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There are two types of glue guns - high temp and low temp. Generally, the same glue can be used in both, but the guns melt it to a different temperature. The glue tends to stick much better if it is melted to a higher temp. They were sticking on rather small objects, increasing the chance of getting hot glue on their hands and, as you pointed out, increasing the chance of touching the metal end. That said, it doesn't mean you don't have a high pain tolerance. Years ago, before they came out with the low temp guns, I would keep a bowl of cold water nearby so that I could quickly cool off the hot glue if it got on me. Meanwhile, my friend would just quickly rub it off if it touched her and didn't complain. My pain tolerance has improved because I don't need the water bowl anymore (or maybe the high temp guns aren't as high as the original glue guns). That concludes my art supply lesson for today. Tune in tomorrow when the subject will be "Glitter: the Herpes of Craft Supplies" ETA: Eurekagirl mOo types faster than I do

Oh yeah, they haven't gone to Mood this season. Yet there was no mention of the three who didn't bring their kits. I guess they were able to borrow enough that it wasn't the calamity the wanted us to believe it was.

like Irish drinking song better too. I think it is because they have to play off of each other and rhyme with someone else's line. They don't do a whole verse by themselves so it gives more spontaneous results, usually resulting in more laughs, IMO.

Based on myself and other people I have lived with, whether you have the door closed when you use the sink depends on what you were doing before you used the sink. Obviously, if you had used the toilet, you would still have the door closed when you wash your hands. But if you just changed a diaper or something and just need to wash your hands then you would just go into the bathroom and use the sink, and leave the door open.

I am really enjoying this season so far and a big part of that is that I am loving how well the contestants get along. The decrease in drama is wonderful (I was going to say the "lack of drama" but I think as long as Blake is still in it, there will be drama). Word to Blake -- Small children are adorable. Small children who think are adorable and try to act adorable, are a lot less adorable. Adults who think they are adorable and try to act adorable are the most opposite of adorable that a person can be. Saying you are adorable does not make you adorable. Saying you have no filter does not make it okay to say whatever you want. I don't know either and really wish they would have explained it. My best guess is that it is the stiffer-than-tissue-paper stuff that some stores use to wrap breakable things.

I like this idea, Plus it would give them time to get used to the workroom and the time constraints.

When Yu was telling "The Girl Who Walks Away" that he was also bullied as a child, I fully expected him to say "and that is why I bully all the models now. Just think, if you win this competition, you can be a bully too, like Naomi Campbell. Don't leave."

Or just put them in their checked baggage. Merline said her bag was overweight and she should have left something else behind if she didn't want to pay extra. It sounded to me like the other two just misunderstood the instructions. I wonder if this is the first time this has happened, or of it is just the first time we get to hear about it.

Ashley's backstory was that she designs for Plus Size because she is plus-sized and was not happy with her choices. I can understand people commenting that they don't think her designs are the best for the plus-sized woman based on the outfit she created or the ones she wears. I think that if Pistachio said that she got into designing because she didn't like the way the clothes she saw in store fit petite women so she tries to design clothes petite women can wear, people would discussing how a big, boxy outfit would not flatter a petite figure. I don't remember if it was on here or on TWoP, but I remember plenty of discussion about the way other designers dressed. For some, the discussion was because there was such a disconnect between their designs and what they wore - for instance, in his first season, Mondo had such a way with matching patterns and colors on what he sent down the runway, but he looked so ridiculous in his little shorty shorts and odd color combinations that people commented on it often, and there was at least one woman who designed very nice outfits but people were flummoxed by her choice in lipstick (bright blue looks good on no one). However, it seems to me that most of the criticism on how a designer dresses him/herself was aimed at designers that were not well liked. So, while Ashley's backstory leads into a discussion of whether her designs flatter the full figured, I feel that, for some (certainly not all, and, hopefully, not most) the criticism of Ashley stems from them being predisposed to not liking her because she is overweight. They started off the season seeing her in a negative light due to their own prejudices against fat people, and, therefore, look for faults in what she does. A person will be described much differently depending on whether they are being described by a friend of an enemy. You best friend may be the life of the party who looks good for her age, but if the same person has an affair with your husband she becomes an desperate, over-botoxed, obnoxious drunk. There have been a lot of comments on whether Ashley's design and the outfits she wore are flattering to plus-sized women. The general "rules" are that overweight women shouldn't wear bright colors, bold prints, horizontal stripes, or anything that cuts them at the waist. Perhaps Ashley is looking to change those rules. If you look in the plus size department, you see a lot of dark colors, baggy clothing, and oddly enough, stretchy clothing (most pants have spandex in them - I guess people think that if it feels tight it is holding them in and making them look thinner, but it seems to just highlight every bulge). There have been comments that her outfits make her look bigger, but we don't know what she looks like in something else - maybe they do make her look thinner. But, no matter how magical a designer is, he/she can't make a fat women look thin. Fashion is geared toward super skinny models - walking clothes hangers. The fashion industry and photoshop reflect and/or encourage the notion that "thinner = prettier." Maybe Ashley thinks that overweight women deserve to have clothing that is fun and not depressing. Maybe the goal isn't to make them look thinner, maybe it is to give them options and not make them feel that they should just try to blend into the background as much as possible.

