Getting Patriotic with Paper

Our store was transformed into a Star Spangled Sandwich Shop with help from my standard players: construction paper, tape, and stuff laying around the house.

{it can't be called hoarding if you USE it, right?}

Pay no attention to the non-staggered stars. Obviously I have never seen a US flag in my 35 years of life, or this detail would've been caught before the glue stick came out.

Scraps of denim (with craft paint stars) and gingham get folded in half 

and strung onto twine for a simple garland.

Everybody traced a star, and that was the only instruction. Creativity can't flow when there are too many directions. None of us are particularly good at following rules anyway....

Note to customers:
if your kid leaves a hair bow on the table and you never come back for it, 
it will get worked into the decor. Thank you for your contribution.

Our lovely manager Carlos is transformed into the Yankee Doodle Dandy he's always dreamt of becoming when he grows up, complete with cotton ball beard.

{the "wreck" is our signature sandwich and I'm helpless to resist a play on words because I am sophisticated}

What we lacked in explosives we made up for in foil.

If you fold it in half and cut strips just like a flower middle it's almost the same as fireworks, especially when taped to the wall surrounding our Lady Liberty Potbelly.