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Let us explain first what a wedding caketopper is: it is usually a figurine or set of figurines which are placed on top of the wedding cake and which may be given away as keepsakes to the wedding party guests. However, there are now new types of wedding caketopper designs available because some people want their wedding to be a bit more unique than others.

For instance, the wedding caketopper could be a glass paperweight engraved with the wedding couple’s first names or nicknames. Or it could be a ceramic fantasy castle, for those inclined for such things. You might even have your wedding caketopper made to resemble two elegant swans in a loving embrace to represent the relationship of the couple to be wedded. There is literally no limit to what your wedding caketopper can be made to look like – and if people find your choice of design odd, well, you don’t get married everyday so go for it anyway. At least your wedding caketopper will be unique.

Though most people would still want the traditional bride-and-groom wedding caketopper set, you can depart from the ordinary and create mix-and-match pieces that will bring a smile to the faces of those receiving these as keepsakes. For example, you can have a traditional bride figurine made but the groom could be dressed in a sports uniform such as maybe a football uniform (to reflect his passion for sports.) This means people will definitely give your wedding cake a second look during the wedding reception and maybe even take pictures of the cake and wedding caketopper to remember the event by. It also tells people more about you as a couple.

The more original and unique your wedding caketopper is, the higher the price set for it will probably be because the manufacturer has to either get an artist who can express what you want in your 3-D figurine; use special manufacturing processes and materials to custom-produce your special wedding caketopper; and because it is not very likely your wedding party who will receive the mass produced items will be of sufficient numbers to drive down costs. Think about it: how many weddings do you know that have even 1,000 guests in the wedding party? Not very many right? Yet the more people who will receive the wedding caketopper keepsakes are around, the more the manufacturer can afford to lower or spread around the costs of making the wedding caketopper series you ordered.

You should have a wedding caketopper designed that is in good taste, as much as possible, especially if you will be giving out such keepsakes to a lot of people. This is to avoid any particular guest being offended by your wedding caketopper or feeling puzzled as to why such a design was chosen. For instance, some people like toilet humor for their wedding caketopper theme but for some guests that might be too crude for their taste. It is generally diplomatic to use a wedding caketopper theme that you know fits the values of most if not all of your guests. It helps to avoid issues and hurt feelings from developing.

A bobblehead is basically a toy or collectible image that has an oversized head which wobbles on a spring connected to the torso of the toy or collectible image. Since the head wobbles or “bobbles”, the term used to describe such a toy or collectible image became bobblehead.

Your collectible bobblehead may come in a variety of types – and the world of bobblehead collecting becomes more interesting as new and more unique types of bobblehead collectibles get created every day. For instance, if you are into sports, you might choose a bobblehead collectible representing someone from the NBA player pool, a bobblehead patterned after a US baseball player, and another bobblehead that was designed to look like an NFL football player. On the other hand, if you like TV shows, then you might be amused to get a bobblehead likeness of top businessman Donald Trump who stars in the reality TV show “The Apprentice.”

Star Wars fans will be happy to know that there is now the Darth Vader bobblehead and a host of other bobbleheads which were designed after characters in that same movie series. If you are a religious type, surprise surprise! There are now bobbleheads made to represent key religious figures like Jesus, the Virgin Mary, Pope John Paul II, the current Pope who is Benedict XVI, and the Protestant preacher Billy Graham too. On a more irreverent note, you can also look for companies that will supply you a bobblehead of Homer Simpson, and bobbleheads of Beavis and Butthead.

Politically-inclined people may enjoy collecting a bobblehead of President Dwight Eisenhower, President Harry S. Truman, the Republican Party mascot (which is an Elephant), the Democratic Party mascot (which is a Donkey), Crown Prince William of the UK, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, ex-Mayor Rudy Guliani, President Theodore Roosevelt, and the first President George Bush of the US.

