Chimes and Misdemeanors
Wood, hemp, chunks of metal and a rusty spring. Boy, I bet that makes a beautiful sound. There’s nothing like laying in bed on a summer night, listening to a bunch of shit banging around in a tree. If I wanted to hear bottle caps and car keys all night, I’d sleep in the parking lot at Dodger Stadium.
March 25, 2010 at 1:32 pm
The MGD bottlecaps add a particularly classy touch.
March 25, 2010 at 1:33 pm
WTF is a disgruntled glass lampbead? I’ve heard of (and worked with) lampworked/lampwork beads, but never lampbeads. And how can she tell they’re disgruntled? Do they grumble instead of tinkle?
March 25, 2010 at 1:33 pm
This is obviously the brain-child of too many beers.
March 25, 2010 at 1:35 pm
If I was included in this monstrosity I guess I’d be disgruntled too.
March 25, 2010 at 1:36 pm
*scratches head* wow. that’s some seriously strong shit she’s smoking.
March 25, 2010 at 1:36 pm
No wonder the lampbeads are disgruntled. Wouldn’t you be?
March 25, 2010 at 1:36 pm
At least she admits it’s Garbage, with a capital G.
March 25, 2010 at 1:37 pm
That basically looks like what you might scrape up off the road following a DUI-meets-telephone-pole incident.
March 25, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Jeez.. and I thought my guy sold the best shit in town.
March 25, 2010 at 1:39 pm
“you’ll poke your eye out kid”
March 25, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Need to keep the deer away from your yard? This might be the trick. There may be hemp in that fugly mess butt I think the active kind has collected in the makers brain.
March 25, 2010 at 1:40 pm
It’s a post-apocalyptic wind chime.
March 25, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Next on QVC, our Trailer Park Meth Lab Crafts Collection.
Only “somewhat rusty?” For $28 bucks, I want it to be more than “somewhat.”
March 25, 2010 at 1:43 pm
There’s nothing that defines quality work like a rusty spring found somewhere in your old recliner.
March 25, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Lower right…is that a retainer??
March 25, 2010 at 1:46 pm
A number of years back one of the local radio station did a take-off of ‘Walking in a Winter Wonderland’ called ‘Walking in an Essex Wonderland’. It makes fun of an area of Baltimore. One of the lines is as follows:
Youz can make an ornament from a bud-can
And then youz can hang it from the tree…
That, my friends, is what just went through my head when I saw the picture.
March 25, 2010 at 1:47 pm
I confess, the name of this one makes me laugh:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15946253&image_id=40384372
March 25, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Is it tied together with whimsicle upcycled tampon strings?
March 25, 2010 at 1:55 pm
The whole shop is a bad acid trip /flashback. Not that I actually know what one is like but I suspect its close enough.
March 25, 2010 at 1:55 pm
After seeing this I think it’s time go go grab several beers to start my own wind chimes. Or get drunk. Or both. Yes, it can be both.
March 25, 2010 at 1:56 pm
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March 25, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Looks like someone’s selling their dreadlocks again….
March 25, 2010 at 2:01 pm
the definition of upcycling is: the repurposing of a material into a product of higher quality
shit on the ground is still shit in a tree. upcycled shouldn’t refer solely to the direction of the shit.
class dismissed.
March 25, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Materials used: garbage, huge bag of pot, laughter.
March 25, 2010 at 2:03 pm
“upcycled”???
Looks more like “upchucked” after an all night bender.
Seriously, people will put any random crap together and sell it!
March 25, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Was I naive in assuming a “wind chime” would be something that would make sound in the wind?
I mean other than the snickers of the passers by.
March 25, 2010 at 2:07 pm
aah…school must have let out early…the red-thumb-downer-dweebs are out in force….
March 25, 2010 at 2:11 pm
The first thing I thought of when I saw this was all those pictures of people holding up the crap that came out of them after the Master Cleanse.
March 25, 2010 at 2:12 pm
“…It’s a post-apocalyptic wind chime.”
It’s also a post-apocalyptic fashion accessory–and weapon. If any zombies get near, just spin your head around and cut them down….
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2766/4463402744_765f6dc922_o.jpg
March 25, 2010 at 2:17 pm
#26-ISUS hehehe.That whole ensemble really works now with the massive chandelier earring.
March 25, 2010 at 2:20 pm
@#20: This isn’t UP-cycled, that’s for sure. Up-CHUCKed, maybe.
Hmmm. There should be a more appropriate term for this sort of fuckery. Regretsians?
Side-cycled? No.
Back-cycled? Not descriptive enough.
Oooh! How ’bout Regurgi-cycled??
Comments?
March 25, 2010 at 2:21 pm
(Simon and Garfunkel/Sound of Silence)
Here’s my windchime please buy it
Looks hideous and sounds like shit
Because I made it with bottle caps
Hemp, keys, glass and assorted crap
And the old spring that I found inside my chair
Hanging there
Making the sound of garbage
March 25, 2010 at 2:22 pm
@#22 – sorry. I posteth too soon.
March 25, 2010 at 2:28 pm
#28wildnance, regurgicycled has a nice ring to it.
March 25, 2010 at 2:28 pm
There are some people who just shouldn’t be allowed near garbage dumpsters.
March 25, 2010 at 2:29 pm
But……it’s macramed…….that’s makes me an artiste!
March 25, 2010 at 2:29 pm
We call these red-neck windchimes and they are sold as novelty items at local craft fairs.
I’m from Alberta, we’re as red-necked as it comes and WE think this is a joke.
