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One of the best thread I've seen in a while.
Not loving the roses but definitely the sweetest sentiment.
Not loving the roses but definitely the sweetest sentiment.
The rose looks really nice there@MamaBee, I have had this problem before and didn't want to hurt any feelings. If you have styled bookshelves, you can usually put them in an inconspicuous place. In the pic below, I am not crazy about the porcelain rose. But my grandfather gave it to me for Christmas one year and he was the best best granddaddy in the world. I enjoy seeing it even though it isn't my taste.
@GlitterInMyHair and @daisy LOL! These examples are hilarious! I found pics of two articles of clothing DH got me one Christmas. I’m very petite and this sweater was giant and ugly. It’s stretched across a lazy boy chair so you can see the size. And the tank top is teeny tiny. The nail polish beside it shows the scale. It’s never a great idea for guys to pick out clothes for their SOS imho but seriously this is what he came up with? Lol!!
I would like to know if he bought that sweater in 1989? I remember chenille sweaters quite well. I would have worn that with multiple pairs of socks scrunched up, layered.
Bwahahahahaha! It was LAST YEAR! And yes it’s so 80s! (Which those roses seem 80s too btw). I don’t know why a store would even carry a chenille sweater in 2020!
@MamaBee The roses are not *that* bad, lol.
My husband got me a motion activated billy bass singing fish once. He said he was trying for something unexpected
my spouse once surprised me with my in laws for my birthday. took me on a huge surprise road trip, wouldn’t tell me where the destination was for hours..
we stopped in wine country near Santa Ynez, and I walked into an old town chocolate shop... just to bump into my in laws who had also surprised my FIL in the same way.
the idiot thought I’d like to spend my birthday weekend with my in laws.
sharing the birthday festivities with my FIL whose birthday was the week prior.
He literally owes me for LIFE now.
but the worst part was, I had just surprised him two days prior with news we were finally pregnant. so I couldn’t even drink in wine country. and we had to make up an excuse for his family on why I couldn’t drink, and the closest excuse I had was “well, I’m back on anti-depressants” that popped out of my mouth, and they are NOT a very open-about-mental-illness family.
I started miscarrying the next day. And I had to keep smiles and pretend everything was okay around them til we got home to get checked etc.
I'd display them. Just because life's too short and there's nothing more beautiful than a gift from someone who loves you.
I don't know if you care to try to improve the look of them, but cutting them down would be a big improvement and I'm sure a pair of wire cutters would allow you to shorten all that 'metallic-shiny stem' look. Were it me, I'd probably also snip off the leaves, since they're the most eye-catching - tho I wouldn't do that if I thought it would hurt my DH's feelings. When I had a more discrete, shorter bunch - say, around 8" tall - I'd put them on a book shelf. We have a 12' run of book cases in our office filled with books. In front of the books are all sorts of sentimental mementos - all meaningful, none of them especially beautiful. The detail and color of all the books distracts from anything I put on the book case with them, and I have my equivalent of metal tipped roses, rock collections from my god-kids, some truly fascinating sentimental, resin pieces I was given when my dogs died - and so on. It's obviously a collection of things I want to keep, rather than things I want to display. Ends up looking like one, detailed, patchwork piece of fabric (for example) rather than any single thing on display. And believe me when I tell you - I'm highly visual and very picky about how I decorate my home! For something like this, I'd clear out the end of one shelf, so there were books running up to it, then, say, an empty 10" space, and place the little stand of roses in there. If your DH would be offended by you removing the leaves - leave them on; it makes little difference in this sort of setting. A display case won't work - it needs about a thousand books to distract the eye. But when you have that, something like this can look just fine because it's part of a much, MUCH larger whole.
You wouldn't frame a drawing by your 5 year old and hang it in pride of place above the fireplace - but you *would* pin it on the fridge and it would look fine. Setting is everything.
Good luck!
@MamaBee The roses are not *that* bad, lol.
My husband got me a motion activated billy bass singing fish once. He said he was trying for something unexpected
That’s a great idea @elizat. He also bought the holder for them. I think
after some time I’ll move them to the bedroom.
@MamaBee The roses are not *that* bad, lol.
My husband got me a motion activated billy bass singing fish once. He said he was trying for something unexpected
Send them to David and see if he can make them into something else lol! I kid, I kid of course.
Lol it's.......sweet but In divorce court can be considered evidence.
I came back for a second look, and while they are not my taste, they are not as bad as I initially thought. I think Mrs. B has given you a great idea with the leaves and trimming them down. If you don't want to do that, I would simply remove the black flower, which I see as the biggest problem. Your husband might not even notice if the black one is gone. If he asks, just say that you wanted to keep it cheerful looking and the black flower was a little morbid. I would do this: pretty vase, the pink or white flower towards the front, and tuck it into a little spot on a bookshelf where you keep other meaningful items. I think you can spirit it away at Christmas and forget to put it back out again afterwards.
@GlitterInMyHair and @daisy LOL! These examples are hilarious! I found pics of two articles of clothing DH got me one Christmas. I’m very petite and this sweater was giant and ugly. It’s stretched across a lazy boy chair so you can see the size. And the tank top is teeny tiny. The nail polish beside it shows the scale. It’s never a great idea for guys to pick out clothes for their SOS imho but seriously this is what he came up with? Lol!!