The Home and Garden Show is the premier tradeshow for home decor and outdoor living experts.  This is also a must-attend event for home remodelers, landscaping enthusiasts or for the trend seeking homeowner!  This year’s show will feature celebrity personalities like Shane Tallant from HGTV’s show “Designed to Sell”.  The show will of course feature over 300 exhibitors like American Marble and Granite (for those to die for granite kitchen countertops!) and Home Network Systems (for wiring your whole house for the ultra cool home audio systems!) to help with all your maintanence and design needs. 

If you are a new home owner or in the market for a house and need decorating ideas, the Home and Garden Show is the place to be February 21 -24, 2008 at the Dulles Expo Center.  Make sure to create your home inspiration on Planaganza to take to the show with you!

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This is a cool video slideshow of various event decorations, cakes and details!  Get inspired!  Remember, you can also create an inspiration page at Planaganza.com to share your event vision!

It seems Chinese New Year is popular in San Francisco!  After writing yesterday’s blog entry about Chinese New Year I, posted the entry on a website called Blogher.com which is a community for women who blog.  Within an hour I receive the following comment from the Co-founder of Blogher.com:

I thought that was pretty cool!  And for the rest of the day, my blog entry was linked to from the very top of their page.

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February 7th, 2008 is the first day of the Chinese New Year and marks the beginning of the year of the Rat.  The Chinese New Year is based on the astronomical observations of the movement of the Sun, Moon and stars and the first day of the new year is not the same each year.   Last year, the first day of the Chinese New Year was February 18th. 

The Chinese calls the New Year’s Celebration the “Spring Festival.”  The celebration lasts several days and includes firework displays, dragon and lion dances in elaborate costumes, and the exchange of “red envelopes or red packets” that contain money accompanied by chocolate coins. Typically, red couplets and red lanterns are displayed on door frames and light up the streets.

Several North American cities hold Chinese New Year Parades including New York, Vancouver, British Columbia, and San Francisco where the Southwest Airlines sponsored Chinese New Year Festival and Parade features the newly crowned Miss Chinatown USA. 

If you’re planning you’re own Chinese New Year celebration here are some ideas:

• Decor: Make or buy colorful Chinese lanterns to decorate the space.  You may also chose to obtain Chinese posters or photos from travel magazines featuring scenes from actual Chinese New Year celebrations and frame them through the party.
• Invites: Make invites in the shape of a Rat and adorn it with the Chinese character for Luck.
• Food: Serve mandarin oranges with a caramel glaze as an appetizer as mandarin oranges are a popular food for the new year.  Various types of teas served in small tea cup would also go well with the theme.
• Favor: As a favor opt for red envelopes with a few coins in each and some chocolate coins.

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Planaganza participated in The SMI Bridal Expo yesterday!  We met over 100 brides in a whirlwind event that featured performances by Golden Note Entertainment and bridal fashions by Group USA Dress Shop.  We were one of the vendors to give away door prizes to brides that visited our table.  We gave away a Bridal Tranquility Package and the big winner was Marissa Barron from Teaneck, NJ!  

We also introduced our new promotion for brides to win a $100 Spa Finder Gift Card on April 5, 2008.  If you are a bride and would like to enter to win, you can visit our table at the following upcoming bridal expos:

• Metro Bridal Expo Spring Showcase, Teaneck, NJ on Feb 3, 2008
• The Bridal Event at the Palisadium, Cliffside Park, NJ on Feb 24, 2008
• The Montgomery County Bridal Fare, King Of Prussia, PA on Mar 2, 2008
• Delmarva Wedding Planning Expo 2008, Dover, DE on Mar 9, 2008
• Philadelphia Wedding planning Expo, Phila, PA on Mar 30, 2008

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