Customer Reviews

Wild with a Glue Gun: Getting Together with Crafty Friends

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If glueing, stamping, soldering, pasting, arranging, writing, trimming, sewing, spraying, painting, coloring, mixing, molding, bending, twisting, curling, looping, crimping and kneading weird stuff are the only things that heal your spirt and make you feel alive - you have to check this book out!
The whole concept is about forming/joining a local craft group to inspire eachother. It's written so friendly, you'll feel like going to the authors front door and offering them a bowl of homemade Ambrosia Salad and then asking if you can join THEIR craft group. It features info on all kinds of crafts groups across the globe and offers guidelines for setting up your own crafty clique. But the best part is the totally funky and tripped out projects. My favorite is the Chocolate Box Valentine. It's a dimensional collage inside a heart-shaped candy box. I was more than honored to have been mentioned in this book, right along side glorious glue gun goddess Meg Reardon from the legendary NotMartha.com site. There's also info on the crafty & clever chicas as Crafty Gal, Another Girl At Play, Get Crafty and mucho, mucho mas....Great job Christine and Kitty - and muchas gracias!!

It delivers just what it says it will. The projects are whimsical, have a wide ease and difficulty range, leave much to the imagination while inspiring your own creativity. I can't imagine what the previous reviewer expected to find and didn't. I've been very happy with the projects I have worked on so far and look forward to exploring more in the coming months.

Although I wouldn't want most of these items in my cellar, the IDEAS are quite innovative. I got lots of great ideas and basic directions to easily modify for wonderful gifts.

I really liked it ... very warmly written and innovative

* this is not a book on glue gun projects- the title is misleading

* most of the projects are not very original - except for a couple of things- the copper tape frames, tin box art- but these projects are more fun for kids making bitsy things for their friends

* the projects are not well explained- if you want step by step instructions with photos etc- this doesnt have that at all.. its a photo of final project with sometimes very general instructions on how to do them .. which is not good for young people despite the projects being very kiddy..

* where are those glue gun projects??? .. even the adhesive/product descriptions arent good.

Wild with a Glue Gun has been on the top of my Amazon Recommendations List for quite awhile now. After finally reading the book description, I had to have it! A friend and I have been wanting to get together a stitch and bitch type of group with our other friends, co-workers and such and this great book proved to be the kick in the pants we needed to get it together. Initially, we started to meet twice a month, but everyone was having so much fun crafting together and talking that we've upped our sessions to once a week. We revolve around to each others houses so that no one feels they are hosting too much and it's been working great. Crafting time spent with friends really is quality time.

Thank you Kitty Harmon and Christine Stickler for such fantastic ideas on getting us all together!

I picked up this book and couldn't put it down. But I'll make sure the glue gun doesn't leak all over my hands before I pick it up next time.

If you are interested in making junk then this is the book for you. Kids could have created better items than this. I cannot believe someone thought this would make a great book. Keep your money. Or buy it and use the paper to create even more junk.