Monday, May 11, 2009

Please Don't Eat The Daisies

Did you ever notice how you start to become a "collector" of certain crap that you didn't even mean to start collecting but it just sort of happens when you tend to keep buying the same thing even though there's really no need for it? (And could I have made that sentence any longer and harder to understand? And I could I sound any more like Chandler Bing right now?) For instance, for me, I have a thing for vintage lamps and odd furniture (like that circa 1960 cylinder vinyl bar I talked about not too long ago). But you know, if the price is cheap enough, you can't not buy it, right? It's not like an odd piece of 50's furniture comes along too often, so I buy it and then complain that this place has gotten too damn small and there's no room and whine, whine, whine, bitch, bitch, bitch. So that brings me to what I seem to be unintentionally collecting of late, and that is vintage curtains. I have zero need for the ones I buy, in fact, they tend to not even be the right size or colorway to match anything, but I don't care, for they fill me with glee! And I may throw out my victory jazz hands! Huzzah! (Ok, not really, I don't glee over too many things, and who the hell says huzzah anyway, but you get the point.)


So enter my latest curtain "score"? You be the judge. I nabbed 2 different pair for el cheap-o at the antique mall across the street, they match absolutely nothing and are borderline fug. I say they're awesome in their wrong-ness, my Dad took one look at them and said it looked like a Brady exploded in my living room when he saw these:

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I love, luv, lurve lime green. I love how the flowers are drawn cartoon-y. I don't love the Brady thing going on with the them and it clashes with the entire rest of my hiz-ouse, which doesn't span much past 1960 in decor. I don't love huge florals because they remind me of the whole shabby chic country house thing and shabby chic, my dear friends, makes me wanna cut a bitch.

And then there's this pair, which regrettably I couldn't get a decent enough full-length picture of, what with their highly reflective and glossy, sharkskin-esque man-made and probably highly flammable material. These are way awesome in an aqua and green color combo and atomic-y doodads.

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However there's only one window these fit in and that's in the bathroom, which happens to be done in the original flesh tone-meets-salmon tile:

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Since my little mint green ranch was built in the 40's and has mostly all the original fixtures and whatnots, I would never dream of painting over that fugtastically-colored tile! So I guess clash-o-rama will have to resume for now, until I get my decorating shit together. Are these too ugly to live and should I sell 'em instead? Should I give them the old "it's not you, it's me" speech and send them packing? Is my being all hopped up on Zyrtec and Pamprin impairing my judgement?




"Please Don't Eat The Daisies" by Doris Day.

11 comments:

  1. The prints are deliciously fugly, I say they're keepers. If you get sick of them as curtains, make something else! I just bought an old bedspread out of a close cousin to the first print and I'm making it into a skirt.

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  2. Oh good call, Rachel! Maybe they'd be less-nauseating as pillows (or something.) Surprise, this is what everyone's getting for Xmas this year! Fug-ass Brady Pillows!

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  3. I think the second ones are darling!
    ♥Darla

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  4. Thanks Darla, they're keepers for sure! (The pink ones...ehh.)

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  5. I love those first curtains. My girlfriend bought an old table cloth and made some kitchen cutrains out of it. They are deliciously amazing.

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  6. I'm voting for turning them into...pillows, place mats, bags,whateva....I agree with you, when you find something you really like at a cheap price even if you don't need it, you should still buy it....you might eventually need it! What can I say, I'm running out of room too!

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  7. don't i get you there. totally. and i'm a recent fan of lime green. i really like the first curtains. i'm not good with visualising stuff other than how i look in certain granny clothes, so i can't suggest anything at all. have fun collecting!

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  8. Thanks, Tom! And what is it, exactly, with the lime green? I'm glad you "get it" too!

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  9. Mary- place mats is a great idea! I might have to do a roundup of you crafty peeps and see what we can make out of fug things!

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  10. and guess what - your blog's green too! lol. i don't know why i'm loving the colour. i tend to take warm colours better. i found this rolex with a lime green/yellow face that's out of this world. and i recently coveted a bag that's named granny and it's green! lol.

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  11. I looove the second pair of curtains and if I had them I'd totally make them into some wild skirt and bolero/jacket a la The Sound of Music. The hiillllls are aliiiiiiveeeee....

    Chantelle

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