WINTER WONDERLAND DINNER PARTY

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 Hello! I wanted to share photos of a Winter Wonderland themed dinner party and how you can create the look too!

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So for this look-I used mostly clear elements. The glassware, chargers, place cards and vases were all clear. The plates were a beautiful iridescent color which lent itself to the winter wonderland theme! With clear charger plates you can see right thru to the beautiful sequin tablecloth. So pretty and sparkly-thank you Sparkle Soirée

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For the place cards we used round iridescent ornaments from Anthropologie which sat on a simple white cloth napkin. The plateware is from Ten Strawberry Street which you can find from Wayfair

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My best advice is to set the table in advance! This way you won’t be stressed the day of when you realize you are missing something. Start moving around any furniture and set your table up to a week in advance! A cool trick for flowers-you can buy them fresh a couple days, even a week prior if you have a very cold place to store them in cold water. These tight tulips lasted almost 2 weeks in my garage before I brought them in from the freezing cold garage and they instantly started to open up as soon as the climate changed. To keep them bundled together I used iridescent pipe cleaners I bought from Michaels.

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 It does help that I also have clear chairs for my dining room set! You can see straight thru the table right to the small dessert display I created. Which will be coming up in the next post-creating a cool (and very easy) dessert display.

Happy Holidays!

XO

Jess

Event Styling:  Jessica Boskoff from Twenty Three Layers

Iridescent Ornaments:  Anthropologie

Plateware: Wayfair

Custom Sequin Tablecloth: Sparkle Soirée

HOW TO CREATE A FUN PHOTO BOOTH AT HOME

Hello Party People!

I had a small holiday soiree at my home this past weekend and decided what would be more fun than a photo booth? A fun idea just in time for the holidays!

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I picked a corner of my living room where everyone was hanging out. Using a bench (you can use your sofa, loveseat, even chairs), I created a photo booth-it was that simple! I had a sign made in my favorite handwriting font-Always & Forever, and stuck it on the wall. You can buy poster board or use various materials and write “Photo Booth” on yourself. (thats why I like handwritten font, it looks like I wrote it!). I decorated the booth with paper goods from Etsy-one of my have shops, Charmingly Kristen. Tell her Jessica from 23 Layers sent you!

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I bought a bunch of confetti poppers and push pops from Anthropologie and some basic photo booth props from Amazon

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For another fun winter prop that guests can take home, I ordered these cute and inexpensive hats from Amazon for each of my guests! I had a Polaroid camera (or you can use a regular camera as well), which I left on the table so everyone was able to take a turn and snap some shots.

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I had a white cage frame and pinned the polaroids to the board with festive glitter clothespins for everyone to see! You can also take a hollow frame and tie a wire from one side to another to hang the pictures from.

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Hope this inspires you to create your own DIY photo booth!

XO

Jess

Event Styling:  Jessica Boskoff from Twenty Three Layers

Materials: Amazon, AnthropologieEtsy

SETTING THE TABLE FOR THE HOLIDAYS WITH ANTHROPOLOGIE: TABLE TWO

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Hi All!

I wanted to share pics from the 2nd tablescape we did with Anthropologie last week during our holiday workshop! Heres an entirely different look than the first look (from our last blog post). Hope this gives you some fun ideas!

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 Here is a close up shot the beautiful Anthropologie tableware. We used tree ornaments as an accent for the napkin-you can easily tie a placecard/name tag thru the ornament and wrap it around the napkin as one option. Or use a glitter clothespin and fasten the placecard to glassware like we did! We used ombre silverware to help pull out those smokey tones from the tablecloth and mixed and matched glassware together to create this gorgeous look!

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Here’s a full shot of the tablescape! We added in some lovely frayed tulips, a couple of clear candelabras (from the 23 Layers closet), and of course the DIY mini champagne splits. Stay tuned for how to paint the bottles and other DIY tricks we used for the holiday workshop!

ENJOY!

xo

Jess

Event Styling:  Jessica Boskoff from Twenty Three Layers

Tableware: Anthropologie

Florals: Banchet

SETTING THE TABLE FOR THE HOLIDAYS WITH ANTHROPOLOGIE:TABLESCAPE ONE

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 Hi All!

So we are in full holiday mode here at the 23 Layers HQ. As the holiday entertaining workshops continue I wanted to share some photos from Tuesdays “Entertaining for the Holidays” event with Anthropologie at Soho House New York. Hope this can inspire you to get you started on your tablescape!

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For this table we used a beautiful farmhouse white tablecloth and a gold sequin runner to add that special holiday touch. Very glamourous and fun! Gold silverware to keep within the theme as well as gold accented glassware. we mixed and matched plates, as well as napkin styles to add a bit of creativity to the look. You can keep the napkin on top, put it between the plate or hanging from underneath the bottom plate if you want to switch up the look! We tied it all together with an ornament which serves as the place card holder for the name tag.

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And here is the result! Adding in ornaments and candlesticks as the centerpiece to complete the look. Very chic and fun for the holidays!

Thanks so much to those who attended the workshop, hope this helps start you out on the right track-stay tuned for the 2nd tablescape we created for the holidays.

xoxo

Jess

Styling & Design- Jessica Boskoff from Twenty Three Layers

Tableware-Anthropologie

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