My daughter was recently married. If you are a bride or the mother of a bride, then you know exactly all that means. If not, then be glad you haven’t had to plan a wedding! It turned out great in the end, but, whew!, it’s a lot of work making the perfect wedding.         My daughter’s wedding colors were unusual, so finding wedding invitat...

The Fiskars Paper Crimper is a great scrapbooking tool to give your projects a nice 3D effect.  It can also be used in card making or children's crafts. I have had this tool for a long time and it still works as good as the day I bought it!  Fiskars is one of the best brands you can buy for paper cutting and decorating.  The crimper is made of heavy duty plastic with metal cr...

We take a lot of pictures of the machines we build where I work. My job often is to take these pictures off the computer and print them to send to potential customers who want to see what our machines look like. We have tried many different photo papers and have finally found the perfect one. This JetPrint Photo paper is fantastic. I use the 4 x 6 sheet which I like because I am not wasting...

I work for a small manufacturing company and am responsible for 90% of the paperwork that goes out to our machine shop & shipping dept.   We build industrial woodworking, metalworking, sanding and injection molding machines. In order to prioritize some of the work and to let everyone know just by seeing a certain color has been a great help to organize some of the paper ...

Being a genealogist means I spend a lot of time printing documents and especially copying photos. I've tried many different photo papers, some good, some lousy. Having worked in a photo shop, I have been very familiar with Kodak products for years and like the products they put out. This is true with the premium photo paper.  It dries immediately and the pictures are very goo...

I was looking for a file system that I could use to store, sort and protect my 12x12 scrapbook paper. I checked all the top stores and the one that I liked the most was the Memory Express 12x12 paper keeper that I found at Joann fabric and craft store.The Memory Express paper keeper is an acid free, expandable organizer that has 15 tabbed compartments. It has a hard black outer case that is cov...

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 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...

This is two-sided glossy presentation paper that can be used in a laser printer.  I have been very happy with the resulting prints.A few years ago I needed to be able to make near photo-quality color prints without a photo printer, or an inkjet printer.  That’s mainly because I have a very good color laser printer.  Who knew that it would be really hard to find paper to acc...

What a handy gadget my office three-hole paper punch is! I have a little printer in my office that I call "the Dinosaur". It is a continuous feed, very old Lexmark printer that prints on paper that has no ledger holes in it. That would be okay, except that a lot of these reports have to be kept in notebooks for easy access in case of a corporate cash office audit. So that is where my ...

The OfficeMax Professional Photo Paper is a great office paper to have.  It is definitely the way that you want to go for printing photos.  You receive 50 sheets in a box for around twenty-eight bucks.  If you think about the cost of a lot of photo paper, the OfficeMax Professional Photo Paper is a great deal.  It is easy to fit into your office budget.The glossy finish on t...

I guess that I was always of the opinion, that the best paper towel was always the cheapest one. (I mean paper towels are just paper towels, right?) WRONG!!!! Kleenex Viva Paper Towels are in a class by themselves. I have never used a paper towel that was so impressive. Since my husband usually mass orders paper towels and toilet tissue for his law office, he would often bring home paper towels...

When we bought our new printer, CANON Pixma iP1980, I also bought this EPSON A4 Glossy Photo Paper. There are times that I need to print pictures from our digital camera so instead of going into a film/photo developer which is one ride from the house I preferred having this glossy photo paper in case the need arises. The photo paper has the rough side of it while smooth and glossy on the other ...

The Paper Mario series has seen some great games: first, Paper Mario on the Nintendo 64, and second, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door on the GameCube. The third game in the series has hit the Wii, but this isn't the same Paper Mario that you'll be used to seeing.Nintendo has made the switch to a platformer/RPG hybrid to a pure platformer. Whatever RPG elements were previously there h...

The product I will be reviewing is Kodak Everyday picture paper, A4 sized (210 x 297mm). I've only tried it twice, but that was enough to convince me of its worth. It comes in a pack of twenty, and is very easy to use. Just place it in your printer, shiny side up and print your image. You can also change your printer settings so it knows that it'll be printing onto photo paper, for the ...

I am really big into reusing stuff.  When I was going to get some printer paper I came across this Recycled copy and print paper.  It contains 30% post-consumer recycled fiber.  The package contains 500 sheets of letter size 80.5"x11".  So in other words it is the standard size on print and copy paper.  This paper does not wrinkle very easy and is a little hea...

We bought this Achiever Paper Shredder to shred personal information, old mail and bills.  It is a very basic shredder and does its job.What I like about the Achiever:It's compact so you can store it easily. It shreds paper pretty quickly.It automatically detects paper to be shredded, turns itself on and off.It has an adjustable arm you can pull out to fit it on a 13-gallon trashcan.&n...

  Scrapbooking, what can I say?  There aren't enough hours in the day or enough money in my bank account to buy everything that I would like to use.  I take shortcuts whenever I can by coming up with my own embellishments and trading leftover items with a bunch of crafty friends.One of my shortcuts is to make only the 8 x 8 scrapbooks.  They take a lot less time, a lot l...

With an indoor dog, I'm always cleaning messes. Whenever possible, I use old towels and washcloths, but those aren't always the best option for me. I used to keep a towel handy in the kitchen for wiping our clean hands, but I've now given up on that. My husband is a dog person. He prefers dogs to most people, so he isn't bothered by dog hair or slobber. He can play with the...

I purchased the novel Paper Towns by John Green at my local Borders. Having some familiarity with the author through his video blog project, Brotherhood 2.0 on Youtube, I was curious as to what his prose was like. I brought the book home, and read it in about two days. It's very much a young-adult fiction book, relying on clichés to develop characters, a mildly dull first-person narr...