The Anniston Star ● Monday, October 19, 2009
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OFF TO WORK ... WITH A HOLIDAY DECORATOR
Jennie Preston finds inspiration in ordinary things BY BILL EDWARDS bedwards@annistonstar.com
While Halloween and Christmas tend to be the top answers in the category “Name a holiday you decorate the house for,” practically any season is good for festively transforming a room, as far as Jennie Preston is concerned. The Anniston business owner goes off to work in that side job, in addition to her “day job” as longtime owner of the Rabbit Hutch gift shop on Noble Street. She does the home decorating work in five or six different places a year, she estimated, and in so doing displays a knack for turning simple items into an eye-catching arrangement. It’s not something just anyone can do — at least that’s been Preston’s experience. “People say all the time, ‘No, no, no, you don’t understand, I can’t make my mantle like that,’” she said. When she goes to a client’s house, Preston surveys the scene and objects in it with a trained eye. “If you just look around their home, you can take things not in the normal context” and decorate with them, she said, offering as an example an overhead kitchen pot rack that could anchor hanging objects or draping materials. Please see WORK ❙ Page 3
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Jennie Preston owns the Rabbit Hutch in Anniston and also does home decorating work several times a year.
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