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Using Evergreens

Evergreens are so natural and neutral, you can drape great swags of them anywhere over mirrors, around banisters, from picture rails. They are not meant to be permanent, but that is part of their charm. Without nature’s prettiest and lushest offerings evergreens for garlands and wreaths, and fresh blooms for bouquets a house is not [...]

How to Decorate with Fruits

What could be more glorious than a holiday table laden with fruit? Fruit is nature’s bounty and an eloquent symbol of its richness. The Dutch and Flemish masters immortalized fruit, as well as flowers, in their prettiest still life’s. But it was the French, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who refined fruit centerpieces into [...]