YSaC, Vol. 683: A mathom if I’ve ever seen one.
2010 May 31
Holly Hobbit picture – $5
This Holly Hobbit latch hook wpuld lool cute in any little girls room. Hand-made. Great condition!
*Cash only and must pick-up please
Sarah sends this one in, saying, “I know that cultural mashups are the thing now, what with Pride & Prejudice & Zombies and what-have-you, but I wasn’t expecting this one.”
It would look adorable in any little girl’s room — that is, any little girl who has been isolated from her family for thirty years, and who still thinks that latch hook is a cool craft. She loves her her craftses, she does … but yessssssss, my precioussssss Holly Hobbitt, you can be our birthday presentses, you can. Yessssssssss.
Thanks, Sarah!
Hey – latch hooking is cool. I did several latch hook projects only a few years ago. Oh wait, that was 30 years ago. Nevermind.
Trying again:
Hey- Holly Hobby is cool. I had HH only a few years ago. Oh wait, that was 35 years ago. Nevermind.
Trying again:
Hey – the Hobbit is cool. I saw LOTR trilogy only a few years ago and there were hobbits in it. Oh wait, they didn’t look anything like that. Nevermind.
I give up.
Thirty years ago I had a Holly Hobby themed room. My grandmother made the blanket, curtains and a ton of HH themed art. I had a lot of nightmares back then. Something about this faceless girl gives me the creeps. Of course, I was also the kid who was scared of the “adult” voices in the peanuts cartoons.
OMG, the adult voices in the Peanuts cartoons still creep me out.
What, you have a problem with trombones?
Yeah, what’s wrong with Trombones (or as they spell them on Cl, Trumbones [question: If I can amass enough ads that spell Trombone with a “u”, would it be suck-worthy?])?
Wah wah wah wah.
I had this exact same stitching kit when I was very small… which was the early 80’s. I haven’t seen anything Holly Hobby since.
It went well with my color-in-with-marker black velvet posters. And animal themed paint-by-numbers.
Those color-in-with-marker black velvet posters are back. My daughter has some Dora the Explorer ones, and also some Easter stickers. I suspect if we wait long enough, Holly Hobby will come back too.
Oh goodness. I loved those posters!
Potential buyer: Hi, about that Holly Hobbit, will she psychically abuse me?
Seller: Uhhhhmm, No?
PB: I mean, is she like, satanic or sadistic?
S: Oh, definitely not sir.
PB: You think she’d get angry if I lock her in the closet?
S: Why would you want to put her in a closet sir, she lool cute.
PB: So, she doesn’t come alive?
S: No sir, she doesn’t. Do you even have a daughter?
PB: *click*
*this may or may not have been m- an actual conversation.
One ring to latch-hook them all,
One ring to crochet them
One ring to macrame
And in the Seventies bind them.
I hurt my foot on the recliner when I read this, I was laughing so hard.
In the Land of Craigslist, where the Sparkies lie.
But it is a gift! A gift to the foes of Craigslist!
*achoo*achoo*achoo*
I don’t tink dis is from a smoke-free, pet-free home.
But does it actually come from Mathom House? Or is it a cheap Rivendell reproduction? I’m guessing the latter, from the low, low price.
I suppose Holly Hobbit isn’t as bad as say, a tragic misspelling of Bilbo Baggins.
Batman Baggins?
D’oh!
My favorite mis-rememberance of this name is my friend’s younger sister, who called them “Holly Hobbly.”
It’s in “Great condition.” because if it was, as suspected, made in the ’70s, it was made with synthetics. Mmmm, nonbiodegradable petroleum-based materials! Thousands of years from now, it will be as fresh and stylish as it is now!*
Full disclosure: I owned several of these dolls and probably still have them somewhere in my stuff – thirty years ago, as penguin notes. Even if I had a daughter, I would give her something newer for room decor!
*This may not actually be true. About the “stylish” part, I mean.
I think my mom might still have some weird fused plastic Holly Hobby wall hangings that will never biodegrade. I think we also had “Love Is” characters made of the same stuff. I’m sure both went well with the burnt orange shag carpets.
“Holly Hobbly” makes me picture her in leg irons, of course.
“If by dull rhymes our English must be chained…”
This is OT, but I was looking at some of yesterday’s later comments re: the spell check and proofreading conversation, and Lola’s pubic vs. public comment reminded me of this video. It’s called “The The Impotence of Proofreading”. It’s hilarious and I didn’t want you all to miss it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ
I haven’t laughed so much in a long time. This is so funny! Thanks, as great start to the day.
