You know what we need?

[sailorgray]

A board obsession. Like, the glitter pumpkins or the ceiling tiles (lol).... F&B has their Bobeau. ML had their Suit obsession...we used to be so good with this stuff.  Anyone see anything out there tht may qualify?

[thewop]

I feel like this board pretty much hates anything that is trendy. We're going to have to come up with something totally new or something really dumb and making it cool again. Potato paintings?

[sailorgray]

Yea, the other stuff just happened naturally. Maybe we need a challenge like fining something $$$ and making cheap versions from dollars store stuff. I am heading to Pottery Barn today. Maybe I'll feel inspired. Miss when D&R was obsessed!

[pitterwoo]

Oct 3, 2013 7:15:54 GMT -5 thewop said:

I feel like this board pretty much hates anything that is trendy. We're going to have to come up with something totally new or something really dumb and making it cool again. Potato paintings?

This really is a tough crowd. We're some H&G curmudgeons. ;D

[TBM]

I think that part of the obsession thing in the past was that it was a phase of life, starting out and not having decor/seasonal decor kind of thing. Now that people have had a chance to find their own style and collect things that are important to them, the other stuff seems less interesting.


I don't think the whole board hates everything trendy, just because it is trendy....I just think that people are over them because pinterest/blogs/the internet are so saturated, and sometimes those things just aren't their taste.

It would be fun to have some sort of challenge that everyone could put their own spin on. I kind of love the idea of taking some dollar store item and doing something with it. I do miss my favorite 99 cent only store though...they had the best stuff.

[Deleted]

I agree on all accounts.

A) a new trend would be great. Fun times.
B) sometimes I do feel like if more than 2 people do something this board hates it (but I still love you all). It's like we're all of a sudden "alternative" just for the sake of it. My real life isn't that saturated with blog/pinterest stuff so it never bothers me to see it.
C) It's also pretty dead on that we're moving past that phase. Some of us have been here for years. We've made ALL the things, decorated ALL the things and now we're trying to declutter ALL the things...ha. That and I think so many of us are wrapped up in work and kids that we're just out of time to glitter anything..ha.

I could use a new project/thing to buy though. My life needs some shaking up.

[peach]

I don't think you just pick something and declare it the new popular thing. It just happens.

But yes, I agree, it's been a while since we had a ZOMG WE MUST ALL BUY THIS item.

[SusanBAnthony]

I just need to point out that my house has a no glitter rule. On anything. Because no matter how pretty the glittery decoration is, it always ends the same. Glitter fucking everywhere.

So can we please pick something without glitter?

And with that, I am off to find some Micheals coupons, because Hobby Lobby hates uteruses and Jewish people, so I gotta go to Micheals now. I need me some fake fall leaves.

[ktzmoh]

1) Yay to SusanBAnthony - a sister in hobby lobby hatred!
2) However, YAY TO GLITTER PUMPKINS!!!
3) I wasn't part of this community when there was a common obsession, but maybe it's just that the trends are so underwhelming recently? I did really love the new West Elm catalog - I'm such a sucker for their look.

[SusanBAnthony]

Oct 3, 2013 11:07:22 GMT -5 ktzmoh said:

3) I wasn't part of this community when there was a common obsession, but maybe it's just that the trends are so underwhelming recently? I did really love the new West Elm catalog - I'm such a sucker for their look.

I would buy all the things from WE, but we haz the poorz right now.

[spankswife]

I'm really into the "family rules" subway art right now, although I am probably behind the times here.

My new Halloween decorations (used to only do fall, but with DD, we added Halloween) are bright color (almost neon!) glitter, and I am loving them.

[heygrey]

i'm sure sheepskin rugs are old news to everyone else, but my landlord bought me one (just because!) and i am in love. it's so soft and it adds a nice bit of texture in the living room. i might get a second one when we have a nursery to decorate.

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Oct 3, 2013 11:16:06 GMT -5 SusanBAnthony said:

Oct 3, 2013 11:07:22 GMT -5 ktzmoh said:

3) I wasn't part of this community when there was a common obsession, but maybe it's just that the trends are so underwhelming recently? I did really love the new West Elm catalog - I'm such a sucker for their look.

