BIRTHDAY GAME: Arts & Crafts
10Look. Y’all buy a lot of stuff. You can’t still be using all of it. So it’s arts and crafts time! Take your favorite (or least favorite) items you’ve bought from Meh and make something new from it. Or cover it in macaroni and call it art. We don’t care. Just make it great [again].
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I took one of the many, many hubmen that reside in our home and fashioned him into my own personal Super Irk-Meh-n. He then proceeded to vanquish the evil feline overlord who tries to take over our home. After his mission was complete, he went to a birthday party with his friend Superman who came to visit from a previous arrival. (Is this arts and crafts? I had to use art supplies and craft his cape soooooooooo…)
@tnhillbillygal
@Targaryen
/giphy thank you
Still working on the macaroni art.
I don’t recall ever making macaroni art though, so…
@PlacidPenguin Just grab a milk box, sit like a pretzel on the floor or take a short nap it’ll come back to you.
@Targaryen
Want to pay for the treatment of any physical injuries?
@PlacidPenguin Do you take payment in Fuko?
@Targaryen
Would certainly stop my grumbling.
@Targaryen
So I started preparing to try what you suggested.
Unfortunately, next to me, somebody else did such a good job, that I imaged them as an actual pretzel.
As you can see, the subsequent events were not good (for them).
While waddling off to get pretzels to eat, since I was hungry, I discovered this logo for a place in Florida:
@Targaryen What’s the deadline for posting? I want to do this game too but away from home and won’t return until tomorrow night.
@AttyVette Just added but pending a change from ChadP I’m saying it’s tomorrow evening, so you have some time.
Who are you, @Targaryen , to say that taking the usb fan from a VIOlife Power Bank and attaching it my finger with a twist tie isn’t art.
@gnol It’s a post‐modernist statement on consumerism and the ecologically‐devastating disposibility of the tech products we buy.
@gnol I love mine! They are a lifesaver because I am a 48 year old woman. and sweaty
@gnol @moonhat
“Women don’t sweat, they glow”
@gnol I took art appreciation classes in college for exactly this reason. That said @TheMeerkat had the best explanation I think.
@compunaut @gnol oh right, I forgot
I took the dirty, questionably stained rug you sent me and turned it into garbage by throwing it in the dumpster at work!
@clonetek Can you tell me which dumpster?.. I might be looking for a new shoe mat.
I couldn’t decide between my macaroni art, and what I did with my Roomba.
(And yes, those are leg warmers.)
Alternatively:
My Roomba usually sits in my closet, but when I use it, it also services as a modern art piece.
I won’t explain the piece, however, as I’ll leave it to you, the viewer, to come up with a definition however you see fit.
While this project wasn’t started today, I do have a progress picture from today so it totally should count.
I finally got around to doing something with those build-your-own fuko kits from April-fools 2 or 3 years ago.
I bought more seeds than I could fit in my garden, and since my yard is very small the only way to make more room was to go up.
Turned the fuko into some hanging planter bags. While the bags may not have aged very well due to the fact they are full of dirt that is wet a lot of the time they have served their purpose and stuff is growing in it pretty well.
This one is even purple!
@metaphore
PURPLE!!!
I remember coming online Saturday night and enjoying what they did as the April Fool’s joke.
@PlacidPenguin Was it really just last year for the diy fuko? I guess I didn’t procrastinate that long on making a bag.
@metaphore That is really neat and useful.
@metaphore What a great idea! I have very little room for gardens but lots of fence and fabric! That would even work vertically on the carport posts.
@Targaryen awww I guess it wasn’t repurposed enough
Timeframe: Unless @ChadP says otherwise I’m saying this is until tomorrow evening.
First, I have to go to the dump to retrieve this…
I made this beautiful piece of art, and it lasted a few minutes before my cats destroyed it
@savvysapphire Somehow, that piece is sexually provocative.
@mfladd
Everything is provocative to you!
@mfladd unintentionally so! But yeah I guess it could be
@savvysapphire My, oh my. What a big propeller you have!
And, the random bags that usually contain some meh crap that I’ve been trying to give to trick or treaters… and now, they won’t even stop at my house! So I’ve had the instant regret kits for them for years…and I don’t have to buy them candy, cause they know my house gives meh crap!
Bought a shark steamer mop a while back. Used it to clean up some pee when my daughter had an accident. Using it afterwards spread the pee smell, so I had to repurpose it.
