Regretsy News

Posted by Helen Killer 135 comments

As I sit here this morning, sifting through nearly 500 comments of people spewing the most profane words imaginable to win a guessing game with no prize, I am filled with gratitude and affection. You, fellow snark-mongers, secret lovers of all things crotched and googly-eyed, mean-spirited mockers of teddy bears with no eyes and vaginas on water bottles, you are my people.

And so it is particularly fitting that I make the following announcement this morning, because I only have you and your support to thank for this:

REGRETSY HAS SIGNED A BOOK DEAL WITH RANDOM HOUSE

Yes, it’s true. A Regretsy book is now in the works, and I’m pretty jacked up about it.

The book is a different animal than this site. I’m only using material with the participation and permission of the sellers, so you have to want to be a part of it. And it’s my intention to make the sellers a significant part of it.

I’ve asked Random House to use Etsy artists to create the art in the book, instead of illustrators or stock images they might otherwise use. There will also be a seller’s guide in the book, fully crediting each submitter and providing links to their store. I’m offering free advertising on Regretsy to anyone who winds up selected for the book. And there are a lot of other opportunities for all of us that I’ll tell you about later.

So if you’d like to be a part of the book, click on the chicken in a poncho up on the left, and you’ll be taken to a form that tells you what to do.

And if you’ve already been featured on the site and would like to be in the book, use the link to let me know. It will be mostly new material, but there’s room for some favorites.

Thank you all for making this possible. I have been loving everything about this, and wishing I could make it my job. Now it is!

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Nov 20, 2009
12:00 pm
#1 Lexiii :

You’re my idol.

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Nov 20, 2009
12:04 pm
#2 Brie :

Awesome and so deserved!! You are FUNNY my friend Helen Killer, congrats

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Nov 20, 2009
12:04 pm
#3 Sammy the Goose :

Very cool–congrats!

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Nov 20, 2009
12:05 pm
#4 ohsoretro :

Helen Killer is my HERO. Hooray for the Regretsy Book!!

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Nov 20, 2009
12:05 pm
#5 Dynomoose :

This is terrific news. I hope that you include some of the more clever comments in the book. Such as the interpretive critiques on http://tinyurl.com/ya2b6kq

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Nov 20, 2009
12:06 pm
#6 CraftingBlues :

Congrats! I have a feeling this book is going to be EPIC.

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Nov 20, 2009
12:07 pm
#7 portable wig :

Congratulations!!!! That is so fantastic!

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Nov 20, 2009
12:09 pm
#8 Indiscretion :

Wow – that’s incredible, congrats! I’ve been watching this site in the shadows :D

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Nov 20, 2009
12:09 pm
#9 amcatanzaro :

Congrats Helen! I’ll think of you every morning that I hear your voice on kids tv.

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Nov 20, 2009
12:10 pm
#10 jeffreyrcarey :

NiCe. ConGRaTUlatIoNS. GoT YOur woRk cUT Out foR yOU!

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Nov 20, 2009
12:12 pm
#11 Jea :

i assume this can only be good for etsy. LOL

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Nov 20, 2009
12:12 pm
#12 hammerhead77 :

Congrats! I’m sure the book will be magnicifent.

“And there are lots of opportunities for all of us that I’ll tell you about later”
Just a clarification if I may: Should we random Regretsians also click on the poncho-ed chicka and sign up if we want to help out with the book, even if we are not sellers or purveyors of what-the-fuckery? Or is that just for sellers and purveyors of what-the-fuckery? (Some of us may have *cough* publishing experience, that may or may not be useful)

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Nov 20, 2009
12:13 pm
#13 reallyscarey :

For some reason the Michael Jackson on a baseball is the most memorable of all items to me. Hope you get to use that one! Congratulations!

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Nov 20, 2009
12:14 pm

Go you!!!!!!!!

