Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Easy Christmas Entertaining!!!

Having a party this Christmas? It does not have to be stressful, you can decorate for only a few dollars and dazzle your guests, without them know any different.

When you decorate your house for Christmas and your party, one rule is key, uniformity, if you keep everything one or two colours and continue a theme throughout your decor, automatically you create a cleaner look and one that will wow all visitors to your home. Pull natural elements into your home, take a clear vase and fill it with branches you can collect from outside and hang a few Christmas bulbs on them. Boughs from evergreens around your house looks fresh and also provides a great Christmas atmosphere. Branches are free...and a vases you can even get at your local dollar store or department store and then they are yours forever.
As for adding colour, most stores sell their decorations in a colour scheme and price them rather reasonably.

For serving your food, if your platters and dishes are not uniform, do not worry! find a garnish that you can use for all of your platters of food, and if you insist on matching platters...again, visit your local dollar store, for amazing deals on everything.

The is only one splurge that I would recommend for your party, and that is a service staff. For any gathering of more than 10 people, a valuable expense is to hire someone to help you serve your food, beverages and clean up!!! You want to enjoy your party, not spend all your time in the kitchen during your party. Service staff can take care of everything, and be that helping hand that will not complain about helping you out. Service staff can cost as little as $100 an evening, a very small price to pay for the best party of the season!

For more information or to hire a service staff, contact Pumpkin today!!!

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