It’s now a scarecrow (moved indoors because my corn fields are too high and I couldn’t get a good pic)
Bonus: the pee smell also helps deter small rodents
@lichme
/giphy trashcan
@lichme http://www.cc.com/video-clips/je0rsy/key-and-peele-mr--mahina---uncensored
@lichme
@Targaryen Awww, thanks!
Aw, damn! I am totally into crafting and making weirdo shit out of random thingamawhatsits, but all my craft stuff is already boxed up for the move to CA, and my craft table is covered with heavy boxes. Argh! I’ll scrounge a little and see if I can find anything to work with.
Face pillow wearing my Pacific Pearl earrings, meh apron & sunglasses, handmade birthday hat from Meh’s first birthday Fuku, topped with a fan blade from a Violife power bank.
@Trillian that’s pretty impressive!
@moonhat Thanks! I wore the earrings today, and when I walked in the bedroom to put them away, I spied the face pillow on the floor. The rest came together pretty quickly after that.
@moonhat @Trillian You’re lucky. We can’t leave stuff on the floor.
Like when I shower and leave my dirty clothes on the floor - open the door to see some cat peeing on them.
@Trillian
Best I could do with what few materials I had that weren’t lost in the maze of boxes. The bluetooth speaker I got from Meh. The baby arms I just happened to have lying around.
@Pony that is pro level pipe cleaner work.
@Ignorant Ha! Thanks.
@Pony
"The baby arms I just happened to have lying around. "
Umm…should we be concerned?
@stardate820926 It’s okay, they’re just left over from when I took the baby apart to make its head into planter.
@Pony
@Targaryen Thank you!
It’s Art!
@therealjrn I had a similar idea. I put a package of pasta on top of one of my fuko bags and took a black and white picture (oooh, fancy lol). I was planning to post it and just say “Art” but imgur was being a pain in the ass and didn’t want to upload it so I gave up. Meh.
@therealjrn
@Targaryen Whee! Thank you!
My contribution:
My brother’s contribution: A cancer patient needed to keep the Styrofoam head for her wig from falling over. He made this stand by designing and 3D printing posts to fit on the fidget spinner from meh. then screwing it to a base. Works great for combing and styling the wig because it spins!
@callow
@ugadogch take the s out of the https: to post the imgur image…
@mikibell Thanks! I really appreciate the info! I was getting frustrated because I saw it fine on my pc but later noticed it never loaded on my phone.
@ugadogch you are quite welcome… I was trying to tell you on the post, but you deleted it while I was adding the comment – something went terribly wrong
– that is why I put it here 
Here’s my non-entry. I needed to do something since I have this crafty rep to uphold.
My new, fancy, glittery, meh, grabber wand.
So, we’re at the table, eating breakfast, talking about the weather.
He stops mid sentence and says to me “are you sweating or is that glitter?”
@lisaviolet
@Targaryen
House Targaryen! Yes!
Hmm… Everything I got in my Fuko (
19) was given to a charity thrift shop, and that was my best option for arting and crafting - I did keep the bag, though.
I suppose I could try to make some kind of kinetic sculpture out of my massage pillow, but I like it and don’t want to damage/destroy it.
The Eiffel tower and Empire State building I’ve built from my 5 pack of metal models are nice, but not in the spirit of “making something new”, and I also don’t want to damage/destroy them.
…and that’s everything I’ve ever bought from Meh.
I suppose I could try to dig the left over metal sheets from the two models out of the trash and make something from them but… meh.
@DennisG2014 Well you have some time still, we aren’t looking for Sézane just creativity.
Let me try this again… .gif above doesn’t seem to play…
@ugadogch
@ugadogch Did you make a perpetual motion machine?
@Targaryen AWESOME! Thanks!!!
Ah. Just had to do this one since I finally found that bottle of meh wine I knew I had laying around. She’s having some wine and then getting ready to grill with the fuko stuff she received!
I am disappointed as I didn’t get to go home tonight after all…sigh…I was going to try my hand at messing up in this meh contest too. I’ve had a lot of fun in the others contests too so wanted to do this one as well… sigh being a responsible adult and helping family elsewhere so I’m not where I can get to all my meh things.
@AttyVette Yeah I am out of town too which really limits what I can do, time I can spend on line and I have access to none of my meh things.
So I was looking in for something else and ran across my halo recorder. Couldn’t resist posting…
@speediedelivery well halo back to you