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Nov 20, 2009
12:15 pm
#15 vangoghbabe :

I’m holding out for the movie….lifetime channel or comedy central..you decide…okay maybe spike, max at night…you know, Helen, the world is at your feet.

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Nov 20, 2009
12:15 pm
#16 Kimmer-G :

WOW!! You deserve it. That’s awesome news.
2 Va-jay-jays up!

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Nov 20, 2009
12:16 pm
#17 vangoghbabe :

NO…2 porcelein dildos up

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Nov 20, 2009
12:16 pm
#18 i am bean :

Regretsy has gone legit! Well done H! x

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Nov 20, 2009
12:18 pm
#19 Fae :

But the comments are the funny part. Not sure how well that will work in a book, but good luck.

…Perhaps there should be a memo section in the margins.

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Nov 20, 2009
12:19 pm
#20 hammerhead77 :

#14 vgb–I’m thinking Skinimax. All felted vaginas, all night long.
Or perhaps the classic plumber set-up where the guy in the butt necklace shows up: “You need your hot glue gun unplugged ma’am?”
bow chica bow bow….

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Nov 20, 2009
12:22 pm
#21 boompf :

Re: memo section – like in Jon Stewart’s history book, with his “notes”

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Nov 20, 2009
12:26 pm
#22 suisaidhburke :

w00t!

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Nov 20, 2009
12:26 pm
#23 Stingray Charles :

Congratulations Helen! As you enjoy your success, always remember: Ability can take you to the top, but it takes charter to keep you there.

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Nov 20, 2009
12:28 pm
#24 i am bean :

LOL…#23

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Nov 20, 2009
12:31 pm
#25 pottery123 :

Congratulations!!!!! Can’t wait for the movie.

BTW You are gorgeous

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Nov 20, 2009
12:35 pm
#26 hammerhead77 :

#25-Yes, not at all the blind, deaf, mute axe-murder that I had in mind.

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Nov 20, 2009
12:36 pm
#27 Helen Killer :

@ #12, the chicken in a poncho is for sellers only, which is not a sentence I ever thought I’d write. But if you want to make suggestions, email me, because I would LOVE to hear them!

@ #19 “Fae: But the comments are the funny part.”

WHAT

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Nov 20, 2009
12:39 pm
#28 akiddo :

that is awesome!! good for you!! this site is awesome…if i don’t check in daily for my dose of “whimsicle”, my day goes to crap, much like the stuff i see on here!! congratulations!!

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Nov 20, 2009
12:46 pm
#29 caschmidt :

There is a god! No, wait, There is a Jesus on a laptop!

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Nov 20, 2009
12:47 pm
#30 Stingray Charles :

Will there be a commemorative Christmas ornament with the name of the book misspelled?

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Nov 20, 2009
12:47 pm
#31 frostypumpkin :

Awesome! A sense of humor goes a long way, something Etsy seems to generally lack!

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Nov 20, 2009
12:58 pm
#32 besadesign :

Awesome!!!! Way to go!!!! I have a sudden urge to go make something graphic, misspelled, nonsensical & ridiculous just so I can be part of this!

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Nov 20, 2009
1:04 pm
#33 catniplover :

Holy crap, a book! And I can’t believe, *sniff*, I’ve been following you since the beginning, *sniff*.

Congratulations!! And damnit, I wish I had something Regretsy-worthy! LOL

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Nov 20, 2009
1:08 pm
#34 wordingdervish :

I’m so happy for you. I’ve gotten much enjoyment from your site. I’m hoping for a book deal too and now I’m more inspired than ever. All the best to you!!

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Nov 20, 2009
1:10 pm
#35 NinjaGato :

Congrats Helen/April! Let us know if there’s any way we can help out.

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Nov 20, 2009
1:11 pm
#36 Fae :

Oh, and on a side note, I’m pretty sure that the featured seller on Etsy is the same one that produced the crazy dog silhouette thing.

