As a senior citizen this is why you stick with the classics & things you really love. Like the way Becky really loves her classic 70's. If it's well made & you love it who cares if "they" think it's over?
Tomato girl aesthetic is definitely tied back to that tuscan kitchen vibe. I think the point of those food jars was to look like a rustic italian kitchen where they would actually eventually eat those ingredients.
Yeah, I have a bottle of herbal vinegar, bunch of herbs and spices in a vinegar for salad dressings etc, but the bottle is definitely pretty and meant to also be displayed as you use it. Same with the glass jars of things like pasta and rice etc. Like, I use them as actual storage and empty and refill them, but there are also used a lot for decoration only. I've seen many displays of jars of dried goods (or as in the video, preserved food) that are way too high up to be practical for an everyday item, so not meant as actual storage.
I wonder how much of the trend cycle is tied to nostalgia and feeding inner your inner child for the trends. As someone in their 20s seeing this happen to me for the first time with all the y2k items coming back into style I'm loving it because I'm getting to enjoy these things fully for the first time. It almost feels like we're being primed to like these things when we're younger so that way 20 or 30 years down the line, when we're making our own money we can indulge in them again!
1982 - I was 14/15 & I desperatly wanted a red & white bedroom with black furniture. Mum was against it, but I did odd jobs (cleaning houses etc) to gather the funds to buy wallpaper & paint myself. My parents saw how determined I was, so they sai if I did the decorating myself, they would buy my furniture. I settled on white paper with red hearts, red gloss paint for the skirting boards & windowsill. Red curtains & a grey carpet. It took me 4 weeks to complete & I loved it.... For about 6 months & then hated it with a passion. I left home at 18 & left Mum with the red & white bedroom! 😂
Historian and museum professional here! Rachel is onto something when she brought up the idea of displaying status through food. This has been done for forever, but the most prevalent example is the pineapple! Owning a pineapple and displaying it when it was first introduced was to show off wealth since they had to import it from thousands of miles away and they were expensive enough to make it hard for anyone who wasn’t crazy rich to get their hands on it. They even showed it off by having statues and carving of pineapples on buildings to show off their wealth 😊
Anyone looking to learn more about how our trend cycles are indeed happening much more rapidly and how that is pushed by capitalism & consumerism should read "Consumed" by Aja Barber / also if youre into fashion sustainability or sustainability generally
Trends can be categorized by maxi and micro, sure technology made the cycle faster, but micro trends were always “wishy washy” in a way. Now, maxi trends linger longer, but they are more broad and often came from a shift in society, such as a new technology, sustainability, and other movements seen globally. Some micro trends can be foreseen based on maxi, as well as come from nowhere because something went viral! Honestly it’s a really fun subject, and it’s so much deeper than it seems 😊
My mom had a collection of the decorative persevered vegetables in different shaped jars. I distinctly remember her buying them from Bed Bath and Beyond
potter here :) should be fine as long as the clay is stoneware or porcelain (which it looks to be). Most vases are made with those materials because non-food-safe typically means porous and porous vases would leak.
1986 we used a projector to put an abstract women’s face on my entire wall painted it and the colors of my room were black white and red and I don’t mean just a little pop of color red like literally my bedspread was red. Something you guys are missing when trying to predict trends is the economy & the way people are feeling, when people are needing to be comforted as a whole they will tend to go to the warmer colors. So the state of our countries really do add to the trends and can change them somewhat. You guys are thinking way too much about the inedible food in the jars. Kitchens we’re going through a Tuscany feel that’s what we were trying to re-create and yes you would buy the bottles with peppers in oil but they were sealed with wax, our cabinets at that time did not go to the ceiling and you would put those bottles up there and yes you would buy them at a home decorating store.
Girls! Sorry to tell you but “Puffer jackets” were the style when I was in middle/high school - late 70s, into 80s. Mine was lime green 😮💚 proof trends come around 20-30 years.
I definitely think the food jar will be brought back but with an actual use - more prepping, preserving, gardening, getting back to the simple ways of our ancestors. Especially if the food supply is ever limited! Always a good idea to have extra food or learn to can food for emergencies too. That’s my 2025 prediction 😬
If her coffee mug was meant to be a flower pot, then it’s probably not food grade and may contain heavy metals and other components that can harm you if ingested. I’d use that mug with caution. 😕
I believe paint trends last about 10 years. For example, how grey was the colour of choice in interior design for the last 10 years and now it is so out!
I think part of the drive for trend repeating is yard sales, thrifting, and the passing down of things as older people downsize and as they reminisce. It brings the trends back into our conscience and then into the public eye. The Tuscan kitchen trend they mentioned, I have seen so many of those themed items at estate sales and yard sales this summer. I even got myself a kitchen chicken after seeing so many chicken decor pieces that my mind eventually went "you know what I DO need one of those!"
