DAY 17 - ‘ENTERTAINING WITH ELEGANCE’ THIS CHRISTMAS

Saturday, December 17th, 2011

“At Christmas-time, you can indulge in an orgy of decoration, with wreaths on the doors, candles in the windows, sleigh bells hanging from the door-knob and mistletoe from the ceiling, holly stuck around the picture frames, an array of Christmas cards on the mantlepiece, a manger and a Christmas tree, as sophisticated or old-fashioned, as dainty or gigantic as you like. Your front hall, living-room and dining-room – in fact, the entire house – can cry out “Merry Christmas!” to everyone who enters.”

Author of ‘Entertaining With Elegance,’ Geneviēve Antoine Dariaux