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August 25, 1996|By Sheridan Chaney. Appropriate to the Tribune.
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My Secret Garden is a little girl's fantasy and a mother's dream.
Tucked central an Algonquin storefront, My Secret Garden offers added than 130 affair gowns for a dress-up extravaganza. The garden's guests, girls ages 3-12, can absorb an hour amid the racks of frocks, hats, gloves and adorned accessories transforming themselves into oh-so-refined little ladies activity to their own academic tea party.
When the costuming is complete, the guests accumulate in My Secret Garden's butterfly or annual apartment for a sit-down tea party.
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"The girls can use their imaginations and be annihilation they want," said Lecia Szuberla of Crystal Lake, co-owner with Tammy Sittinger of Algonquin.
Sittinger's 7-year-old daughter, Samantha, provided the afflatus for My Secret Garden. No amount how abounding dolls there were in the toy box, Sam and her accompany would rather comedy dress-up, Sittinger explained. With that in mind, the ally opened My Secret Garden in December.
The basal Tiny Tiara Tea Affair amalgamation ($7 per child) includes an hour of dress-up time, a half-hour tea affair with treats and a headpiece for the guests to booty home. The Glamor Tiara ($9) adds makeup. La Petite Fleur Tea Affair ($11) additionally provides a admirable bag for anniversary adolescent and appropriate allowance for the altogether girl. The Magical Garden Tea Affair ($13) offers glamor makeup, including beam beard spray, a admirable bag and a photograph of the bedfellow of honor.
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On one contempo Friday evening, Anna Tully of Elgin took a dozen of her abutting accompany for a altered anniversary of her 7th birthday.
"You don't accept to do anything, which is nice," said mother Terri Tully, zipping one of the guests into a bells gown. "This is different, and the kids absolutely adulation it. You could never accept this abundant being at home."
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My Secret Garden
104 S. Main St., Algonquin
Hours: Thursday through Sunday by arrangement only.
["400px"]Phone: 847-854-6094.
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