There’s something about that holidays that makes people want to gather and celebrate. You probably want to have a little get together to entertain some friends in the next few weeks but you don’t want to spend too much money setting your table.

After all, you need that moola for purchasing gifts.

1- Wrapping paper as a table runner.

Use a plain table cloth or fabric and then make it fabulous with patterned and/or bold wrapping paper. Cut wrapping paper with pinking shears to craft a runner. Use double-stick tape to secure the runner to the tablecloth.

2- Inexpensive votive holders as flower vases.

You can spend a lot less on flowers by doing this. Place one or two buds in each holder.

3- Print personalized menus as place cards.

You can type it up on any word processor using nice font, print it out on regular print paper and glue it on to colored card stock.

4- Make a burlap table runner in under 10 minutes.

Just cut the burlap to size and pull on the ends to create the fringe. Add ribbon on the ends for a finished look.

Image sources: 1. Real Simple, 2. Frolic Blog, 3. Charmed Events Planning, 4. Project Pretty.

This week’s flickr fave is making me want to hop on a plane to Paris. It’s from the Hotel La Belle Juliet, and it looks like a good antidote to some of the boutique hotels gone wrong that seems to be proliferating the hospitality industry lately. I’m thinking of a place in NYC that’s a little too cool for me, where I kept expecting to see Sid Vicious on the floor with a needle sticking out of his arm (I’m not going to name names, but let’s say it’s name is also a good card to draw in Blackjack.).

It looks like this Hotel will be opening just in time for New Year’s. The interior was designed by Anne Gelbard. For more information, click here.

Inspired by the white winter that will soon be here, Design is Mine put together an inspiration board of all things ‘snow white’ and included the k studio Round Face Male Pillow.

Thanks Design is Mine!

A big thanks to Glo, a highly stylized women’s lifestyle destination from MSN, for including Julie Rothman for Hygee & West Daydream in Yellow Wallpaper, Graham and Brown Superfresco Scope Wallpaper and Aimee Wilder Clouds Wallpaper in their Up the Wall feature.

I was already really jealous of Joel McHale’s wife, as she is married to one tall hilarious drink of water, but then in this month’s In Style I saw what a talented interior designer she is and I became even more jealous. She and her co-collaborator, Elizabeth Gordon both used to work for Kelly Wearstler. The result is a lovely home that’s got bits of regency and bravura modern all over the place. Here’s a peak at the McHales’ Hollywood Hills casa:

I spy DwellStudio bedding in their son Eddie’s room:

Photographs by Douglas Friedman for In Style