Ew! What kind of mental case thinks people will pay $15 for a rotting orange peel hanging from a rope? od, would it have been hard to at least take some scissors and cut her trash into a nice shape first?
I never thought I’d say this – but this is worse than the orange peel hair tie. At least that piece was crafted with a little attention to detail – and shellac – I won’t forget the shellac.
These? These are compost tied with string on white metal hooks.
I want a flowery description! I want to know how these invoke the essence of life – how there is no death, it’s merely a transformation into a new state of wearable waste, how you can carry with you the essence of the orange groves, the sweat of the farmer, the heat of the sun, the gentle cleansing of the rain; and also how they might be used to lure faeries.
#13- tarabu: “These earrings represent the never-ending circle of life, how once we die, we become something else, something useful to others. What dies and rots becomes beautiful and decorative. And, they are a green discovery! No more will you throw out your orange peelings. These will act not only as a beautiful decoration, but also as a natural freshener, eliminating the need for daily showers! You’ll use less water, you’ll save on waste water.”
Whaaaat? I’m speechless – almost. I don’t think this fits the “food as art” label.
I’ve been known to take a few shortcuts in making a quick earring, but this is either extreme laziness, a joke/ploy to get on Regretsy, or lights on/nobody home. Mainly I can’t get past the string attachment, nevermind the compost material being the star of the show.
Wasn’t there another orange peel accessory item featured on Regretsy a few months ago? New trend I’m missing since I don’t…
My friend’s car is a goldmine! She’s got two kids who chuck shit everywhere. I must rush over there so we can harvest the crap – I mean future whimsicle fuckery
Man, I’m sure my Pontiac is a veritable moneymaker now. Anyone for Coke bottle earrings? Or perhaps a skirt of candy bar wrappers?? It’s called UPCYCLING, you know.
It is true, I now know, that you will never run out of material for this site.
When I was a child, we kids used to make odd apple carvings…chunked-out faces that looked rather strange and interesting as they dried. Shrunken heads.
If these earrings actually sell, you will see me soon setting up a shrunken-head-apple-crap store.
@ #26 – I’ve been exposed to Regretsables for so long, I’m wondering why we haven’t already seen a skirt made out of crisps bags – I’ve seen money pouches made out of candy bags, surely clothing isn’t that far behind!
#32 tarabu, you have given me a great idea. Skirt of chips bags/candy wrappers, and big earrings made out of those canned car fresheners.
What lady wouldn’t want to smell like New Car??
I was just trying to find something for my mother for her birthday. I think she would enjoy a rotting bit of fruit hanging from her ears with old string. Ah you know what though, I think she’d prefer them bedazzled. Do you think she does custom orders?
Damn it,it’s trash, not art, it wouldn’t be art if a 5 year old I loved made it, it certainly isn’t art (or craft)when some fucktard wants me to PAY for it. Ermm I hope fucktard isn’t ..y’know, offensive to anyone who might be a bit fuctardy themselves.
I want to know, did she peel the orange BEFORE she thought to make them into earrings? Or were they laying around the house for a while and she was cleaning up when she suddenly had a “great” idea? How come there are no pictures of anyone modeling the earrings?
Orange you glad she discovered this years ago and therefore has perfected the technique over several years to now make trash worth $15?
i guess her gramma told her she was talented and “should sell her beautiful creations” ! (i read that thread) i think it’s a tie between these and the pots for the worst crap on etsy AND regretsy-so far…
ciggy butt earrings! perfect!
i love you guys
all it would take is for the “lucky” recipient to leave these lying around on the coffee table one day, and the maid will sweep them into the trash bin with the cigarette butts and muffin wrapper. And who would blame her?
#24 Ducksnew, you are welcome to come and get all the shit out of my car when you’re done with your friends, mine is a gold mine of old juice boxes, melted crayons and that ever so fresh smell I can’t get rid of from my ten year old son’s sockless van wearing stinkfeet-my husband calls my car the Pigmobile-I never knew it was a freakin goldmine of fine fine whimiscal fuckery!
Take just a moment to imagine going through your day with these attached to your ears. Go for the full sensory experience: Smell the rotten fruit. See the people staring and pointing. Hear their derisive laughter. Feel them draw away, repulsed. Taste Level 8 loserdom.
Okay, so whoever made that orange peel scrunchie obviously needs to hire this person to keep making ugly earrings. I went back to look at the scrunchie and was amazed by the tact, restraint, and reasonable price ($4.99).
#38 Raz, I will GLADLY sell you those potato peel earrings! Bargain price of $40! Just let me get tonight’s dinner going, and I’ll make them after dessert! You don’t mind it I secure them with the string from the roast, do you?
I think she found this under the driver’s seat. I would have just thrown it in the trash. But next time I find that coffee & cheezit stained note pad I think I’ll cover it with the rag under the tire chains in the back of my car where I spilled the laundry soap and make it a nice birthday gift for my mom since she is probably the only person that wouldn’t say “What the FUCK!?”