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Nov 20, 2009
1:12 pm
#37 customisedfeltvagina :

congratulations!! you rock Helen!

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Nov 20, 2009
1:14 pm
#38 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

Sure, it’s all fun and games til someone gets a book deal.

Congratulations Helen! May all your dreams come true. ALL your dreams, (indistinct muttering).

And Random House! You SO have to nail Andre Agassi now.

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Nov 20, 2009
1:16 pm
#39 moi :

This.

Is.

Amazing. Congrats!

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Nov 20, 2009
1:25 pm
#40 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

And SWEAR you’ll try the chocolate covered raisins popcorn, you think a book deal is sweet?

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Nov 20, 2009
1:26 pm
#41 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

Well, at least this puts to rest the rumor that you are actually esty admin.

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Nov 20, 2009
1:26 pm
#42 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

But enough about you.

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Nov 20, 2009
1:27 pm
#43 Stingray Charles :

@#35 Kamikaze, Re: Agassi: With or without the mullet wig?

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Nov 20, 2009
1:28 pm
#44 SoapyHo :

I sooo submitted! Just keeping my fingers crossed I get chosen!
Woohoo!

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Nov 20, 2009
1:29 pm
#45 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

Stingray, he has a head? never noticed.

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Nov 20, 2009
1:31 pm
#46 Lara :

Holy fucking Jesus on a laptop penis penis penis!! That makes me want to throw glitter on a polymer vagina! Congrats(yes!)!

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Nov 20, 2009
1:32 pm
#47 buffoon :

Congrats, Helen K, you completely deserve it.

At the risk of sounding like Mary Whitehouse, please tell me you’ll leave out some of the more nauseating creepy porn stuff. Please. I want to be able to share this book with the generations of my family above and below me!

Oh, and make sure you make the book (yes!) whimsicle!

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Nov 20, 2009
1:34 pm
#48 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

Oh buffoon, buffoon, buffoon, one man’s nauseating creepy porn stuff is another man’s regular Saturday night. Be more specific.

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Nov 20, 2009
1:34 pm
#49 JustJon :

please let say what be in there. please let say what be in there. please let say what be in there.

Oh man, I truly hope the outsider artists will play ball with this. Most of that shit is so priceless.

@#44: I dunno. I think “Mittens” deserves a spot, don’t you?

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Nov 20, 2009
1:40 pm
#50 ungratefulbiped :

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked my husband to quit the publishing house he’s at and go work for Random House.
I have to go throttle him now.

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Nov 20, 2009
1:41 pm
#51 HermesGoddess :

Wow! SO proud of you! And it’s also awesome to put a face with the (pseudo)name after all these long…er, weeks.

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Nov 20, 2009
1:41 pm
#52 winediva :

fanFUCKINGtastic! I’m not surprised that you got a book deal. Regretsy is awesome, and I get a kick out of reading it every day :-D

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Nov 20, 2009
1:41 pm
#53 Lara :

SoapyHo!!! I’m all aflutter! I’m such a fan of your corn poo!

Helen, I’m sure #12 means the only other funny thing about the site!

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Nov 20, 2009
1:42 pm
#54 Lara :

#19, #19! Sorry!

(I am NOT a number! I am a FREE MAN!..well, woman…)

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Nov 20, 2009
1:45 pm
#55 martini :

My deepest and most heartfelt congratulations Helen…

SQUIRREL!

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Nov 20, 2009
1:48 pm
#56 martini :

Oh… And good luck to the poor bastard that has to edit it. Bwaahaha…

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Nov 20, 2009
1:49 pm
#57 customisedfeltvagina :

I was sure Helen was a man…….

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Nov 20, 2009
1:53 pm
#58 vangoghbabe :

#20
The Gypsy Dangler….
think of what the costume and set designer would have to choose from????

