Celebration of Glass; Into the Garden open house; Organic Garden Club meeting; BRIT building talk; Robb & Stucky seminar; Charity Designer Showhouse
It’s time to start planning your holiday tablescapes. No need to worry if a new set of specialty holiday dinnerware is not in the picture. Basic white china provides the perfect backdrop for holiday entertaining. As versatile as a blank canvas, white china can be the foundation on which to build the holiday table for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. We asked home decor designer Kim Seybert to help us add a few designer touches, then paired those with some natural additions from the back yard and the craft store, all of which allowed us to make separate, bold holiday statements (and save some coin for our Christmas shopping). Here’s how to do it.
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