I think she’s doing this as a public service. It’s a good thing when the nutjobs are easily identifiable by their headgear. You know, so the kids in the park don’t get scared.
The bow is just the icing on her wacky outfit cake. This dame’s wearing a bikini top with a sweater, a necklace that looks to be made out of saltwater taffy and their wrappers. And if her other listings are any indication- jean shorts and menswear style shoes.
Asianwin? Asianfail.
*Disclaimer: I swear like a fucking sailor, get the fuck over it, or don’t fucking read my fucking comment, fucktard*
See that look on her face? She’s not thinking “damn I look hot in this”, or “this is such cutting-edge haute couture fashion!”, it’s the look of “dear god in heaven…what the FUCK have I gotten myself into and what the FUCK is this that I’m wearing on my head?! I hope to fucking god that no one sees this photo, and if they do, I fucking hope that no one will recognize me!”
And I just realized that it’s quite ironic that I made that comment…and I have a photo of Lady Gaga as my avatar, HAHAHAHA!….maybe I’m the only one that finds that funny though…
hotel shower cap meets old lady rain bonnet with cards sandwiched in between.
i feel like i’m looking at an issue of “highlights magazine” circa 1985- “What is wrong in this picture?”
hiddenhermitcrouchinggrouchy
December 14, 2010 at 8:12 pm
I’m so focused on the bad bangs I didn’t even notice the shower cap…. I keep seeing those poodle roll bangs all over – gawd I hate those bangs, they remind me of the early 80′s – am I just too old and crabby?
yourtherapistjustcalled
December 14, 2010 at 11:48 pm
Just been back to look at the rest of the shop. So the best way to market one’s goodies is to wear all 4 items you are selling in your shop, in all the pics of all the listings ?
I wonder if the hapless victims modelling the pulltab bracelets are family ? One looks like she is about to burst into tears, the other has a manic gleam in his eye. Perturbing, to say the least.
SuperAwesomeFairyPrincess
December 15, 2010 at 3:30 am
Regretsy told ‘em that my hair piece was so crap,
Made out of junk that I dug out of the trash,
Hand stitched and photographed it’s sure to catch your eye,
Hand stitched my ass, Can I do anything at all right?
Wo-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah
I’ll make a lot
With whatever I got
Wo-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah
I’ll make a lot
With whatever I got
Can’t diss my, Can’t diss my, no you can’t diss my Poker-bow,
It’s got Queens and Kings and Jacks.
Can’t diss my, Can’t diss my, no you can’t diss my Poker-bow,
Made of cards and plastic sacks.
Even the model looks underwhelmed. I swear, I would lose the will to live if I didnt know these nutters were out there. God bless them all, the wiley little cellophane sporting, fringe curling extortionists
There is just so much going on here. First you see the bow, then the bangs, then the felt bracelet, and then you look at the site and find the pop tab bracelet and then you realize the model is wearing them all at once in all the pictures. Wow. And then I look back at the pop tab bracelet and remember when I was in Junior high and a lot of kids (not me) would wear them all strung on a necklace.
She gave me the Queen
She gave me the King
She was wheelin’ and dealin’
Just doin’ her thing
She was holdin’ a pair
But I had to try
Her Deuce was wild
But my Ace was high
But how was I to know
That she’d been dealt with before
Said she’d never had a Full House
But I should have known
From the tattoo on her left leg
And the garter on her right
She’d have the card to bring me down
If she played it right
She’s got the jack, she’s got the jack
Oooooh!
Thank you, thank you, thank you people, thank you, thank you
I’m glad you like the show, yes, thank you very much folks.
Goodnight and God bless!
I like this piece.
And to be honest I actually think the model is beautiful. You people on here are so rude and degrading to not only the products of the seller but the models. It’s clear that this girl isn’t over the age of fourteen, do you realize you are insulting her appearance and judging who she is by what she’s modeling?
Have you taken into consideration how embarrassing and insulted someone would feel to log onto etsy and see tons of messages from ignorant assholes telling them that their product is awful and they are lying about what they made? I would be so upset, and very offended.
Think for just one fucking second all of you. You’re all so harsh. I wouldn’t buy this, but do you think that the creator would sell something that was made in ten minutes? No.
