Embroidered Wonder Bread

It’s true; they don’t call it Wonder Bread for nothing. A loaf of that stuff lasts at least a month longer than other breads.

Very unusual, but fun.

Wow, and I thought that crap was only good for cleaning up broken glass.

Go for it, then, jill.

Because I have a few minutes to kill before I get on with my day, I’m going to expand on my response to jill.

First of all, here is a definition of the word hobby:
hobby n. , pl. , -bies . An activity or interest pursued outside one’s regular occupation and engaged in primarily for pleasure.

Because a hobby is “pursued primarily for pleasure”, this makes it a rather subjective concept. What is pleasurable for one person may seem dull, or a waste of time to another. Because this individual is not hurting anyone, it is not your place to dictate what she should be doing for pleasure in her spare time. It’s her spare time, and not every moment of it needs to be occupied with feeding the hungry, or rather laughably, saving the world.

I don’t know what you do in your spare time, jill, but seeing as you are commenting on a blog and criticizing how others use their spare time, I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that you are not using your every spare moment to help others. You’re not helping anyone by commenting here, and your rather bitter comment on this woman’s hobby is not making anyone rethink what they do in their spare time so much as it is making me at least, wonder who on earth you think you are.

More to the point – would I, or most people spend our spare time embroidering on bread, or embroidering at all? No. I personally find Ms. McEver’s hobby bizarre. However, I recognize that it’s not my business to tell her how she should spend her time. If she isn’t stealing the materials for the projects that give her great pleasure to create and she can make herself or someone else smile with them, she is free to do as she wishes.

Furthermore, unless you know something about her that the rest of us don’t, you have no idea what else Ms. McEver does with her life. She might volunteer at a soup kitchen ever Wednesday for all you know. If she doesn’t, it’s still not your place to criticize her. The fact is, while charity and doing for others is a worthy pursuit, it is not your place to tell people to do it. We live in a mostly free world and make our own choices, and those choices have nothing to do with you.

In the end, whether one chooses to help others or not, and a good number of us do in both big and small ways, throwing around an attitude of holier than thou criticism is not going to inspire anyone.

Thanks, Timothy P.

Thanks, SparkS

I am curious as to whether this could be done on a baguette…

This puts my tortilla crochet to shame.

The woman that embroidered the bread obviously has a sense of humour. Lighten up Evilbeagle and don’t be so evil. It’s taught me never to buy Wonder Bread – if it lasts 4 years it’s obviously just a piece of preservative. yuk!

jacky, I don’t have a problem with the woman who embroiders bread.

SparkS…LOL, I have no idea what the difference is supposed to be.
I think that the stiffness would make it easier unless it went too stale, come to think about it, because then it would be crunchy!

*high five* to Frau

I’d love to see the chewed gum art.