Ulterior Votive
Thanks for the heads up.
Oh dear.
OMG I like to call them that too!
Most Twilight fans have empty jars of Tostitos Queso dip lying around in their bedrooms. Also Burger King trash. So materials aren’t going to be a problem.
BITCH YOU DON’T KNOW MY LIFE
That plastic cup hot glued to a Tostitos jar sure looks like an expensive candle! Take that, Jo Malone! Waaa laaa!
Please don’t say it. Please. Please.
Shit
May 28, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Ideals do not belong on Etsy, they belong in a spiral notebook.
May 28, 2010 at 4:37 pm
this idea doesn’t even belong in a spiral notebook.
May 28, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Waaa Laaa! Your originality and creativity know no bounds.
May 28, 2010 at 4:41 pm
A free design idea… that you absolutely must pay twenty cents for. Well, I guess that makes sense to anyone who would make this.
May 28, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Can something be free if it costs 20 cents?
May 28, 2010 at 4:42 pm
It’s free AND .20 cents …. at.the.exact.same.time.
May 28, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Last year I used a coke can as a cigarette dispenser. 20 cents please. waaaa laaaaa!!!
May 28, 2010 at 4:44 pm
i’d pay the $0.20 to make it go away.
May 28, 2010 at 4:44 pm
It took me forever to realize the subsequent blocks of text weren’t written by Helen, because they are just that stupid. Taping plastic cups to candles? The fuck??!
May 28, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Damn. I was hoping she’d have a photo of the finished product so that my un-creative mind could get a handle on how this is supposed to look in the end. *sigh* No such luck.
May 28, 2010 at 4:47 pm
“Initially I was just going to display my Burger King New Moon cup with my other Twilight memorabilia. However, my cat, Dermot, kept trying to knock it over in hopes of getting a drink, so I had to come up with an alternative. Plus, this just looks a little nicer than a plastic cup.” Hmmm not so sure.
May 28, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Perfect for mood lighting for the virginity you’ll never lose.
May 28, 2010 at 4:49 pm
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May 28, 2010 at 4:53 pm
It’s not 20 cents, people. First thing she says it DON’T pay for it.
May 28, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Did anyone see her profile?
“My grandmother’s name was Frankie. She had a very creative mind. She once showed me a circle in the dirt out in the trees behind her house. She told me that it was a fairy ring and that the fairies must have danced there.”
I am guessing grandma buried someone or something out back, but didn’t want to freak her granddaughter out.
By this listing, I can definitely tell they are related.
May 28, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Waaa Laaa! Waaa Laaa! Waaa Laaa!
I don’t know why the French don’t just nuke us already.
May 28, 2010 at 4:57 pm
De-lurking simply to say, I am so inspired. Off to Burger King I go.
May 28, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Are you gonna hold that pickle?
May 28, 2010 at 5:05 pm
This is classic regretsy. What a way to start my day. (yes it’s 5pm here stfu)
May 28, 2010 at 5:09 pm
She didn’t want to use the glue gun on the hot setting yet she is BURNING a candle inside of it….
May 28, 2010 at 5:13 pm
couldn’t she just stab herself in the eye?
May 28, 2010 at 5:13 pm
what the fuck
http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=13995580
May 28, 2010 at 5:16 pm
Honey, bless your heart, you don’t spell out the idea in step-by-step detail until AFTER someone has already shelled out the $.20 for it.
May 28, 2010 at 5:21 pm
I don’t know about you guys but I’m going to irritate the shit out of all my friends by giving them taped up garbage and saying “Waa laaa” upon presenting said garbage.
May 28, 2010 at 5:32 pm
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May 28, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Even the creeps in the forums must realize you HAVE to make fun of shit like this.
May 28, 2010 at 5:54 pm
So, wait a minute. When she says “Waaa Laaa”, she means “voila”?
Mon Dieu! Le Merde!
May 15, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Oh! I thought it was some Twilight-speak that I didn’t know since I hadn’t read the books or seen the movie!
