Wow! Christmas is 10 days away. As you prepare to set your table for your holiday festivities, do it in a way that is beautiful and inviting to your guests. Above you can see traditional table decor and Christmas colors in play. The table settings are traditional & formal and is for a small gathering. The two centerpieces above were created by Y Lowe Signature Events craft specialist Winsome Mitchell and are perfect for your dining table or a sidetable at your home or in an event space. Our company creates Christmas decor and wreaths for holiday decorating. The above centerpieces can be created with fresh greenery or with craft materials as indicated above. Another place that you can grab some fresh and exciting ideas from for your dining table and home decor, is Better Homes & Garden (BHG). I love to visit their website around the holidays for great entertaining ideas for food, drink and decor. From our family to yours...we wish you a happy and safe holidays!!!!
Every year my family decorate our Christmas tree around my daughter Maya's birthday, which is December 14th. Decorating the family's Christmas tree
is a personal, fun and exciting thing to do. Every family have their own traditions around the holidays regarding decoratiing their home & tree, baking cookies & tasty treats and participating in annual rites of passage. I remember my family Christmas trees in Jamaica where I grew up. We always had a fresh tree and mummy & daddy would spray the tree with snow from a can and put cotton balls at the root of the tree on top of the container that it was in because we didn't have snow there. In the picture above my son Marc, my daughter Maya and my cousins children Deanna & Kathy (left to right) is having fun putting decoration on the Christmas tree. Some traditions from my childhood still continues to this day regarding my Christmas tree...it MUST be a fresh real tree. Whether you like a fresh tree or the one that you pull out of the box year after year, here a few tips in making your tree beautiful. Stick with a theme for your tree and use ornaments that means something to your family (like ones made by the children and picked out together as a family) and mix those with store bought ones. Use oversize ornaments to hide holes or imperfections in the tree. Add glamour to the tree by adding crytsals and sparkles (I found beautiful ones in the dollar store this year...I was amazed). Use colors and themes that relate to the room where the tree is displayed. To further enhance your decor, the gifts under your tree should be wrapped and ribboned in complimentary colors of the tree and the room. Use garlands and ornaments, more ribbon, flowers to complete the look. Themes can be American (use american flags, ornaments of American monuments and buliding) , wooden ornamented tree theme (I did this when my children were younger) can be all wooded ornaments that are sleighs, snowman, drummer boys etc. How about a Fruited tree? Yes...this can be beautifully done. Use all fruit ornaments to decorate the entire tree. My cousin's children who are in the picture above, every year decorate their tree with handmade crocheted angels that are absolutely beautiful. This tree theme On Ice is tieing in the decorations of the whole room where the tree is located. Whatever theme or decorating you decide to do this year with your family, enjoy it and create new memories. Happy tree trimming!!!!
Its Fall again and the holidays are fast approaching. Your guests are coming into town and you are seeking new and interesting decor and entertaining ideas for your dining tables. Well here is a leafy idea! Select one element of the season and play with that element throughout your centerpieces and place settings. Here we are focusing on the fallen leaves. The leaf vases above were great finds for my colleague Winsome and myself. We found them in Michaels for a great steal...$3.99 a piece. With these low lying leaf vases...you can add small pots of moms. Place the leaf candles above in the middle and each mom filled leaf vase on either side. Place the The Classic Maple-Leaf Card Holder at each place setting. Write a note to each of your guest letting them know why you are thankful for having them in your life in the Maple Leaf Thanksgiving Card. Make a Leaf Thanksgiving Box and stuff it with these delicious Leaf Cookies. What leafy ideas!
The fall wedding season is upon us....the last hooray to summer is over! Brides are gearing up for their fall weddings. There is no better way of making a statement as a bride than with your headwear. Your veil, or should I say, your unveil? Thats correct! Brides checkout the website Unveiled Bridal Designs. The designs are beautiful and unique and who wouldn't want a one of a kind veil for their wedding, that speaks to who you are as a bride and blends with the aesthetics of your wedding. HELLO..can we talk? If you are bride who is looking for a different kind of head wear, then this is your site. There is Birdcage, French Netting, Pillboxes, Peacock Feathers and Illusion Veil. All the designs are inspired by the 1940's but yet it still seems modern. Be inspired...be predated yet modern. Just be you!
Surprissseee......they all exclaimed as he entered the Cross Creek Golf Club for his 5oth Cowboy themed birthday party. Darrell was indeed surprised because he thought that he was going to a financial seminar, so in he walked with a portfolio in hand. This birthday boy pictured with his wife above is a COWBOY FANATIC! His basement is totally transformed with cowboy colored paint on the walls and cowboy memorabilia everywhere. In the basement there sits a bar with a flatscreen for all the games where he joyfully serves everyone drinks before the games. His favorite food to serve at the games...wings and his favorite drink is Bahama Mama. We incorperated all his favorites in his party, 3 different flavored wings, cheeseburger sliders, cheese, veggie & fruit trays and for drinks...of course blue Bahama Mama's. For dessert was a lemon flavored Cowboy's cake (his favorite cake flavor) from Creative Cakes. Everyone had a great time on the dance floor with Pisces DJ's. They played reggae, R&B, Calypso and popular dance music throughout the 80's to now. His guests were given a shot glass that says Darrell's 50th Birthday. The Cowboy's luminaria center pieces that I made was a big hit because several guests took them home also as souvenirs. It is not difficult to plan a themed party, we started with the invitation which was custom made. We printed the invitation on white stock paper that was outlined in silver and had a Cowboy's helmet on it. Your invitation is the window into the soul of your event, so everyone knew right away that this was a Cowboy birthday party. Then we continued the theme throughout with the colors of the linens, in this case blue tablecloth and silver napkins. It is very easy for you to throw a themed event, you just have to think about what your birthday person would like and what you know that your guests will enjoy. If you do this, your next themed event will be a hit...just like this party was.
