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"I think Christmas should be whimsical," says floral designer Cameron Patrick Neth, who wraps packages so artfully that the gift inside simply doesn't matter. "I decorated packages with dried roses, gilded thistle and sticks, wired ribbons and ornaments. All of a sudden, people were asking to buy my empty boxes," he says.

     The 24-year-old opened his own floral and interior design business when he was just 17 and approaches all of his designs with an artistic eye and attention to detail--whether he's fashioning a centerpiece or dreaming up trimmings for an entire home.

     Precocious in just about every way, Cameron bought his first home, a 1789 Tudor, when he was just 21. Located in his hometown of Brownsville, Pennsylvania, the house needed an interior makeover when he bought it, but Cameron wasn't about to let it slip through his fingers. "It was my favorite house even when I was little," he says, adding that as a child he often asked his grandmother to drive by it when they were out for a spin.      Though Christmas is now his busiest season, Cameron still decks his own halls with his favorite holiday trappings. His bauble-packed tree appears to have already made the trip to bountiful; the curly-toed stockings he designs kick up their fanciful heels on the stairwell. At Cameron's house, more is always merrier, so a gilded focal point glows in every room.

     The season also gives Cameron the chance to dream up all sorts of different visions of holiday glitz for his clients.

     "Making other people's Christmas is what makes the holiday wonderful for me," he says. "I love sharing my joy of Christmas with others.