OTOTOTOT
What kind of code can I use here for, say, italic text? BB code or HTML?
What do you guys recommend for photo hosting other than flickr? I don’t really feel like making a whole new yahoo account just to use it. I tried Imageshack but don’t like that I can’t attach a title or description to an image.
From her profile……….what are they teaching in school these days??
Hi, my name is Red. I am a freelance artist in Columbia, SC. I have recently graduated from USC with a BFA in painting and photography. I’m super stoked to be doing what I love and was created to do.
I am a messy artist who loves to create and experiment with anything and everything. I am intrigued with all things textured and irregular in pattern.
But…I smell a contest. For purely entertainment sake, I think we should have a contest for worst handmade earrings and use these as a starting point. So much fun.
@ #93 vergeofsomething :
Your username links nowhere. Id love to see your legitimate art pieces that are not selling? (I routinly click peoples name-links to see what people are up to)
I don’t know why I even bothered to look at the rest of her ‘items’ but believe it or not the others are downhill on the ‘food chain’. She ‘made’ a notebook of coffee stained pages that literally looks like she dropped it in the toilet , took it out & dried it in the sun.I realize that education standards have loosened but i find it hard to swallow that she went through school much less graduated.
Those might come in handy as a way to keep people away from me on the subway so that I’m left in peace. But my ability to stare people down takes care of that for me. So I just saved myself fifteen bucks. Because you know…there aren’t any oranges and rope where I’m from. You know how it is. These are rare items and it’s not like I can just buy an orange in a store for my lunch and make that trash myself.
If anyone is interested in purchasing a kerchief hand crafted from a crumpled taco bell wrapper painstakingly adorned with fashionable shoe print embellishments please let me know.
There’s a Werthers candy stuck on my floor mat. I left it there because it fills the car with the lovely scent of caramel whenever the floor heater is turned on, but now I’m rethinking that…
Reading through her items: Ugh, it is getting super annoying how she continually refers to herself as “yours truly”.
Its cute maybe ONCE, lady. No more.
Wow, and to think my hubby who just listing his handmade jewelry on Etsy is charging $14 for vintage glass beads, etc. I’ll have to let him know he could ask $1 more for dried fruit peels.
Feel Free To Customise and Whimsiclise My Vagina
February 17, 2010 at 1:09 pm
And since she is reading this:
They look like crap, and if i saw anyone wearing this i would think they were mentally challenged.
Its not even aesthetically pleasing! Meanwhile crap like this is clogging up the etsy system, and real artists are getting buried beneath all this garbage.
Recovering Crack Baby
February 17, 2010 at 1:12 pm
#86 I am Bitter :Bah ahahahahaaa.When I saw that I thought of sitting at a table when the cup of hot water arrived and pulling my hair bag to dip my tea bag into the mug.
When I was in grade school (or jr. high; it’s been forever either way), there was a bus driver that had an orage peel coiled around the long metal arm that had the handle he used to open the bus door. He managed to peel the entire orange, keeping the peel in one spiraled piece. I thought it was garbage, but he said it made the bus smell nice, and would throw it out when it was completely dry. His peeling talent impressed me. What did I know?
Oh, thank god. I’ve had this relentless earlobe odor for the last few weeks, and FINALLY someone has created something to “freshen” them without having to endure the trouble of cleaning them!
And whoever has the sick ferret – I hope he/she gets better real soon. I had 3 ferrets for a while and they were more fun than TV. they don’t live very long
Where does one “learn” to tie a dried orange peel onto a piece of string and then loop that string onto ear hooks that you bought at Jo Anns? Because I have been looking for a class just like this and my local adult education doesn’t offer any.
Last week, at the gym, as I redressed, I saw a 4″ knitting stitch holder on the floor and said out loud “now, why was a stitch holder in my gym bag?” Then I notice the earring wire attached to it and became even more confused. Then the woman behind me said “Oops” and grabbed it and put it in her ear, asking me if I knew where to get more stitch holders so she could make more earrings.
So, I guess, in her favour, she was not as mental as this person.
385 Sudabaki…. I’m a little disturbed that this woman would voluntarily climb into a trunk and roll around in it with a dried up orange. Is that what passed as entertainment back in the day or is she the r-word?
#128 whaapplewha: “Where does one “learn” to tie a dried orange peel onto a piece of string and then loop that string onto ear hooks that you bought at Jo Anns?”
I bet the poop artist at your work could teach you.
It’s shit like this where I honestly have nothing to say.
Oh, ok one comment…
If this is acceptable what if I took one of my kids used pull-ups and taped it up with multicolored electrical whymsical tape and make a upcycled handbag?
I wouldn’t use a new pull up because they are expensive.
stinkbait, I will totally buy your upcycled pull up handbag and wear it with my upcycled legwarmers made from old shower caps and granny sweater sleeves. Saving the planet one artful bit of landfill at a time.
