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
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.
Claire
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.
Claire
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
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
They are celebrating their 125th year, & as I've blogged before, they are celebrating with beautiful retro branding of their grocery items.
They've got the vintage look so right, not a tacky reproduction of what they imagine retro to be, but genuine wonderful illustration.
I was delighted to see their Christmas gift range include a lot of the retro branded kitchen items, but disappointed my local medium sized store didn't have any wrapping paper or cards in that style.
Dandering around the store however, I found this colourful dolly mixture wrapping paper. It's photograph yumminess has become the Christmas wrapping paper for us this year.
I plan on Christmas being kitsch of course. To do this I'm going to dress the tree how we used to when I was a child. Mismatched ornaments, different kinds of fairy lights, and I think the paper will go wonderfully with the assault on the eyes!
Claire
Currently resides at my parents' but plan on asking Mum can I take it to the kitsch house village that's building up at mine.
Claire
It's another of my "is this TOO ugly?" purchases, but i'm not allowed to get rid of it.
I'd love to know in what serious interior decoration this would look good. His golden 'tache is my favourite feature.
Claire
As heard on BBC Radio 6's Lauren Laverne Show.
