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16-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Buzz Feed
If You Take Your Home's Vibes And Aesthetic Very Seriously, These 25 Things From Etsy Are Right Up Your Alley
A macrame fruit hammock so all your produce has a cool place to hang out that's not the usual space-hogging bowl. A made-to-order ceramic soap dish that'll hook neatly over the side of your sink with a cleverly placed drainage hole to keep things fresh and slime-free. A beautiful stained-glass butterfly stake so your plant can have a permanent guest. It hooks onto the side of a planter to create the illusion of a monarch just dropping by for a quick rest. Or stained glass garland you can hang near a window to treat yourself to a colorful light show when the sun hits. People who love when cool shadows appear on the wall: This one is for you! A linen couch cover to protect your sofa from The Horrors (cat puke, spilled wine, cookie crumbs) so thoroughly, it'll be like they were never there at all. Minimalist, coastal grandmother lifestyle, here we come. A funnel planter that not only has a drainage hole (a MUST if you want a healthy plant), but actually incorporates it into the overall look. There's even a cool, orb-like water catcher that's easier to deal with than traditional saucers. A UFO abduction lamp to add a little Mulder to your otherwise Scully-esque desk. It comes with a color-changing remote so you can pick whatever hue matches the moo-d (sorry). Under-cabinet containers you can install in areas that were previously considered at capacity. They maximize space under sinks, in pantries, and beneath shelves, meaning you can finally fit even more stuff in your home! The jars are airtight and self-seal when you put them back, so you can store anything from coffee beans to cotton swabs in them. A book lamp that fits neatly onto your bookshelf so you don't have to worry about mounting, electrical work, or other tiresome chores that aren't cuddling up with a book. The linen-shaded lamp comes with a long, 8-inch cord that you can easily snake through the back of your bookcase. Or a gothic cathedral book light to give some gravitas to your fantasy or horror collection. It comes with two LED candles that provide a flickering glow perfect for a year-round spooky vibe. The Locked Tomb series would be an incredible choice, NGL. A bunch of floral-scented grape soap that pretty much blows all other decorative soap out of the water. Handmade by a mother and son with olive oil and natural fragrances, these vegan soaps can be displayed in a bowl or hung anywhere you want some nice, subtle scents. A 3D-printed, modular Gothic tower plant pole offering a romantic place for your pothos or ivy to climb up. There's a watering tower on top and a column base that fits securely in the planter. An acrylic dry-erase board that serves as unobtrusive decor until you're ready to break out the markers and start brainstorming what you want for dinner. A jumbo carrot body pillow in case you wanna inject some serious vitamin A into your home. Snuggle up with this 4-foot-long plush and live out Bugs Bunny's greatest dream. A super cool end table with a unique wavy design sure to catch you a ton of compliments. Pretty much anything will look cool when placed on this thing. A crescent bamboo wine holder offering an elegant and kinetic way to store a primo bottle of wine. I strongly recommend finding one with the prettiest label possible so it can double as decor until you're ready to drink it. A handmade ceramic incense cone burner that looks like a tiny little stove. I've seen some cute burners in my time, but this dollhouse-ready one takes the cake. Puffy bookends in bright colors to make your bookshelf feel like it came straight from the MoMA gift shop — even if you have more mystery novels than sleek art books. A cottagecore-y felt desk mat with an embroidered frog design of your choice. Your desk should feel cozy even if your job makes you feel prickly. A handmade, glass birth month flower — pick up one to represent each member of your friends and family to create the most sentimental bouquet of all time. Assuming not everyone was born in the same month, the collection will look super cute in a vase! A handmade, laser-engraved butterfly plant stand/side table to elevate your plants or decor to new soaring heights. You can pick the stain of the wood to best match your style. A cute poster of a handful of pool balls to add a pop of color to your room. The use of negative space really makes this piece special, IMO! Or an art print featuring a scene from Animal Fashion Week. Having these fashionistas in your home is likely to double the value of your property. ;) A hand-blocked cotton quilt perfect for when the weather gets too warm for a heavy comforter. The double-sided design means that, in a way, you're kinda getting two blankets for the price of one! A pack of record dividers for vinyl collectors who need to do a little more organizing. It'll feel like you're record shopping through your own collection and might even help you rediscover old purchases.
