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Holiday Desktop Goodies 12/23

December 23rd, 2014

“He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good, or he’ll crush your car with his gargantuan hands as you drive.”

I’m not usually into tinsel, but this is absolutely stunning. It looks like real shimmering icicles.

Ah, that is the question:

Walking in a Winter Wonder Lard.

And now for some nifty Christmas art.

That ornament is about to be pawed to the floor and shattered.

Yikes.

Vincent price goes tree shopping!

Gingerbread Enterprise! (Dedicated to my dad and our many nights watching Star Trek TNG when I was a kid)
Plasticland Ornament Roundup

December 22nd, 2014

Plasticland has so many excellent ornaments this year. Unique, humorous, quirky, esoteric, kitschy-cute…it’s all here!

Twinkling T-Rex

Sugar Skull Bat

Good Fortune Palmistry Hand

Skeletal Unicorn

Retro Roboto Starman

Spectacular Santaur

Glass Octopus

Three Wise Owls

Sublime Skull

Which one is your favorite?
Gorgeous Holiday Cakes

December 22nd, 2014

Courtesy of Cake Wrecks, here are some marvelous holiday cakes. I’m such a sucker for good fondant work.

I’ve never seen this adorable image on a cake before!

Love, love, LOVE this. I miss those old, big light bulbs I had on the tree growing up.

Brilliant…

A little postmodern and abstract:

How does one cut this lovely thing?

Hanu-cake!
Baked Ideas: Gingerbread Typewriter

December 20th, 2014

My favorite gingerbread piece this year is a fine typewriter by Baked Ideas. Is it wonderful? Almost too beautiful to eat (but I’d manage, don’t worry).

Bonus treat! I used to have this book as a child, but can’t remember the name of the little worm . Does anyone know?

Baked Ideas
Cosmic Tree

December 19th, 2014

My holiday spirit is admittedly low this year, for the reasons cited in my tree post around this time last year (I’m quite homesick for NY and hadn’t planned on my health turning a two week trip to LA into a two year stay). But I did put up our little table top tree and chose “Cosmic” as a theme.

Though not as fancy as Blown Glass Solar System Ornaments, even paper planets can look pretty cool.

Previously this little fellow the was Tree of Horrors.
Holiday Desktop Goodies 12/18

December 18th, 2014

I think a series of all of the Haunted Mansion Grim Grinning Ghosts would make an excellent ornament collection.

This image is just perfect: happy tan lady with happy man, angry pale lady, pale lady’s partner not-so-inconspicuously eying her sunkissed rival. Don’tyou want a sun lamp now?

Amazing relationship advice from the folks at Dormeyer: use tears to manipulate your husband into purchasing household items. Maybe if I fake a sense of victimhood I can score a toaster this Christmas.

A man who knows what he wants (even the big Kewpie is looking at him like “Seriously, dude?”):

Holy hell…

How to traumatize birds:

And by “Merry” I mean “there are bodies in the basement:”

This drenched, freezing Yeti standing in a flood may be the most depressing card ever.

The pudding has broken out in fluid filled pustules.

And now for the piece de resitance (don’t gloss over this one. Take in every detail):
BoeTech

December 17th, 2014

BoeTech has a selection of dynamite anatomical (and other geektacular) cookie cutters that I would love to use for next year’s holiday cookie batches. I don’t care if they’re not gingerbread men and snowflakes! Who wouldn’t want these cookies?

Of course, these are perfect for any time of year. Personally, I think the hearts make a great wedding cookie…if the wedding indeed has cookies (and I’m aware not all weddings do, but in my ideal world there are cookies everywhere).

These would be my reward for a loved one who comes up with a brilliant idea.

BoeTech
The 2014 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog

December 16th, 2014

My friend Liz shared an amazing shred of satire with me the other day; an article that highlights (with excellent commentary) some of the more useless and/or ludicrous items in the Williams Sonoma catalog this holiday season.

Head over to The 2014 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog and take a look!
Octopus Ornament Roundup

December 15th, 2014

I decided to do an image odyssey to discover octopus ornaments, and quickly learned that they exist in all styles, colors and mediums! I apologize for not linking to the source on each of these (please drop the pic in a google image search if you want to trace it!). Have a look at some sweet, festive cephalopods:

Sometimes I’m tempted to do “theme” trees for the holidays (perhaps it’s worth doing with a table top tree each year). I think a Sea Tree would be fabulous.
Wyrdwerks Krampus Ornaments

December 14th, 2014

If you’re looking to decorate your tree with Alpine beasts of folklore, Wyrdwerks has some excellent handmade Krampus ornaments.

They come in a few different styles and a variety of colors.

And they are crafted well enough to be genuinely creepy.

Wyrdwerks