And about insulting the creators gender. What the FUCK kind of world do we live in.
Don’t be so critical. I’m offended, and I don’t even know who this person is.
Calling strangers “ignorant assholes” is a great way to illustrate the value of being nice to people you don’t know. You just keep leading by example! – HK
Honestly, I like it, but it’s not very practical. I don’t get why everyone is acting like it wasn’t hand sewn though, it was probably just given false stitching for some kind of “look” or something.
What I find odd is that most of the commenters here don’t sell anything on Etsy, and the commenters that do have stores sell obscure items just like this one that you posted here. Just for specificity, there’s some Brady Bunch bottle top magnets and a centipede knit plushy right in the comment section on this post. Maybe instead of posting the products of people who don’t want to have any connection to Regretsy, you can just show some of the things that the registered members of this site have listed on their own Etsy accounts. I’m sure they’d LOVE to have a bunch of faceless strangers harshly critiquing their work. Oh please. If you sell on Etsy, or of you sell or create anything at all, you already have faceless strangers harshly critiquing your work. – HK
Also, don’t name yourself after geometry terms. It brings back too many bad memories. – BD
What these guys don’t seem to understand… it’s not always about ugly or stupid things, sometimes it’s merely how ridiculous things are. Yet people get so butthurt and run around with “You’re terrible human beings!” If I was ever mentioned on Regretsy I’d be STOKED!
LMAO…I loved the comments from Alohomora and slopeofcongruency. But…for the record.
1. I do have a shop on Etsy.
2. I sell items that involve more than ziploc bags and used playing cards.
3. I don’t know how you can say we don’t have Etsy shops when a great deal of us are legitimate crafters.
That being said…I wish I could have bought the item give it the proper place it deserved…the Hall of Shame. The person who bought it because it was featured on Regretsy probably bought it for its joke value…not its creative value.
Wow, I think that’s the first time I had my comment hidden due to low rating! There’s a first time for everything though hehe. I do have the feeling that someone, or a group of people, went through the comments here and thumbs downed a bunch of people over and over again because “omg, Regretsy is soooo mean, lets be mean back to them!!!”…and it was probably the seller of this trainwreck that started it hehe.
*waits for this comment to become hidden as well hehe*
oh slopeofcongruency… you’re right… I don’t know how I’d cope if my centipede was featured on Regretsy.. and then people started visiting my shop and maybe even *gasp choke* buying things and leaving all sorts of horrible feedback, which I might be able to use to improve my work… I’d be ever so crushed.
You have truly made me ashamed that my knit centipede was the thing that caught your eye as obscure over my knit day of the dead skull or my facehugger scarf… clearly I’m doing something wrong
Seller here.
#2, #10, #19, etc: The bow was done by hand, it’s a false zigzag stitch, as crafters, I’m surprised that none of you realized that. What do I gain by lying to potential customers about how the bow was made? It’s not like I said that the thread was made of of gold or something.
#24: I watermark my photos because people have taken the images and claimed to be the person in the photo. I honestly don’t care if people want to pretend they made the garment in the photo.
#26: The girl in the photo asked to model the items in the photos. I didn’t ask her to, she knew exactly what she was getting into.
#34, #43, #44: GIRL in the photo is a friend who wanted to model the products. She isn’t the seller.
#46: The “hapless victims” are people who are pleased with the bracelet that they received. I’m not related to them, and I don’t know what she you were referring to, they’re all males.
#65: There’s absolutely no denying the possibility that someone on Regretsy bought my bow, and seeing that the point of this website is to poke fun at the things that people sell on Etsy, I have the right to poke fun back at you guys, my attitude is just the same as the attitudes of basically everyone who left a comment on this page.
#68: Whether it was for a joke value or the creative value, it still sold, I did my job.
Here’s some background information for everyone else: I specialize in theatrical costuming. This is not the first time I’ve sold one of these, I’ve custom made many these these playing card bows for fashion stylists and other theatrical costume directors. This just happens to be the first one that sold online. If it sold thanks to the extra publicity I got from Regretsy, thank you, Helen Killer.
P.S. The bow wasn’t made out of ziplock bags.
