New Years Entertaining

With New Year's Eve coming up, I wanted to share some cute ideas for decorating and entertaining for New Year's! Will your Christmas decor still be up? Any resolutions anticipated for the new year?

Silver tinsel numbers provide an easy DIY way to showcase the year from Martha

Elegant entertaining with Caviar for New Year's from Williams-Sonoma

Assortment of clocks to help ring in the New Year 

Pink New Year's theme bar setting

Simple vases filled with small sequins add a bit of sparkle to bring in the New Year!

Noisemaker centerpiece on silver cake stand

Sparkler centerpiece.....be careful!

New Year's themed bar complete with disco ball and feather wreath from Celebrations at Home

Black and gold glam table setting from Style Me Pretty

Champagne popsicles with silver spoons as "sticks" from Living at Home

Mini champagnes on ice

Add flavor pearls to your Champagne like these Black Currant ones from finesaler

Countdown toasts champagne glasses made with office store number stickers

Merry Christmas

Sorry for my lack of posts recently, things have been hectic with quarter end at work and getting ready for Christmas at the house! Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to my blogger friends and here is an assortment of some of my fave Christmas photos that did not get used in my holiday posts! Merry Christmas friends!

{Source to all images can be found on my Pinterest}

Decorating with Plaids

I just love plaids at Christmas, whether it's a table decor, pillows, throws or some images below use plaid on an on going basis through fabrics on furniture! Seeing all these makes me wish wish I had a fun plaid skirt to wear on Christmas with a crisp white blouse.

Assortment of plaids from the King of Tartan, Scott Meacham Wood from Kravet

Plaid chair with copper lighting from Sabbe Spot

Mixture of various plaids in the masculine room from tumblr

Plaid dining from Ralph Lauren

Navy lacquered walls with red plaid furniture from houzz

Plaid cashmere throws from Williams Sonoma

Painted black chair with plaid throw from Rashon Carraway aka Mr. Goodwill Hunting

Plaid chair with plaid gift wrap from Tartanscot

Sweet Christmas

I have alot of candy ornaments which is fun since I can always focus on getting one type of ornament theme (and usually get fun ones as gifts), but I also mix in my favorite blown glass ones that I get. I feel like I have noticed more and more candy themed Christmas items now. I still need to get around to finishing my tree and then I can post some pictures, but in the meantime, here are candy themed inspirations from tree decor to wreaths and my last year's decor.

Here was my candy decor on my table runner for 2010 Christmas morning brunch

My Christmas tree from 2010

Close-up of my tree last year. You can see a few of my candy ornaments: sugared gumdrop garland, ribbon, candy cane, gumdrop, etc ornaments. There is even an ornament which is a 4 piece of boxed chocolates.

One of my grandmother's handmade Christmas trees which has some candy on it since it's a Valentine's/love themed tree.

Over the top gingerbread houses and candy tree from Trendy Tree

White Christmas tree with red & white candy ornaments from House Design Interior

Candy themed Christmas goodies table from Celebrations at Home

Vintage style mints make great fillers from Good Housekeeping

Candy topiaries in varying sizes can be made with mints, candy canes, cinnamon dots, apple rings, etc. Last year I made the peppermint topiary and let me tell you with all those peppermints, it's heavy!

 

Candy wreaths made from gumdrops and mints from Martha & Blowout Party