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Pantyhose Craft Week: Part III
There are dozens of projects combining pantyhose and mirrors…. usually with suggestions that these objects “make great gifts!”
For who, we ask?
Blind people who don’t need mirrors?
It was also proposed that you can personalize “portrait mirrors” for friends…. creating little pantyhose faces in their own likenesses.
To which we have to ask another question:
These people have friends?
Oh, right. The blind. Blind friends come in very handy when one wants to pass out homemade pantyhose portrait mirrors for gifts.
Wait though…blind people still have a sense of touch. They could still feel the mirror, then turn to their friend, the pantyhose crafter:
“What is this…it feels like…hmmm…a face? Is it a face?”
“Yes! It’s your face! I made your likeness out of used pantyhose! Isn’t it fun?!”
And then the awkward silence that follows…
Posted by Mary on March 29, 2006 | Permalink
Comments
Yes, the blind make great friends, especially if you're into having huge heaps of pantyhose lying around your house anyway.
"Bobbie, what's this I just bumped into?"
"Er, my cat. My waist-high cat that feels like panty hose."
A pause.
"Bobbie?"
"Yes?"
"Your cat's got thousands of limp tails."
Posted by: Jfasoga | Mar 29, 2006 3:12:08 PM
I thought the clowns were scary. But this? This scares the clowns!!!!!
Posted by: Ms Sisyphus | Mar 29, 2006 3:43:10 PM
:O
Posted by: SageHen | Mar 29, 2006 4:01:28 PM
I do believe my skin literally crawled. Or was that my pantyhose. I'm getting really confused now.
Posted by: SageHen | Mar 29, 2006 4:02:50 PM
Of course they "make great gifts." You wouldn't want them in YOUR house.
The blind people may not SEE the pantyhose, but they'll know they're there. With dozens of pairs of wet pantyhose hanging all over the bathroom, there's going to be that funny, damp, used pantyhose smell. (I'm being charitable and assuming the craftspeople were planning on washing them first.)
Posted by: Marcia | Mar 29, 2006 4:06:04 PM
The top mirror picture is just plain scary! All those faces looking at you like that out of the mirror. Gah!
Posted by: Laurie | Mar 29, 2006 4:40:39 PM
The picture on top of the mirror looks like a prop from "Eraserhead." Scary!
Posted by: mom2fur | Mar 29, 2006 5:14:02 PM
That first picture! Eeek!! It's that scene from "Carnival of Souls"!
http://www.horrordvds.com/reviews/a-m/coscolor/coscolor_bshot3l.jpg
Posted by: Inky | Mar 29, 2006 5:41:11 PM
That's true, Marcia. I mean, I have had some experience with panty hose...
Speaking of which, I, who keep the most useless things ever, have never kept a pair of panty hose for longer than needed. Why?
The reason my panty hose are no longer needed is because they've got runs in them.
So. Giving somebody something made out of my old panty hose would either have runs and holes in, or it would be from the crotch.
Posted by: jfasoga | Mar 29, 2006 7:37:16 PM
Speaking of that top picture--which I shudder to do--look carefully at the mirror itself. What is that in the reflection? What is looking in the mirror? Or out of the mirror?
It appears to be a doll sitting at a table. To the doll's left is...? A plush lion toy? A used pantyhose demon? What is that, and whose soul are they eating for brunch there?
And why is the hose-head at the very top of the mirror smiling right at the camera? Why do I get the feeling that this is the last photo someone ever took?
Posted by: Allen | Mar 29, 2006 10:03:19 PM
Maybe this is what you do with the frame when you break a mirror. Seven years of bad crafts?
Posted by: | Mar 29, 2006 10:37:31 PM
What's scary is the blond "portrait mirror person" in the bottom pick looks eerily like my friends' Mom, whom I see often. I'll never be able to look her in the face again without seeing this hideous...uhm..."craft."
:shudder:
Posted by: PeacefulDave | Mar 29, 2006 10:43:50 PM
I remember going over to a neighbor's house when I was about 6 or 7 and seeing a JAR FULL of those creepy pantyhose heads. They stared out at me as if to beg to be let go. But I wasn't going near that thing, no siree. I stayed as far away from that thing as I could and kept my eye on it when I was in the same room. That thing scarred me for life. ;_;
Posted by: Jessica | Mar 30, 2006 1:22:05 AM
it's a voodoo moment if ever there was a voodoo moment...
Posted by: d34dpuppy | Mar 30, 2006 1:29:56 AM
The secretary at the school where I teach has a wee jar full of these little heads. I've never seen her open it or even acknowledge that it lives on her desk. I can't imagine what she's supposed to do with them--wing em at students, I suppose. Hey, I'd duck too if I saw someone one's ex-pantyhose with little googly eyes hurtling toward my head at cosmic speed.
Maybe they're shrunken heads of disobedient students who (conveniently) never returned from a referral to the office...
Posted by: Yorkie | Mar 30, 2006 3:13:20 AM
Hmmmmm....the blond one at the center right kinda resembles Barbra Streisand. She's a great singer, but I sure wouldn't want a pantyhose head version of her face on my bathroom mirror.
Posted by: Desiree | Mar 30, 2006 7:52:44 AM
I'm calling my therapist right this very moment....
Posted by: toiletpaper | Mar 30, 2006 9:03:47 AM
Mmm. Creepy. This is right up there with all those dolls with the wrinkled apple heads. Isn't there a commandment about this sort of thing, ala "Thou shalt make no graven images from leftover fruit or hose" ?
Posted by: Brewgal | Mar 30, 2006 9:22:52 AM
I'm ashamed to say that I have relatives who made those pantyhose heads. As a matter of fact, I think I might have helped make a Santa Clause one as a kid. I was obviously misguided.
Posted by: courtney | Mar 30, 2006 9:42:04 AM
OMG, "Part III"?!?!?! Will the pantyhose madness never stop? What will they think of next? Stuffed pantyhose fake fruit replicas for your dining room table?
Posted by: J | Mar 30, 2006 11:57:22 AM
oh holy crap, my retinas!!
Posted by: Inky | Mar 30, 2006 12:59:50 PM
John the Baptist wasn't available so they decapitated his kids entire nursery school class instead!
:-)
Erin
Posted by: Erin | Apr 3, 2006 5:00:27 AM
So there's a rash of weirdos with jars filled with little pantyhose heads???
Damn.
Posted by: severina | Apr 8, 2006 7:51:01 PM
When i saw that first picture my mind played a nice little slideshow with shots from every scary movie I've ever seen. Ever wonder why ugly children are so scary?
Posted by: Cherry | May 29, 2006 7:10:20 PM
is there anyone that can help me find a book and or even a website where they can tell me how to make the panythose face dolls with a pic and instructions.(NOT THE PENIS ONES ) as i am interested in making them. my mum used to have a jar filled with panyhose faces/heads but havnt seen them anywhere.....................
please can somebody help me???
Posted by: charmaine | Nov 23, 2006 8:17:02 AM