I signed up just to say this: Knit_wolf, I’d buy you centipede! And your spider. At least they are actually handmade and not stitched together with lies, like some headbands.
Also, I cannot wait for the day something of mine ends up on regretsy! I would be so excited! Also, free advertising rocks.
If that’s really hand stitching, then my advice is to buy a sewing machine. It’s the saddest zig zag I’ve ever seen outside of children’s sewing classes.
WHy the hella re they mad, when theyr item is sold? And what the fuck do they care if people at regretsy think theyr work is shit? If I saw something on regretsy others tought was ridiculous, I would still buy this item. If I bought it, people here wouldent know, so there would be no peer pressure. even if its “negative” advertisement, it’s still advertisement! Without Regretsy, a lot of these works would ahve just been forgotten or bypassed. geesus….
December 14, 2010 at 1:36 pm
What stays in Vegas should stay in Vegas….or at least in the garbage
December 14, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Dunno. Looks like a sewing machine zig-zag stitch to me.
Plus she’s one card short of a flush.
December 14, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Um, I can read your hand AND your poker face.
December 14, 2010 at 1:42 pm
I’m pretty sure that wearing this will get your ass kicked at the casino.
Or anywhere else.
December 14, 2010 at 1:42 pm
@BCGE: Even without the 10, I’d flush this.
December 14, 2010 at 1:43 pm
This flop belongs in the river.
December 14, 2010 at 1:47 pm
And with a good twist it becomes a playing card fascinator! Woohoo!
December 14, 2010 at 1:48 pm
It almost makes the bow on her wrist seem unnecessary.
December 14, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Why have I never thought of using ziplock bags to sew with…all that money on fabric down the drain.
December 14, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Hand-stitched my ass. Buzzkill is right, that’s machine stitching. Bad machine stitching at that!
December 14, 2010 at 1:58 pm
I blame Lady GaGa “fashion” for half the shit on etsy.
December 14, 2010 at 2:13 pm
If only this were done in tin foil, then I could at least communicate with alien life forms while looking like an idiot in the park.
December 14, 2010 at 2:23 pm
“Hit Me”? Oh believe me, I will.
As hard as I fucking can.
And maybe I’ll be able to knock the “crafting” out of you.
Or maybe just knock that giant-ass plastic bow off your head.
December 14, 2010 at 2:39 pm
unless theRE is an arrow that comes with this bow NO SALE!
December 14, 2010 at 2:41 pm
I think she’s doing this as a public service. It’s a good thing when the nutjobs are easily identifiable by their headgear. You know, so the kids in the park don’t get scared.
December 14, 2010 at 3:14 pm
I love that the girl in the photo is glaring at ME as though I forced her to not only make that crap, but also stick it on her head in public.
December 14, 2010 at 3:21 pm
I’m amazed that some people would actually spend their hard earned $0.20 to list this in the hope of someone buying it???
December 14, 2010 at 3:27 pm
The bow is just the icing on her wacky outfit cake. This dame’s wearing a bikini top with a sweater, a necklace that looks to be made out of saltwater taffy and their wrappers. And if her other listings are any indication- jean shorts and menswear style shoes.
Asianwin? Asianfail.
December 14, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Now THIS is how it’s done; did you note she says she hand stitched the zig-zag seaming? Take note, wannabe Etsians.
December 14, 2010 at 3:30 pm
If Alice and the Mad Hatter had had a kid, she still wouldn’t wear something as stupid as this.
December 14, 2010 at 3:41 pm
OMG! Please click on the listing. The second picture is just to dies for. This is clearly someone stuck in the tween years, on crack.
December 14, 2010 at 3:56 pm
What really pisses me off is she has more sales than I do. Maybe I’ll get more if I start sewing things I find in my trash together too!
December 14, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Check out the other garbage this seller makes. Duct tape bow and felt bracelet, it must have cost her less than a dollar to make all this shit.
December 14, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Good thing she watermarked her pictures. I was really, really hoping to steal them and claim this work as my own.
December 14, 2010 at 5:00 pm
why spend 17 bucks when you can root around the house and do this for free! compare and save !
