A Snippet of the Holidays...Campy Decorations, Gothic Glamour and Secret Santa

Don't we all love the holiday season? For some reason beyond me, my parents have insisted on displaying this horrifically campy gingerbread house on our dining room table. It's not even made out of real gingerbread and candy. The walls are made of felt, the decorations are plastic pieces of candy smothered in glitter, and the snow is cotton that sheds all over the place. But it's proved somewhat amusing the sense that my bird likes chewing on it.

JOY.

 

The plastic gingerbread man is now disconnected from his plastic dog, thanks to bird.

I also got a fashion coffee-table sort of book called "Gothic: Dark Glamour" by Valerie Steele, the curator for the Museum at FIT.

Thank you to the 'rents!

At school we did this Secret Santa/Snowflake/Hanukkah Harry thing. I think my Secret Santee was slightly disappointed to open his present and find a pack of basketball-shaped playing cards. I bravely entered the NBA store to buy those cards so I believe that should count for something. However, I do feel like somewhat of a cop-out gift buyer because I didn't even go up to the $10 limit; the cards were 4 bucks. I wasn't going to spend more time in the NBA store than necessary if you know what I mean.

On the other hand, I received a pretty baller present—this Muji shirt that is vacuumed packed into a cube. I unraveled it when I got home and was quite impressed.

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