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When you’re invited to a friends house for an afternoon or evening for entertaining,  it is proper etiquette and polite to arrive bearing a gift for your gracious hostess with the mostess. To make sure that you show up with a gift that the hostess will absolutely love,  we put together some very cute and stylish DIY gifts that are guaranteed to get you invited back!

For a refreshing and cool hostess gift create a Summer Cooler. Fill a glass pitcher with lemons, then attach a wooden spoon and a stylish dish towel to the handle — the makings for lemonade. Include a simple recipe that doubles as a gift tag.

2.  If your hostess is an avid gardener the Garden Supplies gift will be to her delight!  Give here some flowers that will last longer than a few days. Fill a galvanized bucket from a hardware store with a few gardening basics: seeds, pruners, pretty gloves, and a trowel. We used a cardboard coaster as a gift tag.

3.  The Tote-ally Great Pack offers up some fresh baguettes and fancy olive oil in a personalized canvas tote and your host will have both a delicious snack for later and a cute bag to reuse. Pick up an eco-friendly canvas bag, a letter stencil, and fabric paint at a crafts store.

4.  Entertaining with a wine lover? Consider wrapping their favorite bottles of wine. That’s a Wrap is a brilliant twist on giving the traditional bottle of wine: Wrap it in a pretty summer scarf (we used two easy techniques here) and give two presents at once.  Don’t you love it!

5.  Soap Star, buy a package of inexpensive fragrant bar soap and wrap it in pretty printed paper. Polish off the look by binding the soap together with decorative copper wire topped off with a bead, then place the stack in a lovely vintage soap dish.

Have creating these stylish DIY hostess gifts, which one is your favorite?

Enjoy!

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Well, the other day when I was over at the Neiman Marcus site swooning over their delectable chocolate collection, I also found these gorgeous new pieces that Neiman’s has that will inspire you to create some very stylish and chic table tops.

For a Classic and Elegant Table Top:

The Beaded Place Mats & Embroidered Linen Napkins & Napkin Rings. Simply stunning! The beaded cotton place mats and “spider burst” napkin rings are handmade, with white linen napkins that have an embroidered neoclassical border. You can choose Orange, White, or Fuchsia for place mats; and Orange, White, or Pink for napkin rings.  I am loving this set.

Four Orchid Bottle Stoppers are beautiful cast resin lily bottle stoppers with rubber O-ring and perfect for conserving your favorite wine or olive oil. Available in brilliant colors of yellow, purple, aqua, and magenta.

Gittleman Global “Antique Lace” Flatware is a Neiman Marcus exclusive. It’s a highly distinctive flatware pattern that features pierced handles of antiqued, silver-plated brass, which makes it perfect for an elegant table setting.  For more stylish table top ideas Read the rest of this entry »

These corkscrews definitely have personality. Fun and functional the Anna G. corkscrews designed by Alessi are premium hand crafted in mirror finished chrome, and is essential for your bar and makes a hostess or housewarming gift!

The tail doubles as a bottle opener/foil cutter and twist Anna’s neatly coifed head and her corkscrew “arms” rise in a graceful salute, oh cute is that I ask?

At your next wine tasting party not only will your guest rave about your impeccable  taste in wine they will not be able to stop talking about your playful and decorative corkscrew.

You can get the corkscrews from Alessi for $56.

For a great summer wine try the 2007 Riff Pinot Grigio ($11). This is a simple white wine, with apple and lemon character, with a delicate finish.