MobiColour RESULT: MC #114 Theme: Tchotchkes - April 2-8, 2018

Kitsch at its best:

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RoseCat said:
What a collection! Is it yours?
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No, just outside Plett there is a massive bird sanctuary called the Birds of Eden. It's the largest free flying aviary and bird sanctuary in the world. It has a humongous net over a valley with wooden walkways. I'm not a fan of birds in captivity but this place is pretty much paradise for birds.

Anyhow, quite bizarrely, just outside the shop is a massive glass table 'container' which is full of kitschy objects all glued together with what looks like resin. I sent ages looking at the endless bits and pieces in there. The previous 2 pics were just a fraction. Goodness knows where it all came from.

Here's two more:
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RoseCat said:
To me, they're all tchotchke from the start. I think the term *valuable* is subjective. How are any of these items really valuable? They're made of simple, inexpensive materials (clay, fabric, wood, metal, etc). Re the Red Rose tea collectibles, it was a good marketing ploy to get people to buy the tea, but the actual "prizes" were not valuable other than to the person collecting them - I'm quite sure Red Rose got them super cheap, otherwise they wouldn't be giving them away for free. So it was in the buyer's mind that they were valuable, and that they must have all of them.

Unless you have items, say, covered in diamonds, or an original painting/sculpture/whatever by a famous artist - but even this is subjective - who's to say that artist is *famous* or their work *valuable*?? Or antiques in a shop being sold at ridiculous prices, because they are *valuable*... says who?? I see mixing bowls in antique stores just like ones that my grandma used every day and were once considered just regular useful items, that are being sold for a ridiculous amount of money now ($100 and up, for a BOWL). Would I love to have one of my grandmother's mixing bowls? Yes. Because the antique store says they're valuable? No, because it was something my grandma used every day for her cooking and baking, so it has sentimental value to me, and I'd think of that every time I used it. The value really comes from the heart. I think WE put the value (whether real or imagined) on the items, or sometimes let other people tell us they are valuable. That's why I don't have very many tchotchke any more - I got rid of anything that didn't have some type of sentimental value to me, gave me joy, or was useful (all three combined = jackpot!)
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That opens it out quite a bit. You could almost expand that to include all decorative shelf-sitters. Stuff that has no useful purpose except we get some sort of enjoyment from them. I have a few items from my parents house that don’t actually do anything except gather dust but I have an attachment to them. And others I keep because I don’t know what else to do with them.
I remember reading that we now have a whole lot of seniors who thought their offspring would value and enjoy inheireting prized belongings, family heirlooms, except the young people aren’t interested. The don’t have the space or the interest to take on old baggage.
My favourite type of souvenir to collect is rocks.
 
FundyBrian said:
Here is a reference I copied from wiki.

inukshuk - is a human-made stone landmark or cairn used by the Inuit, Iñupiat, Kalaallit, Yupik, and other peoples of the Arctic region of North America. These structures are found from Alaska , United States to Greenland. This region, above the Arctic Circle, is dominated by the tundra biome and has areas with few natural landmarks.
The inuksuk may have been used for navigation, as a point of reference, a marker for travel routes, fishing places, camps, hunting grounds, places of veneration, drift fences used in hunting or to mark a food cache.
Varying in shape and size, the inuksuit have ancient roots in Inuit culture.

Back to me now. According to some photos I have seen some inukshuks were too large for one or two people to build alone, just by the height of the structure and weight of the stones. Sometimes they needed to be seen from quite a distance as a marker.
It isn’t uncommon around here to see a small inukshuk built in someone’s yard. Often not following traditional form very well. They have become a symbol of the far north, almost like an icon, stuck on everything relating to the north. Trinkets, souvenirs, etc.
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And I just asked on TS what the word means. Thank you! [emoji106]
 
FundyBrian said:
I remember reading that we now have a whole lot of seniors who thought their offspring would value and enjoy inheireting prized belongings, family heirlooms, except the young people aren’t interested. The don’t have the space or the interest to take on old baggage.
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That is exactly me and my mom. She was upset, hurt and mad when I didn’t want her furniture, etc. after she was gone. Lots of the stuff actually has sentimental meaning to me, but it’s just TOO MUCH STUFF. I have no room, no use for most of it. I tried to make her understand, but I’m not sure she does.
 
