real parties: at the office

I'm curious... how do you celebrate birthdays in your office?  The Paper Source blog offered some great ideas this week  about how to decorate a cubicle or office and make a co-worker feel special.

{images via p.s.}

My office on the other hand, prefers to celebrate with what we affectionately call 'the table of food'.  Just as it makes sense for the creative minds at Paper Source to create beautiful decorations, I work for a major grocery retailer, so food and food packaging always get the focus.  We've even gone so far as to have food themes... like the purse cake below, homemade for our fashionista boss.  It's completely excessive, but never fails to make us feel loved and appreciated.  And isn't that what birthdays are all about?

{images copyright bg 2009}