Late 60s when I was in high school daisies daisies every place! 20 years later my daughter was In to it in Middle School Oh I wish I had saved all those necklaces, rings a,nd earrings!!!
Those pickled item are edible. If you travel to the Mediterranea you will see plenty of them, they are food staples in many diets in North Africa, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, etc. Look for exemple for giardiniera, it an italian mixed pickle that need big bottles and is beautiful... and totally edible and delicious.
The cottage core of the Midwest in the 90s was totally geese, cornflower blue, and throw in some twine or gingham. The goose décoré was everywhere, especially on the wallpaper border at the top of walls.
Along the same lines as the sealed bottles of vegetables, we also had bottles of bath oil with dried flowers etc submerged in it. They also usually had a wax seal over the stopper. I completely forgot about these until now
I watched a BBC production about historical fashion produced in the 1950s and they too pointed out general trends in architecture, and home decor in conjunction with fashion. They had the models wear original antique dresses to make sure they didn't have a bad reproduction or copy. They showed a lady in an 1810s gown, so regency, slim dress, drapey flimsy fabric, long lines, very much harking back to ancient Rome and Greece. So the homes also had a lot of tall windows, tall and slim columns, both architecturally as well as display tables shaped like tall columns etc. The 1850s gown with a very wide hoop skirt was made at the same time that many buildings had domes for example. Very interesting to see the things connected like that.
Since the trends are changing so fast, and as creators you probably have to follow them and recreate them for millions of followers... I would love to see more emphasis in upcycling easier stuff. I know you have done it a lot already in the past! Doesn't even have to be complex, I want to give a unique example: the creator Minimalist Paik uses carton packaging inside out to organize her house similar to the minimalism aesthetic, but without buying any plastic containers. Loved the collab, have a nice dayy 🌺
I feel like the 80's resurgence has already come & gone. With shows like Stranger Things that brought back this pure 80's style nostalgia, with its very geometrical shapes, harsh angles, overly saturated designs & bold colours, what appears now reminds me more of the more soft, rounded and pastel designs of the early 90's, which you'd see in cars, furniture & decor items. This new iteration, with bolder colours, might be a mix of both time periods... As for the preserved foods, I feel, at the contrary, they're a testament of pre-industrual times, & times of scarcity, when seasons dictated what fruits & veggies you'd get in only certain periods of the year, and ppl had to make preserves to still have access to them when they weren't freshly available anymore. Still a tradition, mostly found in Mediterranean sunny regions, vacationers then found and brought some back as souvenir/decor & it took off as such.
Guys I hate to tell you but in the 70s I had a puffer jacket it was white with lavender flowers on it. Who knows they may have been there in the 50s too.😂
I make vinegar peppers, pickled onions, homemade pickles, and other jarred foods that we do eat. It’s an Italian thing that we mainly put on sandwiches/cheese platters/cold cuts
My coworkers and I just did a little baby shower for my coworker and his wife for their first born. They didn't want us to get them gifts but we wanted to do something. Knowing having a baby means big ticket expenses like a crib, stroller, car seat, etc, everyone from the team pitched in a few bucks ($10-20) and we wrote them a check. We ended up collecting $500 which I think will help put a nice dent in their baby expenses while being respectful of their boundaries.
XO Makenna recent renovations and even the further back cottage renovations are the perfect example of the French provincial/ American Italian inspired cottage core for modern spaces
Some of the jars that have preserved peppers and food are actually made to use. They usually are some sort of dressing. I don’t know what instance you would want spicy vinegar dressing but maybe that explains why no one used them
The vinegar absorbing the taste of the preserved food is nice, but generally a side effect of the intended use: preserving fresh ingredients out of season. Peppers don't grow all year round everywhere. Especially in times before fast global trade, people would not be able to buy any peppers out of season unless dried or preserved.
I remember when my parents brought home our bottles of preserved food deco and explained to me it wasnt going to be cooked with. I was SO fascinated. Everytime I went to someone’s house I had to see what bottles they had in their kitchen and compare. 😆
I think we’re going to see mid 90’s trends come around now. I’m seeing it in a lot of fabric choices for upholstery. We had your green mug Becky , but broke it recently. We had a yellow one and a blue one, both long gone, but still have the pink one.
I'm 45. In the mid 90s, everyone was into wearing 70s clothing. Now, 20 something years later, everyone is into wearing 90s clothing. So in 20 something years time, everyone will be into wearing 2020's style.
I don't really care about trends. Especially because I buy things from thrift shops, so is not really what people want anymore. It annoys me a little because people judge others a lot and think they are better them others. But this is super interesting and great research.
There was this one blip in home design I remember from the late 90’s early 2000’s that was like hedge witch but make it modern. Sort of a storybook style. Herbs hanging from the ceiling, thatched cottages, primitive furniture. That’s what I want back.