#113. Well if the haters and flouncers didn’t send Helen all the nasty mail about the Fuckery Free Fridays, we might have found a solution to that. But, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
dated March, 2008. It seems the baby has been buried finally. This such twisted shit, but considering it is New Hampshire, this is just the dark side of New England, right up there with Lizzie Borden, and Mary Jo Kopeckne. (Oh, no, I didn’t just go there!)
OMG her whole shop looks like Regretsy-Bait! This is what a supposedly degreed artist chooses to present to the public (and charge for!) as her work?
As for the two ferret people … I had 4 for a long time (not always the same 4 of course) and quite a few of them lived to 10-12 years. I love those little guys! So much fun!
Wait! Ferret poop art!! When that dries out it’s not too badly aromatic and can be shellacked … and they come in all sorts of interesting shapes!
And in her bio it says.
“Hi, my name is Red. I am a freelance artist in Columbia, SC. I have recently graduated from USC with a BFA in painting and photography. I’m super stoked to be doing what I love and was created to do.”
I bet her parents are so proud they spent all that money to send her to a good school, so she could make these.
#110 I have a purse made out camel cigarette packs, folded like I used to fold gum wrappers as a kid and make chains. Bought it at an auction, later a man came up to me and told me his brother made it will he was in prison.
February 17, 2010 at 9:41 am
Interesting how this nutjob had to “discover” how to make crap earrings out of garbage. Way to tap into your inner artist.
February 17, 2010 at 9:42 am
What’s next? Used condom water balloons?
Eww, I just grossed myself out.
February 17, 2010 at 9:43 am
Ew! What kind of mental case thinks people will pay $15 for a rotting orange peel hanging from a rope? od, would it have been hard to at least take some scissors and cut her trash into a nice shape first?
February 17, 2010 at 9:43 am
the dried orange peels aside…i just love her use of yarn and double-knots.
February 17, 2010 at 9:44 am
Wow, Anita Bryant has really hit the skids.
February 17, 2010 at 9:44 am
yum… compost earrings… gives a new insight into ‘green’ jewellery.
February 17, 2010 at 9:44 am
orange peels and kitchen twine . . . something tells me there’s a goldmine in my compost bucket.
February 17, 2010 at 9:45 am
At least the seller didn’t try to get flowery with describing what these are. But that’s all the credit I can give. It’s still crap on a rope.
February 17, 2010 at 9:45 am
I never thought I’d say this – but this is worse than the orange peel hair tie. At least that piece was crafted with a little attention to detail – and shellac – I won’t forget the shellac.
These? These are compost tied with string on white metal hooks.
I just . . . I mean . . . dude, wow.
February 17, 2010 at 9:46 am
Seeing this makes me think that Death Panels might not be an entirely bad idea after all.
February 17, 2010 at 9:46 am
In case those ones sell, she mustered up the courage to also make another pair: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=36957135 if anyone’s interested. lol.
February 17, 2010 at 9:46 am
I would think this would be banned from the day room as a health hazard.
February 17, 2010 at 9:47 am
If these sell for their kitsch value, I’m closing up shop, I swear to god.
February 17, 2010 at 9:47 am
I’m not paying $15 for those unless she sticks some cloves in them.
February 17, 2010 at 9:47 am
Orange you glad they didn’t use bananas?
(sorry. I’m so stunned by these earrings that I’m brain damaged now and easily amused)
February 17, 2010 at 9:48 am
I want a flowery description! I want to know how these invoke the essence of life – how there is no death, it’s merely a transformation into a new state of wearable waste, how you can carry with you the essence of the orange groves, the sweat of the farmer, the heat of the sun, the gentle cleansing of the rain; and also how they might be used to lure faeries.
February 17, 2010 at 9:49 am
Is this continuing etsy’s vagoo theme?
Orangina, anyone?
February 17, 2010 at 9:50 am
http://twitpic.com/13shp5
February 17, 2010 at 9:51 am
I am speechless!!! Well not quite. 15$ for this? What did me in is the string holding it all together. This just pisses me off..
February 17, 2010 at 9:51 am
you know, the tiny thumbnail of these looked like sculpey flowers. But the large picutre: Ew.
Does this seller also make real bacon earrings? That would at least attract Homer Simpson-esque men. And bees.
February 17, 2010 at 9:51 am
Listed on Dec 16. I want to know why she didn’t give these away to a loved one for a Christmas (or other holiday) gift.
February 17, 2010 at 9:52 am
Really???
I heard on the news that a bag containing animal remains was discovered at a Fitness USA. I wonder what that may inspire the seller to make?
:::shudders:::
February 17, 2010 at 9:53 am
holy shit! between the egg shells and vegetable discards, my compost area must be a HUGE treasure trove of etsy crap.
February 17, 2010 at 9:56 am
#13- tarabu: “These earrings represent the never-ending circle of life, how once we die, we become something else, something useful to others. What dies and rots becomes beautiful and decorative. And, they are a green discovery! No more will you throw out your orange peelings. These will act not only as a beautiful decoration, but also as a natural freshener, eliminating the need for daily showers! You’ll use less water, you’ll save on waste water.”
