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Bunting - irredeemably kitsch or perfectly acceptable?

33 replies

MrsBadger · 23/07/2008 13:11

for a first birthday party in the garden?

(yes, there will be cupcakes, possibly piled artfully on a glass cake stand)

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JackieNo · 23/07/2008 13:12

Oh go for it, I reckon. I like it even more now, since those threads. It has more back-story.

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AllBuggiedOut · 23/07/2008 13:13

Fabulous! Especially if homemade from scraps of gorgeous fabric. Go for it.

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MrsBadger · 23/07/2008 13:15

'homemade from scraps of gorgeous fabric?'

you are 'avin a larf

it'll be sewn by trained monkeys in the third world and bought at low low internet prices

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HughJasss · 23/07/2008 13:16

PMSL

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HughJasss · 23/07/2008 13:17

Will the cupcakes be homemade though?

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JackieNo · 23/07/2008 13:18

Waitrose, I reckon.

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cheesesarnie · 23/07/2008 13:18

pmsl!
i like bunting

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MrsBadger · 23/07/2008 13:18

oh yes
for all my posturing I do not do Shop Cake

well, not for children.

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filthymindedvixen · 23/07/2008 13:19

I like bunting. I have pirate bunting on my boat, Tibetan prayer flags at home (spiritual bunting ) and home made plaggy bag bunting to keep birds off my allotment.
I think most of the derision for bunting came more from the notion of Arabella Cupcake-Bunting and her friends and their cunning little cottage industries producing over-priced unneccessary shit
Cheap as chips bought of t'interweb is fine...as is home mdae, if you really need summat to do with your hands. I find bunting-making keeps me off the Benson&Hedges

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MrsBadger · 23/07/2008 13:22

Oh I was there being scathing on the original Bunting-Cupcake thread... hence my need to check out whether it'd be a terrible faux pas to actually use the stuff.

Prayer flags are an interesting idea, not least because we have a bunch already in the Crap From Our Gap Years box...

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RubySlippers · 23/07/2008 13:24

it is totally kitsch, but that is the point?

it is MN law that you will at some point be REALLY scathing about something, and then find yourself really wanting that very same thing

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MadBadandDangeroustoKnow · 23/07/2008 13:25

I love, love, love bunting for all its nostalgia and for its post-modern Boden/Kidston/cupcake/lifestyle baggage. I made my own and am now contemplating becoming a mumtrepreneur with a darling little mail order business run from my Cotswold barn conversion. My friend the editor of Bijou Home (incorporating Bunting Monthly) will give me a two page advertorial, in which my angelic blonde twins Hector and Persephone will feature prominently.

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MrsBadger · 23/07/2008 13:26

[slaps MB&DTK with a wet kipper]

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WideWebWitch · 23/07/2008 13:29

Well, I would be scathing about bunting in almost any context but a 1yo birthday party.

If we're talking grown woman strewing it around a garden for effect, then but for a 1yo party, definitely allowed imo.

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WideWebWitch · 23/07/2008 13:29

lol at bunting monthly

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MadBadandDangeroustoKnow · 23/07/2008 13:32

Ouch!

But I really do love bunting. I was on that thread too. My ire was directed (as Filthy suggested) at Arabella Bunting-Cupcake and her chums and their play- businesses. But such has been the public acclaim heaped on my homemade bunting that I have now decided to go into partnership with Arabella. The world is a better place for bunting.

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filthymindedvixen · 23/07/2008 13:36

I emailed Red, Eve and Homes and Gardens, but they all declined my offer to travel to my charming and picturesque 2-up-2down in Scunthorpe, to witness me making my new line of bunting out of Lidl and Netto Carriers....

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Slubberdegullion · 23/07/2008 13:37

It's pretty, it flutters, what's not to like.

Could it suddenly become ironic bunting if guests start taking the piss?

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WideWebWitch · 23/07/2008 13:37

lol fmv

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Twiglett · 23/07/2008 13:38

perfectly acceptably kitsch

you say kitsch as though it's a bad thing .. am confused

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AllBuggiedOut · 23/07/2008 13:39

Nonsense - staples, scissors and a bit of ribbon. Doddle!

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Songbird · 23/07/2008 13:40

Twiglett - you took the exact words out of my fingertips! I love bunting!!!

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Songbird · 23/07/2008 13:41

And lol at 'ironic bunting' slubber!

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Twiglett · 23/07/2008 13:42

am thinking the 'Victoria Sponge Cake' I currently have in the oven and am planning on filling with cream, raspberries, putting on a 50's crystal cake stand and sprinkling with icing sugar is now in need of bunting

I don't even have a reason for it like a birthday party .. it's just first day of holidays

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