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After The Feast: Food Storage Containers

It never fails: the leftovers of Thanksgiving dinner. You’ll get by on the standard plastic containers or reseal-able bags. But purchasing nice, long-lasting and non-plastic containers will be a mu...

Holiday Appropriate Coasters from Supermarket

It's the time of year where you are inevitably either playing host or guest. Whether at your home or someone else's, extra coasters are always appreciated. These coasters, from the curated design co...

Etsy Find: Slip-On Coasters

Wine charms are well and good, and do the job at deciphering between people's glasses, but we've never been huge fans. If you're working with stemmed wine glasses, allow us to introduce this option t...

Dinner Plates: White vs. Color

They say that the best color for presenting food is white. But sometimes all-white china smacks of a certain maturity and may not accurately reflect the vivacity of your entertaining spirit. ...

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Setting The Modern Table

If you are thinking about how to set your table this season (and multiplying everything by eight or more) you may be carefully considering your choices for tableware. We’ve put together a starter l...

Roundup: Cake Stands for the Holidays

Every now and then, we like to bake a grand cake with multiple layers and fancy frosting but we never have a special way to display our masterpiece. Fortunately, cake stands are making a big comeback...

Flickr Finds: Classic Party Decoration Inspiration

Festive and classic, the party decorations featured on this album cover can still hold their own in a world that celebrates kitch times. By having a few basic items on hand: streamers, tissue paper ...

Mini Bar: Small Scale Sideboards

We love to entertain but when hosting a party we never feel as if there is enough space for everything: the coats, the food, the glasses, the drinks, the guests! Setting aside a spot for each “sta...

Look! Vintage "Party Encyclopedia"

We recently came across this vintage guide to home entertaining at a rummage sale. The Calvert Pary Encyclopedia was copyrighted in 1963 and is chock full of interesting, if not a bit dated, party ide...

Etsy Finds: Handmade Table Linens

Do you entertain dinner guests with real napkins or paper? Or maybe the napkins are the forgotten afterthought – until your guest’s face is dripping with gravy? ...

Scavenger: Formal Entertaining
Seattle

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and we bet you’ve been adding up your guest list and realizing that your mismatched plates and uneven number of utensils may not work for a crowd. Look no fu...

Party Foul Forgiveness: No-Sweat Stain Removal

Tis the season for entertaining, thus all the stains that come along with good times! Don't forgo using your favorite tablecloth or hide away your rugs. I've rounded up some techniques for easy stain...

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Fall Decorating & Entertaining

Nothing spawns conversation on a design blog like exclusive design versus mass market. Some of us favor original designs no matter what the cost (isn’t that what Ebay is for?). There are also those...

Cheap and Chic

Looking for a designer steal? Thomas Paul, Kikkerland, Blu Dot and more are available at Target's Red Hot shop. Check out these fab finds......

Outdoor Lighting Ideas
Martha Stewart

Yesterday we wrote about how to create a comfortable outdoor space, and one of our main suggestions was to add a little ambient lighting to your area. Of course the good folks over at Martha Stewart h...

Lacy Clip-Art Projects for the Home
Martha Stewart Weddings

Forgive us for veering into the realm of the undeniably girly, but after poring over gift registries yesterday, we’ve got weddings and showers on the brain, and a few recent posts about decorating w...

Look! Flower Curtain for a Spring Party

After spotting this beautiful "window treatment" the other day on Poppytalk, we couldn't stop thinking about how to do something similar for party we're planning in May. The designer, Gunnar Kaj, used...

Bar Carts

click thumbnails for larger picsWe are starting to develop a small obsession for bar carts. Why? We're not big drinkers and it's not as though our paltry drink assortment demands to be showcased. But...

How To: Choreograph Lively Dinner Conversation

Linda Stone, a former exec at Microsoft and Apple, has thrown dinner party after dinner party. She has let us in on her tricks of the trade when it comes to choreographing your next dinner party. A...