December 19, 2006
holiday partay

We had our anual holdiay party last night along with employees from Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie. There were so many festive activities, everyone had a great time. The photo above is of the sled filled with toys we collected for a toy drive to benefit Philadelphia children. Each department was assigned an age group to buy toys for, and then one group donated coats and mittens and such instead of toys.

The festive activities included virtual bobsledding...

Arctic arcade games...

A candy bar...

Here one of our Free People merchandisers enjoys some rope licorice...

There were two photo booths!

One in color and one black and white...

There were other cool activities I failed to get good pictures of. Maybe some other employees will send me theirs and I can post more. There was a faux ice skating rink! There was a special floor set down and sprayed with some sort of oil. Ice skates to wear were set up along the perimeter on one side, and a landscape of tinsel trees on the other. It was pretty crazy that the skates really worked on this floor. There was also a tarot card reader and pool tables...
The photo above is the crowd in the karaoke room. This was during an amazing rendition of "Bennie and the Jets" performed by one of the Urban boys.

And of course I had to post some of the festive attire. Miss Sarah of the Free People display team glammed up her heels with some serious glitter and jewels.



Comments
do you guys have it at the navy yard?!!
i'm jealous-the stores just have a dinner at one of the manager's houses!
Posted by kayte on December 19, 2006 8:14 PM
That sounds AWESOME. Working for Free People is my dream job. That and owning a cookie shop. And being a tightrope walker, ...or a dinosaur.
Anyway, Happy Holidays and Merry Blogging!
Posted by sarah pants on December 19, 2006 10:04 PM
i would totally go for the dinosaur!
Posted by Anonymous on December 20, 2006 12:50 PM
Awesome. My 3 favorite stores. I'll bet there were some FINE-dressed people there! ;)
Posted by Lara on December 21, 2006 1:17 PM
http://flickr.com/photos/janellep/sets/72157594427617088/
more holiday party pics!
Posted by janelle on December 21, 2006 8:56 PM
Thanks Janelle! You got way better photos than I did!
Posted by fpgirl on December 21, 2006 10:57 PM
where was this place with photo booth? im a sucker for those
Posted by hayley on January 6, 2007 9:31 AM