Things to Do With 27 Dresses (Or How to Recycle Bridesmaid Dresses)

Until the day comes when you can wear a wedding dress, here are less-than-27 practical and logical, wacky and crafty ways to recycle bridesmaid dresses and get something out of the alternately beautiful and horrible experience. (Why only 20? It's the space considerations, honey.)

- Wear as Evening Dress

Of course, you might want to shorten the hems, rip out the satin roses, add a short jacket and deepen the cleavage while you're at it.

- Wear Everywhere

If you can't wear them anywhere, then wear them everywhere! So goes Rebecca Whitlinger's mantra. At least, get mileage out of the things!

- Wear As Halloween Costume

At least, you can just wear it in all its horrendous glory! You save money, too, not to mention maybe win the best costume award.

- Transform into Scarecrows/Witches

For those Halloween decorations in the yard and in the house, just stuff away!

- Give for Dress Up Games

Little girls will appreciate the donation to their dress-up wardrobe. Great thing - the frillier the bridesmaid dresses, the better for pretend games of princess!

- Give to Needy Future Bridesmaids

You never know who until you advertise.

- Auction Off

Maybe there is a boom in similarly-themed weddings in the community, with bridesmaids frantic for a bargain.

- Hold a Garage Sale

Somebody somewhere ought to have some use for bridesmaid dresses! Throw in some of your old stuff for added income.

- Sell Online

Just mention the size, any alterations done, and the brand, model number and color and you are set!

- Hold a Bridesmaid Dresses Party

Play football, sing karaoke, and get rip-roaring drunk, whatever your fellow bridesmaid want to destroy the offending items.

- Donate to Charity

There are teenagers out there who are too down in the money dumps to afford prom dresses. Your bridesmaid dresses might just make the occasion memorable!

- Sew Crazy Patchwork Quilts

If you can't be comfortable in it, why not be warm on it, right?

- Make Into Bags/Purses/Clutches

Like T-shirt bags only with more glamour and panache. It takes sewing skills but at least, you get mileage out of the cloth.

- Make into Curtains

For the private bathroom, the attic, the basement, wherever you need a splash of color without offending the design sensibilities of guests.

- Make Into Pillow Cases

Those silk and satin dresses make for perfect pillowcases for the living room and bed room.

- Make into Bed Hangings

Yes, those yards of tulle and chiffon can take a second life as gauzy bed hangings. Ah, the good life!

- Make Into Tablecloths/Table Runners

Why waste money on good cloth when you have many on your closet albeit sewn in horrible creations?

- Make into Kitchen Aprons

And be transformed into a kitchen goddess in a glamorous apron!

- Make Into Handkerchiefs

And torture the bride and your fellow bridesmaids with the colors. Kidding, of course. There are many types of laces to spice them up, just use your imagination.

- Shred Into Confetti

For the really hopeless bridesmaid dresses, you can always shred them into confetti. You'll be saving a few trees, too!

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The Influence Online Pet Games Have on Children

Following the Internet revolution of the nineties, playing games online has turned into an all time favorite activity for children. So much so, that most children prefer to go online for entertainment than going outside to play with their friends. With computer hardware getting cheaper by the minute and broadband connections getting faster and cheaper as well, online games turning it up a notch with more detailed graphics and sophisticated forms of game play. Online games are divided in genres, such as action, flying and adventure games. These genres are not static, new ones are constantly being created following the demands of online game players. One of the newly created genres, which seem to be on the rise are pet games online.

There are several reasons why kids tend to prefer pet games over any other. One of the most significant reasons is the overall simplicity of game play. You don't need a masters degree to dominate the use of arrow keys and move your character around. The plot in these games is not at all complicated. Simple to follow story lines include a day at the job in a pet care center, or fetching the stick back to the master. The simplicity inherent in these games act as a magnet for kids of all ages who just want to have some fun, not spend the afternoon reading an instruction manual.

Another aspect of pet games online that appeal to a lot of children, are the furry little creatures that make up the cast of characters. Regardless of whether a kid has a pet at home or not, they cannot resist a puppy who wants to play with them. Apparently this is also true with virtual puppies. For example in the game "Puppy Fetch", the player throws a stick as far as he can so the puppy can get it back. This is a simple game, with easy to use controls anyone could play for hours.

Several forms of pet games affect children in different ways. There are puzzle games involving animals, pet dress up games and veterinarian games just to mention a few. In pet puzzle games for example, an image of an animal is shown to children and they are then scrambled to be put together again by the player. Dress up games simply offers a number of clothing options for children to dress up their pet. In veterinarian games, the players actually run a clinic, where they have to attend to sick animals as they come through the door. In all instances, players are required to make an effort, either by making choices, activating their short term memory, and learning a little bit about customer service.

With all aspects considered, pet games offer one of the safest and friendliest forms of entertainment available online, free. Their simple nature and ease of use appeals to the entire family. Thus, we could conclude that pet games available free online are a rather positive influence on children of today.

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New Era Halloween Online Games

Traditionally, Halloween stands for fear, spookiness, ghost and ghouls and on Halloween night people try to test the fear factor by organizing scary games and getting up in spooky costumes. However, in recent times, the age-old traditions of Halloween games have shifted from party games to online games and people in general, love playing Halloween online games with their friends and family.

Seeing the addiction of the internet amongst people, it is not surprising that online games have completely taken over home games. Everyone finds it less cumbersome to organize these games physically when a good time can be had at the click of a mouse. Halloween's popularity has spilled over to online games with a vengeance and children and adults alike enjoy staying up playing games on the net.

A plethora of online Halloween games are available and most offer the usual jigsaws, puzzles and memory games. Some are specifically designed for pre-school kids and are brightly colored to attract the children's attention. These may include, scissor crafts, jigsaw puzzles, story boards which are all related to the theme of Halloween.

A large assortment of links and free games suitable for children are readily accessed online. Interactive games for both adults and children are all over the net. Some may have to be downloaded for a small fee while others can be played for free.

For those who are raring for a 'spooky' time, there are endless games to delight even the 'darkest' of hearts! Games like Super Mario Halloween, Bashing Pumpkins, Halloween Pumpkins, Kill the Witches and Grave Robber are only some of the popular games to send a delicious shiver down your spine.

Children find Halloween Pumpkins an awesome game because they get to shoot all the ghouls and ghosts before they get you and you have to be really fast to shoot. Zombie Infection is not for the younger players. Girls specifically can enjoy dressing up in the scariest costumes in the Dress Up game. Smaller children can enjoy Feed the Hungry Ghost while older ones will probably freak out on Halloween Hangman.

Headless Havoc, Tomb Chess, Phantom Mansion Red, Hidden Zombie and Revenge of the Stick - the names of these games are evocative enough to induce a spine-chilling thrill on Halloween night. The Ghoul Academy recreates the classroom atmosphere where the classroom has to be protected, the things collected while simultaneously zapping the baddies.

On a lighter note, there is the Halloween Carver which lets you personalize a greeting for Halloween and send it to your friends and family. Your very own Jack-O -Lantern can be carved and a message written. It is good fun and a less scary way of getting into the festive spirit. In the true spirit of Halloween, many online gaming sites offer 'treats' at the end of successfully playing 'tricky' games. The games may range from really scary to outright silly.

So, all you 'would-be ghouls and ghosts', dress up in your scariest costumes and get set to test your mettle against real online witches and spooks on the dark, dark night of Halloween!

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