I buy a lot of cheap dolls directly from China, like this one I opened today, and their artisans’ approach to this type of mixed media accessory (it’s a bunny hairpin) always seems to be hot glue. They did a pretty professional job in this case (no gobs showing), but, wouldn’t it be better to stitch the embellishments in place (not sure if that’d even work on a pom pom?), or is there a better method?
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It is cheap and easy to assemble with hot glue, and most people wouldn’t notice whether it was sewn, glued, or riveted on.
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Unfortunately, the hot glue is much more noticeable on this cat girl’s giant pleather and rhinestone hair clip cat ears. I occasionally flirt with the idea of melting the hot glue again to improve their appearance, but, I worry I’d ruin them.
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You could glue a strip of silver or black ribbon over it the glue on the back of the ears to try to cover the glue. .
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There’s lots of bling on the front of those ears. Some bling added to the back could cover that up. It might cover the stitching as well.
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One side of the strap on the bunny purse came off on this one that I just opened. It was also just hot glued on, and I used some regular white glue to reattach it, as I’m afraid of scorching or discoloring the white plush fabric if I remelted the glue, with a soldering iron/woodburner. So far, that’s holding it on okay.
She was also missing her shoes! 
I COULD return and exchange her, but, that’d take weeks from China, and she only cost me $6.12 anyway, so, not worth the hassle. If a bunny girl wants to run around on the grass all day and turn her white socks green, well, that’s life…
