# Ideas for Twelfth Night-themed wall decorations **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2017, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-twelfth-night-themed-wall-decorations/784980 "2017-04-22T12:03:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-twelfth-night-themed-wall-decorations/784980/1 "2017-04-22T12:03:43Z")
For reasons, my wife is on the hook to create some wall decorations that will place people in a Shakespeare-Twelfth Night mood, and she’s hit a creative roadblock. Any thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-twelfth-night-themed-wall-decorations/784980/2 "2017-04-22T12:33:43Z")
All I can think of is yellow cross-garters. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-twelfth-night-themed-wall-decorations/784980/3 "2017-04-22T13:46:36Z")
The major themes of the play are deception and confusion, so how about commedia dell’arte masks representing the main characters? ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-twelfth-night-themed-wall-decorations/784980/4 "2017-04-22T14:08:38Z")
How about: [ul] [li]Ornamental box trees (with people peering from behind)[/li][li]A jester[/li][li]A letter in a counterfeit hand[/li][li]Lyrics from the songs, artfully arranged[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-twelfth-night-themed-wall-decorations/784980/5 "2017-04-22T14:36:29Z")
Second the onramental box tree idea. Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-twelfth-night-themed-wall-decorations/784980/6 "2017-04-22T15:04:57Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > How about: > > [ul] > > [li]Ornamental box trees (with people peering from behind)[/li] > [li]A jester[/li] > [li]A letter in a counterfeit hand[/li] > [li]Lyrics from the songs, artfully arranged[/li] > [/ul] Not sure I understand how she’d visually show a letter in a counterfeit hand. Box trees - great! ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-twelfth-night-themed-wall-decorations/784980/7 "2017-04-22T15:39:04Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Not sure I understand how she’d visually show a letter in a counterfeit hand. Well, she’d just show the letter – its counterfeit nature would be tacitly understood by the knowledgable observer. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-twelfth-night-themed-wall-decorations/784980/8 "2017-04-22T15:55:35Z")
need some fencing epees on the walls?