Signature Christmas Table Decor

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!!!!

Signature Christmas Tree Decorating Ideas

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!!!!

Signature Thanksgiving Decor

The Thanksgiving holiday is right around the corner and who wouldn't want a beautifully decorated table to share with their loved ones and friends. Thanksgiving is a time to share good food, drinks and reflect on what we are thankful for all year. It is a time when anxiety sets in for some because the in-laws are coming maybe for the first time, the cousin who is always so critical, the mom who thinks that you can never get it right. Well, lets put all the naysayers to rest this Thanksgiving holiday and set a beautiful table that will not only shock but delight your guests. Above you can find simple & rustic and elegant & chic designs for your table. There is something for the creative spirit and for the not so creative mind. Whatever you decide to do with your Thanksgiving table, make it a reflection of who you are and the spirit of  your home. After all, the celebration is a an extension of you, your family and your home. So start designing and have fun with it. Then sit back, relax and enjoy!

Signature Leafy Fall Ideas

   

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!

 

Signature Sweet Sweet Sixteen

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

This sweet sixteen birthday party is for a girl who likes basketball, candy& balloons. She didn't want a frilly, pretty birthday party, just one that reflects her personality. She decided to make it a Nike themed sweet sixteen with lots of candies and balloons. We incorporated Nike swooshes on her invitation printed in two color of pinks and greens on white paper stock. Her center pieces were made inside Nike shoe boxes with candy of her party colors, basketball shaped candy  with tissue paper &balloons flowing upwards. Nike swooshesweremade in her party colors and placed on the outside of the Nike shoe boxes. Additional basketball shaped candies were placed throughout the venue in various shaped containers for all the teens to eat. Signature Shirley Temple drinks were made in green and pink and the menu consisted of the birthday girl's favorites like mini cheese burger sliders and macaroni & cheese. The cake was designed by Creative Cakes and we stacked a half basketball on top of a square cake and added the Nike swooshes in her party color around the sides of the cake. It is easy to plan a themed party with your client's personality incorperated in a way that their guests will enjoy. Just be creative, be stylish, be you!

 

Signature Head Wear

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!

Signature Cowboy's 50th Birthday Bash!

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.