Has it always been your reverie to open a restaurant of your own and arrogantly serve the beef casserole that has earned you compliment since you made it at your cousin’s wedding eighteen years ago? Well, now that you have arranged strategies for setting up your own eating restaurant you will get compliments from those other than your husband and children as well.
The restaurant business is a competitive one. It is all about satisfying the customer. There are many eating restaurants between low, mid-range and high end dining experiences.
How your restaurant appearance is as significant as how the food tastes. This has much to do with customer feedback than anything else. But let’s be realistic. You don’t want to miss out on customers to the Chinese restaurant across your own just because their tables are better set with cleaner cloth than yours.
In the same way how you introduce your menu card making is as important as how you serve the real food. Most of the customers venture maximum time just after eating the food. Therefore, your menu card should have all the items listed conveniently for the customers to read. You should make certain that the print on the menu card is apparent in the lighting you have set up inside.
Resolve on how you plan to hand out your menu card making. Do you like the alcohol and food to be clubbed together? Or do you like breaking it down to the details. In the latter case, you have a menu each for the alcohol, appetizers and main course and a separate one for dessert, coffee and non-alcoholic beverages.
There are menu card making holders ready for you to place the menu in if you don’t like to bind it in a diary style. Take time in buying these holders in numbers. Buy as many as you like as you should put the menu card at every corner you possibly can. Every table should have their own menu, as should the bar and the waiting table near the reception right after the entrance.
You can select between wooden menu card holders, or the ones made from stainless steel. If you are on a budget crunch then you may even go for the acrylic ones which are easy to clean. The only thing you should make certain is that they are of the right size to suit the card in and they are cleaned always so that there are no spill of food or marks of oily finger prints left by customers on them the next day.
You will be astonished to know how many people determined to get into your restaurant on a day to eat because they thought yours was cleaner than the one across the street. What you choose for your menu cardmaking is up you as long as the people want to eat at a place that is clean and comfortable. That is all you need to have in mind when starting a restaurant of your own.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Elegant Photo Wedding Card Invitation
Wedding invitations is just a fraction of all the expenses in your wedding but don’t overlook its importance. A wedding card is as essential as the wedding photography and as your wedding dress. You should spend some time to search for an alternative for your special day.
Wedding invitations are so vital for it sets the tone of your wedding. It is the first thing that your guests will base their impressions on how your wedding will go. Definitely you would like to give your guests only the best when it comes to your weddings and so you want to have an impressive and refined invitation card.
It is not really easy to come out with wedding invitations that are exceptionally beautiful.
There are a lot of assorted designs in the market and it is up to you what design suit your taste. It is very common for couples to print their wedding invitation in full colour and this means you can put your colored pictures in the card. You will be able to make a photo wedding invitations.
Colored wedding cards are special and unique because the photos in the card are your photos. Using a photo invitation will have you the chance of telling your guests about the theme of your wedding. For example you’re having a garden wedding. Planning a garden wedding will be a lot of fun. You can choose a photo which shows you with a lush and beautiful garden as your background, so that the guests will know that it is a garden wedding when you send them the wedding invitation. It will be perfect because the wedding cards could be a reflection of your love for nature and the theme of your event.
Now that we are in a modern world, the theme should be coordinated with the one that suits your mood on your wedding celebration. Most of us are tired of seeing traditionally made wedding cards. So, usually couples choose hand crafted wedding card to make the cards unique and more exciting. There are lots of choices for you these days.
To create the most perfect design, you need to work with a designer regarding the design of your photo wedding invitations. If not you can shop online for it is the most convenient place to buy your cards. All you need to do is to order and they will just deliver it to days after you ordered.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
An Eco-Friendly Approach to Card Making
Have you ever seen art made from scrap, from discarded materials, empty bottles and soda cans, plastic containers and the like? Have you seen those colorful bags made of sewn-together tetra packs? People are becoming more and more environmentally aware of the negative impact that comes from the discarded wastes of our lifestyles. That is why the 3Rs – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – became a popular movement in the 1970s due to rising energy cost and global warming and is a continued practice today.
In card making and similar crafts like scrapbooking, there are many available materials that can be purchased in specialty stores and online markets. Yet during these times when being thrifty is a must and green-living is ideal, why not be practical in both your lifestyle and your art? Creativity, after all is reflected not in the price of the materials used, rather on the final product. If you are to use the 3Rs principle, you’d not only be saving dollars into purchasing expensive greeting cards, you’d also be saving the environment from much unnecessary waste, not to mention succeeding the challenge of producing something of value from discarded and pre-used items.
Card making is one of the crafts that anyone with a drop of creativity can do. It can be inexpensive and enjoyable to make and meaningful to the recipient. It can also be a means to reuse discarded items that would otherwise have ended up in the dumpster. Here are some ideas on how to use discarded items as card making accessories:
1. Used ribbons from gifts can be used as decorative ribbons in cards, and can be used to tie pages of the card together.
