A Hot Glue Gun Mess
Funny Stories and Pretty Projects
On Sale: 06/16/2015
A Hot Glue Gun Mess
Funny Stories and Pretty Projects
On Sale: 06/16/2015
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About the Book
In this beautiful paperback edition featuring French flaps, hugely popular lifestyle blogger, YouTube star, and designer Mr. Kate (Kate Albrecht) offers a stunning collection of step-by-step personal style and home projects—woven in with quirkily hilarious stories and anecdotes.
Do you dream of finding ways to infuse do-it-yourself projects into every aspect of your life and have fun doing it? From the quirky personality behind the Mr. Kate brand comes a not-so-average DIY lifestyle book that will make your dreams of creating unique how-to projects become reality.
Filled with 50 unique and approachable projects, along with hysterical, unfiltered stories from Mr. Kate’s crazy life, A Hot Glue Gun Mess will show how life can inspire art. Growing up with a high-powered Hollywood father and an oddball, down-to-earth mother, Kate Albrecht had a childhood that was anything but normal. From how her first period influenced her to become an artist to how her friendship with a high-priced hooker encouraged DIY beauty products, Mr. Kate’s stories are weird, wonderful, personal, inspiring, and downright hilarious.
Her love of self-expression inspired Mr. Kate to create her own DIY life and a social media platform to connect with young women everywhere. Her projects involve style, home design, and beauty, including DIY nail art techniques, upcycled projects for your old jeans , and watercolor curtains. You don’t have to be a seamstress, metalsmith, or expert at anything to enjoy these projects, all of which are doable in under two hours and require a minimal number of supplies. Now you, too, can become a DIY diva!
Critical Praise
Amazon Book of the Month! —
“Lifestyle guru Kate Albrecht is pretty much the antithesis of Martha Stewart…[she] probably has more in common with the late Nora Ephron than with any maven of domesticity.” — Los Angeles Times
“When you flip open a DIY book, you don’t typically see chapters named ‘Hooker with a Head of Gold’… Learn how to make a no-sew tutu… and read about how Kate used to babysit for her stepmom.” — Blogher.com
“What’s better than a book of DIYs? One that pairs each project with a hilarious story that will have you laughing out loud from behind your glue gun.” — Refinery29
“Beautifully photographed and just so damn clever… I absolutely recommend you pick up a copy. Not only will you laugh, you’ll get some good crafting knowledge.” — Weheartthis.com
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Product Details
- ISBN: 9780062423573
- ISBN 10: 0062423576
- Imprint: William Morrow Paperbacks
- On Sale: 06/16/2015
- Pages: 288
- List Price:13.99 CAD
- BISAC1 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BISAC2 : CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Fashion
- BISAC3 : CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Decorating