Such is the Craft Ninja
October 26, 2009 at 12:11 pm
That’s it…someone finally created a shop that is incredibly creepy, disingenuous, and really really bad on purpose – for the sole purpose of getting posted on Regretsy.
Helen, I believe you have been punked.
It’s that bad.
I agree with you. it looks like someone is really making fun here. (..though I am sure he/ she will find someone stupid enough to buy it). Belive it or not..
I hate this person. Why? Because I honestly can’t tell if she is doing an Andy Kaufman ironic thing, or if she is underage (Im assuming that pic of the girl in the rainbow brite shirt is her, which would mean she is definitely not underage), or if there is some sort of brain injury involved. I WANT TO KNOW WHICH JOKE I SHOULD BE IN ON! gaaah!
“You won’t find it in any jewelry stores ”
Not in any that are not run by the insane, that is…
If you check the rest of the quality merchandise in this persons shop, you will see that they have a screw loose.
Ragdoll business cards are collectors items? Who collects them, garbage men?
I have to believe, for my own sanity at least, that this shop (and that website, my god) are some kind of experiment in absurdity or something. I have to believe that, or I will lose my own mind.
I have seen pendants I recognize from wholesale catalogs plunked on a commercial finished chain and sold as hand made jewelry in “respectable” Etsy shops. Paper clip on string is just the trailer trash version of same.
I know I’m about a year and a half late here, but I just wanted to say that when I was teenager, my friends and I thought we were absolutely BRILLIANT for coming up with paper clip earrings. I wore them for months (much to my parents’ dismay) until I switched to safety pins…
I have no idea why I didn’t get some sort of horrible infection.
Sold?! Everyone is shocked! Please look up shilling. Or consider that the popularity of this site makes crappy things hilarious crappy gag gifts. Can you imagine your best friend opening a birthday present containing a vagina painting? Speaking of vagina’s, wheres the link to that costume?
ps. that site makes me think that pretty princess whatever has suffered some sort of head injury, anyone remember the charlize theron character in arrested developement?
She probably includes “free” drugs or tittie pics with each purchase. That has to be it. Otherwise I just can’t fathom why someone would pay so much money for this when they could make the same thing themselves by stealing a paper clip from work and pulling a thread from an old sweater. Especially in this economy… who has the money for $5 paper clips on string?!
Feedback was already left for the paperclip necklace. I’m pretty sure whoever bought it didn’t buy it because they liked it. Either it was her, one of her friends, or someone out of pity.
You really need to stop including these attention-seeking Etsy people who juist want to get mentioned on Regretsy. There’s plenty of weird stuff out there just on its own merits, and it’s hard enough to sell on Etsy when you have to put up with jokers like this.
I just can’t and won’t believe this is real because if a tiny part of me does, I may just die a bit inside. The fact it was sold makes me even more suspicious.
I don’t know whether I’m more freaked out or annoyed by this, but the blonde wig Rainbow Brite pic has been copied from my flickr acccount :O What the hell?! I’ve reported it to Etsy and left a convo for the seller – anything else I can do?
I make jewelry and have an Etsy shop. I make nice jewelry, it’s even sold in some very nice boutiques. I don’t have very many sales on Etsy. Now I know why. I need to start making ridiculous crap and get it on this site then I might sell something! I have paperclips, pink paperclips, blue paperclips I even have silver paperclips. Any requests?
Helen the thread you made is absolutely hysterical! I would love to go to lunch with you and some of the other posters – we could order Cosmos and wear our Sucks – oops I mean – SEX in the City earrings.
This librarian from Brooklyn is absolutely legit and just mocking Artists with a capital A. Note he calls himself “Yup, Richard Prince is the magical symbolic father of Richard Prince Jr, the artist in residence at Pretty PRincess Pug Palace!”
And Richard Prince is a very famous artist who does jokey work, pieces made from co-opted cartoons and photo’s. If you’re interested: http://www.richardprinceart.com/necklace.html http://my.qoop.com/store/Kacper-Jarecki-3561227397932105/
I hate this kind of crap. This idiot is just doing something stupid to get famous… or infamous… either way, it’s not art, not creative, not anything but sheer assholery! Yes, I just made up a word! Pffft on Pretty Princess Pug!
