Look to Paris for a More Romantic Christmas Decorating Vibe

Photo: Jeff Leatham

If you're in the mood for some different touches to your Christmas decorations this year, let's look to Paris for some different, quite sexy effects to spread around your home this year. Featured in the following video is Jeff Leatham, floral designer and artistic director for Paris' most luxurious hotel, the Four Seasons Hotel George V. The ideas are not your average evergreen boughs, holly sprigs, and mistletoe (thank heavens)!

Recycle for Next Holiday Season

Irwin Weiner ASID - I don't understand why we throw everything away after the holidays are over and our gifts have all been unwrapped. Our neighbors across the street in Pennsylvania have a tradition of saving a specific piece of gift wrap from each year's haul and their rule is to keep reusing it to wrap gifts for successive years. They have been using one piece of gift wrap now for six years - and it's raggedy, to be sure, but the tradition has meaning. We saw a video on using cardboard squares to make a beautiful cardboard Christmas Tree (cut a hole in the center and insert a square onto a long dowel rod that's attached to a wooden stand, then spiral progressively smaller squares to make a great tree shape!), and this video on recycling envelopes caught our eye, too. Enjoy the New Year, and carry on with good recycling habits.