DON’T MAKE ME CHOOSE
Sometimes we come across a seller that is so special, we simply have to check out every listing in their shop. It’s not that we want to, it’s more that we can’t look away.
Today we’re showcasing one such seller, whose store is so jam-packed with… something or other, we just can’t choose our favorite piece. And so we’re going to share our top 5, and hope that you will also appreciate whatever the hell is going on here.
Hats off to NUSADUA2003, whose vision is equaled only by her compulsion to sew shit together for no apparent reason.
- See all 175 creations here
January 29, 2013 at 9:38 am
The price is only for one piece? Damn… won’t be able to get enough for wedding favors.
January 29, 2013 at 9:48 am
This might be the one time where I believe the seller when she says all items are designed and handmade by her.
January 29, 2013 at 10:15 am
Either that, or we are witnessing the results of a thrift store/glue factory explosion.
January 29, 2013 at 11:21 am
Until you dig deeper. From her body of work, I don’t have a lot of faith in her custom leather appliqués or rhinestone blingerie.
January 29, 2013 at 9:50 am
Also, I kind of want to make a version of that boat hat for a friend who is going through a tough time. I feel like it would help.
January 29, 2013 at 11:22 am
There is a matching necklace as well. Oh! That reminds me to cut up my plastic six-pack rings.
January 29, 2013 at 9:55 am
You stole the many gloves of Vishnu to make THAT vest???
January 29, 2013 at 11:55 am
I summon Shiva the destroyer to make it right!
January 29, 2013 at 12:12 pm
I think they also raided Ganesha’s trunk sale for some of that crap.
January 29, 2013 at 10:05 am
This is an example of culture barrier, she saw lady gaga, she just doesn’t understand.
January 29, 2013 at 4:44 pm
But it is interesting to see that Turkish garbage looks pretty much like American garbage. Ii was kind of hoping their garbage would be somehow more exotic than ours. Nope.
January 29, 2013 at 10:07 am
Did she think someone would challenge her that they’re “one of a kind”?
January 30, 2013 at 6:46 am
I have my doubts about the “canvas print replica inspiration hermes bags”…
January 29, 2013 at 10:16 am
This is a rarity for me, but I’m just going to throw it out there…
There’s a distinct possibility that we’re looking at genius level of crazy. As in, she’s so brilliant she’s batshit. Some of her stuff in her shop is fantastic. Ugly, sure. But fantastic all the same. If she’d bring her prices down, I’d be all up on the Swiss Cheese shrug.
January 29, 2013 at 2:16 pm
I second that. I only looked at 2 pages of the many but thought there were some cool ideas. The finger puppet gloves were cute. Not every hit is out of the ballpark for most people.
January 29, 2013 at 2:34 pm
I have to agree with you. I went to a museum hat exhibit this past weekend that was an anthology by Stephen Jones and the garbage bag hat would not have looked out of place in some of the displays there. It’s hard to tell, though, if it is a genius hat because we can’t see the way it frames a face in the picture shown here. I’m too scared to go to the site to see if there are any more views.
January 29, 2013 at 3:00 pm
I’ll agree on the fantastic part.
“late 14c., “existing only in imagination,” from Middle French fantastique (14c.), from Medieval Latin fantasticus, from Late Latin phantasticus “imaginary,” from Greek phantastikos “able to imagine,”
Yeah. Definitely fantastic.
January 29, 2013 at 4:10 pm
I really like the salad scarf. I’d only wear it as a joke, but the composition is great!
January 30, 2013 at 7:56 pm
I like some of her hats and the salad scarf. Though, I’m hard pressed to say that all the stuff on her site looks likes it’s made by the same person, but….like the LP purse that looks like it was made by a 5-year-old, and the bling Uggs that look like they were made in a Chinese sweat shop.
January 29, 2013 at 11:05 am
So this person’s store has such a wide variety of bizarre items that I had to check it out. I did some google-fu and it turns out that she has peppered some of her own creations with those from alibaba.
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Diy-handmade-high-heeled-shoes-spring-new-arrival-rhinestone-high-heels-single-shoes-crystal-bridal-shoes/906486_656964605.html
January 29, 2013 at 6:24 pm
I just knew that fuzzy spot on the pictures of those shoes was suspicious. My reseller sense was tingling, too.