I would buy all the things from WE, but we haz the poorz right now.

I was trolling through the BHG mag this morning at breakfast and their was lots I loved in it for a change. It was like a new spin on color. THR led a great discussion once on here about how the economy turns everything so drab and dull because no one can afford anything and everyone wants the "soothing" boring colors.

I hope Target comes out with some fun new Christmas stuff. It's been the same 2 if not 3 years in a row already.

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Oct 3, 2013 11:40:03 GMT -5 spankswife said:

I'm really into the "family rules" subway art right now, although I am probably behind the times here.

My new Halloween decorations (used to only do fall, but with DD, we added Halloween) are bright color (almost neon!) glitter, and I am loving them.

You're not that far behind. Only on the internet! I bought a great family rules subway sign for the photowall in our playroom/family room for $8.97 at Walmart. It's cute and I like and when that trend dies I didn't spend a fortune or tons of hours on it!

I LOVE fall décor and I want to do Halloween for DDs sake too, but it's just not me. Creepy spiders and ghosts do nothing for me. I love it when other people do though.

I also have to say, sometimes I'm glad to live in the most non-trendiest place on earth. Everything I do is new and fresh for at least 6 months..ha.

[pitterwoo]

Oct 3, 2013 13:25:41 GMT -5 heygrey said:

i'm sure sheepskin rugs are old news to everyone else, but my landlord bought me one (just because!) and i am in love. it's so soft and it adds a nice bit of texture in the living room. i might get a second one when we have a nursery to decorate.

I love sheepskins.  I have two.  I use them kind of as throws.  One is on a chair and the other is over the trunk in the living room that we have in place of a coffee table.

I will probably drag one into the nursery too at some point.  They're just so cozy and tactile.

[spankswife]

@justdairy Thanks for the tip! I will have to check our Walmart for the sign!

For Halloween decorations, I just got a tablecloth with jack-o-lanterns on it, some glittery pumpkin vase filler, a glittery jack-o-lantern wall hang thing, and some glittery spider garland that I hung over the back doors (by the table with the table cloth). Nothing too creepy. The rest is my fall/scarecrow/leaf stuff. I figured it was a good mix! Really, I'd like to hit up the stores after Halloween, for next year....

[emjacobs]

Completely unrelated, but what if we do a H&G small item swap? Everyone that want's to join in signs up, it starts at one person who puts stuff in a box and ships it to the next person, grab some stuff, add some stuff, pass it on. The last person sends it back to the first person. It could go on forever!

[TBM]

Oct 3, 2013 10:54:46 GMT -5 peach said:

I don't think you just pick something and declare it the new popular thing. It just happens.

But if we all came up with something for all of us to do, then it would be popular...at least it would be popular here. lol

You know, sort of like the popular girls in school wearing the same sweater/bracelet/shoes/whatever, and everyone else copying.  Maybe we could start an internet trend.

[sierramist03]

Oct 3, 2013 13:32:21 GMT -5 @justdairy said:

Oct 3, 2013 11:40:03 GMT -5 spankswife said:

I'm really into the "family rules" subway art right now, although I am probably behind the times here.

My new Halloween decorations (used to only do fall, but with DD, we added Halloween) are bright color (almost neon!) glitter, and I am loving them.

You're not that far behind. Only on the internet! I bought a great family rules subway sign for the photowall in our playroom/family room for $8.97 at Walmart. It's cute and I like and when that trend dies I didn't spend a fortune or tons of hours on it!

I LOVE fall décor and I want to do Halloween for DDs sake too, but it's just not me. Creepy spiders and ghosts do nothing for me. I love it when other people do though.

I also have to say, sometimes I'm glad to live in the most non-trendiest place on earth. Everything I do is new and fresh for at least 6 months..ha.

I have a love rules I bought at Kirklands and I love it it matched my colors and I had the perfect place for it

[adhdfashion]

I have decided to go with a giant 12ft Douglas fir this year instead of my 6ft Blue Noble. I am going to bust out the Polish decorations from H's family. And I am getting a train to go around the bottom of the tree.
I am also talking about Christmas before October. Which is against my own rules.
Maybe we can create/find the must have Christmas decor item.

