First, go look at this:
A holiday crafts project!
Here's my favorite part:
And can you tell what they're made of? Styrofoam and plastic spoons!
I could. I could tell right away.
My other favorite part is that you need to snap the bottom of each plastic spoon off without breaking the spoon or slicing off a body part. Good luck with that. I know I would end up in the ER. Your mileage may vary.
I'm kind of sorry to make fun of this, because the person seems so good-hearted and earnest. And I can relate - I've been there. You create something that you spend A LOT of time on, so much time that you fall in love with it, maybe a bit TOO much in love...and it is still just a styro ball with spoons stuck in it.
Spray-painted gold. (Did I ever tell you about my mom's gold spray paint phase? OMG everything. Sticks, canisters, pine cones, baskets...Because anything looks Klassy if it is gold! "Oh, wow, Mom, I thought you actually bought SOLID GOLD bookends!")
So. I'm not trying to be mean. Ok, a little mean. But mostly what I'm trying to do is to save you from having your relatives make fun of your spoon ball behind your back for years to come. Trust me on this one.
Lovely pine cones, with their distinctive scent and appearance are the perfect decoration for the winter holiday season.
Or not.
The line between existence and delusion is blurred. Imagination seeps through the cracks between what is in the head and the soul. What is really there? Confusion by others trickery? Frustration builds to a let down, chasing the rabbit back to the surrounding walls where the spirits could inhabit the body.
This piece can be displayed on a shelf, table, or bookcase. However, looks best hanging on a wall!
No joke, there are about a million "Redneck Wineglasses" on Etsy. Who knew?
But I must say that this is one of the most awesome of them all - hand-detailing, screw top AND a lime green feather boa detail. I mean, whoa. You don't see quality like that every day.
{Source} $15. Makes a great wedding gift if the couple is moving into a place with a toilet planted with petunias out front.
Update: It's apparently fixed now.
There's another site that makes fun of crafts. You may have heard of it - it is called Regretsy.
Yes, I know it is a lot more famous than Craftastrophe (but we were here first, so neener neener).
Yes, I know they have a book.
Yes, I know they donate all their proceeds to charity.
WAIT. They may TRY to donate all of their profits to charity, such as buying presents for children at Christmas, but THANK GOODNESS we have PayPal to stop them!
Go read this post. It is enough to make you want to knit something from cat hair, or to make earrings out of squirrel feet. Or something.
If you want to help them out by sending a few emails to PayPal on their behalf - and on behalf of children who will be without toys at Christmas - it's no skin off my crafts-making-fun-of-nose. Even if they are more popular.
Here's my favorite part:
