| If you thought you had trouble finding a suitable | | | | Maybe because lighthouses are so rare in this day |
| anniversary gift for last year's offering, wait until you | | | | and age. If you go down to South Jersey, you'll find |
| see what the modern gift idea is for anniversary | | | | many license plates with a very famous Jersey |
| number 27. You're going to find yourself wishing for | | | | lighthouse on them. Well, guess what? You can get a |
| your 30th to come around very soon. Unfortunately, | | | | very nice sculpture of a lighthouse from a guy by the |
| you have a few years to go until you get there. So, | | | | name of Paul McTaggart on the Internet. The |
| what's so awfully hard about finding an anniversary | | | | sculpture will run you about $45. To be technical, it's a |
| gift for this year's occasion? Did you ever try to find | | | | lighthouse sconce. It's made so you can actually put |
| a sculpture that didn't look like something out of A | | | | other pieces on the top of it. The designer |
| Midsummer Night's Dream?That's right my friend. This | | | | recommends seashells or a candle. Either will do |
| year you have to drag yourself out of the house, go | | | | nicely.Okay, so it doesn't have the awe-inspiring |
| down to one of those specialty stores and try to | | | | beauty of those ancient pieces, but at least you can |
| find a sculpture that doesn't want to make you think | | | | put it in your home without people looking at it and |
| of little dancing pixies or cupid with his bow and | | | | trying to figure out what it is. Of course, if you've |
| arrow.The truth is, if you look at most sculptures, | | | | decided that you really do want something a little |
| you will find that many of them are quite abstract. | | | | more majestic, there is something that you can get |
| It's hard to find something that even remotely looks | | | | that you don't have to hide in the drawer and comes |
| like it belongs in the 21st century and trying to find | | | | with clothes. At a place on the Internet called |
| something with clothing is almost impossible. Then of | | | | Eleganza's, where they specialize in sculptures, you |
| course, there is the problem with having to display | | | | can pick up a really nice ancient Roman Chariot Race |
| this thing somewhere in your home where other | | | | sculpture. You really have to see this thing. It's very |
| people can see it. If your spouse stuffs it in a drawer | | | | well made and something that you can be proud to |
| somewhere, you know you're going to be hurt. So | | | | put on display.The truth is, if you look hard enough, |
| what do you do? Well, after combing the online and | | | | you can find sculptures that are both beautiful and |
| offline world, we've actually found a few sculpture | | | | tasteful. Not everything out there looks like it came |
| ideas that won't make you want to cringe and hide | | | | out of Caligula's house of horrors.Michael Russell |
| under a rock somewhere.Today, for whatever | | | | Your Independent guide to anniversary-gifts-guides. |
| reason, everybody is into the lighthouse scene. | | | | |