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I’ve been trying to get back in the groove of scrapbooking my children’s photos.  With three boys under the age of five I have a lot of pictures and often little time.  Naturally, I’m not one of those people that likes to go out and buy already made pages and I very seldom buy kits to make my pages.  I want to create the page, the entire page, myself.

I guess that is why I am so excited about the Sizzix Big Shot which I bought through Stampin’ Up!  A lot of the non-photo images you see in this scrapbook page were made with the Big Shot and corresponding dies.  Stampin’ Up! is now selling some of their own exclusive Stampin’ Up! dies.  You can learn more about this on my Stampin’ Up! demonstrator blog. 

Because I always get busy doing tons of different things, I decided to start a scrapbooking club in New Freedom, PA in hopes that I would be forced to get some of my own pages done.  It’s working!  With the club we make six 12×12 scrapbook pages done each month.  I come up with the ideas and provide all the supplies (and cut it unless it can be cut in the Big Shot) and the members of the club put their pages together.  I am so excited that I’m getting so many pages done!  I still have a long way to go but I’m getting there!

Digital cameras have been a wonderful help with family photos.  When we had a 35mm camera I was always hesitant to take many pictures because I knew I’d have to put out a lot of money to develop a bunch of pictures and I’d only want to use half of them.  The digital camera is wonderful because I can take as many pictures as I want and then choose which ones I want to print or delete.  There is a down side to the digital camera though, because I take so many pictures, I do, and thus I need to make even more pages to put my pictures on.  I think it’s a vicious cycle.  One of these days I’m going to end up ordering flash drives in bulk

If you find you have a lot of photos waiting for scrapbook pages, I hope you will visit my blog often to get ideas.  Sometimes seeing someone else’s scrapbook pages will inspire you with a creative idea of your own.  When we all share ideas we’ll get those pages done.

Producing films, even on an amateur level, involves much more work than you might imagine in the beginning. First off, you need the right equipment. Even if you plan in buying low-budget equipment, you’ll have to budget at least several thousands of dollars in order to make a production look halfway decent. You’ll need a couple high-def video cameras. Then you’ll need accessories like tripods, lights and light umbrellas to diffuse the light, and crates and bags to carry everything. Not to mention piles of props and clothes and more.

Suddenly that simple little project of putting that story onto the screen doesn’t seem as easy as it first did once you consider the money you’ll need to spend. In fact, it can be quite intimidating to look at. The money you have saved seems to be worth less and less as the minutes tick by and you check more and more items off the list as you realize you do indeed need to purchase them.

Finances certainly are a real and integral part of film production. But it’s also important to find good talent. There’s nothing worse than watching a movie filled with actors who put no emotion into their lines and always seem to thinking of something else, who knows what, but something completely unrelated to the movie. That’s even worse than bad special effects.

You want your actors to learn their lines well. So you have them drill the lines over and over into their heads, so they can say them backwards and forwards, upside down and rightside up, asleep and awake. But how can you make sure that they take their lines home with them? What if they lose the sheet of paper? What if they just don’t look at it.

Well, here’s an idea. Put the scripts onto flash drives for each actor. Maybe you could even record sound clips of the scripts being read, and include sound files playing each individual actor’s parts alone. That way each actor could have more than just a paper script but could also have the script on a flash drive in electronic form. He could take it home, copy it to a Word doc on his computer, and edit and format it in the way he wants to help him learn it.

CF Gear can help a director design a custom preload interface. It could contain links to the script in various formats, photos and concept images of the production, information on other productions, and whatever other data the director wants on the flash drive.

Guaranteed USB drive duplication procedures ensure that each drive has the right data on it. CF Gear also offers a variety of designs and colors of flash drives, so the director could choose whatever best fits the mood of the production. Even in the world of video production, CF Gear offers high-quality solutions.

You’re rushing through your morning routine, showering, getting dressed, looking in the mirror to make sure you’re neat and ready to go. Now you have to make sure you have everything you need to bring to the office: paperwork you brought home to work on, your lunch.

What are those ever-important items that you can’t walk out the door without, that you’re always feeling your pockets for and going frantic if you can’t find them? Your cell phone. Gotta be able to keep in touch with everyone. Your wallet. Gotta have your credit card, your driver’s license, the picture of your special someone. Your pack of your favorite citrus-flavored gum. And your keys. The keychain with the house key, the key to that office cabinet, the keys to your car, the lock/panic button for your car, and a flash drive.

There might be a couple more, or a couple fewer, items in this list for you. But everyone has things that they can’t go anywhere unless they have those oh-so-necessary objects. Sometimes it would be nice to have a way to streamline the things you have to remember to take to work. What about the little USB flash drive hanging from the keychain? You’ve probably realized how handy those can be. Just plug it into your computers, drag the files on, pop it out, and put it into a computer when you need to get the files.

Think about it. Using a flash drive can help streamline what you have to take with you. If for some reason you have to bring paperwork away from the office, you could just put PDFs or Word docs or whatever format you have your files in on the drive and carry it with you. If you know everything is there, you won’t have to worry about checking for papers that might be scattered around your desk.

In fact, this might be an idea for a manager to implement in his whole company. Give each of your employees a company flash drive that he can use to store files that he is working on, and take them home or travel with them.

CF Gear specializes in customizing flash drives to the needs of a specific company. We can imprint or engrave a company logo on the drives. You can choose from a huge selection of designs for the drives.

It doesn’t matter how large or small your company is. CF Gear works with businesses of all sizes. Their website contains product catalogs, testimonials from many happy customers, and detailed descriptions of product options for all the information you want to know.

So don’t make getting ready for that trip to the office any more difficult than it has to be. Invest in some customized flash drives to make traveling so much smoother and so much easier.