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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Beautiful Floating Lanterns
Wow! This is beautiful!
Since it's Lantern Festival on Sunday, I would like to share this with you. Lantern Festivals are held 15 days after the Chinese New Year, when the first full moon goes out. It also signifies the end of the new year celebrations.
The videoclip below is from a 2007 Lantern Festival in Taiwan.
Lanterns are floated up into air carrying prayers for love, happiness and abundance.
If your family’s attending a Chinese New Year party or hosting one this month, make sure to get your daughter a nice girls chinese dress to wear.And just to make things even more fun for her, why not try face painting!
Not an artist? No problem. Face painting is not just for talented artists. Anyone can do it—especially you! Moms can learn face painting quickly. It’s just like doing a full make up but using water-based face paints instead. If you start practicing in your spare time, you will be ready to paint your daughter’s face for Chinese New Year! Get a couple of face-painting ideas today and try them on your daughter. Have fun!
Here are some tips for face painting:
Choose a brand that is non-toxic, highly tested, and safe for skin. They should be easy to wash off. Using non-FDA approved paints can cause allergic reactions to the skin.
Use sponges to fill up large areas of the face. Use small fine pointed brushes for more detailed work.
Always use a clean sponge, a supply of clean water, and lots of tissue!
Apply light colors first and allow paint to dry first before applying another coat or layer.
Better not do of a full face on younger kids. It’s best to work faster on them, so they don’t get bored or irritated.
Parades, beautiful lanterns, elaborate floats, cute kids in girls chinese dresses, and fireworks all make Chinese New Year fun for everybody. And no Chinese New Year celebration is truly complete without a dragon dance or a lion dance, but a tiger dance??? Well, this year the Metal Tiger gets the much-deserved spotlight too....and boy can it dance!
It’s only natural for us moms to get a little stressed during holidays.That’s because we’re more than just moms. We are a lot of things. Aside from being moms, we also happen to be the family’s household manager, executive chef, and EVENT PLANNER --all in one beautiful package!
Now with Chinese New Year being less than two weeks away, I’m sure some of us already made plans, because for the whole family to simply stay home during the Chinese New Yearcelebration would seem passe when there are Lion Dances, elaborate floats, fun parades, and special Chinese programs for everyone to enjoy, right?
So start shopping for new clothes for the whole family. A new red coat for you, a tiger shirt for dad, girls Chinese dress and kung fu costumes for your kids and you’ll be ready to party!
Even my non-Chinese friends rely on Feng Sui consultation as where to put certain objects at their homes and business offices to attract positive vibes. As the Chinese New Year is coming, we once again search for the right colors to wear, right Chinese lucky charms and right places to keep them. I found out that the color for the Year of the Tiger is BLUE and LIGHT YELLOW. Blue is for nourishment which will increase our productivity and eventually our chances of making more money. Light Yellow is for peace within ourselves, our family and the people around us. For more specific color schemes, I found out that it also depends on which year you were born.
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Boy's Blue Traditional Chinese Pants Set with frog buttons (embroidered), mandarin collar, dragon brocade, golden edging, and includes a hat with a pigtail!
Blue for people who are born on year of the rat, rabbit, dragoon, snake and rooster
White or light yellow- for people born on year of the ox, tiger, sheep and monkey
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Girl's beautiful red traditional Chinese dress pant set. This style was the traditional Chinese clothing worn during the Ching Dynasty (1644-1911 AD). This elegance red Chinese dress/pant set will transform your little girl to a beautiful and elegant Chinese princess!
Red/Violet is for people born on the year of the horse
It's nice to know all these thing and it won't hurt if we believe in them. As long as we do not rely on them entirely, we are safe. Plus I am a believer that what our mind can conceive, we can achieve. Success is mind over matter. We will have it with or without charms.
Yes, all 40 million of them! In fact, one could be on its way to your mailbox right now.
Yesterday while I was busy oohhing and aaahing over our new look, I completely forgot to tell you about the 40 million tiger stamps that the U.S. Postal Service released in L.A. just a few days ago! Now that’s a lot of tigers! But that’s not all, to commemorate Year of the Tiger, some countries are even making special tiger coins! It seems like more and more people are soaking up the pre-Chinese New Year atmosphere. I also heard about “Tiger Shoes” being popular nowadays. I bet a good pair of those will go well with my daughter’s redcheongsam!
Girl's beautiful red traditional Chinese dress pant set. This style was the traditional Chinese clothing worn during the Ching Dynasty (1644-1911 AD). This elegance red Chinese dress/pant set will transform your little girl to a beautiful and elegant Chinese princess!
Girl's beautiful red traditional Chinese dress (QiPao or qi pao). Red is symbolic of good luck, vitality, and the New Year in the Chinese Culture! Gold brocaded Red Cloth of bamboo and plum leaves are symbolic of longevity.