ImageArt said:
No, just outside Plett there is a massive bird sanctuary called the Birds of Eden. It's the largest free flying aviary and bird sanctuary in the world. It has a humongous net over a valley with wooden walkways. I'm not a fan of birds in captivity but this place is pretty much paradise for birds.

Anyhow, quite bizarrely, just outside the shop is a massive glass table 'container' which is full of kitschy objects all glued together with what looks like resin. I sent ages looking at the endless bits and pieces in there. The previous 2 pics were just a fraction. Goodness knows where it all came from.

Here's two more:
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Cool idea to glue them together and make it a tchotchke rock of art. Love it. Should do that with mine. [emoji106][emoji4]
 
FundyBrian said:
My favourite type of souvenir to collect is rocks
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I’ve recently acquired some crystals and stones... amethyst, rose quartz, clear quartz, several miscellaneous small pieces... for energy, healing, meditation purposes. I have to not go crazy though, and honor my “less is more” rule... :eek: :zip:
 
GroovyGouvy said:
Is the driver seat still available? Or as filled up as this side? [emoji33]
Love this!
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It was a VW van. The driver's seat was still clear (and it was in a 2 hour parking zone, so it hadn't been there long). The windows in the rest of the van were covered with shades, so I don't know if that was crammed full also or not, though I suspect it was. Housing is expensive and scarce here in Santa Cruz, and I've seen other cars packed up with possessions of people either living in their cars or sleeping on couches, but I'd never seen a random jumble like this one before.
 
And at last:
Accidentally Naughty

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This was really a funny faux pas, I didn't see at first, just when I sorted the pictures to post … it is just the tag it has still on, but it explained why the little frogs are laughing and so does Lurchi (Salamander shoes mascot and hero of my childhood. Probably only known in German speaking countries. It's a salamander who finds adventures with his friends: Hopps the frog, Piping the dwarf, Mäusepiep the mouse, Unkerich the yellow-bellied toad and sometimes Trine, Lurchi's sister and also a salamander). Though it's a bit embarrassing it is too funny to not being posted. [emoji4]

Oh, forgot: all Hipstamatic, no further edits.
 
GroovyGouvy said:
And at last:
Accidentally Naughty

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This was really a funny faux pas, I didn't see at first, just when I sorted the pictures to post … it is just the tag it has still on, but it explained why the little frogs are laughing and so does Lurchi (Salamander shoes mascot and hero of my childhood. Probably only known in German speaking countries. It's a salamander who finds adventures with his friends: Hopps the frog, Piping the dwarf, Mäusepiep the mouse, Unkerich the yellow-bellied toad and sometimes Trine, Lurchi's sister and also a salamander). Though it's a bit embarrassing it is too funny to not being posted. [emoji4]

Oh, forgot: all Hipstamatic, no further edits.
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:eek: :lmao:
 
GroovyGouvy said:
And at last:
Accidentally Naughty

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This was really a funny faux pas, I didn't see at first, just when I sorted the pictures to post … it is just the tag it has still on, but it explained why the little frogs are laughing and so does Lurchi (Salamander shoes mascot and hero of my childhood. Probably only known in German speaking countries. It's a salamander who finds adventures with his friends: Hopps the frog, Piping the dwarf, Mäusepiep the mouse, Unkerich the yellow-bellied toad and sometimes Trine, Lurchi's sister and also a salamander). Though it's a bit embarrassing it is too funny to not being posted. [emoji4]

Oh, forgot: all Hipstamatic, no further edits.
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:lmao::lmao:
 
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