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Tips on Living 'Green' : "Green" Dinner Parties
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So I'm inviting you to my green dinner party,
that doesn't mean St. Patrick's Day. It's
eco friendly you ninny. Look at all of this,
paper, paper, paper, labels, labels, stamps,
more papers. Friends, I have two words for
you, actually one word, online; use e-vite.
There's no reason why you have to waste all
of this paper just to send an invitation out.
Alright, if it's more of a traditional, formal
event, I can understand but make sure you
support an eco friendly company that is using
recycled paper for the invitations. Okay so
you want to throw a green eco dinner party.
What do you have to do? Well, you incorporate
the three Rs, reduce, recycle, reuse. My invitations
are out via the internet so I didn't have
to use any paper and I created a really fun,
funky theme for my guests. I asked each one
to bring two dinner jackets that they don't
use anymore so that everybody can have a little
flea market, we can swap jackets and have
some fun. Look, one person's trash might be
another one's treasure. Not. But, I love this
vintage, fake fur of course, jacket, I'm so
eco chic. Alright. You know, you can do this
with jewelry. Ask your guests to bring earrings
that they don't use any more and my favorite,
vintage ties. Isn't this a beautiful old design
and then I put a beautiful pin on it and guess
what? I saw this in a very high end New York
department store as a belt for $300. Look
what you can do when you reuse, reduce and
recycle. I just love throwing a party, especially
a dinner party and tonight is my green eco
friendly party. I've got my dinner jacket,
it's eco chic, it's 1960's vintage that I'm
reusing. And then I'm going to talk to you
a little bit about the food. When you shop,
support your local farmer's market. These
fruits and vegetables are grown without any
preservatives or chemicals, it's good for
the environment, they taste delicious and
you're just going to love cooking them and
using them. And when you pick your wine. This
is an organic wine. The vines for this wine
were grown with sustainable practices which
means it's good for the environment, it's
good for your health, it tastes good too.
Now we'll talk about how you can do a natural
eco friendly centerpiece. Some ideas that
I came up with, go out in the back yard, or
your neighbor's back yard and pick some lemons.
These are beautiful fresh lemons. You can
do the same thing with apples. Put them in
a glass bowl in the middle of the table, stunning!
Another thing you can do is go outside and
pick some wild foliage, put it in a tin container
that you didn't throw out, you're reusing
it, and that could be a beautiful centerpiece.
Here I have a glass vase and I went outside
and picked some twigs and made a very simple
centerpiece out of what I have in my backyard.
Or how about this, I love this idea. Buy a
pineapple. This is so gorgeous all by itself
in the middle of the table, serves as an interesting
conversational piece. Another idea for a centerpiece.
I was in the middle of this project making
a potpourri, this is a pomegranate that was
dried out and I sliced it. Look how pretty
that looks, all by itself, right in there.
So those are some ideas of how to make an
eco friendly centerpiece for your dinner party.
Next I'll talk about decorations. Instead
of running out to the store and buying your
confetti and your paper decorations, let's
try to think natural. Here I have hibiscus
flowers, I'll show you what it looks like,
and over here I have dried orange peel, look
how pretty those are, put them together and
voila, natural confetti that you can spread
on the table like so in the middle. For your
plates, don't go running out and buying new
plates. Go to your thrift store, you can find
some really cool old plates and look what
I did here. This is fun and funky, I mixed
and matched and it looks great on your table.
And these are just some ideas on how to throw
an eco friendly dinner party. Don't forget
to invite me.
