To be sick of people on FB selling old shite in the name of handcrafted "gifts"

[MrsCantSayAnything]

Is it just me or is everyone trying to become the next Cath bloody Kidston or Martha Stewart?

MULTIPLE people on my FB seem to be flogging their old tat that they've knocked up whilst on maternity leave or during their lunch breaks!

One friend is selling "Fabulous teacup gift sets" which consist of a charity shop teacup and saucer, filled with Ferero Rocher and wrapped in clear plastic for a tenner!

Another does "Adorable Baby hair bands for your little princess" consisting of a fabric flower tacked onto a pound-shop hairband....6 quid thank you very much!

I've seen multiple badly painted wooden letters (un-sanded) with little bows and shit stuck on "£3 per letter" if you please.

Like people can't make this stuff themselves!?

Really? I'm ALL for selling crafts but have these people no shame? Or no judgement? Or am I a caaah?

I know someone who does this. Buys shit off eBay, attaches it to other shit and then displays shit on FB. And not for charity either. It's awful crap.

Some of it is crap, but some of it's pretty quality stuff.

As for taxes, that's their lookout, but most of them probably don't earn enough to pay it, or, for all you know, they could be registered self-employed.

Beaded dummy keeper and decorated dummy's aren't meant to be sold as they are a major choking hazard (trading standard), TS also seems to of closed down hundreds of sock monkey makers

Buggy bling is my main pet peeve at the minute. Four pieces of ribbon, a stick on gem and a safety pin does not a tenner's worth of product make in my opinion!

Oh really PicturePerfect Good! I have often worried about this type of thing...

I don't know if it's been mentioned already, but there is a lovely MNer who makes wonderful keepsake animals, you send her some old babygros and they come back made into an animal of your choice :)

Most definitely not crappy tat!

YY poster TheCunnyFuntOfEastwick, she is really good! Don't know her NN on here but I 'like' her fb page.
I think you're looking at the wrong crafts OP.

I don't object to good stuff, it's the vast amount of tat you have to wade through to get to the good stuff that makes me growly.

Don't get me started on NAPPY CAKES.
[hangry]

OMFG yes nappy cakes for shitty baby showers grrr!

Nappy cakes for newborns that tend to have size 3 nappies in...

Can we have a link to the babygro-> animal fb page please

Ziggy no...I have friends who make good things too....it's just this rash of crap that's annoying me.

Keepsake bears

That's for MrsSpencer btw :)

That link takes me to my facebook newsfeed, but I found the bears here.

www.facebook.com/Chocolateandginger?filter=3

what are nappy cakes?

Thanks, now to decide which babygro!!

my friend makes babygrows into dragons :)

and another buys wooden letters,paints them the charges 3x more than she paid...

but people pay it

Fellowship I'm in Essex. Hairclips with Bows made out of RL 'pony' ribbon made me chuckle earlier too on fb.

I feel bad now, I sell on Etsy (and have a fb page) as a sideline to my normal job

goes away and sobs into corner

Brian what do you sell? It's <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?start=90&um=1&hl=en&biw=1366&bih=677&tbm=isch&tbnid=v0mITTdUBXYEJM:&imgrefurl=www.regretsy.com/2012/01/04/suffocakes%25E2%2584%25A2/&docid=IuuF0PRuHQxPWM&imgurl=www.regretsy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/notatoy.jpg&w=580&h=607&ei=gqWNUJTwJ6ml0QWOioGYDg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=3&sig=104970589120948811459&page=4&tbnh=140&tbnw=151&ndsp=37&ved=1t:429,r:11,s:100,i:37&tx=85&ty=77" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">THESE isn't it??

[hgrin] LMAO at the suffocakes.

I hate all that "shabby chic" nonsense. Most of it looks like absolute shit.