Christmas Decorating Elves

Its that time of the year, time to think about the holidays and plan ahead.  Why not make your holidays more enjoyable this year by having some help with your Christmas decorating.

Be your own Holiday Design Director! Ever think how nice it would be having experienced extra hands to help you install your holiday decorations? Ever wonder, how much quicker you could get it all done with just a little extra help? If so, our Holiday Installation services are for you. With Holiday Installers on site to assist you with your holiday decorating you will have more time to spend with family and friends as well as be more relaxed at the beginning of the holiday season.


Our friendly and professional installers will help you get your holiday decorating done in less time with less stress than doing it yourself. Discover the holiday secret of many busy women, their own personal Christmas elves.

Sound Familiar?
"Does it take you a week or more to decorate your house?"

"Do you find yourself exhausted before the holiday season begins?"
"Do you have a large tree that is difficult for you to decorate?"
"Is it hard getting your husband to drag out all the holiday decorations when you want them?"
"Does your office just need an extra set of hands to decorate your tree?"

If you answered yes to any of these questions or you are just remembering how painful doing it all during the holidays is, you need to call today and book your own decorating design team.

How Does It Work?
You give the Christmas Holiday Specialists at CHS Creative Productions a call and let us know what you need help with. We will work with you to determine how many installers you will need and for how long. Its that EASY!

You can also decide if you want to drag everything out and go through it ahead of time ready for the installers or if you want them to drag it all out for you. Either way once your decor is out and ready to go, you instruct the designers on what to put where and how you want it. If you want to mix it up a little bit our installers will be more than happy to offer suggestions on new placement or ways to change your decor from what you usually do.

The installers will come armed with work bags with "tools of the trade" extra lights to purchase should you need more. You provide the ladders, if you don't have ladders we can bring those for an additional fee. We can also come back and take it all down!

It's that easy, call today and check one more thing off your Christmas to do list!

Red, Black & Silver Holiday Decorations~

Still catching up on some Holiday Decorating photos. This was a fun combination of colors, red, black and silver a little different from all the traditional colors that were requested for 2010.

Extra Large swags for the elevator lobby.

One of my favorite ornaments this season was this black damask looking and bejeweled ornament. In the right setting this ornament would look good as decor for a party..........hmmmm it would look great with all the damask fabric I just got. I'll have to file that away in my memory.

Somehow managed to get a photo without the awesome packages under the tree, these things happen I guess. Still not happy about that one.

Behind The Scenes Holiday Decorating~ Part 2

Behind the Scenes Part 2. (part 1 here) Behind the scenes is always interesting, we work wherever there is room.

Pop Up tents are especially nice when working outdoors!

Just some of my awesome team!!!

Flying trees................

Me supervising, just can't take anyones word that its installed ok, I have to have a look myself.

Now they are re-fixing it, because things like trees on buildings just make me nervous.

All done and ready to come down.

Ready to go up.

Some locations are always just more difficult than others, one to hold, one to watch and one to tighten.

One down and two more to go.

Yeah its up, that sucker wreath is heavy!

Setting up camp again.

Thats right camping chairs LOL.

Lovely shade from the pop up, our dear friend on installations.

Los Angeles Zoo Holiday Decorations~

This year we had the privelege of decorating the Los Angeles Zoo again and we had a great time doing it. This is the front entrance which is kind of hard to photograph because it is sooooo BIGGGG! But I think I did ok.

We did a lot of decorating at the Zoo but with holiday decorating the photos can start to get redundant because the decor is all the same just in different places. It doesn't look like it but the wreath is BIGGG it is 7 ft. round and it still doesnt look that big on the front entrance. I got a crick in my neck taking these photos, not to mention bumping into a few people while I was walking and looking up. But luckily no one was hurt in the taking of these photos, which is great. Since you see I am the clumsiest of all the CHS employees, I am the one who always needs the First Aid kit. Did I mention how BIGGGGG this entrance is?? The Los Angeles Zoo is the only outside installation we do. I mean who could resist right? Its the Zoo, animals, children and Christmas sheesh {oops didn't mean to use the word Christmas that is a no no in my business}. Plus we are spoiled we like to be inside.Doing outside installations is COLD! We were lucky with the Zoo installation this year, it threatened to rain all day, but held off thank goodness! Did I mention we are spoiled we don't like to be COLD or wet. Starting work at the break of dawn and being wet and cold is just not fun and while we take our job seriously we like to have fun during installations. We installed a lot of wreaths and swags at the Zoo and NO we DO NOT decorate in the animal pens. We only decorate at the front entrance and in the marketplace. So if my insurance carrier is reading this I want to re-iterate " WE DO NOT DECORATE THE ANIMAL PENS!"

Ouch see those bushes/ferns to the left of the picture, I do believe they are pre-historic attack bushes. They have got to be the meanest, prickliest, sharpest bushes/ferns I have ever had the pleasure of walking through. They are nasty, sharp, prickly and painful.

Ahhh, the ATM tree, my nemisis. For 45 days I am thankful not get a phone call that this tree has blown off the building. I know that it is strapped down, weighted down and all kinds of tied down but that still doesn't make me rest any easier until we have taken it down. It especially doesn't help when I hear a man say, large trees fall over all the time here so if it gets windy enough that tree doesn't stand a chance. Sheesh the things a man says so non-chalantly.

{Side note: it stayed up, of course because we are professional decorators}


And speaking of men and the things they say, see that garland below now there is another story. For some reason this garland was a pain and that just happens. My job on installations is to ask a lot of questions, what are you doing, why is it taking so long, is everything okay? Thats my job to keep installations on track and on-budget and to trouble shoot any problems. Well that garland seemed to be taking longer than I THOUGHT IT SHOULD, so I asked "whats the problem?" and was answered with a full range of explectives, which I won't share with you. So I walked away quietly, humbly and quickly because you see sometimes things don't always go the way I THINK THEY SHOULD and let my guys get on with it. And as I am walking away I hear another man say "She must be the coordinator." ah funny men always have something to say.

What takes 1,500 + hours to assemble?

Holiday decor at Commerce Casino!
Our biggest job so far and we knocked it out of the park! If I do say so myself I was impressed by how great it all came together and it would have never been possible without my great staff of holiday helpers. They call Commerce Casino the "Friendliest Casino" and they are!!!!!!!! It was an absolute pleasure working there and we are looking forward to 2009 holiday decorating.

I used a color palette of purples, golds and blue that matched the existing decor of the Casino and it looked Fabulous! I am so proud of my team for creating my vision. I must say I had looked at so much purple, gold and blue that I was getting worried I had made a HUGE mistake, but to my relief it worked.