danielle: hi, i'm danielle venokur from dvgreenand today we are going to be talking about how to design a rustic diner party with lotsof influences from nature, from the past and from stuff pulled from throughout your house.ok, so for the rustic dinner party, we really took this word "rustic" pretty seriously.it's great to come up with a theme i find because it just helps you just get inspirationfor designing your table. so what we did here was i went upstate andi, in the forest, found a fallen birch tree and took the birch bark and used that as aninspiration for the entire table dã©cor. so obviously, we're going to get a real naturalfeel using that as our foundation. and then, just going through the centerpiecefor you, all the flowers here are either local
or certified organic. so, we've got some sprayroses here and some gaudacia here, from the local farmers market. so we are supportingour local farms. and then, these white roses here are certified organic flowers. a lotof local florists are starting to carry certified organic flowers too, so those are great optionsfor the flowers. our farmers market flowers are in this vintagevase. it is actually a sugar holder, but for the night we took out the sugar, put it insomething separate and used this for the table dã©cor. so it's really great to use thingsthat you have around the house or vintage items to introduce into the table, ratherthan buying things that you are going to use for one night.
other items, like this, are these cool, beautifulvegetables and fruits. there's one there and we have these citrus fruits that are so interestingand again, from farmers markets, you are supporting the local vendors and then at the end of themeal, you take this and for tomorrow's dinner, you can throw it in a pot steam it like cauliflower. here, you can see these adorable, little pineconecandles. these are from the bee man candle company and they are pure beeswax, which isan incredible alternative to paraffin candles. most candles, which are made from paraffin,are petroleum based, so you want to try to avoid that. and they smell great. so other aspects of the table that make itspecifically eco-friendly and a little bit
interesting, include the napkins, which areall made from vintage scarves. i love this idea and i think it is a really fun idea thatanyone can do... and what we did, we took vintage scarves and we took linen and we sewedthem together. so you have one side is a usable napkin and the other side are these interestingscarves, which some of them came from my closet, some from my mother's closet... so you getthis very fun, a lot of introduction of a lot of unique color. and again, it's a reallycool thing to just have on the table, and obviously you can re-use these again and again,which is better than using a disposable napkin. our final accent on each napkin was this creamcity ribbon. so this is a cotton-based made in the u.s., totally biodegradable and allthe dyes are water-based. so it is super easy,
you just cut it off the roll. it is this alreadyin this form you just kind of slip it right through this napkin, and it is a great littleaccent. and that is our rustic dinner table. enjoy.