Bareback riding (without the saddle) was always something kids did. You grabbed your pony from the field, hopped on and away you went.

Today we barely function without saddles. While saddles help us look pretty or be more functional, bareback riding has many benefits for both posture AND confidence.

Bareback riding allows you to feel the true movement of the horse, and sends the rider information that is imperative for higher training. It is this very idea that correlates to English saddles having as little leather between the horse and rider as possible, especially in dressage saddles, where the flaps are thin and flexible.

This style is not particular to any discipline, and all disciplines and levels of riders can benefit from it. I ride bareback one day a week, and it not only improves my riding performance, but also tends to tune up the horse as well, as he/she is able to feel softer, subtle cues instantly, without the interference of leather.

Bareback also allows the rider to improve balance, strength, posture, flexibility and a side benefit of added confidence. As the horse moves, you are able to feel the muscle groups respond, and you gain a sense of where the horses’ feet are placed in each movement. Part of being a good horseman is the ability to connect with the horses body and feet. Many great riders will tell you that they feel as if they become one, almost like a centaur.

Riders are athletes. Regardless of the amount of riding you do, you need strong muscle groups. And strong muscles must stretch to be fully functional. Stretching while riding bareback gives you more room to move and gives the rider a better sense of balance. It cannot be done while your legs are glued to the horses’ sides. You must be free of tension, sitting with balance and freedom.

Longeing

This is a great way to begin, and remember to use a safe horse! Some people like to use the reins, but I find it best to tie off any equipment and just concentrate. Should the horse make any movements that are uncomfortable or alarm you, get off. Too many accidents happen because the rider stays aboard. If you find the horse may be quiet but not suitable while longeing, have the handler walk you around. Also, perform this within the confines of a roundpen, arena or any fenced area with softer ground. Never push the experience with an unsuitable horse. And wear a helmet! Many falls will dump you very close to the horses’ feet.

A great exercise that will prepare you for emergencies and give you better coordination is to practice dismounting. While walking, place your hands on the horses’ neck, push up and swing your leg over and jump down. If you do this enough times, you will remember it instinctively when you really need to dismount in a hurry. If the horse stops when being dismounted, reward him. You want to teach the horse to stop in case you fall off.

The weight (fat) of the horse will either provide comfort or be a hindrance. Thin horses provide a direct relation to the muscles, while chubbier horses provide comfort. Both will give you results, and while the middleweight horse may be best, if you have access to different body types you will only improve your learning. Overweight horses do tend to throw the legs out improperly, and you will lose the truer sense of balance, so use the chubby horse less frequently.

When you first start out on the line at a walk, concentrate on feeling balance. Are you tipping to one side? Try shifting your weight until you feel centered. It also teaches you how to make contact with your seat bones. Try to ‘match’ the movements of the horse, as opposed to being stiff and tight. While walking, do stop/walk transitions, again ‘feeling’ the legs beneath you and the muscles around you.

If you have a quiet horse, close your eyes and ‘feel’ – this practice will fast-track information to the brain, and if you do this regularly, you will find your improvements will come faster.

The trot and canter

Move slowly, at your own pace through the gaits. Never let anyone move you faster than you are comfortable, as you may lose all confidence and never ride again.

Often when you begin the trot, you will be thrown forward and back, sending mixed signals to the horse. If you work consistently, your balance will improve faster than the horse can be damaged. Remember, everything you do with your horse is training, even trying to ride bareback! Perfect practice makes perfect.

Speeding up

If you find the horse trots slowly in a saddle, but speeds up bareback, it is likely because you are gripping and moving your legs around and back. If that is the case, go back to the walk and regain balance by stretching and doing more exercises. Whenever you have a problem, go back to the slower gaits and work it out there.

Don’t use the reins to balance

Another problem that comes up with bareback riding is the use of the reins for balance. If you start to lose balance, grab the mane instead of the horses’ mouth. A horses’ mouth is a sacred place that should never know abuse, so try not to get into the habit of reaching for the reins.

