Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People by Amy Sedaris has to be the funniest book I’ve ever read! This book is for anyone with a sense of humor and I think it would make a fantastic gift for anyone that is creative. A hard core crafter might take offense at Amy’s humor, but an artist would appreciate her creativity.
Some of the hot crafts in Amy’s book include the crab claw roach clip, milk carton skid row, and the donut squirrel feeder. Oh- where is my friend Kati L? She would love this book! I feel more creative just for reading it. The chapters alone are inspiring. They include, CUI ( Crafting Under the Influence), Handicraftable (crafting with a disability), and oh course safety, exercising before crafting, love making and recipes. I think everything is just about covered here. Martha is having a stroke somewhere reading this book.
Check out an interview with Amy Sedaris about Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People
This is from Amy’s site:
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!
CRAFTING STATISTICS
How Are We Using Our Crafts?
1. Camper decorations
2. Old people presents
3. Chew toy
4. Dust accumulator
5. As evidence that we don’t spend all our time doing absolutely noting
6. Salvaged for parts to make other crafts
Simple Times confronts the hard-hitting craft questions that other books of this genre have refused to even acknowledge: Why should every room look like an attic? What is the quickest way to obtain feathers from a bird? What are the best crafting options for the criminally insane? Why is there a half naked man wearing a short canary robe on page 250? Simple Times does more than answer the tough questions, it also transports us back to a golden time when we wore handmade sweaters, carved our cooking utensils out of bark, and the best people would buy books based on a whim.
It is funny and inspiring- I loved reading it! Pick it up today!