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Silver Bells & Succulents Holiday Décor -ating
by Donia Moore
It’s not just your mother’s red, green and tinsel anymore… Today, creative designers are using a variety of colors and textures to bring holiday fun and warmth into our homes and businesses. Two talented San Clemente designers offer alternatives if you love the holidays but don’t have time for the decorating or the clean up yourself. Both Dayna Camarena of Backstreet Home Décor and Tara Lee Lupo of Tara Lee Designs work closely with clients to help them make special holiday statements.
Try it, don’t buy it, Rent Christmas in a Bag Tara Lee Lupo at Tara Lee Designs
trees and mantle pieces that she delivers and installs, then promptly dismantles and picks up after the season is over. She and her design partner Sue Definger make it simple for clients to choose how they want their homes and businesses decorated by offering a menu of themes. Want a “Spideyman” tree for the kids? Tara’s got it. Prefer a more glamorous silvery snowflake-
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frosted pine? She has that too. She can even add real pine boughs to the mix so clients don’t have to forego that walk through the forest crisp clean smell. She is also happy to help clients who want to use their own heirloom decorations. And Tara loves to see patrons faces when they first view their professionally designed decorations. “It’s like Christmas morning for me,” she says. Tara also creates sand, shell and driftwood arrangements. Her arrangements with latex orchids
are so realistic that even when you touch them you can’t tell if they are real or not. The San Clemente High School graduate has been decorating for friends and family since she was 15. She went to work for Staats Design as a bow designer after graduating and. loved the cre-
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enting special holiday decorations can give your home instant cachet with a minimum of effort on your part. When faced with a client concerned about costs, Tara Lee Lupo of Tara Lee Designs came up with an innovative way to help – pre-lit and pre-decorated artificial
Toy Story Tree. Thomas the Train Tree.
Purple Tree.
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ativity she saw daily working with the designers there. While there she teamed up with six other designers to decorate 16 rooms of Christmas at the World Trade Center in Dallas, a feat that only took them a week. Check out Tara’s Facebook page for more information about her design ideas. But don’t wait much
longer for an appointment – the holidays are almost here!
www.facebook.com/pages/TaraLee-de- signs/1045991072087246 or call (949) 257-7243.
One Stop Decorating Dayna Camarena of Backstreet Home Decor
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f you’ve been around Orange County for any length of time, you’ve probably visited Roger’s Gardens. You may remember that they used to have room after room of fresh Christmas trees, each stunningly decorated with a different theme. That was Dayna Camarena’s work on display. Dayna’s approach to holiday decorating involves working with clients who want to use or high-
light their own treasures. Many of them want her to pull their whole house together, but like to use groupings of their most loved possessions. While it’s hard to beat the traditional looks and colors of our favorite holiday season, Dayna suggests that clients look at their treasures and surroundings with fresh eyes. Got a favorite collection of silver? Group it together instead of spreading it out all over the house. “It has a lot more impact that way,” says Dayna. The same with those beloved nutcrackers and
gingerbread houses – it takes a village…. “This season, the magic buzz word is “organic”, says de- signer Susie Smith, owner of Backstreet Home Décor, and Dayna’s partner. The style features a range of natural textures and tones from burlap to feathered birds. Mixed with a solid color or two, like black and white, it can look very fresh and sophisticated. A growing popular trend is to decorate once for all the fall and winter holidays, using lighting,
garlands and ribbons. “I have clients who love to decorate for Halloween, but not the way you might think,” says
Dayna. “We put green artificial garlands on the fireplace mantle with orange, black, silver and purple ribbon woven in among mini-orange and black lights. Then we add fall leaves, fake spiders and strings of purple, and sparkly white lights just for fun, and maybe two small pumpkins at each end. “For Halloween, we turn on the orange, black and purple lights for some ghoulish glitz, along
with wide, wire-rimmed ribbons and a stream of silvery mesh to match. Once Halloween is past, we gently pull out the black ribbons and the spiders, and turn off the black lights. What’s left? A great Thanksgiving display! Then, the day after we’ve finished our turkey dinners - even before the left- overs - we’re already decorated for the rest of the year. All we have to do is turn off the orange lights, turn on the purple and sparkly white lights, gently pull out the orange ribbon, leaving the purple and silver. Replace the pumpkins at either end with small topiary trees glimmering with white lights and we’re ready to go.” Traditional holiday tree tastes are lovely, but Dayna has a few surprises to suggest. Real twists
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