I commemorate you hot glue

After finishing my craft yesterday for my post Toilet paper strikes again I realized how much I truly love hot glue.  It's one of the easiest things to use, it can hold what seems like anything and if you mess up on something you can usually peel it off if you get it in time.

So I decided that this post should be dedicated to one of my favorite crafting tools since I feel like it doesn't get enough credit.  And what better way than to post about all the awesome things hot glue can do in addition to creating fabulous crafts.

This is from a great article I found on Yahoo!

1.Loose Furniture Legs-If you have a leg on furniture that you want to secure, this is an excellent way to do it. Pull the leg far enough out to apply hot glue all the way around. Re-insert it fully and let it harden.
Anything you do with hot glue, needs to be performed correctly and quickly. It dries within a minute or two.

2.Assembling Furniture-If you have bought that furniture(such as entertainment centers)in a box, to assemble when you get home, then you know how flimsy it can be. Put your hot glue gun where it will be handy. Make sure you get a few extra glue sticks available. As you assemble the pieces, apply hot glue to the joints of the furniture. You get secure, strong pieces, that don't fall apart when you move them.

3.Bathroom Towel Racks-Have you ever had one of these, just fall out of the holder? Pull it out and apply hot glue to either end. Place back in the holes and let it dry. No more falling out with the towels on them.

4.Repairing Plastic Toys-Most of the plastic toys, aren't meant to withstand the beating they get. However, buying new toys all the time is not very cost efficient. It only takes a few minutes to mold the broken piece back on. Let it dry and you don't have to go shopping. Before you waste alot of time on toys, check to see if they are hard, hard plastic or the softer kind. One is molded,hard. It is almost useless to do these. The softer poured plastic is repairable.

5.Replacing plastic moulding-Anywhere you have a piece of plastic molding, you can use hot glue. It doesn't take much and you have to be neat. A few swipes with the glue gun and you have created a bond. Stick it back on and let it harden.

6.Wall Sinkers- You know those awful wall sinkers that you install to hang things? If you put them in sheetrock, eventually they wiggle into bigger holes. Quick fix is to remove the thing and apply a dollop of hot glue. Stick in back in the wall and the glue provides a more secure, stable hold.

7.Car Door Moulding-The rubber moulding that goes around your car door. Put a small dab around the edge of the rubber and it adheres to the car. Temporary, but functional fix.

8.Shoe repair-If you have a pair of shoes that are coming apart, but need to wait to buy new ones, try using your hot glue gun. It doesn't take much, spread out over the entire loose part of the sole,apply pressure and wait for the glue to cool. Most hot glue is hard within a few minutes.

9.Repair plastic parts on appliances-Hot glue will make most plastics re-adhere to their surfaces.

10.Wooden Picture Frames-Got frames falling apart.Use a small amount of hot glue at each corner. Push back together and hold until cool

11.Virtually any plastic or cloth can be reattached to its host with a hot glue gun.

I also found this article about using hot glue to make sure your clothes don't slip off your hangers:

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Bottle it up

We've all been there before, you have a house party with a bunch of good friends, drinks are had and everyone has a good old time (hopefully).  The next morning when you wake up you're amazed at all the places that bottle caps can end up.  In rooms people weren't even in, on shelves, counters, chairs, sinks, you name it, they're there.  Now most people would probably throw these out, but there are actually a lot of really cool things you can do with bottle caps considering it seems so wasteful to throw away all of those pieces of metal.

Here are some cool ideas:

You can make a bottle cap picture frame or a frame for a mirror.  I think it would be neat to use caps from one type of beer and making something with that.  It would make a great gift for someone who drinks only one kind or for a bachelor pad or something

If you paint some bottle caps or glue really cool beads or buttons you can make jewelry out of them

You can do the same thing with the jewelry but make fridge magnets.  I really like this idea for stocking stuffers or cute little gifts for fun

Or you can just do this if you have all the time in the world and a seemingly endless supply of bottle caps

Selling buttons at the door

The other day I discovered how many buttons my mother has collected over the years and I was little overwhelmed to say the least:

TWO full boxes of nothing but buttons!  It got me thinking, what kind of things could I do with all of these buttons since I highly doubt that I will ever make enough jackets to use all of these up.  I haven't done any crafts with them lately since I've been a little "tied" up (the reference will make more sense once I get around to finishing my lat) but I found some really cool things you could do with buttons

(I didn't take any of these pictures. just thought they were some cool ideas:

I love the idea of putting those buttons on the door.  All you'd need is some glue.  Same with the mirrors, you can get a cheap one or bedazzle a boring one you already have.  Buttons are kind of an awesome, cheap easy way to bedazzle your life and you could literally put them on anything your heart desires.

P.S. If the title doesn't make much sense it's because it's a reference to The Hobbit, I figured it was in spirit since I'm seeing the movie tonight.