December 14, 2010 at 5:04 pm
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December 14, 2010 at 5:08 pm
“Asianwin” is neither “Asian” nor “win”. Discuss
i can clearly see we’re not playing with a full deck here…
December 14, 2010 at 5:09 pm
You know you’re in trouble when even the seller looks embarrassed by the crap they’re trying to pawn off on you.
December 14, 2010 at 5:10 pm
See there kids? that lady lost a bet. thats why we don’t gamble.
December 14, 2010 at 5:37 pm
I would LOVE to see her paired with that guy wearing the unicorn hoodie!!! Damn, if I only knew photoshop!!!
December 14, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Check out the packing corn necklace…!
December 14, 2010 at 6:22 pm
How about playing a little Solit-hair?
December 14, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Seller’s bio says “male” guys…Gives those men’s shoes a new meaning.
December 14, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Since when has Lady Gaga had an Etsy account?
December 14, 2010 at 7:19 pm
hotel shower cap meets old lady rain bonnet with cards sandwiched in between.
i feel like i’m looking at an issue of “highlights magazine” circa 1985- “What is wrong in this picture?”
December 14, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Oh, cool. I didn’t have anything special for New Year’s Eve and was afraid I wouldn’t look like a fool.
December 14, 2010 at 7:43 pm
I guess she’s a few cards short of a full deck…Oh, sometimes I crack myself up haha
December 14, 2010 at 8:12 pm
I’m so focused on the bad bangs I didn’t even notice the shower cap…. I keep seeing those poodle roll bangs all over – gawd I hate those bangs, they remind me of the early 80′s – am I just too old and crabby?
December 14, 2010 at 8:22 pm
It’s not just you #38, really, it’s not just you.
December 14, 2010 at 8:45 pm
#38 hiddenhermitcrouchinggrouchy:
Ah, so I’m not the only one who noticed something… not right with her hair. I was wondering if it was real.
December 14, 2010 at 9:27 pm
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December 14, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Asianwin is, according to the bio page, male. Interesting.
December 14, 2010 at 11:36 pm
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December 14, 2010 at 11:45 pm
You gotta know when to hold ‘em, know you’ll never sold ‘em,
know when sales are walking away, and notice how they RUN!
You’ll never count your money when sitting and listing on Etsy,
There’s time enough for countin’ when you don’t sell none.
December 14, 2010 at 11:48 pm
Just been back to look at the rest of the shop. So the best way to market one’s goodies is to wear all 4 items you are selling in your shop, in all the pics of all the listings ?
I wonder if the hapless victims modelling the pulltab bracelets are family ? One looks like she is about to burst into tears, the other has a manic gleam in his eye. Perturbing, to say the least.
December 15, 2010 at 3:30 am
Regretsy told ‘em that my hair piece was so crap,
Made out of junk that I dug out of the trash,
Hand stitched and photographed it’s sure to catch your eye,
Hand stitched my ass, Can I do anything at all right?
Wo-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah
I’ll make a lot
With whatever I got
Wo-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oah
I’ll make a lot
With whatever I got
Can’t diss my, Can’t diss my, no you can’t diss my Poker-bow,
It’s got Queens and Kings and Jacks.
Can’t diss my, Can’t diss my, no you can’t diss my Poker-bow,
Made of cards and plastic sacks.
*bows*
December 15, 2010 at 4:03 am
We can’t stay here, this is Gaga country…
December 15, 2010 at 4:21 am
Even the model looks underwhelmed. I swear, I would lose the will to live if I didnt know these nutters were out there. God bless them all, the wiley little cellophane sporting, fringe curling extortionists
December 15, 2010 at 6:09 am
A lot of people seem to be seeing Lady Gaga’s influence in this, but am I the only one who is also detecting a hint of Amy Winehouse?
December 15, 2010 at 6:41 am
There is just so much going on here. First you see the bow, then the bangs, then the felt bracelet, and then you look at the site and find the pop tab bracelet and then you realize the model is wearing them all at once in all the pictures. Wow. And then I look back at the pop tab bracelet and remember when I was in Junior high and a lot of kids (not me) would wear them all strung on a necklace.
December 15, 2010 at 10:50 am
I think we’ve found someone who is not playing with a full deck!
