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The Glitter Non-Proliferation Agreement

   Posted by: Nycteris   in crafty

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 I refuse to sign any Glitter Non-Proliferation Agreement. It has been suggested by someone ( whose initials are catharsiscomic.com  ) that glitter oozes from my pores. I plead the fifth on that, as on so many other accusations. But if you want to know more about unorthodox experimentation go to my other blog: http://docgestalt.blogspot.com

 
Do you love glitter?

Do you hate glitter?

Does finding glitter on your clothes make you want to squee in delight or scream in fury? 

I, for one, love glitter. I think it’s beautiful and magical. (Then again, I think just about everything is beautiful and magical.) Therefore I shall share with you my favorite brand of glitter, some various uses for glitter, and any other glitter-related thing I think you’d enjoy.

There is one large reason glitter is on my mind. Yesterday, in Borders Books & Music, I grabbed a Glitter Crystal Ball on impulse – and I’ve hardly been able to put it down since then (YES I paid for it!). If you don’t have a Borders, you can pick one up on Amazon, if you don’t mind paying ridiculous shipping on a bouncy ball Here but I would much rather find one in person, if possible. 

My favorite brand of glitter is Art Institute. http://www.artglitter.com/ They sell a lot of other products too, and every one I’ve tried is full of all the sparkle and whimsy you’d expect from a website endorsed by Glimmerville. Art institute glitter is very fine, and coats polymer clay extremely well. 

But fine glitter isn’t the only kind out there. Big chunky cheap glitter from the $1 bin at JoAnn has uses too. I use any kind of glitter I can get my hands on when I’m making faux opals. A good faux opal tutorial (by Linda Geer) is here, but I like to depart from it and experiment.  I know it says “be sure your glitter is oven safe” but I have never had any problems. 

 

You can see some items I made using Art Institute Glitter on polymer clay here  and here.

Go glitter your world!

 

 


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catharsiscomic.com
 1 

Okay, my beef with glitter is this. I love shiny things. I love sparkly things. Glitter attracts my eyes. But the problem with glitter is that, unless it’s fastened down with magic or lasers, it gets EVERYWHERE. Unless you don’t want it to. Last year some in-laws sent us a Christmas card that, when opened, practically bombed us with glitz. Yesterday I bought a set of buttons that I thought would be cute for imprints, but they had glitter on them, and I decided I could get the glitter off but somehow I CAN’T but it’s EVERYWHERE.

Tame glitter (see above about magic or lasers) is okay though.

November 13th, 2008 at 8:15 am
catharsiscomic.com
 2 

Uh I guess I should have said “unless you WANT it to.” Sorry, still waking up :.

November 13th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Kris Johnson
 3 

Glitter is fine when contained in bouncy balls or firmly affixed to items of varying degrees of cute and/or kitsch. Glitter in its natural habitat—let’s call it free range glitter—however, is worse than a Tribble infestation. Before you know it, the stuff is everywhere, conniving (yes, conniving!) its way into cracks and crevices where it has no business being at all.

And even Jem, utilizing every last iota of her outrageousness, cannot help those who are unfortunate enough to get free range glitter on themselves; it simply does not come off! Should you think you’ve somehow managed to dislodge the last, sparkling, miniscule jot, you have not; it has simply relocated to another area of your body, where it will inevitably resurface hours, days or even months later.

In 1997, a “friend” sent me a Christmas card that, upon opening, spilled eighteen cubic tons of glitter into my lap. Eleven years, two HAZMAT teams and an industrial vacuum cleaner later, I’m still finding glitter from that card! Even after I moved out of my apartment into a house!

Evil. The stuff is made of pure, unadulterated, sparkling Evil.

November 13th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Rachel Ross
 4 

Ahaha! Now I know your one weakness!

November 13th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Rachel Ross
 5 

Originally posted by Catharsiscomic.com but it wouldn’t show up:

Okay, my beef with glitter is this. I love shiny things. I love sparkly things. Glitter attracts my eyes. But the problem with glitter is that, unless it’s fastened down with magic or lasers, it gets EVERYWHERE. Unless you don’t want it to. Last year some in-laws sent us a Christmas card that, when opened, practically bombed us with glitz. Yesterday I bought a set of buttons that I thought would be cute for imprints, but they had glitter on them, and I decided I could get the glitter off but somehow I CAN’T but it’s EVERYWHERE.

Tame glitter (see above about magic or lasers) is okay though.

November 13th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Schroe
 6 

Worse than Tribbles?? When did glitter ever devour your entire grain harvest?

Glitter is what happens when a fairy’s dust loses most of its magic. It can never lose quite ALL of its magic, though, which is what makes it so impervious to what we like to think of as “the laws” of physics. This affinity to magic is also what makes it so ideal for so many wonderful things.. like wings and magic wands and glitter snow-globes.

November 13th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Karnanyd
 7 

LOL, for someone who loves glitter so much, your blog is very… sepia. Don’t get me wrong! I love sepia, it’s very classy! But it doesn’t glitter.

November 13th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Rachel Ross
 8 

You’re absolutely right. It isn’t very glittery. Hmmm. Well, we’ll see if I can find a corner to sprinkle with glitter!

November 13th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
dudymas
 9 

Glitter is probably the one thing you can send me for any occasion in just a sandwich bag, and I’d be enthralled. Birthday… Christmas… Easter… no matter what. A baggie of glitter is the best.

I’m sure I already told you this before, right?

November 15th, 2008 at 8:29 am

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