February 17, 2010 at 9:56 am
Whaaaat? I’m speechless – almost. I don’t think this fits the “food as art” label.
I’ve been known to take a few shortcuts in making a quick earring, but this is either extreme laziness, a joke/ploy to get on Regretsy, or lights on/nobody home. Mainly I can’t get past the string attachment, nevermind the compost material being the star of the show.
Wasn’t there another orange peel accessory item featured on Regretsy a few months ago? New trend I’m missing since I don’t…
February 17, 2010 at 9:58 am
Starry, are you in my head or am I in yours?! Spooky!
February 17, 2010 at 9:59 am
My friend’s car is a goldmine! She’s got two kids who chuck shit everywhere. I must rush over there so we can harvest the crap – I mean future whimsicle fuckery
February 17, 2010 at 10:03 am
#23 if you are in my head you should be afraid… very afraid!!!
February 17, 2010 at 10:07 am
Man, I’m sure my Pontiac is a veritable moneymaker now. Anyone for Coke bottle earrings? Or perhaps a skirt of candy bar wrappers?? It’s called UPCYCLING, you know.
February 17, 2010 at 10:07 am
I’ve got a case of Clementines here, in case anyone needs material for children’s jewelry.
February 17, 2010 at 10:08 am
It is true, I now know, that you will never run out of material for this site.
When I was a child, we kids used to make odd apple carvings…chunked-out faces that looked rather strange and interesting as they dried. Shrunken heads.
If these earrings actually sell, you will see me soon setting up a shrunken-head-apple-crap store.
February 17, 2010 at 10:10 am
Hey, at least she didn’t use old tree-shaped car air fresheners for her earrings.
BTW, is this ‘Brooklyn chic’?
February 17, 2010 at 10:11 am
Thanks, Miss Patty!
February 17, 2010 at 10:11 am
#24 DucksNews- My car floor could provide a chex mix of delights. I’ve got three little fuckers who are “droppers” so here goes:
1. Dried Cheerio necklace (but that’s so obvious)
2. Sticky, half-chewed lollipop dangling earrings
3. Fruit snack “charm” bracelet.
I’d sell it as a complete set. For anyone who needs to go to shopping.
February 17, 2010 at 10:12 am
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=36961782
“Handmade by Yours truly”.
Looks like Yours Truly needs a couple of knitting classes.
February 17, 2010 at 10:13 am
@ #26 – I’ve been exposed to Regretsables for so long, I’m wondering why we haven’t already seen a skirt made out of crisps bags – I’ve seen money pouches made out of candy bags, surely clothing isn’t that far behind!
February 17, 2010 at 10:14 am
#28 Vile & Evil Debbie Downer :
Hey, at least she didn’t use old tree-shaped car air fresheners for her earrings.
BTW, is this ‘Brooklyn chic’?
No. Columbia. And never trust a seller wearing Groucho Glasses.
February 17, 2010 at 10:16 am
#32 tarabu, you have given me a great idea. Skirt of chips bags/candy wrappers, and big earrings made out of those canned car fresheners.
What lady wouldn’t want to smell like New Car??
February 17, 2010 at 10:21 am
it’s like people purposley make craptastic junk just to get here.
February 17, 2010 at 10:22 am
I file this under “gifts to make your girlfriend cry”
A better use of twenty bucks would be hanging two $10 bills off your ears. At least the wearer could spend them.
February 17, 2010 at 10:22 am
I was just trying to find something for my mother for her birthday. I think she would enjoy a rotting bit of fruit hanging from her ears with old string. Ah you know what though, I think she’d prefer them bedazzled. Do you think she does custom orders?
February 17, 2010 at 10:23 am
Damn it,it’s trash, not art, it wouldn’t be art if a 5 year old I loved made it, it certainly isn’t art (or craft)when some fucktard wants me to PAY for it. Ermm I hope fucktard isn’t ..y’know, offensive to anyone who might be a bit fuctardy themselves.
February 17, 2010 at 10:24 am
i would love me some potato peel earrings
February 17, 2010 at 10:26 am
I want to know, did she peel the orange BEFORE she thought to make them into earrings? Or were they laying around the house for a while and she was cleaning up when she suddenly had a “great” idea? How come there are no pictures of anyone modeling the earrings?
Orange you glad she discovered this years ago and therefore has perfected the technique over several years to now make trash worth $15?
February 17, 2010 at 10:28 am
i guess her gramma told her she was talented and “should sell her beautiful creations” ! (i read that thread) i think it’s a tie between these and the pots for the worst crap on etsy AND regretsy-so far…
ciggy butt earrings! perfect!
i love you guys
February 17, 2010 at 10:28 am
@#31 Oooo, twine loosely knitted (looks more like macrame) with a few buttons stuck on. I have twine, I have buttons, i have trash! I’m rich!