January 29, 2013 at 9:53 pm
That sneaky bitch! I take it all back.
January 29, 2013 at 11:12 am
the salad one is probably the closest to being crazy genius
January 29, 2013 at 11:27 am
If by crazy genius you mean “I designed something that makes it look like the green giant barfed on your shoulders.”
January 29, 2013 at 12:39 pm
There’s another definition?
January 29, 2013 at 1:19 pm
If by ‘salad’ you meant ‘the thing with the pair of fried eggs worn as epaulets.”
January 29, 2013 at 5:58 pm
What rank must you achieve to merit fried egg epaulets?
January 29, 2013 at 6:06 pm
Order of the Yoke and Arrows Commander? Or would you need a quiver as well?
January 29, 2013 at 11:16 am
I can guarantee that if I were to wear that glove vest, I’d find a way to leave it on the subway. Now if only she’d make a matching hat out of umbrellas…
January 29, 2013 at 11:23 am
Haha, the ‘glove’ vest is ‘hand’ made.
Sorry, couldn’t help myself…
So, if I was to buy this vest and actually wear it, is it fair that I file for sexual harassment charges if a co-worker feels compelled to warm their hands on a glove or two near my ass?
January 29, 2013 at 11:29 am
Nah, just when they use the gloves over your boobs.
January 29, 2013 at 11:56 am
I’d be unable to resist. Oh, I get it – this is the adult equivalent of attaching your mittens to a string.
January 29, 2013 at 12:17 pm
“I said ‘All hands on DECK!’ Leave Dick alone…”
-Colin Mochrie, “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”
January 29, 2013 at 11:28 am
I’m guessing that she used cheesy mannequins because she couldn’t convince anyone she knew to wear any of those things for the pictures.
January 29, 2013 at 11:30 am
That” recycle bra head accessories” would so go with my placemat purse.
January 29, 2013 at 6:00 pm
and here i am, just wearing a plain-ole bra on my head as i type this… when i could be wearing a bra WITH A TOY BOAT ON IT(!) on my head, instead.
January 29, 2013 at 11:33 am
http://www.etsy.com/listing/74153651/crochet-knitting-shoe-slipper?
I can’t help but wonder what animal the top two pictures are supposed to depict. A cowpig? …with a honeybee on the snout…
January 29, 2013 at 11:38 am
Oh, Even better! http://www.etsy.com/listing/74136670/recycle-ping-pong-ball-bib-necklace?
I hope she doesn’t mean recycled as in the ping pong ball scene from “Priscilla Queen of the Desert”….
January 29, 2013 at 1:24 pm
View #2 looks like a white bunny with brown ears with a bee on its vortex vagina. Or am I all wrong here?
January 29, 2013 at 1:25 pm
And just how much fun would that seller be to convo with about the project? Like, lots?
January 29, 2013 at 3:37 pm
Hah, I could see that!
January 29, 2013 at 11:39 am
I am soooo going to miss this stuff.
January 29, 2013 at 4:50 pm
I know, right? We’re going to be seriously lacking in vitamins F (for Fuckery) and S (for Snark).
January 29, 2013 at 11:54 am
50% of 75 DOLAR is $45?
January 29, 2013 at 12:11 pm
Yeah, it’s the exchange rate. DOLARS are the currency used on her godless native planet, whose inhabitants have such an alien concept of aesthetics that they’d pay money for this stuff.
January 29, 2013 at 2:49 pm
mathematics upcharge
January 29, 2013 at 12:01 pm
Going to her shop is like being a transfixed deer at 1:00am staring into the headlights of a JoAnne Fabric and Crafts truck.
January 29, 2013 at 12:11 pm
It’s so weird! Most of her stuff is really of the what the flying fuck-variety, but there are some gems in the middle I truly love.
January 29, 2013 at 12:35 pm
What’s that saying? Even a stopped clock shows the right time twice a day?
January 29, 2013 at 12:42 pm
“Even a stopped clock that someone glued gears to and labeled as ‘Steampunk’ shows the right time twice a day?”
