{"id":684,"date":"2012-12-24T05:28:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T02:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2012-12-24T05:28:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T02:28:07","slug":"684","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/ap-v2\/2012\/12\/24\/684\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Centerpiece Connoisseur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Connie-assante.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-686\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Connie assante\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Connie-assante.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a>Baking &amp; Decorating Connoisseur Connie Assante, of &#8220;CUPCAKE SPLURGE,&#8221; gave us her ideal winter centerpiece inspired by the sweet smell of clementines and bright yellow tint of lemons. My favorite part of this design is the smell of the clementines poached by cinnamon seeds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Coming from an interior design background, I love creating centerpieces with fresh ingredients like those pictured below. \u00a0Centerpieces should reflect the style of your home. Or, the theme you are trying to achieve on any given night. Go to the supermarket and pick out the best and most colorful fruit you can find. Then stop by the floral section and get some nice floral separates. If you have a garden, then, this is the time to show your green-thumb off!&#8221; -Connie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;Read on for a <strong>Cranberry Prosecco Potion<\/strong> sure to get the party started.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HAPPY-HOLIDAYS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-726\" title=\"HAPPY-HOLIDAYS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HAPPY-HOLIDAYS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/connie-centerpiece.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-685 alignleft\" title=\"connie-centerpiece\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/connie-centerpiece-965x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/ap-v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/connie-centerpiece-965x1024.jpg 965w, https:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/ap-v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/connie-centerpiece-600x636.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/ap-v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/connie-centerpiece-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/ap-v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/connie-centerpiece-768x815.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s make: Cranberry Prosecco Potion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>INGREDIENTS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>One Bottle of prosecco<\/p>\n<p>Cranberry juice cocktail<\/p>\n<p>Few cups of crushed ice<\/p>\n<p>mint leaf, and pomegranate<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>DIRECTIONS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>1<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nFill tall jug with crushed ice.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>2<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nPour cranberry juice and procecco over ice.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>3<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nsprinkle with mint leaves and stir in some pomegranate seeds.<span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><br \/>\n<strong>4<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nServe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Happy Holidays. Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>Much Love,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/blog-words6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-869\" title=\"maryla\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/blog-words6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/connie-centerpiece.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baking &amp; Decorating Connoisseur Connie Assante, of &#8220;CUPCAKE SPLURGE,&#8221; gave us her ideal winter centerpiece inspired by the sweet smell of clementines and bright yellow tint of lemons. My favorite part of this design is the smell of the clementines poached by cinnamon seeds. &#8220;Coming from an interior design background, I love creating centerpieces with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/ap-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/ap-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/ap-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/ap-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/ap-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/ap-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/ap-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/ap-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artofperfectionevents.com\/ap-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}