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Special Event: Christening

Special Event: Christening for David Daniel Otunga Jr.

Last Saturday, I had the privilege and honor to design the christening celebration for Jennifer Hudson and David Otunga’s baby, David Daniel Otunga Jr. It was a wonderfully intimate occasion filled with family and friends. Since this was an occasion to celebrate the baby, we focused on using design elements that celebrated youth and childlike [...]

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Past Thanksgivings

As I’m sitting down today to plan this year’s Thanksgiving, I took some time to look through my old pictures to remember the designs from years past. Thanksgiving is the beginning of the holidays for me. As I mentioned yesterday, I use this day to hand out my family’s Christmas presents. I love being the [...]

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DIY Thanksgiving

It’s November, so naturally there’s one holiday that’s on everyone’s minds: Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a very important holiday for me. I like to take this day to spend time with my family, design a lavish dinner, reflect on the year that’s passed, and give out holiday presents to my loved ones (around Christmas season, I’m [...]

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Celebration of Spring

Spring buzz is in the air. It’s not only the great feeling that I get being outside but also as I walk to work on these busy New York streets; I can sense a change of attitude in my fellow New Yorkers. They have a smile where there is normally tension. At my gym, The [...]

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DIY – You can "Do it yourself"

I love designing table setting. Whether the event is large or small it is the one place where people can gather. I enjoy designing tables that are full of visual layers – the details in the napkins, the placemats, the candles, the tableware, and, of course, the tall centerpiece. Apart from designing for my clients, [...]

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Holiday Ideas

Using the same flowers every year for you Holiday arrangements can get stale, this year I decided to spruce my arrangements up but still stay traditional. Here are 2 arrangements we did, as you can see in this one we used peonies, orchids, pomegranates, and threw in some traditional greens. In the below images we [...]

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Paper Elegance

I love this! We created a beautiful elegant table all made from wrapping paper, ribbons, and small embellishments. You can do this so easily bust out your scissors and glue guns. We glued ribbon along the edge of our favorite wrapping paper and add some beading to the ribbon to give it a nice finished [...]

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Last Minute Elegant Table Setting

Hello everyone I know it has been way too long since I have posted in my journal. For the last 3 months I have been traveling like crazy, I went to India, Bali, Jakarta, Paris, London, Milan, The Maldives, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar! It was absolutely amazing and I have tons to share with [...]

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Tabletop Garden

My team and I made this extraordinary tabletop garden the other day for the entrance to a spectacular wedding. I had 2 tables set up on either side of the entryway and set up 2 very large versions of this centerpiece. As I am sure you can imagine this made a very dramatic first impression! [...]

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Refreshing Summer Centerpiece

In the dead heat of summer this centerpiece is perfect! It looks difficult but in reality it is very do-able. SHHH don’t tell your guests… Now that you have those you need to decide what kind of flowers you want to use, I chose all white ones to go along the lines of refreshing but [...]

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Handmade 4th of July

This is an easy, affordable and elegant way to decorate your table for Independence Day. As you can see these are not traditional decorations for the 4th, but that is what I like about it and so will your guests. For the table I used a white table cloth – easy enough we all have [...]

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Beeswax Candles

Greetings on this rainy Friday! Since everybody is probably staying inside, I thought I would share a weekend project with you all. My design team came up with this for a wedding we are doing in March. The bride loves the natural look of beeswax candles and wanted to have them decorating her tables. I [...]

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Indian Summer Table

This is one of my favorite times of year! I love when the weather starts to get a little cooler, and the colors get warmer! Growing up in Panama, we had two seasons- summer and rain. I will never forget my first fall here in New York City. Those warm, inviting colors continue to inspire [...]

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