The Epson Workforce 840 is literally the 4th printer we've had this year. Yes, we print alot, but not so much that we go through an inkjet printer every month!

Our journey to find a printer that works actually started after our Canon bit the dust. It wasn't a terrible printer, but it was old and hogged ink like no one's business (before you ask, we bought it before we started this blog - or yes, we would have reviewed it too). So, we headed to Costco and picked up an HP, and another, and another (damn, that thing was a piece of crap!) and finally when we were at our wits end, the nice people at Epson sent us their Workforce 840 to review.

Queue angels singing in harmony...

And it worked!

We've given it a pretty thorough test now (6+ months) and after printing mass quantities of stuff on both Mac [...] Continue Reading...

I've wanted to learn to sew for a long time. However, my mom decided early on that she didn't want to teach me to sew, because as a child she was made fun of for wearing homemade clothes. My grandmother sewed all 5 of her daughters clothes and they all learned to sew as a way of life. As a result, they are the type of people that can look at something on a mannequin and utter in the next sentence "why buy that when I can sew it?"

Really?

How bout you teach me to sew? Mom? Aunts? Anyone?! Okay, screw it, I'm on my own here I see.

So, this Halloween I decided to buy and print off a couple of patterns from the McCall's online store and sew them myself. Mind you, I have very little experience sewing anything. I took a college class and dropped it after the [...] Continue Reading...

To preface this article I have to say that we once loved Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. We were married in their chapel and loved our stay there for our honeymoon a few years back; so when looking for a hotel to stay at for a recent trip to a convention, it was a no-brainer -- or so we thought.

To start off, we reserved three rooms, two of which were adjoined, for ourselves and our 4 kids. The third room was next door to us and held my in-laws, who flew in from Wisconsin and watched our kiddos while we spend 3 full days in sessions.

We arrived to check-in at around 5:30PM and found that the check-in line wrapped around the entire lobby, almost to the elevator area -- not exactly a sight someone towing 6 bags and 4 kids wants to see. I got in line and waited [...] Continue Reading...