I recently did a little recon at my local Michael’s and came away with a couple of prank crafting gems. Behold, the Enchanted … Fees? (Sorry about the photo quality, my regular camera is broken …)
I don’t know. But get this: TWO hideous paintable figurines WITH paint AND brush for … ONE DOLLAR. Rarely can you buy so much potential for so little money … except that actually, Michael’s has so much of this kind of stuff that I’m making a permanent category on the blog: Cheap-Azz Crafts.
Anyway! There are zero instructions inside and the images shown on the package use colors that are probably impossible to make using the four paint colors included. But that’s what your imagination is for, gang. One glass of wine later:
So, yes, I went off-book and painted one silver. But when you leave the lids off your paint and they all dry up, you have to freestyle. With magical results! So how will I be utilizing these as prank crafts? As I see it, I have two options: 1) mail one anonymously to someone without a word of explanation or 2) leave one amongst a shelf of knick-knacks at a friend’s house without a word of explanation.
In any case, you better believe one of these is going to a friend/family member who doesn’t expressly ask me not to give it to them, because if they don’t want to get craft pranked, they should read my blog.
So yesterday I was thinking about George Clooney for some reason (do I need a reason?) and remembered a legendary crafting prank that he pulled on his friend Richard Kind. Clooney found a horrible, large painting in someone’s trash and salvaged it, then started laying the groundwork for the prank by casually mentioning to Richard that he was taking art lessons. If they were out together, he’d say, “Oh, do you mind, I just need to stop by the art store and pick up some brushes,” etc. He did this for months. Then, he signed his name to the terrible trash painting he’d found and presented it to Richard as a gift. All their other friends were in on it so they’d praise the painting at length, making Richard think maybe he just didn’t know anything about art and it was actually good. Supposedly, the painting was on Richard’s wall for TWO YEARS before George told him the truth.
Now, I personally do not have the restraint to pull off such a prank. Nor do I have the poker face to gift something so ugly without cracking up within the minute. But this is the difference between me and an award-winning actor who makes a frillion dollars. So I offer up a slow clap for this brilliant exercise in prank crafting by a man I would bedazzle anything for (not a euphemism).
