Bunting - irredeemably kitsch or perfectly acceptable?

[MrsBadger]

for a first birthday party in the garden?

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

[Songbird]

lol

[Slubberdegullion]

Songbird, you are on a sticky wicket here. That VSC is shop bought for a start.

[Songbird]

See? I bet if this pic was zoomed out there'd be bunting in the background

[Slubberdegullion]

taste durr

[Slubberdegullion]

Oh Twiglett. It will take better with the bunting. You need to have this playing in the background too.

[Twiglett]

melamine

melamine??

hush your mouth

we're talking Victoria Sponge Cake not tiered muffins

[Twiglett]

irredeemiably

[Songbird]

Oh, you need a spotty melamine cake stand to really go with the bunting! Crystal indeed!

[Twiglett]

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

[Songbird]

And lol at 'ironic bunting' slubber!

[Songbird]

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

[AllBuggiedOut]

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

[Twiglett]

perfectly acceptably kitsch

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

[WideWebWitch]

lol fmv

[Slubberdegullion]

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

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

[filthymindedvixen]

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....

[MadBadandDangeroustoKnow]

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.

[WideWebWitch]

lol at bunting monthly

[WideWebWitch]

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.

[MrsBadger]

[slaps MB&DTK with a wet kipper]

[MadBadandDangeroustoKnow]

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.

[RubySlippers]

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

[MrsBadger]

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...

[filthymindedvixen]

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