Jumping Bareback

Jumping allows you to experience one of the more thrilling aspects of riding without a saddle. Before you venture into this, make sure the horse is capable and confident over small fences and poles. Start with ground poles or Cavaletti, moving from a single pole and gradually adding as you gain confidence. You can eventually do gymnastics on the longe line, but if you have progressed enough to begin jumping, you may want to ride free of the longe line.

Confidence

One of the best things you will walk away with is added confidence. Bareback riding involves a level of trust between you and the horse that riding in a saddle won’t teach as deeply. There is a sense of freedom, oneness and an exhilaration that’s hard to equal in any other sport. As you progress, you will find that your begin to learn balance intuitively, and I always state that in order to ride really well, you need to be able to move intuitively as opposed to mechanically. The only way to achieve this is to get out there and keep doing it. It’s like riding a bike: once you learn it’s with you forever.

April Reeves
Clinician, Instructor, Trainer
Horseman’s U.com

This is an guide to help anybody who needs to know if there house is truly haunted, remember there is help available if you need it.

What to watch for – and what to do about it.

You hear heavy footsteps in the upstairs hallway when you know no one is up there. Doors slam unaccountably. Commonly used items disappear and reappear without cause. The kitchen light turns on by itself. There’s the unmistakable scent of a strange perfume in the air.

These may be indications that your house is haunted. True hauntings are rare occurrences, and it may be difficult to determine whether or not any strange phenomena you are experiencing in your home might be due to a haunting. For one thing, no one really knows what a “real” haunting is – what causes it or why it starts.

The Signs of a Haunting

The first step is to determine, as best you can, whether or not you truly have a legitimate case of a haunting.

Not all hauntings are alike, and they may exhibit a variety of phenomena. Some hauntings feature a single phenomenon – such as a particular door slamming shut that occurs repeatedly – while others consist of many different phenomena, ranging from odd noises to full-blown apparitions.

Here’s a partial list of phenomena that might indicate that your house is haunted:

1: Does your home have cold spots…areas where there is no evidence of a draft, but you can feel one anyway? Oftentimes, spiritual activity is accompanied by cold wisps of air and chilling puffs against your skin. They can be a barely-noticeable occurrence, or very strong. Goosebumps can result. Pay attention, these can be very tell-tale.

2: If you hear ghostly footsteps, wait until the phenomenon has stopped (or until daylight, if you’re more comfortable) and try to duplicate the sound by walking wherever the footsteps came from. Was it really footsteps, or the house settling or shifting as the temperature dropped at dusk?

3: Do your dogs or cats tend to avoid or obsess about a particular location in your home? Animals are extremely sensitive to paranormal occurrences and “vibes”. They will often stare at a particular spot for no specific reason, growl at thin air, flee from nothing and bark at something you can’t see. Sooth the animal and get it to calm down. Take notice of when and where these things happen and see what other signs might be going on. Pay heed to your pets. They’re innocently psychic.

4: Do you find that friends or family mention feeling a particular way in your home or specific location in the home? Are they spooked at times? Do they talk about nighttime occurrences or feelings they have? Those who don’t live full time in the house will often feel more spirit energy than those living there. We can grow “immune” to the feelings in our own house. Pay attention to what visitors say.

5: Very common scents that are not usual to your surroundings can indicate some spirit activity. The sense of smell is extremely strong in relation to memory for human beings. We can smell a particular aroma and be taken instantly back to a strong memory we’ve stored that is connected to that smell. Perfumes, flower scents, earthy scents and cooking smells are some of the scents detected in relation to ghostly activity.

6: You can try meditation, open yourself to the experience of feeling the atmosphere of your own home. Clear your thoughts and breathe deeply, drawing in the ambiance around your house and filtering it through your senses. Does it feel charged with energy? Does it feel as though you’re not alone? Does it feel like there are emotions there that don’t belong to your or other inhabitants? These things all can indicate presences of spirit people and ghostly visitors.