Fixed that for you.
January 30, 2013 at 12:46 pm
It must be the Infinite Monkey Theorum:
A monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.
January 29, 2013 at 12:22 pm
I bet there’s all kinds of stuff like this in the wake of any reasonably powerful tornado. You just have take the time to sift through the rubble and keep an open “wildcrafting” mind.
January 29, 2013 at 12:35 pm
Is there something wrong with me that I actually kind of like the salad scarf? Not enough to actually pay for it, mind you, but it’s kind of cool.
January 29, 2013 at 1:17 pm
I think that’s pretty cool, too!
January 29, 2013 at 12:37 pm
Holy Balls!
January 29, 2013 at 12:43 pm
Hey, $165 is a pretty good price for a dress covered with balloons full of black-tar heroin.
January 29, 2013 at 2:44 pm
You don’t want to think about where balloons full of heroin were before they got put on the dress, though.
January 29, 2013 at 5:17 pm
Yup, I was headed towards “Heroin Smuggler picks up needle. And thread.”
January 30, 2013 at 10:25 am
After passing the balloons.
January 29, 2013 at 3:10 pm
I think it looks like the perfect thing to wear to a “Valley of the Dolls” viewing party.
January 30, 2013 at 1:17 am
I think this stuff belongs more appropriately in “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”.
January 29, 2013 at 1:17 pm
I definitely want a garbage bag and a sweaty old bra on my head. Come on! At least call it a plastic bag hat.
Except that salad scarf is actually kind of cool. You gotta get one sometime, I guess!
January 29, 2013 at 3:11 pm
The ship hat reminds me that I haven’t seen “Time Bandits” in a long time.
It also reminds me of the line “don’t touch it! It’s pure evil!”
January 29, 2013 at 3:14 pm
I’m sorry, the line is “It’s concentrated evil!”
Guess I wasn’t concentrating.
January 29, 2013 at 3:40 pm
OMG. I had forgotten about that movie. Haven’t watched it in years. Must remedy.
January 29, 2013 at 3:13 pm
Genuinely more offended by the maths (or lack thereof) than the products themselves….
January 29, 2013 at 3:39 pm
January 29, 2013 at 5:56 pm
Okay. That “salad scarf” is MINE.
January 29, 2013 at 6:15 pm
Do you have a Carmen Miranda hat to balance your look?
January 29, 2013 at 6:00 pm
When I was… somewhere around 5, I think, I decided I was going to learn to sew. Snuck a needle and thread from my mother’s sewing table, chopped up a bunch of Barbie clothes, and “stitched” the pieces together kind of willy-nilly. I think I called the result a stuffed bat (the flying kind, not the baseball kind).
Just, you know, a completely random story that absolutely nothing here could possibly have reminded me of.
January 29, 2013 at 6:40 pm
I smell ‘reseller’. No way the person who made the rest of that fucked-up shit made the salad scarf…which actually looks like *something* as opposed to a pile of garbage.
January 29, 2013 at 6:46 pm
I got to admit that salad dress is kinda funny. Not that I would wear it, but I got to “hand” it to her for that “recycle glove vest”
January 29, 2013 at 6:57 pm
I saw sooooo many lost gloves on the street today. I missed a great opportunity to make $215. Now I’m sad =(
January 29, 2013 at 10:10 pm
That glove… thing is gropetastic. The salad scarf is hilarious, though.
January 30, 2013 at 6:58 am
The part that gets to me is that there is SO MUCH OF IT. And only 9 sales (though those 9 sales are pretty surprising). I’m assuming she’s storing all this garbage (a lot of it, literally garbage!) in her house. I’m just imagining an episode of hoarders, her friend picking up a garbage bag and her freaking out “You can’t throw that away – someone is going to pay two hundred bucks for that!”
January 30, 2013 at 9:44 am
Any bets this is a “collective”?
January 31, 2013 at 4:13 pm
Not only is the stuff she made herself awful. She’s a reseller too. Time to spot the difference.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/48334131/ice-cream-towel-gift-wedding-birthday
http://www.navyandlavender.com/product/ice-cream-sundae-towel-treat-in-classic-sundae-cup/