Impress Your Guests at Your Thanksgiving Table
You don't have to have the bank account of Paris Hilton or the decorating savvy of Martha Stewart to pull off an extremely well put together Thanksgiving Day dinner for your family and friends.
First of all, remove all the clutter from the room. Make it as cozy as possible. Put up the knick knacks and leave out personal photos and other items that add to the cozy touch.
Next, consider a centerpiece for your table. You can purchase a nice dried arrangement at a local craft store for under twenty-dollars in most places or you can opt to make your own centerpiece. Use items of the season. On a store bought pine or corn husk wreath add pine cones you've gathered. You can also add plastic red holly berries you can get for less than a dollar at the craft supply store. Don't use real ones as they are appealing and deadly poisonous to both people and pets, and small children may mistake their beautiful red color as something delicious to eat on the Thanksgiving Day table. Add decorative corn, miniature pumpkins and mums in fall colors around your wreath. Add a pillar candle or two in the center and you'll have a one of a kind centerpiece for your dinner gathering.
You don't have to have the finest china either. Just have your dishes match and make sure that your serving bowls and server wear is well presented. A functional piece no holiday table should be without is a tri-server. It's a
handy server that has three compartments for holding sauces, cranberries and more.
Make sure your Thanksgiving gathering pulls off without a hitch, do a little planning and a little prep work on your room and reap the rewards of compliments for such a well planned gathering.
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Updating Your Teen's Room
The little princess twin bed might have been perfect for your ten-year old daughter but now that princess has become a teenager of fifteen, she wants a new look for her bedroom, and the good news is that it can be done without breaking the bank.
You'll want to update her bed. Give her something unique such as an
Eden Isle Iron Bed with its fun twisting wrought iron vines with leaves that make up the headboard and footboard. Next, ditch the Polly Pocket bedspread and get her a bedding set that is fit for a teenager. Bold colors or pretty pastels that don't look babyish will strike a pleasing chord with most teens. The most important part is to let her pick it out. She will want some independence in choosing her surroundings, let her have it.
Next, change the curtains. It's time to give her something a little more mature in the window treatment department such as floor length curtains and skip the frills. Go for colors that will meld with her room.
Other additions teenagers usually ask for are televisions. If you choose to put a television in her room, agree on viewing times and set limits. Ditto for video games. Make sure she knows homework and household chores need to be taken care of before video games are played.
You can add a lot to a bedroom by simply adding an area rug. Take a color that is low-key in the room and play it up, you'll find it is an easy way to change the entire mood of a room, from drab to dazzling.
Your little girl is growing up. Update her bedroom and include her in the choices. You will most likely see your little princess that kept a messy room turn into a young lady who is proud of the room she designed and it will stay much neater as a result!
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