Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger. Blog reader Christy informs us of a new craft-making website with step-by-step instructions on how to create holiday ornaments, earrings, cufflinks and more. Oh, from tampons.
Here are a few of the beautiful items that YOU can now make thanks to TamponCrafts.com:
A lovely Thanksgiving turkey table centerpiece.
A Valentine's Day flower bouquet.
A beautiful Christmas angel.
And, for any special occasion, it's the Heart Earrings, about which the site says, "Wear your heart…on your ears. These tampon heart earrings display both your romantic sentiments and your menstrual pride."
I'll save you clicking here to find out how to make your own pair and let you breathe a sigh of relief as I explain it's only red food coloring.
Wow! I just puked.
C'mon ladies lets keep those where they belong. Out of sight.
Posted by: Edmund F | July 29, 2008 at 04:57 AM
Oh good lord Bean. Really?
Posted by: HeatherMichelle | July 29, 2008 at 04:59 AM
Blog reader Christy... I reject you totally! What are you trying to do to my Bean? He's never going to hear the end of it! :)
Posted by: Sil | July 29, 2008 at 05:18 AM
why bean? WHY?
Posted by: Karen Haynes | July 29, 2008 at 05:30 AM
I just threw up!
Posted by: LiLa | July 29, 2008 at 06:20 AM
Who would have thought someone had that much time on their hands??!! I'm hoping this won't be etched in my mind so everytime I see a tampon I'll be thinking of what I can make with it.
Posted by: Gail | July 29, 2008 at 06:30 AM
Not that I'd make arts and crafts out of them but what's the big deal! "keep them out of sight" .. lol.. what, are we back in the 50s? It's a fact of life, get over it! Art will always be up for people to scrutinize and judge. Age old argument.
Posted by: michelle k | July 29, 2008 at 06:50 AM
I think I just suffered an aneurysm.....
Posted by: Stacey | July 29, 2008 at 08:01 AM
Bean, you have reached an all-time low.
Posted by: steven | July 29, 2008 at 08:01 AM
What's the big deal?!?!!!
Remember what the Lord says. This is from Lev 15.
19 " 'When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.
20 " 'Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean. 21 Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. 22 Whoever touches anything she sits on must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. 23 Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, he will be unclean till evening.
24 " 'If a man lies with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean...
... 28 " 'When she is cleansed from her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean. 29 On the eighth day she must take two doves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. 30 The priest is to sacrifice one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement for her before the LORD for the uncleanness of her discharge."
So in Summary I say, "Away from me you unclean woman, but bring me a beer first."
Posted by: | July 29, 2008 at 08:37 AM
Tampons are too expensive to make crafts with. Bring on the cXXX rings!
Posted by: Kate | July 29, 2008 at 08:42 AM
eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww!!
this is an all time low bean
Posted by: cathy g | July 29, 2008 at 08:54 AM
whew I read this before lunch yaaaaaa
Posted by: db | July 29, 2008 at 09:32 AM
Um... what?
Posted by: Kings Fan | July 29, 2008 at 10:07 AM
YIKES! I don't know, at close to $5 bucks a box I can't imagine even thinking about alternate uses. Now they are embedded in my brain. I wonder what useful information fell out of my brain to make space for this crap! Thanks, Bean.
Posted by: Cam | July 29, 2008 at 10:17 AM
I have no words... the earrings..BLEGH.. no Bean, just no
Posted by: Michelle | July 29, 2008 at 10:44 AM
Meh - its like bad TV. If you don't like it, don't watch.
And stop acting like little kids. You know you like it. How many of you went back and took a closer look? Or visited the website? You all are a little sick, just admit it!
Posted by: The Secret | July 29, 2008 at 11:14 AM
hubba! "menstrual pride?" really? the hijinx that ensues while i'm away!
icky! i hope daughter melissa doesn't read this today, or i think you know what you will be getting from her for xmas.
