I meant to post this web series in my Halloween countdown (but am always swamped with dozen of links I can’t get to that time of year). Luckily, Victorian Cutout Theater has a special episode for the holidays.
Don’t let the voices tell you what to do this Christmas.
See more episodes here.
Plasticland has so many excellent ornaments this year. Unique, humorous, quirky, esoteric, kitschy-cute…it’s all here!
Which one is your favorite?
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!
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?
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.
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):
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!
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.
I never thought I’d hear anyone utter the phrase “when you invite your bros over for tea,” and it kind of made my day. This video shows Shaquille O’Neal being a great sport (pun intended?), for a great cause. Just wait for it, and let yourself be confused and entertained in the meantime.
