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Steal of the Day: Bloomingdales Fringe Tray
This richly-patterned Fringe glass tray ($50, originally $60) features antique-floral imagery and vintage patterns. At 16-x-10 in., you can serve a lot of holiday cocktails on this tray at your next party. And after the holiday madness settles, you can suggest this tray for use the next time someone makes you breakfast in bed (you can suggest that someone make you breakfast in bed, too — I'm all in favor of that).
Gift Guide: Serving Trays for the Cocktail Queen
Everyone loves a good cocktail party. Guests can show up after a home-cooked meal or leave early (and tipsy) for a late dinner date. Hosts can throw one together with little to no planning, a trip to the neighborhood liquor store, and a few simple hors d'oeuvres.
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Gift Guide: Serving Trays For the Party Girls
Since I'm a design fiend, I think my friends expect to receive decorating gifts from me. But it really can be just as hard to shop for décor gifts as it is for clothes. Year after year, I struggle to find something that appeals to their tastes and lifestyles.
8 Alternative Uses For Serving Trays
At The Office's "Night in Morocco" Christmas party, Angela looked quite proper and ladylike serving up cocktails to her co-workers. But, such a festive occasion to put your serving tray to work only comes around a few times a year. On the days that you're not playing hostess, your serving tray can be hired for other duties in your home while you kick back and enjoy the sights.
Nice and New: Ballard Designs Lily Tray Table
Ballard Designs is hit or miss, but the new Lily Tray Table ($159) is a winner. The tray table folds up, so you can hang it when it's not in use, making it ideal for small studios. But it's no TV-dinner tray.
Before and After: KateDavis's Faux Bois Tray Makeover
Su Casa member KateDavis bought this white Melamine Serving Tray ($12.99) from Target, and decided it needed a bit of a modern makeover. She slapped on a piece of faux bois contact paper, instantly giving it depth and pattern. Want to see the finished product?
Roundup: Cocktail Trays
Every entertaining household should have a stocked bar with an ice bucket, glassware, cocktail shakers, mixers, and a few choices of poison. I recommend keeping these bar essentials out in the open on a console table of sorts, so guests feel they can serve themselves. Sometimes a closet or cabinet is the only option, though.
Nice and New: Jonathan Adler Acapulco Tray
It's finally Spring and aside from checking off your cleaning checklist, do you know what that means? Barbecues! Grilling up some burgers and tofu pups for friends and family is quite possibly my favorite way to entertain.
Ask Casa: Color My New Crib
Hi CasaSugar,
After a very long eight weeks, I'm moving into my new duplex as a first-time homeowner! I'm really excited about having so much freedom to decorate my place however I see fit. But, I'm having a hard time with one room.
Good, Better, Best: Square Lacquer Trays
Since I'm on the hunt for the perfect lacquer tray to set atop my Nelson Platform Bench (coffee table), I thought I'd share with you my top picks, in case you're in the market too. I was originally hoping for two white-square lacquer trays, but now I'm thinking that a little color couldn't hurt. Here are the ones in the running:
Good: West Elm's Square Trays ($19–$24) are colorful "catch-alls for jewels, watches, pencils, and whatnots."
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