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Monday, August 8, 2011

Romantic Date Ideas

   Your relationship is beautiful and unique. Being creative and romantic is an exiting and fun experience.
It always helps to have some ideas to get started with. You can let your imagination take you from there. Any of these ideas can be added to combined or recreated. It can be fun to take turns planning dates. Another fun part can be collecting all the memories you create. I love to take photos from each date and then create a special scrapbook page for each one. Take pictures of each other together, and also snapshots of little touches that made your evening memorable and special.



 Romantic Dates and Simple Ideas
  1. Fly a kite, have a picnic with a bottle of wine
  2. Catch fireflies, lay a blanket down and stargaze, if you want to you can use a book and identify stars 
  3. Camp out, light a fire, watch the stars, make a wish
  4. Hike to a waterfall and then have a picnic beside the falls. 
  5. Go on a horseback ride
  6. Play paintball, work as a team, or go against eachother
  7. Go to festivals.  Listen to the music, shop, enjoy a treat,  many more fun things to do!
  8. Frisbee and picnic by a park or lake
  9. Pick berries, you can make a pie together or treat with ice cream when you get home
  10. Play a game of tennis, find others to play with and play as a team or switch sides.
  11. Go to a fair or an amusement park, kiss before you go down a steep drop, ride a wet water ride, eat cotton candy and share, get a picture together
  12. .Go fishing or try night fishing with glowing bobbers and a lantern.
  13. Park and star gaze
  14. Go for a walk into the sunset holding hands
  15. Dance under the moonlight with music from your car 
  16. Sunbathe with squirt guns, or go swimming
  17.  Ride Bumper boats splash and spray for an afternoon of water fun.
  18. Go tubing down a river
  19. Car wash and hose each other on a hot day
  20. Go snorkling, picnic on the beach
  21. Garden together or plant something inside and watch it grow like your love
  22. Visit a water fountain, wear a cute outfit and take pictures
  23. Play tag, winner picks what they want to do
  24. Lazy canoe ride, enjoy each others company and some great conversation
  25. Go to a lake or beach, take a walk or swim, bring a net catch frogs or fish and take pictures
  26. Take a hike to somewhere beautiful a cave, drop off, river, waterfall, take pictures
  27. Set up a canopy, fill with twinkling white lights or candles, play a radio or mp3 with love songs softly in the background. Have a favorite drink chilling and romantic meal. After dinner dance under the stars or take a walk through candles that lead to rose petals on a blanket and lay and look at the stars.
  28. Feed ducks by a pond, lounge by the lake on a blanket
  29. Go to an art museum and a coffee shop
  30. Drive in Movie, bring basket of goodies and blankets
  31. Go to an Arcade and mini-golf
  32. Go to a science Museum
  33. Go to the Zoo or an Aquarium, don't forget a souvenier! 
  34. To make dinner special, plan to write each other letters and give at dinner or a special time
  35. Visit a winery or Orchard, choose a bottle of wine that will be perfect for later, or pick some fruit together
  36. Go on a cave hike, stay cuddled in the dark if you get scared
  37. Enjoy a symphony or theater performance
  38. Go to the mall, pci up some food or get a dessert, take a picture in the photo booth, buy a memento
  39. Movie and popcorn, try something unusual
  40. Rent a limo for an evening to take you to a special planned dinner
  41. Snuggle in front of a fireplace with cocoa or a special drink
  42. Take a bubble bath with rose petals and candles
  43. Plan a romantic meal together, go shopping for the ingredients, and make set with candles and enjoy your hard teamwork 
  44. Rent a movie buy some yummy treats or popcorn and cuddle on the sofa
  45. Give each other an oil massage or back rub, this can be enjoyed simply and can bring you closer feeling each others tenderness and love
  46. Take turns cooking dinner for each other on different nights, planning romance
  47. Build ice cream sundaes or banana splits while watching a flick
  48. Go out for an ice cream treat, browse nearby shops 
  49. Go for a moonlit walk, holding hands
  50. Find a beautiful place to watch the sunset with a bottle of wine
  51. Visit a pet store
  52. Go to a Five star resturant
  53. Go to a bookstore and coffeeshop
  54. Grill some steaks eat outside by candle light 
  55. Go shopping, or shop online for some aphrodisiac items or food, or  toys online
  56. Haunted house or Hayride
  57. Take an air mattress or pad and a blanket, set up in the forest with candles and rose petals, have a special drink in a picnic basket a letter to your love, and something sexy to wear
  58. Sleep in together and snuggle
  59. Visit a spa, or book a hot tub
  60. Go skiing, eat some hot pizza after
  61. Ice skate
  62. Visit a petting zoo
  63. Cook or Bake a treat together
  64. Play a video game together,  order a pizza, wrestle gently on the couch
  65. Think of places to take pictures of you together, or visit the places you first dated again if you have no photos so you can scrapbook them
  66. Play pool, get some wings and beer, bringing friends along is fun too
  67. Take a road trip, pick a few destination, use the time to get to know each other better
  68. Make snow angels, have a hot drink or meal after
  69. Jump in puddles, kiss in the rain
  70. Build a puzzle, drink some coffee, play a card game
  71. Build a snowman, drink cocoa
  72. Get together a collection of romantic music, wear something pretty and dance together
  73. Have a dessert date, have fun with the whip cream
  74. Rake leaves in the fall together, grill and BBQ
  75. Exercise together, join a gym, go for a run, or stay inside and do an exercise video
  76. Take a walk in the rain
  77. Make a list together of ideas, check mark them off when you tried something new, don't forget to take photos for your scrapbook, or album















