6/10/2011

Saga Cruises 2010 Company Review

I have taken three vacations with saga cruises 2010 and I found that they have savings that are not available through any other booking source. Also, with this website, you will be able to book your cruise based on the age requirements that you need to follow for certain destinations. You can also book based on the cruise line that you are interested in and the destination. With many cruises starting at just three hundred dollars, this means that you will be able to take your entire family along for vacation.

Free Online Marketing Tools | 4 Main Choices


There are a number of free online marketing tools which any individual or business can use quite freely for improving their brand and increasing probability of sales. This article looks at some of the more established and effective solutions.

One of the recent advances in online search innovation strategy has been the advent of pay per click advertisements and targeted localized display advertisements. Google have been at the forefront of providing these types of services through AdSense, but there is a growing trend for targeted display ads being produced by other independent producers. Advertisements can be easily added to a site and it provides an additional income stream. It can also be used to attract traffic to your website to participating in providing your own advertisements.

Kona Coffee – The Ultimate Perk

Coffee has been grown in Hawaii for 150 years, and Kona coffee has long been known as some of the world’s finest. But these days, Kona coffee is meeting a challenge from growers on other islands in the Hawaiian chain who are discovering new and subtle flavors to tempt the finicky palates of coffee lovers. Kauai, Molokai, Maui, and Oahu all have their own versions of the volcanic soil and climatic conditions that make for great coffee, and each offers a distinctive alternative to Kona’s familiar flavor.

The first coffee plants were brought to Hawaii from Rio de Janeiro in 1825 aboard a British warship, the H.M.S. Blonde. Oahu’s chief, Boki, planted them in Honolulu’s Manoa Valley, providing the stock that would later find its ideal climate on the Big Island of Hawaii.

6/09/2011

Basic Pastel Painting Color Palette & Materials

Pastel painting is the simplest and purest method of painting using pure color without the addition of medium - essentially, pastels are transparent watercolors. The advantage is that the painting does not suffer the effects of age caused by changes in the medium as in other methods such as oils. One disadvantage is its relative fragility, although if framed under glass and given normal care work paintings will stand the test of age as proven in Master paintings which have survived for 200+ years with their brilliant colors untouched by the years.

The keys to mixing pigments and achieving exactly the color you wanted is dependent on having a basic knowledge of color theory and experience - regardless of the medium you use for painting.