February 17, 2010 at 10:28 am
#38 Raz, yeah, with some really big eyes on them.
February 17, 2010 at 10:32 am
These earrings are timeless, much like diamonds or platinum. And go well with eggshell necklaces and onion bracelets.
February 17, 2010 at 10:35 am
all it would take is for the “lucky” recipient to leave these lying around on the coffee table one day, and the maid will sweep them into the trash bin with the cigarette butts and muffin wrapper. And who would blame her?
February 17, 2010 at 10:37 am
Oh god! I just realized we live in the same city. She probably comes into my place of business all the time.
February 17, 2010 at 10:39 am
i’ve got it! used bandaid earrings and bracelet to match.
February 17, 2010 at 10:39 am
Come on…I think they are very a”peel”ing. (surprised no one made that comment yet!)
Seriously…if these sell, I’m turning my Cub Scout Den into a sweat shop to churn out macaroni necklaces. I think it would complete the look!
February 17, 2010 at 10:40 am
#24 Ducksnew, you are welcome to come and get all the shit out of my car when you’re done with your friends, mine is a gold mine of old juice boxes, melted crayons and that ever so fresh smell I can’t get rid of from my ten year old son’s sockless van wearing stinkfeet-my husband calls my car the Pigmobile-I never knew it was a freakin goldmine of fine fine whimiscal fuckery!
February 17, 2010 at 10:43 am
“What are they? Dried orange peels made into a pair of earrings…”
Thanks for answering this for me. I was really tormented.
February 17, 2010 at 10:43 am
Take just a moment to imagine going through your day with these attached to your ears. Go for the full sensory experience: Smell the rotten fruit. See the people staring and pointing. Hear their derisive laughter. Feel them draw away, repulsed. Taste Level 8 loserdom.
February 17, 2010 at 10:47 am
You guys cut the poor girl some slack. Its OBVIOUS her mother never gave her the “jump ring” talk.
February 17, 2010 at 10:51 am
Okay, so whoever made that orange peel scrunchie obviously needs to hire this person to keep making ugly earrings. I went back to look at the scrunchie and was amazed by the tact, restraint, and reasonable price ($4.99).
February 17, 2010 at 10:52 am
In what language does “Handmade” mean pick-up-any-old-piece-of-shit-lying-around-and-try-to-sell-it?
February 17, 2010 at 10:53 am
I don’t know what’s worse: the earrings or my photoshop skills….
http://twitpic.com/13ss28
February 17, 2010 at 10:55 am
#38 Raz, I will GLADLY sell you those potato peel earrings! Bargain price of $40! Just let me get tonight’s dinner going, and I’ll make them after dessert! You don’t mind it I secure them with the string from the roast, do you?
February 17, 2010 at 10:57 am
#54 Definitely the earrings.
February 17, 2010 at 10:59 am
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=38857754
I think she found this under the driver’s seat. I would have just thrown it in the trash. But next time I find that coffee & cheezit stained note pad I think I’ll cover it with the rag under the tire chains in the back of my car where I spilled the laundry soap and make it a nice birthday gift for my mom since she is probably the only person that wouldn’t say “What the FUCK!?”
February 17, 2010 at 11:01 am
#54 Bitter! Not bad! They look better than the orange peels.
February 17, 2010 at 11:05 am
But do they come in mandarin??
February 17, 2010 at 11:08 am
And there Flammable too!
February 17, 2010 at 11:08 am
#54, sorry, but they’re a little too fresh for my liking.
February 17, 2010 at 11:08 am
@#57 kitty…
My mom would say WTF? My dads head might explode.
February 17, 2010 at 11:09 am
Earrings: $15
Lockjaw: Free
February 17, 2010 at 11:11 am
OTOTOTOT
What kind of code can I use here for, say, italic text? BB code or HTML?
What do you guys recommend for photo hosting other than flickr? I don’t really feel like making a whole new yahoo account just to use it. I tried Imageshack but don’t like that I can’t attach a title or description to an image.
February 17, 2010 at 11:12 am
@Bitter
those fit right in–and they’re not just earrings, but a snack too.
February 17, 2010 at 11:12 am
hah! i was way ahead of the fashion curve by wearing a bagel pendant today.
of course, i brought it to work in a bag, and later ate it with cream cheese, but for a while there i was cutting edge, bitches!
February 17, 2010 at 11:18 am
I so love to accessorize with jewelry that will draw an adorning swarm of fruit flies to my face.
February 17, 2010 at 11:20 am
#64 Geektastic: Have you tried Photobucket? They let you have a lot of space for free.
There’s also Image Shack & Picasa.
February 17, 2010 at 11:23 am
Here’s the sister set………this time they are spiraled!
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=36957135
February 17, 2010 at 11:24 am
From her profile……….what are they teaching in school these days??
Hi, my name is Red. I am a freelance artist in Columbia, SC. I have recently graduated from USC with a BFA in painting and photography. I’m super stoked to be doing what I love and was created to do.