7: If you have children, do they seem to have developed a imaginary friend. This is common we know with all children, but sometimes a spirit can attach itself to a child and draw on there energy. Spirits are especially attracted to children as there souls are pure and are very easily manipulated. Children will believe anything.

It is not uncommon for a child’s behavior to change dramatically. Signs of this maybe:

Constant Fatigue, this occurs by the spirit drawing on the child’s energy.

Increase in aggression

Lack of concentration, this may be their performance at school.

An increase in nightmares.

I relise this just sounds like a normal child.

The best way to tell though is by listening to your child’s conversations with so called imaginary friend.

Your child may use particular words or phrases or have knowledge of an event, that they could not possibly know.

Ask your child questions about who he/she may be talking to.

Is this person a boy or girl?

How old is he/she?

Where are he/she from?

What do you talk about? etc!

8: Do you see or hear doors slam shut by themselves.

This is very common and can be miss interpreted for a haunting. Check the surrounding area for any drafts. Put your hand around cracks in doors and windows and try to feel for any drafts that may come through them. You must eliminate any natural causes.

9: If an object seems to move by itself, check the floor or surface with a carpenter’s level. You can pick up a cheap one for under $2, and it’ll fit in your purse or pocket. If the object is lightweight, check for drafts, too.

10: If windows open themselves, check the hardware. Make certain they’re really closed. Try the window to see if the counterweight isn’t right, and the window opens too easily.

11: If windows close themselves, try propping them with a piece of pipe or other solid object. Ghosts pop those props out, gravity usually doesn’t.

Poltergeist phenomena is its own animal, so to speak. First, try to repeat the incident yourself, using natural means that could have occurred the first time. (A dish can fall off a shelf if the shelf is shaky. A dish cannot fly across the room and smash on the wall unless someone threw it, or rigged it.

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Healthy coffee? Up until the past ten years coffee and your health were only used as a negative statement, Recent research has found that drinking coffee may actually lower a persons risk for type 2 diabetes.

Postmenopausal women who choose to consume six cups of coffee daily, had a 33% better chance of not developing type 2 diabetes than those women who did not consume coffee at that rate.Of course regular exercise and a balanced diet along with weight control are key factors in the prevention of type 2 diabetes, it seems to appear that good old coffee can have a positive effect as well. Some of the main factors seem to be the make-up of coffee, containing antioxidants and minerals that aid in insulin sensitivity.

A researcher from Harvard School of Public Health Rob Van Dam said he was” not surprised by the recent study”, in 2002 he was involved in research that first announced that coffee had protective effects and one of the main components that they found to be a major factor , was chlorogenic acid. These molecules are also found in Red wine and Chocolate and they seem to be able to slow the absorption of sugar by the cells contained with-in our bodies. Further studies have shown that chlorogenic acid given to rats lowered their blood sugar levels.

The research also found that higher coffee intake was associated with lower body mass index and lower rates of hypertension. Also noted was that it is much too early to single out any one component of coffee as beneficial. The same protective effects were also found in decaffeinated coffee, while curing health related illnesses is a long shot, drinking coffee may not be a frowned upon by your family doctor as it was in the past.

Chlorogenic acid is also found in green coffee beans. An extract of green coffee beans has been found to have a stronger antioxidant effect than common antioxidants such as grape seed extract and green tea. The chlorogenic acid is thought to boost metabolism by changing the way glucose is absorbed by the body.

In fact, the antioxidant compounds found in coffee are not available in significant amounts in other foods, so I say keep on tipping that healthy coffee, generally any food that we consume in are lifetime is best done in moderation, so enjoy your next cup !

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Do you remember the day you got married? It was definitely one of the most amazing feelings in your life. Your blushing bride was at her most beautiful, the bells never sounded so lovely and the night after was just the most amazing in all your years of being alive on this earth. Unfortunately about a week into the bliss, you notice that you may have bitten off more than you can chew. You not only married your wife, you married her annoying kid brother, her gay best friend, and most unfortunate of all-her mother.