May 28, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Ah, yes, the distinctive aroma of cheap plastic melting, with a hint of Twi-Flavor…definitely worth 20 cents!
May 28, 2010 at 5:59 pm
I totally see why she wants to sell this idea, as a creator I share her concern for plagiarism. I mean with an idea this golden people will be lining up to copy it and sell it on their own store! And she will get nothing from it. You have to protect your genius.
May 28, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Sort of off topic, but for those fellow Twilight haters out there, in Dave Barry’s newest book, he has a chapter that is a Twilight parody. I have not read the real book but I can tell you that his version is exactly what I would imagine Twilight to be. It’s awesome.
May 28, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Only in EtsyWorld would you see “waa laa”
May 28, 2010 at 6:13 pm
or you could put sand in a burger king bag. then put a candle in it. buy one idea, get one free.
May 28, 2010 at 6:13 pm
#31 janncri: Oh, I wish that were true. I see it all over the place, and it (literally) makes me cringe.
May 28, 2010 at 6:16 pm
pantsmonkey, yes, my French teacher would have a coronary!
May 28, 2010 at 6:26 pm
#33 I also see “viola” a lot.
May 28, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Aaaargh! My 40-year-old French dictionary just self-immolated!!!
May 28, 2010 at 6:36 pm
It’s almost heroic that she isn’t just horribly depressed by her own creation. I mean, using a plastic burger king cup as a starting base for materials, and somehow not letting that ruin any of the romance of it for you. Her ability to suspend disbelief and live in a fantasy world…. well, shit.. I have to say I’m a little jealous of the ability to completely ignore the horrific overtone of this.
I bet she has a shirt with an embroidered cat on it.
May 28, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Waa Laa is Etsyian derp for HOLLA!
or perhaps she is from Waa Laa Waa Laa, Washington…
May 28, 2010 at 7:01 pm
I NEED a Waaaaa Laaaaaa shirt!
May 28, 2010 at 7:10 pm
All I have to say is “pourquoi?”
May 28, 2010 at 7:12 pm
“*At first I used a juice glass with a criss cross design. When I lit the candle, the design showed thru. The plainer/clearer the glass container, the better.”
She didn’t want to ruin the design of the trinity.
May 28, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Sooooooo, we’ve gone from selling “upcycled” garbage to selling an *idea* for how to upcycle garbage. Waaaaa Laaaaa!
Where’s that ‘bottom of the barrel’ guy when you need him?
May 28, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Sooooooo, we’ve gone from selling “upcycled” garbage to selling an *idea* for how to upcycle garbage. Waaaaa Laaaaa!
It’s only a matter of time before someone tries selling secret handshakes on Etsy.
May 28, 2010 at 7:45 pm
i really love this idea and think it’ll make a kick-ass xmas gift for everyone on my list. (i mean…who DOESN’T love twilight AND burger king?!?!)
so, here’s my question. do you think i need to pay .20 per candle??? or does the .20 cover all usage? or…wait…is it a free design?
fuck. i may have to convo this seller.
May 28, 2010 at 8:06 pm
http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=13651401
she may have edward’s heart but she has jacob’s wood.
May 28, 2010 at 8:34 pm
just to further illustrate how intelligent fans of twilight/burger king/tostitos/votive candles are: as of right now she has already SOLD two of these “IDEAS”
May 28, 2010 at 9:43 pm
I’d say the laugh I had from that was worth the .20 cents.
The idea, not so much.
May 28, 2010 at 9:52 pm
If this idea is so free, how come after reading it I still feel as though I’ve been deeply ripped off?
May 28, 2010 at 10:18 pm
So now it’s the “Twilight Trinity”. Are people going to be selling planks of wood because they see the image of Bella (The most vapid character in the history of Literature.).
This also concerned me: *You could also cut out the individual characters (depending on what Team you are on). In that case, you would need to affix them directly to the glass.
Just because it seemed that if you have two brain cells to rub together, you should have been able to think of that on your own.
May 28, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Seller says “PLEASE DO NOT PURCHASE THIS IDEA unless you plan on paying the 20 cents it costs.”