December 15, 2010 at 12:53 pm
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July 12, 2011 at 10:16 pm
What these guys don’t seem to understand… it’s not always about ugly or stupid things, sometimes it’s merely how ridiculous things are. Yet people get so butthurt and run around with “You’re terrible human beings!” If I was ever mentioned on Regretsy I’d be STOKED!
Or toked… >_>
December 15, 2010 at 5:57 pm
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December 15, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Alohomora, slopeofcongruency:
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
December 15, 2010 at 7:03 pm
*claps hands* Yaay! We haven’t had a Cryabeetus here in ages. Can we get a flounce, too?
December 15, 2010 at 8:22 pm
BINGO, bitchez!!!
December 15, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Is that a WAAAAAAaaambulance I hear? No, wait – it’s the fire department, coming to see what’s up with all the FLAMING around here.
December 15, 2010 at 9:50 pm
How does one fit through doors while wearing it?
December 15, 2010 at 10:21 pm
I can’t wait to see what he does with the other 48.
December 15, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Defensive much? Lighten up, this is supposed to be fun.
December 16, 2010 at 12:21 am
Gotta love the attitude of the seller, when it was probably someone from this site that ended up buying this trash.
December 16, 2010 at 6:17 am
#65: No kidding. She sold it, right? So what harm done?
December 16, 2010 at 6:44 am
When you start making things that are good, we’ll stop making fun of you.
December 16, 2010 at 8:34 am
LMAO…I loved the comments from Alohomora and slopeofcongruency. But…for the record.
1. I do have a shop on Etsy.
2. I sell items that involve more than ziploc bags and used playing cards.
3. I don’t know how you can say we don’t have Etsy shops when a great deal of us are legitimate crafters.
That being said…I wish I could have bought the item give it the proper place it deserved…the Hall of Shame. The person who bought it because it was featured on Regretsy probably bought it for its joke value…not its creative value.
December 16, 2010 at 11:46 am
Wow, I think that’s the first time I had my comment hidden due to low rating! There’s a first time for everything though hehe. I do have the feeling that someone, or a group of people, went through the comments here and thumbs downed a bunch of people over and over again because “omg, Regretsy is soooo mean, lets be mean back to them!!!”…and it was probably the seller of this trainwreck that started it hehe.
*waits for this comment to become hidden as well hehe*
December 16, 2010 at 11:58 am
oh slopeofcongruency… you’re right… I don’t know how I’d cope if my centipede was featured on Regretsy.. and then people started visiting my shop and maybe even *gasp choke* buying things and leaving all sorts of horrible feedback, which I might be able to use to improve my work… I’d be ever so crushed.
You have truly made me ashamed that my knit centipede was the thing that caught your eye as obscure over my knit day of the dead skull or my facehugger scarf… clearly I’m doing something wrong
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December 16, 2010 at 12:42 pm
I signed up just to say this: Knit_wolf, I’d buy you centipede! And your spider. At least they are actually handmade and not stitched together with lies, like some headbands.
Also, I cannot wait for the day something of mine ends up on regretsy! I would be so excited! Also, free advertising rocks.
December 16, 2010 at 3:38 pm
“Stitched together with lies” would make another grand T-shirt design.
December 16, 2010 at 10:38 pm
If that’s really hand stitching, then my advice is to buy a sewing machine. It’s the saddest zig zag I’ve ever seen outside of children’s sewing classes.
December 17, 2010 at 4:48 am
What a fucking twat.
December 17, 2010 at 7:32 am
hahahahahhahahahhahahah.. @magic knickers- you just made me wet my knickers. <3
December 17, 2010 at 8:13 am
Damn, what a sore winner!
December 17, 2010 at 9:41 am
Awww thanks emalineisabear :3
December 20, 2010 at 11:10 am
Look, she’s even got on a cat hairball necklace to accompany her delightful cellophane bow!
July 7, 2011 at 9:07 am
WHy the hella re they mad, when theyr item is sold? And what the fuck do they care if people at regretsy think theyr work is shit? If I saw something on regretsy others tought was ridiculous, I would still buy this item. If I bought it, people here wouldent know, so there would be no peer pressure. even if its “negative” advertisement, it’s still advertisement! Without Regretsy, a lot of these works would ahve just been forgotten or bypassed. geesus….