Magic Show - 8/27~8/30, 2007 October 31, 2007
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In a Mood to Decorate with Lightings October 18, 2007
Posted by wenbi in : Lighting , add a commentttnet.net - [2006/01/24]
Modern life is often stressful. People prefer to relax themselves by enjoying the home comfort, especially a warm candlelight meals. In the US, about 7 in every 10 households loves to use candles in their house. More designs come in Christmas figurines, musical fruit shapes, scented models, and heat-resistant wax candles with dried flowers squeezed onto the surface. Candles of red, especially natural wax color, is a come-back trend.
Decorative lighting is much a personal choice and down to individual tastes, the importance of getting the right lighting in the right place cannot be overestimated to create a cozy home atmosphere. Lighting designers and manufacturers blend fashion with function to create decorative lamps and fixtures that do more than simply illuminate. Accordingly, it¡¦s not just about ceiling lighting such as chandeliers and recessed lights, but also wall lighting, table and floor lamps in a variety of shapes, mirror lighting, theatrical lighting strips, neon lights, special pieces of art with styles and finishes to transform a room from drab to dramatic with the flick of a switch.
FASHION LIGTHING
People are accessorizing their homes just like women accessorize a dress. Consumer tend to regard decorative lightings as home-fashion accessories rather than merely lamps for illuminating purpose. They usually purchase new decorative lightings every few years to decorate their houses. Decorative lightings shed light on people¡¦s own design personalities, which are subject to change according to, or, more precisely, harmonizing to surroundings like furniture and interior designs. Popular is informal style. For example, metal and hardwood bases mingle with angular shades in glass, mica or mica-patterned fabric to recreate the clean lines. Lamps made of handcrafted paper function as room dividers. Amorphous shapes are everywhere on products made of high-grade plastic, which are mixed with versatile new materials. In addition, geometrical lines grow beloved by gift designers. Different types of finishes result in styles to any form of lightings. Some popular options are brush nickel, brush chrome, antique bronze, antique stone, brown stone and taupe finish.
HOME LIGHTING
Table lamps and floor lamps are available in a wide range styles, catering to decorating needs. An adjustable table lamp intends to offer additional light to the desk and keyboard areas. Portable Lamps provide mobile benefit whenever users want. Small specialty lamps, such as clip-on lights, uplight cans, adjustable task lights, mini-reflector spotlights, desk and piano lamps fill a variety of task and accent light needs. These lamps make use of lighting source such as incandescent, tungsten-halogen, energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs, LEDs, HB (high-brightness) LEDs or even OLEDs (organic LEDs). At the dressing table, an adjustable, lighted magnifying mirror will provide ideal lighting for grooming and applying makeup. In bathroom, it is indispensable to have shadow-free lighting for shaving, grooming, and applying makeup. Now, a new ¡§Intelligent¡¨ lighting systems are designed to be controlled simply through a remote-control device for greater convenience of home life.
FESTIVAL LIGHTING
Festivals and holidays are best timing for decorative lightings, which makes people feel joyful in these life¡¦s special moments. For festival moods, people decorate their houses with neon lights, tree lights, curtain lights, bulb strings, belt lights, mini bulbs and correlated lights.
With the stream of globalization, Christmas has become an international festival all over the world. In this occasion, all the sundry are giving themselves over to decorate the Christmas with Xmas trees, ornaments and gifts, especially in use of lightings. The latest Xmas trees focus on electronic function, which enables Xmas trees speaking, singing and glittering in concert with colorful light and revolving coincidently. Candles are not only for birthdays, but also for Christmas. The commonly used candles are the long & plain ones for dinner tables, while the floating and cup ones also prevail for quite a long time. Growingly welcome are exotic candles, decorated with flower-shell, featuring magical effect of colorful and transparent presentation as lighted up. Magical candles, above all, is a favorites as the cubic colorful painting of candles presents as floating cloud through candlelight.
Halloween is a festival for children, a festival more charming than Christmas. The growing popularity of Halloween brings forth an increasing amount of holiday-specific products. Pumpkin lamps are most typical ones.
Festival Moods Everywhere!
Posted by wenbi in : Festival Goods , add a commentttnet.net - [2006/01/24]
Adornments, collectibles, gifts for festivals have been traditional for hundreds of years. Festivals and holidays are best timing for promotion of gifts and decorations. The timing also helps impress consumers with their brands and features, making them feel joyful in these life’s special moments.
