIY Watercolor Paper Poppies for Gift Wraps

Transform a boring gift bag into something happy and sunshine-like! These paper poppies are a wonderful addition to it and the happiness just shows!

Tutorial

More DIY Gift Wrap IDEAS

There is so much awesomeness on the Internet, I wish there was a way to add up everything here! Here are some ideas and inspirations as to how you can add more variety and color to your handmade, personalized gift wraps. Most of them are mild variants of the gift wraps shown in the above tutorials. Trust me, your friends are so going to love your gift wraps!

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I've always had this thing for a black and white combo. This one just looks great!

Forgot to buy a gift bag? Here's how to come up with your own gift bag if you've got a spare gift wrapping sheet lying around the house.

DIY Gift Wrap - Dipping Confetti

Don't you just love these colors?

Via

This is a neat way to gift wrap for the festive season. It's simple, quick and so cheap.

Use old newspaper and either cut out or print name initials tag. Get a string to match and you're done!

Christmas Gift Wrap Inspiration

Use unused (crochet) lace to come up with this one. This one speaks femininity!

Another gift wrap style that I would call "womanly"!

Via

Here's how to make the perfect ribbon bow. Now, isn't this article super useful? ;)

Another idea for the festive season, use cinnamon sticks and a ribbon on a plain gift exterior. See how it transforms!

Via

Or you can use old maps which would otherwise go to the bin! Add a string or ribbon for effect.

Or you can make this really cool rainbow hue out of ordinary strings. Just brilliant!

Via

And... here we go again. Following one above, this is another way to do up for gift bows. Neat!

Make your own wrapping sheet if you like. It's as simple as adding white dots, but in symmetry, please!

More bows!

Via

Or make your own paper lace by cutting up your favorite shapes (or the one below) and using a punch card to punch in holes.

Another way to make your own gift wrapping sheet...

And.... if all else fails, a little green is enough to light up almost anything. Even your gift wraps :)

Did you have fun on this gift wrapping activity with me? I sure did! Try these fun ways and see how happy this makes your loved ones.

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Creative Crafts: 8 Cozy Winter Cups

2013-12-02T15:55:00.004+05:00

Winter is here in full swing and it's time to have fun with winters. What are winters without a hot cup of coffee, tea or your favorite hot drink? Here are some really cute ideas if you are a hot drink fan during winters. If you've got skills in knitting and/or crochet, you can easily make these for yourself or for friends.

Here's a cute collection of 8 cozy cup winter crafts to help keep the spirit of a cozy December!

Enjoy!

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15 Beautiful Quotes For Your Mother

2013-12-01T03:42:00.004+05:00

Mother is the best gift God has given us. Each mother is beautiful, because she takes it upon herself to bring a new life in this world and then mould that new life into something more brilliant. Countless words have been said in the honor of these amazing women but none can suffice or even come close to measure up to them.

Here's a collection of 15 heart touching quotes about mothers, motherhood and what's it like to contain a heart bursting with ove and only love.

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50 Heartfelt Expressions of Love & Commitment

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DIY: 18 Crafty Bookmarks Tutorials and Ideas

2013-11-28T17:09:00.002+05:00

These Do-It-Yourself crafts will come as a treat to all book lovers out there. Being a book lover myself, I tried these fun bookmarks the minute I could get hold of my crafts supplies. Not only are these bookmark ideas adorable to look at, the making process is equally fun as well. You can either gift this to a friend who loves books, or you can make for yourself and enjoy your reading experience. The best part is, most of the supplies used in these tutorials make use of idle things lying around useless in your house.

I have tried to compile a set of basic but varied types of bookmarks for you from countless other such examples available on the internet. I hope you enjoy them; and if you do, please share them with your friends as well :)

1. Glazed DIY Bookmarks

Tutorial

2. Heart Shaped DIY Bookmarks

Tutorial

3. DIY Pompon Bookmarks

Tutorial

4. DIY Fabric Flower Bookmarks

Tutorial

5. DIY Cute Mustache Bookmark

6. DIY Heart Bookmark

Tutorial

7. DIY No Slip Bookmark

Tutorial

8. DIY Valentine Bookmarks

Tutorial

9. DIY Felt Heart Bookmarks

Tutorial

10. Lavender Lace Bookmark

Source

11. Heart Shaped Paper Clips

Tutorial

12. Cupid's Arrow DIY Bookmark

Tutorial

13. DIY Beaded Bookmark

Tutorial

More Bookmark Ideas!!!

We know that a crafty mind has no limits. Lucky for us, we have endless ideas and inspirations.
Here are a few more DIY bookmark ideas to keep your creative juices flowing. Have fun!

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You can easily make these types of bookmarks by holding onto ice cream sticks. Use a fine black pointer to make the faces and color using sharp colored markers. Make sure the sticks are completely dry before making any design on them. These are super simple and very funny.

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You can get fine quality print outs of clip art off your computer and back 'em up with a light cardboard or a thick paper for support. Enjoy these fun faces (or whatever design you chose) while you read.

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This is probably one the simplest and quickest bookmarks you can come up with at home. If you have small pieces of ribbon lying idle around the house, tie them up with paper clip and you've made yourself a neat little bookmark! Colored paper clips add more effect.

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Are you a Hunger Games fan? Cut out paper strips from an old book and back it up with a thick paper or a light cardboard for support. You can either draw anything symbolic to the Hunger Games, like a mockingjay, or you can use a stamp. Add a ribbon for color.

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Simple to make, these butterfly bookmarks uses plain ribbons with two butterfly shaped layers of paper on one end. The underlying paper comes with a pattern or design of your choice. The second (shorter) paper lies on top of it, with your favorite message like "Read me" or "I love reading", etc.

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Please share this post with your friends if they also love reading. Sharing is Caring! :)

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How To Create Your Own Blog Button

2013-11-27T13:44:00.001+05:00

You may have seen many blogs or personal websites where you see their logo or blog button up for grabs. They offer you a simple code that you can put into your blog/site code and their logo starts showing. What's more is that clicking on this blog button will take you to their site.

