Paper Stuff for Kids and Grown-ups.

Get your printers and bookmarkers ready folks!

I have come across one of the best sites on the net for Paper Toys. As soon as you arrive at the site you will see that they offer printable paper models of many landmarks, vehicles, dolls and they even have a model of Bill Gates house (that was a laugh). items. My personal favorites are the Hummer and the Mississippi Queen. Along with the printable image they also have printable instructions.

Some of the images come colored and others are blank so you can customize your look. Just place it in an image program and color away or you may want to add to the fun by hand coloring them. You choose!

I was reading through the comments on the site and realized there are many uses for these models. You can use them for: Christmas tree ornaments, invitations, collections, classroom activities and… just plain fun!

Go have fun... Paper Toys

Stuck in a cell phone contract?

Are you stuck in a cell phone contract that you are not happy with and don’t want to spend the money to break the contract?

Cellswapper.com has come up with a solution and it looks like it is working quite well.

Quote from site.

“CellSwapper.com has developed a system to keep both cellular consumers and carriers happy. “

“CellSwapper allows millions of unhappy cellular users to transfer their contract to another consumer for the remainder of the contract period. The consumer is fully absolved of all responsibility and is free to initiate a new plan with a different carrier. This system also provides an exclusive deal for those looking to start a wireless service plan a short-term contract with no activation fees that may run as high as $45.”

“The carrier, on the other hand, is still guaranteed the monthly payments are made the remainder of the contract term. Furthermore, using the CellSwapper system the carrier is able to replace its unhappy customers with satisfied ones. This is financially significant because only happy customers will be driven to maintain their service relationship with the carrier after their contract has expired.”

I think this is a fantastic idea and even though it is a patent pending system, I am hopeful this will become a standard.

Get swapping…. CellSwapper.com

Protect Your Content

If you are a website owner or a blogger you know how frustrating it is to work hard on your content and have someone swipe it and claim it for their own. You may also be completely unaware that someone has stolen your content and that is where Copyscape.com comes in.

Copyscape is a service that makes it easier to find reproductions of your content on the Web. Just type in the address of your web site or blog, and Copyscape does the rest. Copyscape finds sites that have copied your content without having your permission, as well as those that have quoted you.

The site also offers information about what to do when you find someone who has plagiarized your work. Find that information in the Plagiarism section at the top.

Protect your content …. Copyscape

Food Fun!

There are many sites that offer recipes and cooking tips and I have my favorites. A new one that seems very promising is chow.com

“CHOW is a new kind of food media. Not only is our subject matter different—about the parties you really want to go to, the meals you really want to eat, the gear you really want to have—but we deliver it to you in audio, video, and everything else the Web’s got to offer.”

Visit CHOW for recipes, instruction, news, entertainment, discussion, and advice. Go often because they update the site daily.

I did mention that I have my favorites, I will post my favorite video cooking site a bit later this week, so keep and eye out.

Go….. Chow

100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English

I wonder if having a mother who wanted to be an English teacher and was constantly correcting me, has something to do with my constant cringing when I hear a word pronounced the wrong way.

Am I the only one who is bothered by the pronunciation of “ask” as “aks” or “business” as “bidness” ? I can’t possibly be the only one!

Here is a website that talks about the 100 most often mispronounced words. You might be surprised to learn that people have been saying “aks” instead of “ask” for about 1,000 years.

Have a look, you just might find an explanation as to why people cringe when you are speaking to them. ...... Mispronounced

Create Simple Household Cleaners

I remember that commercial a few years back (they may still play it) about the lady who goes shopping and gets a cart full of cleaners when she could have just purchase one cleaner that does it all. I thought it was really cool at the time, until I had to start cleaning my own home. Not only is there no such thing as a cleaner that does it all, it is difficult to find a commercial cleaner that cleans what it says it does. Cleaning was not as simple as they made it seem.

I was always amazed at how my Grandma made cleaning look easy. One thing I wish I had learned from her was.... how she had cleaning rags that stayed white no matter how long she had used them. The only way I have ever found to keep my cleaning rags white is to keep them in the package and never used them. Is there something she had in her cupboard that I wasn’t aware of? What was Grandma's secret to cleaning?

I went on a quest to find some old fashioned cleaning techniques when I ran into a great article. The article is titled: “Making the right choice”. It offers a list of household items and how they can be applied to cleaning, plus they also list by living area and what household cleaning products you can use to clean that area. Did you know that “Cream of tartar (potassium bitartrate). This common baking ingredient is a mild acid that can be used as a sink and bathtub stain remover. It can also be used to remove spots from aluminum cookware.” ? If you didn’t then you should really go and check the website out. Maybe Grandma's secret is out!

If you have an idea about how to keep my cleaning rags looking white without using a bucket of bleach (doesn’t work)…. Please clue me in!

Get Clean...... Household Cleaners

How to Make Edible Cookie Dough!

I love cookie dough almost any way you give it to me. I love it in ice-cream; I love it frozen; I love it cooked and I love it straight out of the bowl. So I was really happy when I came across this recipe for cookie dough that I can eat right out of the bowl. Now I won’t have that “salmonella” thought threatening to ruin my experience as I indulge myself.

This did make me wonder, if this is not a cookie that needs to be cooked can we give this treat an actual name instead of “cookie dough”? That would be fantastic and I would feel much less guilty about eating it!

There is a disclaimer about cooking this dough… if you want to bake these cookies then you need to add the baking powder.

Get the Recipe for....... Edible Cookie Dough

I Messed up!!!!

I know there have been plenty of visitors to my blog and that has been great. What did make me worried though was there were no comments left. I decided to look at my settings and I noticed one thing very wrong with them... I have comment moderation on and the email address I had them going to was not even my own. Now I had a laugh at that! I must have mistyped it when I was creating the blog. I ended up typing in the name of a avatar I know from the virtual world "There". The two names are quite similar... Someone must have been very confused to open up their email to find my comments section being sent to them.

IF that person finds their way to this blog.... I AM SORRY ABOUT THE MIX UP!

For all the rest of you who may have taken the time to leave a comment.... please try it again. Thanks!

Digital Gallery... Primary Resource Heaven!

I love it when i come across a true resource site. I get really excited to see the special collections of historical documents and photos. I usually get lost in these websites for days at a time. I book marked this site a few months back and promised myself I would hold off on it until I finished my projects I had already committed to.
The wait was killing me, so I took a peak at it and I am loving it!

NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

They offer HIGH-QUALITY PRINTS and photo gifts in various sizes, with custom framing options. The electronic interface allows you to choose from most of the 550,000 images - including historic photographs and maps.
SWEET!!!


Go check out the.... NYPL Digital Library

Tree Grafting

Here is a site I ran across when I got on one of my crazy ideas to start a fruit tree. I love jaboticaba fruit and wondered if I could grow it on my own. I knew I should think about grafting it if I ever wanted to eat this fruit in my lifetime.
I looked around the net and in doing so, I found this great article about tree grafting.


Here are the easy to follow steps on how to start a new tree by grafting a branch of an existing tree... Tree Grafting