I am not sure how many restaurants would want a guy coming in and pointing out how unhealthy their food is.

Yeah, the show can do what ever it wants, and everything is technically fair if everyone had the same chance/opportunities. I am not calling shenanigans. However, it bugs me that the only week there was no cash prize was the week the dark haired couple won. Why did that week not have a cash prize? What was the reasoning behind that? And , why do the cash prizes increase every week? - first $2,500, the $3,500, then $4,500, then $0, the $5,500, then $6,500. Why give more money when they have less things to spend it on? If they were going to skip a week, they should have skipped this week and tell them "you are doing both bathrooms this week and next week you are making whatever changes you want, all with the money you have right now, so budget wisely." I think they should give the same cash amount each challenge, or skip the cash and give them extra time or a set amount of free labor. But it should be the same prize each week. And, since I am ranting anyway, I cannot stand hearing them say "value added through smart decisions." Why not just say "value added"? Were they afraid that a team would add value through pure luck or a bad decision and they didn't want them to benefit from it? Since the $50,000 winner is determined by who adds the most value, are those "Real estate experts" going to also determine if the value added was the result of a "smart decision" or just a fluke?

Jay seems like a nice enough guy, but his presentations seem disingenuous to me - He looooves everything that he cooks/tastes. Everything is his favorite thing. I think she was going for the "Sexy widow" look. Why? I have no idea. Maybe they couldn't find any restaurants with healthy, good tasting food to visit in New York. It seemed like Jay and Eddie changed their POV every episode, but I think FN can take the blame for that - the challenges made it difficult to show their point of view sometimes (Jay cooks an afterschool snack?). On the other hand, Bobby and Giada didn't seem to harp on the POV of Jay or Eddie, I guess because they knew in the end it wouldn't really matter. Arnold did start to falter at the end (at least as far as what they showed us), but I wonder if part of the reason he didn't get a pilot was that his POV (entertaining) didn't go with the travel and taste concept. What would he have done in his pilot - go to a restaurant and marvel at how well they arranged the food on a plate? - pick up some take-out and show how to set it up for your party that night? - show some chef how he could make his food prettier?

Well, last week they actually mentioned things that happened in the first season, leading me to think that maybe they now have writers who have seen the show, but they went back to their old ways this week with Christine explaining that the firestorm destroying everything was faked to bring everyone together. That has to be one of the stupidest explanations ever on a show filled with extremely stupid explanations. There are only 6 people against Christine, 7 if you count Barbie not being fully infected. Everyone else is so completely under her control that they start jumping out of buildings if she leaves for a few minutes. The only known way to snap her followers out of it is by having them feel emotion, So, Christine's decides to bring everyone closer together by having them think the world is ending. That was a pretty risky move on Christine's part. I would think that the fear of the world ending and everyone on the outside dying would be enough to snap quite a few of the drones out of their stupor. She even threw in children on the outside of the Dome trying to get in, which almost maybe Barbie human again. Plus, they are willing to kill themselves for the kinship, how much closer together does she expect them to be? This week's writer(s) seemed to do a little fine tuning of the emotion thing too. Hunter tells Jim, he says that he snapped out of it when he relived the worst moment of his life. Norrie's mom snapped out of it when she thought her daughter would die - which is right up there with the worst things that could happen to a parent. Joe is not part of the kinship due to his grief over Angie - now, he didn't seem to care that much about Angie when she was around, but I can buy that, to a young guy like Joe, grief over losing his sister could be the strongest emotion he has felt, even if it took him two weeks to feel it. So, this means that the most emotional moment for Norrie was when Sam didn't show up for his meeting with Joe.

