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Cheree Berry Invitations - So Inviting!

2012-05-23T13:00:28Z

If you're thinking of great wedding and event planning inspiration for the coming spring/summer season, look no further than 100 Layer Cake - one of our favorite wedding blogs. They cover a variety of weddings and feature top wedding vendors, from the best photographers to the best florists. The folks at "the Cake" take their wedding invitations and snail mail with a side of flair. A hot tangerine envelope liner, gold foil details, horn blowers (why not?), multi-colored confetti dots spilling out of envelopes, and bold stripes and patterns. There’s one place to get it all and that’s Cheree Berry Paper! If gold confetti could come flying out from your screen when we announced that, we’d make it happen. Yes, we get that excited when we talk about paper! And we’re even more excited to share her new designs with you! Just take a look at these suites – does it get any more fun than this?

See what we mean? Baby announcements, wedding invitations, personalized stationery, save the date coasters – there’s a suite for every occasion and we want them all!

Photos by the lovely and just as cheery, Edyta Szyszlo.

Bonus

Click here to read A Week in the Life of a Wedding Planner (and Mother).

Thanks to 100 Layer Cake for their beautiful photographs, posts, and wedding inspiration. 100 Layer Cake is a unique, comprehensive wedding planning resource for and by thoughtful, crafty modern women. Their vendors, projects, weddings, resources, sponsors, and marketplace are hand-picked and thoroughly researched with the hope that every single one is a truly unique addition to both your wedding and your planning process. Visit the 100 Layer Cake website today.

If you're interested in learning more about wedding planning and decor, we encourage you to explore the Sheffield School, New York, NY. Sheffield began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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Explore the Beautiful Ceramics of Italy

2012-05-21T13:00:54Z

Ceramics of Italy is an International Contemporary Furniture Fair exhibit coming up that will feature nine of Italy’s leading ceramic tile companies and their new designs. The ICFF will be held from May 19-22, 2012 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City. The show focuses primarily on modern design, and the Ceramics of Italy exhibit will show off fresh tile trends for floor and wall coverings in booth #1432. Exhibitors include Atlas Concorde; Ceramiche Refin; Cooperativa Ceramica d’Imola; Cotto d’Este; Fap Ceramiche; Mirage Granito Ceramico; Il Ferrone; Sant’Agostino; and Settecento mosaici e ceramiche d’arte.

Expect to see many state-of-the-art flooring and wall covering developments.

Urban motifs
Wood, stone, and concrete looks created with ink-jet technology
LEED-compliant tiles
Super-thin porcelains

According to Franco Manfredini, president of Confindustria Ceramica:

We are excited to be attending the show for the fourth time. New York is an important market for our Italian companies and the architects and designers we meet every year make it an event we cannot miss.

Italian manufacturers continue to focus on both aesthetic and technological trends that are both bold and progressive in the tile industry. For updated information on Ceramics of Italy’s participation at ICFF or to view new products launching this season, visit the Italian Tile website.

Bonus

Click here to read Sheffield's exclusive photo tour: A Day at the Kips Bay Show House.

As lead curriculum developer, it's fun to check out new flooring and wall covering products. If you're interested in learning more about the exciting world of interior design, then we encourage you to explore the Sheffield School, New York, NY. Sheffield began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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Share Your Review of a Sheffield School Course

2012-05-18T15:00:54Z

At the Sheffield School, we’re always looking for feedback from students and graduates on their experiences, their successes, and their overall thoughts on the quality of education that they receive from us. And it’s how we continue to make sure our courses meet the standards we’ve set for them.

It makes our day when we hear from a former student. And that’s why we launched a new website, specifically to collect and showcase course reviews and testimonials!

Introducing SheffieldSchoolReviews.com!

It’s brand new, and we want to fill it with student and graduate reviews. Help us out by submitting your review today.

Don’t have a review? That’s fine. You can still check out what others are saying about the courses by visiting the site.

Announcing New Website Review for Interior Designers

2012-05-16T21:34:51Z

The Sheffield School was founded in 1985 as a school for aspiring interior designers. Since then, it's grown and expanded to offer education in other creative areas, but we never forgot our roots. And today, we're happy to announce a new service we've created specifically for interior designers.

It's called SiteCatapult! And it's a website review service for interior designers of all shapes and sizes.

We did some research and found that today's interior designers drive a huge amount of new business through their websites. In fact, most professional interior designers today use their website to drive word of mouth marketing and referrals. But when we talked to our students and graduates, many did not know where to get started with their website.