Wouldn't it be fantastic to have a similar site/blog button that people could come and grab? Not only is it convenient for visitors to follow, but it is also a good way to spread your link over the Web. It is doubtful anyone might be interested in a plain text link of your site, but when coupled with an attractive eye-catching logo/graphics, your link is sure to grab attention.

In today's section, we will show you how to prepare a blog button code up for grabs. This will assume that you already have a ready logo/button to work with.

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Step 1: Host Your Image

1. To start with making our very own blog button, first we need to host our button image somewhere. For this, a very easy and free option is Photobucket.com. Go to the Photobucket home page and make a free account. If you use some other image hosting website, you can use that too. For beginners who know little about image hosting, Photobucket offers a very simple and free solution. This tutorial will use Photobucket in its steps.

2. Once you sign in into your Photobucket account, your Home screen will look a little something like the above image. Your last uploaded image will be visible as cover photo of your Photobucket album.

3. On the Home screen, locate the 'Upload' button. Click this button and the following screen will open.

4. Using the 'Browse Files' button to locate your blog button image on your local hard drive and upload it to Photobucket.

Step 2: Getting Your Image URL

1. After successful upload, you will see a thumbnail view of the image you just uploaded.

2. Click on this thumbnail to open this file in full mode. The following screen shot shows this blog button image opened in full mode.

3. When this image is opened in full mode, you will see a number of different options on the right hand side. We are concerned only with the section 'Image Links' for now. Image Links section gives a number of different options like Email & IM, Direct Link, HTML Code and IMG Code.

4. Take your mouse cursor over the Direct Link text box and click once. This will copy this link to your clipboard and a message confirmation of successful copy will be displayed as well. You can paste this link in any other file for now in order to retain it.

Step 3: Preparing Grab Code For Your Viewers

In this step we will prepare an HTML code that will enable your viewers to have your button/badge on their site. This is the same code that you have seen on other people's site; you can copy it and after pasting it into your site code, their button/badge displays on your site too. Now it is time to make one for your own too, and it's very simple!

1. Prepare the following HMTL code for your blog button:

<br/><center>Just copy the code below and paste in your site code!</center><br/>
<form>
<center>
<textarea rows="3"><center>
<a href="your blog URL comes here" target="_blank">
<img alt="your blog name comes here" src="blog button image URL comes here">
</a>
</center>
</textarea>
</center>
</form>

2. In place of "blog button image URL comes here",i.e., for value of src, insert the URL that you have copied from 'Direct Link' in Step 2.

3. The value in alt is the text which will appear in tool tip, i.e., if you want a certain text to appear when a user hovers mouse over your button, you can enter that text here.

Step 4: Installing Your Blog Button For Grabs

To install your blog button, go to your Blogger Dashboard > Layout. Click on Add a Gadget > HTML/Javascript.

Add the following code to add a preview of your blog button for your users.

<a href="your blog URL comes here" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="blog button image URL comes here" /></a>

This will insert your blog button preview for your users. (See below)

Now add the code discussed in Step 3 just below this image code. Your code should look like this:

<a href="your blog URL comes here" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="blog button image URL comes here" /></a><br/><center>Just copy the code below and paste in your site code!</center><br/><form><center><textarea rows="3"><center><a href="your blog URL comes here" target="_blank"><img alt="your blog name comes here" src="blog button image URL comes here"></a></center></textarea> </center></form>

See the following screen shot of how this will look in Blogger:

Click save and refresh your blog to preview your new blog button. Here's how our new blog button looks like.

Doesn't it look neat? These are really four very simple steps. Take care in entering blog link and image links as it is easy to get them confused. Try out blog buttons for your site and don't forget to share with us what you come up with!

Till next time :)

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Advanced Image Editing Options Using HTML

2013-11-26T22:07:00.000+05:00

Hi friends. In our previous sections, we discussed how to add images to your Blogger posts as well as how to control images by Blogger delivered functions. Blogger provides pretty straight forward ways to perform both these different kinds of tasks. But how does an advanced user benefit from all that Blogger has to offer? Simple. If you know HTML, you can do lots and lots of cool things with your images. The best part is, HTML is a very friendly, easy to understand language which you can learn quickly with little effort.

In this post, we will discuss how to use HTML into having more control over how to display images in your posts. This post assumes you are familiar with the very basics of HTML and jumps directly to HTML for optimizing images in Blogger posts.

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1. Linking Your Images To URLs

Often it is a good idea to link your images to a certain (usually external) URLs. This is easily done by the using the following tag.

<a href = "target URL here"> <img src = "image source link" /> </a>

2. Title Attribute

This attribute is good from SEO point of view. Enter a title for this image. The title should be such that it helps search engines easily know what your image is about.

<img src = "image source link" title="tulip-flowers" />

3. Alternative Attribute

This attribute further defines the Title attribute. You can think of this as a more descriptive image title. For example, the blog post discusses how to plant tulips can have the image titled "tulip-flowers", and its alternative attribute can be as follows:
<img src = "image source link" title="tulip-flowers" alt="Tips on how to plant fresh and vibrant tulips" />

4. Defining Your Own Image Width and Height

Blogger provides four standard sizes for images, Small, Medium, Large and X-Large, each with predefined width and height. Using the width and height attributes, you can define your own image size. See the following tag.

<img src = "image source link" width="width in pixels" height="height in pixels" />

5. Using Image Spacing

Image spacing is more effective when your text is wrapped around an image. It gives a cleaner, neater look which is a good practice especially when you want a professional look.

<img src="image source link" vspace="5" hspace="10" />

The vspace and hspace attributes take values in pixels. This example shows that the vertical spacing should be 5 pixels and horizontal spacing should be about 10 pixels.

6. Adding Borders To Images

Add a border to your images for a more finished look by using the border attribute in your image tag.

<img src="image source link" border="1" />

This adds a 1-pixel border to your image. A border value of 0 (zero) results in no border at all. However, if there is no border specified or border=0 , and the image is attached to a hyperlink (see "Linking Your Images" above), then a 1-pixel border is attached to the image automatically.

