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I wanted to let you know I’ve begun my own Stampin’ Up! demonstrator blog.  I’m very excited!  The site deals entirely with Stampin’ Up! products and just a few of the zillions of project a person can make using our rubber stamps, decor elements, accessories and more!

As a stamper (and a demonstrator) I love to create cards, scrapbook pages, 3-D items and more!  Ever since I was a little girl I’ve always enjoyed making things and even trying to sell them.  My one friend, Jamie, and I used to get together and make silly little things out of paper and egg cartons.  We’d then set up a table along the road and try to sell our treasures.  Unfortunately, we never did very well but I think it’s safe to say my creations have improved since elementary school!

The basket pictured here is one I bought at Michael’s a revamped using the ribbon bundle customers can get for free during our Sale-A-Bration.  In brief, Sale-A-Bration is a sale during the months of February and March when you can get an unlimited number of free stamps or other items for free!  For more information about Sale-A-Bration you’ll want to visit my blog where I’ve spelled it all out. 

One thing you’re liable to find a lot of on my blog will be scrapbook pages.  I enjoy scrapping my children’s pictures and I have a Scrapbook Club in New Freedom, PA that I lead.  We meet once a month to create six 12×12 scrapbook pages.  This particular page you see is one my club will be creating during the month of February.  Several of the images were created using the Sizzix Big Shot which is now carried by Stampin’ Up!  We actually have some of our own exclusive Stampin’ Up! dies.

Now I can’t foget to mention the handmade cards.  I make a lot of cards and teach a lot of people how to make handmade cards.  Here is one example of a card using A Rose is a Rose stamp set that I made yesterday just for the fun of it.  There are and will be many more examples on my blog.

As I said, the blog is still rather new, not nearly as big as this website for bulk flash drives or this one for home construction, but I do write on it each day (and share pictures) and it is growing rapidly.  I hope you will visit and check back every now and then to see what is new.

How old were you when you learned to read? Were you reading through shelves of books before you can remember? Or do you remember a long struggle of trying to understand those black marks printed on the page? Reading doesn’t come as easily to some as it does to others. Many children spend hours a day stumbling through word after word and see improvement come very, very slowly.

As any teacher will tell you, every child learns differently. Some learn visually, seeing a word and a picture, and associating them. Some learn better aurally, hearing a word pronounced and seeing it and being able to connect those in their mind. Teaching reading is a complex technique, combining phonics and actual words. Children must be able to recognize letters and words and associate sounds.

Thanks to the development of technology, a new dimension has been added to education. Parents may gripe about the television taking away from time a kid should be spending reading. But some TV shows are focused on teaching a child to learn to recognize words and read. Parents also gripe about video games and computer games taking hours and hours of mindless time in a child’s life. But many educational programs have been developed.

Kids that grow up using technology will learn better using a medium that they are used to. So yes, this includes educational software. So what should a teacher in a classroom do to implement technology into her teaching style?

Well, to start, she could have the school buy one of many great software titles. But an especially motivated teacher may take the time to develop her own reading program, designed to fit the needs of the students in her school. This program could be copied onto several bulk flash drives that students could insert in their computers in a classroom.

The program wouldn’t have to be super-complex; some possible elements may include interactive quizzes that involve hearing a word and clicking the right sound, or seeing a word and clicking the right picture. The teacher could include landmarks that the students may be familiar with locally or even use names of students in that classroom for a personal touch.

CF Gear consults with clients to develop the best flash drive solution for their unique situations. Clients can pick from several designs of flash drives (perhaps the teacher may want to pick something colorful and fun-shaped for the students) and can have them imprinted or engraved with a logo (the school’s logo and maybe the title of the reading program).

Students learning to read will appreciate a cool colorful school flash drive loaded with a fun program to test their skills. This technology may inspire them more to push themselves and want to read!

The world of journalism is dependent on innovative, creative, outgoing people who know where to find a good story and how to ask questions about it. Journalists must be willing to travel widely, build contacts in a variety of fields, and never be satisfied with a rut in one area that they may be focusing on. It’s great to specialize in one field, like writing on new computer technology, but a journalist will have more rapport and better chance to advance if he gains a wide range of experience writing, branching off into areas he hasn’t covered before and gaining new contacts and new knowledge. Good writing isn’t so much about knowing everything about the topic from the start. It’s about knowing people who are experts in their field, securing their wisdom, and writing it in a way that both represents the facts accurately and can be easily understood by the intended readers.

Journalists are on the go constantly, getting interviews, taking notes, writing down ideas for articles. They don’t always have much time to sit down in the office and crank out all the articles for the day. But traveling makes it difficult to keep track of all the information they have and not to lose important thoughts that they want to remember later on.

Keeping track of their ideas could be the key to success in their job in writing that award-winning article. But losing a thought that they had earlier in the day just could squelch the idea for the tomorrow’s headline article. Journalists need a way to carry around information in a portable, high-tech way that meets the demands of our culture today.

One option? Carry a notebook and jot down notes with a pen. But what about notes in electronic form? What if a journalist writes his ideas in a tablet PC? He could plug in a USB flash drive and store his info on there. So his latest interviews with the lady whose house just burned down, or the police officers pursuing the convicted felon that broke out of prison, are ready to be plugged into the office computers, where he can finish putting together his information into a publishable article and print it out.

A newspaper or magazine could order bulk flash drives, imprinted with their company name and pre-loaded with templates for typing up press releases and articles. This will help not only for ease in transporting data but also in making sure that everything is in the proper format. CF Gear offers competitive pricing on custom USB drives and customizes the user experience to best meet the needs of each individual customer.

Check out CF Gear’s website for testimonials and product ideas. You can select from a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colors of thumb drives. They offer laser engraving or color imprinting to brand the drive with your logo. And high quality control standards ensure that the data you want is placed onto each drive.