Tradition of Putting Candles on Birthday Cake:

Tradition of placing candles on Birthday cake is attributed to early Greeks, who used place lit candles on cakes to make them glow like the moon. Greeks used to take the cake to the temple of Artemis-the Goddess of Moon. Some scholars say that candles were placed on the cake because people believe that the smoke of the candle carried their wishes and prayers to Gods who lived in the skies. Others believe that the custom originated in Germany where people used to place a large candle in the centre of the cake to symbolize ‘the light of life’. In present times too, people place candles on Birthday cakes and a silent wish is made before blowing out the candle. It is believed that blowing out all candles in one breath means the wish will come true and the person with enjoy good luck in the coming year. Some also smear out the name of the person before slicing of the cake to bring good luck.

Now, I want to write about birthday celebration in Iranian culture.As everyone knows, most birthday elements are same.For example:Birthday cake, candles, Gifts and....However, I want to explain how these elements used in Iranian birthday. The cake will be decorated traditionally.Then it will typically be covered with lit candles when presented, the number of candles should be as same as person's age. We will decorate our houses by some colorful papers that used in our country. We will use colorful balloons as well.Then we will surprise the person by singing happy birthday to you which means "Tavalodet Mubarak" in Persian. The person whose birthday it is may make a silent wish and then blow out the candles. Then taht person opens her/his presents.If it was a child's birthday, then the parents would buy a lot of hats and put them on the other children head that are coming to their child's birthday. All people would dance until midnight together. They would have fun together.

This is the birthday design that I have chosen for assignment three.

This is my first scatch that I have done it for my birthday card.

This is my final work of callender. I should mention that the watermelon and pomegranate and ofcourse nuts are the most important fruits in this night.People get this fruits and getting toghether in this night.

at the last but not the least,I added two pieces of wateremelon.Firstly,I made two cyrcle by ellipse tool and eresed one of them by eraser to make a good look of the red part of it. Then I added the other one behind the first one to make the green part of the watermelon.then I made the seeds by ellipse tool.

Then I added pomegranates to my callender.First of all, I drew pomegranates by Pen tool.Secondly,I used mesh tool and eyedropper(I) to render them.