Because trends move so fast, I feel like they are actually losing their effectiveness as a trend, or even the point. By the time I see something enough to warm up to it and want it, it's already on the way out and everyone's moved onto something else. It's kind of a positive thing though, I can just use the trends to see a bunch of new things and decide on my own if I like it, because there's no point in trying to keep up anyway.
As someone who does ceramics, I gotta say, not all glazes are made the same and not all are food safe. I would be careful drinking out of a flowerpot, some of the glazes used for stuff like that is not food safe!
My mom had the decorative preserved food AND bath oils and I believe they were acquired from a combo of Macys and Bed bath and beyond. I am here for the beautiful bath oils coming back, not sure about the food…
I feel like the jars of food didn't start as a thing to never eat or touch. Early adopters were probably people with the time and energy to make sure their preserved food was displayed beautifully and then once the trend took off and got to people who didn't have the time and money-- they didn't touch it because they couldn't maintain it. Similar to all the "decanting" stuff now. Like I can totally imagine the decanting/ friedgescape mom who tells her kids to only take stuff from the hidden refill containers and not from the stuff that's on display.
Connie Willis wrote a wonderful short fiction piece called “The Bellweather” about trend makers, based on the herd behavior of sheep. The bellweather is the most intelligent, tuned-in sheep, and the rest of the herd follow her lead when, for example, running from danger, etc. Fun stuff, 10/10 recommend.
❤ for mentioning this story! It's a little gem. Two notes: 1. It's a novel(la), not short story 2. The bellwether is definitely the most tuned-in, not necessarily most intelligent though.
after a spa session with friends, I ran into the field in the parking lot, mid Winter mind you, to yank pampas grass for decor at home lol, my hands were bloody, random passerby were confused, my friends were just like there she goes doing "something" lol though one did join me, and they weren't even the nice ones but hey, it was an adventure and I saved some money haha
I think with the internet it’s way easier for us to hold multiple trends at once and no one trend actually fully take over. Layer in sustainability and we should be all looking at our purchases in terms of longevity and what works for yourself first. Nothing wrong with seeing something trendy and liking it but we need to push underconsumption core as a trend first and foremost.
I feel like we still do the food thing and it’s never gone away? My mum had preserved oranges in a bottle, but then it moved into foam/ artificial food in fruit bowls. Then it moved into trending foods like avocado, peaches, pineapples as fridge magnets/ small decor items and now I feel like antique food paintings are a thing 🤷🏼♀️
The goblets for water/tea not wine( not a drinker of wine) is something that was a trend that I still have because of my hand disability. I hold the stem between my fingers. Handles on cups are harder but better then none.
ive always loved beckys mug because i had loads of that collection of crockery when i was growing up, i found a utensil holder in the charity shop from the same brand (?) and i love it sm🖤 absolute nostalgia
I really liked this episode, I learned something new. I remember my mom doing those bottles with cucumbers, onions and other veggies, but they were for eating. Yes, we ate them, in the salads, with bread, for cooking or side dish for dinner. My mom used olive oil or she pickled them. Its funny, because she used to keep some clothing for years, and then, they were back in style! ❤
I had a Mondrian bed sheet set in the 80s that I insisted my mom buy from the Sears catalog. Still regret donating to Value Village even though I didn't have the same size bed any longer. I'm pretty sure I met the person who bought them from the thrift store and I commented on what a coincidence it was that I used to have the same set that they had on their bed.
I do remember a lot of that food-for-decor in jars was sold at Ross, TJMaxx, and Marshall's after it started dropping out of department stores. Of course, Pier One as well.
You can change your Alexa’s name. I’m named Alexia, so you can imagine I changed mine to Echo. But my parents didn’t, so everytime they have me on the phone or talk about me, it turns on.
I highly recommend Back In Time For Dinner (also Christmas) series, where a family spends a week in a decade. The film crew renovates their kitchen & living room each week. There's a Canadian & British version. I think CBC Gem has (had?) it.
I'm drinking my coffee in the only mug not in storage because the thought of not using it for the 6 months I lived in my bff basement wasn't happening. 😂
i didn't had strip lights, i had christmas lights (like the kind that belong on a house) decorated around my bunk bed/loft bed. eventually, i got some pretty flower lights that were meant to be hung indoors :)
Becky, I have 3 bowls of the same series (maybe). One yellow with laughing face, purple of a sleepy face and green of a happy face (if I remember correctly). Haven't seen the mugs before tho.
I’m wondering if the modern farmhouse girlies are going to start adopting more 90’s cottagecore. I feel like that could be a pipeline. I’m seeing lots of oil paintings and ticking stripes in those spaces. I also think 90s cottagecore will be popular with the coquette trend we’re seeing in fashion.
