Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts

December 28, 2013

Decorative ideas for a holiday party...


Hello and welcome to the weekend!  I have a special column today to help you with last minute ideas for decorating your holiday party.  With New Year's Eve this week, its time to get it going!! So, let's get the party started!! 



Elegant Decorative Ideas for your Holiday Party without Spending a Dime


With Christmas now over, you are faced with the realization that it’s time to start decorating for your annual holiday party. There’s no need to fret and start running to the nearest store for decorations. You have all you need in your Christmas storage box and then some.

Whether it’s a winter wonderland outside your front window or not, you can create that warm and fuzzy feeling in your home with a little help of the imagination. Always infuse your personality in
everything you do. Most importantly, choose a color theme that works best with your home decor.
The goal is to use what you have to make a dazzling statement.






Ideas for the entryway



It wouldn’t be Christmas without all those greeting cards and colored envelopes from friends and family.
Don’t leave them in a pile on your kitchen table; use them as fun and colorful garland to drape around an entryway mirror. Just simply poke a hole in each card and use a festive ribbon.



Create a wintry scene using mini Christmas trees, holiday figurines and reindeer. Use a white piece of fabric you find in the home or extra large cotton balls and fluff them out to make snow.


Design your very own vinyl banners using ribbon and Christmas cards and cut them out to spell “Happy Holidays” or “Merry and Bright”. Hang it from a prominent wall so that guests will see it as they walk in.








The tabletop


Don’t spend a fortune on floral decorations, use what you have. Grab three vases of varying sizes and fill them with ornaments or holiday candies. Use a mix of bright color or go silver and pale blue for a more sophisticated look.



Bring some nature into your home by cutting a pine branch or holly branch from the yard and place it around a vase filled with cranberries. The rich red and green definitely says “Merry Christmas.”






Don’t forget the chandelier! Make a statement from above by dangling crystal ornaments or fun snowflakes on beautiful ribbon. Your guests will love it.



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These are just a few simple and easy ways to get holiday party ready without spending a dime on expensive decorations. Breathe new life into your holiday decorations with a little imagination and have fun.




(additional images by me)


Have a wonderful weekend and I hope these tips help you with your holiday party!!


If you need your house spruced up for the new year, I can help! Please contact me at monacointeriors76@yahoo.com for more information.








December 29, 2010

Vignettes around the house...

Just wanted to give my humble little digital a workout, so I took more photos around the house. Reading some other blogs, I realized, I didn't get projects done that I had planned on doing. 2011 will be the year, January the month, specifically to get my painting projects accomplished. My hideous bureau will be painted orange and a bedside table, a cool turquoise. And now...

Glass lamp #1...

Glass lamp #2...

A view out the window...

Paris...

And finally...I covered my ugly mattress with a turquoise and white polka dotted sheet that I already had. After seeing the Beekman House in the new Country Living magazine, I thought it was a great idea, since I tried a dust ruffle and it just got mangled and never looked right.  You can't really tell the colors in the photo, but they are blue!

I want to thank all of you who visit me daily or weekly and read my blog - it wouldn't be the same without you! I so love blogging and am thrilled with all the friends I have out there around the world.  As I commented on another blog, this ole' world just seems so TINY now with the new social media. We are all connected and it is a beautiful thing.  Happy New Year and I'm looking forward to 2011!

(images by Sarah for Monaco Interiors)

December 26, 2010

Christmas at home...

Here, some images from Christmas at home...




 





Look what Santa brought me! I treated myself to Anne Harwell's beautiful paintings, including one by her father, and hubby gave me Vicki Archer's beautiful tome! I hope you are all having a great holiday! We are bracing for a major blizzard later today into tomorrow here in New England (from New York City north) - White Christmas indeed!!

(images by Sarah for Monaco Interiors)

November 14, 2010

A little Suzanne Kasler holiday inspiration...

With Christmas just weeks away now, I am getting my Ballard catalogs both in the mail and online and just fell in love with these items from Suzanne Kasler's new holiday collection. I love the vintage look of these gift tags and they are a perfect match for...

 ...these rolls of bronze, pearl and light green metallic paper - wouldn't gifts look so chic wrapped in this paper?

I have a custom built doll's house (made in Vermont) and absolutely loved rearranging and arranging all my furniture in it as a child, so these take me back to my little early 'design' days...and they are only $15 for these 3! what a great addition to any tree, though I am partial to my little tabletop...:)

On a different note, I love these mats to put either inside or outside of your home...they are all natural and have sweet snowflakes on them to signify winter...these are 100% coir and are hand stenciled.

Do you have a favorite? have you started planning your gifts and wrap? or are you all done and I'm just behind the '8 ball?' Hope you all have a great week! Thank you as always for taking the time to stop by my blog and leave a comment, I love to read what you think!!

For more holiday inspiration, go here -

If you would like your home to reflect your ideas and vision, contact me and we can work together to make your dream come true. Please contact me at monacointeriors76@yahoo.com to discuss your project.

(images by ballarddesigns.com)

December 31, 2009

Happy New Year...

Wishing everyone a happy new year...thank you for visiting with me in 2009, it has been a lot of fun and I will continue to post, blog, write etc. and invite you all to keep on stopping by...here's to a great 2010! what will you be doing? be good whatever you do...Happy New Year!!!

December 20, 2009

Let it snow...

Living in New England, you get used to this scene and you either love it or...think its ok. We just got blasted with snow overnight as the storm that walloped Washington DC and New York has made its way up to Boston and points north. Looks like it will be a white Christmas this year, which suits me just fine! Is it snowing where you live? do you like snow at the holidays?