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“I don’t know nothin’ bout birthin’ babies” but I do know somethin’ about throwing a baby shower on the cheap!!!

Inexpensive gift wrap makes a great throwaway table runner.

Discount children’s books instead of a floral centerpiece, $3 each.

Dollar store bibs dress-up ordinary chairs. Bonus gift for mom-to-be.

Yard sale baby vases make great candy dish.

My friend Sharon made this fun cake, it was delicious!!!!!

My dear friend Jacques calls “the barn” my playhouse.  This is where I experiment from year to year with props old and new.  I love transforming this small space!   This is my winter wonderland Christmas which had me covered in spray-mount and fake snow.  Flocking a tree by hand is very messy business, who’d a guessed it?

Take an old wooden ladder, cheap lights and a ton of holiday ornaments and you too can have a Christmas ladder?????  Everyone thought I had lost my mind, especially my father, who in the end loved it.

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Thanksgiving for us is an ever changing head count.   My nieces are all grown-up, places to go, people to see.  That being said, this past Thanksgiving was a one table event.   My inspiration was the Williams-Sonoma’s Great American Turkey dish towels which served as the starting off point for my table setting. Gobble, gobble.

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I love the creases in the Great American Turkey dish towels, thank you Williams-Sonoma.

Use what you have around the house.  I used artichokes, pears, dried gourds, pomegranates, artificial white pumpkins and autumn leaves.