YOU COULD GET THE JARS OF SPICES, OILS OR PRESERVES AT LOBLAWS, YIGS, WALMART, KMART, ZELLERS, ETC. ANYWHERE REALLY. PUFFER JACKETS ARE A HUGE MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA WINTER ESSENTIAL. ITS A THING YOU CAN ALWAYS PICK OUT SOMEONE FROM MELBOURNE BECAUSE THEY HAVE A PUFFER JACKET. ALSO PEOPLE WEAR THEM INSIDE CAUSE ITS VERY OFTEN THAT ITS COLDER INSIDE THE HOUSE THAN OUTSIDE THE HOUSE.
There is an amazing story behind the roaster I just heard on CBC last week. I feel it originated in Portugal, may be wrong on the country, year ?? Roasters crowed in the night time when assassins were entering the castle to murder the king. Assassin attempt diverted and the roasters were praised and revered for their effort and saving the king. More specifics on this story will be needed of course.
If you think about the rise of homesteading and people learning to pickle or make jams again, I'd definitely say this is already a bit of a thing with home-preserved items on display
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Pier One Imports baby! Lol 😅 guilty of that one. But it was definitely early 2000s. Italian themed kitchens. Lots of grapes. However I never owned a rooster.😊
About preserved food as decor: I really hope this never comes back! (More generally, I hope cottage core is gone forever.) pS. The rooster symbolizes perseverance, protection, vigilance. It’s usually in the kitchen.
Fleeting trends are for the younger generations (and there’s nothing wrong following trends 🥰) - the older you get the more you don’t mind what comes and goes. Stick to the classics and what you truly love you can’t go wrong ❤
I worked at Pier 1 in 2007-2009. Those bottled food items were on their way out buy absolutely still sold there at the time. So was silver mirrored furniture lol.
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As a senior citizen this is why you stick with the classics & things you really love. Like the way Becky really loves her classic 70's. If it's well made & you love it who cares if "they" think it's over?
you are absolutely right!😁
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Tomato girl aesthetic is definitely tied back to that tuscan kitchen vibe. I think the point of those food jars was to look like a rustic italian kitchen where they would actually eventually eat those ingredients.
Yeah, I have a bottle of herbal vinegar, bunch of herbs and spices in a vinegar for salad dressings etc, but the bottle is definitely pretty and meant to also be displayed as you use it.
Same with the glass jars of things like pasta and rice etc. Like, I use them as actual storage and empty and refill them, but there are also used a lot for decoration only. I've seen many displays of jars of dried goods (or as in the video, preserved food) that are way too high up to be practical for an everyday item, so not meant as actual storage.
I wonder how much of the trend cycle is tied to nostalgia and feeding inner your inner child for the trends. As someone in their 20s seeing this happen to me for the first time with all the y2k items coming back into style I'm loving it because I'm getting to enjoy these things fully for the first time. It almost feels like we're being primed to like these things when we're younger so that way 20 or 30 years down the line, when we're making our own money we can indulge in them again!
Oh never thought of it like this! There could definitely be a connection there🤔😊
Yall literally just did that with the 30 min worth of makeovers. Red legs on the kitchen table + the blue fireplace 😀
Yes we did😂😁
1982 - I was 14/15 & I desperatly wanted a red & white bedroom with black furniture. Mum was against it, but I did odd jobs (cleaning houses etc) to gather the funds to buy wallpaper & paint myself.
My parents saw how determined I was, so they sai if I did the decorating myself, they would buy my furniture. I settled on white paper with red hearts, red gloss paint for the skirting boards & windowsill. Red curtains & a grey carpet.
It took me 4 weeks to complete & I loved it.... For about 6 months & then hated it with a passion.
I left home at 18 & left Mum with the red & white bedroom! 😂
Historian and museum professional here! Rachel is onto something when she brought up the idea of displaying status through food. This has been done for forever, but the most prevalent example is the pineapple! Owning a pineapple and displaying it when it was first introduced was to show off wealth since they had to import it from thousands of miles away and they were expensive enough to make it hard for anyone who wasn’t crazy rich to get their hands on it. They even showed it off by having statues and carving of pineapples on buildings to show off their wealth 😊
Very cool, thanks for sharing your insight into this!
Didn't they also used to rent pineapples for parties? haha
Those cups are the grinch and his dog!
I love that you guys have Melissa from AIP for an episode that deep dives into something! Such a great crossover 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
yessss loved having her on😊
Anyone looking to learn more about how our trend cycles are indeed happening much more rapidly and how that is pushed by capitalism & consumerism should read "Consumed" by Aja Barber / also if youre into fashion sustainability or sustainability generally
very excited to find an Aja Barber reader in the comments!
Trends can be categorized by maxi and micro, sure technology made the cycle faster, but micro trends were always “wishy washy” in a way. Now, maxi trends linger longer, but they are more broad and often came from a shift in society, such as a new technology, sustainability, and other movements seen globally.
Some micro trends can be foreseen based on maxi, as well as come from nowhere because something went viral!