You know you have lost all credibility as modeling competition when the closest thing you can get to clothing designers are a contractor and a real estate agent who fix up houses.

No Time Gunn Save? Or did I just miss it? Keeping my fingers crossed that it is no longer an option (although, I am not sure why it would bother me so).

I was afraid of running out of "likes," so I stopped giving them, but if your post is anywhere above this one, I liked it. This is going to be a fun board - so much snark. Didn't they already do a short cycle? The one the really big-eyed girl (looked like a rabbit in many of her poses because she did the Whitney open mouth thing, but showed her teeth)? The only difference is that this time there are also short guys. Aren't guy models generally on the short-ish side - like 5'8" or 5'9" - they don't tower over the women and make them look short? Every year Tyra has to cast one "stereotypical black girl" - the argues-with-everyone-over-the-most-inane-stuff, in-your-face, finger-waving, conceited type. A few times this role has been filled by a white girl. This cycle, it is Bello. If I recall correctly, Tyra once had one hamster's teeth fixed and, in a different season, had sent one girl to the dentist to have a gap put into her teeth. I am wondering what is in store for the buck toothed girl. I can see Tyra giving her braces and telling her to rock them, and I can see her saying that the teeth will be her trademark and telling her to rock the overbite. I wonder if some of the guys purposely grew their hair out so that the make-over would be to cut it off and then they don't have to worry about Tyra giving them a weave. Disclaimer: I usually refer to females over 18 as women, but I figure anyone who thinks that this show will lead to fame, fortune, and a modeling career are not mature enough to be woman, hence, I call them girls.

Cheryl Ann wins the first challenge even though they specified that they wanted it to look real and, once again, she outlined everything in black and. Granted, I am no surgeon, but I am pretty you peeled off my skin from the waist down, my pelvis and muscles would not be outlined in black lines. I don't think Cheryl Ann is anywhere close to as "sweet" as she would like us to think she is - she is a devil in disguise. I think the voice and the stories are an act ("Oh, I saw a bear in a dream and it scared me"). When she went around looking at the others' work because she had to sit out for 30 minutes, I don't believe she was trying to make the best of a bad situation, I think she was trying to mess everyone else up. Same with Kyle last week, I think she continually asked Kyle questions to throw him off, make him waste time, and so she could say to the judges that he took the lead and it was all him. I thought she was there for manufactured drama! but now I think that she may be blackmailing the judges. I can just hear her say to the bald one (I'm too annoyed to care about his name) - "Oh, I was taking pictures of daisies in the back parking lot, this was something that Senor Whatshisface, grand master impressionist, whom I studied under in Columbia, told me to do to better understand nature. When I developed the film, all of us classically trained artists use film, I noticed something wonderful in the background. I could see you gently caressing a lovely young woman. It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen, you providing this woman with love and comfort even though your own heart must have been breaking since your wife was out of town. It was such a beautiful moment that I really want to incorporate it into one of my body paints. Of course, it probably wouldn't fit the challenge. So I have decided that I will put this on canvas and send it to your wife so she could see how caring you are, since she was out of town and couldn't see it for herself. I would send her the photographs too, so that she would see how classically trained I am. Of course, as long as I am in the competition, I wouldn't have time to send any of this to your wife, but I could do it as soon as I was eliminated."

I never saw the Piers years, but I can see why it got better without him - he's rather insufferable. I have only watched part of this week, but when he was critiquing the first magician (I don't know if there were more), Piers said he wasn't impressed. I thought to myself, "he is probably just repeating what he has heard his wife/girlfriend say in the bedroom. The he said, "It needs to be bigger" and I knew my theory was right.