She nags, she complains, she compares you to every single ex-boyfriend her daughter has ever had and you definitely don’t like it. So if you can’t take it anymore, what can you do to get her off your back? Here are a few ideas:

Speak to them in a foreign language: One of the reasons that mothers-in-law look down on their sons-in-law is because they perceive them to be inferior. So what better way to fix that impression than by flaunting your knowledge of Greek, Gaelic or Bahasa? Addressing them in a language they don’t know will definitely get their attention and they will most likely leave you alone.

Buy them a house in another continent: If you have the necessary resources it wouldn’t be a bad idea if you bought them their dream home in a land far, far away. You hit two birds with one stone. At once you become the perfect son in law and together with that they get to leave your life forever. Or at least until the next holiday season.

Be a spiritual counselor/shrink: Maybe your in-law is living with you because they are feeling the depression of old age. She craves your company because she feels alone and that nobody can understand her. In that case, it is always best to listen to her and counsel her way back to self confidence. Pretty soon she’ll be moving out, enjoying her vacations in Cancun and leaving you alone.

These are only a few things you can try to help you be free from the ultimate scourge that is an in-law. If you want more ideas on what to do when annoying in-laws start getting on your nerves, just visit: http://crunkish.com/top-ten-ways-to-avoid-your-mother-in-law

The healthiest way to lose weight is neither crash diets and fad diets nor sudden bursts of exercise. The body likes slow changes in terms of food and exercise. For example, someone who has not exercised for years should not rush into running three miles every day. Exercise needs to be increased slowly.

People who eat a lot will experience problems if they suddenly start starving themselves. Introduce changes gradually. Even relatively light exercise such as a short walk may be beneficial if done frequently. The calories you eat minus what you use in exercise and maintaining your body will be stored as fat.

Someone that increases the amount they exercise, but maintains the same diet and calorie intake, will almost certainly lose weight.

Thankfully we are all different in our likes and dislikes and, therefore, exercise in a variety of ways. It is essential that you find an activity that is enjoyable, appropriate, accessible and affordable for you. That way you are far more likely to build it into your routine and continue regular exercise, despite the inevitable set backs due to illness, family commitments, etc.

For people who do not like sweating in a fitness studio there are fun alternatives. When going to the local park, nature trails or trips to the seaside, try to incorporate longer walks into the outing and take a picnic so you are in control of what you are going to eat that day. Always use the stairs instead of the lift. Bear in mind that every single step helps. Get off the bus a stop before the usual one and walk the rest of the way. Use commercial breaks between TV-programmers to stand up and do exercise, or consider using an exercise bicycle in your living room while watching your favorite programs.

For many people it may be beneficial to reduce their calorie intake by eating less and eating more healthily. It is not necessary to crash diet. This usually ends up with the person concerned either getting weaker or giving up completely in desperation. This in turn can lead to a yo-yoing effect of the weight loss – weight gain cycle. Cut down on fatty foods and eat more bread, fruit and vegetables.

Eating 300 to 500 calories less per day, may lead to losing between one and two pounds per week. This is a realistic weight loss. It may seem slow, but would add up to a weight loss of more than three stone in a year.

Having a glass of water instead of juice, eating less lunch than usual and having smaller portions of the food you enjoy are all ways to reduce calorific intake without having to necessarily alter your diet significantly. Avoid a second helping at dinner and snacks between meals, which may have become a habit. Cut down on beer and alcohol. All these things will influence your health in a positive way.

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It is so rare to find your true LOVE. And sometimes you need full relaxation and just happiness and love. If you are lucky you can have a very special day full of love, flowers, romantic dinner and paradise night.

What if you had unexpected romantic day and you absolutely forgot that you are on ovulation period and you did not protect yourself from pregnancy?

Don’t worry! There are easy solutions called “emergency contraception”.

Emergency contraception is a kind of contraception which used as an emergency procedure to prevent unwanted pregnancy which could happen after unprotected sexual intercourse. Emergency contraception can be used in following cases:

Ø when no contraceptive has been used,

Ø when contraceptive methods failed (missed pills, condom rupture, diaphragm dislodgement, etc.)

