Just when you think life has dulled itself down to a stub, the new Pottery Barn Catalog arrives! Talk about reigniting your passion for living!
Oh Goodie Goodie Gumdrops! Let us rub out collective hands together and start our Pottery Barn discussion with:
- The Pottery Barn Activity Center
Clearly Pottery Barn is trying to get us to be a little more constructive in our spare time. To that end, PB has designed this (get a life) activity center. As you can see from the picture, Pottery Barn feels passionately that thread is the KEY FACTOR when it comes to any activity.
What is PB trying to say?
Perhaps The Potter Barn Activity Center is PB’s polite way of telling us that we need to get off our collective squishy bums and start actively LIVING LIFE before Father Time pokes us with a fork, we’re done.
As Dorothy Parker once said, “There will be plenty of time to do nothing once we’re dead.”
Therefore it is imperative that you buy yourself a Pottery Barn Activity Center right this very minute! Don’t just say, “Oh I’ll actively fiddle with thread tomorrow.” What if you don’t make it to tomorrow. Huh? Then what?
“Get Busy Livin’ or Get Busy Dyin” . . . You’re call.
PB wants to know how you would like being on your deathbed never having experienced the activities in their beautiful Activity Center. So stop wasting time and start flipping through that old Botany notebook ASAP, reread those old postcards, pronto! Don’t just sit there! Time’s a wastin’ – for heaven’s sakes at least PUT A CLAMP ON SOMETHING!
Yeah, The Pottery Barn Activity Center is $129. So What?
Pottery Barn is asking you nicely not to let the $129 price tag deter you from buying their super-duper-essential Pottery Barn Activity Center. If Pottery Barn has implored you once, they’ve implored you a thousand times not to nickel and dime yourself out of your one true chance at happiness.
Now, stop arguing and go get your purse or wallet and march yourself down to Pottery Barn . . . Ten Hut!
Oh . . . and since you’re going there anyway . . . PB wants to know if you’ve got 44 extra bucks lying around in, say, your garbage can?
If you answered yes, PB wants you to know they have devised a much more stylish way for you to throw away your money.
And that is by purchasing this One-of-a-Kind, Giant-Fork, Paper-Towel Holder:
The Cucina Paper Towel Holder
The PB Catalog describes this item simply as a Cucina Paper Towel Holder hoping you won’t know what “Cucina” means and will be too lazy to look it up.
Pottery Barn is hoping you will assume “Cucina” means sustainable, recycled, eco-friendly, soy-based, dolphin-free materials hewn by a mystical enclave of Mastercrafters headquartered in a barn made of pottery deep in the secret sustainable forests that Pottery Barn and Pottery Barn only has dibs on.
TO RECAP: if tree falls in the sustainable forest? Back off! It belongs to Pottery Barn!
Oh, and a word of caution about the Cucina, Giant-Fork Paper Towel Holder. If Father Time happens to drop by– be sure to hide this paper towel holder quickly. He gets weird around forks.
Until next time . . . I love you (especially you, Pottery Barn!)
Too funny for words, and yet….you always seem to find the words to make the daily things of life TOO FUNNY! Thank you!
Averyanne, what a nice thing to say! Thank you for your kind words! I’m so glad you enjoy it! Makes my day!
My favorite posts are Pottery Barn themed. Thank GOD for PB and their Eco-friendly ways. How would we ever organize our lives without spending $98.95 on a “ECO” drawer and paper towel holder shaped like a delightful fork. Now I just need to save up for the $129 activity calendar. I also need to save up for some activies to fill said calendar with.
Well that’s what you can get me for Christmas. A paper towel holder shaped like a delightful fork! Not a regular fork, it HAS to be shaped like a DELIGHTFUL fork or I don’t want it. Of course they only sell the regular fork paper towel holders at Walmart so I wouldn’t even be able to accept it if you were to go that route.
And I don’t think PB will allow you to purchase their calendar unless you show them a valid truffle hunting license! And those are hard to get so good luck honey! And If they turn you down, remember I still love you (but not as much)!
The activity center is actually a masterpiece of PB sustainability. Look closely. You can tell that it is obviously a drawer taken from the PB sweetgrass sustainable desk.
There were hundreds of these poor drawers left orphaned after the great Pottery Barn Warehouse Ferret Incursion in 2008, where a herd of feral ferrets descended upon PBs distribution center and gnawed the legs off all the furniture.
thank goodness PB managed to repurpose the surviving drawers.
And for just $129? BARgainnnnn!!!!
I’m looking closely at that drawer . . . YOU’RE RIGHT! Zounds! The Ferret Incursion of Ought Eight! Now that’s some masterful PB Catalog perusal El Guapo! On the bright side, I think feral ferrets are sustainable.
I just love what you do with Pottery Barn Inspiration.
Thank you! I’m always up for a little Pottery Barn Razing! HA!
OMG! LOL! I just noticed that the activity center can be found in the “Design Your Dream Home” catalog. I know MY dream home will include an activity center, why just look at all the things you can do with it to stay active… er, um, crickets… crickets… tumbleweeds… more crickets…
Maybe the clamp is to put on our mouths so that when we try to scream from boredom no one will hear us?
Hahaha! I knew there was a reason for that clamp! That PB! They think of everything, don’t they? I’m so glad you’re including the activity center in your dream home, Lisa. And it’s too bad PB didn’t think of including actual crickets and tumbleweeds . . . think of all the fun we would have activity-wise trying to round up the crickets and chase after the tumbleweeds!
You’re right! PB should have included crickets and tumbleweeds for extra added fun! Lol!
Hi,
I have never heard of The Pottery Barn Activity Center, and now I know why.
But who wouldn’t want a giant fork thing holding some paper in the kitchen, what a talking point, your friends and family would be amazed at your stupid I mean wonderful decorating skills.
Hahaha Mags! And if you really wanted to impress you’re friends and family with your new fork paper towel holder decor you could leave the $44 price tag on too! HA!
You are one ‘crazy lady”…. Diane
Thanks Diane! I must say I do my best to encourage Peanuts in that direction! HA!
The PB Activity Center has zero credibility. Why? Because I zoomed in for a closer look, and none of those notebooks have horses in the corner. Will I buy it? I’m gonna hafta be a neigh-sayer…. : P
LOL! Good one Mark. I knew your whinny personality would pick up on that PB omission. How weird, after reading your comment I’m suddenly hungry for canter lope ! ?