Planning a Honeymoon? A book that will help you plan every step of the way, and show you the many places to visit is 'Honeymoon! A Sizzle or a Fizzle'.
Find it on Amazon and Smashwords
Celebrant, Vlady Peters, Redcliffe, Qld.
Monday, December 23, 2013
Honeymoon! A Sizzle or a Fizzle
Planning a Honeymoon? A book that will help you plan every step of the way, and show you the many places to visit is 'Honeymoon! A Sizzle or a Fizzle'.
Find it on Amazon and Smashwords
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Honeymoon with Father Christmas
For those couples who will be taking honeymoon with
their children, and who don’t mind the cold, there is the possibility of
introducing their children to Santa Clause himself, as well as his elves, by
visiting him in his Santa Clause village, in Finland. Here Santa Claus greets thousands of visitors from all over the
world every day of the year.
Santa Clause Village is
filled with shops showing arts and crafts from Finland, and also has its very
own Santa's Post Office, and Santa's own stamps, that lets you send mail to
friends back home.
To learn more about Christmas traditions all over the world,
the village includes the Christmas House, showing Christmas films, rare
Christmas decorations from Lapland, Finland, United Kingdom, Russia, Germany,
Iceland, Japan, France, Austria, Spain, Poland and USA.
Whether you’re young or old Santa Clause is happy to have
his photo taken with you.
Walk around the village, enjoy the giant snow man, slide
down the ice slides or visit the shops, cafes and the post office.
Other experiences include reindeer sleigh rides, dog sleigh
rides, snowmobile rides. Depending on the weather, you might even get to see the
northern lights in all their incredible colors.
For
those who would like to see the wildlife, there is a Wildlife Park with 50
species of wild arctic animals and 200 animal specimens, including polar bears,
brown bears, wolves, lynx, moose, deer, reindeer, squirrel, beaver as well as
numerous birds.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Casanova Did It First
Ever skirted that strip of nude beach and wondered how
it would feel to be one of those bodies?
Well, here’s your chance. Make your honeymoon a naturist
honeymoon, as the experts call it.
There’s a story about Giacomo Casanova, the story booklover, who took off all his clothes in Croatia, and swam out to sea without a
stitch on. Whether this was the beginning of Croatia’s naturist beaches, the
idea seemed to take off.
In 1936 royalty gave its approval when the then EnglishKing Edward VIII and his future wife, American socialite, Wallis Simpson, went
for a swim in the nude.
The royal approval was so appreciated by the
Croatians, that Kandarola, where the king and his partner took their swim is
sometimes called ‘English Beach’ or ‘Engleska Plaza’.
Since then, Croatia, lying on the Adriatic Sea,
welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors enjoying ‘Freikörperkultu’ as the
Germans call it. The word which stands for free body culture, is abbreviated to
FKK, and is on signs where the free body culture is practiced.
If you decide that FKK is for you, apart from Croatia,
you can skip to nearby countries such as Germany, Yugoslavia and France to
mingle with other uncovered bodies.
Based on 'Honeymoon! A Sizzle or a Fizzle' by Vlady Peters
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Sunday, November 17, 2013
Honeymoon and the Dancing Fountain
Looking for the fabulous and unique while on your honeymoon?
Visit Dubai and its Dancing Fountain.
One of world's modern wonders, Dubai's dancing fountain is the world's tallest fountain.
One of world's modern wonders, Dubai's dancing fountain is the world's tallest fountain.
It can be seen from
over 200 miles away up in space and can shoot water as high as a 50-storey building.
Fourteen times a day the fountain puts on a musical display
which occurs every 20 minutes, and lasts 3-5 minutes.
Some of the music to which the water jets dance, include All
Night Long by Lionel Ritchie and I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston, to
name just two.
Not only is this one of the hugest fountains in the world,
it is also one of the most expensive in the world, costing $217 million dollars
to build.
Article based on
by Vlady Peters
Dubai Dancing Fountain performing every 20 minutes, fourteen times a day.
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Monday, November 4, 2013
Creating a linked Table of Contents for Smashwords and Amazon
Table of Contents
Type out your Table of Contents where you want it to appear at the beginning of your book. Use normal paragraph style. That is, don’t use heading styles.
