Monthly Archives: December 2010

Got another Christmas gift!

I never heard of Harry and David before so I was a bit confused when Fedex dropped off a package from them. I was even more intrigued when it said ‘perishable’ on the box. So I opened it up to find out it was a Christmas gift from Synology. It’s a candy gift box with six different things in it.

There’s peppermint pretzel trees, chocolate moose much, peanut brittle, malted balls, chocolate cookies and two big mint chocolate covered cookies.

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Not a bad little gift!

Visit Synology here when you get the chance, they make the best NAS boxes out there!  http://www.synology.com

USB Portable Media Player w/Card Reader @ iGadget Life

 

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Link: http://igadgetlife.com/reviews/review-of-usb-portable-media-player-wcard-reader/
Quote:
" Today for review our friends at Geeks.com have sent me over a very inexpensive portable media player. This product will allow you to play movies, music, view photos or even read e-books right on your TV via component or composite connection on your TV. It uses a regular 2.5” hard drive and even comes with a carrying case and a remote. It’s not exactly a high end product, but it’s not bad especially considering it costs under $30. "

Don’t forget to visit Geeks.com for all your discount electronics needs!

Gingerbread Mini Village Kit

So the other morning before school my kids wanted to make a gingerbread house, mind you this was like 15 minutes before walking out the door to go to school. They were actually using peanut butter to hold the pieces together, needless to say that doesn’t work.

So I remembered seeing gingerbread house kits from Wilton at the store and went and got one. They’re $10 so I figured why not right?! The one I picked is this one: http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=CA413FAB-1E0B-C910-EAFC0486AEC25D9C&killnav=1

It’s the Gingerbread Mini Village Kit that has five houses in it.

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Here’s the description:

“Includes 5 easy-to-assemble individual sets of gingerbread house panels (assembled houses measure between 3 and 4 in. high), lots of colorful candy, icing mix, red liquid color packet, 2 decorating bags and tips, cardboard bases, complete instructions. Houses measure approx. 2.75 – 3.75 in. high x 2.5 – 3 in. wide x 1.5 – 3 in. “

They make it sound so easy. My kids wanted it so I built them and did the basics and let them decorate them. It took a few hours to get all of this work done and it turns out none of them really like gingerbread… of course right!!

Anyway here’s the finished houses, not exactly art, but they’re edible!

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A Christmas Present Already?!

Yep I got a Christmas present already! It’s from Arctic Cooling actually, they sent me a card and a little Christmas tree gift. The tree is actually rather nice. It’s made from clear plastic and it’s for holding business cards. On the base are magnets to hold paperclips. Neat little gift. My 5 yr old thinks it’s really cool, and so do I.

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Go check out Artic when you get the chance, they do make some great products.

 http://www.arctic-cooling.com

Review of Zibra Open It! and Giveaway @ DIY Guides

Here’s another review and giveaway for you!

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Link: http://www.diy-guides.com/review-of-zibra-open-it-and-giveaway/

Quote: “It’s the holiday season and that means lots of packages to open. I think most everyone will agree that those sealed plastic clamshell style packages are the bane of society truly.  Opening those things I’ve tried scissors and have broken a few pairs over the years, the cheap plastic handled ones can’t handle it, they just snap. I’ve tried using a razor utility knife, not the safest approach obviously, but I learned the hard way by cutting myself with the blade, not fun. I’ve also tried to cut the package open a little bit and then try and tear it apart, but I’ve cut my hands on the plastic package. They just are not very easy to open at all. I understand they are for theft prevention, but when the customer can’t open them without getting wounded there’s a problem there. Fortunately for us a company called Zibra has created an inexpensive product to help us easily open these types of packages and it’s called the Open It!. Today for review that’s what I have, but they were kind enough to send me two of them, one for review and one to giveaway. So enough of my babbling, let’s get started…  “