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How to Make the Cutest-Ever DIY Edible Place Cards

Have an early-morning birthday celebration with bagels or plain doughnuts instead of sugary cupcakes. Stack bagels atop a cake plate and place taper candles within each stack. Alternating pumpernickel and egg bagels or sesame and poppy can create colorful patterns. To ensure that the candles stay upright and don't lean on the bagels or doughnuts, drip some melted wax on the plate to use as an anchor. Festive ribbons add the final touch; just be sure to blow out the flames before they get too close!

No-Fuss Centerpieces

This easy — and delicious — project brings color to the table, and calls for just a few common grocery store items.

Thrifty Spring Centerpiece

<p>Napkin and flatware are artfully
presented together in this clever fold.</p><br />

20 Napkin Folds

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A picnic table set with blues and greens under a canopy is a welcoming retreat from the summer sun. Serve <b><a href="http://gogonow.org/recipes/cooking-recipes/sweet-savory-blueberry-recipes%22target=%22_new%22%3Eblueberry%3C/a%3E%3C/b%3E-filled recipes like <b><a href="http://gogonow.org/recipefinder/chicken-blueberry-pasta-salad-recipe-5789%22target=%22_new%22%3EChicken and Blueberry Pasta Salad</a></b>, <b><a href="/recipefinder/teriyaki-pork-chops-blueberry-ginger-relish-recipe-5791"target="_new">Pork Chops with Blueberry Relish</a></b>, and <b><a href="/recipefinder/blueberry-white-chocolate-chunk-ginger-cookies-recipe-5812"target="_new">Blueberry and White Chocolate Chunk Ginger Cookies</a></b>.

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<p>Try it for informal occasions, such as picnics or lunches.</p><br />

Keep It Simple

Ring around the posy: An oval enamelware mold provides the perfect "nest" for small flowers. Anchor stems in florist's foam or nestle inside glass baby-food jars.

A Home in Full Flower

<p>Be sure to use a crisp, starched napkin for best results.</p><br />

Waterfall Pleat

<p>Place it on the center or to the side of a plate, or use it on a buffet or sideboard.</p><br />

Triangle Tuck Napkin Fold

Score big at your next game night with these fun appetizer plates. Use two at each setting to replace a normal-sized plate. Continue the casino and gaming theme with matching geometric napkins. Not all casinos are created equal: Make sure yours is five stars with small votives and reed place mats.

Surprising Table Settings

Just as the roses and peonies in her garden are fluffing out, Lucinda Rooney has to leave them. She's off to teach workshops at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. But to the delight of her bassett hound, Daisy, she's soon home again, out in the garden planting more beans or trellising the clematis. It was 15 years ago that Lucinda not only designed, but also helped build, her log house in central Vermont. "My sanctuary," she calls it, looking out over acres of surrounding farmland and distant views of the Adirondack Mountains to the west and the Green Mountains to the east, where she grew up.<br /><br /><b>Pictured:</b> "The inside of a flower tells you the colors that it likes to be with," says Lucinda Rooney, teacher of gardening workshops in Pennsylvania and keeper of her garden "sanctuary" in central Vermont. Here, three clematis twine compatibly with David Austin roses in a small vintage vase.

A Home in Full Flower

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Fancy Flower Arranging

Long-stem roses have had their due so what about no-stem roses? Create dramatic place settings with shot glasses, egg cups, and other small containers. By using these undersized glasses, your roses will look larger than life. Don't trim stems completely; by leaving a few inches, you'll keep the flower stable in the glass as well as provide a source of hydration.

Think Outside the Vase

Arranging roses.

Rearrange Your Roses

<p>It's also appropriate
for any heartfelt occasion, such as Mother's Day or a wedding reception.</p><br />

Add a Little Romance to Your Table

Here's a way to dress up your dining room and make space on the table for heaping plates of food: Tie ribbon (any width or pattern is fine) around the backs of chairs and hang on folded place cards.

Homemade Holiday Place Cards

Warm up your holiday table with a scentsational centerpiece -- dress pillar candles with dried oranges, lemons, and limes.
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Thinly slice the citrus fruits about 1/8-inch thick. Place a wire cooling rack on a cookie sheet, and then arrange the sliced oranges, lemons, and limes on the rack. Put the cookie sheet and rack in an oven preheated to 250 degrees for approximately two hours, or until all moisture is removed.
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Tip: If you find that your slices have not dried in 2 hours, you can also turn off the oven and leave the fruit in overnight.
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Using a glue gun, connect the citrus slices to each other, forming a band around the base of each candle. Do not glue them to the candle. Once your candles are decorated, cluster them in the center of your Thanksgiving table and weave berried branches throughout to create a cohesive centerpiece.

Easy and Elegant Thanksgiving Centerpieces

<p>You'll need a fairly heavy fabric such as damask linen or a good deal of starch to successfully hold the card in place.</p><br />

Napking Folding for Place Cards

<p>A cotton print napkin is
ideal for this soft, flexible fold.</p><br />

Cozy Cutlery Napkin Fold

<p>Use lightweight napkins to avoid bulk.</p><br /><p>You'll need the napkins to be almost exactly the same size.</p><br />

Twice As Nice - Napkin Folding

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<p>To imitate the shape of a taper candle, roll your napkin and place it upright at the table or buffet.</p><br />

Taper Roll - Napkin Folding

<p>Use it with a simple floral print napkin for best effect.</p><br />

Summers Eve - Napkin Folding

<p>For best results, starch and press the napkin to highlight the crisp lines.</p><br />

Pendant - Napkin Folding

<p>Lacy or hemstitched edges also come front and center in this fold, so consider using it for any napkin with embellished edges.</p><br />

Monogram - Napkin Folding

<p>The herb bouquet cinches the napkin in the center,
allowing the edges to fan across the plate.</p><br />

Garden-Fresh Gathering - Napkin Folding

<p>Slip a beautiful napkin ring or tassel around the base of the napkin to hold the fold together.</p><br />

Fleur De Lis - Napkin Folding

<p>A thin fabric (and definitely no starch)
showcases this fold to its best advantage.</p><br /> <p>It works equally well in water or wineglasses.</p><br />

Evening Bloom - Napkin Folding

<p>There's no need for extra starch or pressing - this easy-going fold will hold its own with any fabric.</p><br />

Demi Fan - Napkin Folding

<p>It takes almost no
time to do, but will add a special touch to the table.</p><br />

Cascading Lace - Napkin Folding

<p>To save precious space, simply stack the folded pockets at
the end of the table.</p><br /><p>A quilt-like array of folded napkins
also makes an attractive presentation.</p><br />

Buffet Tuck - Napkin Folding

<p>Use a generous amount of starch to keep the folds
crisp.</p><br /> <p>Keep an iron nearby so you can sharply press the folds as you work.</p><br /><p>Lay the folded napkin across the
plate or stand it on the broad end.</p><br />

Bijoux - Napkin Folding

<p>Napkin and flatware are artfully
presented together in this clever fold.</p><br />

At Your Service - Napkin Folding