Peekaboo

Hey look at this! Instead of scouring the internet, I scoured somebody's garage sale and took my own pictures!

I have to give her props because she had a real sense of humor about how crazy it ended up looking. She made it to look like her daughter, understandably. Her daughter wanted nothing to do with it, equally understandably. I got it for a dollar! That is like barely $0.05 per nightmare it will give me.

Drinks be coastin'

These are, apparently, handmade drink coasters. The description warns that they cannot be put in a dishwasher, as they are not waterproof. Which makes a lot of sense for drink coasters. Maybe the theme of their illustrations are "weather patterns that will melt these drink coasters".

Do not expose to direct sunlight. Do not soak in water or expose to rain. Do not allow near high or low temperatures. Do not, under any circumstances, by all that's holy, rest drinks upon.

Drink coasters will soil most fabrics and/or pets if left unattended. No liability or responsibility attaches to drink, pet, or household fatalities involving drink coasters. Thanks for buying handmade!

Blue means it used to be a boy

Well, what do you do with your trophies from baby-hunting season? Leave them in the attic to gather dust?

Seriously, Someone is Putting Me In Charge of Crafts?!

So I've been chosen, inexplicably, to host the Humorbloggers Craft Day over at Humorbloggers.com. Strange, I know. They say I was short-listed, but I have to wonder.

Anyway, once I found out that I was in charge of teaching lots of humorbloggers how to, well, make stuff, I dug out my trusty go-to craft bible:

Which, naturally, helped me decide on which craft to highlight for today's tutorial, based on the known capability of the reading audience. Hence, I settled on the "Facecloth Buddy", a new home-made best friend for anyone who doesn't really have any. Friends, that is. Not facecloths. You need to have lots of facecloths.


Step 1: Have a facecloth.

Step 2: Have another face cloth.

Step 3: Draw a relatively face-like face on at least one of the facecloths, preferably out of old, half-dried-out, cheap markers. It all adds to your new friend's rustic charm.

Step 4: Sew the two facecloths together along the seams, with possibly more facecloths added as filling, with the face on the facecloth facing out facewards.

Step 5: Take with you everywhere in life. For serious.


I hope this in-depth tutorial was as helpful as it was elegant, everyone. Althought I tried to make this classic art project as fool-proof as possible, I'm not expecting much out of you lot. Frankly, I'll give you a passing grade if you even know what a facecloth is. Anything else is just a bonus, really.

Send in pictures if you want an actual grade given to your summer school project! Otherwise, just check in at humorbloggers.com daily for the next couple days to continue on our Summer Camp Carnival Super Gypsy Homeless Tour!

Now let's take a second to see what other "special" craft projects your favourite humorbloggers are up to:

http://www.unfinishedrambler.com/2009/07/humor-bloggers-summer-camp-day-1-crafts.html

http://boomergeekgirl.blogspot.com/2009/07/summer-camp-crafty-geek.html

http://thinkinfyou.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/summer-camp/

http://johnnyb-lateforthesky.blogspot.com/2009/07/which-craft.html

Dollface

Judging from their terrified expressions I can only assume the secret doll dialogue goes something like this:

Doll 1 : AHHH HOLY CRAP WE'RE DOLLS
Doll 2: AGGGHHHHHHH
Doll 1: AHHH WE'RE ANATOMICALLY CORRECT NAKED DOLLS
Doll 2: AHHGHH
Doll1: WAIT, WHY WERE WE MADE ANATOMICALLY CORRECT?
Doll 2: AHHHHHHH