If you're like me you've wanted to have a beautiful holiday table top ever since you first started watching HGTV or seeing those beautiful images on Pinterest...
Maybe you tried to copy what you saw on TV or the internet, but if you were honest with yourself, it never quite looked the way you imagined. You would go online and try looking at Pinterest again, scroll Instagram and even buy those expensive Holiday Magazines at the grocery store, the ones that cost $14.99!!, but somehow your holiday table still wasn’t working…and the family and friends were planning to be over in a few short weeks…if not a few short hours!
If I could show you how to create spectacular holiday table tops WITHOUT:
Needing a Glue Gun or Some Fancy Bow Maker Thing
Spending a Ton of Money on New Dishes, Plates and Silverware
Negatively Impacting Your Emotional Well Being Because of the Stress, Mess and Bad Outcome
...would you be interested?
Look, I have been in the Luxury Design and Decorating Industry since 1989. I have worked in major markets including New York City, Beverly Hills, the San Francisco Bay Area and more. But here’s the thing: even I didn’t know how to get the look I wanted when it came to setting gorgeous tables for parties and dinners! That is…UNTIL I had a client NEED me to get it right, she was trusting me for a “look” and in truth? I didn’t know what the heck to do about it!
I casually said “of course I’ll do it” to her request and thought to myself, now what Ann?! How are you going to pull this off?!
I was successful as a designer and decorator, I was even great at arranging vignettes and book shelves for clients but I had struggled internally to set tables that didn’t look boring or flat. I had a 50th Anniversary Family Golf Tournament party where I had a great idea for a golf-themed centerpiece and everyone was happy the “designer in the family” was doing the table centerpieces, but the day of the event I paniced, freaked out and even cried! The table tops were were horrible! It worked out ok because it was a casual party and, well, people were partying...and they were kind of so bad that they were a conversation piece – some people even thought I did them on purpose that way (I didn’t) and complimented me on how kitschy they were! I was so embarrassed…my design in my head was elegant, not "kitschy"...ugh.