Red is for Roses.....

Red is for roses and just about everything else on Valentine's Day. Here are some ideas for you if you are still searching for that perfect "red" to highlight your celebration!

Red is always exciting on the table at breakfast, lunch, or dinner and this time of the year is certainly no exception. Here we have some suggestions as to how you can get your red fix in one easy dose. Start the day with some red napkins - cocktail napkins work any time of the day and they are just perfect for that juice tumbler or coffee mug.

To add some spice, think about red salt and pepper shakers - small enough for a tray or a grand table, and cute enough to bring a smile to anyone's place!

These are especially clever and fun - a little dash of spice and color! They are made by the company named Glass Act located in Santa Maria, California. According to Bernadette Tellefson, whom I met in New York at the New York International Gift Fair a few years ago, Glass Act uses a technique called lampworking to make each of these glass shakers. Glass Act has been creating these for over 35 years now, and they were the first to make the hand-blown screw cap bottles. Aren't we all glad that they did!!

Laying It Down

Now the fun part--putting it all together!! It always seems as if setting the scene is half the fun of the party - that's the time you turn on the music and just let the ideas fly by. Some can create the perfect table in their heads and then just lay it down. I, on the other hand, have to move stuff around and walk around the table a few hundred times just to see "how it looks". Don't know which way is best, but this is by far a lot more fun.

First lets just clear off the old stuff on that table and take a good look at it before we start in building our stage for the great dinner production. I think I'll start on the fruitwood table and see how that one shapes up. Please excuse the background "noise" in all these pictures as the tables are all sitting here with me in the store and it is fairly hard to imagine them in an appropriate room setting. But we will try our best! and I am thinking right here that the best way to handle this is to just take each table as a separate entry and see how that works --- so here goes!