Ø when girl or woman has been a victim of the sexual attack (abuse).

There are two kinds of emergency contraception:

1. emergency contraceptive pills (progestogen-only or combined oestrogen-progestogen oral contraceptives);

2. copper-releasing intrauterine devices (IUDs).

Emergency contraception should be used within 3 days (72 hours) after unprotected sexual contact.

Combined pills (oestrogen-progestogen pills)

• Two pills should be taken as the first dose as soon as possible after unprotected sexual contact but no later than 72 hours. It should be followed by another two pills after 12 hours.
OR

• Four pills can be taken as the first dose as soon as possible (same as above). It should be followed by another four pills after 12 hours.

Progestogen-only pills

• A single dose of 1.5 mg levonorgestrel should be taken as soon as possible after unprotected sexual contact but no later than 72 hours.

• One dose of 0.75 mg can be taken as the first dose as soon as possible (same as above). It should be followed by the same dose after 12 hours.

Combined pills reduce the risk of pregnancy after unprotected sexual contact by about 56%-89% if taken within 72 hours. The progestogen-only pills reduce the risk by about 60%-93% if taken within 72 hours.

In general the probability of the pregnancy after one unprotected sexual contact is 8%. Women who use emergency contraception (see above methods) are able to reduce the pregnancy risk to 1%-2%. The efficacy is better the sooner emergency contraception is used after unprotected sex.

In general emergency contraception pills are 95% effective if taken within 24 hours; 85% effective if taken within 25-48 hours and 58% effective if taken within 49-72 hours.

Cooper-releasing IUD

A cooper-releasing IUD can be inserted by the professionals within 5 days of unprotected sexual contact.

This method is highly effective (up to 98% of cases) with the possibility of the pregnancy less than 1%.

Color and Style

The first step in choosing your custom fit tailored dress shirt is to select a color and style of shirt. If you are a more conservative dresser or work in a strict office environment, traditional colors such as light blue and white will be your best bet. Typically conservative dress shirts are solid in color as well: no stripes or patterns. A standard collar will also be preferred.

If you are looking to be a bit more stylish with your shirt, you might consider a brighter color. Spread collars, which are wider at the bottom than standard collars, are also in fashion, especially for younger workers.

Ensuring Quality

When seeking a high quality dress shirt, there are a few things you want to check. First is the ply count. A high quality shirt will have a two ply count, and will have this information on the label. Lesser quality shirts will have only a one ply count, and this information will usually not be made available on the label. Two-ply fabric shirts are stronger, last longer, are softer and more comfortable and will wrinkle less than one-ply shirts.

Seams should also be checked. If the shirt is high quality, only a single line of stitching will be visible on the seam running down the side of the shirt. Most shirts have two lines of stitching on the side seam.

To ensure your custom fit tailored shirt is of high quality, check the stitching on the buttons. In a high quality shirt buttons will be sewn on with a cross-locked stitch to make it more difficult for them to fall off.

Checking the Fit

Once you have chosen the color and style of shirt that you want, it is time to check the fit. The primary areas which you need to examine when selecting a custom fit tailored dress shirt are the collar, arms and wrists.

When the shirt is on, you should be able to put two fingers between your neck and the collar. For a new shirt, the collar should actually be about half a size bigger than you need. It takes about 9 washings for a dress shirt to shrink to its smaller size. If you have selected to small a collar, it will choke you when you try to put it on after it has finished shrinking.

Shirt sleeves should be long enough so that when your arms are fully extended, the sleeves do not ride up your wrists. The cuffs should also be tight around your wrist so they do not slide down your hands when arms are not extended. If you are able to get your hands through the cuffs even if they are buttoned, then the cuffs are not tight enough.

While wearing your shirt it should feel comfortable across your entire body. Make sure that it doesn’t get tight around shoulders, chest or waist. Check the buttons to make sure they are not too far apart leaving gaps and exposing your chest or waist.

