These thin, textured papers can provide a nice accent on pages in your scrapbooks.I’m a half-hearted scrapbooker.  I don’t go for the big books, and I don’t spend hours on each page.  But I try to preserve and enhance some of the family memories in 8.5 x 11 inch format.  And I do like fooling around with specialty papers.  These mulberry papers are a lot of...

I have only used this product with my daughter a few times but it seems pretty useful. It is made from a really soft material so it is comfortable for the baby. It has 4 cute toys attached on top for the baby to play with and each toy can be removed and replaced with another one. It also seems very secure with the straps that go around the baby's waist.  The bottom has a box where you ...

We purchased this for our 3 month old nephew. It was very easy to assemble, and it has a ton of hooks for the hanging toys. You can rearrange the toys that come with it or you can buy additional hanging toys for a new look each time the baby is playing with it. There is also a mirror that actually shows the baby's face. It isn't like some of those faux mirrors that are too filmy to allo...

This bouncer is a great place for when baby wants to take a nap. I use to let my oldest daughter sleep in it during the day. My youngest daughter also sleeps in sometimes. The toys are fun and they don't get in the way. The toys that come with it varies. One of our toys is a mirror so baby can see herself. There is a vibrator and also a music box that plays several children's ...

I'm nowhere near as green as I am frugal, and I just won't spend the extra money to save energy if it's going to save me money to spend the extra energy. Make sense?And these new-fangled flourescent light bulbs have just been too expensive for me to get over the cost barrier of them. Four dollars for one light bulb when I can buy 4 light bulbs for $2? Are they ki...

I got this Activity Center for my baby a few months ago and she loves it . I had gotten her a walker also but I will say that this is better than a walker if you wnat to keep your baby in one place. She keeps going around and around playing with different toys. When I put her in her walker she gets bored with one activity and not being able to move when she gets stuck somewhere. In this activit...

Every woman or girl has probably played jump rope at some time in their lives. I sure did and I loved it. Years ago, jump ropes were just plain ropes with wooden handles. Well, times have changed and so have jump ropes. The Cosmic Bright Lights Jump Rope is bright, colorful and lots of fun to watch. I bought two and had to check one out before giving them away. They come in various color combin...

Recently, I decided to rent a jewelry showcase in our indoor flea market for selling Sorrelli jewelry, and other fashion jewelry and designer brands, such as Givenchy and 1928. I recently won this beautiful Sorrelli Bright Haze chandelier necklace on Ebay, and was so delighted with it that I bid on the next auction and won another one! (I may keep this one for myself!)It's made of...

Most of the time you can find me using white paper for presentations and such, but when I decided to launch a publishing company I wanted to use a diffrent colored paper to make my work pop. Staples is your one stop for all different kinds of paper from construction to notepad paper. I found this set of bright colored pink paper for $8.99 and I thought it would pop.This set of paper weighs in a...

My daughter started climbing out of her high chair a few months after she turned two. She wanted to sit in a big chair to eat just like the rest of the family. I did not want to spend too much money on a booster seat, but I wanted one that would be sturdy and last until she was old enough and big enough to sit in a regular chair. This booster seat was reasonably priced and will last until my 35...

If you're paranoid, this is the radio/flashlight combo for you. It charges by the turning of a crank, like many emergency preparedness items, and the LED seems to burn brightly for quite some time on it. I had the opportunity to test it during a week-long power outage, and it lived up to its "super-bright" name. I didn't use the radio much, but the sound quality is about as go...

The Office Depot brand ultra white paper is a must for the office. This paper is a step above the rest. You are probably thinking, "Paper is paper." I thought the same thing until I used this paper and switched back. The texture of the paper is ideal for printing. With this paper I am able to print anything on it, even pictures. Ink settles well on the surface and does not bleed at ...

This is a relatively new skin care line formulated by an African American dermatologist named Dr. Susan Taylor and is geared to people who have brown skin.  I have only tried one product from this line and plan on incorporating it with my current skin care.  The Bright & Even Exfoliating Moisturizer is for uneven skin tone with hopes of brighter, healthier skin emerging after usin...

We seem to go through so much paper in our printer! I buy the Georgia Pacific copy paper at Walmart. I get the pack of 500 sheets of 8.5" by 11" paper. I also tend to get the "Soft White" color that has a brightness of 88.  There is whiter paper made by this same company, but it is more expensive, and this paper is good enough for what we need it for. This paper has a n...

We have been using Staples Multiuse Paper in our home office, and we are very happy with it. The paper is good for everything: printing, copying, faxing, color or black and white. No matter what we do, we get great results with it. We have inkjet printer, and any kind of text, images, or photos look clear and sharp printed on this paper. According to the info on the packaging, it can be used fo...

I am far from the expert on copy paper. I am just your average home computer user that prints things every now and then! So, I didn’t have any really special needs when I bought this paper. I just wanted to be able to print and copy in both black and color on my HP computer printer. I never knew there were so many kinds of paper! I always thought paper …was PAPER!  I went ...

I love to scrapbook but it is an expensive hobby so I am always on the lookout for products I can use as an alternative to the ones sold in the craft store. One of the items I have found that does just this is Hammermill cover stock paper which I purchased to use for printing my journaling and other items for my scrapbook pages.Hammermill cover stock is a 65 lb. weight paper that is heavie...

We have Hunter Douglas enclosed blinds on our front and back door.  The front door is a portion glass and faces the morning and part of the afternoon sun.  A lot of light and heat would come in through this window.  The back door does not get a lot of light but it faces traffic and people could see in if they wanted.To add a bit of heat reduction and privacy we opted to install s...

I use Office Depot Premium Color Inkjet paper for printing and copying needs in my home office.  I also use it in my fax machine. I have the super bright white paper, 500 sheets to a ream, 24 pound,115 bright (which I believe is the brightest on Office Depot's brightness scale).  This paper gives me clean copies, whether I am printing something on one of my printers or getting fax...

I believe that it's never to early to start promoting an interest in reading with children. Animal Sounds Fun is a cloth "book" , there's only 3 "pages". The spine of the book is a bumpy textured, plastic handle shaped teether with 3 different shaped ring teethers attached. Each page has the cellofane crinkleys sewn in to it. The cover has 2 triangle shaped textured ...