October 26, 2009 at 11:51 am
Like does it come with the cheap wire or the cheap string? Makes a lot difference to me… just saying, I don’t want to get ripped off.
October 26, 2009 at 11:51 am
Helen…I fucking love you.
October 26, 2009 at 12:05 pm
OMG funniest thing I’ve seen all day!
October 26, 2009 at 12:11 pm
That’s it…someone finally created a shop that is incredibly creepy, disingenuous, and really really bad on purpose – for the sole purpose of getting posted on Regretsy.
Helen, I believe you have been punked.
It’s that bad.
May 13, 2011 at 3:40 pm
I agree with you. it looks like someone is really making fun here. (..though I am sure he/ she will find someone stupid enough to buy it). Belive it or not..
October 26, 2009 at 12:17 pm
#4, No, this item was added in August. I didn’t start Regretsy until October 1.
More importantly . . . it just sold.
October 26, 2009 at 12:20 pm
That shop is for real?
October 26, 2009 at 12:22 pm
WTF. I hope they found about the string or wire before buying.
October 26, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Wow, she’s also selling a rock with glued on eyes for $10.00, now that’s a deal.
I hate that anybody bought that. I mean, I think some of these would make hilarious gag gifts, but someone just wasted $5 on a paper clip and string.
October 26, 2009 at 12:27 pm
@ #6 – The shop is real. The comment thread is a Photoshop I made for my own amusement, obviously.
October 26, 2009 at 12:31 pm
#5, Indeed, excuse my initial reaction…but even more importantly: http://www.prettyprincesspug.com
Be sure to click on every single link. Especially “Vanilla and Strawberry Ice Cream”
OMG.
October 26, 2009 at 12:37 pm
hmm…i don’t understand why anyone would buy this…
October 26, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Of course Helen, the “Narc on this post” was a huge tipoff.
October 26, 2009 at 12:50 pm
@#12, You’d be surprised what people miss!
October 26, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Finally! A necklace that will help me organize this pile of papers.
October 26, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Oh my… What? I got paper clips! Any one want to go into biz with me?
October 26, 2009 at 1:31 pm
OMG, I love you.
Laughing….so…hard…
October 26, 2009 at 1:40 pm
After viewing Pretty Princess Pug’s website, I think PPP is in on the joke.
October 26, 2009 at 1:42 pm
OMG!!! I just realized the first pic is thread, not wire. It’s got to be quality thread to make me think it was wire. Well worth the price.
October 26, 2009 at 1:48 pm
You have to wonder if she’s 12 years old or bat-shit crazy. Pretty Princess Pug? It’s like something they’d spoof on South Park.
October 26, 2009 at 2:06 pm
This is insane!
She re-drew Garfield comics: http://www.prettyprincesspug.com/Garfield.html
Introducing Pretty Princess Pug’s newest, bestest friends: Cease and Desist.
October 26, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Wow! I could make a ton by selling paperclips on string?! If I had of only known sooner!!!
October 26, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Oh pretty Pretty Princess Pug you rock my world!!
Three cheers for Regresty for showing us some fanstastic art mockery sellers the past few days. “Snacks on a Plane” is still my favorite.
October 26, 2009 at 2:31 pm
That fake comment thread is one of the funniest things I have ever read! Seriously,I laughed for 15 minutes. Thanks!
October 26, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Hey someone “bought” this today!!
October 26, 2009 at 2:49 pm
I honestly think this shop is a mockery.
My mind can’t fathom this kind of uninstitionalized insanity.
October 26, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Can’t…comprehend………so…much…stupidity………brain…melting………….
October 26, 2009 at 3:17 pm
This item alone is why your site rocks, helen. This stuff can’t stay hidden!!
October 26, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Oh hell no.
Oh no somebody did not just put a paperclip on a string and try to sell it as jewelery.
October 26, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Edit:
OH HELL NO SOMEBODY DID NOT JUST BUY A PAPERCLIP ON A STRING FOR FIVE DOLLARS.
October 26, 2009 at 3:48 pm
I hate this person. Why? Because I honestly can’t tell if she is doing an Andy Kaufman ironic thing, or if she is underage (Im assuming that pic of the girl in the rainbow brite shirt is her, which would mean she is definitely not underage), or if there is some sort of brain injury involved. I WANT TO KNOW WHICH JOKE I SHOULD BE IN ON! gaaah!
