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	<title>Craftastrophe &#187; We Wish You a Merry Christmas&#8230;and Minimal Therapy</title>
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		<title>A Surprise from Santa!</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Puts the FUN in DysFUNctional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap! {Source} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure. Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap!
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg" alt="Carved wooden santa chair" title="Santa Chair" width="570" height="854" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8393" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/87239995/santa-chair" title="Santa Chair" target="_blank">Source</a>} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure.

Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Totally Does Not Look Like Any Yeti I Have Ever Seen</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man. Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore. {Source}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man.<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg" alt="Yeti nativity" title="Yeti" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8388" /></a>
Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore.
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/83312590/yeti-nativity-scene-joseph-mary-and-baby" title="Yeti Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Hand Me That Nativity</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is. {Source} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg" alt="A stuffed hand with nativity painted on it" title="Hand Nativity" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8384" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88374631/nativity-hand-stand" title="Nativity Hands" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Bean Thinking About Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist. {Source} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg" alt="Pinto Bean Nativity" title="Holy Frijoles" width="570" height="367" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8382" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/80431379/the-holy-frijoles-the-pinto-bean" title="Holy Frijoles Pinto Bean Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.

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		<title>It&#8217;s Gonna Be a Cold, Cold Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a "mother" made of wire, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort? This "nativity" is for that guy. {Source} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a <a href="http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/studies/HarlowMLE.htm" title="Wire Mother" target="_blank">"mother" made of wire</a>, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort?

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg" alt="Wire nativity" title="Wire nativity" width="570" height="427" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8380" /></a>
This "nativity" is for that guy.

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84516695/wire-wrapped-nativity-scene" title="Wire Mother Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>We Three Kings with Big Eyes Who Live Underground</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Puts the FUN in DysFUNctional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys: Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals? {Source} ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys:
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg" alt="3 kings for the Nativity - but they&#039;re also meerkats" title="Meerkats 3 Kings" width="570" height="570" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8375" /></a>
Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals?
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64480121/meerkat-christmas-kings-bearing-gifts" title="Meerkat 3 Kings" target="_blank">Source</a>}  ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Have You Been Naughty, or Nice? Both?</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants. {Source} Priceless.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants.

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg" alt="Christmas ornament asks Santa for Orgasms" title="Orgasm ornament" width="570" height="760" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8340" /></a>

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88526007/i-want-orgasms-thanks" title="Orgasm Ornament" target="_blank">Source</a>} Priceless.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Because People Who Make Fun of Crafts Have Got to Stick Together&#8230;not sure why, but we do</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Um. WTF?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Update: It's <a href="https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/12/regretsy-issue-resolution/" title="Paypal makes nice" target="_blank">apparently fixed now</a>.

There's another site that makes fun of crafts. You may have heard of it - it is called <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/" title="Regretsy" target="_blank">Regretsy</a>.

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 <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/" title="Paypal shuts down Regretsy" target="_blank">this post</a>. 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. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Christmas Gift: For the Ex Who Refuses to Pay Child Support</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art. {Source} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg" alt="Painting of a Louse" title="The Louse" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8206" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/81789385/louse-parasite-series-35" title="The Louse" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A bird is a bird is worth two in the bush or something like that.</title>
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		<title>Craftastrophe &#187; We Wish You a Merry Christmas&#8230;and Minimal Therapy</title>
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		<title>A Surprise from Santa!</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap! {Source} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure. Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap!
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg" alt="Carved wooden santa chair" title="Santa Chair" width="570" height="854" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8393" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/87239995/santa-chair" title="Santa Chair" target="_blank">Source</a>} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure.

Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Totally Does Not Look Like Any Yeti I Have Ever Seen</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man. Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore. {Source}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man.<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg" alt="Yeti nativity" title="Yeti" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8388" /></a>
Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore.
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/83312590/yeti-nativity-scene-joseph-mary-and-baby" title="Yeti Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Hand Me That Nativity</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is. {Source} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg" alt="A stuffed hand with nativity painted on it" title="Hand Nativity" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8384" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88374631/nativity-hand-stand" title="Nativity Hands" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.
]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Bean Thinking About Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist. {Source} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg" alt="Pinto Bean Nativity" title="Holy Frijoles" width="570" height="367" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8382" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/80431379/the-holy-frijoles-the-pinto-bean" title="Holy Frijoles Pinto Bean Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.

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		<title>It&#8217;s Gonna Be a Cold, Cold Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a "mother" made of wire, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort? This "nativity" is for that guy. {Source} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a <a href="http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/studies/HarlowMLE.htm" title="Wire Mother" target="_blank">"mother" made of wire</a>, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort?

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg" alt="Wire nativity" title="Wire nativity" width="570" height="427" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8380" /></a>
This "nativity" is for that guy.

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84516695/wire-wrapped-nativity-scene" title="Wire Mother Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>We Three Kings with Big Eyes Who Live Underground</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Puts the FUN in DysFUNctional]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys: Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals? {Source} ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys:
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg" alt="3 kings for the Nativity - but they&#039;re also meerkats" title="Meerkats 3 Kings" width="570" height="570" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8375" /></a>
Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals?
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64480121/meerkat-christmas-kings-bearing-gifts" title="Meerkat 3 Kings" target="_blank">Source</a>}  ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Have You Been Naughty, or Nice? Both?</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants. {Source} Priceless.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants.

