Jessie has had to call a ceasefire to The Knitting War due to her business taking off, which … hello, priorities?? But, it’s fine — it gives me time to work on something really spectacular and time-consuming, something that would bring this war to an end and find me victorious. Something like the above. Only I might add feet, because while this lady is CLEARLY warmer than any person living on earth, her feet must be freezing. Put some slippers on!
(Via Knithacker and mrsalvo.)
Slow clap. If you don’t have time to make a prank craft for Christmas gifting, head over to Etsy and request one of these beauties.
SNOOKI
made this as a present for a roommate!
edit: glad everyone likes this!! here’s my etsy link . please message me there if you’ve like any custom designs or a snooki of your own!
Pretty excited for the release of Amy Sedaris’s new book, for two reasons: 1) best book title ever, obviously, and 2) sure to be full of amazing kitschy crafts to make and ironically gift. It’s out November 2nd!
Maybe you really need to dramatically throw down the gauntlet with someone in your life by making them a super unique work of art that will go down in the annals of prank crafting. Consider taking a page from artist Jason Mecier’s book and craft a mosaic portrait using stuff you’ve got lying around your house!
Like this Missy Elliott made out of makeup.
Or, this Taylor Lautner made out of Red (and black) Vines.
Or my personal fave, the Olsen Twins made out of candy.
Amazing! I wish I could gift Mecier’s art instead of making a portrait of Justin Bieber out of vegetable rotini and dryer lint all by myself, but that’s life, you know? That’s Christmas 2010.
Apparently, the craft of woodburning is called “pyrography” (apt!), and some people do it really well and beautifully. But in the hands of someone who can’t really draw, such as myself, or in the hands of someone who might decide to burn, say, a portrait of a loved one or celebrity into a wooden clock, well … I think there are some pretty spectacular craft pranking possibilities to be had.
Or, you know, just do a deer.
You can buy a kit for around $15 and I INTEND TO.
The best part about giving this to someone would be the unveiling — imagine opening a wrapped box, and starting to lift this out, and lifting… lifting…lifting. It would be like a scarf trick, but a scarf trick that took you 5 months to make. WORTH IT.
Wow, what a great likeness of our Patron Saint of prank crafting! Christmas is right around the corner, which means you better get started cross-stitching this ASAP … because even though I don’t know you, I know someone in your life needs this. (via Cross Stitcher Magazine)
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).
The last salvo in the ongoing Knitting War was mine. I made this attractive beard for Jessie …
As you can see, her husband was thrilled.
It’s hard to know where to go at this point in the war. Once you’ve crossed into mermaid tail/beard/hotpant shortall territory, it becomes harder and harder to figure out how to retaliate … which is why, after years of this battle, we take so long to return fire. Where do you go from a beard? I literally cannot wait to see.
YOUR MOVE, JESSIE.
