Sentences with word «tchotchkes»

A few knick - knacks are okay, as well, but don't put an entire collection of tchotchkes on display.

These clocks have a multitude of meaning historically and culturally that I associate with my Wisconsin upbringing — hunting, birds, rifles, forests and tchotchkes on wood - paneled basement walls.»

Shelves are stocked with tchotchkes from projects long since passed.

The plan: First, we'd hit Chinatown for dim sum (we like MingHin) and check out tchotchkes in the gift emporiums.

By placing a sculpture on top of a movie poster, Curry not only couples an object from the elite culture of the art world with an object from the popular culture of the entertainment industry, he also creates a situation in which the movie posters come to resemble coffee tables, making it easy to imagine the large - scale structures that rest on top of them as tchotchkes from a museum gift shop grown large.

It felt like the Titanic with newly rearranged desk chairs on the Titanic, except they had put out a bunch of new tchotchkes for decor.

Actually, these small plastic tchotchkes are not particularly impressive — but the speed at which they were created is.

They have a little bit of everything with a selection of greeting cards, t - shirts, artwork, and various little tchotchkes thrown into the mix.

Their adventures take them to visit various tchotchke shops in the city to visit the living kitsch therein to make inquiries, including a mildly amusing sequence involving an army of angry maneki - neko.

One was that, in 1988, he unveiled his «Banality» series of sculptures — diving face - first into the aesthetic realms of kitsch tchotchkes and making unsettling monuments to subjects like Michael Jackson and his monkey and greeting - card pap (as in a appropriated image of a couple holding puppies on a park bench that led to a successful and lucrative lawsuit).

reads a button perched beside San Francisco Giants memorabilia, family photographs, and various other tchotchkes.

-- a New York Times article about Mardi Gras Indians who have decided they're tired of finding images of themselves, clad in their traditional elaborate outfits, on calendars, posters, coffee mugs and other assorted tchotchkes, without getting any cash.

Many seniors live in smaller spaces than they used to, with less use for new tchotchkes and collectibles.

He made banality blue chip, pornography avant - garde, and tchotchkes into trophy art.

This could just be a forgettable tchotchke like the forgotten Crispin Glover - starring «Bartleby,» but we're willing to believe Ayoade takes this material in a few colorful directions.

In this world of overconsumption, who wants to clutter up their brand new house with useless tchotchkes?

I am the knick knack queen and I love random tchotchkes I find at flea markets.

By flipping select book jackets inside - out and writing their titles on their spines, and by removing the pointless tchotchkes, we made the space feel soothing, simple, and peaceful.

Each little tchotchke has a purpose.

It will lead visitors on a path through an enchanted but menacing landscape featuring, among other things, 17 black - faced lawn jockeys on a crystal cloudscape 18 feet in the air; 20,000 whirling wind spinners; a «waterfall» of shimmering foil - like strips; a thousand or so intentionally garish ceramic tchotchkes; and several million beads, some of which will comprise shimmering mountains.

Its shelves are stocked with so many stationery items, fashion accessories and home decor tchotchkes that general merchandise now constitutes nearly 40 % of all sales.

Before 2009's Credit CARD Act, most student credit cards attracted new customers by setting up shop at campus events and trading small tchotchkes for applications.

Highlights include American artist Jeff Koons Hon RA, whose figures for his 1980s «Banality» series were drawn from cheap tchotchkes; Frank Benson, whose Human Statue (Jessie)(2011) reproduces, using high - end digital technology, a stunning simulacrum of dancer and musician Jessie Gold; and newly elected Academician Rebecca Warren, known for her plaster figures filtered through other artists from Giacometti to cartoonist Robert Crumb.

A shot of a couple tchotchkes looked grainy, and a red character came across as more pink.

Well, it's because I needed more storage space, not more space to display tchotchkes.

If you fall in love with a plate or tchotchke years after moving in, don't think about where it'll fit: You'll find a place.

desk tchotchkes with a series of characters clutching their guts, paralyzed with laughter?

It doesn't matter how large your space is, a lot of fussy tchotchkes is going to detract from the overall look you're trying to create... unless that look is «grandma's basement.»

Move your themed oven mitts, candles, bowls of baubles, throw pillows and assorted sparkly tchotchkes around weekly, daily, HOURLY for more holiday fun.

Not to be outdone by its Loop neighbor, Christkindlmarketis a veritable snowstorm of Christmas tchotchke, German food, drinks and all - around Christmas celebration.

Subsequently, I'm all about tchotchke - free party favors (if you want to do favors at all) to simplify birthday parties.

Cuomo in the past has celebrated his on - time budgets in speeches to business groups and with ceremonial tchotchkes, including a novelty hockey puck that he used in a Stanley Cup bet and a commemorative baseball to celebrate his fourth «grand slam.»

An abundance of tchotchkes makes a space feel busy and claustrophobic.

Analisse Taft styled this dinner party with fine china and cute tchotchkes usually associated with a home - cooked meal.

The spiky crystal trees dotting a beach felt similarly familiar, whether from seasonal tchotchkes or The Last Jedi's own crystal foxes, whom one might imagine scaling their glassy trunks.

This is the improbable but true story of the rise and fall of Polish émigré Jan Lewan (Black), from striving tchotchke shop owner in the»70s to the undisputed «King of Pennsylvania Polka» in the early»90s.

She lives in an apartment filled with swan - themed tchotchkes, old VCR tapes of Oprah shows and yellowing piles of lottery tickets.

Unfortunately, one such promise happens in front of a wish - granting devil tchotchke that Max receives mysteriously.

Lonely in an empty future city, he collects tchotchkes of the human age.

by Walter Chaw A film with all the drama and flair of a Tuesday Morning tchotchke shop, The Brothers Grimm is the only Terry Gilliam film since Jabberwocky that I've actively disliked.

«The Polka King» tells the true story of Jan Lewan, a Polish immigrant who became a musical star only to rip off his adoring fans with an elaborate Ponzi scheme involving communist tchotchkes.

Booksellers will frequently have these kinds of tchotchke items at the register for customers to grab on their way out; why not make that bookstore freebie something that could help spread the word about your book?

So if you're routinely buying and reselling tchotchkes online, flipping houses or actively day - trading, it's likely the CRA will view your activities as a business venture and therefore tax any gains on your «business inventory» as regular income.

After adopting my third dog (a silly little muppet mix named Tchotchke), I realized there was another thing I could do to help further the Postitive Reinforcement message; learn to groom in a way that respects the dog's boundaries.

And then we all walked the last mile or so to Crissy Field together and was welcomed by loved ones, staff from the several agencies involved, GGNRA Superintendent Chris Lehnertz, and a super fun REI Village offering tchotchkes.

It's also not merely about collecting potentially - rare physical tchotchkes.

A surreal mix of Western tchotchkes watch over the rooms like scarecrows — a bust of Iron Man, a replica of Michelangelo's David, and a glossy poster of Lebron James — a reminder of which culture the artists are meant to produce for.