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1.25 million babies (one third of all births) madonna born each year in the U.S. to unmarried parents. Many people just assume these babies are born to single teen moms, when in fact 41% of these births are to unmarried cohabitating couples. People no longer get married, then have the baby. A significant portion of couples never marry, or marry years after becoming parents.

Reasons
There are lots of situations in which people choose to raise children outside of marriage. Many people who have been through news bad marriage vow to never repeat that mistake again, and find that they are happy to live together as partners without a piece of paper validating their love. Many couples conceive a child but decide they aren’t meant to be together, yet do find a way to continue to parent together even though they are no longer a couples. There quotes been a significant rise in the number of single women in their 30s and 40s choosing to have children, as well as the “gayby” boom – gay couples (who are not permitted to marry in most states) adopting or conceiving children.

Unmarried Celebs
Hollywood has set the example in this instance. Couples such as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams, Nicole Ritchie and Joel Madden, Halle Berry and Gabrielle Aubry, Naomi Watts and Liev Schrieber, Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, Madonna and her bodyguard (the father of her first child), Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard, and Farah Fawcett and Ryan O’Neal share or have shared children in a partnership outside marriage. Many other famous couples become parents first and later choose to marry, such as Annette Bening and Warren Beatty, Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid, and Madonna and Guy Ritchie (the father of her second child).

Unmarried Challenges
Unmarried couples face huge challenges in our marriage-centric society. Married couples are automatically legal parents together, while an unmarried father must go through a legal procedure to become the “real” father. Putting dad’s name on the birth certificate is not enough. To become a legal father, a man who is not married to the baby’s mother must sign an acknowledgement of paternity (a legal document) or go through a paternity proceeding in family court.

Unmarried couples face other challenges, such discrimination in adoption or fertility treatments. Some clinics and doctors are unwilling to provide assistance to unmarried women or unmarried couples who are trying to become pregnant, although fortunately there are many professionals who do not have such a bias. Some adoption agencies are not willing to place children in unmarried homes and some foreign countries prohibit adoption of children from their country by single people or unmarried couples.

Unmarried families must deal with unfair income tax treatment. Even if they live together as a nuclear family, they are not eligible for the same married family tax breaks available to families where the parents have chosen to marry.

One of the greatest challenges is a general lack of understanding by doctors, teachers, and neighbors. Society, schools, and the legal system are not set up to recognize and support unmarried parents, and so many find themselves feeling ignored or misunderstood.

Creating Your Own Rules
Many unmarried parents have found that since society and systems are not set up to accommodate a family life that doesn’t fit within traditional definitions, they have to create their own rules. Some parents work out financial arrangements outside of courts. Instead of going to court and getting orders of custody and child support, they create their own schedules and share finances in a way that makes sense to them. Unmarried families also rely on health care directives, wills, and powers of attorney to define legal rights and offer protection from a system that does not understand nontraditional families.

As more and more people have become aware of the rights denied to gay families, opinion may also change about the rights and needs of unmarried heterosexuals. Some municipalities allow heterosexual couples over age 62 to register as domestic partners, recognizing that remarrying as a senior puts pension and Social Security benefits at risk, however there is yet to be a very productive movement to offer these same rights to younger couples. The more unmarried couples who are open about their arrangement, the sooner public opinion will change.

Brette Sember is a former family law attorney and author of Unmarried with Children: The Complete Guide for Unmarried Families (Adams Media, 2008). Learn more at http://www.UnmarriedWithChildren.net

Which celebrity does not have their own fashion line? The list seems to be getting shorter as more and more stars announce their new lines and fragrances to be sold at already well established and accessible stores around the globe. The next time Sarah Jessica Parker is seen on the red carpet she may be wearing the likes of Marc Jacobs, but her new fashion line Bitten is not aimed for this Prada toting crowd. The new trend among celebrities is reaching out to the masses by providing them with trendy and affordable duds on the high street and in shopping malls everywhere. But what does the future hold for the real designers out there?