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg" alt="Christmas ornament asks Santa for Orgasms" title="Orgasm ornament" width="570" height="760" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8340" /></a>

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88526007/i-want-orgasms-thanks" title="Orgasm Ornament" target="_blank">Source</a>} Priceless.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Because People Who Make Fun of Crafts Have Got to Stick Together&#8230;not sure why, but we do</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Um. WTF?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Update: It's <a href="https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/12/regretsy-issue-resolution/" title="Paypal makes nice" target="_blank">apparently fixed now</a>.

There's another site that makes fun of crafts. You may have heard of it - it is called <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/" title="Regretsy" target="_blank">Regretsy</a>.

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 <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/" title="Paypal shuts down Regretsy" target="_blank">this post</a>. 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. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Christmas Gift: For the Ex Who Refuses to Pay Child Support</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art. {Source} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg" alt="Painting of a Louse" title="The Louse" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8206" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/81789385/louse-parasite-series-35" title="The Louse" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A bird is a bird is worth two in the bush or something like that.</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Puts the FUN in DysFUNctional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap! {Source} $4800. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure. Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap!
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg" alt="Carved wooden santa chair" title="Santa Chair" width="570" height="854" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8393" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/87239995/santa-chair" title="Santa Chair" target="_blank">Source</a>} $4800. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure.

Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Craftastrophe &#187; We Wish You a Merry Christmas&#8230;and Minimal Therapy</title>
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		<title>A Surprise from Santa!</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap! {Source} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure. Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap!
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg" alt="Carved wooden santa chair" title="Santa Chair" width="570" height="854" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8393" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/87239995/santa-chair" title="Santa Chair" target="_blank">Source</a>} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure.

Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Totally Does Not Look Like Any Yeti I Have Ever Seen</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man. Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore. {Source}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man.<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg" alt="Yeti nativity" title="Yeti" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8388" /></a>
Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore.
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/83312590/yeti-nativity-scene-joseph-mary-and-baby" title="Yeti Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Hand Me That Nativity</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is. {Source} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg" alt="A stuffed hand with nativity painted on it" title="Hand Nativity" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8384" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88374631/nativity-hand-stand" title="Nativity Hands" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Bean Thinking About Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist. {Source} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg" alt="Pinto Bean Nativity" title="Holy Frijoles" width="570" height="367" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8382" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/80431379/the-holy-frijoles-the-pinto-bean" title="Holy Frijoles Pinto Bean Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.

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		<title>It&#8217;s Gonna Be a Cold, Cold Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a "mother" made of wire, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort? This "nativity" is for that guy. {Source} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a <a href="http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/studies/HarlowMLE.htm" title="Wire Mother" target="_blank">"mother" made of wire</a>, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort?

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg" alt="Wire nativity" title="Wire nativity" width="570" height="427" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8380" /></a>
This "nativity" is for that guy.

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84516695/wire-wrapped-nativity-scene" title="Wire Mother Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>We Three Kings with Big Eyes Who Live Underground</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys: Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals? {Source} ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys:
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg" alt="3 kings for the Nativity - but they&#039;re also meerkats" title="Meerkats 3 Kings" width="570" height="570" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8375" /></a>
Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals?
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64480121/meerkat-christmas-kings-bearing-gifts" title="Meerkat 3 Kings" target="_blank">Source</a>}  ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Have You Been Naughty, or Nice? Both?</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants. {Source} Priceless.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants.

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg" alt="Christmas ornament asks Santa for Orgasms" title="Orgasm ornament" width="570" height="760" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8340" /></a>

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88526007/i-want-orgasms-thanks" title="Orgasm Ornament" target="_blank">Source</a>} Priceless.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Because People Who Make Fun of Crafts Have Got to Stick Together&#8230;not sure why, but we do</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Update: It's <a href="https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/12/regretsy-issue-resolution/" title="Paypal makes nice" target="_blank">apparently fixed now</a>.

There's another site that makes fun of crafts. You may have heard of it - it is called <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/" title="Regretsy" target="_blank">Regretsy</a>.

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 <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/" title="Paypal shuts down Regretsy" target="_blank">this post</a>. 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. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Christmas Gift: For the Ex Who Refuses to Pay Child Support</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art. {Source} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg" alt="Painting of a Louse" title="The Louse" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8206" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/81789385/louse-parasite-series-35" title="The Louse" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A bird is a bird is worth two in the bush or something like that.</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Puts the FUN in DysFUNctional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man. Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore. {Source} $85 or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man.<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg" alt="Yeti nativity" title="Yeti" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8388" /></a>
Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore.
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/83312590/yeti-nativity-scene-joseph-mary-and-baby" title="Yeti Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} $85 or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Craftastrophe &#187; We Wish You a Merry Christmas&#8230;and Minimal Therapy</title>
	<atom:link href="http://craftastrophe.net/category/christmas/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
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	<description>Because not everything handmade is pretty</description>
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		<title>A Surprise from Santa!</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap! {Source} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure. Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap!
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg" alt="Carved wooden santa chair" title="Santa Chair" width="570" height="854" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8393" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/87239995/santa-chair" title="Santa Chair" target="_blank">Source</a>} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure.

Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Totally Does Not Look Like Any Yeti I Have Ever Seen</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man. Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore. {Source}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man.<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg" alt="Yeti nativity" title="Yeti" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8388" /></a>
Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore.
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/83312590/yeti-nativity-scene-joseph-mary-and-baby" title="Yeti Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Hand Me That Nativity</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is. {Source} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg" alt="A stuffed hand with nativity painted on it" title="Hand Nativity" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8384" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88374631/nativity-hand-stand" title="Nativity Hands" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.
]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Bean Thinking About Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist. {Source} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg" alt="Pinto Bean Nativity" title="Holy Frijoles" width="570" height="367" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8382" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/80431379/the-holy-frijoles-the-pinto-bean" title="Holy Frijoles Pinto Bean Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.

]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Gonna Be a Cold, Cold Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a "mother" made of wire, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort? This "nativity" is for that guy. {Source} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a <a href="http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/studies/HarlowMLE.htm" title="Wire Mother" target="_blank">"mother" made of wire</a>, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort?

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg" alt="Wire nativity" title="Wire nativity" width="570" height="427" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8380" /></a>
This "nativity" is for that guy.

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84516695/wire-wrapped-nativity-scene" title="Wire Mother Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>We Three Kings with Big Eyes Who Live Underground</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Puts the FUN in DysFUNctional]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys: Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals? {Source} ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys:
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg" alt="3 kings for the Nativity - but they&#039;re also meerkats" title="Meerkats 3 Kings" width="570" height="570" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8375" /></a>
Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals?
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64480121/meerkat-christmas-kings-bearing-gifts" title="Meerkat 3 Kings" target="_blank">Source</a>}  ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Have You Been Naughty, or Nice? Both?</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants. {Source} Priceless.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants.

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg" alt="Christmas ornament asks Santa for Orgasms" title="Orgasm ornament" width="570" height="760" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8340" /></a>

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88526007/i-want-orgasms-thanks" title="Orgasm Ornament" target="_blank">Source</a>} Priceless.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Because People Who Make Fun of Crafts Have Got to Stick Together&#8230;not sure why, but we do</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Um. WTF?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Update: It's <a href="https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/12/regretsy-issue-resolution/" title="Paypal makes nice" target="_blank">apparently fixed now</a>.

There's another site that makes fun of crafts. You may have heard of it - it is called <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/" title="Regretsy" target="_blank">Regretsy</a>.

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 <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/" title="Paypal shuts down Regretsy" target="_blank">this post</a>. 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. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Christmas Gift: For the Ex Who Refuses to Pay Child Support</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art. {Source} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg" alt="Painting of a Louse" title="The Louse" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8206" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/81789385/louse-parasite-series-35" title="The Louse" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A bird is a bird is worth two in the bush or something like that.</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is. {Source} $20. Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg" alt="A stuffed hand with nativity painted on it" title="Hand Nativity" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8384" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88374631/nativity-hand-stand" title="Nativity Hands" target="_blank">Source</a>} $20. Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.
]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Craftastrophe &#187; We Wish You a Merry Christmas&#8230;and Minimal Therapy</title>
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		<title>A Surprise from Santa!</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap! {Source} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure. Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap!
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg" alt="Carved wooden santa chair" title="Santa Chair" width="570" height="854" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8393" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/87239995/santa-chair" title="Santa Chair" target="_blank">Source</a>} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure.

Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Totally Does Not Look Like Any Yeti I Have Ever Seen</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man. Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore. {Source}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man.<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg" alt="Yeti nativity" title="Yeti" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8388" /></a>
Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore.
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/83312590/yeti-nativity-scene-joseph-mary-and-baby" title="Yeti Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Hand Me That Nativity</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is. {Source} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg" alt="A stuffed hand with nativity painted on it" title="Hand Nativity" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8384" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88374631/nativity-hand-stand" title="Nativity Hands" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.
]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Bean Thinking About Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist. {Source} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg" alt="Pinto Bean Nativity" title="Holy Frijoles" width="570" height="367" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8382" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/80431379/the-holy-frijoles-the-pinto-bean" title="Holy Frijoles Pinto Bean Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.

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		<title>It&#8217;s Gonna Be a Cold, Cold Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a "mother" made of wire, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort? This "nativity" is for that guy. {Source} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a <a href="http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/studies/HarlowMLE.htm" title="Wire Mother" target="_blank">"mother" made of wire</a>, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort?

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg" alt="Wire nativity" title="Wire nativity" width="570" height="427" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8380" /></a>
This "nativity" is for that guy.

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84516695/wire-wrapped-nativity-scene" title="Wire Mother Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>We Three Kings with Big Eyes Who Live Underground</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Puts the FUN in DysFUNctional]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys: Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals? {Source} ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys:
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg" alt="3 kings for the Nativity - but they&#039;re also meerkats" title="Meerkats 3 Kings" width="570" height="570" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8375" /></a>
Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals?
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64480121/meerkat-christmas-kings-bearing-gifts" title="Meerkat 3 Kings" target="_blank">Source</a>}  ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Have You Been Naughty, or Nice? Both?</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants. {Source} Priceless.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants.

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg" alt="Christmas ornament asks Santa for Orgasms" title="Orgasm ornament" width="570" height="760" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8340" /></a>

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88526007/i-want-orgasms-thanks" title="Orgasm Ornament" target="_blank">Source</a>} Priceless.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Because People Who Make Fun of Crafts Have Got to Stick Together&#8230;not sure why, but we do</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Um. WTF?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Update: It's <a href="https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/12/regretsy-issue-resolution/" title="Paypal makes nice" target="_blank">apparently fixed now</a>.