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Nov 20, 2009
1:54 pm
#59 martini :

I stand corrected… Good luck Jill… Bwaahaha…

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Nov 20, 2009
2:10 pm
#60 vangoghbabe :

HELEN you’re living life like you were dying!
I would like to be at your first book signing…

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Nov 20, 2009
2:15 pm
#61 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

vangoghbabe: personally i’m more likely to be at her first book burning, but i solemnly swear to throw myself on the pyre in protest, or at lest throw my favorite Barney’s cashmere sweatshirt, it’s probably more valuable.

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Nov 20, 2009
2:17 pm
#62 everydaymama :

This is so wonderful Helen!!! WOOT!! I am going to run out and get a copy as soon as it is released. And I will proudly show it off to all I know telling them that fuzzy vag’s, butt shields, and squirrel blood is really and truly all the rage today! ;P LOL!!

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Nov 20, 2009
2:21 pm
#63 Moons in Leo :

I offered my congrats on FB but it was in the middle of another thread … and, oh well, never mind … You’re fabulous and totally deserve this!

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Nov 20, 2009
2:45 pm
#64 Night Cowl :

I agree with Needle. I think it’s fabulous that Regretsy is getting so popular, it’s a downriight funny read. What gets me is that it’s the oddities, the notorious Etsy favorites, the owls, cowls and faux bois, the vaginas, the untalented, the illiterate, the people who find attention to detail a little too much to bother with are the ones to get featured and publicized. The rest of us can go pound salt. It seems the trendy, urban, hip and edgy and now the dregs of Etsy is all people…

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Nov 20, 2009
2:54 pm
#65 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

But am I bitter?

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Nov 20, 2009
2:54 pm
#66 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

You bet I am.

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Nov 20, 2009
3:02 pm
#67 grodelated :

i demand view-in-a-rooms/view-on-a-models for every item in the book!!

also, congrats.

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Nov 20, 2009
3:08 pm
#68 hammerhead77 :

I’m guessing from Helen’s post that only a limited # of things from the site will make it into the book. I’m assuming Soapy Ho will be on-board for the book. Maybe the meerkat lady since she sold so many meerkats after being featured. The adult bottle cozy seller appears to have a sense of humor, so she maybe she’d agree??? I was under the impression that a lot of the stuff in the book will be new, and that the rest of the stuff won’t be able to go in the book without permission.

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Nov 20, 2009
3:17 pm
#69 vangoghbabe :

@kamikaze
I w/ ya I’ll start making picket signs and maybe we could get a fire extiguisher cozy with a vag

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Nov 20, 2009
3:22 pm
#70 Feel Free To Customise and Whimsiclise My Vagina :

SAY WHAT?

I actually got a little misty and (yes!) teary….

cOnGrATULtiONS.

tHIS BOOK WILL BE DIABOLICLE

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Nov 20, 2009
3:24 pm
#71 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

vangoghbabe, I’m thinking a Dew Drop extinguisher. “Look, it’s putting out the fire…very…slowly.” Bless you for your support.

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Nov 20, 2009
3:25 pm
#72 vangoghbabe :

true that….gives every one time to flee

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Nov 20, 2009
3:25 pm
#73 vangoghbabe :

or stop drop and roll

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Nov 20, 2009
3:28 pm
#74 Feel Free To Customise and Whimsiclise My Vagina :

you are bringing more publicity to etsy than etsy ever have

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Nov 20, 2009
3:29 pm
#75 buffoon :

You know, Kamikaze, I think I am still just recovering from the fish/worms/parasitic twin thing yesterday. That was actually the first thing I really didn’t find funny (oh, except the sombrero, that *almost* redeemed it for me). But hey, to each his own. I cry actual tears of joy most days thanks to the hilarity of Regretsy, which is in no small part due as much to Helen K’s one liners as to the items themselves. So it is more than a little churlish to complain!!

