artsy-craftsy

artsy-craftsy

1. Interested in creating arts and crafts. I'm not too artsy-craftsy myself, but I'm impressed with people who can sew and do all of that kind of stuff.
2. Overtly interested in art and style, perhaps overly or pretentiously so. I like that café, but it's always packed with artsy-craftsy types talking about their obscure interests.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

artsy-craftsy

mod. dabbling in arts and crafts; artistic. The artsy-craftsy crowd held a show in the library parking lot last Sunday.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • address (one's) comments to (someone or something)
  • address comments or remarks to
  • address (one's) remarks to (someone or something)
  • be in it for
  • be at a disadvantage
  • at a disadvantage
  • be more than (something)
  • be more than glad, ready, etc.
  • away from it all
  • be out of (one's) head
References in periodicals archive
Ditzy artsy-craftsy projects do not lead to an appreciation of art from other cultures because they lack respect for them.
The world's art in your art world
But this teacher has been artsy-craftsy wacky since she was little.
WATCHDOGS AND OTHER STUCK-ON ART
The solution, he and many others now conclude, is that the writing of software codes "has to be transformed into a science" from the idiosyncratic "artsy-craftsy activity" that characterizes most of it today.
Souping up Supercomputing
My gramma clothed seven daughters with her handwork, and all hell would break loose if you tried to tell her what she did was just an artsy-craftsy pastime."
Mother's other half
Sophisticated process monitoring and control with CRT display and SPC/SQC reporting; highly stable hydraulic and electric-servo pumping systems; a low-cost "cassette" mold system; computerized process simulation--all these and more are signs that RTM is outgrowing its "artsy-craftsy" phase and becoming a truly industrialized manufacturing process.
Growing sophistication in RTM
The word on Simon Periton's intricate, often aggressively colored paper cutouts was always that their success hinged on the contrast between the cozily domestic associations of their artsy-craftsy medium--he was never averse to calling them doilies--and the punky, sometimes blatantly sensational choice of motifs, from skulls and anarchy symbols to riot scenes and the Ramones, which tied his oeuvre to that of the YBAs.
Simon Periton: Sadie Coles HQ
These people were all so artsy-craftsy. They made gifts that looked like works of art.
Secret Santa Sucks