Posts Tagged ‘Window Displays’

V.I.F.F. Window Display Competition Masterpiece

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

My VIFF Window!!

As many of you know, we are in the midst of the Vancouver International Film Festival! But what many of you might not know, is that V.I.F.F. holds a window display competition called “Window On the World Window Display Competition”. The guidelines are pretty simple: create a window display that highlights and brings attention to V.I.F.F. When I heard about the competition and what the prize was (2 tickets to the closing gala) I immediately said “I NEED to do that!”

I am pretty obsessed with film and so any chance I get to exploit my ridiculously large movie collection and play with old film roles I am in! So I packed up my movies, grabbed my old movie tickets (yes I have a collection of every movie I have seen in the past 4 years…and yes it takes up a lot of space in my wallet), bagged up some popcorn and nibs and hawled it up to the store. Then the fun part came…lugging a like 100 pound leather couch from the basement into the window. In the rain. And then trying to fit it through the door that was to small for it. Lets just say if it wasn’t for the brawney buff angel from the liquor store across the street who came and helped us 3 wimpy girls, no one would be getting in the store for awhile. So for the next 4 hours, we placed some props, hooked up some tvs, played dvds and made a cd chandelier. Then at about 12 oclock, the masterpiece was finished.

The window has been up for a while and there have been some minor changes (for example Back to the Future and Cars are now playing on the TV instead of The Sound of Music and Finding Nemo) but the competition is still open until the 15th! So if you love my window, and want to fufill my dreams of going to a big hollywood movie event then please go to http://www.viff.org/festival/a-window-on-the-world-voting/ and vote!

Thanks!

-B

White Wedding (No not that Sweet 80′s song)

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Now you probably feel like you know us pretty well (you know we love Conan, peanut butter, movies and youtube) but I think we have failed to mention one giant thing that Kathryn and I have in common: We both attend the same fashion school! Although I am about a semester ahead of Kathryn [I'm a senior so she has to do what I tell her to do at school :) ] we both have taken a Visual Display class. However, being the senior that I am, I am currently taking a second Visual Display class that is more focused on window displays! So you can imagine how happy and excited I felt when Shanda told us we would have free reign on the window display this month! All she told us was that it was to be wedding themed and that we had a very small budget :) As soon as she said it I blurted out “Hunter Boot Marriage!” and instantly my Original Tall White Hunters popped into my head, and then slowly the picture dissolved into a wedding scene complete with a bow tie groom, “crazy” coloured brides maid, stock black grooms men and kids boot as the flower girl and ring bearer. Yes the image in my head was glorious and for the next 3 weeks I couldn’t help but bug Kathryn with all the things we could add to it! (lets just say there were many late night emails to each other) It went a little something like this:

Brianna: oh!!!! Lets add rice! Like how they through rice when you come out the church!

Brianna: oh!!!! Lets make little bouquets for the brides maids!

Brianna: oh!!!! Lets make a little pillow with a giant diamond on it to be the ring for the ring bearer!

Brianna: oh!!!! Lets make an arch of all white paper flowers and one bright coloured flower because Kathryn surprise, repetition and colour are 3 of the 12 attention getting devices! (shout out to my lovely teacher Cara for teaching me that!)

Kathryn: Okay , Good ideas B.

White Wedding

Now I know Kathryn won’t be happy that I am making her out to seem like she didn’t contribute much but oh contrair! Kathryn came up with the idea for the “your invited” slogan and she spent a few hours a day making those beautiful little tissue paper flowers! (I would have helped but we discovered I have a bad cutting issue where I can’t cut in a circle so all mine looked terrible!) She also slaved away on the ladder hanging the umbrellas and the arch! I think overall our first window went pretty perfectly! We managed to have a busy selling day and still make the window look great! I am really proud of the window and I confident in saying Kathryn is proud of the window too!

If you guys have walked by the window, let us know what you thought! If you haven’t seen it yet i suggest getting your boot down to West 4th and check it out!

Brianna