October 26, 2009 at 3:50 pm
“You won’t find it in any jewelry stores ”
Not in any that are not run by the insane, that is…
If you check the rest of the quality merchandise in this persons shop, you will see that they have a screw loose.
Ragdoll business cards are collectors items? Who collects them, garbage men?
October 26, 2009 at 4:02 pm
I have to believe, for my own sanity at least, that this shop (and that website, my god) are some kind of experiment in absurdity or something. I have to believe that, or I will lose my own mind.
This origami box with a face drawn on in magic marker retails for $20
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23576602
And she liked this idea so much, she listed two of them.
October 26, 2009 at 4:18 pm
How did this sell? Was it a pity buy?
October 26, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Interesting that her stuff gets sold…
October 26, 2009 at 4:39 pm
I think insane asylums should stop allowing their patients to use the computer ;P
October 26, 2009 at 5:04 pm
wth? it got sold?! the person who actually bought it is more crazy than the maker…
October 26, 2009 at 5:09 pm
I just viewed her pretty princess pug site. This is why morons should not have access to HTML writing. Nuff said.
Also I hate pugs. They are quite unpleasant. Even more so when they are crudely drawn in MS paint.
October 26, 2009 at 5:44 pm
HEY, it only cost her $5.00 and I bet she got more hits to-day on her site, than any one else to-day. Wish I had bought it first.
October 26, 2009 at 6:10 pm
#32 – I thought that was a used chinese take out container! I was a bit baffled, but then I saw the location was Brooklyn and it all made sense.
October 26, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Just. Read. My. Name.
October 26, 2009 at 6:30 pm
I have seen pendants I recognize from wholesale catalogs plunked on a commercial finished chain and sold as hand made jewelry in “respectable” Etsy shops. Paper clip on string is just the trailer trash version of same.
October 26, 2009 at 6:33 pm
CateLawrence says: Interesting that her stuff gets sold…
I have always thought the same thing about Hello Kitty. 6 year olds, maybe…
October 26, 2009 at 6:38 pm
are there paper clip earrings to match? all she’d have to do to market them is take two paper clips and shove them through somebody’s ear lobes
May 20, 2011 at 2:32 pm
I know I’m about a year and a half late here, but I just wanted to say that when I was teenager, my friends and I thought we were absolutely BRILLIANT for coming up with paper clip earrings. I wore them for months (much to my parents’ dismay) until I switched to safety pins…
I have no idea why I didn’t get some sort of horrible infection.
October 26, 2009 at 6:42 pm
This site is proof that a sucker really is born every minute. And said suckers should not be allowed to breed.
October 26, 2009 at 7:00 pm
What I think is amazing is that there are 44 comments on this crap.
October 26, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I’m sure the owner of “Involuntary Emesis” & “Catnip fetus toy” will enjoy “paperclip on a string.”
October 26, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Argh matey, even more insane was her other sale, a tiny paper frickin’ unicorn colored with markers that sold for frickin’ 20 dollars.
TWENTY DOLLARS! WTF PEOPLE?
October 26, 2009 at 7:50 pm
its a librarian man. just google “Kacper Jarecki”.
(which is the email on the pug princess site)
sounds like a joke…maybe…i think
October 26, 2009 at 8:10 pm
String? Wire? Looks like a big ol’ pubic hair to me.
October 26, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Sold?! Everyone is shocked! Please look up shilling. Or consider that the popularity of this site makes crappy things hilarious crappy gag gifts. Can you imagine your best friend opening a birthday present containing a vagina painting? Speaking of vagina’s, wheres the link to that costume?
October 26, 2009 at 8:36 pm
ps. that site makes me think that pretty princess whatever has suffered some sort of head injury, anyone remember the charlize theron character in arrested developement?
October 26, 2009 at 8:37 pm
She probably includes “free” drugs or tittie pics with each purchase. That has to be it. Otherwise I just can’t fathom why someone would pay so much money for this when they could make the same thing themselves by stealing a paper clip from work and pulling a thread from an old sweater. Especially in this economy… who has the money for $5 paper clips on string?!