By taking ideas from marketers, website developers, and interior designers, we were able to create a service that we're sure interior designers are going to love.

If you have a website, you can purchase a professional web evaluation. Our evaluator will dive head first into your site. And using some basic information that you provide us, will fill out a 16 page evaluation form designed to show you how your site stacks up against the competition, and give you real-life steps that you can use to take your site to the next level.

Don't have a website yet? We've got you covered too. We're offering a downloadable ebook for $19.99 that serves as a guide to creating your interior design website.

We've got something for everyone. Check it out and sign up for your evaluation or ebook today!

6 Favorite Lights from Luce Plan

2012-05-15T13:01:23Z

Bright ideas in lighting spring up all the time from talented product designers. New lightings gives interior designers and homeowners cause to celebrate. Fresh, contemporary designs are great ways to enliven tired interiors and shine light into the darkest corners of rooms, creating pools of inviting warmth. Luce Plan, the international lighting company and showroom, has an amazing array of lamps and other lights that we're craving - and here are 6 of our favorite designs. Click on each photo for more information.

Lighting Bonus

Click here to read Into the Lights.

As lead curriculum developer, it's fun to check out new lighting products. If you're interested in learning more about the exciting world of interior design, then we encourage you to explore the Sheffield School, New York, NY. Sheffield began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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6 Favorite Wedding Cakes

2012-05-14T13:01:00Z

If you're thinking of great wedding inspiration for the coming spring/summer season, look no further than 100 Layer Cake - one of our favorite wedding blogs. They cover a variety of weddings and feature top wedding vendors, from the best photographers to the best florists. At Sheffield, we have some pretty picky wedding planning folks on the team, and we wanted to share with you some of our favorite cakes from recent weddings. Click on a photo to check out the rest of the amazing wedding details.

Classic wedding white, in tiers of cupcakes.

This ruggedly beautiful cake mimics its California ranch venue.

This creamy wedding cake strips off the fondant in favor of fresh flowers.

This Chicago wedding's gold chevron wedding cake is flanked by sweet treats and balloons.

Inspiration for a 1950s themed sweets table.

This wedding cake comes out of a secret garden.

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Question of the Week: What New Course Would You Be Most Interested In?

2012-05-11T17:03:30Z

Welcome to this week’s installment of the Sheffield Says Question of the Week. Each week we’ll ask readers a question pertinent to being creative, earning a living, do-it-yourself projects, and much, much more. We’re excited to hear what you have to say!

Last week’s question was, Why Do You Love Facebook?

This week, we want to know, from the below list, what new Sheffield School course would you be most interested in. We are constantly looking to add to our course listings, to give people more choice and more freedom to study and advance their careers in a variety of areas. The list of new titles below represents courses we’re looking to create in the next couple of years.

Share your answer below. Don’t like any of those course ideas? Then add your own to the comments.

Catch you next week. Same time, same place.

mood board: Art Deco

2012-05-10T14:01:05Z

Elegance, sophistication, and glamour describe the Art Deco era, but this was just the frosting on a multi-tiered cake. Art Deco culminated from the convergence of global culture and tastes – with motifs that included modern geometrics, Egyptian, Babylonian, African, and Aztec styles and Greco-Roman classicism. For the latest in our series of mood boards, we’ll rediscover the glamorous world of Art Deco style.

Art Deco was the nickname given for the style that arose from the influential 1925 world’s fair that occurred in Paris, France called the Exposition Internationale des Artes Decoratifs et Industriels Moderne. Legendary designers, artisans, and architects contributed to the World Fair, including glass designer Rene Lalique, furniture designer Emile-Jacques Rhulmann, architect Le Corbusier, to name a few.

In our first mood board above, we show a French Art Deco console table from French Design, Inc. made from macassar ebony, a popular rich-looking wood of that era. Its center leg displays a gilt and silver artwork of geometric shapes. On top of the table we have accessories that are globally inspired – the muscular Eve with Serpent sculpture from Renaissance Man is created in the Greek tradition and the vase, Biches Bleues, designed by Charles Catteau reflects African influences. The vase is from the Modernism Gallery.

For seating, we have a streamlined lacquered club chair from French Design, Inc. The delicate side table, reminiscent of furniture designer Emile-Jacques Rhulmann, is made of rosewood and covered in shagreen, available from Gary Rubinstein Antiques. On top of the table from TFTM Gallery is the coffee service from ocean liner, Il de France, and designed in the iconic Art Deco geometric shapes. For lighting we have a French chandelier designed by Petitot and available from Versailles Antiques. Petitot created an octagonal shaped light made of nickeled bronze and frosted glass insets with a sunburst design. The rug, though not Art Deco, is very geometric and is from Safavieh.

