26Dec

Five Steps To Get You Ready For New Year’s Celebration

Now that Christmas Eve is behind us, comes the more festive celebration of New Year’s Eve. The food is lighter, the champagne is abundant or just enough and the expectation of the new year is accelerating. Here are five simple steps that will make your New Years celebration a lot more enjoyable.

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Clean Up Your Home

There is not much fun in this one, but before you start working on your New Year’s resolution list, clean up your home first. Our surroundings are usually a reflection of our inner beings, and if we can’t keep our home tidy, most likely we won’t have the strength to keep our resolutions.

Dress The Parts

Not because you are not hosting a big party means you have to receive the new year in PJ’s. Even if it’s only you and your close family, make an effort to dress up. Start the year with the right foot forward and make that extra effort for your self and your loved ones.

Know Your Champagne

Oliver Gal Champagne Canvas Print available at Nordstrom

Champagne is the known drink for festive activities and celebrations. Get to know the different kinds of bubbly drinks available starting from what is champagne, how to read the labels and what glasses to use. Don’t worry, there are good champagnes that don’t have to be ridiculously pricey.

Make Some Noise

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If you can’t afford a band, then blow noise horns, ring bells, wear fun hats and set off fireworks.

Embrace A New Tradition

I grew up with the tradition of eating 12 grapes at the clock of midnight on New Year’s Eve. Each grape is supposed to represent good luck for each month of the coming year.

21Dec

Happy Holidays

It’s time to take a break from our daily duties and redirect our attention to our most beloved ones. I hope you get to spend this special time of the year surrounded by whoever your heart wants. If you haven’t seen this year’s Bergdorf Goodman impressive windows, then take a seat and enjoy it here. Luckily, we don’t need to take a plane to New York City to enjoy them.

Happy Holidays!

“The Bergdorf Goodman holiday windows continue their tradition of fantastical storytelling with a celebration of all things sweet! The 2018 windows, entitled “Bergdorf Goodies” captures an array of holiday treats from peppermint candy canes and gingerbread houses to antique chocolates and neon confections.”

bergdorf good man windows 2018

19Dec

4 Beautiful Christmas Table Setting Ideas Easy To Emulate

As the holiday approaches, so does the anticipation of celebrating among families and friends. From simple to nature-inspired table settings that won’t need too much effort to more elegant and modern ones we have rounded up four beautiful Christmas table settings that will for sure delight your guests and make you feel at ease.

Galand And Candles

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Simply run a garland along the table, add a few votive candles along with tall candle holders and your table setting will be nature-inspired and beautiful.

17Dec

Christmas Mantle Decoration: How To Decorate A Shallow Mantle

Decorating your fireplace mantel for Christmas should not be a hassle. Our mantel is rather a shallow mantel so it requires a little extra effort to decorate and outfitting it for Christmas. Holiday decorating is super exciting and enjoyable hence it comes as a giving, however, as in any other decorating project, when you lock enough space, you need to pull from the creative box. These are the simple three steps I followed this year for our Christmas mantle decoration. Further below, I explain how I was able to get it done even on our shallow fireplace mantle.

Christmas mantle decoration, Julie Paulino Design

10Dec

A Christmas Decorated Townhouse By Darryl Carter

Darryl Carter is an Interior Designer who knows how to juxtapose classic furniture with modern details like a professional. His interiors are always restrained but beautiful, spare but welcoming. He keeps his color palette in the neutrals while incorporating modern art and details that make his interiors exciting and up to date.
Darryl Carter, Christmas

For the Christmas decor in his townhouse in Washington, DC Carter enlisted the Gardener Sidra Forman. Forman kept things understatedly elegant by decorating the doorways and stair rails with simple green garland. Sidra skipped the Christmas light and instead embellished the three and the many wreaths throughout the house with yellow burlap ribbons. Love the modern way the ribbons were wrapped around the garlands.

16Nov

Holiday Gift Guide Ideas For Everyone In Your Life

For our Christmas gift guide this year, we have compiled the most versatile and unique gifts to cover everyone in your life. From the hosts you’ll be seeing during this Holiday’s get together to that special someone in your life, this 80+ gift guide will make your Christmas shopping feel like a breeze.