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Nov 20, 2009
3:30 pm
#76 vangoghbabe :

I am actually going to start painting again..fo realz…
but not to have Helen post on here….I am assuming that any one can do this…seeing the work we’ve seen on here and etsy

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Nov 20, 2009
3:36 pm
#77 SoapyHo :

Thanks Lara!!
And hell yeah hammerhead77, I’m totally on ~ board!! If I get chosen…I will…I don’t know what I’ll do!!

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Nov 20, 2009
3:39 pm
#78 Night Cowl :

What the hell. I have a ton of polymer clay, it’s not my medium, but I bet I can make vaginas, after all I have one. And I have a mirror too, just in case I need to refresh my memory. I even have some black eyelash yarn that I once tried my hand at knitting and crocheting with, would work great as pubic hair. And I’ll mispell it and call it public hair and maybe someone will spot it and I’ll get on regretsy and be famous too.

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Nov 20, 2009
3:47 pm
#79 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

buffoon: oh, well, yes, no, not my Saturday night at all.

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Nov 20, 2009
3:51 pm
#80 Feel Free To Customise and Whimsiclise My Vagina :

#64 thats because everyone is sick to death of grey and NYC urban loft trend.

The reason regretsy is so popular is because there is a seething mass of discontented sellers who had been silenced in the forums too long.

So even though the stuff that is getting publicity is utter shit, and artists that will never see the front page (except for yokoo ofcourse) i think it just gives people a little satisfaction someone different is getting *some * recognition.

*feel free to convo me if you…

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Nov 20, 2009
3:52 pm
#81 Feel Free To Customise and Whimsiclise My Vagina :

have any further queries*

lol

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Nov 20, 2009
3:54 pm
#82 Feel Free To Customise and Whimsiclise My Vagina :

Regretsy is my home page. I have it with my coffee in the morning

*and maybe several times during the day…*

I dont even go to the etsy forums anymore

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Nov 20, 2009
3:57 pm
#83 SoapyHo :

“So even though the stuff that is getting publicity is utter shit”

Really? Shit??
I prefer to call mine poo, corn poo soap as a matter of fact. *lmao*

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Nov 20, 2009
4:04 pm
#84 Feel Free To Customise and Whimsiclise My Vagina :

#83 Yours is good shit

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Nov 20, 2009
4:06 pm
#85 Stingray Charles :
Nov 20, 2009
4:08 pm
#86 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

Case in point Stingray, thank you for the link!

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Nov 20, 2009
4:13 pm
#87 Stingray Charles :

You’re welcome Kamikaze, take it easy.

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Nov 20, 2009
4:15 pm
#88 SoapyHo :

Thanks #84!! *lol*

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Nov 20, 2009
4:23 pm
#89 Frankenkitty :

Congrats. Something tells me that people will start making crazy things just to be featured in the book.

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Nov 20, 2009
4:28 pm
#90 aka_rosebud :

Your name is April!! :D
Best of luck with the book, I wish I could pre-order already

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Nov 20, 2009
4:55 pm
#91 Whimsicko :

Congratulations Helen (Yes!) April!
You so deserve it for the belly-ache-laughs you’ve served up to me the past months!

I just wish I had been smartski enough to buy the original Whimsicle Butterfly, “You are Magnicifent” or the “Say What Man” before they sold out… they’re practically a piece of urban legend now!

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Nov 20, 2009
4:56 pm
#92 Feel Free To Customise and Whimsiclise My Vagina :

yeah i think maybe thats going to happen #89

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Nov 20, 2009
5:07 pm
#93 pauldodo :

I feel dizzy…..

p
x

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Nov 20, 2009
5:28 pm
#94 DucksNew :

I go out for a few drinks and come home to this. Congrats, Helen! Oh, and, FWIW, I totally would make some bullshit crafts to be featured in the book lol

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Nov 20, 2009
5:35 pm
#95 jwheeler :

Congrats! I hope it will be the next whimsicle addition to my bookshelf!!

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Nov 20, 2009
5:38 pm
#96 milkshakesthecat :

Congrats, Helen!