[sierramist03]

Oct 3, 2013 19:47:33 GMT -5 adhdfashion said:

I have decided to go with a giant 12ft Douglas fir this year instead of my 6ft Blue Noble. I am going to bust out the Polish decorations from H's family. And I am getting a train to go around the bottom of the tree.
I am also talking about Christmas before October. Which is against my own rules.
Maybe we can create/find the must have Christmas decor item.

We have a bigger house and I can't wait to decorate it!! I really want to put something above my kitchen cabinets

[auntie]

I don't know, maybe we're all too close to it to realize, but it seems the love for gray wall paints borders on obsession. Maybe that's the "thing".

Who here doesn't have a space in their house that's gray?

Or maybe it's the quest to rid the world of cheap polished brass and honey oak cabinets?

[thewop]

Oct 4, 2013 6:15:35 GMT -5 auntie said:

Or maybe it's the quest to rid the world of cheap polished brass and honey oak cabinets?

Ha! 

[emjacobs]

Oct 4, 2013 6:15:35 GMT -5 auntie said:

I don't know, maybe we're all too close to it to realize, but it seems the love for gray wall paints borders on obsession. Maybe that's the "thing".

Who here doesn't have a space in their house that's gray?

Or maybe it's the quest to rid the world of cheap polished brass and honey oak cabinets?

No gray walls here, yet. I've been thinking about painting my mudroom gray and orange but first I have to make it a mudroom and not a walk-in closet/ 

[TBM]

Oct 4, 2013 8:11:26 GMT -5 emjacobs said:

Oct 4, 2013 6:15:35 GMT -5 auntie said:

I don't know, maybe we're all too close to it to realize, but it seems the love for gray wall paints borders on obsession. Maybe that's the "thing".

Who here doesn't have a space in their house that's gray?

Or maybe it's the quest to rid the world of cheap polished brass and honey oak cabinets?

No gray walls here, yet. I've been thinking about painting my mudroom gray and orange but first I have to make it a mudroom and not a walk-in closet/ 

No gray walls here either.  Not yet, but we are considering a very light gray for the hall, the cabinet in the hall, and maybe most of the living room.  Maybe.

Technically, the studio is a super pale greige that reads as white,   I is definitely more gray than beige if you really study it and/or have color detecting super powers.lol



We need a fun obsession....something seasonal, or maybe something both useful and decorative for a specific room/use would be a fun challenge.

[adhdfashion]

Oct 4, 2013 6:15:35 GMT -5 auntie said:

I don't know, maybe we're all too close to it to realize, but it seems the love for gray wall paints borders on obsession. Maybe that's the "thing".

Who here doesn't have a space in their house that's gray?

Or maybe it's the quest to rid the world of cheap polished brass and honey oak cabinets?

I am painting my master bath and an accent wall in the master bedroom gray.
I think you are on to something!

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[adhdfashion]

Oct 3, 2013 20:06:43 GMT -5 sierramist03 said:

Oct 3, 2013 19:47:33 GMT -5 adhdfashion said:

I have decided to go with a giant 12ft Douglas fir this year instead of my 6ft Blue Noble. I am going to bust out the Polish decorations from H's family. And I am getting a train to go around the bottom of the tree.
I am also talking about Christmas before October. Which is against my own rules.
Maybe we can create/find the must have Christmas decor item.

We have a bigger house and I can't wait to decorate it!! I really want to put something above my kitchen cabinets

I normally go more modern with Christmas decorations. But this year I am really feeling a traditional Christmas. Like it jumped right out of 50's into my living room.

[bonquiqui]

I thought it was the PBVCH lol  When I was a D&R reg. that was the shizz.  haha

[ktzmoh]

So I have many gray walls, we shopped for new cabinets this weekend to replace our honey oak. and i bought 3 GLITTER PUMPKINS this weekend. I'm going with it all ladies!

[TBM]

Oct 8, 2013 10:36:09 GMT -5 ktzmoh said:

So I have many gray walls, we shopped for new cabinets this weekend to replace our honey oak. and i bought 3 GLITTER PUMPKINS this weekend. I'm going with it all ladies!

Since you have done it all, what is next on your list?  We need something new. ;p