Arabian Fella Bosson Wall Plaque

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Ahhhh the Bosson Wall-Faces. The most terrifying of all your granny or aunty's ornaments.

My Gran had a sailor that I remember being periodically spooked by, but I know she had some others I cannot recall.

These go for, on average, £15-£20 on eBay, which again is a bit above my usual kitsch purchase price. I managed to get this Arabian Man for 20p at a car boot sale though.

I would love to create a creepy corner of the room with a dozen of these characters peering down at us.

Claire

I'm not the only Crazy in the Household

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Proof I'm not the only one in this marriage who collects old things, here is a small part of my husband's Star Wars collection.
He collects the original 1970s-1980s toys, this bit I like because of it's shop display style backer.

I shouldn't complain about his love of Star Wars. I love it myself & can hold my own at Star Wars Trivial Pursuit against him; plus it makes buying Christmas presents for him easy, anything with Boba Fett on it!

Claire

Tattoo Kitsch of Terry Bradley

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Local Northern Irish artist Terry Bradley's dockers & pin-up girls have made old school tattoo images accessible for those who before might have thought tatts just meant tack.

My husband & I are both heavily tattooed with old school designs (swallows, dice, skull & crossbones, sharks, ships) so Bradley's work was an easy choice for a Christmas present for us last year from my parents-in-law.

I have very few things hanging on our walls that I wouldn't tag as 'ugly art', this is one of them. We have two, but this is my favourite. Sailortown Hero.

Claire

Blinging Mirrored Dresser

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Landlady, I love you. Take a peak at the dresser in our bedroom. We took a look at the still attached, vintage store price tag & almost fainted.

Classy kitsch here, nice vintage design rather than my typical ugly taste.

It also had a huge mirror behind it, so there was no escaping your reflection in the bedroom. Two weeks ago I came home to find the cord holding it had snapped & it had crashed down smashing part of the table top of the dresser.
Sad day for furniture.

Claire

Halloween Tree

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Here is the whole tree, mentioned yesterday. A black, plastic Woolworths Xmas tree, obviously intended to be a classy item at the correct season, adorned with skull tinsel & the knitted figures.

The skeleton tinsel is a Halloween item, but without the tree I'm not sure where the gods of holiday decoration expect us to drape it.

Lovely Tim Burtonesque stripey star on top completes the odd picture.

I'm still not entirely sure if it's too Christmassy, maybe decorating a big fake potted plant would be better, but for this Halloween it's staying up.

Claire

Kitsch Knitted Halloween Toys

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It's the 1st of October, so now I'm a 'grown up' with my own home, I can decorate it up to high hell with as much Spookcore as I desire!

In the coming weeks I'll reveal all my Halloween goodies, but today it's the turn of my hand-knitted hanging decorations.

We have a mini-black Christmas tree which I have previously used at the appropriate time of year as a goth Xmas tree, but this Halloween I'm just putting it up anyway to hang things on.
It's not a new feature of the living room to have fairy lights on the go, so it doesn't look as mental as it would in a normal house! Photos in the next few days.

The knitted figures were bought in the Oxfam shop in Bangor, N.Ireland. Seasonal knitted items appear through out the year, chicks at Easter, puddings at Christmas, and these were just too cool to not buy all three.

They were bought two years ago, but may well appear in the shop again if anyone is looking to buy them.

The ghost with the knitted ball & chain is my personal favourite.

Claire