There's another site that makes fun of crafts. You may have heard of it - it is called <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/" title="Regretsy" target="_blank">Regretsy</a>.

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 <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/" title="Paypal shuts down Regretsy" target="_blank">this post</a>. 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. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Christmas Gift: For the Ex Who Refuses to Pay Child Support</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art. {Source} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg" alt="Painting of a Louse" title="The Louse" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8206" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/81789385/louse-parasite-series-35" title="The Louse" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A bird is a bird is worth two in the bush or something like that.</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist. {Source} Only $10. About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg" alt="Pinto Bean Nativity" title="Holy Frijoles" width="570" height="367" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8382" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/80431379/the-holy-frijoles-the-pinto-bean" title="Holy Frijoles Pinto Bean Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only $10. About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.

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		<title>Craftastrophe &#187; We Wish You a Merry Christmas&#8230;and Minimal Therapy</title>
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		<title>A Surprise from Santa!</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap! {Source} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure. Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap!
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg" alt="Carved wooden santa chair" title="Santa Chair" width="570" height="854" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8393" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/87239995/santa-chair" title="Santa Chair" target="_blank">Source</a>} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure.

Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Totally Does Not Look Like Any Yeti I Have Ever Seen</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man. Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore. {Source}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man.<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg" alt="Yeti nativity" title="Yeti" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8388" /></a>
Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore.
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/83312590/yeti-nativity-scene-joseph-mary-and-baby" title="Yeti Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Hand Me That Nativity</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is. {Source} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg" alt="A stuffed hand with nativity painted on it" title="Hand Nativity" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8384" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88374631/nativity-hand-stand" title="Nativity Hands" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Bean Thinking About Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist. {Source} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg" alt="Pinto Bean Nativity" title="Holy Frijoles" width="570" height="367" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8382" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/80431379/the-holy-frijoles-the-pinto-bean" title="Holy Frijoles Pinto Bean Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.

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		<title>It&#8217;s Gonna Be a Cold, Cold Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a "mother" made of wire, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort? This "nativity" is for that guy. {Source} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a <a href="http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/studies/HarlowMLE.htm" title="Wire Mother" target="_blank">"mother" made of wire</a>, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort?

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg" alt="Wire nativity" title="Wire nativity" width="570" height="427" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8380" /></a>
This "nativity" is for that guy.

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84516695/wire-wrapped-nativity-scene" title="Wire Mother Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>We Three Kings with Big Eyes Who Live Underground</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Puts the FUN in DysFUNctional]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys: Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals? {Source} ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys:
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg" alt="3 kings for the Nativity - but they&#039;re also meerkats" title="Meerkats 3 Kings" width="570" height="570" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8375" /></a>
Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals?
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64480121/meerkat-christmas-kings-bearing-gifts" title="Meerkat 3 Kings" target="_blank">Source</a>}  ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Have You Been Naughty, or Nice? Both?</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants. {Source} Priceless.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants.

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg" alt="Christmas ornament asks Santa for Orgasms" title="Orgasm ornament" width="570" height="760" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8340" /></a>

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88526007/i-want-orgasms-thanks" title="Orgasm Ornament" target="_blank">Source</a>} Priceless.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Because People Who Make Fun of Crafts Have Got to Stick Together&#8230;not sure why, but we do</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Update: It's <a href="https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/12/regretsy-issue-resolution/" title="Paypal makes nice" target="_blank">apparently fixed now</a>.

There's another site that makes fun of crafts. You may have heard of it - it is called <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/" title="Regretsy" target="_blank">Regretsy</a>.

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 <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/" title="Paypal shuts down Regretsy" target="_blank">this post</a>. 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. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Christmas Gift: For the Ex Who Refuses to Pay Child Support</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art. {Source} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg" alt="Painting of a Louse" title="The Louse" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8206" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/81789385/louse-parasite-series-35" title="The Louse" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A bird is a bird is worth two in the bush or something like that.</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a "mother" made of wire, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort? This "nativity" is for that guy. {Source} $10. Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a <a href="http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/studies/HarlowMLE.htm" title="Wire Mother" target="_blank">"mother" made of wire</a>, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort?

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg" alt="Wire nativity" title="Wire nativity" width="570" height="427" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8380" /></a>
This "nativity" is for that guy.

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84516695/wire-wrapped-nativity-scene" title="Wire Mother Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} $10. Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Craftastrophe &#187; We Wish You a Merry Christmas&#8230;and Minimal Therapy</title>
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	<description>Because not everything handmade is pretty</description>
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		<title>A Surprise from Santa!</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap! {Source} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure. Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap!
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg" alt="Carved wooden santa chair" title="Santa Chair" width="570" height="854" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8393" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/87239995/santa-chair" title="Santa Chair" target="_blank">Source</a>} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure.

Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Totally Does Not Look Like Any Yeti I Have Ever Seen</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man. Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore. {Source}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man.<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg" alt="Yeti nativity" title="Yeti" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8388" /></a>
Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore.
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/83312590/yeti-nativity-scene-joseph-mary-and-baby" title="Yeti Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Hand Me That Nativity</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is. {Source} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg" alt="A stuffed hand with nativity painted on it" title="Hand Nativity" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8384" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88374631/nativity-hand-stand" title="Nativity Hands" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.
]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Bean Thinking About Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist. {Source} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg" alt="Pinto Bean Nativity" title="Holy Frijoles" width="570" height="367" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8382" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/80431379/the-holy-frijoles-the-pinto-bean" title="Holy Frijoles Pinto Bean Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.

]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Gonna Be a Cold, Cold Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a "mother" made of wire, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort? This "nativity" is for that guy. {Source} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a <a href="http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/studies/HarlowMLE.htm" title="Wire Mother" target="_blank">"mother" made of wire</a>, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort?

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg" alt="Wire nativity" title="Wire nativity" width="570" height="427" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8380" /></a>
This "nativity" is for that guy.

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84516695/wire-wrapped-nativity-scene" title="Wire Mother Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>We Three Kings with Big Eyes Who Live Underground</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys: Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals? {Source} ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys:
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg" alt="3 kings for the Nativity - but they&#039;re also meerkats" title="Meerkats 3 Kings" width="570" height="570" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8375" /></a>
Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals?
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64480121/meerkat-christmas-kings-bearing-gifts" title="Meerkat 3 Kings" target="_blank">Source</a>}  ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Have You Been Naughty, or Nice? Both?</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants. {Source} Priceless.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants.

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg" alt="Christmas ornament asks Santa for Orgasms" title="Orgasm ornament" width="570" height="760" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8340" /></a>

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88526007/i-want-orgasms-thanks" title="Orgasm Ornament" target="_blank">Source</a>} Priceless.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Because People Who Make Fun of Crafts Have Got to Stick Together&#8230;not sure why, but we do</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Update: It's <a href="https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/12/regretsy-issue-resolution/" title="Paypal makes nice" target="_blank">apparently fixed now</a>.

There's another site that makes fun of crafts. You may have heard of it - it is called <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/" title="Regretsy" target="_blank">Regretsy</a>.

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 <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/" title="Paypal shuts down Regretsy" target="_blank">this post</a>. 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. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Christmas Gift: For the Ex Who Refuses to Pay Child Support</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art. {Source} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg" alt="Painting of a Louse" title="The Louse" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8206" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/81789385/louse-parasite-series-35" title="The Louse" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A bird is a bird is worth two in the bush or something like that.</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys: Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals? {Source} $89]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys:
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg" alt="3 kings for the Nativity - but they&#039;re also meerkats" title="Meerkats 3 Kings" width="570" height="570" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8375" /></a>
Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals?
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64480121/meerkat-christmas-kings-bearing-gifts" title="Meerkat 3 Kings" target="_blank">Source</a>} $89 ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Craftastrophe &#187; We Wish You a Merry Christmas&#8230;and Minimal Therapy</title>
	<atom:link href="http://craftastrophe.net/category/christmas/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
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	<description>Because not everything handmade is pretty</description>
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		<title>A Surprise from Santa!</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Puts the FUN in DysFUNctional]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap! {Source} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure. Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap!
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg" alt="Carved wooden santa chair" title="Santa Chair" width="570" height="854" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8393" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/87239995/santa-chair" title="Santa Chair" target="_blank">Source</a>} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure.

Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Totally Does Not Look Like Any Yeti I Have Ever Seen</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man. Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore. {Source}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man.<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg" alt="Yeti nativity" title="Yeti" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8388" /></a>
Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore.
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/83312590/yeti-nativity-scene-joseph-mary-and-baby" title="Yeti Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Hand Me That Nativity</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is. {Source} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg" alt="A stuffed hand with nativity painted on it" title="Hand Nativity" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8384" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88374631/nativity-hand-stand" title="Nativity Hands" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.
]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Bean Thinking About Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist. {Source} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg" alt="Pinto Bean Nativity" title="Holy Frijoles" width="570" height="367" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8382" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/80431379/the-holy-frijoles-the-pinto-bean" title="Holy Frijoles Pinto Bean Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.

]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Gonna Be a Cold, Cold Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a "mother" made of wire, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort? This "nativity" is for that guy. {Source} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a <a href="http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/studies/HarlowMLE.htm" title="Wire Mother" target="_blank">"mother" made of wire</a>, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort?

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg" alt="Wire nativity" title="Wire nativity" width="570" height="427" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8380" /></a>
This "nativity" is for that guy.

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84516695/wire-wrapped-nativity-scene" title="Wire Mother Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>We Three Kings with Big Eyes Who Live Underground</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Puts the FUN in DysFUNctional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys: Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals? {Source} ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys:
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg" alt="3 kings for the Nativity - but they&#039;re also meerkats" title="Meerkats 3 Kings" width="570" height="570" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8375" /></a>
Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals?
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64480121/meerkat-christmas-kings-bearing-gifts" title="Meerkat 3 Kings" target="_blank">Source</a>}  ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Have You Been Naughty, or Nice? Both?</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants. {Source} Priceless.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants.

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg" alt="Christmas ornament asks Santa for Orgasms" title="Orgasm ornament" width="570" height="760" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8340" /></a>

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88526007/i-want-orgasms-thanks" title="Orgasm Ornament" target="_blank">Source</a>} Priceless.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Because People Who Make Fun of Crafts Have Got to Stick Together&#8230;not sure why, but we do</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Um. WTF?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[paypal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Update: It's <a href="https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/12/regretsy-issue-resolution/" title="Paypal makes nice" target="_blank">apparently fixed now</a>.