I am a messy artist who loves to create and experiment with anything and everything. I am intrigued with all things textured and irregular in pattern.
February 17, 2010 at 11:29 am
Can she make a ring for my Navel?
Haha – see what I did there? Navel?
Get it?
Yeah.
February 17, 2010 at 11:36 am
“Hi, my name is Red. I am a freelance artist in Columbia, SC. I have recently graduated from USC with a BFA in painting and photography.”
Then why are you making garbage jewelry and subjecting it to the public?
February 17, 2010 at 11:43 am
#35 IscreamUscream: I hope you aren’t speaking from experience.
February 17, 2010 at 11:44 am
I love how she says “I discovered how to make them”
“discovered?”………..really?
Hey! I just discovered ear wax!
February 17, 2010 at 11:45 am
Voxwoman, my potato earrings with eyes, per your suggestion…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27900808@N06/4366107188/
February 17, 2010 at 11:45 am
I am actually suprized here. Usually there is something fairy-related to crap like this…
some people should really leave the garbage disposal running while reaching in, before creating crap like this
BAD STRETCH
February 17, 2010 at 11:45 am
A to the earrings: No, no no.
But…I smell a contest. For purely entertainment sake, I think we should have a contest for worst handmade earrings and use these as a starting point. So much fun.
February 17, 2010 at 11:49 am
#80 those are actually cute! not gar-bahgge
February 17, 2010 at 11:49 am
How much extra to get mine with green mold on them?
February 17, 2010 at 11:50 am
These earrings reminded me of this story I read a few years ago. Unfortunately I can only find archives now and there are no pictures.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,127839,00.html
Third story down titled “Dried-Out Fruit Becomes Family Treasure.”
February 17, 2010 at 11:55 am
ooo!!! I just can’t decide!
http://twitpic.com/13t27h
February 17, 2010 at 11:59 am
iambitter, i like the teabag ones better than the apple ones…gives it a more pervy connotation..nice! hahahaha
February 17, 2010 at 11:59 am
I have a whole ashtray of empty ciggy butts this person can upcycle
February 17, 2010 at 12:10 pm
@IamBitter
Convenient too…if you’re a tea drinker.
February 17, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Really? This chick graduates from art school and this is what she feels compelled to make?
February 17, 2010 at 12:16 pm
This chick has a serious vitamin deficiency but I don’t want to encourage her to eat any more oranges.
February 17, 2010 at 12:21 pm
You have got to be kidding.
February 17, 2010 at 12:28 pm
And I can’t sell my legitimate art pieces? What?
February 17, 2010 at 12:31 pm
To all of you looking for candy bar wrapper clothing, have you not seen this, then?
http://www.instructables.com/community/The-Skittles-Dress/
February 17, 2010 at 12:32 pm
@ #93 vergeofsomething :
Your username links nowhere. Id love to see your legitimate art pieces that are not selling? (I routinly click peoples name-links to see what people are up to)
February 17, 2010 at 12:33 pm
*routinely
gosh darn it.
February 17, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Okay I am so not ‘shopping this and my co-working is threatening to barf BUT
in the earring contest I would like to suggest used tampons – they are colourful and they already have a string. and also EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW
February 17, 2010 at 12:40 pm
Could she compromise and use Blood Oranges, #97?
February 17, 2010 at 12:40 pm
I don’t know why I even bothered to look at the rest of her ‘items’ but believe it or not the others are downhill on the ‘food chain’. She ‘made’ a notebook of coffee stained pages that literally looks like she dropped it in the toilet , took it out & dried it in the sun.I realize that education standards have loosened but i find it hard to swallow that she went through school much less graduated.
February 17, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Were these available on Valentine’s Day? Because if I find out they were and my husband didn’t buy them for me I am going to kick his ass.
I SO want a Big Gulp fascinator. *swoons*
February 17, 2010 at 12:49 pm
It looks like she updated her description.
February 17, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Those might come in handy as a way to keep people away from me on the subway so that I’m left in peace. But my ability to stare people down takes care of that for me. So I just saved myself fifteen bucks. Because you know…there aren’t any oranges and rope where I’m from. You know how it is. These are rare items and it’s not like I can just buy an orange in a store for my lunch and make that trash myself.
February 17, 2010 at 12:50 pm
#100crapg I was just thinking about that fascinator
too ,then sprayed a big gulp of coffee slurpee all over the screen.
February 17, 2010 at 12:52 pm
If anyone is interested in purchasing a kerchief hand crafted from a crumpled taco bell wrapper painstakingly adorned with fashionable shoe print embellishments please let me know.
$90.00 firm.
February 17, 2010 at 12:55 pm
There’s a Werthers candy stuck on my floor mat. I left it there because it fills the car with the lovely scent of caramel whenever the floor heater is turned on, but now I’m rethinking that…
February 17, 2010 at 12:55 pm
“Hi, my name is Red. I am a freelance artist in Columbia, SC. I have recently graduated from USC with a BFA in painting and photography.”
would she have graduated if her instructors would have known what she was going to do with her degree?
