Think Different: Christmas Trees

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Creativity is about thinking different. And while I love a beautiful Christmas tree, especially in Carvesville, they’ve gotten very expensive in the last decade, especially in your passion is blue spruce.

We love Christmas trees because they can be very grounding and purely uncontaminated, noncommercial experience, assuming that you didn’t totally break the bank at Neiman Marcus for decorations.

via Flickr’s leanndraThis year in particular, I have a sense that we cannot go home again in America. The country must change, and us, too. Life these days is like trying to ride your bike backwards without falling off.

Nevertheless, this is America. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”

We’re living in topsy turvy times, so why not reinvent the idea of our Christmas tree and please make those recycled ingredients, if you don’t mind. Even Martha Stewart writes about her passion for aluminum Christmas trees.

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Laura Dowling Brings French Flower Style To The Obama White House

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Thomas Jefferson would approve of Laura Dowling’s appointment as the new White House florist. He might engage in a bit of finger wagging when Dowling jumped the gun, sharing her good news on Facebook with 64 friends which included the D.C. network.

The White House scrambled to say “yes indeed, Laura Dowling began quietly working at the mansion last week. Apparently, the Parisian trained Alexandria florist was the front-runner for the prestigious position, after trying out with two other designers. 

Paris will not be the focus of Dowling’s first big gig. Rather, food, flowers and guest list will be India-inspired for a state dinner honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Nov. 24. On a technicality, the event will be called a “state dinner”, even though the largely-symbolic title of president of India belongs to Pratibha Devisingh Patil.

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