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Merry Christmas

Season’s Greetings To All

Just want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! I won’t be blogging tomorrow since it’s a holiday, but I’ll be back next week. I hope you and your loved ones have a safe and happy holiday. XOXO, Preston

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Holiday DIY: Pie of Roses

Yesterday we talked about some great ways you can decorate your home last minute. However, if you have some extra time on your hands and want to make something special I have a beautiful DIY for you to try. It’s blissfully simple, but something you’ll have to make the day of or the day before [...]

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Last Minute Christmas Décor Tips

It’s almost the big day! Here are some last minute ideas for your Christmas decorating: Tip #1: I always suggest having at least one dramatic statement. I think a great one for Christmas would be to get a small Christmas tree and put it right in the center of your dining table (similar to what [...]

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Holiday Inspiration Photo: Paper Christmas Decorations

It’s the week of Christmas. You’ve wrapped all the presents and now you have all this extra gift wrapping paper left. What to do? How about incorporating some of that paper into décor for your house? You’ll be surprised at how versatile gift wrapping paper can be (unless, of course, you chose that Sponge Bob [...]

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Preston’s Gift Guide Part 2: A Little Something For Yourself

Candles and Drawers(Photo via) The holidays are stressful. In thinking about what to get for others, sometimes you lose sight of taking care of someone who could really use extra attention right now: yourself. (And besides, in order to give you have to receive, right?) Here are some presents you can get for yourself to [...]

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Preston’s Gift Guide: For Those Special Women In Your Life

I don’t have to remind you that Christmas is next week, so I thought instead I’d give some gift recommendations for those important women in your life—namely your mom or wife/wife-to-be (ladies, feel free to email this post to your significant other if they need a hint). I know that sometimes it’s hard to find [...]

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International Work & Play

December is one of my busiest months! I’m leaving today for an international job I have been eagerly anticipating. That’s why I like to make a big deal out of Thanksgiving and hand out presents early because I’m always away working for Christmas. (Though, don’t get me wrong. One of the things I’m most thankful [...]

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Looking Back: One Design, Three Different Celebrations

Through the years, I’ve had the lucky opportunity to work with certain clients not just once, but sometimes twice, three times or more. Maybe it follows the progression of their lives—wedding, christening, anniversary–or maybe it’s a special annual event. One extraordinary client has hired me to design her holiday party year after year. We covered [...]

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Choosing Your Color Story For The Holidays

There’s more to life than red or green—especially when it comes to holiday decorating. I was thinking today of past holiday celebrations I’ve designed and while we have used some of the traditional red and green colors we’ve also used some surprising colors that are non-traditional but feel and look classic all on their own. [...]

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DIY Thanksgiving: Handmade Fruit Bowl

This versatile container is beautifully simple, made from cardboard and decorated just with ribbons. It can be used to accessorize your Thanksgiving table to showcase your fresh fruit. Materials: Stapler Ribbon (In whatever color you’d like—we used purple here.) Cardboard container (Dig around and see what you can find in your closet. We used a [...]

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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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Valentine's Blog

Valentine’s Day

What better symbol for love is there than flowers? Juliet was aware of this when she compared her affection for Romeo to a “bud of love,” that will blossom into a “beauteous flower.” Centuries later and it’s no surprise that flowers remain the standard gift on Valentine’s Day. But, this year why not do something [...]

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My Favorite Christmas Tree

I love this tree and all the gifts under it! ( My books of course) The reason I love this tree is because it mixes modern and traditional elements. As many of you know by now my favorite flowers are orchids, you can see how the orchids garland on this tree really pop. We also [...]

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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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Holiday Decor Tricks for small spaces

One of the best ways to spruce up a small space for the holidays when entertaining Is to use the variations of the same shade of color. As you can see in the photos we choose green for our inspiration. This event was held is a small tent behind my clients brownstone in NYC. As [...]

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Now this is my idea of a Halloween Party! Have fun tonight and be safe!

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Bouquet Noir

This Halloween I am going to have my “Bouquet Noirs” delivered to all my friends. Halloween is such a great time to let your creativity go wild, anything goes! This is elegant and creepy! You can make your own at home easy and affordably. Get yourself some silk flowers, black spray paint, a glue gun, [...]

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An Autumn Affair

I love entertaining in the Fall, the colors are extremely rich and luxurious. On a cold night it is great to have friends over and put on a pot of boiling water and sprinkle in a a holiday spice mix to create an amazing smell that screams coziness. I create my own spice infusion and [...]

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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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