February 17, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Reading through her items: Ugh, it is getting super annoying how she continually refers to herself as “yours truly”.
Its cute maybe ONCE, lady. No more.
February 17, 2010 at 1:03 pm
OK, I know potato peels have been done, but it took me a while:
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx256/geektastic_whimsy/wf_tato_ear.png
And now I have to go feed a sick ferret, but i’ll be back. hee hee.
February 17, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Actually, this would be the link I wanted, it’s just not as good without the description:
http://s761.photobucket.com/albums/xx256/geektastic_whimsy/Regretsy%20NSFW/?action=view¤t=wf_tato_ear.png
February 17, 2010 at 1:05 pm
I went to the bakery to buy a loaf of bread this afternoon and saw a woman carrying a purse made out of chewing gum wrappers. psi.
February 17, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Doesnt this numbskull realise that THE ORANGE PEEL WILL EVENTUALLY COMPLETELY ROT AWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY???????????????????????????????
JURY ETSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 17, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Wow, and to think my hubby who just listing his handmade jewelry on Etsy is charging $14 for vintage glass beads, etc. I’ll have to let him know he could ask $1 more for dried fruit peels.
Oh, the yarn is the icing on the cake!
February 17, 2010 at 1:09 pm
And since she is reading this:
They look like crap, and if i saw anyone wearing this i would think they were mentally challenged.
Its not even aesthetically pleasing! Meanwhile crap like this is clogging up the etsy system, and real artists are getting buried beneath all this garbage.
February 17, 2010 at 1:12 pm
#86 I am Bitter :Bah ahahahahaaa.When I saw that I thought of sitting at a table when the cup of hot water arrived and pulling my hair bag to dip my tea bag into the mug.
February 17, 2010 at 1:13 pm
I am allergic- I need one of them big fucking message necklaces that alerts anyone who is alert that I am allergic.
February 17, 2010 at 1:15 pm
“Derelicte” is sooo 2001.
February 17, 2010 at 1:25 pm
When I was in grade school (or jr. high; it’s been forever either way), there was a bus driver that had an orage peel coiled around the long metal arm that had the handle he used to open the bus door. He managed to peel the entire orange, keeping the peel in one spiraled piece. I thought it was garbage, but he said it made the bus smell nice, and would throw it out when it was completely dry. His peeling talent impressed me. What did I know?
February 17, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Oh, thank god. I’ve had this relentless earlobe odor for the last few weeks, and FINALLY someone has created something to “freshen” them without having to endure the trouble of cleaning them!
February 17, 2010 at 1:29 pm
#97 clevercat That is an amazing idea. It would be great to have an option of “lite flow” or “super flow”
ew ew ew ew ewwww
February 17, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Now see, if this were a long spiral…
nah, it would still suck.
#112-simplisahm-is he Draga Designs? Those are cool, are they from spoons?
#115 RCB-what are you allergic to, if I may be so bold?
February 17, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Silly Me… why did I even bother getting my BFA in Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing. All I need is string and garbage.
February 17, 2010 at 1:48 pm
I discovered who these are perfect for!
[url]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4366389470_f3b4beb1b6_o.jpg[/url]
February 17, 2010 at 1:54 pm
The first thing I thought when I saw this was
“Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Just Would Not Take The Garbage Out.”
February 17, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Is her last name “Neck”?
February 17, 2010 at 2:05 pm
#80 Razz! Thank you, those were great!
And whoever has the sick ferret – I hope he/she gets better real soon. I had 3 ferrets for a while and they were more fun than TV. they don’t live very long
February 17, 2010 at 2:27 pm
thanks, vox. He’s almost 8, and we just lost one the same age 3 weeks ago.
Now that he’s had his afternoon tea, back to the fuckery, already in progress.
http://s761.photobucket.com/albums/xx256/geektastic_whimsy/Regretsy%20NSFW/?action=view¤t=wf_cig_ears.png
February 17, 2010 at 2:46 pm
A blank, if anyone wants it:
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx256/geektastic_whimsy/Regretsy%20NSFW/wf_ear_wire.png
February 17, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Where does one “learn” to tie a dried orange peel onto a piece of string and then loop that string onto ear hooks that you bought at Jo Anns? Because I have been looking for a class just like this and my local adult education doesn’t offer any.
February 17, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Last week, at the gym, as I redressed, I saw a 4″ knitting stitch holder on the floor and said out loud “now, why was a stitch holder in my gym bag?” Then I notice the earring wire attached to it and became even more confused. Then the woman behind me said “Oops” and grabbed it and put it in her ear, asking me if I knew where to get more stitch holders so she could make more earrings.
So, I guess, in her favour, she was not as mental as this person.