Because a bobblehead is often considered a novelty item, it is not surprising that cartoon and comic-strip characters are made into bobbleheads or that bobblehead collections are often composed of cartoon and comic-strip characters. Futurama fans might want to snatch up their own Doctor Zoidberg bobblehead, Fry bobblehead, or Leela bobblehead so that their Bender bobblehead will not get lonely. Snoopy of the Peanuts comic strip has a loyal following, and so do the other Peanuts characters such as Woodstock, Lucy, and Charlie Brown. If you like the Looney Tunes characters a lot, then you could try collecting a bobblehead of Marvin the Martian, Yosemite Sam, Tweety Bird, Elmer Fudd, and of course the biggest cartoon hero there is – Bugs Bunny.

Celebrities have a special place in the hearts of both bobblehead makers and bobblehead collectors. You can aim to have the biggest collection of bobbleheads in your neighborhood simply by setting aside $15 per month for your next bobblehead purchase. Now, the choice of which celebrity bobblehead to buy depends on which celebrity you like. Some might aim to get a Marilyn Monroe bobblehead while others might want a James Dean bobblehead instead.

So long as there are creative bobblehead designers and manufacturers, and so long as people still like collecting bobbleheads, there will probably still be a market for new and unique bobbleheads in the near future.

Ron Edwards invites you to visit his website for Custom Bobblehead, Unique Wedding Gifts and more. For more details visit the website http://www.custombobble.com

Looking for something to celebrate their special day in a special way?  Custom-made lookalike Bobbleheads are a unique gift that a newlywed couple will treasure forever.  You can duplicate the bride and groom for placement on the top of their wedding cake or for use as table toppers.  When the husband and wife take the Bobbleheads home, they can always see each other nodding “Yes, I do.”

The company’s team of expert artists can customize the Bobbleheads to remind the newlyweds where they first met, for example, or to conjure up images of their first date or to never let them forget any other memontous occasion.

Bobbleheads make a great present for any special occasion.  They’re ideal for Monther’s Day, as a gift to the university graduate in your family, or for congratulating the victorious athlete in the househod.

For more information visit www.custombobble.com

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008  ~ BRIDAL GUIDE

Some people only get married once in a lifetime (and hope that that will be the only wedding they will ever have) so they want their wedding gifts to be equally special. That is why the wedding gifts industry keeps trying to come up with unique ideas for ideal wedding gifts that would make that wedding special enough for all attending to remember.

Wedding gifts could be as simple as a set of bowls and plates featuring emblazoned pictures of the happy couple with a special message, or as lavish as trips on cruise ships for couples in the wedding party. It all depends on the budget of the bride and groom set aside specifically for wedding gifts, and the capacity of the wedding gifts provider to meet the specifications of the couple.

Some choices of wedding gifts could be custom-made wedding keepsake containers, display bowls meant to be set on living room or dining room tables, memory books, photo albums, replicas of the wedding cake slicer and serving utensils, gourmet baskets filled with goodies, miniature bar cabinets, keepsake clocks, pillowcases, graceful candlesticks, comfortable bathrobes, bottles of fine wine, wine coolers, classy bookends, throw pillows, cute blankets, customized bath towels, photo frames of varying sizes, a certificate entitling the bearer to hire a chef for a day, a certificate giving free trial membership to a Wine of the Month club, unusual coffee table or party games, Oriental culinary sets (like Japanese tea ceremony sets), wine or ice buckets, specially-designed wine racks, commemorative wine stoppers, cookbooks for the budding chefs in the wedding party, and even monogrammed wine glasses.

Some bride and groom couples set about hunting for wedding gifts by having a specific wedding gift in mind then looking for suppliers. Other couples look around though for what is available around them before settling for one type of wedding gift. It really depends on you and your partner which style of search process works best for you. One good way of narrowing down your short list of choices for wedding gifts is to examine the members of your wedding party and what types of wedding gifts they most likely would like to receive. Some couples might choose wedding gifts they would like to receive themselves (which isn’t bad in itself, unless their potential recipients have very different tastes from the wedding couple, in which case the actual wedding gifts would probably be politely received but not with much enthusiasm.) You and your partner need to discuss this problem between yourselves because the mood of the occasion might be ruined when you do not get the response you thought you would get when the recipients finds out what wedding gifts are being given out.