Telegraph
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Big noses are back. Now I'm trying to learn to love mine
Mine is a face that never really stood a chance. My elder brother has a big nose, which he inherited from my father. My grandfather on my mother's side and my grandmother on my father's side both had big noses too. In old family photos, some of my bigger-nosed and bespectacled ancestors look like they are wearing those Groucho Marx fake-nose-and-glasses masks. Yes, I come from a long line of long noses, so guess what? I also got a large, straight and right-angular hooter, the size and proportions of a traffic cone. Don't stand too close to me, because if I turn around quickly, it may knock you over. Mine is an annoyingly regular design, undistinguished by any proper, noble nasal code; it isn't Nubian or Roman, or aquiline. It isn't broken in some heroic and interesting way (a la Jason Statham). Instead, its bluff and steep architecture, wide and blowsy and inelegant, just sits on my face like a fleshy Toblerone. And I hate it. But maybe I shouldn't. Perhaps I should learn to love it, 'own' it and use my defect, because right now, big noses are having a moment. Actor Paul Mescal recently claimed that his large nose was a key factor in helping him win the starring role of Lucius in Ridley Scott's recent Gladiator sequel. 'The nose that I absolutely hated when I was in secondary school – and used to get ribbed for,' Mescal told an interviewer, 'became very useful when Ridley needed somebody to be in Gladiator II.' The money-making Roman snout follows in the aquiline slipstream of other bankable, big-nosed actors: Steve Carell, Bradley Cooper, Matthew Macfadyen, Jeff Goldblum, Andy Samberg, Liam Neeson, Adam Driver, Ryan Gosling, Owen Wilson, F Murray Abraham. Currently sniffing around the album charts are veteran goths the Horrors, their front man, Faris Badwan, the proud owner of a magnificent gothic bugle worthy of a Disney vulture. Then there is King Konk: Adrien Brody, the owner of a nose so large, busted and skew-whiff that his make-up artist on The Brutalist once tried to remove it believing the Oscar-winning proboscis to be a prosthetic. Big noses are big news. Medical records acknowledge the fashion – the United States in particular is no longer obsessed with fixing its noses, and the number of rhinoplasties conducted by surgeons has gone down 43 per cent since 2000. Ten years ago, nearly 400,000 Americans were having their noses made smaller, slimmer, straighter and cuter. Now the annual figure is only about 225,000. And if you have had a nose job, shaving your Roman down to a ski jump, it is possible to reverse it. Augmentation procedures break the nose bone and redeploy grafts of extra cartilage taken from the ears and bone from the hips, elbow or skull, remodelling and building it up to enlarge and widen the nose. These operations are particularly popular in China, where prominent, straight 'Western' noses with a strong bridge and wide nostrils are considered attractive and a sign of wealth and success. ('The big nose,' F Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, 'always means brainy and well-educated'.) Los Angeles-based cosmetic surgeon Dr Alexander Rivkin says he's seen a definite increase in patients wanting their natural look back. 'Some feel like they no longer look like they are part of their family,' says Rivkin, whose 'reverse rhinoplasty' technique restores bumps and curves into his patients' noses via a course of injectable fillers. 'Some feel like they don't look like their ethnicity. They feel like their previous imperfections made their nose and their face look more natural and they want that back.' Would I ever consider rhinoplasty myself? Not really – my big farmer's nose is, at least, in some sort of proportion to my big, agricultural face – but my tortured, nose-ist inner voice did consider his children for a while. Remember that episode of Frasier, ' Roz and the Schnoz '? The one where radio producer Roz gets pregnant and has to meet the grandparents of the expected child? And when those grandparents arrive at Frasier Crane's apartment they both have huge noses. Sample dialogue: (Niles to the parents) 'You're going to a dog show?' 'Yes, We have two giant schnauzers'. And later, Roz, clearly distressed: 'I'm just sitting here thinking, what if my kid gets Rick's nose…?' This masterclass of silliness, slapstick and otorhinolaryngology first aired in 1998, four years after my first daughter was born, a year before my second, and it remains my favourite ever episode of Frasier, but also one that gave me pause for thought. Would my beautiful children both be cursed with my family snout? I didn't want them to suffer like I had – school mates calling me hilarious names such as 'Concorde' and making reference to Monty Pythons' Life of Brian ('Blessed are the big noses…'). As they grew older, I wanted them to be able to kiss with confidence, too. When I was in my teens, a button-nosed girlfriend used to perform a goofy dodging motion with her head before she leant in for passion. 'It's difficult with you,' she'd say, grabbing the end of my schnoz and tweaking it. 'You're so… nosey.' Praise the lord – and Saint Blaise (AKA the Patron Saint of noses) – neither daughter has inherited the Mills muzzle. A culture of front-facing imagery helps the big-nosed man get by. The actual owner of a schnozzle doesn't know his own nose too well, or get to see its full extension, side-on that much. We live in a flattering, photogenic, straight-on world, where smartphone camera and Zoom lens shoot in portrait mode and no one – except the King, while on postage-stamp duty or the 'heads' side of the coin, or a crim posing for a mug shot in the cop shop after an arrest – ever needs to be seen in profile. And that means, unless we encounter them in real life, we don't get to know their nose size either. So it comes as a shock to clock it in off-guard photos and video conferences. If your nose is big enough (like mine), you can actually see it though, with one eye closed, without a mirror, on your own face; a pinky pyramid, poking into your field of vision and blocking out any detail on the other side. When I'm lying down, my nose doubles as a sun dial. Small-nosed people do not have this advantage. Sunglasses and spectacles won't create much of a diversion; the polished architecture of my bold tortoiseshell frames may attempt an illusion of snout reduction but, actually, the shades only make things worse, providing a sort of launch pad for the missile's nose cone, my nose sticking out from the bridge like a plastic fake. Paul Mescal
