Lady Lydia Decorates....

[Sumeri]

Oh Good Christ, I just spent five minutes of my life that I will never get back scrolling through pictures of the same bed from the same angle made up with different bedding. :lol:

Lady Lydia isn't the "Kristin Chenowith lookalike" (says she) one, is she? The porny looking one who is also into tea sets and chintz?

When I was a Realtor I once sold a home that had a Barbie room - a room that a grown ass woman had dedicated to her hundreds of Barbie dolls and their accessories done up in hot pink. Always really wondered what her husband thought of that, but can you imagine coming into a home where every single room was so fussy and frilly and overdone? My gran used to have those drapes with the pom-pons edging them and even HER taste was better than this.

[Peas n carrots]

Oh Good Christ, I just spent five minutes of my life that I will never get back scrolling through pictures of the same bed from the same angle made up with different bedding. :lol:

Lady Lydia isn't the "Kristin Chenowith lookalike" (says she) one, is she? The porny looking one who is also into tea sets and chintz?

When I was a Realtor I once sold a home that had a Barbie room - a room that a grown ass woman had dedicated to her hundreds of Barbie dolls and their accessories done up in hot pink. Always really wondered what her husband thought of that, but can you imagine coming into a home where every single room was so fussy and frilly and overdone? My gran used to have those drapes with the pom-pons edging them and even HER taste was better than this.

She did not (to bolded)! Oh that is HILARIOUS.

Yeah I often wonder about people who are super into collecting Barbies or porcelain dolls. I mean we all have our hobbies and collections - I know I make my DH's eyes roll when I discuss fundie snark with him. But I don't have like, shrines to Xgay Greg in my house.

I know I've said it many times, but I swear Baby Jane Hudson is Lydia's inspiration:

--RI7tlWuaM

[Black Aliss]

Also, that is a fugly room. It looks like a cheap B&B and probably smells like one too. I once stayed in a cheap B&B to attend my union's national conference (I was a last-minute delegate after the one before me got ill so I didn't get a nice hotel room). It was as chintzy as shit and the couple next door fucked all night and all day and were very vocal about it (imagine being woken up at four am after a night out on the piss to a scream of "Give it to me up the arse, big boy! Harder! OOOOOOO!") Lady Lydia's room is giving me Brighton flashbacks.

OMG. I think I stayed in that same B&B (Brighton, UK, right? Not Brighton, Utah, USA)! Was the hallway outside the room redolent of cat piss and the lady of the house looked exactly like John Cleese in drag?

[Sobeknofret]

Lydia is one of my favorites! She amuses me beyond all semblance of reason. I'm not sure that she's a very happy person, to be honest. She has three children, two older boys and then Lillibeth, although the only child she ever talks about is Lillibeth and her family. For a long while, Lydia was almost frantic on the subject of "rebellion in adult children," practically foaming at the mouth about the duties of adult children, what they owed the family, and how they rebellious adult children needed to be forced back into their families of origin and into proper reverence, so I imagine that at least one of the older sons has decided to live his own life and gone his own way rather than toe the line any longer. Actually, I suspect both sons have done this very thing.

Lillibeth is so thoroughly steeped in the kool-aid she's never getting out. She married a controlling, dead-beat, wanna-be preacher that her mother thoroughly approves of, has three children, and for a long time her family lived with her parents. She's a Lydia clone, even down to the nauseatingly pink blog.

[JesusFightClub]

OMG. I think I stayed in that same B&B (Brighton, UK, right? Not Brighton, Utah, USA)! Was the hallway outside the room redolent of cat piss and the lady of the house looked exactly like John Cleese in drag?

Yes re the cat piss (I never saw the lady of the house, just a dispirited bloke who chucked the room key across the desk at me). And did it also claim to be "within minutes of the Brighton seafront" without disclosing that "minutes" actually meant "half an hour by foot, at least"?

My favourite part of the whole stay was that the couple enjoying the, um, pleasures of the bed, had their headboard against my wall. So one night, I can remember arriving back with a wee bit drink taken (I was a union delegate, what can I say) and watching entranced as the wall and fittings in my room literally shook and the teacup I had placed on the side fell off and spilt boiling water everywhere.