You’re welcome! =)
That was relay runny! I lived at! The only probably is, know I’ll be tying to tack like him all dad.
So that’s what the boots are about! They’re hiding the hair on her feet!
[lotrcorey] Stoors were the only Hobbits who normally grew facial hair. A habit which set them apart from the Harfoots who lived in the mountain foothills, and the Fallohides who lived in forests far to the north, was that many Stoors used boats, and could swim. They also wore boots. [/lotrcorey]
(First time posting…hope I did that right.)
You did Mahvelous! Welcome.
“Hand made”?
They have machines to latch-hook?
Given that the thread and backing are machine made, it’s still only hand-crafted.
But, I’m having that sort of a day. The kind of day where a person can’t even sit down with a serving of un-jugged rabbit fish without the church police barging in asking about the dead bishop (Derry & Toms) on the landing.
Holly Hobbit: where Lord of the Rings and Little House on the Prairie meet.
My precious…. Pa.
I will occasionally mock posts like this, but I try not to make a Hobbit of it.
Is that blue thing coming out of the front of her face the lool? I kind of want to offer her a tissue or a napkin to wipe that up.
No, that’s the wpuld, the lool is the strange floating thing on the right.
Holly Hobby, yes, the 70’s version of the faceless “Sunbonnet Sue”. Headless girls in sunbonnets have scarred me from my green denim overalls wearing youth.
Thankfully I had 2 older brothers and played with GI Joes instead of Barbies, and was spared the full on Prairie Look of my childhood, except for the green denim parts… (At least my mother decorated said denim with sequins and beads design…)
I’m really glad you guys could clear up my ‘latch hook’ misappprehension – I was picturing a bedazzled-deer-hoof monstrosity, only with sequinned dolls’ heads, to hang on door latches somehow (pic wouldn’t load at work for the _longest_ time).
That said, this is icky. Reminds me of the creepy little-kid-facing-the-wall dolls you find at craft fairs. I always wonder* what kind of person wants a doll which is always a) afraid of them, b) crying or c) in the Naughty Corner.
*I really hope I never find out, though.
The same kind of person who buys a sadistic doll that will come alive and… do things to its owner.
That is not a Hobbit. That is a small child with a cross between a Knight’s helmet and a sack over her head.
As far as I know, that fits neither the description of Hobbits or the description I’m working with for these “Holly Hobby” things based on what I’ve learned today.
Hooray! Accident, Punchity Punch Punch!
G’Night, Middle Earth!
Well if they would accept a cheque or money order, I’d be all over this one. But $5 cash? I just can’t swing it.
My granny made me a “dutch doll” quilt that had similar outfits on the “dolls.” They had bonnets, no faces, and the same creep factor. They were common in my small town Alabama late 70s early 80s youngsterness.
As long as we’re doing genre mashups, Holly Hobby seems to have The Doctor’s scarf. Maybe that’s why she’s come back (to the future!)
I remember talk of Holly Hobby from my youth, but I didn’t have anything Holly Hobby. I was and still am a Hello Kitty girl. Though I am more into Kuromi now. If Holly Hobby is indeed just a bunch of faceless bonneted little girls, I hope to crackers it does NOT make a comeback.
There was a time I was very much into Motoko Kusanagi, but that was likely due to the number of wimmins I knew who were too much like Faye Valentine, except at a lower realized level of moral predictability.
Sigh.
I am so going to buy this. I need only this, Sarah Smurf, and Rhonda Romulan, and then I’ll have the complete set.
Feh’ses, we perverses my precious murmurses.
Wait, I would have to drive all the way to [Location] to pick this up, and pay $5 for the privilege? It would cost more in gas to get there! I’ll just look on CL for a kit and make one myself.
Mama Windy, not a lot of Holly Hobbie stuff on C/L but all sorts of patterns and things of her on Etsy.
I’m a helper. 🙂
…oooooh, on ebay…decoupage (all hail the 70s!), crewel and paint-by-numbers kits.
Also, the very latch-hook number that’s in our ad selling for $12. Had you bought it from Sparky at $5, you would have experienced a Profit!!!
I would have made money selling on eBay what I bought on Craig’s List? Unheard of! 8)
M., if that is your real name, Congrats on your first time in the box and your first Punchity Punch Punch!
Good Morning, Time Warped Party Goers!
Oh, and Welcome to Lillyleftthevalley!