Dear Ellen:

I love you. I've always loved you. So much that I've always had your back through goods times and bad. I love you because you preach love, kindness and equality for all people and things!

Which is why this recent segment broke my heart!

Please don't try to get glitter banned! I happen to be a fan of glitter because I feel it shines light both literally and metaphorically. Light is good because it gives people a sense of wonder and hope that they might need at that very moment.

OK, I can totally understand your points - BUT you are talking about "loose" glitter. Please understand that is just one (the most well known) kind of glitter. Not all glitters are the same.

Please don't pass judgement on all glitters based on this one type.

Yes, loose glitter can be a headache to deal with. It has no shame, it sticks from person to person, thing to thing, with no remorse. And um, yes, I use it faithfully. And secretly, I kinda like it when one of my flecks spreads to someone else!

HOWEVER - I'm a preacher of "safe sparkle". I teach many workshops and have met many people who don't like loose glitter either, so I educate them on loose glitter alternatives. And I think if you knew about these, you might find it in your heart to come to love glitter.

I know you will probably never see this, but I want to help you find the right glitter for your personality!! And then you can share it on your show next holiday season so when people send you cards they will know what kind of glitter to use that will be still be sparkly, without the trouble.

Water-based brush on glitter: This comes in a bottle, in liquid form and you simply brush it on over any surface. It dries, and the glitter stays in place, no stray flecks anyway! May-jah sparkle!

Squeeze on glitter: This is concentrated glitter that comes also in a thick creamy gel in all different colors. You squeeze it on and when it dries, it looks like it is loose glitter, but doesn't shed.

Spray-on glitter: This comes in a bottle or can and you spray where you want it. And it sticks! No muss, no fuss!

Glitter paint: This is paint that has glitter in it, again, it dries, looks brilliant and you don't have to get it on your fingers!

Glitter fabric: My favorite is red glittered vinyl. Like the kind used on retro barstools. You just cut and sew and go!

There are gobs more, but these are just a start. I think if more anti-glitter people were educated on this topic and all it's varieites, the world would be a happier place!Let's all practice safe sparkle, let's stop the hate, the misunderstandings, and come to love all things that sparkle and shine.

Life is too short not to!

I think even the next President would agree with that.

Peace, love, and glitter,
Kathy Cano-Murillo
The Crafty Chica

P.S. I still love you, and always will!! Sending you air glitter!

Hi Ellen,

You probably can't mention this of tv but I was just listening to my xm comedy station and funny guy Demetri Martin who explained glitter the best. "If you work with glitter it's with you for the rest of your life. Glitter, the herpes of craft supplies!" I laughed and thought of you!

Best Wishes, Karen

GLITTER IS GOOD FOR YOU!

I have me DCR set to tape your show everyday, I always enjoy your show until....OH MY GOD! how could you want to ban glitter. your insane,I am glitter! so what if it sticks to you, and your friends, it looks good, you save money you can wear it for days without having to replace it. You can shower and it'll stay on. You can't say the same about perfume you have to keep reapplying that.

Glitter - How it almost ruined our lives

Dear Ellen,
As a teacher, I have always used glitter in the classroom. The kids love it and it makes everything they do look so great. Never understood what the janitors problems were until I had a child.
Six months ago, my daughter Caitlin was born. People sent cards and presents to the hospital. The clothes and toys were so nice to get. Until one day my cousin visited. She carried in with her a cute gift bag filled with clothes. We pulled the clothes out of green sparkly tissue paper and held them up to my baby. Took lots of pix. Soon after everyone left, my husband noticed green glitter in my bed sheets. IT WAS EVERYWHERE. We checked the baby and found it all over her too. After having the nurses give her TWO extra sponge baths, we realized some of the glitter would be coming home with us...on Caitlin's head.
There were pieces we just could not get off. My husband became obsessed with the glitter. On the day we left the hospital I almost had nothing to wear because he found glitter on my shirt and wanted to throw it away - I had nothing else to wear! I washed it and thankfully, after his careful inspection, I was allowed to hold the baby and go home in it.
The nurses thought we were crazy - they needed to check out my c-section incision before we left and my husband would not let me lie down on that glitter bed or else I could not go home with him and the baby. We convinced her to check me out standing up.
Please advise all viewers - cards, tissue paper, wrapping paper - must be checked for glitter. I can't think of anything worse in this world...than glitter.

Carolyn Heraghty
Rockland County, NY

OH YES ELLEN! Glitter is the worst!

Seeing as how Im a makeup artist, I sometimes have to use face glitter. I get home and Im COVERED in the stuff!
During festive seasons and holidays like Halloween, I DRED THEM...because I know that Ill be sprakling like a mad!
I really hate it when you really havent been around glitter and say, you have been out to dinner or something of the sorts...you stop by the restroom or maybe see yourself in a mirror and what to you see? BUT A PIECE OF GLITTER thats been there for who knows how long!
I HATE IT! Men shouldnt have glitter on them and it makes me uncomfy when one of the litter boogers attaches itself to me!

Just this past Christmas I went to a big holiday gathering at some friends house where gift giving is not taken lightly! There are hundreds of gifts they are under the tree, behind the sofa, on the entertainment center...EVERYWHERE!
Well, this year I arrived many hours early at my friends because I kinda knew he would be behind and prolly needed help cooking or wrapping or something. I walk in the door, to all the hugs and kisses and meets and greets...and I was wisked off to the dining room table to join two other friends in a gift wrapping extravaganza! I bet they had wrapped 100 gifts already, but another hundred was waiting! Well, you guessed it...nearly all of the wrapping paper, tags and ribbon were glitter coated from one end to the other! By the time we were done, I was sweaty and covered head to toe in GLITTER! Oh well...I managed to pull through it and have a blast!

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so..if this was a regular day i would have said NO to banning glitter.. the thought of it was rediculous.
that was until the very day that you brought up this debate.
i was about to go to bed when i realized there was one single glitter stuck to my stomach.
and, like you said, it took me a good 30sec to get it off...and it was then stuck to my finger :@:@ how frustrating!!

where the glitter came from, i will never know.. i havent touched that stuff for a good 5 years..

just thought i would share the story with you :)

love your show (im watching it right now)

Glitter should absolutely not be banned. If it were socially acceptable, I might even dance around naked covered solely in glitter.

Coming from a preschool teacher...i would be out many art projects if it weren't for glitter. Many thanks to the maitnence department for cleaning up my year round carpet of glitter!

ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD. I LOVE LIGHTS, SHINEY THINGS, AND GLITTER....AND WHO WOULDNT LOVE GOLD...