7. Adding Color To Image Borders

If we want to have a border of certain color for your image, we need to use CSS. Using a CSS command on global level will make all images of the same specified border color. An easier way to achieve this is to write this CSS command inside our img tag. See the following HTML:

<img src="image source link" style="border: 3px black solid;" />OR<img src="image source link" border="3" style="black solid;" />

This tells our blog to put a 3-pixel solid line border of black color.

Width in style attribute can be in pixels, ems (e.g. 3ems) and percentage. Apart from "solid", other line styles can be solid, dotted, dashed, double, ridge, inset and outset.

These are just some of the ways you can play around with your images in Blogger posts. Play around with all these and combinations of commands to achieve high end blog posts. Needless to say, after mastering these basics, you can always go up to advanced image HTML.

How To Insert Images Blogger
Having Fun With Images In Your Blogger Posts

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Posting Options In Blogger

2013-11-26T21:59:00.000+05:00

Apart from other options in a post, Blogger provides options that control the way user can choose to publish a post. These options are not related to the formatting or design to a post. This post discusses the way these different post options and how they work.

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Adding Labels To Posts

Blogger enables user to add labels or tags to all posts. A label or tag is important to categorize your posts in any way you like. Not only do they help to classify posts, tags and labels are useful SEO practices as they help Google recognize what a blog post is about.

For example, a post called "How To Post Tulips In Your Backyard" can have the label "Flower". Other examples of labels for this post are Tulips, Gardening, How-To, Tutorials, etc. The list can consist of any word that qualifies being able to define what the whole post or any part of this post is about.

In order to add a new label into your blog post, click on the text "Label" in the right hand side pane of your Blogger post editor. This opens a text box area for you to enter a label or a group of labels (separated by comma) to enter. When you are done entering label(s) for this post, click on Done button.

You can always go back and add/edit/remove labels by clicking on the text "Label" in the Post Settings section and clicking Done button to confirm.

Blogger allows you to add phrases as labels. You can use spaces between words. Please read "Blogger Labels: Best SEO Practices" (coming in later sections) on how to create a label name.

Scheduling Posts

There are many cases when you may want to time your posts. Or you might be expecting a busy weekend, so you decide to write your weekend post a day or two before. Blogger helps users meet such varying requirements by giving them the facility to time or schedule their posts.

By default, post schedule is "Automatic" which means that the post is published when user clicks on 'Publish' button on top of the post editor. The image below shows Schedule tab in Post Settings section.

When user selects the option "Set date and time", Blogger displays date and time controls to the user. User can specify both the date and time of a post. Using the calender control, user specifies any date. If a user specifies a previous date or same date with some previous clock time, the post still gets published instantly. The only thing to keep in mind is that your Blogger blog will always display all posts in exact chronological order with respect to time and date.

When a user specifies a future date/time and clicks 'Publish' button, the post does not get published. It will be posted on the designated time. Till the time a post scheduled for some future time is published, Blogger list of posts displays this post marked as 'Scheduled'. See below.

Adding Custom Links To Posts

Blogger gives the facility to add custom links to posts. This is a recently added feature into Blogger. By default, the 'Permalink' section is set to Automatic Permalink. This setting takes the blog title of your post or the first few characters of the post content when there is no title and makes a post URL out of it.

The following image shows when user has added a post title. Blogger uses this title to create an automatic post URL.

If the user wants to add his or her own custom link, simply select the option 'Custom Permalink'. User enters a custom link (ideally separated by dash '-' ) and clicks on Done button.

See more on how to construct meaningful and SEO friendly URLs for your posts in the coming sections.

Adding Location To Posts

Use the 'Location' section in Post Settings panel to add location to your posts. This widget enables a user to search for a location, zoom in and zoom out a location on map as well as toggle between two views: Map and Satellite. You can find a location by moving the map with the hand cursor and zooming in/ zooming out or you can type a location name and search for it.

When you find your desired location, click on 'Done' button. This will append your specified location with the post when it is published.

You can always come back and edit this location if changes are needed.

5 Blogging Tips That Always Pay Off To Remember

2013-11-26T21:43:00.002+05:00

Blogging is not just mere writing, it is an art. To be able to write down your thoughts in a way that other people can easily relate to is definitely a skill. To achieve a desirable balance, not only look through all your designing aspects, but develop an assertive and appealing balance in your writing as well.

This post, and others in this series, will help a beginner to gain the poise and balance. If writing comes naturally to you, then a little conscious effort is all it needs to get you started in the right direction.

The first in this series is more of an umbrella post where we talk of blogging in a general way, so don't fret if what you read here gets a little confusing to comprehend. In later parts of this series, we will break down each point and be specific.

This list is by no means sorted and each point carries equal weight in terms of importance.

1. Be You

According to the old blogger in me, this is by far the best tip I can offer my readers. Articles that sound too stiff and formal tend to lose interest with the audience. People want to know first hand personal experience, not strict facts. They like it when they read something they can relate to and that's what makes the connection between you and your reader. If you sound honest, friendly and open, you are all the more likable Concentrate on building returning readers rather than the ones who come stumbling by to your page and leave with anything that sticks to their mind. Make a human connection. That will get you far.

2. Put your best foot forward

Instead of looking for a really flashy topic to write on, stick to the simple ones if that's what you do know. How you make an ordinary topic special is all up to you. Writing is just like a painting. An artist can choose an every day scene that will be dull to many, but how he executes it will make it special. Similarly, a writer, quite synonymous to a painter, can make a simple topic very appealing by his/her writing style. Focus on building a style for yourself as you grow as a blogger. and don't forget what you already know from point 1!

3. Hold back the Shakespeare in you

Old literature classics are addictive; and what is most appealing is the style of classic English. But to write in that way on a modern day blog seems irrelevant. A reader cannot connect unless you offer something easily understandable to him. What's more? Your reader may not even bother with your blogs if language remains a constant barrier. Use easy to understand language and simple expressions. If you must write something fancy, then try to balance it out somehow.

