Luxe Parties' Great Gatsby Inspired Party

If I am to love an old trend-- a really, really distant old trend-- I would go for the 1920s. A spread of high luxury fashion and style as best exemplified in Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. 

This Jazz age renaissance seethes as far as design and event planning. And it works wonders how throwing themed parties are come-at-able by nicks of event services-- a certain kind of Martha Stewart in a handy. 

One of these days you can visit Luxe Parties (Quezon City, Philippines 6529 l Contact: +63918 985 1203) or like them on Facebook to see and put in for the party you have long since hoped. 

They concoct deluxe party set up like the one they did for one of their clients in Restaurant La Girolle. Aureate tableware, vintage scripts, pearls and classic heirloom pieces glut the whole place. I should know that one great way to set this perfect mood is to avail their services now. And that's not me being biased for loving the Gatsby. Let the photos (courtesy of Luxe Parties) do the talking. Check the full album of this party here.

They know for certain what would make for an all- out authentic Gatsby themed party. It's no 1920's without adding sophisticated touches of pearls and vintage cars likewise the etsy- fied table cards and feathers.

The table settings are at the same time escalated.

With a flapper dress, a chomp of oyster Rockefeller, a champagne flute on hand and you're good to  go--  the rest you can leave up to them.

I know I am booking them some time sooner!

                                                        

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Luxe Parties

Today I Turn 22 (And I Ain’t Getting Married)

Time flies. Today I celebrate my twenty-second year of life-- almost perturb but completely wonderful. I already have plans set on how I’d like things to go about this day. It's turning out however that throwing up a get-together is a bit impossible.

So I decide to be my laid-back self and make merry of this day with few of the most important persons in my life. Homemade brownies here, diavolos pizza and coffee smoothies there will all serve our craving tummies. Everybody knows birthday calories don't count. Snorts! I’d also like to put up some jazz music in the background. So it’s a little café sort of feel.

Mommy-ing and wifey-ing reads stockpiled in my desk in the past few weeks. It’s somehow funny when the mom gets to ask me perhaps for curiosity’s sake about why I have been reading those things in a while.

From kindles

To printed parenting finds

I don’t want to freak her out but there are times when I’d like to tell her I want to get married already with puns intended. Haha!

To online references

Well I’m 22, and of course I’m still far from marrying. I just realize how I could start gearing myself to live a more productive life in the future and make career decisions without interrupting the joy of being youth in the process.

Balancing my work as a nurse and a part-time blogger/writer is somehow difficult. However, I’m thinking of ways to keep the homeostasis.

Here are 3 “life at 20’s” realizations I’d like to share in my life blog catalog:

• 20’s are the best years for travel

Experts would even say traveling should take precedence over other things young adults spend their money for. Imagine how much there is to learn about the world when you begin this early.

• 20’s is never too late for a healthier lifestyle

Choosing the right food at equally right amount and toning up your body as early as possible will do you a big favor in the future. Wear and tear issues are inevitable but you can help prevent speeding them up.

• 20’s is the stage you have to learn that life is different outside school

Maximize everything you can learn from studying. Life will offer you way more serious challenges once you get out of the school premises. But keep your faith and understand your brain works. It will help you more than a dictionary would.

I’d like to thank God, my significant others, and all the people who’ve been part and will be part of another wonderful year in my life.

I’m thinking what’s blowing a candle next year when I’m 23 feels like? Teehee! Much love to you all J

Design Dialogues

Heim Interior Product, Php2200/ USD 51.69

Seminars and open discussions about home styling & interior designs are rather rare in my place. It's a little frustrating for a home design junkie like me to never get a chance to engage in a gab fest related to my interests so I always find myself stopping by the bookstores or googling online to get some printed finds. 

Websites like Home Designing and The Style Files are some of my daily resorts for good home design ideas. Or sometimes I get them through my virtual pinboard, Pinterest.

A great deal of my design influence though came from F, one of Philippines' longest running lifestyle magazine program dated back when I was in grade school which eventually stopped airing in 2006. It came back later as Urban Zone which was still hosted by one of the former F presenters, Daphne Oseña-Paez, to whom I simply admire. Well there I go again, a plain habitue' wearing some big smiles as I scribe that line. 

UZ also stopped putting on program recently but is soon to air again in a new media form. This time directly from Daphne's blog.

Most of the time I prefer reading hard copies more than the kindle version for reasons that printouts are more personal, no device-malfunction issue attached, and writing side notes  is very much allowed. Do you agree?

However, I'm also an avid to Ms. Daphne's site to where I always get real-time updates on not only  tips and how-to's but as well as events.

Heima (Heima Store) is hosting Design Discussions, details found in the photo below:

I'm having high hopes that they'll also be able to host one here in Tacloban City. It would surely be a day full of interesting design learning besides being free of admission. Yes free! Although it's best to pre-register. You see, slots to a good forum like this are always limited.

Visit Heima here.





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Reference:
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