Creative Exchange Presentation: Creative Holiday Decorating- Laurie Nelson

12/09/09

Sunset River Marketplace’s Creative Exchange series continues with its last series of 2009. The workshop is entitled Creative Holiday Decorating. Laurie Nelson will demonstrate how to create holiday pieces for your home by adding your personal touch. It will be held on Wednesday, December 9 from 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. The fee for the event is $5 and includes lunch. RSVPs are required due to limited seating.

Laurie has been in interior designing and decorating for 18 years. As a native of Charlottesville, Va., she notes that the Jeffersonian architecture and interiors of the area made quite an impression early on. Her family has also been a great influence. Laurie accompanied her grandmother on antique-buying trips as a young girl. Her father, a formal faculty member at the University of Virginia, who would design the family’s homes using materials saved from older, historic homes while her mother did freelance interior decorating and home furnishing.

Laurie later studied at the School of Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and was a merchandiser for a major furniture line, working on individual residences and showcase homes to include layouts for popular style and design publications such as Southern Living and Southern Accents.

Laurie currently offers complete interior design to furnishings for the entire home for customers living in the coastal area. Harris and Nelson Designs appeals from traditional to eclectic. The designs will run the gamut from "coastal," "city look," and "shabby chic,’ to "West Indies."

This is the twelfth event of the second year of the Creative Exchange, series - an interactive monthly event at Sunset River Marketplace, located at 10283 Beach Drive (NC 179), Calabash, N.C. R.S.V.P. by calling the gallery at 910.575.5999.

Sunset River Marketplace showcases work by approximately 200 North and South Carolina artists, and houses some 10,000 square feet of oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, mixed media, art glass, pottery, sculpture, turned and carved wood and artisan-created jewelry. There are two onsite kilns used by students in the ongoing pottery classes offered by the gallery. A custom framing department is available. There are also classes in oil painting, watercolor, pastel and figure drawing.

If you would like to be on the mailing list for the Creative Exchange series, call the gallery at 910.575.5999 or send an email to lassiter@sunsetrivermarketplace.com with "Creative Exchange Mailing List" in the subject line.

CREATIVE EXCHANGE CONTACT: Debbie Bissette, 910.575.5999 or

GALLERY CONTACT: Ginny Lassiter, 910.575.5999