Category: Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies
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Floating Baby Heads!
Baby Hand Knits Rembrandt Yarns 1946 Submitter: This publication from 1946 by the Wool Novelty Co., Inc. of New York, NY, came in with a very large donation of women’s handicraft magazines. Maybe because it’s Friday, I found the floating baby heads on the cover particularly entertaining…. Holly: Collectors would…
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Can or Can’t?
Magic With Tin Cans Craft Course Publishers 1965 Start saving your cans now! Look at all the magical decorations you can make with just a tin can. I really have no words for this ultimate recycle craft. From the text and pictures, it looks difficult and requires a lot of…
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Don’t make eye contact with the doll
Ceramic Character Dolls and their accessories Becker 1992 I know dolls and doll collecting is a common topic for a public library collection. These kinds of books do circulate. I just find the whole idea of collecting dolls a bit weird. The eyes and facial expressions are just a bit…
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Evil Returns to the Craft Section
Popular Handicrafts and Hobbie$ Sherrer, Ed. September 1979 Prepare yourselves: Applehead Dolls have returned. Particularly disturbing are the applehead dolls that look like Santa. I am sure the kids will love them and totally re-think that whole decision on naughty v. nice. As an added bonus, we also have an…
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Hand and Rod Puppets
Hand and Rod Puppets: A Handbook of Technique Fettig translated by Susanne Forster 1973 Submitter: This was in the children’s section. I hate to say “just look at it” but… yeah. It’s ugly as sin, it’s pointless, and I’m pretty sure that if it could talk, it would tell me…
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Foiled by Foil
Alcoa’s Book of Decorations : A Year-round Treasury of Easy-to-do Decorations for Holidays and Special Occasions von Hagen 1959 Submitter: I can’t decide what I love most about this book — there is just too much awesome awfulness to choose from! From “Conny of Alcoa” (is that like Saul of Tarsus?)…
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