All the birds sing words and the flowers croon

You’ve probably come across blogs where the authoress posts beautiful catalog-quality photos of items in her home. They’re artfully posed and lit, and feature IKEA / Crate & Barrel / Etsy quality items. And you say to yourself: “Wow! That authoress has a wonderful, elegant minimalistic style!* Her blog is a repository of chicness that I can only hope to achieve!”

I am not that authoress, and this is not that blog.

Haddon Township had a neighborhood-wide yard sale on Saturday and WM and I decided to see the sights. We usually grab books or Disneyana, but this time was completely different. For the bargain-basement price of only .50, I purchased this lovely!

Tiki! Tiki! Tiki!

Look how tacky and fun it is in front of the Lucky bamboo plant I bought at the Flower Show in March! Can you believe this beauty wasn’t ever taken out of its box? It runs on 2 AA batteries. I bought the battery operated LED tealight at Michael’s for $2.99.

It’s Tiki chic! And best of all, doesn’t detract from the Judgmental Chicken of Doom!

*Unlike me, who thinks “Is that a subway token mounted in the middle of that 11.5×14″ frame?” or “Wow…a shelf with one tiny sculpture of a fork on it is a lot of wasted shelf!”