Happy Holidays Everyone!
I hope your enjoying Passover and I hope your Easter is nice. I would like to thank those of you who stopped by to visit me at the home shows in Atlantic City and Valley Forge. Both shows were very busy and I am already starting to receive phone calls for appointments. If you are thinking about starting a project give me a call, I would love to help you also.
Happy Holidays!
Shore House Projects
Commercial Projects
Window Treatment Design
Speaking Engagements
Cream Puff Recipe
A Sense of Style
Raffle Winners
Who is Absolute Living Today?
Shore House Projects
This time of year we start opening our shore homes and realize they might need to be re-decorated. I have completed and I am also working on a few shore projects in Somers Point, Mays Landing, Brick, Toms River, Cape May and Ship Bottom, NJ. I would be happy to help you with your shore house projects. Please keep me in mind.
Redecorating....
Commercial Projects
I just wanted to remind you that I also get involved with commercial projects as well as residential. I particularly enjoy re-decorating restaurants. If you know of anyone who owns or manages a restaurant that might need some re-decorating, please keep me in mind.
Restaurant...
Window Treatment Design
Since my companies inception I have teamed up with a reputable company for fabricating window treatments. If you need my assitance with your windows, I will determine the design most appropriate for your window and select the fabrics to complement your decor. My fabricator will then manufacture and install the final product. Together as a team we have dressed many windows with beautiful results. I love helping my clients by determing the best solutions. Please let me know if you have window treatement challenges, I would love to help.
Window Treatments...
Speaking Engagements
I was recently approached to present to the Mom's Club of Mt. Laurel on May 1st. My goal is to help them avoid decorating faux paus or provide them with simple re-decorating ideas. If you are a member of a local organization and would like a presentation on decorating issues, please don't hesitate to contact me to schedule a date. You can email me at teresa@absolutelivingtoday.com.
Cream Puff Recipe
With the holiday here I wanted to remind you to check out my recipe section on my website. I have two specifically for Easter, my Easter Bread and Ricotta Pie recipes. Just click on the link below.
I wanted to add one more for Easter and it is my Mom's Cream Puff Recipe.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Boil 1 cup of water, drop 1/4 lb. magarine in and let melt, add 1 cup of flour, add 4 beaten eggs one at a time and slowly stir until you get a doughie consistency. Drop spoonfuls on cookie sheet in forms of a ball and place 2" apart.
Filling:
You will need 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/4 cup of flour and 1.5 cups of milk, 1 egg (beaten) and 3/4 tsp. of vanilla.
Scald the milk and add part of the sugar and flour, if it forms lumps use egg beater, slowly stirring the whole time. Beat egg with vanilla and add rest of sugar and flour.
Fill the dough with filling. and bake for 40 minutes on 350 degrees. You can sprinkle with confectioners sugar when done.
Recipes....
A Sense of Style
During my career as a Decorator I have often been asked, "What is your style?" I try to convey to people that I do not have any particular style and my job is to create the style you want. However, sometimes clients don't know what style they are so it is my job to uncover their style by asking the right questions. I would like to help you in a brief descriptive way get you thinking about your style if you have no clue what it is. Read the decriptions below.
Modern Eclectic: pale colors, with textured fabrics and interesting old pieces mixed with modern.
Country Style: battered old plastered walls, brick floors, old or distressed dressers, painted chairs, scrubbed tables, and lots of old pots and earthenware.
Summer house: glass walls overlooking a large stretch of water, blue-painted woodwork to match the sky, white wicker furniture, an air of relaxation, maybe a white floor, walls, and ceiling, stone bed bases, soft grays and ivories.
Middle Eastern: trellised arch, different levels and piles of sumptuously colored cushions.
Oriental: shoji screens and the stepped pyramid of storage drawers, free standing floor lamps, silk wall covering
Classicism: cupola's, three arches incorporating the entryway, two niches for life-size statuary.
Roman: cornices with typical ancient architectural motifs, large scale furniture, marble, terracotta hues, greens, tans, reds, gray.
Contemporary: straight lines, microfiber solid fabrics, glass tops and metal frames, variation of colors, abstract designs.
Just a small list of styles. Please understand each style has several variations of textures and colors, but this can help lead you in the direction of determining your style.
Raffle Winners
During the Valley Forge Home Show I raffled off $100 towards decorating services and I would like to announce the winners.
1st Place: Anita DiLarro of Horsham, PA
2nd Place: B. Weinberg of Voorhees, NJ
3rd Place: Tim O'Connor of Willow Grove, PA
Congratulations!
I would like to personally thank my family and friends for helping me with the home shows this month. It is very much appreciated.
Sincerely,
Teresa Tocco
Absolute Living Today, LLC
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