February 17, 2010 at 3:20 pm
385 Sudabaki…. I’m a little disturbed that this woman would voluntarily climb into a trunk and roll around in it with a dried up orange. Is that what passed as entertainment back in the day or is she the r-word?
February 17, 2010 at 3:20 pm
sorry… #85 regarding sudabaki’s link
February 17, 2010 at 3:35 pm
#129 A 4″ stitch holder earring? Strange, and possibly heavy. Funny that she obviously had no clue what it was.
February 17, 2010 at 3:44 pm
#120 geektastic – Can I call you geek? I have a citrus allergy amongst others.
February 17, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Please do. I posted something for you in the newer thread…
February 17, 2010 at 4:25 pm
#128 whaapplewha: “Where does one “learn” to tie a dried orange peel onto a piece of string and then loop that string onto ear hooks that you bought at Jo Anns?”
I bet the poop artist at your work could teach you.
February 17, 2010 at 4:57 pm
It’s shit like this where I honestly have nothing to say.
Oh, ok one comment…
If this is acceptable what if I took one of my kids used pull-ups and taped it up with multicolored electrical whymsical tape and make a upcycled handbag?
I wouldn’t use a new pull up because they are expensive.
February 17, 2010 at 5:25 pm
stinkbait, I will totally buy your upcycled pull up handbag and wear it with my upcycled legwarmers made from old shower caps and granny sweater sleeves. Saving the planet one artful bit of landfill at a time.
February 17, 2010 at 5:46 pm
HomeAlone be advised it may be a tad shitty.
February 17, 2010 at 5:47 pm
#113. Well if the haters and flouncers didn’t send Helen all the nasty mail about the Fuckery Free Fridays, we might have found a solution to that. But, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
February 17, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Nevermind the earrings. I want that crappy mug they’re displayed on.
February 17, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Jury Etsy
February 17, 2010 at 6:28 pm
If Etsy were juried, the only things that would get approved are the same sorts of shit that already appear on front page.
February 17, 2010 at 7:01 pm
“Orange” you gonna buy these? It might hurt this artist’s “peelings.” Sorry, I’r drunk. . .
February 17, 2010 at 7:03 pm
#44kitty. . .so sorry. . . I didn’t know you had used that expression already. . . I’m really tipsy. . .
February 17, 2010 at 7:08 pm
are you effing kidding me?
I would say something but nothing can top comment #15 and anything I would say has pretty much been said by someone else. Great minds…
February 17, 2010 at 7:39 pm
#85 Sudabaki
Here’s another one from Concord, NH. UNREAL
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060422/REPOSITORY/604220323
about a mummified baby being passed on as a family heirloom!
February 18, 2010 at 6:03 am
Crap, I just threw away 7 oranges that looked like that this morning!
On a somewhat related note, I once recycled a route 44 big gulp mug into a bong/coffee table centerpiece.
February 18, 2010 at 8:14 am
#146 avatard: this http://www.wmur.com/news/13422362/detail.html
and this: http://www.wmur.com/news/14157668/detail.html
<— curious as to the fate of said mummified baby
February 18, 2010 at 10:40 am
1581 views as of right now.
And I notice she’s been here…must have wondered how it is she got so many hits.
February 18, 2010 at 9:01 pm
This is looking real good about now:
http://www.regretsy.com/2009/10/14/navel-gazing
February 19, 2010 at 5:23 pm
#148 Thistle,
Sorry I took so long to get back to you.
Here’s the most recent link I could find.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/northeast/view.bg?articleid=1081148&srvc=rss
dated March, 2008. It seems the baby has been buried finally. This such twisted shit, but considering it is New Hampshire, this is just the dark side of New England, right up there with Lizzie Borden, and Mary Jo Kopeckne. (Oh, no, I didn’t just go there!)
February 20, 2010 at 12:47 am
OMG her whole shop looks like Regretsy-Bait! This is what a supposedly degreed artist chooses to present to the public (and charge for!) as her work?
As for the two ferret people … I had 4 for a long time (not always the same 4 of course) and quite a few of them lived to 10-12 years. I love those little guys! So much fun!
Wait! Ferret poop art!! When that dries out it’s not too badly aromatic and can be shellacked … and they come in all sorts of interesting shapes!
February 24, 2010 at 10:30 am
#120 geektastic
Thank you…yes, it’s Draga Designs and they are from vintage spoons, forks, etc. He also does recycled glass and other vintage beads.
March 3, 2010 at 2:12 pm
And in her bio it says.
“Hi, my name is Red. I am a freelance artist in Columbia, SC. I have recently graduated from USC with a BFA in painting and photography. I’m super stoked to be doing what I love and was created to do.”
I bet her parents are so proud they spent all that money to send her to a good school, so she could make these.
March 3, 2010 at 2:22 pm
#110 I have a purse made out camel cigarette packs, folded like I used to fold gum wrappers as a kid and make chains. Bought it at an auction, later a man came up to me and told me his brother made it will he was in prison.
August 3, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Did she make this in rehab?