Honestly it’s a really fun subject, and it’s so much deeper than it seems 😊
you’re right it is SUCH an interesting topic! Loved talking about it😊
My mom had a collection of the decorative persevered vegetables in different shaped jars. I distinctly remember her buying them from Bed Bath and Beyond
whaaaatttt? They sold those?? hahaha
I hope Melissa is sure her flowerpot mug is food safe.
I don't know if flowerpots have to have food safe glaze.
I was worrying about this too!
the artist sold it to her so I hope they wouldve said something if it wasnt
potter here :) should be fine as long as the clay is stoneware or porcelain (which it looks to be). Most vases are made with those materials because non-food-safe typically means porous and porous vases would leak.
Fellow potter here. Even with that, not all glazes are food safe.
1986 we used a projector to put an abstract women’s face on my entire wall painted it and the colors of my room were black white and red and I don’t mean just a little pop of color red like literally my bedspread was red.
Something you guys are missing when trying to predict trends is the economy & the way people are feeling, when people are needing to be comforted as a whole they will tend to go to the warmer colors. So the state of our countries really do add to the trends and can change them somewhat.
You guys are thinking way too much about the inedible food in the jars. Kitchens we’re going through a Tuscany feel that’s what we were trying to re-create and yes you would buy the bottles with peppers in oil but they were sealed with wax, our cabinets at that time did not go to the ceiling and you would put those bottles up there and yes you would buy them at a home decorating store.
Omygoosshhh…honestly sounds like a vibe😁
Completely agree with your second paragraph!
i’m always looking at the mugs in this show bcs they’re always cute and i’m so happy you guys talk about them yaaayyy 😆
hahahaha yesss we love our mugs😁
Your Editors and illustrators are naiiiling it 🙏🏼 as a designer myself , let‘s give the lovely people behind the camera lots of love
Girls! Sorry to tell you but “Puffer jackets” were the style when I was in middle/high school - late 70s, into 80s. Mine was lime green 😮💚 proof trends come around 20-30 years.
I definitely think the food jar will be brought back but with an actual use - more prepping, preserving, gardening, getting back to the simple ways of our ancestors. Especially if the food supply is ever limited! Always a good idea to have extra food or learn to can food for emergencies too. That’s my 2025 prediction 😬
If her coffee mug was meant to be a flower pot, then it’s probably not food grade and may contain heavy metals and other components that can harm you if ingested. I’d use that mug with caution. 😕
I think it’s quite obviously a flower pot. If it narrowed towards the top I might get it, but it straight up, clearly not a mug 😂
@@PucaFlea I have seen many mugs intended as mugs only that have this exact shape too.
@@AnnekeOosterink I dunno. The bottom of it is too big. Mugs don't usually have it like that.
Plates and bowls yes, not seen it on a mug
@@PucaFlea That's purely a matter of taste though. Mugs have no required shape, aside from being able to function as a mug.
did you miss the part where she said she bought it from the artist? I'm petty sure they would have mentioned if it wasn't food safe
My mom changed her Alexa’s name to “computer” 😂
oh that’s actually so funny😂
May she live long and prosper 🖖🏾
I believe paint trends last about 10 years. For example, how grey was the colour of choice in interior design for the last 10 years and now it is so out!
If Rachel makes a video on filing and reglasing broken mugs,I would looove to see it.
I think part of the drive for trend repeating is yard sales, thrifting, and the passing down of things as older people downsize and as they reminisce. It brings the trends back into our conscience and then into the public eye. The Tuscan kitchen trend they mentioned, I have seen so many of those themed items at estate sales and yard sales this summer. I even got myself a kitchen chicken after seeing so many chicken decor pieces that my mind eventually went "you know what I DO need one of those!"
Late 60s when I was in high school daisies daisies every place! 20 years later my daughter was In to it in Middle School Oh I wish I had saved all those necklaces, rings a,nd earrings!!!
Omygooshhh she would’ve love that😊
I’m watching on my iPad and Siri heard Rochelle’s call and paused the video to start calculating 16x9, just like they talked about 😅
Mine too. 144 is the answer 😂
hahahaha😂
Mine too but apparently my Siri is over eager and looked up “what’s 16 times”. Not helpful 😂
Same
Those pickled item are edible. If you travel to the Mediterranea you will see plenty of them, they are food staples in many diets in North Africa, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, etc. Look for exemple for giardiniera, it an italian mixed pickle that need big bottles and is beautiful... and totally edible and delicious.
Not necessarily - depends where they were bought, they might be edible in a decorative reusable container, or inedible and sealed.
Tried to share the green mug Becky wanted - it’s on Etsy! ❤
Oh thank you!😊
The cottage core of the Midwest in the 90s was totally geese, cornflower blue, and throw in some twine or gingham. The goose décoré was everywhere, especially on the wallpaper border at the top of walls.