As wedding gifts providers try to get more business from couples, they now try to come up with more unique options as wedding gifts that you can choose from. One new category you might encounter are the Experiential wedding gifts category. This means offering wedding gifts that allow the recipients to try something daring and new to their field of experience. For instance, who do you know who has never been on a hot air balloon even once in their life? Probably a lot of people right? Well, then maybe they would like the chance to do that then, as your special wedding gift to them. And who wouldn’t love the chance to go to a spa for a relaxing weekend? There are now certificates that allow your recipient to indulge in this highly valuable service as part of the Experiential wedding gifts category. Such wedding gifts may not be tangible things but will leave a mark on the memory of your wedding party for the long term anyway.

You may have been sent out by a relative or a friend on a gift hunting expedition armed only with a specific budget and the admonition: “choose a unique gift.” Now what on earth does that mean, you may be wondering. How am I to know what makes a unique gift and what makes another gift common? Here are some pointers:

1.       Ask yourself what you are buying a gift for – meaning, what is the special occasion at hand? Do you need the unique gifts for a family affair, to express sympathy with someone who is ill, or for business reasons? Though you might think a gift is a gift is a gift, the occasion will have a lot of influence over your choice of unique gifts. So do a lot of research as to what makes one gift appropriate for one situation and not appropriate for another event.

2.       Ask yourself who you are buying the gift for – if you are buying a gift for your spouse, then you could consider what your spouse’s interests are. Does your spouse like whodunit books? Then maybe you could scout around for hard-to-find whodunits that your spouse has not read yet. Does your spouse enjoy wearing perfume? Then maybe you could sniff around to track down a new perfume that he/she might enjoy but which has not caught on with others in your social group yet. On the other hand, if you are buying unique gifts for a corporate colleague, then you might want to make discreet inquiries as to what unique interests that corporate colleague likes to indulge in, during his spare time. Does he enjoy solving puzzles? Then you could look for special board games or computer games that he could dabble in when he can. You might be surprised what a hit such unique gifts can be when sent to the right person.

3.       Ask yourself why you are buying these unique gifts – unique gifts basically are supposed to cement your friendship with the recipient even further and show how much you value the relationship. That is the commonality that cuts across all unique gifts categories. But there is a difference between sincere gifts and gifts that attempt to steer a relationship in a direction that might be unpleasant for the recipient. That is why some people believe that they should not accept gifts no matter how unique or well-packaged due to their position in society. Civil servants are this way – and in some places there are specific laws that prohibit civil servants from accepting gifts of any sort while they are occupying a specific position in government. Such laws help guarantee the sanctity and integrity of their position in government so that the reputation of the civil servant remains unquestioned.

4.       Do you have enough to buy brand-name custom gifts or should you stick to the more generic off-the-shelf type of gifts? – Sometimes, there is a world of difference between the quality of brand-name items and generic items; in other cases, sometimes you can barely tell them apart. Thus, the key to selecting good unique gifts lies in having an eye for quality too.

