Holiday Entertaining Tip: Utilize What You Have

When decorating for your party or gathering, look around at the elements of your standard home decor.  What are pieces that may be able to be utilized in different and interesting ways for your event?  By re-purposing items, you are exercising  your creativity AND keeping your budget in check!

The lantern above normally hangs from the ceiling in our guest room with a simple robins egg blue candle.  For our ‘Thankful with Friends’ dinner party it is filled with pine cones and part of the dessert table decor.

This pedestal usually lives in the master bathroom at the foot of the tub filled with stones and a candle.  For the dinner party, I piled it with small pumpkins and used as decor for our buffet table.

These goblets were one of my parents’ wedding presents that they have passed down to me.  We keep them on display on the breakfront.  However, for our party we have set them on each of the dinner tables and filled them with Peppery Spiced Almonds.