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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Custom Music Box - Unique Gift for a Special Occasion

Are you thinking about creating a unique custom music box made to your own design? The limit here is only your imagination; all you need is a clear idea of how you want it to look like. You can ask the maker to add details that reflect your taste.

Most custom music boxes are made for special occasions. A unique music box will make a perfect gift for a wedding, birthday or anniversary. All music boxes are excellent gifts, but nothing can beat a custom box made especially for the occasion.

Custom Music Box Suggestions

You can always personalize your music box. If your friend has a birthday, engrave or print a picture of him or her on the lid. You can also add several lines of poetry or write your personal wishes. And for the music use the tune that your friend likes the most. Custom music box can be made to play any tune you want. If you are going for a dancing figure box, why not give the figure the face of the celebrant? This will surely be the most imaginative gift your friend has ever received.

Wedding custom music boxes

If you are ordering a custom music box for your friends wedding, it is a good idea to make it a big one. Every couple has many memorable things left from the wedding - wedding invitations, a copy of the wedding vows, and favorite pictures of the couple. It will be very nice to store all these things in a specially designed music box.

Anniversary music boxes

Custom music boxes also make nice gifts for anniversaries. To decorate an anniversary music box use wedding pictures of the couple, as well as pictures of their life together and their kids. The best way to do it is to create a collage which goes on the lid. If you have many pictures, they can decorate music box walls too. For a tune try to locate songs from their wedding, this is guaranteed to bring happy memories.

Unique baby music boxes

When a baby is about to arrive, many people give new parents baby music boxes as gifts. A custom baby music box will be very welcome. The design should obviously reflect the fact that the box is intended for a baby. For example, it can feature a sleeping child in the crib complete with a lullaby as your music.

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This Writers' Life: The Cheat Sheet

Im often asked where I get my ideas from or how I go about writing my poetry/lyrics. Truth be told, Im not exactly sure... a thought or feeling will just appear in my head and I will have this dire urge to get pen and paper to get it out. I honestly cant explain it; when the muse strikes, the words just flow out of me and Im left with a poem or lyric.

I do have to come clean about one thing... I dont just sit around waiting for the muse to strike. If I did, I would hardly ever write or get halfway through a piece and the muse decides to leave me to my own vices. I have what I call Cheat Sheets that I can go to should I be separated from my muse.

What is a Cheat Sheet?

A Cheat Sheet is simply a notebook that I keep with me at all times. Inspiration can come at any time, it doesnt care if you are able to work on the idea that instant or not. Quite often inspiration will strike at inopportune moments. It is times like these that my Cheat Sheet comes in handy, I may not be able to work on the poem or lyric right away, but I can jot it down to work on at a later point in time.

The Cheat Sheet often comes in handy if I come across a thought I may be able to work on but unsure of how I will use it. Another great use for the Cheat Sheet is to jot down lines or phrases that catch my attention. I may be working on another piece and the perfect line comes to me... only to see that it has nothing to do with my current project. I can easily store it on my Cheat Sheet to come back to it later.

How often do you spend hours working on a poem only to find yourself stuck on a line or verse? By taking a break and having a look at your Cheat Sheet you may find a solution to the problem or be inspired to start a new writing project while you distance yourself from the problematic piece. The uses of a Cheat Sheet can be endless you are limited only by your imagination.

The Cheat Sheet and Writers Block

Every writer, at some point, will suffer from the dreaded writers block, if like me, you can go months without a single word written. I find that the Cheat Sheet can help in curing writers block; at least to a certain extent. How on earth can a Cheat Sheet cure writers block you ask?

Its simple really, even though you may not have any current inspiration for a writing project, your Cheat Sheet can have hundreds of different ideas, lines, phrases, etc that you were inspired to write down in the past. Its possible that there are dozens of poems, lyric or story ideas within the pages of your Cheat Sheet.

Start simply by looking through your Cheat Sheet, and jot down any of the lines, phrases, etc that may come to you. Failing that, try and group some of these lines into similar themes. Once you have a collection of these thoughts on your new page, take a long look at what you have in front of you. Can you write something using these words? Are there other thoughts that come to mind while looking at them? Continue jotting down any ideas and thoughts that may come to mind and try to start structuring them into a writing piece [be it prose, poetry, lyric, etc].

You will soon discover that you are writing once again, and that the dreaded writers block has dissipated. The writing may or may not be good, I cannot make any promises in that regard, however, you will no longer have a blank page in front of you and will have something to show for your efforts. If it isnt any good then you will have something to continue working on until it is up to scratch.

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If you are serious about writing, you probably like to write everyday. Having a Cheat Sheet can help eliminate those wasted hours staring at a blank piece of paper (or the blinking cursor on your monitor). With a little forethought and planning, you can have a system set up to help you through many of the problems a writer can face.

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