There's another site that makes fun of crafts. You may have heard of it - it is called <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/" title="Regretsy" target="_blank">Regretsy</a>.

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 <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/" title="Paypal shuts down Regretsy" target="_blank">this post</a>. 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. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Christmas Gift: For the Ex Who Refuses to Pay Child Support</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Puts the FUN in DysFUNctional]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art. {Source} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg" alt="Painting of a Louse" title="The Louse" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8206" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/81789385/louse-parasite-series-35" title="The Louse" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A bird is a bird is worth two in the bush or something like that.</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants. {Source} Priceless.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants.

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg" alt="Christmas ornament asks Santa for Orgasms" title="Orgasm ornament" width="570" height="760" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8340" /></a>

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88526007/i-want-orgasms-thanks" title="Orgasm Ornament" target="_blank">Source</a>} Priceless.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Craftastrophe &#187; We Wish You a Merry Christmas&#8230;and Minimal Therapy</title>
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		<title>A Surprise from Santa!</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap! {Source} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure. Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap!
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg" alt="Carved wooden santa chair" title="Santa Chair" width="570" height="854" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8393" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/87239995/santa-chair" title="Santa Chair" target="_blank">Source</a>} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure.

Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Totally Does Not Look Like Any Yeti I Have Ever Seen</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man. Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore. {Source}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man.<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg" alt="Yeti nativity" title="Yeti" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8388" /></a>
Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore.
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/83312590/yeti-nativity-scene-joseph-mary-and-baby" title="Yeti Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Hand Me That Nativity</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is. {Source} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg" alt="A stuffed hand with nativity painted on it" title="Hand Nativity" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8384" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88374631/nativity-hand-stand" title="Nativity Hands" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.
]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Bean Thinking About Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist. {Source} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg" alt="Pinto Bean Nativity" title="Holy Frijoles" width="570" height="367" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8382" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/80431379/the-holy-frijoles-the-pinto-bean" title="Holy Frijoles Pinto Bean Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.

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		<title>It&#8217;s Gonna Be a Cold, Cold Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a "mother" made of wire, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort? This "nativity" is for that guy. {Source} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a <a href="http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/studies/HarlowMLE.htm" title="Wire Mother" target="_blank">"mother" made of wire</a>, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort?

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg" alt="Wire nativity" title="Wire nativity" width="570" height="427" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8380" /></a>
This "nativity" is for that guy.

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84516695/wire-wrapped-nativity-scene" title="Wire Mother Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>We Three Kings with Big Eyes Who Live Underground</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys: Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals? {Source} ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys:
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg" alt="3 kings for the Nativity - but they&#039;re also meerkats" title="Meerkats 3 Kings" width="570" height="570" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8375" /></a>
Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals?
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64480121/meerkat-christmas-kings-bearing-gifts" title="Meerkat 3 Kings" target="_blank">Source</a>}  ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Have You Been Naughty, or Nice? Both?</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants. {Source} Priceless.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants.

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg" alt="Christmas ornament asks Santa for Orgasms" title="Orgasm ornament" width="570" height="760" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8340" /></a>

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88526007/i-want-orgasms-thanks" title="Orgasm Ornament" target="_blank">Source</a>} Priceless.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Because People Who Make Fun of Crafts Have Got to Stick Together&#8230;not sure why, but we do</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Um. WTF?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Update: It's <a href="https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/12/regretsy-issue-resolution/" title="Paypal makes nice" target="_blank">apparently fixed now</a>.

There's another site that makes fun of crafts. You may have heard of it - it is called <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/" title="Regretsy" target="_blank">Regretsy</a>.

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 <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/" title="Paypal shuts down Regretsy" target="_blank">this post</a>. 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. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Christmas Gift: For the Ex Who Refuses to Pay Child Support</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art. {Source} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg" alt="Painting of a Louse" title="The Louse" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8206" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/81789385/louse-parasite-series-35" title="The Louse" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A bird is a bird is worth two in the bush or something like that.</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Update: It's <a href="https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/12/regretsy-issue-resolution/" title="Paypal makes nice" target="_blank">apparently fixed now</a>.

There's another site that makes fun of crafts. You may have heard of it - it is called <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/" title="Regretsy" target="_blank">Regretsy</a>.

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 <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/" title="Paypal shuts down Regretsy" target="_blank">this post</a>. 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. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Craftastrophe &#187; We Wish You a Merry Christmas&#8230;and Minimal Therapy</title>
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		<title>A Surprise from Santa!</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap! {Source} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure. Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap!
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg" alt="Carved wooden santa chair" title="Santa Chair" width="570" height="854" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8393" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/87239995/santa-chair" title="Santa Chair" target="_blank">Source</a>} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure.

Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Totally Does Not Look Like Any Yeti I Have Ever Seen</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man. Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore. {Source}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man.<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg" alt="Yeti nativity" title="Yeti" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8388" /></a>
Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore.
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/83312590/yeti-nativity-scene-joseph-mary-and-baby" title="Yeti Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Hand Me That Nativity</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is. {Source} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg" alt="A stuffed hand with nativity painted on it" title="Hand Nativity" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8384" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88374631/nativity-hand-stand" title="Nativity Hands" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.
]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Bean Thinking About Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist. {Source} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg" alt="Pinto Bean Nativity" title="Holy Frijoles" width="570" height="367" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8382" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/80431379/the-holy-frijoles-the-pinto-bean" title="Holy Frijoles Pinto Bean Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.

]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Gonna Be a Cold, Cold Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a "mother" made of wire, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort? This "nativity" is for that guy. {Source} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a <a href="http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/studies/HarlowMLE.htm" title="Wire Mother" target="_blank">"mother" made of wire</a>, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort?

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg" alt="Wire nativity" title="Wire nativity" width="570" height="427" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8380" /></a>
This "nativity" is for that guy.

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84516695/wire-wrapped-nativity-scene" title="Wire Mother Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>We Three Kings with Big Eyes Who Live Underground</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Puts the FUN in DysFUNctional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys: Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals? {Source} ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys:
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg" alt="3 kings for the Nativity - but they&#039;re also meerkats" title="Meerkats 3 Kings" width="570" height="570" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8375" /></a>
Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals?
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64480121/meerkat-christmas-kings-bearing-gifts" title="Meerkat 3 Kings" target="_blank">Source</a>}  ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Have You Been Naughty, or Nice? Both?</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants. {Source} Priceless.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants.

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg" alt="Christmas ornament asks Santa for Orgasms" title="Orgasm ornament" width="570" height="760" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8340" /></a>

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88526007/i-want-orgasms-thanks" title="Orgasm Ornament" target="_blank">Source</a>} Priceless.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Because People Who Make Fun of Crafts Have Got to Stick Together&#8230;not sure why, but we do</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Um. WTF?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Update: It's <a href="https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/12/regretsy-issue-resolution/" title="Paypal makes nice" target="_blank">apparently fixed now</a>.

There's another site that makes fun of crafts. You may have heard of it - it is called <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/" title="Regretsy" target="_blank">Regretsy</a>.

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 <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/" title="Paypal shuts down Regretsy" target="_blank">this post</a>. 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. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Christmas Gift: For the Ex Who Refuses to Pay Child Support</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art. {Source} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg" alt="Painting of a Louse" title="The Louse" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8206" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/81789385/louse-parasite-series-35" title="The Louse" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A bird is a bird is worth two in the bush or something like that.</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Puts the FUN in DysFUNctional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art. {Source} Only $8.00. In Living Color.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg" alt="Painting of a Louse" title="The Louse" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8206" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/81789385/louse-parasite-series-35" title="The Louse" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only $8.00. In Living Color.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Craftastrophe &#187; We Wish You a Merry Christmas&#8230;and Minimal Therapy</title>
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	<description>Because not everything handmade is pretty</description>
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		<title>A Surprise from Santa!</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/surprise-santa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap! {Source} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure. Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey kids, Santa has a surprise for you! Just pull the ribbon to open up and find out what he has...in his lap!
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Chair.jpg" alt="Carved wooden santa chair" title="Santa Chair" width="570" height="854" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8393" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/87239995/santa-chair" title="Santa Chair" target="_blank">Source</a>} 00. Nothing a lifetime of therapy won't cure.

Merry Christmas, everyone, from your friendly wackjobs here at Craftastrophe. We hope Santa brings you something handmade and not terribly awful.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Totally Does Not Look Like Any Yeti I Have Ever Seen</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/totally-yeti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man. Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore. {Source}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The countdown continues with another nativity scene - Yetis this time. Because nothing says "Birth of Jesus" like a large, hairy, Himalaya-dwelling wolf-God-man.<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yeti.jpg" alt="Yeti nativity" title="Yeti" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8388" /></a>
Though after a week of Meerkat Wise Men, Pinto Bean Holy Families, and scary Jazz Hands, I must say nothing surprises me anymore.
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/83312590/yeti-nativity-scene-joseph-mary-and-baby" title="Yeti Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>}  or whatever that is in Tibetan Srang.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Hand Me That Nativity</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/nativity-hands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is. {Source} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So many nativities, so few that are truly creepy. Oh, wait. It's a hand. It's a nativity. It's a HANDTIVITY! Also, somehow way creepy out of proportion to what it is.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hand-Nativity.jpg" alt="A stuffed hand with nativity painted on it" title="Hand Nativity" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8384" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88374631/nativity-hand-stand" title="Nativity Hands" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Nightmares about being strangled in your sleep, free.
]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Bean Thinking About Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/holy-frijoles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist. {Source} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nativity made of Pinto Beans. For those chili holidays. Sorry. Could not resist.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Holy-Frijoles.jpg" alt="Pinto Bean Nativity" title="Holy Frijoles" width="570" height="367" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8382" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/80431379/the-holy-frijoles-the-pinto-bean" title="Holy Frijoles Pinto Bean Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only . About the price of a burrito, chips and a drink.

]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Gonna Be a Cold, Cold Christmas</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/wire-nativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a "mother" made of wire, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort? This "nativity" is for that guy. {Source} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Remember those experiments where the psychologist gave rhesus monkeys who were deprived of their mothers a <a href="http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/studies/HarlowMLE.htm" title="Wire Mother" target="_blank">"mother" made of wire</a>, and the poor baby monkeys still clung to the wire mother, looking for comfort?

