The Glue Gun Gazette 3/20/25

The latest creative gossip hotter than your high-temp glue gun.

If you subscribe to my monthly newsletter you know how much I love a good list. I like my information in small bite sized chunks. I like them interesting and fun, things that make for good dinner party conversation nuggets. Assuming you attend dinner parties with fellow creatives.

• It’s the most wonderful time of the year! I spent all day yesterday at the Round Top Flea Market. I go every year (spring, fall and sometimes the winter mini show). I scheduled my wedding around it and have only missed it twice for the birth of my children. Anyway, wild horses couldn’t keep me away from fondling dusty junk in a cow pasture. I really loaded up on enamel flower pins for the Framed Floral Fun Workshops I’m hosting next month at Paper Crown in Waco and Oil and Cotton in Dallas (love to see you there). Hit reply if you might be interested in an online version. I could send out kits. Also, remember that time I used these vintage flowers to make a topiary and a Kitschmas tree. Oh and we learn how to use a flower loom in class too which is very handy for adorning placemat purses.

• I’m kinda obsessed with this Doechii performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Those Gucci outfits (even Elle Magazine agreed it was one of her best) and the signature eye tape I’ve only ever seen before in Rupal’s Werk Rooms were fire as the kids say. However it was the intertwined hair and synchronized dancing that really had me. Here is some behind the scenes action from hair stylist Malcom Marquez. As I was watching this video on repeat a newsletter from

  Danielle Krysa
  of The Jealous Curator hit my inbox featuring oil painter Erica Rose Levine and her tangled twinsies. Both of these things finally led me to hit play on Braid. The main image for the movie had you guessed it - tangled braided ladies. Can’t say I’d recommend this flick for the plot but the visuals were interesting.

Karen Bachmann at Morbid Anatomy

• While we are on the topic of hair I really want to take this Victorian Hairwork Class with Karen Bachmann at Morbid Anatomy in Brooklyn. Shout out to

  Travis Nichols
  for putting this place on my radar. Maybe it’s growing up in a Victorian house and going to antique shops my entire childhood but I’ve always been fascinated by all things Victorian mourning - especially hair wreaths and jewelry. Imagine this wreath with colorful faux hair like the kind my sister Hope Perkins uses in her taxidermy.

• In the news: Urban Sketchbook Throwdown. This clip from San Francisco is full of puns like “things start to get sketchy” but it made me smile to see this “flashmob with pencils”. I wonder if there is an official Austin chapter?

Painted Perfume Bottles by Jennifer Paganelli.

• Fellow color lover Jennifer Paganelli posted these amazing painted perfume bottles on Instagram this week. I think I’d be more into perfume if the bottles looked like these. I’ve always wanted to take one of those custom perfume making workshops, especially the kind that supplies the pretty vintage bottles (Camp Disco has some fun looking ones LA). I think this stems from the Barbie Perfume Maker being one of my favorite childhood toys. I still occasionally catch a whiff of something and that olfactory core memory thing unlocks. P.S. started following a new Substack all about perfume called The Dry Down Diaries.

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