SIMPLE TIMES (Crafts for Poor People) — Review

From the Publisher: America’s most delightfully unconventional hostess and the bestselling author of I Like You delivers a new book that will forever change the world of crafting. According to Amy Sedaris, it’s often been said that ugly people craft and attractive people have sex. In her new book, SIMPLE TIMES, she sets the record straight. Demonstrating that crafting is one of life’s more pleasurable and constructive leisure activities, Sedaris shows that anyone with a couple of hours to kill and access to pipe cleaners can join the elite society of crafters.

You will discover how to make popular crafts, such as: crab-claw roach clips, tinfoil balls, and crepe-paper moccasins, and learn how to: get inspired (Spend time at a Renaissance Fair; Buy fruit, let it get old, and see what shapes it turns into); remember which kind of glue to use with which material (Tacky with Furry, Gummy with Gritty, Paste with Prickly, and always Gloppy with Sandy); create your own craft room and avoid the most common crafting accidents (sawdust fires, feather asphyxia, pine cone lodged in throat); and cook your own edible crafts, from a Crafty Candle Salad to Sugar Skulls, and many more recipes.

PLUS whole chapters full of more crafting ideas (Pompom Ringworms! Seashell Toilet Seat Covers!) that will inspire you to create your own hastily constructed obscure d’arts; and much, much more!

About the Author: Amy Sedaris has appeared in several movies and television shows, and, with Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert, is a co-author of the novel Wigfield. She also co-wrote Strangers with Candy, the hit show on Comedy Central. She lives in Manhattan.

My Review:  Uuuuuuuuuuuuummmm, folks, this ISN’T your ordinary, run of the mill, craft book! Nope – Not At All – Unh Unh – No Way. Some of the crafts are cute, some are cleaver, some are traditional and some are down right alarming.  Eclectic would be stating in mildly.  From Crafting for Jesus to Making Love (FOR ADULTS ONLY), and everything else in between. There are even recipes.

If you have someone on your Christmas list who has a strange sense of humor, likes to craft, and can handle the tasteful to tacky to …and beyond – you may just want to pick up a copy. But be very sure that they can handle the…let’s say “distasteful” material!

Honest to goodness – I’ve never seen a book quite like this one…


*Thanks so Anna and Hachette, for providing me with a copy for review.
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