A Geek In Glasses

Gwee - Keeps my Glasses looking FAB!

As many of you know, I am a fan of glasses. I have about 10 pairs now and I want to keep each one spotless and scratch free. This awesome little gadget from Gwee makes that possible and conveniently travels with me.

Their guppykeyring is great because I always have my keys with me! Place the keys on the ring and now the Guppy is a key fob, always around to clean not only my glasses, but also when I switch to my sunglasses and even my rear view mirror – which always seems to get covered in tiny fingerprints.

The guppysport not only helps keep my glasses clean but also close by (when I nap, hee,hee) I clip my glasses to my shirt using the guppysport when I nap so they don’t get misplaced. The guppysport can be clipped to hats, clothing and purses using the magnets, which keep it closed and clean.

Gwee also keeps your phone clean and supported. Use the Button to stand the phone up to watch your favorite video, then pop the microfiber cleaning pad off and wipe the screen.  PLUS it can clean your glasses too, since its always with you on your phone.

Hygienically clean is the brands slogan and the Leaf is a great little item that helps keeps all the screens in your life clean. The magnetic leaf attaches to the frame of your laptop. When you need to remove finger prints and smudges, the leaf is right there ready to use the microfiber side to remove the dirt.

Gwee has great products to keep your tech gadgets and glasses looking awesome! 

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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received one or more of the products or services mentioned above for free in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

DIY Doctor Who TARDIS Lamp Headband

Today is the day! The moment all us Whovanians have been waiting for for months! The NEW DOCTOR premieres tonight!  I'm so excited. A couple of weekends ago my daughter and Hubs decided that they wanted to go to the PA Renaissance Fair during the Time Travelers Weekend. Wonderful - Sounds like fun. Then my daughter announces that she will be going as the Tardis (for those not in the know - The Time Machine) and we will be going as Amy and the Doctor from "the Curse of the Black Spot." Ren Fair - Pirates - The Doctor, these are a few of my favorite things.

Well isn't that just peachy. That's my costume and I never finished the head lamp from Comic Con...so now I must figure out a solution, here's how I made it:

The key to the lamp is that we wanted to be able to have a batter operated tea light inside to light up. I have many preliminary ideas but the one that worked the best is an upside down gum container. They are the little "cup of gum" by the check out counter at the grocery store.

 

I used Dazzling Diamond Sticker Sheets, from the Buckle Boutique, to cover the plastic and make it blue. (plus it's for a little girl so every tiny Tardis needs a little sparkle.) The sticker sheet is flexable and wraped around and stuck in place without any problems. I cut thinner strips to create the look of the protective metal cage while the frosted plastic served as the glass light.

I used blue leather to create the top and glued a wooden bead on the top.

Once decorated I unscrewed the top (which is now our bottom) I glued it using a hot glue gun to a sturdy headband covered in satin. I held it in place until it was cool - watch the fingers!

Then, I placed a battery operated tea light in the cap and screwed the decorated bottom back in place.

Done! A working light!

 Here it is in action!

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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received one or more of the products or services mentioned above for free in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

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Rhinestone Butterfly Floral Picks

I was lucky enough to win a set of punches. I used the solid butterfly punch with the Buckle Boutique's Dazzling Diamond Sticker Sheets to make these cute butterfly floral picks. I added them to a flower arrangement we made from fresh picked flowers and they really made the whole thing sparkle.

Start by using a paper punch to punch out the butterfly shape. YES! I said use the paper punch with the Dazzling Diamond Sticker Sheet!! Isn't that fabulous!

So, punch out the butterflies. You need 2 in each color. Peel off the backing of the sticker sheet and place the butterfly on the floral stick, stick the other one to the back. Bend the tip to make it look like the butterfly is flying.

Place it the vase with some pretty flowers!

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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received one or more of the products or services mentioned above for free in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

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Cure Summer Boredom with PLEY.com Lego Rental (+ a Lego Giveaway)

Rent Lego sets for more bang for your buck!

Pay Less, Play More!  Is Pley moto. Their mission is a socially-responsible company that changes the way families consume educational toys. Leveraging collaborative consumption, we aim to raise a more creative and skillful generation that follows the principles of open-ended play while emphasizing the benefits of sharing, reducing waste and giving back to the community.

We think it’s just plain fun and exciting. My daughter had the chance to fill her queue with all kinds of Lego sets, some she would have never picked at the store to buy, and they just keep arriving in the mail, come on admit it EVERYONE LOVES GETTING MAIL!!!! Ensuring a summer of creative play and new toys all break long – without breaking the bank.

How does it work? Sign up at Pley , your first set is free to try it out. Load up the queue with all sorts of sets from Lego Friends, Star Wars, Batman and more. The first box will arrive in the mail in about 5 days. Then you play. When you are done, box it up and send it back. Another set from your queue will be on its way.

That all seems really awesome, right! But you want to know how it works in the real word. We have a non-organized, 1 kid, 3 dog house. My fear was lost pieces. BUT Pley has you covered. They understand that some pieces will fall into the unknown abyss that is my heating / cooling ducts never to be seen again. You will not be charged for normal play loss and there is a page on the website to report an incomplete set if one should arrive at your house. It’s all on your time, you can keep one set as long as you like. We turned our first set over fairly quickly. It only took 4 days from the drop off at the post office to a new set sitting on our porch. The second set has been around the house here for a couple of weeks. No problem!