March 25, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Not filed in Garbage? Too obvious?
March 25, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Trying to cash in on the Twilight movie, too!
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?
listing_id=16050449
March 25, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Okay, I don’t know what the hell a Dammit Doll is, but I think I’m in love. Want want want: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=15946253
March 25, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Hope this one works……..
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16050449
March 25, 2010 at 2:36 pm
I think the “artiste” has found us with all the thumb downs!
March 25, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Upcycle fuckery pisses me off. No wonder the critters out back having been acting strange
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51423921@N00/4462703311/
March 25, 2010 at 2:48 pm
I like “regurgi-cycled”
Says it all, don’t it?
March 25, 2010 at 2:52 pm
instead of a wind chime, I’m thinking this thing breaks wind.
The BLACK beads are disgruntled (please refer comments to the earrings two posts back)
March 25, 2010 at 2:58 pm
On the plus side, it looks like the twine could rot away within a year. Minus side – a year.
March 25, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Wow! I really didn’t think that macrame could get much worse than the orange and brown planter holders my Mum & Dad used to have hanging in their faux-wood panelled living room.
….I stand corrected!
March 25, 2010 at 3:29 pm
I’m thinking…make something similar with a bunch of magnets tied along the strands of twine. Then you can just carry this along the beach or through a dump holding it close to the ground and it will pick up an array of interesting shit. Then, hang it up.
Nice thing is, when you’re bored with your junk, take it off the magnets and take another walk.
March 25, 2010 at 3:37 pm
I don’t if she should be allowed to call this a wind “chime.” It probably sounds more like a wind “thunk.”
March 25, 2010 at 3:46 pm
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March 25, 2010 at 3:47 pm
now, the sparkly mermaid dammit doll (from same store) http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=15946253…THAT’S another story…
March 25, 2010 at 3:50 pm
….and Helen, while I normally agree with your titles and captions; this is not a Misdemeanor, it’s clearly a Felony!
March 25, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Looks like the Moms all contributed supplies this week for the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Playgroup’s craft endeavor.
March 25, 2010 at 4:30 pm
The dammit doll ~ she says it’s sturdy & ready for a beating.
Huh?
First of all, it’s not sturdy…
But hey, she’s from Wiscoming & says she likes cheese.
And fairies.
I’m confused too.
March 25, 2010 at 4:35 pm
rusty spring? nice, do you need to get a tetanus shot before handling? these would go nicely with that fugly denim rust doily skirt thing from months back…
sit out on your porch in that skirt, drink some natty light, and listen to your windchime go thump.
March 25, 2010 at 4:39 pm
@#37 bondgirl- I’m from Alberta too! This is so Albertan, but ironic Albertan. Truly, unless Red Deer was light on the redneck, which I know it wasn’t, this garbage wouldn’t fly there or anywhere!
I think regurgi-cycled does it justice. Reduce, reuse, regurgi-cycle!
March 25, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Somewhere, a dazed hippie is coming to, rubbing her head and wondering what the hell happened to her super-cool DIY dreadlocks.
March 25, 2010 at 4:53 pm
She’s too verbose in her title. Should have stuck with “Red and Black Garbage”
March 25, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Oh jesus, macrame even? Though I like the inherent attitude that includes disgruntled glass beads and beer caps in openly trashy yard art.
March 25, 2010 at 6:25 pm
What is brown lake glass? Glass from a brown lake? What made the lake brown? Nevermind – don’t really want to know.
March 25, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Everything in that person’s shop should be labeled “garbage”.
March 25, 2010 at 7:52 pm
55 – Raz, ya beat me to it. I was going to say…
“Got tetanus?”
March 25, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Ok that’s it I need to start a anti-upcycled revolution enough is enough!
I’m sick of all the literal garbage being made into shit and sold under the uber trendy catch phrase of “upcycle”!!! The only good use for it is to be here on regretsy to snark at!
*puts on geezer cap*
Whatever happened to the good old days when people made shit out of new stuff?
* takes off geezer cap*
*sigh*
March 25, 2010 at 8:10 pm
“Garbage Chime”, huh? Truth in advertising.
March 25, 2010 at 8:27 pm
I absolutely did NOT want to know that the centerpiece came from inside the artist’s old recliner.
March 25, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Just a quickie tonight–
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx256/geektastic_whimsy/Regretsy%20NSFW/disgruntled_beads.png
Hmm, I’d better check the storage closet for grumbling and complaining.
March 25, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Once, making bottlecap crafts was a nice wholesome activity. With beer being nearly the only thing that still uses them, it’s certainly added a certain trashy nature to anything made with bottlecaps.
I don’t think that’s why this thing looks trashy though. They might be the least trashy thing on it.
March 25, 2010 at 9:56 pm
hey she’s gotta pretty good strategy as far as I can see for attracting customers to her page. Just list something truly unique…truly.
March 26, 2010 at 6:02 am
I’m willing to bet you have slept in the Dodger Stadium parking lot. Love ya 4 it.
March 26, 2010 at 8:56 am
Now I know how those black glass lamp beads got to be so disgruntled. It’s just not fair.
http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a466/Snarkoleptic_Cesar/th_blackglass.png
March 26, 2010 at 11:27 am
Brown lake glass. Sounds like broken beer bottles to me. Remember the jerk at the beach party who thru his empties in the lake?
March 26, 2010 at 1:58 pm
…damn hippies…
March 28, 2010 at 12:47 am
I think she types pretty well for a magpie.
October 19, 2010 at 8:07 pm
hemp . . . shouldn’t that be “high chimes and misdemeanors?”