January Special:?  During? January, Hostesses will receive 30% in Free merchandise!

Hosting a Party with Home & Garden Party provides Hostesses with FREE products, discounts and wonderful gifts.?  Contact me THIS WEEK to schedule your in-home or catalog Party so You can earn your 30% FREE!?  My? datebook is pretty full, so email me now at decluehgp (at) hotmail (dot) com.

Example of benefits:
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Retail Total? ? 20%Free? ? 10% Free? ? ? ? Total Free
$150 Party? ? ?  $ 30? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  $15 ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ?  $ 45
plus? 1 item/set/grouping at half-price
$300 Party? ? ? ? $ 60? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? $30? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ?  $ 90? 
plus 3 items/sets/groupings at half-price
$500 Party? ? ?  $100? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? $50? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? $150
plus? 5 items/sets/groupings at half-price

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Kitchen Heads Toward the New Millennium In the kitchen, the 1980s were all about stripping down and getting back to basics. That wasn't always pretty, but in the 1990s: watch out. Everyone switched recipes and went for style, any style, doesn't matter if it matches the rest of the home, it's Style with a capital "S." What do you want? You can have it. How about an 18th-century kitchen in deep cherry with brass batwing drawer pulls, maybe an Arts and Crafts Kitchen, an ethnic-influenced kitchen, perhaps a little California washed-wood finish with that delightful pink undertone was your cup of tea. It was the "anything goes" concept in the 90s, your choice. That's because the kitchen industry wised-up and stopped telling people what was fashionable and started asking people what they wanted. What people wanted, it turned out, was a humongous industrial stove. It was de rigueur to have such a veritable stainless steel monster of a stove ??” even though you nuked everything ??” that looked like it belonged in the kitchen of the St. Regis Hotel, whipping up meals for hundreds, three times a day. These babies were big mothers, and, not unlike an automobile, status symbols. On top of the big-stove fetish, everybody today seems to want to be an Italian. This comes from the following poor reasoning: If I surround myself with Italian style it will magically change me into a magnificent Italian Chef. Unfortunately, this reasoning is somewhat unsound ??” sorry to disappoint you. And, in fact, you should absolutely avoid the latest kitchen fashions. A kitchen is going to have a long lifespan, due for the most part to the expense. You aren't going to want to redo your kitchen next fall, so the style you pick today tends to stick around. In 2015, every single human being who views your Tuscan calamity will go, "Hmmm, I bet they did this kitchen in 2005." And darned if they'd be right! Won't you be embarrassed? The way out of this mess is to decorate your kitchen in conjunction with, not as a complete departure from, the rest of the home's architecture. Look at your home, inside and out, check out the molding style, the roofline and the materials used in other parts of the home. For example, if you have a brick facade on your home, consider incorporating that into your kitchen design, perhaps a travertine pillowed marble backsplash that replicates a brick wall. If you have flagstone outside, consider a flagstone floor in the kitchen. Your kitchen is your home in miniature, and it is unlikely that you live 50 miles outside of Florence. It's your home, your kitchen, and the essence of the home. Use that to inspire your design choices and old Fuller Buckminster, the guy who got us thinking about the kitchen as the heart of the home, will be proud. Mark McCauley is the senior interior designer at Darleen's Interiors in Nape 78831/112588_995.jpg >

Kitchen by Gail Drury matches the style of rest of? home.

Coming Up...

Hostess Only items for February - March!

Attention Hostesses!?  Home & Garden Party has two great new products, and they are only available to our Hostesses in February, March and April of 2006.? 

Regency Footed Bowl (41002) ??“ 13 x 7"
My Hostesses can purchase this beautiful, flowing bowl for $45, purchase it using your Hostess Half-Price benefits for $22.50, or use Hostess Credits to get it FREE.

Mosaic Accent Tables (73014)? ??“ 12 x 29 and 10 x 25? 
My Hostesses can purchase this versatile set of 2 tables for $100, or use Half-Price benefits for $50, or use Hostess credit to get the set FREE.

25% OFF Container Candles in February!

If it's in a container, it's on sale!?  Check out all our products on the online catalog.

In This Issue:

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Article? count for this issue:? 7?  Approximate time to read:? 10 minutes

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Editor's Desk

I hope you'll enjoy the new format for? your decorating? newsletter!?  I want your feedback and suggestions to make it even better.? ? How do you like the color schemes??  Would you prefer it to be the same every month? ? What kind of articles would you like to? receive??  Do you want how-to's? ~ on what??  Email me with your comments and you could be in an upcoming issue!?  Thank you for your business and loyalty.?  I appreciate you!? 

Happy decorating & Happy New Year!

~~Lisa

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