Kathy: I love your site, and look at it just about every day.  I don't know how you do it all!  I'm the mom of 4--two boys and six-year-old twins.  I related to your "store-bought" Halloween costume dilemma. One of my sons wanted a thirty dollar filmy Frodo costume with fluorscent "buttons" that were just printed on the vest. The cape looked like a little Lord of the Rings superman.  Anyway, I was able to convince him that we could come up with a better one.  We used a salvation army green blanket to make a cape, and improvised knickers and a vest.  It turned out great.

Anyway, my question is what kind of glue sticks do you use in your glue gun?  It seems that whenever I attach something (buttons, wood, etc) using a glue gun, once the glue dries it cracks off from what I've attached it to.  I'd like to try your scrabble tile ornaments, but anticipate that this would happen again.  Any suggestions?  Thanks! And have a great Thanksgiving.
Amy R., Wheaton IL

Hola Amy!
Love the Halloween costume idea, I'd love to see a picture! As far as the glue, I'm a high temp girl and I have the scars to prove it - however, I don't use hot glue on a lot of things. I use E6000 or Crafter's Pick the Ultimate. What I do is double up, I first put a dab of E6000 and then a dab of hot glue, so the hot glue holds the item in place while the other glue dries. On some things, hot glue is just fine, like the Scrabble tiles to ribbon.

When in doubt, check out This to That, a clever web site that is all about the sticky stuff!

Best of luck and happy holidays,
Kathy :-)

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