Not true. I’ve been looking everywhere for someone who makes a Nintendo Wii that runs on coal and it’s just disappointment after disappointment. Guess it’s back to long afternoons with my whale-oil burning Sega Genesis.
I remember back in the 1970s, living on the Army base and being jealous of all those officers’ kids who had those fancy iPhones. My dad was a sergeant and we couldn’t afford such things. All I had was a lame-ass Nokia phone… with an antennae that I had to pull up before I used it.
I sat on that orange and green plaid sofa and lamented how horrible my childhood was from the Nokia phone to my pink bike with the banana seat and sissy bar.
See the funny thing is that right now… I have the 1st gen phone. and to make light of the fact that my 3GS got stolen and I am stuck with a phone I can’t even send picture messages with I call it vintage iphone… I think that in “phone years” it does translate to being vintage.. personally… but i woudn’t sell it on etsy. or buy it for that much money.. geez
IMHO the curiously placed fruit could be seen instead as owl eyes-thus making this vintage photo Etsy FP worthy.
I wonder , if an aqua kitchen is mind numbing, what could be said about a kitchen heavily appointed with avocado fixtures & appliances?
@ #35 HelenaHandbasket- there are a lot of great comments on this but yours was literally LOL funny! Bravo!
and i have no words for this listing….but aqua kitchen is FTW!
dammit, hate to double post but forgot to add:
Hamoza, how right you are….i grew up with avocado, harvest gold, & faux wood grain in the kitchen *shudder* one of the reasons i hated the 70s while i was still IN the 70s.
Look at the detail the “crafter” put into thir “art”!!! Blowing, then buffindg the glass for the touchscreen, fabricating the metal casing, making a car charger from scratch. That’s dedication . They made this happen in thier artistic ability.
Oh blast! I hate the time difference, I always get here after the links have been taken down.
At least I got a chance to see a baby Killer (as in a young Helen Killer, not a BABY KILLER, if you get my drift) and Angie Dickinson as a bonus round!
August 3, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Almost as rage-inducing as resellers. Not quite, but almost.
August 3, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Some people really should be used car salespeople.
August 3, 2010 at 4:37 pm
a gifted artisan recently said ‘Etsy sometimes feels like the Wal-Mart of DIY’ – and now that there’s an electronics aisle, it’s true!
July 30, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Not true. I’ve been looking everywhere for someone who makes a Nintendo Wii that runs on coal and it’s just disappointment after disappointment. Guess it’s back to long afternoons with my whale-oil burning Sega Genesis.
August 3, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Brilliant fucking ‘shop, awesome April , Angie, and Mama bear (I ASSume).
Yep, that’s my mom. Also the aqua kitchen I talk about in the book. – HK
August 3, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Oh, if it’s vintage does it smell like grrrandma?
August 3, 2010 at 4:39 pm
And is your mom Fran Drescher?
August 3, 2010 at 4:40 pm
I’m 100% sure there is a dictionary app.
August 3, 2010 at 4:40 pm
At least it’s not a vintage reborn vampire baby.
August 3, 2010 at 4:40 pm
those things just go obsolete so fast…
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple
August 3, 2010 at 4:40 pm
The only thing the description was really missing was “One of a kind!”
Actually, someone should alert Steve Jobs that an Etsy seller is handcrafting iPhones. Apple would have the cops breaking down their door in no time.
August 3, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Ridonculous… have they been reported yet? Sheesh…
August 3, 2010 at 4:42 pm
His whole shop looks like his grandma died and he’s cleaning out her house.
August 3, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Is that a USB 2.0? That’s sooo 2009.
August 3, 2010 at 4:50 pm
I like how the doily gives this item its vintage street cred.
August 3, 2010 at 4:50 pm
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/ALT1977-WE-ARE-NOT-TIME-TRAVELERS/545221
August 3, 2010 at 4:51 pm
HK I have nothing to say about this absurd iphone posting but just wanted to say what a cute picture of you and your Mom.
Ok thumbs down me.
August 3, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Is that HK? Cute picture!
I have to say I am sooooooo jealous that you got an IPhone for your fifth birthday. All I got was Legos.
August 3, 2010 at 5:03 pm
I remember back in the 1970s, living on the Army base and being jealous of all those officers’ kids who had those fancy iPhones. My dad was a sergeant and we couldn’t afford such things. All I had was a lame-ass Nokia phone… with an antennae that I had to pull up before I used it.
I sat on that orange and green plaid sofa and lamented how horrible my childhood was from the Nokia phone to my pink bike with the banana seat and sissy bar.
August 3, 2010 at 5:07 pm
He forgot OOAK, Steampunk, handmade…
August 3, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Adorable photo April, is that the aqua house you wrote about in the Regretsy book?
Yes! That is the mind numbingly aqua kitchen. – HK
August 3, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Forget the phone, I want the doily!
August 3, 2010 at 5:23 pm
The joys of buying home-made!!
August 3, 2010 at 5:27 pm
What? It’s not RARE! MINT! ONE OF A KIND!
August 3, 2010 at 5:31 pm
At least include all the parts! Where’s the key to wind it??