Along the same lines as the sealed bottles of vegetables, we also had bottles of bath oil with dried flowers etc submerged in it. They also usually had a wax seal over the stopper. I completely forgot about these until now
I watched a BBC production about historical fashion produced in the 1950s and they too pointed out general trends in architecture, and home decor in conjunction with fashion.
They had the models wear original antique dresses to make sure they didn't have a bad reproduction or copy. They showed a lady in an 1810s gown, so regency, slim dress, drapey flimsy fabric, long lines, very much harking back to ancient Rome and Greece. So the homes also had a lot of tall windows, tall and slim columns, both architecturally as well as display tables shaped like tall columns etc. The 1850s gown with a very wide hoop skirt was made at the same time that many buildings had domes for example. Very interesting to see the things connected like that.
Isn’t so interesting!? Sounds like a very cool production too😊
Since the trends are changing so fast, and as creators you probably have to follow them and recreate them for millions of followers... I would love to see more emphasis in upcycling easier stuff. I know you have done it a lot already in the past! Doesn't even have to be complex, I want to give a unique example: the creator Minimalist Paik uses carton packaging inside out to organize her house similar to the minimalism aesthetic, but without buying any plastic containers.
Loved the collab, have a nice dayy 🌺
I feel like the 80's resurgence has already come & gone. With shows like Stranger Things that brought back this pure 80's style nostalgia, with its very geometrical shapes, harsh angles, overly saturated designs & bold colours, what appears now reminds me more of the more soft, rounded and pastel designs of the early 90's, which you'd see in cars, furniture & decor items. This new iteration, with bolder colours, might be a mix of both time periods...
As for the preserved foods, I feel, at the contrary, they're a testament of pre-industrual times, & times of scarcity, when seasons dictated what fruits & veggies you'd get in only certain periods of the year, and ppl had to make preserves to still have access to them when they weren't freshly available anymore. Still a tradition, mostly found in Mediterranean sunny regions, vacationers then found and brought some back as souvenir/decor & it took off as such.
An 80s trend is 40 years ago .... so that's a throwback for sure. I personally hate it but to each his own.
Guys I hate to tell you but in the 70s I had a puffer jacket it was white with lavender flowers on it. Who knows they may have been there in the 50s too.😂
wait but that sounds like and AMAZING jacket!
@@TheSorryGirls It might’ve been but my mom bought a matching one to mine, a kid‘s worst nightmare.
Mine was hues of green and was a graphic series of mountains. The sleeves even zipped off to be a vest.
@@paulas_lens oh my gosh I remember those!
I also had the powder blue puffer jacket in grade 7! It was from bluenotes and I got it to match my older step sister.
Watching this on my phone and Rochelle’s “Hey Siri” set mine off 😂
😂😂 😂
Since the "mug" was originally made as a flower pot, is it even food safe?? 😮
I make vinegar peppers, pickled onions, homemade pickles, and other jarred foods that we do eat. It’s an Italian thing that we mainly put on sandwiches/cheese platters/cold cuts
My coworkers and I just did a little baby shower for my coworker and his wife for their first born. They didn't want us to get them gifts but we wanted to do something. Knowing having a baby means big ticket expenses like a crib, stroller, car seat, etc, everyone from the team pitched in a few bucks ($10-20) and we wrote them a check. We ended up collecting $500 which I think will help put a nice dent in their baby expenses while being respectful of their boundaries.
The Wildcard challenge with the IKEA Catalogue photos was a breeze for me. As I lived through all those decades - YEP, I'm OLD 👍🏻🤣.
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That is incredibly cool!
I love how Rochelles's coffee mug low-key matches her outfit❤
There are people on tiktok thrifting those preserved food bottles (especially the rooster ones), cleaning them and using them like a decanter!
XO Makenna recent renovations and even the further back cottage renovations are the perfect example of the French provincial/ American Italian inspired cottage core for modern spaces
Some of the jars that have preserved peppers and food are actually made to use. They usually are some sort of dressing. I don’t know what instance you would want spicy vinegar dressing but maybe that explains why no one used them
The vinegar absorbing the taste of the preserved food is nice, but generally a side effect of the intended use: preserving fresh ingredients out of season. Peppers don't grow all year round everywhere. Especially in times before fast global trade, people would not be able to buy any peppers out of season unless dried or preserved.
I remember when my parents brought home our bottles of preserved food deco and explained to me it wasnt going to be cooked with. I was SO fascinated. Everytime I went to someone’s house I had to see what bottles they had in their kitchen and compare. 😆
I think we’re going to see mid 90’s trends come around now. I’m seeing it in a lot of fabric choices for upholstery.
We had your green mug Becky , but broke it recently. We had a yellow one and a blue one, both long gone, but still have the pink one.
I'm 45. In the mid 90s, everyone was into wearing 70s clothing. Now, 20 something years later, everyone is into wearing 90s clothing. So in 20 something years time, everyone will be into wearing 2020's style.