I for some reason never see any bullshit items on Etsy. Maybe I’m not looking in the right places.

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Nov 20, 2009
5:42 pm
#97 Monstrosa :

Yay! Whimicles all around!

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Nov 20, 2009
5:43 pm
#98 Monstrosa :

So excited over this news I misspelled the misspelling.
It”s WHIMSICLE!

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Nov 20, 2009
5:44 pm
#99 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

Oh hell somebody cover me I’m going in:

http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6345819&page=29

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Nov 20, 2009
5:55 pm
#100 crapgawker :

The usual crop of Etsy beotches on the Etsy Etc. Forum are going wild at this..
http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6345819&page=24
Choke on it! I think Regretsy is hilarious and let’s face it – there is a lot of stupid crap on Etsy!

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Nov 20, 2009
5:56 pm
#101 crapgawker :

Ooh – I was 100!! I see now that Kamikaze beat me to it – quick little squirrel.

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Nov 20, 2009
6:04 pm
#102 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :
Nov 20, 2009
6:05 pm
#103 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

:) crapgawker

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Nov 20, 2009
6:07 pm
#104 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

crapgawker, you get the feeling ‘winks is touching herself as she types?

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Nov 20, 2009
6:15 pm
#105 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

CLOSED THREAD!

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Nov 20, 2009
6:34 pm
#106 hammerhead77 :

Aw, I was rubbernecking and my favorite–SugarcubeDesign–hadn’t shown up to jump onto the dogpile yet. I believe Sugarcube was the one who said she wanted to punch this site in the face, which made me laugh. (Apparently that’s A-OK in the Etsy forums!)
OOps. I’m calling out Etsy sellers on Regretsy which is totally a violation of…oh, fuck it.

I’m glad someone explained fair use to them! A bunch of them were yelling about lawsuits if they ever ended up on Regretsy. On what grounds???

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Nov 20, 2009
6:59 pm
#107 hammerhead77 :

Oh, I also wanted to add: AwakenJournaling, if you are lurking around here, you totally should make a vagina journal! :D
All of those womyngoddesses on Etsy who make the vagina crafts would totally buy one. They could do sketches, track their menstrual cycles, and keep a daily diary detailing their inner labi–, er, innermost thoughts about their, um, “womynhood.”

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Nov 20, 2009
7:09 pm
#108 turtlegirl76 :

That is so awesome! Congratulations!

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Nov 20, 2009
8:26 pm
#109 pleasedontpickme :

Congrats!!!!!

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Nov 20, 2009
9:31 pm
#110 Stingray Charles :

Kamikaze, sorry to stir up shit on Etsy then bail, fellow sock puppet. The Etsy admins disabled my profile once that thread got interesting. Anyway, you kicked ass, Secret Agent Pussy Cat!

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Nov 20, 2009
11:19 pm
#111 Rob T Firefly :

Too cool! Congratulations!

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Nov 20, 2009
11:21 pm
#112 Helen Killer :

ROB!!!

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Nov 20, 2009
11:26 pm
#113 thembone :

Man, you did this blogging thing right! Congrats!

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Nov 21, 2009
2:01 am
#114 heidrun :

YAY! congrats!

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Nov 21, 2009
4:01 am
#115 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

Stingray: thank YOU! I never would have gone to the forums if you hadn’t shit stirred in the first place. And to any lurking esty admin, congrats on your amazing financial success! It takes a lot of black ink to block potential customers from your site for a few harmless comments in the most obscure areas of your forums. Well done!

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Nov 21, 2009
4:04 am
#116 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

*sigh*…so in love…Mr. & Mr. Stingray & Kamikaze Charles…*swoon*

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Nov 21, 2009
4:05 am
#117 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

OH HOLY SHIT WAS THAT OUT LOUD???????

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Nov 21, 2009
4:30 am
#118 msannomalley :

Congratulations!