2. Old newspapers can be used in making paper mache.
3. Images from magazines can be cut and pasted to create a collage.
4. Discarded buttons, thread, beads, laces and other accessories used for sewing can be used as decoration.
5. Discarded cereal boxes can be used as the card itself, which can be covered by art paper or paper with print only on one side.
6. Used gift wrappers can be made into envelopes for the cards.
7. Used crayons can me melted and blown into the card for a unique design.
8. Cardboard could be replicated to make embossed designs.
Being practical doesn’t mean being cheap. Re-using and recycling materials definitely reduces wastes. By following the 3Rs in card making, objects that are wastes for many can be made to be something of value to some.
In card making and similar crafts like scrapbooking, there are many available materials that can be purchased in specialty stores and online markets. Yet during these times when being thrifty is a must and green-living is ideal, why not be practical in both your lifestyle and your art? Creativity, after all is reflected not in the price of the materials used, rather on the final product. If you are to use the 3Rs principle, you’d not only be saving dollars into purchasing expensive greeting cards, you’d also be saving the environment from much unnecessary waste, not to mention succeeding the challenge of producing something of value from discarded and pre-used items.
Card making is one of the crafts that anyone with a drop of creativity can do. It can be inexpensive and enjoyable to make and meaningful to the recipient. It can also be a means to reuse discarded items that would otherwise have ended up in the dumpster. Here are some ideas on how to use discarded items as card making accessories:
1. Used ribbons from gifts can be used as decorative ribbons in cards, and can be used to tie pages of the card together.
2. Old newspapers can be used in making paper mache.
3. Images from magazines can be cut and pasted to create a collage.
4. Discarded buttons, thread, beads, laces and other accessories used for sewing can be used as decoration.
5. Discarded cereal boxes can be used as the card itself, which can be covered by art paper or paper with print only on one side.
6. Used gift wrappers can be made into envelopes for the cards.
7. Used crayons can me melted and blown into the card for a unique design.
8. Cardboard could be replicated to make embossed designs.
Being practical doesn’t mean being cheap. Re-using and recycling materials definitely reduces wastes. By following the 3Rs in card making, objects that are wastes for many can be made to be something of value to some.
Cardmaking for the Handicapped and Elderly
Cardmaking and sending has become a multi-billion business in the world. Who could deny the happiness a simple card could bring during an occasion? The wonderful thing about cardmaking is that anyone can do it. Not only do the huge mass-producing companies and small businesses profit from this business, even those who are handicapped and elderly have found their own niche and are earning from this craft. Many different institutions were established to cater to help the handicapped and the elderly to be able to earn a living. One company is called THASC (The Handicapped and Senior Citizens) Sales Company, Inc. It has been around since 1977 and has under their employment more than a hundred handicapped, disabled and elderly artists. It is common now to see cards in the book and stationery stores that are made by these artists. Some are wonderful paintings that were made using the mouth or the foot of the handicapped or disabled. Their products not only feature greeting cards for all occasions, they also make business cards, address books and pocket planners. Income from the sales of these cards profits the institution allowing them to not only continue, but expand their operations which in turn benefits many.
Cardmaking for the handicapped and the elderly has not only profited them financially, it has also proven to be therapeutic. Being creative is an expression of the soul which is often times stifled with the pressures of everyday living. What more for the handicapped and elderly who must more often than not feel that they are already useless and are unable to contribute even for their own means of living? Aside from increasing ones self esteem from being able to earn money, cardmaking is a kind of healing art, which unlike traditional art where there are certain standards that the end products that need to meet; healing arts like intuitive painting is more expressive and lets one surrender to the creative process. Practicing art therapy, in methods such as cardmaking, painting and even the writing of messages, can have significant healing in the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual faculties of the person. For example, repressed emotions can be released when painting or when writing messages in greeting cards. Devotions of faith can be shared; and even physical activity and exercise is promoted.
Indeed, cardmaking for the handicapped and elderly has a plethora of benefits; and it would be a good thing to support these kinds of endeavors.
Cardmaking for the handicapped and the elderly has not only profited them financially, it has also proven to be therapeutic. Being creative is an expression of the soul which is often times stifled with the pressures of everyday living. What more for the handicapped and elderly who must more often than not feel that they are already useless and are unable to contribute even for their own means of living? Aside from increasing ones self esteem from being able to earn money, cardmaking is a kind of healing art, which unlike traditional art where there are certain standards that the end products that need to meet; healing arts like intuitive painting is more expressive and lets one surrender to the creative process. Practicing art therapy, in methods such as cardmaking, painting and even the writing of messages, can have significant healing in the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual faculties of the person. For example, repressed emotions can be released when painting or when writing messages in greeting cards. Devotions of faith can be shared; and even physical activity and exercise is promoted.
Indeed, cardmaking for the handicapped and elderly has a plethora of benefits; and it would be a good thing to support these kinds of endeavors.
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