Exaccctlyyyyy
I don't really care about trends. Especially because I buy things from thrift shops, so is not really what people want anymore. It annoys me a little because people judge others a lot and think they are better them others. But this is super interesting and great research.
There was this one blip in home design I remember from the late 90’s early 2000’s that was like hedge witch but make it modern. Sort of a storybook style. Herbs hanging from the ceiling, thatched cottages, primitive furniture. That’s what I want back.
Because trends move so fast, I feel like they are actually losing their effectiveness as a trend, or even the point. By the time I see something enough to warm up to it and want it, it's already on the way out and everyone's moved onto something else. It's kind of a positive thing though, I can just use the trends to see a bunch of new things and decide on my own if I like it, because there's no point in trying to keep up anyway.
As someone who does ceramics, I gotta say, not all glazes are made the same and not all are food safe.
I would be careful drinking out of a flowerpot, some of the glazes used for stuff like that is not food safe!
i remember the preserved food bottles in the 90's, hope that doesn't come back lol
That was so hilarious - I was on my phone while watching this and Rochelle asked Siri the 16x9 multiplication question and my Siri answered it! 🤣
What a wonderful crossover! I would have never guessed the paths of these two channels I follow would pass!
My mom had the decorative preserved food AND bath oils and I believe they were acquired from a combo of Macys and Bed bath and beyond. I am here for the beautiful bath oils coming back, not sure about the food…
Hahahaha fair enough!
I feel like the jars of food didn't start as a thing to never eat or touch. Early adopters were probably people with the time and energy to make sure their preserved food was displayed beautifully and then once the trend took off and got to people who didn't have the time and money-- they didn't touch it because they couldn't maintain it. Similar to all the "decanting" stuff now. Like I can totally imagine the decanting/ friedgescape mom who tells her kids to only take stuff from the hidden refill containers and not from the stuff that's on display.
The food in the bottle was in restaurants like east side Mario’s as decor..but feel you could eat it.
Connie Willis wrote a wonderful short fiction piece called “The Bellweather” about trend makers, based on the herd behavior of sheep. The bellweather is the most intelligent, tuned-in sheep, and the rest of the herd follow her lead when, for example, running from danger, etc. Fun stuff, 10/10 recommend.
❤ for mentioning this story! It's a little gem.
Two notes:
1. It's a novel(la), not short story
2. The bellwether is definitely the most tuned-in, not necessarily most intelligent though.
Beeing in Ikea Stockholm 1972 as a teen I think You are so good placing everything!
after a spa session with friends, I ran into the field in the parking lot, mid Winter mind you, to yank pampas grass for decor at home lol, my hands were bloody, random passerby were confused, my friends were just like there she goes doing "something" lol though one did join me, and they weren't even the nice ones but hey, it was an adventure and I saved some money haha
I think with the internet it’s way easier for us to hold multiple trends at once and no one trend actually fully take over. Layer in sustainability and we should be all looking at our purchases in terms of longevity and what works for yourself first. Nothing wrong with seeing something trendy and liking it but we need to push underconsumption core as a trend first and foremost.
I feel like we still do the food thing and it’s never gone away? My mum had preserved oranges in a bottle, but then it moved into foam/ artificial food in fruit bowls. Then it moved into trending foods like avocado, peaches, pineapples as fridge magnets/ small decor items and now I feel like antique food paintings are a thing 🤷🏼♀️
I had the yellow one as well. I like mugs with a surprise at the bottom!
The goblets for water/tea not wine( not a drinker of wine) is something that was a trend that I still have because of my hand disability. I hold the stem between my fingers. Handles on cups are harder but better then none.
ive always loved beckys mug because i had loads of that collection of crockery when i was growing up, i found a utensil holder in the charity shop from the same brand (?) and i love it sm🖤 absolute nostalgia
I remember seeing the food/oils in the glass bottles all over TJ Maxx, and Marshalls. Definitely part of the Tuscan kitchen trend.
I really liked this episode, I learned something new. I remember my mom doing those bottles with cucumbers, onions and other veggies, but they were for eating. Yes, we ate them, in the salads, with bread, for cooking or side dish for dinner. My mom used olive oil or she pickled them. Its funny, because she used to keep some clothing for years, and then, they were back in style! ❤
I had a Mondrian bed sheet set in the 80s that I insisted my mom buy from the Sears catalog. Still regret donating to Value Village even though I didn't have the same size bed any longer. I'm pretty sure I met the person who bought them from the thrift store and I commented on what a coincidence it was that I used to have the same set that they had on their bed.
I do remember a lot of that food-for-decor in jars was sold at Ross, TJMaxx, and Marshall's after it started dropping out of department stores. Of course, Pier One as well.
You can change your Alexa’s name. I’m named Alexia, so you can imagine I changed mine to Echo. But my parents didn’t, so everytime they have me on the phone or talk about me, it turns on.