4. Keep it short and concise

Gone are the days when people take out time to read long stories on the net. We are probably the most impatient generation of all time. We want everything fast and simple and short and sweet. Keep that in mind when writing a blog post. A post that fails to deliver some idea in the first few lines tends to lose more readers. Keeping your short and concise is one way to make your posts friendly and readable. If there are facts, bullet the out. If you are discussing more than one idea in a single article or if there are different angles to it, make heading and insert paragraphs. the whole point is to make your ideas stand out and to de-clutter then by avoiding fancy details altogether.

5. What are you offering your reader?

When writing or planning to write each post, keep one question in mind: what are you offering your readers? Readers will come back for more when they feel you have something to give them. Make sure anytime they come to your blog space, they don't leave empty handed. That's a sure shot way of earning yourself a returning reader who will most probably now recommend you to his or her circle of friends.

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Like I said, these are some umbrella tips to keep in mind when writing posts of any kind. These can be applied to any kind of blog and any kind of topic. Start practicing these ideas in your daily writing and you will find that not only they are very easy to adapt, but also very rewarding as a writer.

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How To Insert Images In Blogger

2013-11-26T21:40:00.002+05:00

Among many free features that Blogger provides for beginner bloggers, one main feature is that of inserting images and some preliminary related functions. The purpose of these functions is to help newbies come up with more professional looking blog posts. Till you get the overall hang of Blogger and the related advanced HTML, these basic image features will cater to your needs fun. We will look into more advanced image controls in later section.

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The Insert Image control comes with part of the Blogger defined post editing options. See this post for more information of other controls on this panel. The following image shows the Insert Image button.

Clicking this button opens a dialog box that provides user different ways to add images. The default selection is 'Upload' since it is the most commonly used way to add images.

Upload Images In Blogger Posts

Using the 'Choose files' button in Upload tab enables the user to upload files from the local disk to Blogger server. Typically each blogspot blog is linked with a Picasa Web album and this is where these images will be available after uploading. These albums are by default private; you choose to make them public as per your choice.

Clicking on 'Choose file' button will open a dialog box which you can use to access a single or multiple image files from your local disk as shown below.

Click on 'Open' and the file(s) starts uploading on Blogger as shown below.

When the image(s) finishes uploading, a preview is available as well as the most recent uploaded images are by default selected. Clicking the 'Add selected' button will insert the selected image(s) in our post.

In case we want to insert multiple images into the blog post at the same time, we can upload multiple files in one go and select all their image previews simultaneously. Following image shows the image we have just inserted in our post.

We have successfully added a new image in our blog post using the Upload option.

Using Previously Used Images in a Blogger Post

There might be times when you need to refer to a previous image in a new blog post, say, you need to refer to an image of a spread sheet that you want to discuss in your current post as well. For this purpose, the 'From This Blog' option works well. This is a more efficient way than uploading the same image(s) again and is more effective when there are multiple images instead of a single one.

Selecting the 'From The Blog' tab in the Select A File dialog box will open up previously uploaded image files in Blogger. This album view is offered by the Picasa Web album of your blog.

Select the images you want to reuse by clicking on their preview thumbnails and click 'Add selected'.

Using Images from Other Picasa Web Albums

All photos of all blogs linked to a single Blogger account can be used within other blogs of the same account. Each blog will have a separate Picasa Web album belonging to it. If, say, you want to use a certain image from blog1 for a post in blog2, then the option 'From Picasa Web Albums' will come in handy.

The image below shows all Picasa web albums linked to the user's Blogger account. The user can then choose the album of his/her choice and select the desired image(s). On clicking the 'Add selected' button, the image(s) can be easily inserted into the blog post in blog2.

When user clicks on any of these album covers, all images in the album are loaded. He can then select the image of his choice and insert it in his post.

Inserting An Image From The Web

In addition to adding images from Picasa or uploading them, Blogger also gives us the advantage of selecting any image found on the web and then adding it into our blog posts. For this purpose, the option used is 'From a URL'.

User enters the image URL and Blogger will load that image for him. Then it can be easily inserted. To find the correct URL of an image, right click on the image and select 'Copy Image URL'. This is the method for Google Chrome. Other browsers may have slight variations. See below:

Now we will add this image into our new blog post using the 'From a URL' option.

If the image URL is correct, a preview will be displayed as shown above as well as a green tick that shows image correctness, availability, etc. By selecting the image and clicking on 'Add selected' button will insert the image into our new post.

Uploading Images By Webcam and Phone

These are the newest two options for uploading photos on your blog. It is an easy way to upload photos when you are travelling and need to blog on the go. The 'From your webcam' options works with a webcam device attached to your device. Click on 'Allow' to allow Blogger.com to access images via your webcam.

On the other hand, you can access images on your phone by using the 'From your phone' tab. It requires you to download the Google+ application for your Android phone or iPhone. The photos you click and/or the images already contained in your phone will then be accessible on this window pane. Selecting any image(s) and clicking on the 'Add selected' button will insert them into your post.

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As you can see, Blogger provides a good variety of ways in which you can insert images in your post. All facilitate use ease and comfort. Once an image has been added to a post, there are a number of different ways you can use images in your post. Stay tuned for more!

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Having Fun With Images In Your Blogger Posts

2013-11-26T21:31:00.002+05:00

In the previous section, we learnt how to insert images in a Blogger post. Blogger offers us a neat variety of ways by which to add images to our posts to make them look more professional. Some of them, besides uploading are, inserting from Web, phone and webcam.

In this section, we will review some basic features offered by Blogger to make use of the images we have just added in our post. These are very simple to learn and help users gain some control over the look and feel of their posts despite the fact that they must be beginners. For more control (advanced topics), we will discuss in later sections.

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Image Controls In Blogger

To start using different controls that Blogger has provided for images, all you need to do is click on the image. This will highlight the image and open a set of controls. See below for illustration.

