2010年7月29日星期四

An anniversary gift for those who have it all

What is needed is something with a History, Timeless beauty, a Story behind it and a Value that transcends the money you spend on it. Anniversary gifts that fulfill all of these requirements and are sure to please older favorite relatives are pieces of Murano glass.HistoryMurano glassmakers have been creating objects of everyone s desires for more than eight hundred years. Tucked on a small group of island about an hour boat ride from Venice, they invented, perfected, made famous and preserved the beauty of glass. All of us have been in a desperate situation to find a gift for someone who seemingly has it all. How to find an appropriate anniversary gift for your Uncle Nick and his wife Tina, who travelled the world, have a wonderful house full of antiques, a library full of first editions and a wine cellar for gods? The younger crowd is easy: a favorite music or a movie, the latest perfume or an exfoliant, or a day in a spa. But older, sophisticated folks, who are not into just stuff, they require careful thought.

Choosing the Right Glow Products for Your Night Golf Event

The best place to buy them is online. You’ll find plenty of websites selling these items, as well as locate additional ideas for raising additional funds during your event.Great Collection of Glow Necklaces, Led Necklace and Glow Bracelets. Get Discount on Glow in the Dark Necklace. Wide Variety of Assorted Glow Necklaces.Again this type of night golf ball can be used more over and over. Some people find that having two of these on the course is beneficial.Lastly is light up ball that uses a charger. This ball looks and feels like your normal everyday golf ball. In order to activate the glow you’ll need to rotate the ball between your fingers for about 10 seconds. The downside to this is that you can potential leave your charger at home. Regardless of which ball that you choose you must understand that there are going to be advantages and disadvantages to each. This is why it important that you understand what they are before you buy one for your night golf tournament or event. Night golf events have begun to increase in popularity, offering the players a night of fun while generating additional revenue for golf resorts, country clubs, and raising money for fundraisers. You’ll need to light up the tee boxes, illuminate the fairways and hazards, the flags, the holes and golf carts with glow sticks and other light up products. Players will need to wear items that can be seen by other golfers, such as glow necklaces or bracelets. These are perfect items to sell to increase your fundraising efforts and raise additional funds.Buying these products for your night golf event will not be found in your local sporting store.

Choosing the Right Glow Products for Your Night Golf Event

The cost of the ball is not the best method to choosing which type of ball to use. Here are three different types that you have to choose from,The first is a hollow ball that you insert an activated glow stick into threw a hole in the ball. This is a legal size and weight golf ball. This is one of the least expensive and can be used more than once by simply removing the used glow stick from the ball. It going to be important to choose a glow stick that offers you enough light to finish your rounds of night golf. Another is a flashing light ball. Once you strike the ball with the club the ball will begin to flash for about 5 to 6 minutes and can be activated for 40 hours of use.Night golf is an exciting event often used to raise money for fundraising events. They have also been used by many golf resorts and country clubs to increase their revenue. There is just something exciting about playing a round of golf once the sun goes down, and the glowing lights of different light up products such as glow sticks, glow paints and even glowing golf balls.There are a few different types of night golf balls that you can choose from.

Wedding gift that dazzles

There are many different ones to choose from, made by different glass-*** techniques which made Murano so famous, but all of them are a wedding gift to give to a best friend and, why not, to yourself. For a friend, you should choose one of delicate goldfish or birds, but reserve for yourself a little millefiori angel, which looks like thousands of flowers landed on its mantle.Fell in love with Murano glass? Maybe the next wedding you will go to will be yours. Dont settle on a Murano gift from a friend. Plan your honeymoon in Venice. It is the most romantic city in the world, and it is the city that has been inspiring exquisite Murano glass art for the last 800 years.Wedding Gifts | Murano Glass Jewelry and Accessories imported directly from Venice, Italy. You have seen Gustav Klimt paintings, with their shimmering golds, reds and blues, with the air of opulence and decadence so characteristic of Europe at the turn of the century. Well, Murano dinnerware looks like Klimt himself dreamt it, small pieces of pure beauty and color underplayed with gold leaf and trapped in glass. You might be eating pasta with it, but you would feel like a queen eating pasta.FigurinesAnother traditional wedding gift, you would think. Not the Murano figurines. These artistic pieces of art look so Venetian, so delicate, you would expect them to come alive at midnight.

2010年7月16日星期五

Porsche Design P'6780 Diver Watch Is Hand Me Down Eterna

Like I said, with the power reserve indicator, COSC Chronometer certification, and arguably a more useful dial design, I like the Eterna version a bit more. We can ponder why the over-engineered watch didn't do super well for the brand. I think it was a sleeper hit. The reality is that the watch has now been re-birthed as a Porsche Design P'6780 - like it or not.For the most part the watch is the same, but with little cosmetic changes. The movement is now an automatic ETA 2892, and it has not been Chronometer certified. I sort of miss the power reserve indicator. The design has been streamlined a bit. Probably better for casual wear, but worse for hardcore diving duty. Whet I visited the Porsche Design booth at Baselworld 2010 I was pretty amused to see the new P'6780 Diver watch cause it looked pretty familiar. In fact, just a few years ago Eterna released a watch that was almost identical, called the Eterna KonTiki Diver. I really loved about that piece and wrote about it here. Why was it that somehow the Eterna KonTiki Diver was now a simplified Porsche Design watch?For starters you should know that Eterna makes all the watches for Porsche Design. So it seemed pretty clear that this was a deliberate move, meant to erase the history of the KonTiki Diver! If you compare the two watches, the Porsche Design P'678 Diver is a bit more ***, streamlined, and hopefully a bit less expensive. The KonTiki Diver retailed for bout $10,000. Though it had a ton of cool technology. The complex titanium case flipped out of a cage for winding and for a new position on the wrist. It just felt totally space age. Also, you needed to pull out the inner case so as to move the bezel - that while you operated from the outside, turned on the inside. Powering the the 1000 meter KonTiki Diver watch was an automatic ETA 2897 movement with the time, date, and power reserve indicator. It was pretty kick-ass. So what happened? Well apparently Eterna didn't sell a lot of them. According to them, the watch "didn't fit into the brand." Most people don't really know about Eterna, especially in the US. If they do, they likely have some vague concept of the brand's merits, even though it is a great brand. They actually started ETA before selling it to the Swatch Group.So the Eterna KonTiki Diver disappeared. If you want one, I am sure there are excellent deals for them online. Probably close to half off the retail price.