My in-laws had that couch when hubby and I started dating in 2004. It’s from the 90’s
I highly recommend Back In Time For Dinner (also Christmas) series, where a family spends a week in a decade. The film crew renovates their kitchen & living room each week. There's a Canadian & British version. I think CBC Gem has (had?) it.
Me, living in Chicago, where everyone wheres a puffer jacket when it gets below 20F: Oh, we were on trend? LOL
Y'all should have a segment where you talk about your mugs every time :) bonus points if you showcase handmade mugs/ artists
Noted!👀😁
I am here patiently waiting for the ocean life bathroom and sea life gel candles to come back!!
I am talking fish and turles on shower curtain, see through epoxy toilet lid with dolphin and seashells next to bathroom sink!
OFFICE MUG TOUR ASAP!!!
pls & thx.
I'm drinking my coffee in the only mug not in storage because the thought of not using it for the 6 months I lived in my bff basement wasn't happening. 😂
i didn't had strip lights, i had christmas lights (like the kind that belong on a house) decorated around my bunk bed/loft bed. eventually, i got some pretty flower lights that were meant to be hung indoors :)
Omg cant believe im this early, this episode is the perfect companion with my morning tea 🥹
LOVE to hear it❤
Becky, I have 3 bowls of the same series (maybe). One yellow with laughing face, purple of a sleepy face and green of a happy face (if I remember correctly). Haven't seen the mugs before tho.
I have the white version of the pouffe the dog is sitting on in 2008. I had it in my first uni dorm
I didnt bother working out the furniture trends for the wildcard round - I looked at the printing quality and the graphics.
I’m wondering if the modern farmhouse girlies are going to start adopting more 90’s cottagecore. I feel like that could be a pipeline. I’m seeing lots of oil paintings and ticking stripes in those spaces. I also think 90s cottagecore will be popular with the coquette trend we’re seeing in fashion.
Ooooo I like the connections you’re making! Def a possibility I think😊
YOU COULD GET THE JARS OF SPICES, OILS OR PRESERVES AT LOBLAWS, YIGS, WALMART, KMART, ZELLERS, ETC. ANYWHERE REALLY.
PUFFER JACKETS ARE A HUGE MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA WINTER ESSENTIAL. ITS A THING YOU CAN ALWAYS PICK OUT SOMEONE FROM MELBOURNE BECAUSE THEY HAVE A PUFFER JACKET. ALSO PEOPLE WEAR THEM INSIDE CAUSE ITS VERY OFTEN THAT ITS COLDER INSIDE THE HOUSE THAN OUTSIDE THE HOUSE.
There is an amazing story behind the roaster I just heard on CBC last week.
I feel it originated in Portugal, may be wrong on the country, year ??
Roasters crowed in the night time when assassins were entering the castle
to murder the king.
Assassin attempt diverted and the roasters were praised and revered for their effort and saving the king.
More specifics on this story will be needed of course.
I love Rochelles mug, cant take my eyes of it in every episode the mug is in :))
my mom gifted me her Pepper Rooster. Which she's had since the early 90s when she got married. Just a transparent rooster with peppers in it. 😂
If you think about the rise of homesteading and people learning to pickle or make jams again, I'd definitely say this is already a bit of a thing with home-preserved items on display
I believe the “inedible” fruit was part of the Tuscan kitchen trend to really pull in the estate farm vibes
Y’all just turned my Kindle on … Rachel ! Thank fully I have the volume way down as there are a couple of games I hate the sound of 😂😂
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Pier One Imports baby! Lol 😅 guilty of that one. But it was definitely early 2000s. Italian themed kitchens. Lots of grapes. However I never owned a rooster.😊
Btw I had 2 of those jars of those.
Demure 4ever!!! 😂😂😂 It has become part of culture even more than Paris Hilton's "That's hot"
This was really informative and fun. This is an awesome moment ❤
Thanks so much!!!❤
Yes you can change Alexa’s wake word, I have the one in the front and back of the house set for different words.
About preserved food as decor: I really hope this never comes back! (More generally, I hope cottage core is gone forever.) pS. The rooster symbolizes perseverance, protection, vigilance. It’s usually in the kitchen.
Yes, food in bottles (for decorations) is here with a twist ( no waste ) it going to be utilized for cooking ❤
Ooohhh good to know!
Fleeting trends are for the younger generations (and there’s nothing wrong following trends 🥰) - the older you get the more you don’t mind what comes and goes. Stick to the classics and what you truly love you can’t go wrong ❤
I worked at Pier 1 in 2007-2009. Those bottled food items were on their way out buy absolutely still sold there at the time. So was silver mirrored furniture lol.
Hahaha I remember those mirrors🤭
Honestly I can’t wait until Art Nouveau is back
You can change the name of your Alexa device. For example if you have the echo dot you can change the name to echo