Write a name, a phrase or any text in chocolate.  Just in time for the holidays or for anyone who loves chocolate!

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NOTE: You can’t save the entire picture unless you take a screenshot or save each letter and then combine them.

I like updating my Wordles from time to time.

Here’s the latest for my blog:

And here’s my del.icio.us wordle:

Create your Wordle here.

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Christmas Baby Names: Festive Ideas For Naming Your Child

Are you expecting this Christmas, and wracking your brains to come up with an appropriately themed name for your baby? Maybe you got pregnant around December or got married then and the holiday season has special significance to you. If so, here are a few ideas for your bundle of joy.

Boys Names

Alfredo – Christmas elf.

Casper – one of the three kings who visited the Christ child in the bible.

Celyn – meaning ‘holly’.

Christian – ‘A Christian’ – as a lot of people celebrate Christmas as the anniversary of the birth of Christ, this might appeal to you if you are more traditional.

Christopher – ‘A Christian’.

Claus – from Saint Nicholas, or ‘Santa’, the bringer of presents.

Dion – from the Greek God of wine, intoxication and partying. Good if you have Greek roots.

Ealhdun – Christmas elf.

Eldan / Elden – Christmas elf.

Epifanio – the season which follows Christmas.

Euell – ‘Yule’. This one is a good one if you want a festive name but aren’t particularly religious.

Gabriel – from the Angel Gabriel. Gabriel was the Angel who visited Mary to let her know she was pregnant with the baby Jesus.

Ingel – meaning ‘Angel’.

Jasper – one of the three kings who visited the baby Jesus in the bible.

Jesus

Joesph – the carpenter, Mary’s husband.

Malachi / Malakai – God’s messenger. It can also mean ‘Angel’.

Michael – the Angel of love and families.

Moore – from Clement Clarke Moore, who was the author of ‘T’was the Night Before Christmas.’

Natal – Jesus’ birth.

Natalio – masculine version of Natal and Natalie, meaning Jesus’ birth.

Nicholas – from Saint Nicholas, or ‘Santa’.

Noel – ‘Christmas Time’. It can also be spelt Noell and Nowell.

Robin – ‘Robin Red Breast’, the Christmas bird.

Snowden – ’snow’.

Tannon – from the Christmas carol, ‘O Tannenbaum’.

Wynter – ‘Winter Time’.

Yule – the winter festival. Great for those who are non-religious, more spiritual than religious, or pagan.

Girls Names

Angel / Angelina / Angelica – all names for Angel.

Avery – Christmas elf.

Belle – could be for Christmas bells if you wanted to theme it this way.

Carol or Carolle – from Christmas carol.

Christmas.

Christine / Christina / Kristina – ‘A Christian.’

Christy – a form of Christine, ‘A Christian.’

Eira – ’snow’.

Gabrielle / Gabriella – feminine version of the Angel Gabriel, the angel who told Mary she was pregnant with the baby Jesus.

Glory / Gloria – from the Glory of God.

Holly – from holly tree.

Hope.

Ivy – a Christmas plant.

Josephine / Joesphina / Josie – feminine forms of Joesph the carpenter, husband of Mary.

Mary / Maria – Jesus’ mother.

Merry – from Merry Christmas.

Michaela – feminine version of the Angel Michael, Angel of love and families.

Natalie or Natalia – Jesus’ birth.

Natasha – Jesus’ birth.

Neva – ‘Snow’.

Nicole / Nicola – from Saint Nicholas, or ‘Santa’.

Noelle – Christmas time. Feminine version of Noel.

Robyn – feminine version of Robin, the Christmas bird.

Star.

Talia – a version of Natalia, Jesus’ birth.

Tasha / Tashia – a form of Natasha, Jesus’ birth.

Virginia – ‘Virgin’, from the virgin birth.

Winter.

If you go passed your due date and end up with a New Year’s baby, here are a few more choices:

Boys New Year Names

Newman – ‘new arrival of the year.’

Newlyn – ‘new year.’

Newcombe – ‘new arrival of the year.’

Nova – meaning ‘new’.

Renae / Renee – French for ‘reborn’ or ‘reincarnated’, perfect for the new year, particularly if you’ve had a previous pregnancy loss.

Walid – meaning ‘newborn.’