Christmas
With the stream of globalization, Christmas has become an international festival all over the world. In this occasion, all the sundry are giving themselves over to decorate the Christmas with Xmas trees, ornaments and gifts. Xmas Trees are most typical item as reminding of Christmas. By the survey, PVC trees are the bestseller items. Polyethylene that prevailed for quite long time now isn’t popular as ever owing to higher cost and ecological problem. However, in concerning about environmental protection, paper and rattan now serve as alternatives for consumers.
The latest design focuses on electronic function, which enables Xmas trees speaking, singing and glittering in concert with colorful light and revolving coincidently. Candles are not only for birthdays, but also for Christmas. The commonly used candles are the long & plain ones for dinner tables, while the floating and cup ones also prevail for quite a long time. Growingly welcome are exotic candles, decorated with flower-shell, featuring magical effect of colorful and transparent presentation as lighted up. Magical candles, above all, is a favorites as the cubic colorful painting of candles presents as floating cloud through candlelight.
Yet, Christmas decors and collectibles industry is no longer a seasonal business. In US, there are more than 16000 year-round specialty stores that display Christmas-related goods all year as many Christmas items fit for any festival. This principle also fits any market in the world. Furthermore, consumers tend to buy more decors than collectibles for festivals. A survey reveals that 20% among the active Collectibles consumers describe themselves as Christmas collectors, and that’s why collectibles market is moderating among collectors. In collectible world, Christmas collecting only ranks No.5 after coins, figurines & sculptures, trading cards and memorabilia & dolls.
Conventionally, the day after Thanksgiving market marked the commencement of the Christmas-decorating season. However, people today are decorating their homes for holidays, like Halloween, Easter, and Valentine’s Day. As a result, consumers are craving decorations for Christmas, but can be used year-round or for another seasons, thus makers and retailers response to this with Angles, Snowmen, Nativities, even Santa Cause dressed in non-seasonal garb to maximize the decorative value of the items they buy. The fashion trend reveals that festival goods for Christmas should emphasize on five sense to capture the mood of Christmas. They should be of harmonious sounds, decadent tastes, flamboyant decorations, savory scents and soft textures of the holiday, on account that all of these help boost sales.
Halloween
People believe that Halloween is derived from the ancient Celtic festival called Samhain. Celebrated November 1, Samhain was the New Year’s Day of the Celts. It was also a day of the dead, when it was believed that the souls of those who had died during the year were allowed access to the land of the dead. Many traditional beliefs became irrevocably linked to Samhain, such as the notion that night was the time of the wondering dead, the practice of leaving offerings of food and drink to masked and custom revelers and the lighting of bonfires. The festival related to season, as well.
Halloween is a festival for children, a festival more charming than Christmas. The growing popularity of Halloween brings forth an increasing amount of holiday-specific products. Rubber stampedes, together with Halloween-themed wood-handled stamps for example, have been arresting children’s hearts. The trick to selling these and other Halloween goods are clearly supporting them with gifts and decorative accessories. “Treat or Trick” tradition is further applied in many merchandises. For example, the fart bombs or bomb bags make some surprise for the purpose of tricking.
Valentine’s Day
Valentine a name honored with feasts on February 14th. Two stories mainly link incidents to St. Valentine’s Day. All of the seven Valentines eventually evolved into one. In 496 Pope Gelasius declared the day in honor of St. Valentine. Through the centuries the Christian holiday became a time to exchange love messages and St. Valentine became the patron saint of lovers. Lovers’ quarrels come under his jurisdiction and, naturally, he is the patron saint of engaged couples and of anyone wishing to marry. At this time of the year, people all over the world are thinking about who they would like to be their Valentine. Sugar-candied hearts reading “Be Mine” and “Hug Me” can be found around every corner. It is time for Valentine’s Day, a holiday that the amount of love you feel is reflected by the thickness of your wallet. Of course, it is great time for doing business. By the recent survey, many retailers claims that a large, percentage of shoppers hit stores at the last minutes and are willing to pay price in order not to miss the holiday. The survey issuing that average number of love-related gifts annually purchased by respondents is 2.5, because most people have someone to love and in certain instance, several to love, which only means more greenbacks burned in gift market.
