It can help to have an interesting or attractive tip jar--hats are fine, but pretty baskets, pots, or unusual containers can be more inviting--especially to kids! Circle acts, however, perform for up to 20 minutes or more and usually collect tips only at the end of the act, so it's important to be assertive and creative in order to get properly compensated.
How pretty the baskets of mixed flowers and how touching the jam-pots of wild-flowers and grasses collected by the children.
Right then, the roughest pub in Britain would have been the most welcome sight in the world, but no, this one, the Black Venus, had a blackboard outside announcing it was North Devon Pub of the Year, alongside pretty hanging baskets.
"He was getting to the basket pretty easily on one dribble and spinning and splitting double-teams".
The country's banking system would probably collapse — it's pretty much a basket case already — inflation would rise, and there would be a period of chaos.
Copper anything looks pretty, but a basket like this one does the same thing that the Icebox does ― you can still see all your stuff and you suddenly have a palette-bookcase.
Later that evening when Pastor Mack came knocking with his pretty pink gift basket of childcare sundries, I stared hard at him through the peephole, watching motionless as he stood waiting, hefting the basket back and forth from one rheumatismal hand to the next.
The set could almost be a corner of a country antiques store: a pretty jumble of baskets, barrels, tables and stools.
In the early part of the third quarter, the teams pretty much traded baskets with no real momentum from either team.