The recent deaths and retirements of a few major leaders in fashion have piqued the interest of fashionistas everywhere that are wondering who, when, and even if, they can be replaced. Some of these designers and their associated brands such as Versace and Calvin Klein have lived on in the hands of designers happy to take on and continue the legacy. In other instances the designer brand is bought out by bigger corporations looking to cash in on the already established client base. These big name designers who are so often worn at movie premiers and award shows might continue to reign but the question lies in whether or not the public and the celebrity elite will see any new big names and faces associated with fashion, as we have seen in the past.

David A. Wolf, a fashion trend forecaster and creative director of the Doneger Group believes that the era of massive empires built upon a single name or face are probably over. “The people who have empires and giant names, happened to begin their careers with the maximum window of opportunity for that kind of enterprise,” said Mr. Wolfe. “That doesn’t seem to exist anymore. I just can’t imagine who would be a new Donna Karan.”

The task for new young designers on the scene has been made doubly difficult by the number of celebrities who already have face and name recognition coming out with their own designer fashion lines. These celebs have used the already existing economic infrastructure of big names like Topshop and Tesco to market and sell their designs, or in many cases someone else’s design that they have attached their name and face to. This strategy is what can give many new designers a ray of hope, using mega stores and recognisable brands to get their designs out there to be seen, purchased and worn.

The time may soon come when young budding designer’s dreams are not their first catwalk show during London’s Fashion Week, but a job with a big name high street store like Marks and Spencer, Debenhams or Kate Moss’s choice of Topshop. The benefits of designing for big stores has even been highlighted on shows such as Project Catwalk, a reality show where young designers compete to win a job working as one of the designers at Debenhams.

This new building ground for designers just starting to get their feet wet has potential to benefit all parties involved. The designers receive more capital via sponsorship from an array of initiatives from big names stores with deep pockets looking to capitalise on fresh new looks and the public can happily drape themselves in the newest trends for prices that will not break the bank.

Elisha Burberry is an online, freelance journalist and keen traveller and watersports enthusiast. Originally from Scotland, she now resides in London.

Nothing can be more exciting and thrilling than seeing everybody gaze upon your beauty, as you get dress-up with the latest trendy clothing and accessories, you’re a fashion chic! And yet such luxury cannot always be satisfied in a single day of glamor, if you want to do it everyday, you can! Well of course, being a fashion chic can be costly as shopping becomes part of the daily life. But how can you live in the world of magic fashion everyday? Do it virtually with Bratz dress up games!

You are of course undeniably beautiful and you can help some to be beautiful too! The Bratz are becoming too busy in their careers that they sometimes cannot attend to themselves, and imagine Chloe in total disarray? That would be awful! Bring Chloe back to the world of fashion with Bratz dress up games. You got to pick the most pretty and fashionable wear that you could find. You know as well their celebrity life and it can be dreadful if their fans found out, how can she seem unsightly in a fashion pixie party unprepared.

You can do more than that in Bratz games. The game virtually would allow you to choose what color you would prefer for the dress not only for Chloe but the rest of the Bratz. If you are a certified fashion savvy, you can indulge yourself in a modish collection of dresses in the virtual game and you can even design them by yourselves. Bring out that smart chic a la mode in you!

The Bratz have the passion for fashion and their natural inclination to fashion is irresistible that you will opt to join their get-up. Pick a cute, stylish and hottest design for the Bratz with the Bratz dress up games and you will be pretty sure that you can get the hottest guy in the fashion pixie party. Dressing up does not only means, getting the chic dresses but you also have to pair it with trendy accessories.

Bratz games can virtually enable you to live in the fashion world without having to spend too much and you can join the Bratz anytime that you want! Nothing can be more exciting and thrilling than seeing everybody gaze upon your beauty, and in special you are with the world’s hottest celebrities, the Bratz! Get up and let the world see the smart chic and fashionable, YOU.

Stephanie Bailey is a game enthusiast of http://www.bratzgames.biz – an online Doll games. She create her own personalized virtual games online. She love to play with young girls which they enjoy the lovely doll and Bratz Games .