Feelin' Fruity

These were in a big bag full of cookie cutters that probably cost me 2 or 3 dollars, I can't remember exactly. These of course were my favorites; the others were a bunch more of the type at the bottom in Christmas shapes (boring) and a complete set of 1977 Wilton alphabet cutters. I have a partial set of these from another find; they were part of a larger Sesame Street set. I have the Sesame guys and now I have the complete alphabet! They're the type of plastic cutters that are really useless for cookies, but really great for using with Play-Doh, so they'll get stored in the closet until Maren is old enough to play with it and not eat it.

This last item will probably get me made fun of by my Mom and most definitely my husband. It's a necklace of plastic beads with little plastic fruit charms. I loved the little fruits and bought it with the intention of taking them off and using them for other things, but I'm almost tempted to leave the necklace as is and wear it when I'm feeling particularly brave and Carmen Miranda-ish!

I think I'm in a kitschy fruit state of mind since I've been obsessed with things like this on eBay lately. I caved and bought myself a set of the beaded fruit and promptly got a snarky comment about my fruit and velvet Jesus paintings from Quin. I don't care; I love it! I didn't realize until I got my beaded fruit that not all of it is sequined also, so right now I'm on the lookout for some of that type. If you're going to do kitsch, do it all the way!