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Greetings!
The Holidays - a great time to enjoy family and friends, and a wonderful opportunity for me to THANK YOU for all your wonderful responses to my newsletter and to wish you and your family a Happy Holiday and the very best for the New Year! |
8 Ways to Spruce Up Your Home For the Holidays
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A few accessories carefully place throughout your home can transform rooms from dull and lackluster to warm and inviting, ready for the Holidays filled with family and friends. 
1. Art Glass Bottle Stoppers Spiraling canework weaves around these small blown glass treasures. A beautiful hostess gift or to use for yourself as you entertain during the holidays.
$88 artfulhome.com
2. Breakfast/Bed Tray Perfect whether you are serving a guest, or you are the lucky one being pampered! A gracious wooden tray, makes a great working or reading space, as wood and glass upper tray removes and tray underneath can be angled. $145 ScullyandScully.com
3. Real Leaf Ornaments Every piece began as a real leaf that was carefully harvested. The leaves now have a delicate layer of copper and plated with 24-karat gold. $60
Purchase a Sugar Maple Night Light to glow in your hallways. $50 Charleston Gardens.com
4. Luggage Racks So nice to have on hand for guest, packing and unpacking or holding a tray. Hardwood racks have embroidered tapestry straps. $85 ScullyandScully.com
5. Nutcracker plates Four vibrant nutcrackers make this suite of plates the perfect way to serve holiday cookies, savories or sugarplums. Bone china bordered with a band of gold lattice. $85 Gumps.com
6. Cashmere Throws You can never have too many cashmere throws. Tossed over a chair, at the edge of the bed ready to snuggle or just add an accent of color to your room. $298 WilliamsSonomaHome.com (on sale at time of newsletter for $148)
7. Handmade Pewter Oak Leaf Hurricane The exquisite details of this hurricane make it a compelling addition to any seasonal gathering. Handmade of solid pewter, the base features oak leaves and acorns. $248 Gumps.com
 8. Lavender Wrap & Booties When the guests have left and the holidays are over, the perfect pampering just for you! Lavender is  unsurpassed for calming frayed nerves.
Relax tense, aching muscles with a Lavender Neck Wrap and Boots. Inside each one is a removable sachet filled with a soothing blend of clove, chamomile and lavender. Just pop them into the microwave to release warmth and fragrance. Wrap $19.95, Boots $29.95 Gardener'sSupplyCompany.com
Please feel free to contact me or give me a call at 914-234-7066 and we can get started on your Holiday Home transformation right away!
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Q: Any suggestions for how I can decorate my front door for the holidays?A: You can purchase mixed greens garland and wreath from your local nursery. Then the fun and personalization can begin. Select pine cones, berries- maybe red , gold and bronze, silver leaves and if you like a few birds, pears, or apples to add to your greenery.
Your nursery can create a bow for you or you can purchase ribbon yourself. I recommend the ones with French wire so you can shape the bow and curl the ends.If you have children, they might enjoy some of Santa's reindeer on their front lawn. You can purchase these at your local nursery. I know Perennial Gardens in Bedford carries them.The deer are made of wire and then covered in moss- small, medium and large and decked out with a red ribbon.Here are a few examples:
  
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche is a long established yuletide tradition in New York.
The brightly lit, twenty-foot blue spruce with a collection of eighteenth century Neapolitan angels and cherubs delights visitors in the Museum's Medieval Sculpture Hall.
212-535-7710 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New York
The Museum of the City of New York "Notorious and Notable: 20th Century Women of Style"
The exhibition, a collection of dresses and precious jewelry worn by 80 celebrated New York women, takes in Mrs. J.P. Morgan's time, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's and beyond. Continues through January 2nd.
212-534-1672 1220 Fifth Avenue, New York
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Susan Marocco Interiors is a full service interior design firm, staffed with professional American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) who have the training and expertise to plan, schedule, execute and manage your project from concept to completion. Our firm creates interiors that are elegant, distinctive and comfortable. Our inspiration comes first from listening. We then meld our skills and experiences to our clients' wants and needs. We develop design solutions that reflect their taste and lifestyles. Our website has a variety of pictures of the work we have done for many of our clients and you are more than welcome to view them.
To find out how Susan Marocco Interiors can help you with all your design needs, please contact Susan at 1-914-234-7066 or via email.
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Thank you for your readership, input and questions. If you have any thoughts or suggestions on how to make it better, we are always eager to listen. If you would like to speak to us about your Interior Design needs, we would be pleased to be of service
Our very best wishes to you and your family during this Holiday Season! 
www.SusanMaroccoInteriors.com
Tel: (914) 234-7066
Fax: (914) 234-0003
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