Girls New Year Names

Aurora – Goddess of the Dawn.

Dawn – morning time.

January – after the month.

Renee / Renata – French for ‘reborn’ or ‘reincarnated’.

Usha – meaning ‘dawn’.

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On the website below, you’ll find these couches:

1) Stuffed animals

2) Slouch couch

3) Mountain couch

4) Computers

5) Grass couch

6) Bunk bed couch

7) Coffin

Car

9) Cadillac

10) Abstract

10) Cactus couch

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Find them all here.

At the website below, you will find 30 “get-you-talking” advertisements.  Here are my picks from:

MAJOR BRANDS

Image kuteev

CHARITIES

Image The Inspiration Room

Image Frederik Samuel

PHARMACEUTICALS

Image I Believe in Advertising

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Find all the ads here.

Presenting a calendar made of matches…

“The idea was to create as unique a calendar so that the process of its presenting would become an outstanding event.  Alongside with this, it was important to expose the idea of “energy”, as it is predetermined by the name and logo of the company.  Each page is a month and it looks like a comb made of matches that correspond to the days.  The matches are real and the construction of the calendar is absolutely safe.”

Specifics

• 9.8 inches wide, 5 inches high.
• Bound on metal spring 1.2 inches diameter
• Silk printing 2 colors.
• Matches are dipped in a special chemical solution and covered with sulphur, striking surface stripes are applied on both sides of a stand base.

from Calendar Made of Matches

These totally fall in the ‘weird’ category …

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What a powerful visual hook!  I’d like to add more but it would spoil the ending…I’ll bet you can’t tell what this captivating commercial is for.

If that’s not enough, look at the jpg ad on their website.

Well?  What are your thoughts about the video and image?  Were you surprised?

A couple purchased this old church in Kyloe, North Cumberland, England.  They invested lots of money to keep the outside and inside as it was, and restored instead of renovated (3 times more money).

What a heavenly idea!

My favorites images are #2 and #9…

Source: From a forwarded email

Financial Orgami!  Here are my three favorites:

Money Hats

Money Suits

Money Bears

Click here to see the other seven.

Reality with a twist.

It’s unique.  It’s unexpected.  It’s Perspectives.

See the new Christian Perspectives magazine on the site.

And the punch line…

How cool is this!

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I just love these!  Bravo to the one behind the hand.

CANOEIST

CONDUCTOR

FOOTBALL PLAYER

GOALKEEPER

PEACOCK

PIANIST

WEIGHT-LIFTER

From an email.

I just love creative, unique things.  You know, things that make you say, “How cool is that!”  Well, artist Peter Root, created one of them…

“Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic. Like a city, the staples are subject to the elements, on a micro scale. The slightest breath or vibration and the domino effect kicks in.”  Source

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WOW!  More spectacular photographs by artist Gordon McBryde

(all rights reserved; see link below) …

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Gordon McBryde

Wow!  Look at the desktop wallpapers that you’ll find at this site…

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These images are quite inspiring.  Here are my favorites…

You’ll also find typographic portraits of:

• Barak Obama
• Bob Dylan
• Martin Luther King
• Whitney Houston

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If you’re looking for unique products, Inventibles fits the bill.  My favorites:

Transparent toaster

Time-sensitive bills

Rubber Umbrella

Found on imgspark.com

I just thought I’d share these cute images with you…

Have a great 2009!

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I thought I’d seen the best wallpaper until I saw this website!

You are even able to zoom in to see the details.

Absolutely breath-taking images.

Here some samples of what you’ll find…

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If you know of any other wallpaper sites, please post them!

Here are some ‘beer’ photos with links from around the web:

Beer-bottle organ

Beer bottle Christmas tree

Beer bottle outline

Beer bottle chandelier for your pool table

Beer bottle openers

Have one on me!

If you like ‘out-of-the-ordinary’ places to visit, you’ll want to check out this site.  You can search for lighthouse, train, underwater cave, igloo and castle hotels.  They are rated as wow, outrageous, wacky, unusual, and different.

Heat sensitive wallpaper from Shi Yuan.  As the heat rises, flowers bloom on the vine-covered paper.

Before & After

More details here.

See more “creative” wallpaper (i.e. digital, or paper that creates a distorted ripple effect around objects) here.