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Thursday, April 28, 2011

No matter what type of art you do, your creativity can improve with another form of inspired work.Visiting an art museum, witnessing a beautiful landscape, or poring over a imaginative novel propels us to open ourselves and express what we feel within. This article will address music, for it is the most simple to attain and can be used during the entire process, from the conception of the idea to the birth of your work.   Each type of music can have an effect on your style or approach. I suggest choosing a music that helps you get into the world in which you want to be and imagine. This can come from many different genres, so be open minded. I will seperate the music into different groups, but feel
free to choose any that appeal to you. And, as always, suggestions are most welcome. Thank you and I hope you will be inspired!

Music List

My favorite art is imaginative and would be classified as fantasy. So in this group I will list what songs inspire me the most to create that world. My interests are very drastically different however, so choose what you like.



I love Loreena Mckennitt she has a beautiful voice,  and she explores many different cultures to inspire her music. Some of her music sounds Celtic which is one of my favorites, there are some unique instruments used, it is all so original and the orchestra is incredible.  I will list the album songs from Book of secrets I love each one:

Loreena Mckennitt:
  1. Prologue– 4:22
  2. The Mummer's Dance – 6:07
  3.  Skellig – 6:07
  4.  Marco Polo – 5:15
  5.  The Highwayman (Lyrics by Alfred Noyes, abridged by Loreena McKennit) – 10:19
  6.  La Serenissima – 5:09
  7.  Night Ride across the Caucasus – 8:30
  8.  Dante's Prayer – 7:11
Also more songs I loike from her:

The Mystics Dream

You can listen to any of her many beautiful albums on her website: http://www.quinlanroad.com/homepage/index.asp


Another one of my favorite album's is very different, and not for every one's taste. It was one of those albums I grew to love and never have grown out of. The lyrics are very interesting. But it takes me to the forest, and it is also romantic yet sexual in nature,  which doesn't bother me although might bother some people. The album is October Rust by Type O Negative. You would consider this band to be Rock and it is sort of 80's in a way, but this album is very unique. I have to say I love the whole album and they way they set it up its nice to listen to from start to finish so here is the order...the first two songs are nothing, pretty much.


Type O Negative
  1. Bad Ground – 0:38
  2. (Untitled) - 0:21
  3. Love You to Death - 7:08
  4. Be My Druidess - 5:25
  5. Green Man- 5:47
  6. Red Water (Christmas Mourning) - 6:48
  7. My Girlfriend's Girlfiend - 3:46
  8. Die With Me - 7:12
  9. Burnt Flowers Fallen - 6:09
  10. In Praise of Bacchus - 7:36
  11. Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young) - 4:00
  12. The Glorious Liberation of the People's Technocratic Republic of Vinnland by the Combined Forces of the United Territories of Europa - 1:07
  13. Wolf Moon (Including Zoanthropic Paranoia) - 6:37
  14.  Haunted - 10:07
  15. (Untitled) - 0:08


UNDER CONSTRUCTION MORE SOON