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Have you ever watched Monica Pedersen on HGTV? Well let me tell you, she is exactly the person you see: down to earth, sweet, hilarious and full of ideas!
I recently sat down with her (on the phone) for an hour to discuss her new entertaining book, Make It Beautiful, and I was impressed by her lovely personality. She shared how her mom was her inspiration. Something I can completely relate to. And how she started her career as a model. Okay, something I can’t relate to. {wink} Do you remember the commercial with Bob Villa? That was when her hit show Design to Sell was born and as they say, it’s all history from there!
Monica has a passion for design and although she loves designing a room, she also loves designing a party table! And for inspiration, she starts by roaming the isles of her favorite fabric stores. Something I can admit is almost always top on my “to do” list when we’re looking at creating a new collection.
Her new book, Make It Beautiful, is full of real parties, practical advice and fun ideas for the average entertainer on any budget. And as we chatted, Monica shared a few behind-the-scenes moments. Remember, these are all REAL parties.
One moment, funny now but not when it was happening to her, is from the beautiful outdoor graduation party shared in the book. The weather was iffy all the way up to the party and like any good planner Monica had weighed her options, kept the Weather Channel close to her all day and measured an indoor room in case everything had to be pulled quickly. Well the rain came before the event, but the day was clear at the time of the event so the party styling went on outside as planned. Monica really wanted to hang these beautiful chandeliers from the branches above the table. Since the tables were already in place (one long seating arrangement) she had to stand on the table to hang them. Unfortunatley because of the rain the day and night before the ground was wet and the table started to sink! {plates crashing, utensils clinking, glassware rolling off the table} The situation was handled and the guests non the wiser, but Monica laughs that it was a lesson learned!
Monica brings all of her charm to this book and her good friend and photographer Peter Rosenbaum captures full views and tiniest details. All in all, a lovely and very entertaining read!
Now down to the goodies! I’m giving away a signed copy of Monica’s Make It Beautiful book to one lucky reader!
How to Enter: Leave a comment on this page telling me you’d like to get creative styling your next party with Monica Pedersen’s new book, Make It Beautiful. Yep, it’s that easy!
Deadline: August 14, 2012 at 11:59pm Eastern Time
Extra Entries (leave a comment for EACH extra entry please!):
- Like The Celebration Shoppe on facebook (existing and new counts, just let me know!)
- Like Monica Pedersen Designs on facebook (existing and new counts, just let me know!)
- Follow Monica (@MonicaPedersen9) and The Celebration Shoppe (@celebshoppe) on Twitter and tweet about this giveaway. Something like: I just entered to win a signed copy of the new Make It Beautiful book from @HGTV @MonicaPedersen9 via @celebshoppe
Or, why take your chances! You can buy Monica’s Make It Beautiful in hard copy right now on Amazon. Also available for your Kindle! And on Barnes and Noble.
And as always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate! Oh, and throughout today, I’m also giving away Courtney Dial Whitmore’s new book, Candy Making For Kids. Hop over and enter!
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