Fashion Jewels Smile with Gorgeous Dreams
Posted by wenbi in : Fashion , add a commentttnet.net - [2006/01/11]
Here today, gone tomorrow! Trends of fashion jewelry are subject to switch just like the moods of women. Farewell to the dull days of “less is more” or minimalism, fashion jewelry is poised for fruitful hay days. Conventionally, jewelry is bought for engagements and weddings as well as gift-giving purpose. However, a rise in the self-purchase of items somewhat changes the buying habits. Color remains a crucial fixture. Pink stole the show, yet green also come on surprisingly strong. Gems, either precious or semi-precious, glamour with their natural beauty, the strength, the long-lasting quality and the rarity, whispering cycling tales of innocent, fun, romantic, exotic, sparkling, eternal, sophisticated and much more. Wearing jewelry set in precious and semiprecious stones is an ancient tradition. Ethnic look embedded in oriental elements arises romantic sensation. Recently, ethnic inspired jewelry in exotic colors is a big hit. In 2006, popular will be oriental gems mostly of Chinese and Japanese images, and in materials like green and lavender jade with carving. Not so expensive in comparison with precious stones and metals, semiprecious stones as bridges in costume jewelry are in great demand. Small and simple costume jewelry used to be in vogue; yet, big and flashy pieces are now fashionable. Some semi-precious stones like quartz, blue lace agate and citrine are popular as deemed to have healing or sentimental properties. Colored stones, such as amethyst, peridot, garnet, citrine and blue topaz, has also regained its glamour for fashion-conscious consumers. Garnets that come in a variety of reds have come back in fashion, looking lustrous and luxurious and matching ruby colors yet not so pricy. Blue sapphires craze jewelry lovers with lighter color sapphires from Africa proving to be a popular alternative to the traditionally richer blue sapphire hues. Nature-inspired designs surely win the hearts of consumers with many lines featuring classic flowers, leaves, fruit, vegetable, butterflies, snakes, animal prints, ants, feathers, pebbles and other organic shapes, also abstracted in many lines. EARRINGS In spite that the chandelier trend lasts, earrings switch to more linear looks, along with orbital hoops and embellished hoops that have been a mainstay of women’s earrings for years, and currently large hoops are in fashion, but the newest trend is long, dangling earrings in metals or stones. Earrings are set with pink, orange and green gems with lily accents and removable feather drops. Dangle earrings take the place of the once-dominant chandeliers as the most popular jewelry on the red carpet. Earrings with natural look celebrate a prosperous future. They are made in simplest layout, featuring turquoise, red coral and amber. For younger women, the designs are magic symbols, insects, animals and flowers. BROOCHES Brooches outperform than expected in 2005. Brooches are commonly made as sideline to that of other costume jewelry such as necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets. Trendy designs of pendants focuses on carved variety in Asian-inspired styles and spiritual icons to meet bohemian trend. Flag brooches with red, white and blue gemstones continue to be seen. Elegant and sophisticated brooches in the style of the 1940’s are quite popular. NECKLACES Long necklaces become mainstay of fashion. The layered or multi-strand necklace with a single clasp offers the outlook of multiple layers. Long length of loosely looped chains usually attached to a necklace with an enhancer. Waterfall styles, multiple-wire necklaces that looked like swirling hurricanes and space orbits were also popular. Today, women prefer to wear two or three necklaces together wrapped and twisted together. For instance, a strand of pearls wrapped with round freshwater pearls and seed pearls then decorated with rough, engraved natural chip or fine cut crystals or semi precious stones all set against diversified shaped pearls like flat square quad pearls.
PENDANTS
Pendants are presented in a row of materials like precious and semiprecious stones and metals, bone, wood and glass. Popular looks include midsize single-stone pendants on interesting chains and beads that fit the neck. Here is the return of the pendants particular in briolette cut pear drops, sometimes called a teardrop. Chic design of pendants spotlights on carved variety in Asian-inspired styles and spiritual icons to meet bohemian trend. RINGS Bold rings with hefty colored gemstones do steal hearts. Bamboo-style rings, with its rows of horizontal bands, have geometric designs, squared shapes and bypasses. Selling well are cocktail, stackable and interchangeable rings. Cocktail rings are important looks often with colors like pastel blues, pinks and greens. BRACELETS Personalization is still the mainstay in designs of bracelets. Consumers love bracelets because they are easily seen on wrists. Medium-sized bracelets for day or evening use are the most popular, particular great as gifts since the standard length fits most wrists. Wrist-wrapping bracelets such as bangles, cuffs and coils are somewhat hot as are bold, gold cuffs scattered with colored gems or enamel.
