an over sized Barney Fife poster, it sits at eye level right across from the throne…very disconcerting or so I am told by visitors.
I HAVE ONE OF THOSE TOO! A friend bought it for my birthday after I had admired it at Pier 1. I think it’s called an astroglobe.
Thing is, it looked fine in the store, and I’ve seen one in the middle the reflecting pool in a fountain-and-flower garden that looked fabulous, but in the average home?
Nope.
There’s just nothing you can do with that sucker. Right now, it’s sitting on the dresser (opposite Jesus in purple bike shorts) and it just looks…stupid. Bulky. Useless.
Don’t know what to do with it now-it was a gift, after all…
Anyone want a white elephant?
I just moved into a room in the house of a friend of mine. Basically, all my stuff is in my bedroom, aside from the big-ass tv. My roommate has ‘interesting’ taste. There are various tapestries on the walls, covering the windows, and the sofas. Beatles posters, Grateful Dead posters, lots of incense, you get the idea.
But, on the wall next to the pool table there hangs a velvet painting. I would be cool with it if it was a Velvet Elvis, for kitsch factor. But it’s this hideous (!) painting of tiki huts on a beach. There’s lots of gold, green, and blue. And my lord, is it ugly. As oddball as the rest of the decorating is, at least there was some sort of theme. It sticks out like a sore thumb. There’s something innately creepy about it, though, like I feel like some character in the Twilight Zone when I look at it. I keep imagining little natives running out of the huts and attacking the house while I sleep. :eek:
sidle, Jesus in purple bike shorts? BWAH HA HA HA! 
This is terrible to say about ancestors but…
two larged framed photos of great grandparents taken while in their 60’s in the 50’s or 40’s.
Very Sober, dark, grim faced homely portraits. I want to hang them behind a door.
Honestly, that rug if in good condition could be worth something to a collector. Hush Puppy memorabilia comes up on ebay now and then. Textiles with HP logos might be rarer!
jen
A Suzuki RE5.
18" high.
Dark brown wooden base.
Oval, blood-red canvas shade.
Doughnut-shaped, fluorescent bulb.
Back-to-back jen-you-wine deer legs for the “stem.”
It was given to me on the conditions that it must be displayed and it could not be thrown away, only given to someone who agreed to those same conditions.
The Urn. I was on my last deployment before getting out of the Navy - Rota, Spain. My husband flew over to spend a week with me. We went exploring in town and came across this clay urn - maybe 28" tall. The paint is crackled to look old and there is a painting of flowers on one side. It’s thick-walled and heavy, and we carried it all over Rota (bought it early in the evening) including to dinner.
When I returned to the States, I made sure it was packed carefully for transport. Once home, we lovingly unpacked it, paused to look, and said “What the hell were we thinking?!?” At least we didn’t get the red one. But it’s not a complete loss - we found that if we turned it so the flower side faces a corner and if we put a big spider plant on it, it makes a nice plant stand.
But we laughed about it for a good long time.