For our second mood board on Art Deco, we have a lighter look with the furnishings. The hemispherical desk is an American art deco style using mahogany with a sunburst inlay on its writing surface and figured maple veneer on its drawers. The club chair is upholstered in gold velvet and both are available from Antiques of River Oaks. The tall secretaire from Paul Stamati is made of macassar ebony inlaid with ivory detailing – see the diamond pattern. For artwork, we have a cubist tile panel designed by Harris Strong and is available from Greenwich Living Antiques. Lighting the room are half-moon lacquered sconces from Maison Gerard.

Art Deco may have had its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s but the look is still being reproduced to this day. These Art Deco furnishings may be mixed with more contemporary pieces that share the elegant and glamorous mood.

Here's How to Be An Event Planner

2012-05-09T13:00:39Z

Eventique NYC

There's nothing more fun than attending a successful event, and nothing more disastrous than being trapped in a going-nowhere-fast event. If your event doesn't have its main objectives clearly spelled out, it's doomed - but there are so many other moving pieces to coordinate beyond the initial planning stages. Event planning is an exciting business; the stakes are always high - and it may be your dream profession.

Eventique NYC

If you're well organized, enjoy working with people, love to collect the best vendors in your community in order to help others pull off the perfect event, and were born loaded with patience and perseverance and a strong eye for detail, this may be the profession for you. In today's featured video, join Liron David, an event planning with Eventique, a New York City event planning company, as he takes you through a typical event, describes how he became an event planning, and shares what it takes to be a success in this important field.

Event Planning Bonus

Click here to read A Week in the Life of a Wedding and Event Planner (and mother).

As lead curriculum developer, I attend as many events as possible to learn more about what makes for successful event planning. If you're interested in learning more about the exciting world of event and wedding planning, then we encourage you to explore the Sheffield School, New York, NY. Sheffield began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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Feng Shui Tips: Are Your Rooms Missing Anything?

2012-05-08T13:00:43Z

Franca Giuliani - Living in a home or working in an office that has the shape of a square or rectangular is ideal in feng shui. It offers balance and incorporates a complete bagua. The bagua is an energetic map that divides up any space - from a room to an entire house - into eight sectors plus the center, each with its own powerful attributes.

Now it's not easy to find perfect squares and rectangles in our homes, apartments, or offices. With incredible design concepts and necessities like bumping out in a room to add a closet, different shapes are created. So what do you do if you have a missing sector?

Well, first you should symbolically “square the space off.” This is quite easy to do if you have access to the outdoors. You can use bushes, fences, flowers, anything to create that outline needed to “complete the space.”

You should also figure out what sector you're missing and then compensate that space by adding the element of the missing sector. And you can be creative about it! You can add furniture, pictures, fabrics ... you can even paint the whole room the element color! Just follow these guidelines below. If you're missing the following sector, add that direction’s element near that missing sector.

Career/Journey (Water) – add a representation of water: the color black, dark blue (not sky blue), actual water, a picture of water, wavy shapes

Self Cultivation/ Knowledge (Earth) – add a representation of earth: the color brown, yellow, earth tones; terracotta, square shapes

Family/Health (Wood) – add a representation of wood: live plants, trees, flowers; the color green; tall shapes

Wealth/Prosperity (Wood) – add a representation of wood: live plants, trees, flowers; the color green; tall shapes

Fame/ Reputation (Fire) – add a representation of fire: the color red, lights; triangle shapes

Love/Marriage/Relationships (Earth) – add a representation of earth: the color pink, earth tones; terracotta, square shapes

Creativity/Children (Metal) – add a representation of metal: the colors white, grey; round shapes; shiny metal itself

Helpful People/Travel (Metal) – add a representation of metal: the colors white, grey; round shapes; shiny metal itself

Your Feng Shui Homework

So, for the month of May, go “color in the corners” and have fun doing it. You'll enjoy the benefits of finishing off your rooms, too. It won't radiate that intangible feeling like there's something missing, you'll have more energy in the room, and everyone working or hanging out in the rooms will feel more comfortable and balanced.

Until next month,

Be well,

Franca

Franca is one of the Feng Shui instructors at Sheffield School; visit her website for more information. If you're interested in learning more about interior design and accessories, then we encourage you to explore the Sheffield School, New York, NY. Sheffield began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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