Philadelphia has a lot of murals (more on that later) and I have always tried to refrain from calling them kitsch. They are strange and biza...
Mooshe
Izzy Guilty
This little guy is a stuffed nylon dull stuffed into a plastic mason jar....
Football Football Whiskey
Instead of watching the Superbowl, I found this 1972 Jim Beam whiskey decanter. That’s the face concussions (and black-out benders) ar...
Goodbye Cruel World
This plush toilet seat cover features a depressed fish-faced man bidding adieu to a world that’s treated him very poorly. His very o...
Suspicious and Coy Bulldog
I’m visiting my family in Metro-Detroit this week and my mom surprised me with an impromptu Craft & Antique Mall… and it was...
Androgynous Fiddle Chick
The tag really says it for me… Wow! Easter Fantastic Condition $16.99 Firm Expertly carved out of Styrofoam, pipe cleaners and stick...
This Lion’s Got Your Back
This regal lion chair is displayed in the window of one of the fabulous gift shops at the Philadelphia Zoo. It is made of plastic and elegan...
Miss Who
This is a handmade, modified version of the popular board game Guess Who. All of the mystery people on this game board come from a catalog o...
Perfect Pink Peacock
One of my favorite animals from the jungles of India is the peacock. He is the poster child of pheasants, and this one is particularly prett...
Donate Blood for Life
Three drops of blood– a grandmother (young at heart and in huge heels), a mother and a baby… made of blood. Asking you to donate...
The Mustache Cup
There’s not much to say about this, except this is my favorite type of nightmare. Sometimes I talk a lot of jive about being inspired ...
The Egg Bowl
This bowl is not only shaped like an egg, but has a yolk painted in! It makes me uncomfortable, because it’s perfectly placed in the c...
Easter O’ Puss
I must have grown up too close to Detroit to know what a Carvel was until 2009. That St. Patrick’s Day my friend Ned started it all wi...
Munakuppi Valentine
I picked this up as the last of the bottom-barrel Valentines Day merchandise after all the good stuff (namely the cordial cherries and turtl...
Scarlet Starlet Harlot Cork Stopper (Valentine’s Day Contest Submission)
Couples everywhere are letting loose and getting romantic. No way a romantic evening can take a whole bottle of wine? Put it back in the ref...
Kabob-It & Friends (The Quesadilla Maker and The Slider Maker)
Shish-kabob is already a pretty kitschy food. It’s served on a stick, and quite removed from its Eastern origins. That’s not eno...
Football Football Football Football
Here’s some kitsch just in time for Superbowl XLIV. I will admit I have very little knowledge of it. First of all, I can’t tell ...
Obama Chia
DETERMINED to buy a great gift from a drugstore this Christmas for your friends and family? Try a ! If your friends and family aren’t ...
Good 2B Alive Coffee
Men just HATE that organic coffee. Men are supposed to drink their coffee black and hardcore. Well, “organic” has a new face tha...