Black Swan & Dreams

We've redecorated the trees in our office to reflect current trends in color, pop culture and design. In total, we have six trees at Gloria Duchin headquarters, and over the next few weeks, we're going to show you all of them, hopefully giving you some inspiration for your holiday decor. First up, our Dreams tree and our Black Swan tree.

Both of these trees are so much fun. The pink tree adds pop to your season and the black tree adds an edge.

For the pink, Dreams tree, we went for a soft, etheral feel, topping the tree with white tulle that drapes down through the branches. Bunches of cotton stuffing symbolize clouds, floating through the tree and also cover the base as a tree skirt. For bulbs, we used primarily silver, both in matte glitter and glossy finish in different sizes for depth. The fuscia glitter bulbs add just a touch of necessary color.

We wanted this tree to be about imagination and fantasy, and selected a group of iconic ornaments that would express that, including our pewter flying pig ornament with pink glitter accents. He soars through the branches along with our dreams angel and silver glitter stars.

Our Black Swan tree is of course, reminiscent of the film, Black Swan, capturing the dark beauty of the film and ballet. Our black tree was a perfect base to capture this idea. We accented it with a white feather topper, the two sides of the swan.

For color, clusters of red feathers are throughout along with bunches of small red bulbs. The floral lights resemble stage lights and the silver bulbs are like small, round mirrors.

The iconic ornaments we used are in pewter and gold finishes. To coordinate with the theme, we have pewter ballerinas, pewter ballet shoes, silver glitter fleur de lis ornaments and goldtone swans.

Next week: Our Pet Tree!