My daughter's bat mitzvah is coming up in five months and I've been looking for decorations. I started by doing searches in Flickr, the photo site for parties and bat mitzvahs. I also did Google images searches. I also roamed the streets of downtown Chicago during my lunch hour looking at store window displays. That's where I found the most inspiration.
Nothing scares me more than having one of those bat mitzvah parties with large, neon colored table centerpieces of a soccer ball or movie clip. I mean really... YUCK. That said -- my 12-year-old just loves the 80s neon colors and is all about big and loud. So, how do we come to some agreement?
Last week I was out on State Street in Chicago and wandered into the new Anthroplogie retail store. Anthropologie is one of my favorite places to look around. I love the sense of design in the housewares, clothing and I especially love their store displays. They are so creative and whimsical.
At the Chicago store, there was a display made of plastic bottles that had been cut and spray painted to look like flowers. They were tied to string and hanging from the ceiling over a large table of housewares. Wow. Just beautiful.
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