Details, details. (Easy Does It).

Whether you' re preparing for four or four hundred, details make a difference Any guest will feel special with an original place card or napkin ring So could even be given as favors as memories of the event.

Let your china or party theme guide your creativity. Here are a few ideas to spur your imagination. Clockwise from opposite:

Chinese Dinner: For a place card, paint a fortune cookie first with sealer, then with an acrylic gloss color of your choice. Make the "fortune" by writing the guest's name on a strip of paper and inserting it in the cookie. The napkin ring is made with three paper umbrellas painted with acrylic gloss paint and accented with a gold marking pen. They are then grouped on a rope ring.

Rosebud Luncheon: Using the theme of the plate, a rose frame holds the monogram of the guest. Tiny wired porcelain buds are wrapped around a white linen napkin.

Victorian Luncheon: Linn Harris and Gale Hammond attached paper dolls to folded cardboard for stand-up name cards. Napkin rings, which double as favors, are key chains made from antique silver flatware.

Lunch in the Garden: Place cards can easily be made from seed packets placed on a skewer in a small painted flower pot. Be sure to add flowers and butterflies. The napkin ring is made from bright coordinating ribbons and butterflies.

Dress-up Brunch: A collectible shoe by Beverly Feldman was used as a favor and to hold the name card. Colored cardboard was folded into a triangle shape to form a "handbag" napkin ring. The handbag was accented with cord, jewels, and paper flowers.

Mississippi Supper: McCarty pottery and antique majolica create a rustic theme, with a McCarty bird holding a paper branch bearing the guest's name and an ornament of Mississippi clay, handmade by JR Webb Pottery of Madison, holding the napkin.

Special thanks to Reflections of the Modem Garden, Meridian.