August 3, 2010 at 5:33 pm
That Aqua kitchen is all kinds of awesome. And Mama Killer is adorable!
August 3, 2010 at 5:33 pm
OMG, I have one like it but it’s an antique! It doesn’t even have the phone or touch screen features!
August 3, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Does the back have a hand drawn picture of Edward from Twilight?
If so – SOLD!
August 3, 2010 at 5:39 pm
This isn’t vintage; it’s steampunk.
August 3, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Etsy needs a new slogan:
Etsy. When you can’t sell it on eBay.
August 3, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Unless she’s engraved an image of her vagoo on the back (or is offering to engrave an image of my dong), this isn’t craft.
August 3, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Ha!
Ha!
Awwwww….. ♥
August 3, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Even when a item that BLATENTLY violates the TOU of Etsy gets attention from this site, the admins STILL aren’t smart enough to remove it.
Regretsy once again proves it’s dominance over a site ran by incompetence.
Seriously Helen Etsy owes you a paycheck for doing their work for them.
August 3, 2010 at 7:10 pm
This seems like regretsy bait – everything else in the shop and all the sold items seem legit.
Or maybe they think that the Wii commercials are real and IPhones also come from time travelers and are therefore “futage” (future vintage).
Maybe, but Regretsy bait generally doesn’t deliberately violate Etsy’s terms of use. – HK
August 3, 2010 at 7:24 pm
I hate it when people list steampunk items as vintage.
August 3, 2010 at 8:06 pm
My, what curiously placed cut fruits on the front of your little jumper!
Holy shit! I never noticed that! – HK
August 3, 2010 at 8:18 pm
at least the seller could have used some vintage apple logos or something:
http://www.1000bit.it/lista/a/apple/apple2_ad.jpg
August 3, 2010 at 8:40 pm
hmm. no, thanks. I’ll wait til next week when I can get the Vintage HTC Evo 4G.
August 3, 2010 at 9:03 pm
8 Gigs for your 8th b-day HOW CUTE does it use those 6″ x 6″ floppy disks… The only thing cuter is our litle Winchellita
August 3, 2010 at 9:11 pm
#35 HelenaHandbasket: Curse you for the rest of time for making me go back and notice that bit of inappropriateness on our wee little HK. Can’t unsee!
August 3, 2010 at 9:14 pm
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August 3, 2010 at 9:36 pm
your photo is awesome!!!
August 3, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Is that your Mom? ‘Cause she’s a knock-out. She could make that leopard bow tie look good!
August 3, 2010 at 10:20 pm
You people are so fuckin snarky. If you open it up, you’d see the rotary dial!!
August 3, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Hey seller… your iPhone is ‘old’. THIS is ‘vintage’:
August 3, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Your mom totally looks like Jackie Kennedy. I got that whole vibe in the face.
…My friend says she has Fran Drescher hair.
Loving the aqua kitchen, by the way.
August 4, 2010 at 1:01 am
IMHO the curiously placed fruit could be seen instead as owl eyes-thus making this vintage photo Etsy FP worthy.
I wonder , if an aqua kitchen is mind numbing, what could be said about a kitchen heavily appointed with avocado fixtures & appliances?
August 4, 2010 at 3:15 am
@ #35 HelenaHandbasket- there are a lot of great comments on this but yours was literally LOL funny! Bravo!
and i have no words for this listing….but aqua kitchen is FTW!
August 4, 2010 at 3:17 am
dammit, hate to double post but forgot to add:
Hamoza, how right you are….i grew up with avocado, harvest gold, & faux wood grain in the kitchen *shudder* one of the reasons i hated the 70s while i was still IN the 70s.
August 4, 2010 at 4:45 am
first off …the family pic is adorable.
Look at the detail the “crafter” put into thir “art”!!! Blowing, then buffindg the glass for the touchscreen, fabricating the metal casing, making a car charger from scratch. That’s dedication . They made this happen in thier artistic ability.
August 4, 2010 at 4:51 am
Wow, if the iPhone is “vintage” than the VCR must be a dinosaur.
August 4, 2010 at 5:19 am
Oh blast! I hate the time difference, I always get here after the links have been taken down.
At least I got a chance to see a baby Killer (as in a young Helen Killer, not a BABY KILLER, if you get my drift) and Angie Dickinson as a bonus round!
August 4, 2010 at 9:30 am
I grew up with an avocado and gold kitchen. Perhaps this is made us the Regretsians we are today.
VEDD-I think your IPhoe could also be categorized as Stempunk!
August 4, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Cool! Now I feel good about calling the vegetables in my crisper drawer “vintage.”
August 4, 2010 at 12:51 pm
#44 Vile and Evil Debbie Downer
That is classic! BRAVO!
August 4, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Keep in mind, it was called the iCans back then.
August 5, 2010 at 1:12 pm
If this is ‘vintage’, I have a seven-year-old Nokia that could qualify for museum status!
. . .hey, it works, and no one in their right mind would ever steal it.
August 7, 2010 at 4:28 pm
I “heart” this whole post.
March 29, 2012 at 7:36 am
Dude, your mom is hot.