Posted by: your wife | July 29, 2008 at 12:12 PM
You're SICK Bean!!!!!
Posted by: Balmore | July 29, 2008 at 12:58 PM
No.
Posted by: Fred G. | July 29, 2008 at 01:50 PM
As one of your more "mature" readers...thank you for this info, Bean. Now that I am post-menopausal, I was wondering what I was gonna do with those now unnecessary boxes of Tampax I have.
Posted by: mary | July 29, 2008 at 02:18 PM
I think today you may have crossed a line Bean....
Posted by: angie | July 29, 2008 at 02:50 PM
Your wife will want you to make her a welcome back gift. I'm just saying.
Posted by: Brittany | July 29, 2008 at 05:03 PM
No no no no no no no.
Posted by: Lori | July 29, 2008 at 05:21 PM
Bean, just because you CAN make something out of something else, doesn't mean you SHOULD.
Posted by: Lila | July 29, 2008 at 05:21 PM
Gross. I'm going to file 13 this image with the image of a crocheted willy warmer I once saw.
Posted by: Nicole | July 29, 2008 at 05:32 PM
Jesus help us, just looking at those earrings makes me want to crawl into a hole. that is not necessary in life at all... the person who thought that up is a complete douchebag. and there is NO such thing as "menstrual pride."
Posted by: Suzy | July 29, 2008 at 07:50 PM
I was against this entry until I read the comments. Well done Bean and Christy.
Posted by: Vic Rattler | July 29, 2008 at 08:01 PM
And remember ladies, used tampons can be given to vampires to use as tea bags!
ba dum dum pssssh!!!
I don't know about you, but I want my arts and crafts gifts to have no strings attached!
ba dum dum pssssh!!!
I went to the website and these things are bloody difficult to make!
ba dum dum pssssh!!!
Take my wife's tampon, please!
ba dum dum pssssh!!!
I heard that Kotex is making tampons with bells on them, but only for the Christmas period.
ba dum dum pssssh!!!
Oh I tell ya, I tell ya. My wife is so short, she keeps stepping on the string!
ba dum dum pssssh!!!
Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week! Try the veal!
Posted by: John E | July 29, 2008 at 08:59 PM
I can't stop laughing.
Posted by: | July 30, 2008 at 06:21 AM
Tampons today....
Condoms tomorrow.
Posted by: Lynne_T | July 30, 2008 at 06:33 AM
Hee hee! I'm totally making the turkey. Cooking my first turkey this thanksgiving , AND making my first tampon turkey! Imagine that centerpiece with grammy and papa sitting 'round the table. Not to mention the teenage daughter & niece! How awful would that be?! I'm starting now.
Posted by: Shae | July 30, 2008 at 08:27 PM
The site is almost as good as the one I found last week that gives instructions on how to make baby toys out of condoms.
Posted by: Brian | July 31, 2008 at 03:17 PM
THANK YOU! This really just made my day. WHAT a riot. I can just imagine the Tampon Turkey centerpiece on my dinner table during Thanksgiving dinner. Very appetizing!
Posted by: Paulaz | August 01, 2008 at 01:16 PM
That is wrong on so many levels.
Posted by: EditThis | August 02, 2008 at 09:58 PM
Hey Gals, if you want to save money on tampons, use toilet paper. I learned this living kinda rough in Mexico. Tear off about a foot, wrap it around your fingers then fold it to a comfortable size. Insert. When it's ready to be changed, the moisture will make it easy to expel using your muscles, and it's flushable (unless you're in a third world country then use the trash can). I've switched to glad rags (www.gladrags.com) when at home... I mean think about a landfill full of your used tampons, now what's more 'gross'?
Posted by: Rochelle | August 06, 2008 at 10:17 AM
menstrual pride, really? That's like having racial price.
blog reader christy, you're fat and disgusting.
Posted by: bob | August 08, 2008 at 12:29 AM