Monday, November 21, 2011

Chesapeake Cozy Christmas Dinner

Chesapeake Cozy Christmas Tabletop

Well, here it is, the long awaited, little bit nautical, little bit Christmas, Chesapeake Cozy Tabletop!!! We finally pulled our of our selections together. It's amazing how well it turned out!
We have used the Martini Glasses for the desert compotes and layered them up on a pure white plate on top of some silvered carved wood chargers. The florals for the table we used the most beautiful roses by each place setting in a small antique looking bottle. We used our new Coastal Wine Stems for the Sauvignon Blanc. Did you see all of the sealife handcrafted on the others on our website for sale? Go to detailsofdesign.biz to see them! The Jelley Fish is incredible!


Here is a close up of the table. We used handmade gift tags as the place cards. We took the large red bowl and filled it with a combination of shells and silvered pine cones for that festive look!

Have a great Holiday and we hope this has inspired you to be creative!

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Annapolis Interior Designer STILL Doing Tabletop!!!!

Deadlines are always fun! We are still cogitating on the perfect tabletop to impress all of our loyal followers! Here are some more accessories that we are considering for the story in Annapolis Home Magazine on the three Interior Designers doing a Christmas Tabletop for the Holidays. We still haven't gotten much further. We are considering the Martini glasses with the big chunk of glass at the bottom (they are perfect for your tipsey friends!), or we are still thinking about the Coastal Wine stems (Did you see the Jelly Fish?)






Then we have the centerpiece to select! We have it down to 2 or 3 pieces. The Seasonal Basket of Hydrangeas, the Christmas Gladiola Arrangement in real live water, or the Red Centerpiece bowl.

Decisions, decisions! We just need to DO IT!!!!! We have all of these great pieces and we just need to START!!! It will all come together in the end. We want it to have that Christmas Sparkle, to incorporate our Annapolis point of view; the Chesapeke Cozy angle and to be fun and inviting. I am going to go select a table to set this up and Jennifer, Corey and I are just going to get this done. It is so busy right now, if we wait any longer we will be behind the eight ball. The next time you tune into our blog you will see the results of our brainstorming session! See you soon!       Gina Fitz

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Annapolis Interior Designers Do Tabletops

A wonderful opportunity to demonstrate our design abilities has presented itself! Kymberly Taylor and Robert Haywood from Annapolis Home Magazine have asked Fitzsimmons Design Associates to design a tabletop setting for the Holidays. They are going to have the article in the November 15th Holiday issue! We will be one of three Interior Designers in Annapolis, all with the same goal in mind, to wow the readers!
What should we do? Well, we do have a whole store full of accessories and accents that we can put to use. Details of Design is chock-a-block full of new things since Corey and I got back from the International Home Furnishing Market trip. New merchandise is coming in every day.

In Details we have always presented the Chesapeake Cozy approach to Christmas. Maybe we should follow through in the same vein? The new nautical ornaments this year include jelly fish and mermaids sewn and stuffed with filling in all the right places, if you know what I mean.

Maybe we should start with a centerpiece? I should go and look around the store and see what I can use in the middle of the table and then work outwards from there. But, maybe I should decide what table we are going to use first. This is a little more complicated than I thougt. I do like the Chesapeake angle on this story and I would like to have it bright and cheery for Christmas. Maybe I should add a bit of bling!!!!

Let me bounce this off of Corey and Jennifer and see what they think we should do. I'll get back to you soon, We don't have that much time till the photo shoot.

Gina Fitzsimmons, ASID