Small Ways to Bring Sparkle and Light Into Your Home at the Holidays

The holidays are a time when presence of warmth and light in your home can make all the difference in the world. While hanging string lights is a common method for introducing sparkling light into a house, there are many ways to brighten your home at the holidays.

Get Creative with Materials

Electric lights aren't the only materials that can help illuminate a room. Reflective materials and surfaces of all kinds can be used to brighten interior spaces. 

• Silver and gold thread. Silver and gold thread adds sparkle and charm to interior spaces. Metallic thread cloth can be used in a variety of holiday decorations such as curtains, framed quilted cloth and sparkling Christmas ornaments. Look for items that use metallic ribbon and bullion fringe as well as cloth items that use actual metallic cloth.

• Mirrors, beads and decorative pearls. Decorative pearls aren't just for your jewelry! Throw pillows, sequin monogram wall art, ornaments, table clothes and blankets all reflect more light when they're covered in decorative pearls, little beads and small decorative mirrors.

• Sequins. Sequins can make cloth of all kind more shiny and attractive. Using sequined pillows and blankets can bounce light around the house.

Ways to Make Your Home More Inviting for Guests this Thanksgiving

Thanks Giving Table Decor

It's already end October and Thanksgiving is coming soon! Now is the time to start thinking about home decor for the upcoming holiday. With proper preparation, your home can help keep your guests happy, relaxed and festive throughout the holiday meal.

Provide Comfortable Seating

Your guests will need somewhere comfortable to sit during and after the meal. Tally your guests in the weeks before Thanksgiving, then take stock of the chairs in your home. Remember that folding chairs can be uncomfortable for some guests. Provide extra seat cushions, pillows and blankets to guests who need to soften their seats or cover the cold metal surface of the chair.

Put Out Holiday-Specific Decorations

Your home probably looks beautiful all year round, but decorating with holiday-themed pillows, runners, table cloths and other touches of home will help bring the holiday to life. Remember that your decorations need not refer to Thanksgiving directly to be effective. Capturing the colors of the season and using all-natural materials is often enough to remind your guests about the event at hand.

Bring Together the Decorations with a Theme

Themed, matching decorations make your indoor decor more meaningful and attractive. If an overt Thanksgiving motif seems a little heavy handed for you, subtler themes that include animals or reminders of harvest and bounty are both effective alternatives.

Make it Sparkle

Nights are long in the later part of the year. Make your home a beacon in the darkness by providing extra light in rooms where your guests will gather. Candles, sequins and reflective materials can make your home sparkle and shine. Look for new and creative ways to bounce light around the room with decorative pillows, curtains and blankets decorated with shiny threads and small mirrors.

Adding small touches of cheer will brighten your home and make your upcoming Thanksgiving one to remember, so get started today!

Creative Ideas for Customizing Your Gifts

We are, as always it seems, months away from the start of the holiday shopping season. The approaching fall  brings us a host of giving opportunities as the leaves change color and the children are hurried off back-to-school for that deserved vacation we need from them, thank goodness! The events you will attend between now and the end of the year will require you to be more creative with gift giving so to remain unique and stretch dollars as far as they can possibly go (without being too frugal, of course).


What are some of the ways to stand out among the crowd with our gifts? Is it possible to be unique and give lasting gifts to friends, family members and other loved ones without having to take out a second mortgage or raid the kid's college fund? It is possible to survive and in fact, enjoy, the coming months of gift giving through the careful selection of hand woven, custom designed pillows, linens, and other handcrafted wares.         

Simply Elegant Gift Ideas

A way to distinguish ourselves as the best gift giver is through the selection of simple, but elegant gifts. An embroidered pillow with the initials of one we love can become a keepsake that is cherished for years. Such a gift can be made more personal with instructions provided to an experienced artisan such as Amore Beaute.  

Amore Beaute can take a description of the design, transform it and bring it to life.  There are many items that can be personalized with the simple and creative touch of an artisan able to provide something that will drive the friends to wonder how they can get their own customized designs for their home. 

Express Your Style Through Customized DIY Ideas
There is an unlimited number of designs that can be transformed into a prized gift. The DIY aspect of this approach creates a challenge to be creative and think outside the box. Find a photograph or maybe some expression or saying that best captures the essence of the person to whom the gift is being made. Share this with Amore Beaute, sit back and be amazed at the transformation of a creative idea into a personal, one-of-a-kind gift that will impress and save both money and time.