TYPE	FEATURE	DESCRIPTION
Image Size	Small	Reduces image to the smallest size available where height is 150px and width is 200px.
	Medium	This is the default size into which an image is loaded when it is inserted into the post editor. Medium size has a height of 240px and width of 320px.
	Large	A Large image has height of height of 300px and width of 400px
	X-Large	X-Large image has height of 480px and width of 640px
	Original Size	Restores the image back to its original size. This may or may not fit the post editor window as well as when blog is rendered.
Image Alignment	Left	Left aligns the image in the post editor
	Center	Center aligns the image in the post editor
	Right	Right aligns the image in the post editor
Image Properties	Add Caption	Enables the user to add a caption to an image. Captions are good for better understanding of what the image is about as well as for useful SEO purposes.
	Properties	This contains two major image properties that are also basic to image SEO. 1. Title text: Properly naming an image file can help search engines find it easily on the web. An image file name should be to the point and concise with words separated preferrably by use of dash '-'. 2. Alt text: The alternate text property further aids the 'title' property. Using this feature, you can further define what your image is about. For example, an image containing tulips can have Title property as "how-to-grow-tulips-tutorial.jpg" and the Alternate text that explains this more can be "Step by step guide to planting bright tulips in your backyard".
	Remove	Removes image from the post editor but does not remove it from Picasa Web album.

These image controls are pretty straight forward and simple, yet they give an adequate control over to the user. More image control is acquired by the use of HTML. This HTML code is easily written in the 'HTML' tab of the post editor. We will discuss HTML for beginners in the coming sections; quite much can be acquired even with a basic knowledge of HTML.

Enjoy using images in Blogger and plan around more to get the hang of it. You will love it!

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How To Start Posting On Blogger - For Beginners

2013-11-26T21:27:00.002+05:00

Composing and publishing a post on Blogger is very easy to understand for beginners. At the same time, it offers features that a more advanced user can use for more advanced purposes. In this article, we will focus on posting on Blogger for beginners and will discuss some basic features that such a beginner might need.

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Path 1: New Post Editor from Blogger Home Screen

Start by clicking on the 'pen' button corresponding to your new blog. This is the 'New Post' button that you an access from your Blogger home screen.

Path 2: New Post Editor from Blogger Posts List

Another way is to open your blog's post list, which is empty for now. Click open the drop down menu and click on 'Posts'.

This will open your post list which will be empty as shown below. In case there are already some posts, they will all appear on the right hand side pane of this window in chronological order of their creation.

You can see that this screen contains more buttons for New Post buttons. Clicking any of these buttons or the button shown in image for Path 1 will open the New Post editor for you. Furthermore, the link "Create a new post" will serve the same purpose. See below:

The 'New Post' Editor:

Here is the editor screen. Click to enlarge.

You can use this editor to insert basic text and to add different media like photographs and videos. There are a couple of different ways you can format your text with size options, font styles, paragraph, block quote and bullets etc. What really makes Blogger so easy and flexible is that it gives you the option to go into the HTML side of your composition and do all sorts of things with your posts that you would do with normal HTML. Pretty cool, han?

Formatting Options in Blogger Post Editor

Blogger post editor comes with a small set of formatting options for beginners who are not familiar with how HTML tags work. Due to this, even first time bloggers can make professional looking blog posts. In later sections, we will see how to incorporate almost any kind of HTML in our posts to achieve high-end, superbly presented blog posts.

Blogger provides two types of views in its post editor. Already provided formatting options are available for the 'Compose' tab where user gets to see how blog text will actually appear in the post. We discuss this section for now. All we do here can be seen in HTML format by clicking on the HTML tab just next to the Compose tab. We will leave the HTML tab for advanced levels.

The following image illustrates already delivered features in Blogger's post editor. (click to enlarge)

Here are the text effects of these features:

Font Style:

This text is in default font style of the blog template.

This text is in Courier font style.

Headings:

This text shows the actual heading.

This text shows subheading.

This text shows minor heading.

This is normal text.

Text Styles:

This is plain text.

This text is italicized.

This text is bold.

This text is underlined.

~~This text uses strike through.~~

This text is plain, bold and underlined.

This text is italicized, bold and underlined.

This text is plain, bold, underlined and strike through.

~~This text is italicized, bold, underlined and strike through.~~

Text Color:

This text is in red.

Text Highlight Color:

This text is not highlighted in any color.

This text is highlighted in color.

Hyperlinks:

This text is a link.

Text Alignment:

This text is left aligned.

This text is center aligned.

This text is right aligned.

Bullets and Numbering:

The following list is numbered.

Point 1
Point 2
Point 3

The following list is in bullets.

Point 1
Point 2
Point 3

Block Quotes:

This text is in block quotes.

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How To Create A New Blog On Blogger

2013-11-26T21:24:00.000+05:00

So by now, you know you want to write a blog and have perhaps outlined some details of it as well like its title and the topic of your content. In this step, we will learn how to set up a free blog using Google's free blogging service called Blogger.

Setting up a new blog with Blogger is very easy and requires as little as three to four steps. Depending on the blogging platform you use, these steps may vary to some extent but for now we will focus on Blogger. Follow these simple steps to get started.

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Getting Started with Blogger with your Google Account

To get started, all you need is a Google account. Visit the page www.blogger.com and login with your Google credentials.

Step 1: New Blog

Once you sign in, on Blogger home screen, click on "New Blog" button as shown in the figure below. (Click on the image to open and enlarge)

Step 2: Blog Title

In this step you are required to enter blog title. This can be anything of your choice but one thing to keep in mind is that it shouldn't be too arbitrary or dull as to lure off a potential reader. A blog title should be short and preferably unique as well as loyal to the whole concept of your blog. (Click on the image to open and enlarge)

For more details on how to choose a good blog title, read our article How To Start A Blog.

Step 3: Blog URL

Select a blog URL for your blog in the step. Your blog URL should be unique and easy to remember. As you enter an address, Blogger calculates its availability. (Click on the images to open and enlarge)

Here in the following image, the user has entered a URL that is available.

Step 4: Create Your Blog!

After giving a carefully thought of blog title and a unique blog URL, click on the "Create Blog" button at the end of the dialog box. (Click on the image to open and enlarge)

Blogger shows a blog creation success message at the end.

You are ready to start posting/designing your blog right away!
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How To Start A Blog

2013-11-26T21:18:00.000+05:00

So you probably have been wondering how every one claims to be a "blogger" and oh, does it sound so impressive. All those people who seem to assert their thoughts and opinions in the most effective way. Now every one can be a blogger! It does not require complicated steps or even any charge in most options. So I put THE question up front and let you decide:

Would YOU like to be a blogger?