I applauded them and shouted "Encore" and then went to sleep. I awoke twenty minutes later to the sounds of vigorous doggy-style sex (judging by what the female partner was saying, which included "Take me like your dirty dog bitch").

The next day, I was away back North and the poor put-upon maid was tidying their room as I left. I said to her "That's going to need a steam cleaning, pal." She looked up and smiled at me and said "I don't English". I said "Thank you for cleaning my room" and left, while thinking "I don't English. Those are words to live by." :pink-shock:

[Sumeri]

She did not (to bolded)! Oh that is HILARIOUS.

Yeah I often wonder about people who are super into collecting Barbies or porcelain dolls. I mean we all have our hobbies and collections - I know I make my DH's eyes roll when I discuss fundie snark with him. But I don't have like, shrines to Xgay Greg in my house.

I know I've said it many times, but I swear Baby Jane Hudson is Lydia's inspiration:

--RI7tlWuaM

It might not be her. I am trying so hard to remember the name of the lady I'm thinking of: always going on about her wonderful husband and their anniversary trip and OMG with the tea sets and pink décor.

[formergothardite]

I can't think of the bogger name either Sumeri! She is obsessed with Somewhere in Time, her husband has some sort of weird church thing going on, and all her kids were named variations of Alex. Her house was pinker than LL's. What was her blog?! Somebody has to remember.

[Sobeknofret]

I can't think of the bogger name either Sumeri! She is obsessed with Somewhere in Time, her husband has some sort of weird church thing going on, and all her kids were named variations of Alex. Her house was pinker than LL's. What was her blog?! Somebody has to remember.

Wasn't she also the one who threw a baby shower with tulle draped all over the chandeliers, light fixtures, and tables, and then had real, lit, candles all over? It was a fire marshal's worst nightmare!

[formergothardite]

Wasn't she also the one who threw a baby shower with tulle draped all over the chandeliers, light fixtures, and tables, and then had real, lit, candles all over? It was a fire marshal's worst nightmare!

Yes! And all the kids have matching striped Christmas pajamas. Who is she? Her daughter had a blog too.

[VooDooChild]

The thing is, I don't think LL is necessarily challenged in the intellectual department. I think she has long term mental health issues, primarily stemming from a lack of social interaction and intellectual stimulation. I think the woman is, quite literally, bored out of her mind. The thing that really makes me wonder is that this seems to be...by choice. I do think she deludes herself about her sense of style, taste, creative abilities and talents--but I suspect this delusion is fuelled by her isolation. Without much to compare herself to, her glitterized-magazine imitation crafts probably seem quite...um..chic?

I concur. I think it is more mental health problems than intellectual disability.

[nelliebelle1197]

Yes! And all the kids have matching striped Christmas pajamas. Who is she? Her daughter had a blog too.

I have looked at that one. Doesn't she outfit herself basically like a Barbie doll?

[formergothardite]

Found her! She has deleted everything off her blog.

bealivingsacrifice.blogspot.com/

[Mudball]

Is this bealivingsacrifice lady and her family? Because... wow. That hair. Wow. www.alexandra-thevalueofone.blogspot.com/ (scroll down to Thursday May 17, 2012)

[Sumeri]

YES!! :lol: That's her. Darn, she deleted her blog? I had totally forgotten about the Somewhere in Time obsession. Wasn't that where they went for their anniversary trip, the hotel from Somewhere in Time?

[nelliebelle1197]

YES!! :lol: That's her. Darn, she deleted her blog? I had totally forgotten about the Somewhere in Time obsession. Wasn't that where they went for their anniversary trip, the hotel from Somewhere in Time?

Yes! I read that one. Am not sure how I came across her. But one look and I ran back to The World of Sanity.

[Mary C Doates]

YES!! :lol: That's her. Darn, she deleted her blog? I had totally forgotten about the Somewhere in Time obsession. Wasn't that where they went for their anniversary trip, the hotel from Somewhere in Time?

Sherry! She and Lady Lydia need to get together to share decorating tips.

Her blog's been down for a while for "re-modeling"--needs more pink, apparently.