Some projects are just destined to fail.  Take for instance the video I did on making enamel dots out of hot glue.  I have made these dots in the past with absolutely no problem whatsoever, but put the glue gun in front of the camera and it was embarrassing.  The dots wouldn’t disconnect from the glue gun.  They kept stringing no matter how much I twirled them to remove the strings.  I finally gave up on making more and decided to use some new mica eye shadow I got.  It was very glittery, but wasn’t fine by any stretch of the imagination.  The glittery eye shadow wouldn’t stick to the dots at all.  Those dots went into the trash.  Used some white mica on more of the dots and they looked great, but I had to literally cut them apart because of the tenacity of the string.  I colored the rest with three alcohol inks and one of my baggies had a hole in it so alcohol ink covered me and my work area.  In the end, I should have scrapped the video but never say die must be my motto, because I persevered.   I gave Rich pages of notes on what aspects of the video needed to be cut but when it went live, it was pretty scary so we took it down and re-edited the video.  In the end, I explained in detail how to make them correctly, but I can’t believe anyone would take my advice after seeing what a catastrophe I had created.  Next time, my motto will be kill it, kill it dead.

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