Sport gifts are basically memorabilia that an individual or organization may have custom-made to commemorate a sports-related event like a winning championship match. And the people most likely to appreciate sport gifts are those people who truly enjoy sports either as an occupation, as a spectator, or as a weekend warrior. In short, sports fans are your best recipients for sport gifts.
Sport gifts can be used to mark a particularly thrilling championship series in popular sports like the National Basketball Association (NBA) of the US, or the National Football League (NFL) also of the US. And just as sport gifts can vary greatly depending on the type of sport they are celebrating, the types of sport gifts available nowadays can also be of a great variety. This is good news for sports fans everywhere who really like receiving sport gifts or who would like to give them away to friends, relatives and colleagues.
Sport gifts may be customized especially for those you consider very important people like executives of your organization. Some popular choices for sport gifts of executives are golf balls (which may have the name of your organization or you emblazoned on them), golf club head covers, large golf umbrellas, golf clubs and putters, and even leather golf gloves. It may depend too as to what sport is popular among executives of your organization. What if they like more gentlemanly types of sports, like chess? Then maybe you can select unique designs for chess pieces of customized chess sets as a very special type of sport gifts. Remember, the more unique your sport gifts, the more likely the recipient will remember you.
If you cannot seem to come up with any brilliant ideas for good sport gifts, why not try to choose some safe types of sport gifts instead for now? For instance, sport watches are a nifty idea for sport gifts because everyone will probably need a good sports watch at some time. The bigger your budget for sport gifts as giveaways, the higher will be the quality of your choice of sport gifts. But this does not automatically mean that higher cost will translate to more appreciation from your intended recipients. The level of appreciation will depend a lot on the tastes of your recipients. And that is where choosing appropriate sport gifts tends to become nerve wracking.
For instance, why choose very expensive designer watches as sport gifts when your people would be satisfied just receiving practical sport umbrellas with your logo emblazoned on them? Sometimes, choosing expensive sport gifts can send the wrong message to people – your expensive sport gifts might be perceived as corporate greed rather than wholehearted advocacy of values of the organization. Thus, the giver of sport gifts has to have a hand on the pulse of the organization so that he knows if his choice of sport gifts will be perceived the same way he himself perceives them – or not, as the case may be.

What would it be like to have a bobblehead of Steve Jobs?

Or Jonathan Ive?

Or maybe Salma Hayek? Angelina Jolie? Brad Pitt? A bobblehead of anyone and everyone?

At CustomBobble.com, bobblehead creation is their specialty. In as little as 2 weeks, you can have a bobblehead of your own, for as little as $79 USD. These are hand-crafted to your taste, and your pre-approval is required before they finally cast the bobblehead into the oven for solidification. These bobbleheads are hand-crafted by highly skilled artisans who stop at no less than 70% accuracy of your order’s likeness, as based on the photo or photos that you will send.

CustomBobble.com is also into security and convenience. They ship with no less than FedEx, and they allow payments through Visa, Mastercard, and even PayPal. Because of this, you can be assured that you’ll get your bobblehead in perfect condition, and you can pay for it through the most convenient means possible, for you.

Bobbleheads used to be collectors’ items in the 1970s because they were figurines of baseball stars. Later, they came with cereal boxes, and they were kids’ favorite collectibles.

But CustomBobble’s bobbleheads are so far from these commercially manufactured bobbleheads! Because great care and artistry was employed in the creation of every single bobblehead, every bobblehead would be sure to amaze you: the likeness between the photo you send and the resulting bobblehead is just beyond remarkable!

So be sure to line up for a custom bobblehead of your favorite star, your favorite tech icon, your pet, your wife, your husband, or even of yourself!

The process for a bobblehead order is simple:

1) Place your order for a bobblehead. You will then be asked to upload a picture for the basis of the bobblehead.

2) The artist assigned to your order would then create a face based on the picture.

3) The sample bobblehead’s picture will be sent back to you by email.

4) You can suggest changes and modifications when you receive the picture, or you can approve it then and there.

5) Upon your approval, the bobblehead is then cast in the oven for solidification.

6) The artist assigned to your bobblehead would then hand-paint the figure in the most lifelike color palette possible.

7) The finished bobblehead will then be packed in a custom-made box and sent to you through FedEx.

You can then get your beloved bobblehead in as little as two to three weeks.

Amazing, eh?

The process is not just simple, it’s also very convenient, and all that you needed to do was to place the order, upload the photo, approve the sample bobblehead, or suggest changes, wait, and voila! You now have your bobblehead of either Steve Jobs, Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, or your beloved cat, dog, hubby or wifey!

Diamonds are forever, they say. But we say, “Bobbleheads are forever.” When your pet is long gone, or when you want an immortalized figure of John Lennon, you would still have them close to your heart: in the form of a bobblehead parked by your bedside at night.

