Poinsettia issues

Recently I read an article encouraging people to decorate "the entire house" for Christmas, and it gave a number of tips on how this might be done. I only remember two of them:

1. Take down the pictures on the walls of your foyer and hang up Christmas stuff.
2. Fill the bathtub with blue poinsettias.

Well, our house has no foyer, so no worries there, but there is one bathtub. Blue poinsettias?



Then I came across this poinsettia cupcake featured in the book "What's New, Cupcake?" The flowers are made with multiple sticks of chewing gum, which

A. Seems like an especially gross pairing with a cupcake, and
B. Why blue?



I live in a poinsettia-growing region of the country, and I've noticed how they are playing around with the colors. Used to be that this plant came in red, period.

Soon enough other colors started to show up, usually blends of white, pink, and green.

But this year blue poinsettias are creeping in. I think they are just white plants that have been given something like blue Kool Aid to drink, then as if that weren't enough, sprinkled with glitter.

I hope they don't take over. I still like the red ones best (although perhaps they wouldn't be quite right for the bathtub.)

I must be a traditionalist because I'm not really comfortable with candy corn in December, and isn't it supposed to be orange?