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Nov 21, 2009
5:45 am
#119 marimoy :

WOW! Way to go! This is awesome news.

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Nov 21, 2009
6:01 am
#120 artandghosts :

wont people start to deliberately make crap in order to be associated with your new found notoriety? that would kinda ruin it for me, so i hope it keeps real!

For it it becomes hip to be considered ‘crap’, it couldnt be called regrettable.
or is that what people want, anyway, and im just too slow on the uptake.

regardless, good luck with the book, as they say!

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Nov 21, 2009
8:23 am
#121 Pytt :

reading that Etsy thread just made me sad. talk about taking everything way to seriously.
love you sock puppets

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Nov 21, 2009
9:46 am
#122 hammerhead77 :

Recently I bought a non-humiliating pet item from a seemingly sane Etsy seller who had no vaginas or fairies on offer in her shop. It was my first ever Etsy purchase. When you register they ask you all these questions about how you found out about Etsy, and I made sure to put down REGRETSY for every single one of them! :D

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Nov 21, 2009
10:03 am
#123 reallyscarey :

“no vaginas or fairies” — wouldn’t have been Regretsy that sent you there.

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Nov 21, 2009
10:18 am
#124 hammerhead77 :

#123-I honestly didn’t know that much about Etsy before someone sent me a link to this site, so I actually did find Etsy through Regretsy. Mind you I had to find most of the sellers who actually offer *practical* items on my own :)

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Nov 21, 2009
10:46 am
#125 Stingray Charles :

Kamikaze: I’m flattered, but you can do much better, trust me, I’m no Yankee Doodle Sweetheart. Besides, I don’t think Mrs. SRC would approve.

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Nov 21, 2009
10:51 am
#126 reallyscarey :

hammerhead77 – that “someone” must be another one of us with a very TwISteD SEnse OF HuMoR. Glad you’re with us!

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Nov 21, 2009
5:04 pm
#127 venbead :

so tigger is your daddy? Hoo Hoo HOO HOO!

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Nov 21, 2009
8:44 pm
#128 Luna :

Hooray! Congrats!

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Nov 21, 2009
9:59 pm
#129 panik :

Expect a flood a premeditated bad craft/art. (well more so than usual)

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Nov 22, 2009
12:40 am
#130 worldfamousfudgy :

Congrats, Helen!!! Until a friend told me about this site, I thought I was the ONLY fuh-reek who sat around and gawked at the horrendous items on Etsy for hours. That you have been offered a book deal based on your efforts means that there is hope for humanity AND some much-needed humor in the world! WHIMSICLE and Wah-lah!

Now I have to start making ugly stuff and pray that I make it in! ;0)

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Nov 22, 2009
7:31 am
#131 ustmistress :

That’s wonderful! I can’t wait to see more of my favorite whimsicle sequenced objects and everyone’s favorite art of taxidermy items in book form. Congrats!

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Nov 22, 2009
7:58 am
#132 VoteAudrey :

This is major – big props!

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Nov 23, 2009
1:15 am
#133 priceless :

Congrats April! I was going to tell you to not forget stand-up as I think you’d ‘kill’ that medium but I see you jumped the gun! You’re profesh!! No wonder you are so damn funny. You even know my hero Kevin Spacey! That’s awesome. So glad I found this just a week after you started the site. I have gotten so much enjoyment out of it. Thank you!

Now please tell me the story on the alias! I have begged so many times! Just a twist on Helen Keller or is there an inside joke I am not getting?

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Nov 23, 2009
6:00 am
#134 Hawkeye :

Holy shit!!! Congratulations!!! Like others have said, this is so very well-deserved – best of luck and can’t wait to see it in print!

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Dec 3, 2009
4:21 pm
#135 kittyofassisi :

I bow you thee! You are a hoot!! It’s hard to contain myself when I’m cruising through this site when I’m supposed to be working. I am going to have to try to come up with something worthy of the book.

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