There are bobbleheads and then there are Bobbleheads from CustomBobble.com.

If you happen to think of bobbleheads as those cute little plastic figurines with heads that bob up and down that you get from your favorite cereal box, then those are not what we’re talking about. They are cute, true, but nowhere near the artistry of the bobbleheads in CustomBobble.com.

CustomBobble.com is not just a factory of bobbleheads. It is a company made up of a team of artisans who take great care in assuring at least a 70% accuracy for the bobbleheads they create. Instead of those, well, cheap figures in cereal boxes, CustomBobble.com is a company that makes sure that every detail in the photos that their customers send would be captured in the bobbleheads that they create.

If you think that $79 USD is too much for a figurine, then you haven’t seen the amazing accuracy and artistry of a single bobblehead from CustomBobble.com. These figurines are great for mementoes, collections, giveaways, and for quirky gift exchanges between lovers and friends.

You could also create a business opportunity for yourself through CustomBobble.com’s services. Since you can order in bulk, and have discounts for those, you can create designs for yourself or send in pictures of your friends and family, modify them digitally, send them in to CustomBobble.com and resell them for a dollar or two higher than what you paid for. If your mini-business of bobbleheads catches on, it’s a pretty penny for you, and for CustomBobble.com.

Bobbleheads have a high appeal for collectors and for pet owners. Collectors always want to have one more figurine of what they are collecting, while some pet owners are just so rabid to have the likeness of their pets captured everywhere. From plates to keychains, to bobbleheads, these guys would surely snap up another likeness of their idols or pets. What would stop you from selling to them what they would want, even if it’s in the form of a bobblehead?

Bobbleheads are not just for kids. With the artistry and the care put into the bobbleheads of CustomBobble.com, you would be sure to get only the best and the most detailed and artistic bobbleheads from these sculptors. Each bobblehead you order would have a picture of its sample sent to you before it’s finally cast and solidified by oven. You can have some modifications made, some changes here and there, before you finally approve of it and they send you the finished product by FedEx.

All this is done within two to three weeks, so there is no worry for you not to get your bobblehead by Christmas, if you ordered one as a gift. You can pre-order a month or two before Christmas, and you can have these beautiful bobbleheads under your tree by Christmas Eve.

Bobbleheads are filled with such possibilities. In fact, it’s so full of promise, that if you don’t want to pay through credit card, you can pay through Paypal.com!

So what are you waiting for? Have a bobblehead made for only you now!

CustomBobble.com positions its bobbleheads as keepsakes, mementoes and ways to remember loved ones and beloved pets by. But if you’re a geek, would you think that you have some use for a bobblehead, after all?

For Star Wars freaks, you may want a replica of Luke Skywalker. Or Darth Vader. Or Chewbacca. Or Yoda. Or maybe you’re not a Star Wars freak, you’re a Lord of the Rings freak, and you would love a replica of Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Frodo, or even… Sam Gamgee.

If you are not a geek, you may go “What?! What would you need a bobblehead of Yoda for?!” Well, the principle is simple. If you are one of those who are just squirrels for collecting the likenesses of your favorite characters, it’s not so inconceivable to actually have a shelf filled of Yoda’s in all shapes and forms.

If you are one of those who had been waiting for a certain figurine of your favorite character, but was unfortunate to have found out that the stores ran out of stock of those and those were of the limited edition, should you panic? No! All you need to do is hop on over to CustomBobble.com and submit a picture of that figurine, and have their expert artisans craft a remarkable replica of that hard-to-find item that you had been dying to get.

CustomBobble.com’s bobbleheads are more than the usual dolls and replicas. These bobbleheads are hand-crafted by expert artisans who want nothing less than a 70% accurate likeness of the photos you send them. So if it’s Yoda you’re asking to be crafted, it’ll be Yoda you’ll get. Not Darth Maul.

