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(15,315 posts)And that table is butt ugly. Are people trying to hide from their guests with big get ups like that? Even then, you should still have taste. It looks like a rabid badger is going to jump out at any minute and eat everyone alive.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)I mean, that is an UGLY piece of crap.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,527 posts)Perhaps if you're the psycho-killer in the movie THE CELL who bleached his dead victims before doing all manner of horrible things with their corpses.
Yeah, everyone has a giant clamshell just lying around, and all sorts of cobwebby debris and bleached, lifeless gourds to stick into it.
Thanksgiving on the freaking Titanic at the bottom of the ocean, maybe.
I'm not kidding, this is the type of thing they would have designed for the HANNIBAL TV series. Check out the food stylist's blog, it's thoroughly engrossing if you're interested in extreme food at all.
http://janicepoonart.blogspot.ca/2013/04/i-was-having-bit-of-trouble-with-re.html
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)and if my manager saw that display on one of my tables I would have been called out on the spot.
niyad
(113,259 posts)and talent and all that!!
deancr
(150 posts)hilarious!
calimary
(81,220 posts)I copied that image and the file name is "Have no idea how to tolerate another cutesy tweet by Ivanka Trump?"
Laughing at the despicable is the best medicine. These ones can't have our joy.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,012 posts)SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)to lay it's eggs on the 'Meal-de-Trumph'. Maggot, meet maggot.
paleotn
(17,911 posts)And by the way, what the hell is that in the center of the table? Looks like the trash...minus the trash bag.
Stryst
(714 posts)I mean, I don't know squat about fashion or design, but I know "found at the beach last minute" when I see it.
catbyte
(34,373 posts)Goodwill for $.50
calimary
(81,220 posts)Was she trying to put a modern twist on some greater Thanksgiving theme? Okay with the little pumpkins (I believe they're actually gourds) and pine cones. I LOVE pine cones! Nearly obsessed. I must have worked on eleventy-bazillion craft projects with pine cones by now. But - driftwood and a jumbo clam shell? Is this for some upcoming Holiday-at-Mar-a-Lago thing? These are visual mixed metaphors that just don't mix well. Unless the theme is "A South Sea Island Thanksgiving!" in which they've stuffed the turkey with pineapple and other tropical fruit, and they're serving the big family meal on banana leaves or something.
I'd be more tempted to fill that clam shell with a whole lot of shiny plain round mini ornaments, in different colors. No texture. It is a nice shell (says one who enjoys collecting them). The driftwood makes it look trashy, though. But the big shell thing is a misinterpretation. Doesn't fit. If the big white shell is the main design element, then everything else needs to be holiday-colored. How 'bout gold, red, and green?
Ivanka's taste and style choices are often questionable. For example, the tight, sexy, asymmetrical dress she wore to Daddy's State of the Union speech was celebrity cocktail-party stuff. NOT for an event of this kind. This table theme really misses the mark.
catbyte
(34,373 posts)driftwood is never among my memories. You're right about her questionable style choices. I still remember that gawd awful silver evening gown that made her look like a walking baked potato. Money can't buy class--or taste.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Her reason for choosing it, I would bet. So anyone who thinks she really is offering an inexpensive do-it-yourself centerpiece feels like a piece of shit when they find out they can't afford it. Fuck her.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Looks like a kid took a clam shell and filled it with beach crap he found. Then paid a bunch to have it enlarged
orangecrush
(19,537 posts)MFM008
(19,805 posts)Already ate it once.
sandensea
(21,624 posts)A fitting analogy to her father's bloodsucking regime.
Sancho
(9,067 posts)Can we give a DUzy for a tweet?
bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,154 posts)It also says I'm so lazy I couldn't be bothered to take off the tangled line before I threw it on my table. And are those green tomtalillos stuck on sticks poking out? What a horrible mess of crap to put on your dinner table.
By the way, white pumpkins are a thing. I've grown them once or twice. They were all the rage a few years back. Not so popular anymore. Stick with the small orange or speckled pumpkins, if you want to make good pumpkin pie.
niyad
(113,259 posts)still trying to figure out what the hell a giant shell has to do with turkey day.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)niyad
(113,259 posts)(note to self: do NOT look at ivanka images without a drink in hand)
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)Who sets the table?
usaf-vet
(6,181 posts)on one of those trays in a chow hall. Two times in mid 1960's military chow hall decor. Thanks for the memories!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,922 posts)Grab a giant clamshell and throw some shit in it?
I'm not even fashion conscious and I find that ugly.
bluescribbler
(2,116 posts)Not until I saw the second pic. Then, ROFLOL .