Inspiration from @Anthropologie @AventuraMall

I was over in the mall checking out cell phone plans and wandered into Anthropologie.
It's not just a store. It's a museum. ;)

This backdrop is made of 70,00 paperclips. The sales associate told me that they contract two artists to do all of the original art displays in the store.  I thought this one was pretty innovative.  It reminded me of a cascading water wall.  

Journal Making at GapKids! #CleverGap #ShineOn

 

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It was great making my way down to the Coco Walk last Saturday for journal writing at GapKids.  I hopped a bus (and another bus and a train and a bus), y'all! I told myself I would make it down to Miami proper, and boy, did I!

I have happy memories of the Coco Walk from when I visited Miami during my birthday weekend about ten years or so ago.  (Could it possibly have been that long ago?)  Time flies.  My friend Mike and I had so much fun! We were buddies from the Tanglewood Music Center.  Good times.  Mike Kearns, where are you?

So, shining on, I made my way upstairs to the GapKids and found some perfectly sized kids' activity tables and several little ones working steadily on their journals.  :)  I explained to the very kind crew that I was a blogger from the Clever Girls Collective and not some weirdo randomly taking pictures of children crafting, haha.  But, as a teacher and discerning crafter, I had to analyze the instructions, usefulness, cuteness, and overall quality of the projects.