If you're answer is "yes" then you have come to the right place. Here are a few simple points you need to consider before starting your new blog.

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1. What writing topic appeals to you?

What is it that gets your motor thinking? This step is what your entire blogging activity will focus around and the best part is, it doesn't necessarily have to be a big shot topic. You need to find out what is it that appeals to you. It can be anything from home making to teaching, from politics to home gardening, from fashion to health oriented topics, or simply a place where you jot down your creative ideas; short stories, poems, etc or plain updates. If you run your own business, a blog can be the perfect fit to communicate any news/updates about your product with your customers. My personal suggestion: whatever topic you choose, make it authentic by adding your own personal touch. That way people can relate to you more. Make it yours!

Some popular blogging topics are:
- Food
- Health tips
- Weddings
- Fashion
- Parenting
- Technology
- Personal or small business
- Gardening
- Creative writing, i.e. poems and prose
- News and politics
- Current affairs
- Entertainment blog, e.g., music, movies, celeb blogs etc.
- Art blogs, e.g., photography, painting, etc.
And many more.

2. To host or not to host

This is one of decisions you need to make before starting your new blog. You can either opt for a free blogging service or sign up for self hosting.

Free blogging platforms:

While this is easy to learn and ideal for beginners, free blogging platforms offer less flexibility and certain limitations. A free blogging platform like Blogger uses its own domain yourblogname.blogspot.com while you use their platform for your blogging purposes for free. However, you can choose to buy your own custom domain and redirect your blogspot.com URL to this new custom domain with no charge to Blogger. We will discuss in detail using a custom domain for your Blogger blog in later posts.

Hosting Options:

There are several very good hosting options available on the Internet like Wordpress that offer good self hosting options for a small annual fee. Though these hosting options take some time for beginners to get acquainted to, they are very flexible and will give the owner more benefits in the long run. Since this blog is all about how a free blogging service, Blogger, works, we will not focus on self hosting options till in later chapters.

3. Choosing a Platform

There are many blogging platforms available, both free services and hosting facilities that charge a small fee. Based on your needs, you can choose which platform suits you best. In a snapshot, here are some of the most popular blogging platforms you can choose from:
- Blogger :- Free blogging platform with all basic facilities, focusing on free options for controlling blog layout and design. There are many other reasons why you should choose Blogger as your blogging platform which we will discuss later on.
- Wordpress :- Free (with partial paid services) blogging service that offers limited layout and design features when used for free and more features and control when used as paid hosting.
- Tumblr :- For image based blogs
- Typepad :- Similar to Blogger, but with less flexibility. Ideal for beginner level bloggers who are more concerned with their content for now.
We will explore more on how to choose the blogging platform of your choice, based on your needs.

4. Blog title and optional tagline

This can be anything of your choice but one thing to keep in mind is that it shouldn't be too arbitrary or dull as to lure off a potential reader. A blog title should be short and preferably unique as well as loyal to the whole concept of your blog. For example, a gardening blog can have the name "The Love Of Gardening". Similarly, if a gardening blog were to have the name of "Home Making", which is a wider term, the reader will not instantly know what area of home making this blog is about. On the other hand, if you own a personal blog, you can use your own name as the blog title. For example, my personal blog has the name "Mehreen Farhan". I use my blog space to write creative pieces or just random things I come across. If it were a gardening or a news update blog, then naming it "Mehreen Farhan" would not only be misleading, but also off the whole topic, unless I was already some known personality.

In short, keep in mind the following:
- Blog title should be short and unique
- It should highlight the concept of your blog
- You can use blog tag line to further illustrate the purpose of your blog.

A good practice is to decide on a blog title and stick with it. Most readers will naturally associate your blogs through your blog title and may Google it up frequently to stay connected. So it's best to stick with a title and make it easier for people to find you on the Web.

5. Blog URL

Just like a blog title, a reader might associate your blog with its URL so its important to come up with an easy to remember blog URL and stick with it. While there are options where you can redirect your blog URL to another URL, if your source URL changes, you can lose a lot of readers unless they are informed off the record e.g. by email or any other notification process. So in order to minimize any risk of readership loss, think through a good blog URL and keep it. Your blog URL appears as: <your blog URL>.blogspot.com in case of Blogger URLs. For example, my gardening blog "The Love Of Gardening" can have that the URL theloveofgardening.blogspot.com. This will help my readers find my blog more easily if they happen to remember either the title or URL.

Here's a small checklist to keep in mind while deciding on a blog URL:
- It is a good practice to match your blog title with your blog URL.
- It is best to use symbols such as underscores "_" and dash "-" as less as possible.
- Use readable words like "theloveofgardening.blogspot.com" in your URL instead of word combinations like "sfghu.blogspot.com" which make it almost impossible for a reader to keep in mind easily.

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Once you are done with these five simple steps, you are half way done to starting your new blog. This was a general thought process to set up your blog. We will move onto see how to set up a new blog on Blogger in the next post.

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The Storyteller

2013-08-18T05:00:00.003+05:00

She liked telling stories. The kind that left her listeners hanging between a certainty and an irresistible suspense. She liked leaving them half ecstatic, half yearning for more. That didn't make her a bad person though. She liked to leave a story in between so it could hang mid air among her people, giving them something fascinating to think about while she worked up the next move of her characters. Her audience would inevitably wait for more because they knew she gave a beautiful ending to each of her tale.

Like her stories, she was a dreamy creature. It seemed as though when she walked out in the sunlight, the light went straight inside and through her. Some people swore there were moments when they caught her giving off a dull, a strange light; her lips would curve into a lazy smile that she seemed unaware of. It was the beautiful sunlight she absorbed by day, some said. But the wise old woman of the village said it was a kind of "goodness" that shone softly in the dark. Whatever it was, what we do know is that it was something only she possessed.