October 26, 2009 at 9:11 pm
holy f*ck what IDIOT BOUGHT THIS??????
October 26, 2009 at 9:17 pm
The man behind the Pretty PRincess Pug:
http://www.meetup.com/members/2756411/
October 26, 2009 at 9:32 pm
The question is, who is the joke on?
October 26, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Pretty Princess Pug is right on trend…next step is stringing bobby pins on a chain, like this beauty right here
http://www.mycatwalk.com.au/fashion/missbibi/hair-pin-necklace/missbibi5.html
October 27, 2009 at 12:56 am
@ 46: no, no. can’t you see – this is minimalism!
seriously, that man has too much time on his hands.
October 27, 2009 at 12:58 am
the “rainbow brite” picture with the weird dog is creepy, somehow.
October 27, 2009 at 9:10 am
Feedback was already left for the paperclip necklace. I’m pretty sure whoever bought it didn’t buy it because they liked it. Either it was her, one of her friends, or someone out of pity.
October 27, 2009 at 9:35 am
You really need to stop including these attention-seeking Etsy people who juist want to get mentioned on Regretsy. There’s plenty of weird stuff out there just on its own merits, and it’s hard enough to sell on Etsy when you have to put up with jokers like this.
October 27, 2009 at 9:50 am
I just can’t and won’t believe this is real because if a tiny part of me does, I may just die a bit inside. The fact it was sold makes me even more suspicious.
October 27, 2009 at 9:54 am
If somebody legit did buy it, I think they did so in the hope it will bring them views which probably worked, a $5 advertisement isn’t bad at all.
October 27, 2009 at 1:31 pm
#10 – thank you for recommending the Vanilla & Strawberry Ice Cream section, I fucking DIED while reading that. Hilarious.
Also, the woman who bought this gem of an item has a legit store with swarvoski-esque necklaces, etc. I loved her comment on the sale of the item!
October 27, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Thinking of opening a shop to sell things I find stuck to the bottom of my shoe. On a string – that’s what makes it handmade.
October 27, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Just goes to show that people are suckers for free shipping!
October 27, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Pretty Princess Pug proves my Point…Say NO to Ecstacy!
October 27, 2009 at 7:30 pm
I don’t know whether I’m more freaked out or annoyed by this, but the blonde wig Rainbow Brite pic has been copied from my flickr acccount :O What the hell?! I’ve reported it to Etsy and left a convo for the seller – anything else I can do?
October 27, 2009 at 9:17 pm
I make jewelry and have an Etsy shop. I make nice jewelry, it’s even sold in some very nice boutiques. I don’t have very many sales on Etsy. Now I know why. I need to start making ridiculous crap and get it on this site then I might sell something! I have paperclips, pink paperclips, blue paperclips I even have silver paperclips. Any requests?
October 28, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Helen the thread you made is absolutely hysterical! I would love to go to lunch with you and some of the other posters – we could order Cosmos and wear our Sucks – oops I mean – SEX in the City earrings.
October 30, 2009 at 11:08 pm
This librarian from Brooklyn is absolutely legit and just mocking Artists with a capital A. Note he calls himself “Yup, Richard Prince is the magical symbolic father of Richard Prince Jr, the artist in residence at Pretty PRincess Pug Palace!”
And Richard Prince is a very famous artist who does jokey work, pieces made from co-opted cartoons and photo’s. If you’re interested:
http://www.richardprinceart.com/necklace.html
http://my.qoop.com/store/Kacper-Jarecki-3561227397932105/
November 1, 2009 at 6:12 pm
She was selling someone’s business cards for $50. Wow. Just… wow. *raises an eyebrow*
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31019357
November 11, 2009 at 11:23 am
I hate this kind of crap. This idiot is just doing something stupid to get famous… or infamous… either way, it’s not art, not creative, not anything but sheer assholery! Yes, I just made up a word! Pffft on Pretty Princess Pug!
November 26, 2009 at 7:18 pm
You’d never clear airport security while wearing all that Bling.
February 6, 2011 at 10:34 pm
Whatever, you guys. While everyone here makes fun, Pretty Princess Pug is just laughing himself all the way to the bank.
August 2, 2011 at 7:49 pm
Paperclip! Now this would have to be a send up! Surely this is not a seriously approach to design and art? Or is it?