Regretsy: Where DIY Meets WTF
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- ISBN13: 9780345523181
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
HANDMADE? IT LOOKS LIKE YOU MADE IT WITH YOUR FEET.
A chicken poncho. A painting of a corn dog. A clock made out of an ancient “mostly clean” cheese grater. All this and more await you in the pages of Regretsy, a veritable sideshow of handcrafts gone incorrect. Based on the eponymous hit blog and arranged in categories such as Décor, Pet Humiliation, and Christmas, Regretsy showcases the best of the worst, ranging from the hilariously absurd to the purely horrifying. Each page of this jaw-dropping volume features the actual seller’s online listing with a light coat of snarky commentary to give it a excellent shellacking. So join us as we descend into handmade hell and gawk, gasp, and marvel at the disturbingly odd artifacts that Regretsy has collected for your viewing pleasure, proving that you can never have too much of a terrible thing.
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This book is fantastic for so many things.
Place it on the coffee table to shock your grandparents and tiny children.
Fantastic bathroom reading for persons extra long excretemeditations!!!
The list goes on and on.
Filled with tons of Whimsical ***kery.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Whimsicle F**kery imports perfectly to book form. I hope she publishes one of these every year. This deserves to be a multi-volume collection of bizarre craft. I have a new personal hero, and her name is April Winchell.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
History: Before I bought the book, a friend of mine would show me some of the [...] postings that depicted things I never new existed. I became interested in Regretsy not only for the blunt humour of the leader and her followers, but also to see the artworks one would never find in an Art History book. The reason why I bought the book was because I heard that it gave insight to the leader’s background – her history, the birth of Regretsy itself, and where she was coming from when she posted on her blog.
The book itself is certainly a light read. Most of it consists of pictures of Etsy sellers’ items that were whimsical, weird, and sometimes outright twisted. Not more than each piece there is a comment from the leader – essentially, what comes to her mind when she saw the artwork. A lot of times her comments are what most people are too polite to admit to. They are the comments that one might reflect in his or her head but never say to their acquaintances face.
The book is also split into different chapters or sections. Each section has a theme and a small history of the leader’s background as it relates to that particular section. The one section that got me laughing the most was the part about animals. She writes some snippet about how the animal may feel under each picture, but before the artwork pictures, the leader also gives a hilarious background about herself and her dog during the time she also felt that animals needed to be “pretty” and the leader even includes a picture of her dog showing the result of what beauty-gone-incorrect did to her pet.
At first, the book may seem cruel to the Etsy crafters, but as you read on, you learn that many of the sellers featured veteran an influx of sales because of the attention Regretsy had agreed their shops and, at the end of the book, you can even read what the Etsy sellers themselves thought about being featured by Regretsy. I was surprised to learn that [...] had such unique artwork as whenever I browsed the website, I establish Etsy’s version of “traditional crafts.”
In closing, the book is both amusing and informative in regards to Regretsy, Etsy, and the relationship between the two. It took me about two hours to end reading, so it is a very fleeting book, but it is entertaining and makes for a fantastic chatty piece. I was a small disappointed in its shortness, but I establish it worth the $10 I paid for the book and even bought a copy for my mother-in-law for an early Mother’s Day present (of course, she couldn’t wait until Sunday, opened it, read it, and loved it painstakingly). The leader has a sharp sense of humour, which would not appeal to everybody, but for persons who delight in it, such as myself, the book is vastly entertaining.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I admit I was a follower of the website/Facebook page before I bought the book so I might be a small biased, but I establish it very amusing! I also liked the chapter openers with info about April’s life (wow her dad did the original Tigger voice? no way!) The book was better than I expected and I just gave it to my mom to read and she’s enjoying it. My only complaint is that I wish the book was longer because I didn’t want it to end!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I’m a huge fan of April Winchell and Regretsy, and this book celebrates arts and crafting gone awry. It truly gives new creedence to the well loved axiom “So Terrible It’s Excellent!”.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5