Ever since she was little, she loved listening to stories of the stars and worlds beyond, of things unknown to most people. She wondered how it was that her father knew all of these strange lands and new people, of difficult languages and magical creatures. No one really believed him but her. She believed in every word he told her. She learnt early on that to be a good storyteller, you needed to be someone clear at heart and see the world with a different eye.

Her stories didn't revolve around handsome princes and far off kingdoms. Like her father, her mission was show people how strange and beautiful this world was. She wove her tales around magic and fantasy, and ended them with a touch of hope. Too much hope can be a dangerous thing, so she made sure she left them with a safe amount of this magical hope to keep them going. Little children ought to keep their eyes on the finer things in life, she said; things like hope, pursuit of happiness and a keen sense of wonder.

The children loved her and they often followed her stealthily when she up the mountains bare foot to think over her stories. She found solace immensely relaxing and said she developed her characters better that way. She created vivid characters that spoke to her and taught her the kind of things father used to tell when he was alive. They said they knew her father and had chosen her to be their storyteller because she fully understood the legacy her father had imparted to her. Sometimes, they brought her father along with them for visits. Those were some of her most favorite times. She sat there with him till evening and he would sing the songs fairies and elves sung deep in the forest.

The storyteller's life was itself uneventful, but that she made other people's lives eventful by her animated stories was something people remembered many, many years after her. No one knows what exactly happened to her but the most prevalent story is that she went away with fairies and elves. She was a beautiful girl with a beautiful heart who gave many stories to people to fall in love with. She just went on to be a beautiful story herself. Even now, after thousands of years have passed, children who go up that mountain have often reported meeting a sweet girl with skin as radiant as the sun. She sits next to them and tell them beautiful stories of wondrous things and magical creatures. She sings like the fairies and goes away before the sun comes down, leaving a little something for every child who visits.

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Giveaway: Win a free pair of glasses of your choice!

2013-08-17T22:18:00.000+05:00

Sunglasses are so cool! You might want a specific one of your color choice or style, but oh, they can cost so much. If you're a regular reader of The Perfect Line, you're in some luck.

As the admin of this site, want to express my sincere thanks to you for being a dedicated reader of my mag site. Entering the following giveaway, you will be able to win a free pain of eyeglasses/sunglasses of your choice. But first, a little something about my friend Firmoo, which is sponsoring this giveaway.

Please continue reading to enter this giveaway.

The reason I chose Firmoo to be my sponsoring partner for this giveaway was not an monetary incentive by any means. Also, I am not getting any free glasses out of this along with you. The reason why I chose Firmoo is because last year they sent me a free pair of glasses as a gift too. My genuine feedback about them is that they are durable, stylish and top quality. It made the perfect gift. After that I went on to refer Firmoo to my mom and husband too, who found it equally good. Firmoo is the World's Most Popular Online Eyeglasses Store. We have always been committed ourselves to offering customers the best quality products at the most affordable prices which start at 8 dollars- 80%-90% lower compared to that in local store. Furthermore, Firmoo has launched First Pair Free Program for new customers to test our products and service for free by paying shipping only. You can get your first free eye wear here: http://www.firmoo.com/free-glasses.html.

So Perfect Liners, as a token of my gratitude for being an amazing audience, you will win a free pair of eye wear of your choice! Are you excited?? I sure am!

How to Enter the Giveaway

Please read the following instructions carefully to enter this giveaway.

1. Like our Facebook page The Perfect Line. Make a quick wall post telling us you entered this giveaway.

2. Visit the page http://www.firmoo.com/classic-series.html and select any eye wear of your choice.

3. In the comments section of this contest page, write the code number of the glasses of your choice. Be sure to use your Facebook name and email address while leaving the comment so I can contact the winner. The winner has to follow Step (1) to have a valid entry.

4. Two lucky winners will be selected using random.org who will get free eye wear (without free shipping) of their choice.*

5. Share this giveaway contest page with your friends and get a chance to win one free eye wear with free shipping. To make sure we know it's you, request your friends to like The Perfect Line Facebook page and make a wall post telling us who referred them. This additional wall post step is for my ease. Help me out!
The contestant who brings in most friends will win a free eye wear with free shipping.*

6. This contest is valid till 31st August, 2013. Winners will be announced shortly afterwards.

So get moving and fill out this small steps to get a chance to win your free eye wear. And if you want it all completely free, including the shipping, get many friends to enter this contest.

Good luck!! :)

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Ramadan; What Did It Leave Behind In You?

2013-08-13T15:53:00.001+05:00

Belated Eid Mabrook to everyone!

The blessed month of Ramadan has left us. Though we are sad, but we are also glad that it left us as better human beings. Ramadan brings with it so much festivities where we Muslims rejoice in praying for Allah Almighty. Everyone makes a hasty effort to collect as many neki (good deeds) as possible as they can. It is not selfish to be hasty in this endeavor, for Allah loves those who want to please Him. Being away from my family and friends, they were all so near my heart, joined in prayer. We all were chanting the same words, looking at the same sky, heads bowed in prayers, reading the same Quran and thinking the same things. Ramadan is one of the beautiful times when all Muslims, regardless of their color, race, language, unite hearts. Such a glorious gift from Allah!

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Ramadan has now gone, but Insha'Allah, God willing, it will return for us next year. Do not forget what it taught you this year. Do not lose the teachings of compassion to one another and submission to Allah Almighty. If you are troubled, make Him your secret sharer. And if, Masha'Allah, you are happy and content, do not forget to thank Him. Strive to be amongst His favorites, the people who He chose to bless in bounty. Fear Him and make utmost efforts to defeat shaytaan. The wisdom of this life is keeping in mind the next. Know that you will be accountable for each and everything and you will automatically set all your matters straight.

In the end, this life which at times seems so big and magnanimous, is in fact a very small fraction of what is to come. What Allah wants to see is how we balance the two, this wordly life and the aakhirah. He is ever willing to guide us and to forgive us if we fall astray. Our Lord is a Pardoning Lord, Who loves to pardon.

May He grant us the wisdom of this life and the next and the courage of choosing every right over every wrong. Ameen!