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Wire-nativity.jpg" alt="Wire nativity" title="Wire nativity" width="570" height="427" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8380" /></a>
This "nativity" is for that guy.

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84516695/wire-wrapped-nativity-scene" title="Wire Mother Nativity" target="_blank">Source</a>} . Get one for all the cold, withholding people in your life!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>We Three Kings with Big Eyes Who Live Underground</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/kings-big-eyes-live-underground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Puts the FUN in DysFUNctional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys: Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals? {Source} ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Meerkat Three Kings. Apparently the Meerkat Nativity is a bit of an annual tradition. I love these guys:
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Meerkats-3-Kings.jpg" alt="3 kings for the Nativity - but they&#039;re also meerkats" title="Meerkats 3 Kings" width="570" height="570" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8375" /></a>
Is it blasphemous to imagine the 3 magic kings to be exactly like this - adorable, ground-dwelling mammals?
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64480121/meerkat-christmas-kings-bearing-gifts" title="Meerkat 3 Kings" target="_blank">Source</a>}  ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Have You Been Naughty, or Nice? Both?</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/naughty-nice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[We Wish You a Merry Christmas...and Minimal Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants. {Source} Priceless.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At last. A gift that everyone wants.

<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Orgasm.jpg" alt="Christmas ornament asks Santa for Orgasms" title="Orgasm ornament" width="570" height="760" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8340" /></a>

{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88526007/i-want-orgasms-thanks" title="Orgasm Ornament" target="_blank">Source</a>} Priceless.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Because People Who Make Fun of Crafts Have Got to Stick Together&#8230;not sure why, but we do</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/12/people-fun-crafts-stick-togethernot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Um. WTF?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Update: It's <a href="https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/12/regretsy-issue-resolution/" title="Paypal makes nice" target="_blank">apparently fixed now</a>.

There's another site that makes fun of crafts. You may have heard of it - it is called <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/" title="Regretsy" target="_blank">Regretsy</a>.

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 <a href="http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/" title="Paypal shuts down Regretsy" target="_blank">this post</a>. 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. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Christmas Gift: For the Ex Who Refuses to Pay Child Support</title>
		<link>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/</link>
		<comments>http://craftastrophe.net/2011/11/christmas-gift-refuses-pay-child-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art. {Source} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I present: The Louse, an original work of art.
<a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Louse.jpg" alt="Painting of a Louse" title="The Louse" width="570" height="428" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8206" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/81789385/louse-parasite-series-35" title="The Louse" target="_blank">Source</a>} Only .00. In Living Color.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A bird is a bird is worth two in the bush or something like that.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suebob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I seem to be on a bit of a Christmas binge. Shit I started decorating the other day thinking it was December. Damn stores getting me all confused with their decorations up in September, pretty soon they will erect a permanent Christmas tree in our local mall with Easter Bunny, a witch, a flag [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Yeah, I seem to be on a bit of a Christmas binge.

Shit I started decorating the other day thinking it was December.

Damn stores getting me all confused with their decorations up in September, pretty soon they will erect a permanent Christmas tree in our local mall with Easter Bunny, a witch, a flag for Australia Day and an effigy of me and be all fuck it, all the holidays are covered lets go home.

So this year I was thinking it would be SUPER CUTE if MPS bought me a present for each of the 12 days of Christmas.

Like an ipad and a new car and necklace from Tiffany's.

And I could like get him a card from Etsy.

<em>Seven swans a swimming
</em><a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Swim-swans.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Swim-swans.jpg" alt="" title="Swim swans" width="570" height="320" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8181" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/61178324/seven-swans-swimming-in-a-woodland-snowy" title="Seven swans card" target="_blank">Source</a>}


<em>Six geese a-laying
</em><a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Six-geese.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Six-geese.jpg" alt="" title="Six geese" width="570" height="320" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8182" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/61177831/six-geese-laying-golden-eggs-from-the" title="Six geese laying" target="_blank">Source</a>}


<em>Two Turtle Doves
</em><a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Two-turtle-doves.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Two-turtle-doves.jpg" alt="" title="Two turtle doves" width="570" height="320" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8183" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/61081669/two-turtle-doves-under-the-mistle-toe" title="Two turtle doves" target="_blank">Source</a>}


<em>And a partridge in a pear tree.
</em><a href="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Partridge-pear.jpg"><img src="http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Partridge-pear.jpg" alt="" title="Partridge pear" width="570" height="320" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8184" /></a>
{<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/61082135/a-partridge-in-a-pear-tree-one-handmade" title="Partridge Card" target="_blank">Source</a>}

As my dear old grandfather said, "They all looks the same, lovey," {he had a metric butt tonne of grandkids and often called me Graeme.  Ironically we never knew anyone called Graeme}... and it is the thought that counts.

<a href="http://magnetoboldtoo.com/" title="Magneto Bold Too" target="_blank">Kelley</a> - who is deeply disturbed by these cards because OMG THEY ARE NOT EVEN IN THE SAME FAMILY! Let alone genus or species... *rocks wildly in the corner wailing about the future of our children if Etsy sellers don't know their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbidae" title="Columbidae" target="_blank">Columbidae</a> from their gawd damn <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatidae" title="Anatidae" target="_blank">Anatidae</a>*]]></content:encoded>
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