Part 1
Section 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Type out your Table of Contents where you want it to appear at the beginning of your book. Use normal paragraph style. That is, don’t use heading styles.
Part 1
Section 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Adding Bookmarks
Now go to the body of your manuscript and call up the Bookmark
function. In word 2007 it’s under Insert.
Highlight Part 1, then Insert: Bookmark. When
bookmark menu appears give your bookmark a name that’s easy to locate and
doesn’t get duplicated. For example you could name it ‘Partone’ or 'Part1' or
'Part_1'. Don’t use spaces and only use letters a-z and numbers 0-9. You can
also use the underscore.
Go through the rest of your book and bookmark all
those items that you’ve placed in the Table of Contents naming them in the same
way - Chapterone, Chapter1 and so on.
Go back to the Table of Contents itself and highlight
the phrase Table of Contents.
Bookmark it with the name ‘ref_TOC’. This is for the
benefit of Smashwords Meatgrinder.
Adding Links
Once you've created the bookmarks within the book, go
to the Table of Contents to begin linking the body of your work to the Table of
Contents.
Highlight Part 1. Go to the Insert tab and click on Hyperlink.On
the left side one of your options will be ‘Place in this Document’ which will
bring up your bookmarks. Click the bookmark with which you named Part 1 and
add.
Your Part 1 in the Table of Contents will now be a
blue hyperlink.
Go through the rest of the Table of Contents,
adding Hyperlinks to the Bookmarks that you’ve created.
To test the Hyperlink, press CNTR key while
clicking the link with your mouse.
Back to the top Links
To allow the reader to get back to the Table of
Contents after each section or chapter, simple make a hyperlink Back to the Top, using the bookmark ‘ref_TOC’
Getting
Rid of Hidden Bookmarks
As Word sometimes inserts hidden bookmarks into the
documents, once you’ve made sure that all your hyperlinks are working, call up
bookmarks again and check :hidden bookmarks which will look like HLt2398765389.
Delete
all but those bookmarks that you’ve created yourself.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Love at High Price
Apparently Kim
Kardashian's latest engagement ring, given to her by her third potential
husband, is a 15 carat emerald cut diamond. Elizabeth Taylor’s engagement ring
given to her by Michael Todd, also her third husband, was a 29.4
carat emerald cut diamond. I guess the difference is three, four, five million
dollars - give or take one or two or three.
For
those of you who are thinking of entering the engagement ring game, here’s a
few things you should be thinking about taken from my latest book, ‘Celebrating
Love’s Special Moments’.
Although
one can’t put a price on love, but must put a price on the ring, the couple
should decide what they can afford before they ever enter a jewellery store. Many
foolish gestures have been made by lovers who couldn’t resist the pleadings of
the beloved when faced with a ring that was ten times more expensive than they could
afford. Unscrupulous sales assistants play on the embarrassment of a person who
wants to say ‘no’, but at the same time fears to appear cheap or mean in front
of the one they love.
Mind
you, if at this stage one partner begins to feel that the other partner is
uncomfortably and unexpectedly careful about money, or, contrariwise, has no
regard for money at all, it could be that first hint that the partners might
not be quite as compatible as they thought. If they search their hearts
honestly now they avoid throwing that Separation Party in the future.
Apart
from looking at the stone, which hopefully won’t need to be done with a
magnifying glass, the next consideration will be the setting and the band. This
will be either gold, silver or platinum. Silver, being more plentiful than
gold, is cheaper but does not wear as well as gold. Platinum, another white
metal, is stronger than gold, but a lot more expensive.
If
the partners are comfortable with the idea that their engagement is leading
them directly to the alter and is not a probationary period, the wedding ring
will be chosen at the same time. It will ensure that the designs match, that
the bands are narrow enough to sit comfortably on the finger, and that the
metals are both equally durable and not likely to wear down by constantly
rubbing against each other.
From ‘Celebrating Love’s Special Moments,’ by Vlady M Peters. Includes Wedding Reception, Pre-wedding parties, Honeymoon, House Blessing, Separation, Retirement,
Empty Nest etc.
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Sunday, October 20, 2013
Baby Certificates with a Theme
When I conduct baby naming ceremonies I make a feature of handing out the certificates to people directory involved in the ceremony.
I call each one in turn to come out to receive the certificate while encouraging all the guests to take photographs of the recipient with the baby.
I usually begin with the person furtherest from the baby in terms of relationship and end with the closest.
This could be the the Great, Great Aunts, followed by Grand Parents, the Godparents, baby's brothers and sisters, and lastly the baby.
I have made one of my most popular certificate into a theme package, appropriately based on baby angels.
I call each one in turn to come out to receive the certificate while encouraging all the guests to take photographs of the recipient with the baby.
I usually begin with the person furtherest from the baby in terms of relationship and end with the closest.
This could be the the Great, Great Aunts, followed by Grand Parents, the Godparents, baby's brothers and sisters, and lastly the baby.
I have made one of my most popular certificate into a theme package, appropriately based on baby angels.
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Royal Wedding Gifts
Gifts seem to mean a great deal more when times are tough.
When in 1947, just two years after World War 11, Princess
Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, decided to get married, one of the
problems facing the Princess was her wedding outfit.
As the
potential monarch of England, Princess Elizabeth was expected to put on a royal
show on her wedding day despite the bleak economic outlook of the country which
affected her as much as anybody else.
Fortunately,
even governments seem to get a little sentimental at the mention of a wedding.
To make a bride feel special during this period of recovery, each bride
received two extra clothing coupons on top of their yearly 36 coupons. In the case of Princess Elizabeth, it was extra
two hundred coupons.
But
while in this case it was the Princess who received the gift, in 1914, during
the first World War, it was a Princess who did the giving.
Princess
Mary, 17 year old daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, organised an appeal
to raise funds so that every Sailor and every Soldier received a gift at
Christmas.
The
gift consisted of a tin filled with various items including tobacco, sweets. spices,
pencils, a Christmas card and a picture of the princess.
The
tin itself, in which these gifts were packed, was made of brass, 5" long by
3¼" wide by 1¼" deep with a hinged
lid. Embossed on the lid was the profile portrait of Princess Mary surrounded
with a wreath.
Around the lid is a border with ‘Imperium
Britannicum’ scripted on the top and ‘Christmas 1914’ down the bottom. In the
corners between decorations of flags, ships and weapons, are names of Britain's
allies.
Princess Mary's Christmas Gift 1914
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Saturday, October 12, 2013
Celebrating Love’s Special Moments
There
are times when couples are thinking of getting married, but feel that time is
not quite yet. There are also times when legal reasons make marriage impossible.
On
the other hand there are couples who love each other enough to set up a home
together, but find they just can’t get around to make their commitment a legal
one. They fall. into a state universally known as “procrastination”. Because it
takes some effort to actually get married they choose to do nothing at all.
To
simply do it by easy stages these couples go through the Commitment Ceremony to
tell each other that marriage is definitely on their agenda - just in case one
of them loses heart and becomes restless.
There
are also couples who start living together because they may be too young to get
married, or they may feel that they need to get to know each other better
before making their commitment a legal one. They may continue to go on like
this for years, effectively stopping their partner from looking elsewhere.
As
time goes by one may become quite eager to get married and start a family. The
other one may continuously find reasons why the marriage should be postponed
for just a little longer.
This
is often a subtle hint that the partner is not ready for a life time
commitment; and, quite often, will never be ready in this particular
relationship. Suggesting a commitment ceremony to such a reluctant partner may
force an honest examination of his or her feelings. The result may be a
decision to break up. In the long run
this may be the kindest and wisest thing to do, especially if partners
are no longer young and can’t afford five or six years of marking time.
A
Commitment is celebrated in the same spirit as the Renewal of Vows. Because it
is one of the newest additions to the ceremonies of love, the couple are free
to choose a ceremony and setting, its method of celebration, that truly reflects
their own feelings and aspirations.
Based on my book
CELEBRATING LOVE'S SPECIAL MOMENTS
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