Our Lady of Grace Candle

Another piece of religious kitsch. I'm not Catholic so I don't know the form, but I think these candles adorned with various saints are lit when you want to pray to the person in question.

£2 for a wee cheapy shop in Yorkgate.

Claire

Halloween Decoration Begins! Properly Creepy Picture

I can't remember the name of this famous painting of a farmer & his wife, the original of which spooks me enough.

It won't surprise you that I tend to go overboard with festive decorating, Halloween is a entire house-dressing occassion which lasts all through October.

Asda the past few years have been a surprising source of American style (eg. Excessive) Halloween house decor.

Last year I got one of these holographic pictures in faux gothic frame of a Napolean figure. Got this one today again in Asda for £2.
I'll be posting all my Halloween decorations over the coming weeks; once I start putting them up (tomorrow!).

Claire

Naked Woodland Nymph, Every Home Used to Have One

70's mass produced art at it's finest. I'm assuming this unsigned, giant, A2 masterpiece is by nudey-gypsy daubber J H Lynch.

Another charity shop find, she takes up a whole wall of my ugly art dining room.

Claire

Too Gross, Even for Me - Horned Barometer

Kitsch can be ugly & creepy, but this barometer is just too weird for a place amongst my oddities.

Why does it have horns?

This outright spooky thing is one of my Dad's sporadic bizarre buys. One of his famous purchases was a coconut whittled to the shape of a monkey. Not one of my mother's favourite Christmas presents...

Claire

Homemade Ridgway Homemaker Pots

Ta-da!

Claire

DIY Ridgeway Homemaker

Using my shakey hand skills to draw up my own Ridgway Homemaker flower pots for the kitchen.
Some nice, fake plants in there & it'll really add to the 60s vibe.

Claire

Hideous Electric Blue Stag

Can't remember what search on eBay found this fella, but here's my electric blue velvet, Paperchase stag. Pink glitter horns & unexplained fucshia boa.

Claire

Divorcee Green is Gone

Okay, after a deserved stern talking to I was sent to Homebase for a roller, as I didn't realise you don't use a paint brush on a wall.
I decided to get another green mixed to replace Slimer & got it right this time.

Nice, clinical hospital green. The kind of green kitchen units were made of in the sixties.

Will need another coat to cover some patches where the Slimer colour is oozing through, but I'm happy (not too sure about husband yet, he's away playing guitar in his study room to de-rage).

Claire