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100 Things to Celebrate
It's official ~ summer is here! On June 21, people around the world are celebrating the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. Always interested in global celebrations, I researched it to see how people are celebrating. From music...
100 Things to Celebrate – Our Story
Here at Illusions of Grandeur when planning a big event for a client we try to understand their "story". It helps us with the design in order to make their event both meaningful and applicable. In thinking about this, I decided to write a little about OUR story. Of...
100 Things to Celebrate – Lunar New Year of the Ox
100 Things to Celebrate – Trees
100 Things to Celebrate: Summer
Celebrate Summer and the nature and abundance that comes along with it!
100 Things to Celebrate : Thinking Big
As some of you may know by now, we have started a weekly Instagram post that we call Throwback Thursday. Given the fact that we have not had an event since mid-March, we have decided to dig into the history and recycle some of our favorite and sometimes "not so...
100 Things to Celebrate: Flowers
Among the many exciting projects we have been able to work on this year, I have to say that watching the beautiful floral creations going in and out of here has certainly been a joy.
100 Reasons to Celebrate: The Season of Light
We just returned from a beautiful holiday in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was literally glowing with all the lights that decorated the plaza, churches, and homes throughout the city. One of the many activities that happen during the season there is what they call the...
100 Things to Celebrate: Los Dias de Muertos
Those of you who know me know that Halloween is definitely NOT one of my favorite holidays....old story not worth repeating. I will say, however, that the Halloween parties at Folktale Winery and Vineyards in Carmel Valley, CA the last two years have started to...