Surprisingly, Missy was safe last week. I thought it was interesting that the artist with the most colorful hair this season painted a very colorful cowl, and then her black haired partner came over and painted it black. Missy's voice grates on me worse than the Valley Girl vocal fry that so many women on TV have nowadays. She always sounds like she is about to cry - it makes her seem very insecure, and, I have now discovered, I have no patience for people that are very insecure.

I hope those who make the show are smart enough to come up with ways that people can't have their friends come by and buy - like not letting the flippers know where they will be selling until they get there and monitor their cell phone usage. I get the feeling that some people will pay (a lot) extra because the person who buys it always gets to be on TV (I would not be one of them, I would be exactly the opposite - not buying something because I wouldn't want to be on TV).

I was on vacation so I watched the last two episodes (guest room and den) back to back. I agree. I don't understand why no money was awarded last week. Just because they did the half-way appraisals? That makes no sense, especially since no one got anything for having the best half-way appraisal. When they first announced that there was no money prize I thought they would say that the prize was a trip for two or something else worthwhile. So was the theory that instead of a money prize they all got help from David or Josh. That doesn't seem right either. And if I was offered help from David or Josh, I would definitely want Josh. Josh actually uses tools and builds things. Josh put in some wainscoting, while David painted a picture (nice one, IMO, but not that helpful in get a room finished in the allotted time) and showed Mahdi how to use a paint roller (if he really didn't know how to roll paint, he should never have been on this show). Add me to the list of people who thought the PITA women's den was ridiculous. A combination office and kid's room? I think a guest would have an easier time getting work done on vacation while sitting with a laptop on the beach than trying to do it at a desk in a kid's room. And the only thing that made it a kid's room was the silly, yet dangerous, whale. And, while I am ranting anyway, I might as well add - how are you supposed to change the sheets in the whale bed?

People compare Jay to the Oxy-Clean guy and I see what they mean. There is definitely an info-mercial quality to Jay. You know how on info-mercials they are always adding items - "You get a set of knives for only $14.99, but wait! If you order in the next 15 minutes, we will give you a second set of knives for free. That is 2 sets of knives for $14.99. But that is not all! Just say 'pop-o-matic' when you order and we will include these lovely coasters...." Well, Jay's 5 minutes segment fit right in - "I made these coconut tarts. But wait! If you taste the tarts now, I will include a summery cocktail...." I thought the elimination was cruel to Alex. Sure, Giada fooled Arnold into thinking he was leaving, but then she surprised him with happy news, but she also fooled Alex into thinking Arnold was leaving and then surprised him with terrible news. I am pretty sure Alex didn't want to make sandwiches in front of the sandwich guy, but ramen was a ridiculous choice. I figured that when he heard it was a five minute segment, he would make something with 432 ingredients because he would have time to list them all. I get the feeling Eddie has no trouble meeting women without having his own television show. I think he may have overheated the chocolate and it seized. No only did it have lumps, but it looked really hard on the finished tarts and had no shine to it. Ganache should be smooth, soft (not runny), and a little shiny.

Or they could find someone who has a deaf parent, because, if your mother or father was deaf than you would automatically know how to read lips. Aargh! Yeah, a lot crazier stuff has happened since the reading lips thing, yet I still can't get over it.

If the annoying, troublemaking lawyer can land such a huge client, why doesn't he just start his own firm? Get off my TV Annoying Troublemaking Lawyer!

In a previous episode, I thought I heard one, or more, of the judges tell Cheryl Ann that she needs to stop outlining everything in black, like it is a comic book. Then they make such a fuss over her elephant, which was outlined in black. The first season they had that guy with the orange (I think) hair that thought he was the greatest body painter ever. He was obnoxious, but he was also pretty good at body painting, so I didn't get the feeling that he was being kept around for drama. Therefore, I thought of this show as more Face Off-ish than other shows - except for the "Oh, we can't decide, so we will have to make the two contestants who are best friends compete directly with each other to see who goes home." The contestants got along pretty well, no back-stabbing, etc. That has changed now. I feel like the only reason Cheryl Ann's work gets so much praise is because they think they are convincing the audience that Cheryl Ann is good enough to be a contender - so it won't be so obvious that they are only keeping her around for the drama. I just figured she was trying to dress like she was in a circus.