I suggest putting all other brick sets away. We have a special tray that we use to build the Pley set. Other than that it’s been super fun.

Our first set was a Princess set. It was the perfect sized set for my daughter to build it on her own. She loved the excitement of opening the box to reveal which set it was, dumping out the pieces and jump into building. I thought she might be upset when it was time to box it up and send it back, but the excitement of which set will be next made it just as fun to take the set apart and ship it back.

Are you excited? Join us for an Awesome #SummerSmarts Twitter Party tonight at 9pm EST! RSVP and enter to win some great prizes.

Can't make to the party, that's ok! Enter my giveaway to win some great Pley and Lego prizes!!

The awesome folks at Pley are letting me give away ONE 6-month Super Fan Subscription, ONE 3-month Super Fan Subscription, AND one LEGO Creator Treehouse set.

They so rock! Also EVERYONE who subscribes to their newsletter in the Rafflecopter will receive ONE free month of the Super Fan Subscription. Life is good! On to the Pley giveaway!

 

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Rhinestone Buckle Magnet

I love the sparkle of the slides, buckles and brooches from The Buckle Boutique. They are really fabulous, I came up with a way to enjoy the sparkle without it having to be on your outfit. I know, why wouldn't you want it on your outfit but I'm thinking of more like dressing up your environment too!

Rhinestone Buckle (or slides or brooch) magnets! I put mine on the refrigerator to hold up our Summer Bucket List. Every time I open the door it shimmers in the light and makes me smile. These would make great gifts for the girl that love glitz!

I used a small disk magnet from the craft store. I cut a round piece of the Dazzling Diamond Sticker Sheet to stick to the front of the magnet disk. Then I used E6000 glue to adhere the Butterfly Slide to the magnet. I let the glue dry overnight and the project is finished. The result is perfect!

Use the entire line of Slides and Pins from The Buckle Boutique.

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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received one or more of the products or services mentioned above for free in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

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Sparkle Frozen Crown at the Disney Craft Hop

Welcome to the Disney Pixar Blog Hop!

If you love Disney Pixar and crafting, you came to the right place!  We have an entire month of fun planned for you, with a new group of crafting bloggers every Saturday in June.

 

If you came here from Kathy's blog, then you are in the right place.  If you just happened upon this Blog Hop, make sure to head over to Shawn's blog so that you see the full hop from the very beginning.  If you missed the first two weekends, you can still go back and see all of those projects too.  Just click HERE to see the projects from the first weekend, and click HERE to see the projects from the second weekend.

 

Here is my Awesome Disney Craft: The Sparkle Frozen Crown

 

The Frozen items are super hard to find, so it has come down to making some of our own for dress up. I made this crown by finding one of the many templates on the net, a quick search will yeild you with many printable options. I found one that was the closest to Elsa's in the movie. I printed it out and traced it onto the back of the Dazzling Diamond Sticker sheet from The Buckle Boutique. I hand cut it out using a craft knife. For the gemstone I cut a piece of Rowlux Illustion Film. Next, peel the paper off the back of the sticker sheet crown, place the gemstone cutout in place and stick it to a piece of craft foam. Trim the crown out with the craft knife again. Then I hot glued the crown to a hair comb and let the glue cool.

 

Then comes the fashion show:

 

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Make sure to mark your calendar for MORE projects next Saturday!  You can join the Facebook Event page by clicking HERE.  Now it's time for you to head over toKatherine
blog.

Here is the full line up in case you get lost along the way

Shawn
Kathy
Stephanie
 Katherine
 Ellen

 

 

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ModCloth is celebrating a very exciting milestone this week -- the one-year anniversary of officially launching plus-size clothing on their site! In just one year, they’ve expanded their product catalog with more
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#Love2Pley LEGO Movie Release Twitter Party!

Oh you need to attend this! I am currently trying out Pley and it's awesome. The Legos arrive, they are played with and then packed up and sent back. Super fun!

Join the Twitter Party to win Lego prizes!

June 17 – 9pm

Hosted by: Ellie Petrov from “Creative Geekery” and co-hosted by Pley and Fadra from “All Things Fadra”

Everything will be awesome on June 17 when the LEGO Movie DVD will be released! Pley is throwing a party and giving away some great LEGO gifts (yes, including copies of the DVD) to celebrate! If you’re a LEGO-lover, you HAVE to attend.

What’s Pley? Pley is the first ever LEGO rental service that allows members to sign up for a monthly subscription and get LEGO sets delivered to their door. They have 3 different levels of membership depending on set size, shipping is always free, and all the sets are clean and sanitized when they are returned. Stop spending boat-loads of money on new LEGO sets!

Pley brings the sharing economy to children and encourages educational playtime. What better way to spend time with your children than building with one of the most iconic toys ever created?

Everyone who RSVPs will receive a special deal to join Pley after the party.

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Faux Lucite Cuff

I LOVE Lucite! I think that this Tory Burch cuff is super hot. The see through Lucite is awesome with the gold accents.

Since my daughter wanted to have something like this but she is only 5, we came up with a little craft that creates the fun look of the see through cuff but is made from recycled materials.

Here is our version of the Faux Lucite Cuff:

 

I know you are dying to know how to make it, so head over to Create for Less' Blog - Think Crafts for the full tutorial where I will reveal how crazy simple this cuff is!

I am a Kids Craft Contributor for Create for Less, a great source for all your craft needs.