{"id":2910,"date":"2012-06-05T11:40:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T03:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingfireflies.com\/blog\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2012-06-08T16:07:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T20:07:52","slug":"best-dressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/best-dressed\/","title":{"rendered":"best dressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We must admit, we were thrilled to hear that we were named Best Gift Shop by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hourdetroit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hour Detroit<\/a> voters for the 6th year in a row!\u00a0 We truly have the BEST firefly fans &amp; are honored to carry this fantastic title.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-best-of-cover2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2914\" title=\"2012 Best of Detroit magazine cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-best-of-cover2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-best-of-cover2.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-best-of-cover2-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love the circus theme they chose for this year&#8217;s edition &amp; wanted to use the cover image in a creative way.\u00a0 Since the talented Tessa will only be with us a few more weeks before she heads home to Germany, I asked her to partner with me to make the display for our Berkley store window.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/best-of-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2913\" title=\"best of  detroit store window\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/best-of-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1728\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/best-of-12.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/best-of-12-104x300.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We both went to town styling our paper dresses &amp; I was delightfully surprised how fantastic they turned out.\u00a0 It&#8217;s funny because neither of us had defined ideas or drawings how our dresses would look, but after playing around a bit ~ it all came together!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-tessa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2915\" title=\"best of detroit paper dress\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-tessa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-tessa.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-tessa-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been wonderful having Tessa be my partner in creativity this past school year.\u00a0 Considering she&#8217;s only 16, I gotta feeling she&#8217;s got quite the bright future ahead of her.\u00a0 Putting together display windows won&#8217;t be the same without her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-best-of-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2911\" title=\"Best of Detroit Window Display with Paper Dresses\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-best-of-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-best-of-2.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-best-of-2-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t it look like these gals are ready to have a grand time at the Best of Detroit Party?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again for all your votes firefly fans.\u00a0 You truly made our day a LOT brighter!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Like to see what goes on behind the scenes at catching fireflies<\/strong><strong>?\u00a0 Then sign up to receive snazzy blog posts like these in your email inbox <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/catchingfireflies.com\/blog\/get-the-latest-updates-in-your-inbox\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"flaresmith\" class=\"feedflare\"><script src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~s\/http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/catchingfireflies\/TyNo?i=http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/best-dressed\/\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div><div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/best-dressed\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 944859;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We must admit, we were thrilled to hear that we were named Best Gift Shop by Hour Detroit voters for the 6th year in a row!\u00a0 We truly have the BEST firefly fans &amp; 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