Wire Fox Terrier Playing Cards
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Antique playing card set with terriers. Bought in a charity shop.
Claire
Fisher Price 50th Anniversary Toy Releases
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These updated, rereleases of Fisher Price's highly successful Little People range to celebrate 50 years of the brand are a kitsch toy collector's dream. I think everyone had something from this range, the school house, the three-tier garage with the ramp & lift, the family house. These designs are older than the 1980's versions I had, but I still would love to own these myself. The barn is my top pick, love the font used on the roof. My son us getting the 2009 version of the garage, hopefully he'll have lots of nice memories of the Fisher Price brand like I do.
Claire
Kitsch Suburbia #2
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Another house near our own, this little gate keeper cottage could easily be a giant music box. It's totally twee, and with it's giant pointy tree & pair of kittens to ward off nosy folks like myself, it just had to make it into the blog under Kitsch Suburbia. (The kittens are perched on the wall)
Claire
Giant Candy Canes & Clip-on Birds
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This year our tree is adorned with lots of little glittery clip-on birds. Mostly all new, but two pheasents are original, old fashioned versions. I also have lots of candy canes on there, ranging from foot long glittery ones, to little plastic Tesco value ones. Tried to make the tree kitsch, with a string of vintage fairy lights, along with light up bluebirds & red flowers.
Claire
Dr Seuss Cat in the Hat Christmas Tree
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Our proper tree will go up on the first of December, but my son helped me decorate the little 3ft tree for his room today. It's a turquoise tree with red & white decorations, the colour scheme of the Dr Seuss Cat in the Hat books. I found some tiny Cat in the Hat ornaments on US Ebay last year when we first did the Dr Seuss tree.
I love the illustrations from the books, so a themed tree seemed like an interesting idea to try out. This is the tree's second year.
I love the illustrations from the books, so a themed tree seemed like an interesting idea to try out. This is the tree's second year.
Claire
Garish Velvet Flock, The Great UnKitsched
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Here's a little touch of tackiness you all might have in your home, without even realising it. Popular, current interior decor seems to have plastered everything in flock in the past few years. In fact in 2008, it appeared as if Next Home couldn't make anything without a flock design on it.
So has flock become so commonplace that it has unkitsched itself? Flock patterns being kitsch come about from the whole "grandeur out of place" theme. Granny's little sitting room bedecked with a thick velvet red flock wallpaper, or the local Chinese restaurant's fancy gold & green flock walls. Because I always have to be a quirky wee bugger, I haven't much flock in our house due to it's current trendiness, but we do have a couple of lampshades.
So has flock become so commonplace that it has unkitsched itself? Flock patterns being kitsch come about from the whole "grandeur out of place" theme. Granny's little sitting room bedecked with a thick velvet red flock wallpaper, or the local Chinese restaurant's fancy gold & green flock walls. Because I always have to be a quirky wee bugger, I haven't much flock in our house due to it's current trendiness, but we do have a couple of lampshades.
Claire
Frankenstein Family Portrait
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Tattoo kitsch again & a painting I did myself, but plagarised from a tattoo in a magazine, so I can't take the credit! It was a design I thought about getting myself after our son was born, but what with the tattoo being permanent & my son not being tiny like in the design for long, I think I made the right decision to simply hang it on my wall instead. Took one night to copy from the magazine & finish, inbetween night feeds when our son was a few weeks old.
Claire
Old School 3D Taxidermy
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This week in the UK, Channel 4 has been showing some 3D programmes & films using the old red & blue glasses. I've always loved gimmicks like this, so got a few pairs for us. I found an iPhone app for making your own 3D images. It's bloody tricky, but I'm going to keep practicing. Here's my taxidermy fox in slightly blurry 3D.
Claire
