Heavens to Etsy: No Foolin'
Etsy is an amazing place for great crafters to monetize their goods, but it's also all too often a haven for truly awful items. Regretsy leads the pack in calling out the most regrettable items on the crafting site, but today we bring you a special April Fool's edition of Heavens to Etsy. Pick the real Etsy item or the one we made up. Check out the pics here and get the answers at the bottom.

1. Wooden Earbud Holder
Do your earbuds constantly get tangled up? Do you need a large, heavy, inconvenient way to organize them? Look no further than this wooden earbud organizer. Just 2 inches across and weighing only half a pound, the organizer is sure to never pull your buds out of your ears or fill your pocket with a suspicious bulge.

2. Chalkboard Clothespins
What do you need most when doing laundry? A way to hang up your clothes, or a way to make them dirty again? Get both with these adorable chalkboard clothespins, designed to let you get chalk stains on your nice black work pants even as you hang them to dry.

3. Hamcake
Fruitcake too sweet for you? Try the latest trend, hamcake. A pound cake full of ham bits, packaged for the trip and rush shipped to your door. Better than Domino's and almost as fast.

4. Log and Lights
This DIY outdoor lighting set comes with newspaper-style instructions for turning a string of lightbulbs and a few logs into backyard brilliance. Perfect for a wedding reception or even an everyday barbecue.
5. Ankle Corsets
Got cankles? Cank no more with the help of these beautiful ankle corsets, made of sophisticated tatted lace and capable of holding in your ankle fat. They're nearly Spanx for ankles, so just call 'em spankles.
Answers (with props to each crafter for their cool stuff, and apologies for going April Fool's on 'em!):
1. Wooden Earbud Holder: Real
2. Chalkboard Clothespins: Real
3. Hamcake: Fake
4. Log and Lights: Fake
5. Ankle Corsets: Real
Photos from Etsy (1, 2, 5), Joshua Bright for NYT (3), Mark Woods for The Stranger (4)