For those who had been wanting, needing, salivating over that certain replica of their favorite characters, this is somewhat of a “new lease on life,” so to speak. If you didn’t win that Ebay auction of Darth Vader’s 10-inch figurine by a matter of 50 cents, then it’s your chance to get back at that bad person who snatched up the object of your obsessions. You weren’t able to have that one on Ebay? Then get one made specifically for you through CustomBobble.com! Besides, that one on Ebay may have been a used item! This one will be lovingly created just for you.

If you want to take geekiness to a different level, you could also have replicas of your favorite tech industry icon created just for you. Maybe you want a bobblehead of you being hugged or kissed by Steve Jobs. If you’re a girl and you like Steve Jobs that much, ain’t that a great thought? If you’re a guy… That’s just gross. Or maybe you would want a replica of Steve Jobs’ main man and über-designer Jonathan Ive. If you can’t steal him from his wife, at least you have a bobblehead of him on your nightstand.

As a geek, you won’t run out of ideas for new bobbleheads to be ordered. If you are on a quest to have that one collectible you missed getting, or you so desperately want a figurine of Steve Jobs or Jonathan Ive, Linus Torvalds of Linux, Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu Linux, or even of Bill Gates or, heaven forbid, Steve Ballmer, then hop on over to CustomBobble.com and feed your inner geek’s hunger. You won’t lack for ideas on what else to order.

If you order in bulk, there are special discounts! So complete the entire Star Wars or Lord of the Rings cast and crew, or you could go for the complete lineup of today’s tech greats! Hop on over to CustomBobble.com now!

Animal lovers love their pets so much that they usually go to such lengths as having clothes made for their pooch or cat, having porcelain figurine replicas of their pets cast and displayed on mantelpieces, having plates painted or engraved with their pets’ faces or entire figures.

But if you would want something more interactive, something with a movable body, you may want to try having a bobblehead of your pet created just for you!
 
Through CustomBobble.com, you can have the likeness of your pet in as soon as two weeks!

At CustomBobble.com, all the bobbleheads are hand-crafted, hand-painted by especially skilled artists who take great care in capturing the likeness of your pet to the very detail of the angle of its fur.

All you need to do is to logon to CustomBobble.com, upload a picture of your pet, and your order will be processed. Once the model bobble for your pet has been created, a picture of the sample bobblehead will be sent to you through email. You can then suggest changes or improvements to the sample bobblehead.

When you’ve approved the sample bobblehead, it will then be set in the oven, much like a setting a clay pot, and then it will be sent to you through FedEx. Simple, right?

CustomBobble.com boasts of a 70% accuracy of its figures. Meaning these bobbleheads that you would order are as similar to the original by as much as 70%. But judging from the picture comparisons between the originals and the bobbleheads on the website, the likeness is actually extraordinary.

Maybe when you’re satisfied with a bobblehead of your favorite pet, you would then want a bobblehead of your children, your favorite American Idol, or even of your special someone or husband!

Bobbleheads are great for cake decoration, for giveaways, as collectibles, or even as playthings for your children.

A quirky suggestion for how you could maximize the use of your bobblehead would be for you to actually use it as a voodoo doll, but then that’s too creepy now, isn’t it?

Bobbleheads are not just for pets, for lovers, CustomBobble.com also has bobblehead figures that feature couples, or even entire families! The prices range from USD $79 for an individual, generic bobblehead, to $119 for a pet bobblehead, to $199 for bobbleheads of a couple, and even $299 for a family of bobbleheads.

Bobbleheads have touched pet owners’ hearts in that some have had their pets “resurrected” through having a bobblehead made of their deceased pets.

Maybe you could have your human loved ones immortalized as bobbleheads, so that when they’re gone you have something to remember them by, but then that would just be too creepy.

Bobbleheads are meant to be souvenirs, mementoes, and milestone reminders. Though it may seem frivolous for some to spend money on a bobblehead, but if the situation is pretty special, like the 15th birthday of your cat, why not, right?

Hop on over to CustomBobble.com to get the likeness of your cat now!