A marketing genius. The seller uses uppercase letters to emphasize the words PLEASE DO NOT PURCHASE THIS IDEA.
May 29, 2010 at 12:23 am
#42 Mrs.Vagoo :
Sooooooo, we’ve gone from selling “upcycled” garbage to selling an *idea* for how to upcycle garbage. Waaaaa Laaaaa!
Where’s that ‘bottom of the barrel’ guy when you need him?
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This is what’s UNDERNEATH the barrel.
May 29, 2010 at 3:05 am
Twilight a young girls choice between Necrophilia and Bestiality now why don’t they have that on the cup.. Perhaps I will just make my own and sell them
May 29, 2010 at 4:57 am
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May 29, 2010 at 8:13 am
This idea is great, except I don’t like Burger King or Twilight or Tostidos Queso, so I wrapped and taped a paper napkin from McDonald’s around and empty container of Vaseline. The result is identical. Thank you, Fairies4Frankie. And God bless you.
May 29, 2010 at 8:45 am
Since Canada is a constitutional monarchy (look it up, yanks), we have Burger King crowns up here.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w156/Yzziefrog/Regretsy/WaaaLaaaCrown.jpg
May 29, 2010 at 10:01 am
Swear to Gawd ya’ll, when I first saw these cups at the BK Lounge I said to myself some Twilighter Etsyist is gonna turn this shit into votive fuckery.
May 29, 2010 at 10:49 am
So… she’s trying to get a whole twenty cents for a how-to on hotgluing crap together… that she’s helpfully provided for free? Hell of an honor system. If I want to do it with another themed cup, do I still have to pay her royalties?
May 29, 2010 at 10:55 am
P-Diddy must have really ruffled some feathers. Do we have secret TwiTards lurking here?
May 29, 2010 at 1:19 pm
There are times when I realize my crafting abilities suck. So, I don’t subject anyone to them.
Then I read shit like this and it makes me realize that the glitter-encrusted piece of trash I just offered up to my mum on Mother’s Day is pure-fucking-gold.
May 29, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Helen, I KNEW you were fancy. You and your bourgeois Jo Malone candles.
And also, what the FUCK is this idiot trying to accomplish twenty cents at a time? Is she saving up for a piece of bubble gum?
May 29, 2010 at 2:08 pm
So…. just me, or does the “wolf” charm on the bracelet she already sold look suspiciously like a bear? Like Jacob is secretly not a werewolf, but a werebear? Like a teddy bear but with sweet abs?
http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=13651401
May 29, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Someone should talk to the seller about the “penny for your thoughts” concept.
May 29, 2010 at 6:24 pm
I like how people think that the “cool” setting on the glue gun is for making “cool” crafts. When I make cool crafts, I set my glue gun to the “awesome” setting.
and then there’s this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallah
May 29, 2010 at 9:21 pm
SATURDAY NIGHT FUCKERY AS USALLY:
http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af28/sunshynegrll/rockytwilight.jpg
May 30, 2010 at 2:47 am
i would like the “Bitch, you don’t know my life.” shirt.
May 30, 2010 at 9:57 am
64 VEDD – I would totally wrap that around a Tostitos jar for a votive holder!
May 30, 2010 at 10:41 am
#45 – Geektastic:
http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=13651401
Is that a metal finding under that bear or is it just happy to see me?
May 30, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Now I have seen everything!
May 31, 2010 at 12:34 am
20 cents and two sold. Hey BIG spender-CONVO me…..x
June 1, 2010 at 6:45 am
I notice the seller didn’t even bother to put an picture of the actual candleholder on the ad. Because even at 20 cents a pop, a picture might have tanked her sales figures.
June 4, 2010 at 1:02 pm
“Bitch you don’t know my life” ?
Do I detect a “Templar, Arizona” reader ?
August 3, 2010 at 8:17 am
what?? no glitter??
June 1, 2011 at 4:51 pm
“BITCH YOU DON’T KNOW MY LIFE”
I am *still* cracking up over this.