Party Decorations: Use What You Already Have

If you’re like me and made a pact not to acquire any more tchocthkes, here’s inspiration to stop buying and start using what you already have this summer.   Sharing the tricks of their trade, prop stylist Hilary Ashlund, and Stephanie Cook, a party planner from Lake Forest with SPC Events, give us the will […]

by Kristina Tober

Setting The Fashionable Table

If you’re planning a birthday party or summer get-together, your mental list probably looks like this: Guest list? E-mail invites already sent. Menu? Delicious, but still deciding on dessert. (see our Summer Blondies story) What are you going to wear? Working on it! Decorating your table? Not so much . . . You want to […]

by Laura Hine