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How To Change Your Life (without pushing yourself)

2013-08-06T03:17:00.002+05:00

I am going through a phase of change. Not only did I switch my place of living, but I am going through a change that runs deep under the skin. Owing to that, I have a ton of things going on inside and around me. I need to wait out this paradigm shift and feel some ground before I decide where it is that I have come to. That is exactly my topic of discussion today.

Change. It is a one word bomb that will set most people to unrest. Whether the impending change is good or bad for us, only time will tell, but most of it is based on common sense. Literally. While we may not possess the power to foresee our future, God has equipped us with a little piece of magic called "common sense". No pun intended. Your common sense and a basic general knowledge of the things surrounding your point of concern will go a long way.

So what is it that can make a change good for you? Or, let me rephrase. How can you change for the better? The key is consistency.

What is it that you want to accomplish? You may get all sorts of answers.

I want to be happy.
I want to help people.
I want to be a somebody.
I want to be a book writer.
I want to win a so and so award.
I want to lose weight.
I want to gain weight.
I want to learn French.
I want to live a healthy lifestyle.
I want to excel at my job.
I want to learn programming.
I want to start my own business.
I want to build my own house.
I want to settle down.

The list is endless. As long as there are people on this planet, this list will keep on growing and growing and keep getting weirder and weirder. Dreams are good. Achievable dreams are better. But weird dreams are the best.

So how do we go about reaching our goal?

I tell you what. The more you pressurize yourself into achieving a goal, the more likely you are going to opt out of it.

If you want to be a book writer and want to see it finished in, say, a year, you might be pushing yourself too hard. On the other hand, if you go easy on yourself and allow yourself the liberty of writing only for 10 minutes daily, you might come up with something better. The key being, I'm repeating myself, consistency.

If you want to lose weight, don't start off with the intense stuff right away. Exercise is hard work. If it wasn't, obesity wouldn't be such a big problem today. Go slow on yourself, make step by step progress to build stamina. Be good to your body and it will be good to you. And don't forget to celebrate milestones, however small they may be. That will keep you going.

Do you want to learn a new language? Start with the alphabet. Don't jump right onto words. In case you're wondering, that was a metaphor. Take time to sink in the basics. Don't fret if you haven't covered all the basics in the first week. Learning a new language is a complete project that requires time, devotion and consistency. No kidding.

Similarly, you can accomplish all your dreams with the one magic word: consistency. You shouldn't be worried about how slow you go, as long as you keep going.

Change is a marvelous thing. It builds people. Change is fearful because it is sometimes unknown. It's always good to be prepared but even if you aren't, take each day as it comes. Learn bit by bit, go steady and remain true to whatever you're aiming for. You have a whole world to conquer! Dream on.

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Lost And Found - Wonderful Wednesday

2013-07-31T04:27:00.001+05:00

I would like to know

what it feels to be lost.

Because when you are lost,

you find things you never

expected to find.

The funny thing about

getting lost is

that the things you find

were there all along.

Isn't it strange?

A journey on lost and found

will be quite a thrilling one.

I wonder what you will find,

I wonder who will you find.

I wonder who will you recognize.

Maybe you will return

a changed person.

Maybe you will come back

with a subtle knowledge of

who you were all along.

If you chance to get lost

once in your lifetime,

I hope you find

the person you truly are or

the person who makes you find you.

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Wait, was this a poem?

In case you're wondering, no it isn't. This is just a regular writing exercise for me where I sit and think over what a certain image brings to my mind. I let the words flow regardless of any constraints of word selection and rhyme. Sometimes it turns out great, sometimes it falls apart like lose strings. Either way, it's a wonderful exercise for creativity to flourish. If you are experiencing a writer's block or just can't get into a writing routine due to any reason, practice this exercise to help you get started. Cheers!

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The Power Of A Deed

2013-07-30T04:29:00.000+05:00

I am thrilled to experience the power of a deed that we humans carry. You are more susceptible to this knowledge once you step out of comfort zone.

I recently moved country. The experience was exciting as well as a little stressful. The stressful part of this journey lied in fear of the unknown. But what made my husband's and my heart confident was the fact that we had a loving family and a really good meaning group of friends behind. When you live outside your hometown, you have this family-like feeling for people belonging to the same place as you. A common city makes the bond seem stronger; an old classmate or an old colleague even closer. Such was our case. We had an amazing group of friends that were also like a very cool support system. The love and care we shared with these friends was on a very shared basis. Like family.

What I mean is, doing a good deed to someone, be it as little as a kind word spoken, has a wonderful effect on you as a person as well. We like to know that we are liked and that makes us more positive, more happy and more optimistic. Never miss out a chance to say a kind word, a good deed or a helping hand to anyone you meet in life, let alone a friend. What you give to them comes back manifold. It adds to your own personal beauty. It shapes you as someone bright and cheerful.

The photo I used in this post definitely carries a much deeper meaning, but for me, it talked about friendship, love and caring. The power of a deed goes a long way off. Give it out generously, fully and openly.

Till next time!

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15+ Colorful Sandals for Summer 2013

2013-07-02T17:18:00.001+05:00

With summer in its full swing, girls are keen on the new and colorful summer trends. One must summer fashion is that of sandals. Sandals come in a variety, formals, casuals and the very famous, beach sandals. In rejoice of summer, they come in vibrant colors and styles. Coupled with bright, funky toe nail polish, sandals are the way to be this summer.

Enjoy a collection summer sandal trends for 2013. Hope you like them. Don't forget to share!

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50 She Quotes that Celebrate Womanhood

2013-06-29T20:19:00.001+05:00

Women are beautiful creatures. Not only by the way they look, but for what they do for the rest of the population. It takes a woman to make a home out of empty houses. Her nature is that of endless nurturing. As a sister, she is the perfect companion; as a lover, she is the perfect companion; and as a mother, she is the perfect protector. She may not have physical strength like men do, but she has courage and strength that goes way more deep. She can endure hardships, whether they come from the world or from her own body. She carries her baby in her womb and then brings that baby safely into the world enduring excruciating pain. Her love is so selfless, in whatever role she may be, that words and poems fail to describe the magnanimity of her beauty.

Enjoy a unique collection of 50 images that compliment this woman, whoever and wherever "She" may be!

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