Thursday 22nd November 2012.
By Amy Morgan
This week at the boutique we have been very busy with our christmas window display!
Natalie, Deena and i, all got together at the beginning of the week brainstormed about ideas we had for our christmas display. Several cups of tea later and we had our EBTG spin on Holly and Ivy ready!
We decided upon having two different windows, one as 'Homely Holly' which has the warm effects of christmas, with festive reds, greens and golds, and the other as 'Icy Ivy' which portrays the winter wonderland that christmas typically falls in to, with white and silver.
The day began with lots of prep, threading chains, cutting out shapes and a few silly moments -Natalie, looking at you with your wig wearing!! The Festival theatre, in Chichester, were very helpful and provided us with some beautiful props for our display, and by the afternoon we had finished!
See below for images on how 'Icy Ivy' and 'Homely Holly' came to be.
The story of 'Icy Ivy'
We hung up star christmas lights and added our snowflake stickers to the window.
We added antique chairs for the centrepiece and decorated with real branches.
One of the birdcages from the theatre, filled with silver pinecones!
Finally, we hung up our mirrored 'shards' for the back drop.
Here's how it looks from the inside.
And here's how it looks from the outside...
The story of 'Homely Holly'
Our second window display begun by hanging up strands of Ivy along our window edges.
We used these amazing birdcages from the Festival Theatre. We wanted our 'Holly' window to be warm, homely and welcoming.
We hung the birdcages and filled each with an accessory, tiara, shoe or bag. (All of which are available in store!)
We then added the astroturf for our flooring, added wrapped christmas gifts, fairy lights and sprinkled autumnal leaves for our finishing touch!
The Chichester Observer (our local newspaper)will be coming round to judge the windows tomorrow so stay tuned for the results...
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