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A Hot Glue Gun Mess

Funny Stories and Pretty Projects

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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!

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    • Library Journal

      August 1, 2015

      Mr. Kate, the nom-de-craft of L.A.-based craft blogger and YouTube star Kate Albrecht, is a lot of things--an entrepreneur, a DIY and repurposing fiend, and, best of all for her readers, a very funny woman. In her first book, 50 different craft projects are interspersed between a series of essays about everything from growing up in Hollywood to falling in love with (and marrying) the drummer from a popular pop band, and trying to make it as an actress and filmmaker. The craft projects are standard DIY fare--there's lots of embellishment gluing, creative repurposing, and painting of old furniture--but Albrecht also includes interesting DIY beauty tips and tricks--putting in your own hair extensions, making lip balm, and makeup contouring, for example. With Albrecht's distinctive voice, the projects are extraneous--you're reading to see what her next riotously amusing story will be. She combines the earthiness of Sarah Silverman or Amy Schumer with the DIY spirit of Martha Stewart--an absorbing combination, but it works. VERDICT Crafters may be most familiar with Mr. Kate, but readers who enjoy humorous memoirs will get a kick out of Albrecht's stories-- you don't have to have a crafty bone in your body to enjoy her entertaining reflections on her life.

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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