My wife, Jeanie, is hard to buy for. To be fair so am I. We live modestly and don't have real expensive tastes, so essentially when we want something we go buy it (unless it's something like a car). She loves jewelry, but to me that's kind of a personal taste so I really never like buying jewelry. So I just happened to be checking out some sites online for some ideas and I came across the Amazon Kindle.
I have known about this for a while but hadn't really thought about it as a gift. I had an e-book reader many years ago. It was bulky and the batteries didn't last long. Plus the site that you downloaded material went out of business and the reader company never gave us an alternative site to find material.
Well, Jeanie has been going to school, and the college text books are heavy and expensive. So I thought maybe she might be able to get some of her text books on the Kindle, as well as some other books that she could use for reports. So I ordered it.
It came and I started playing with it and charging the batteries. After playing with it for a couple hours and downloading some material i was so excited that I couldn't wait until Xmas to give it to her. This thing is really awesome. So much so that I went and ordered another for my son, Andrew. (and maybe I'll get myself one after Xmas)
For those who aren't familiar with it, the Kindle is an iPod for books. It holds 1500 digital books in an electronic enclosure thinner than a DVD case. And the books are generally cheaper than they would be in a store. Which just makes sense, since like an iTunes download there is no packaging involved.
So besides the obvious benefits of being able to carry you whole book collection with you and the ability to search through all the texts, the Kindle is green (environmentally friendly). There' some plastic and some silicon and a battery that will need to get disposed of, but think of all the trees it will save in the long run. It also takes away the hassle of having to go to the book store, since Amazon has stated that they want to digitize every book every printed you'll be able to find even out of print material.
And one of the biggest benefits is that there is actually a lot of FREE material for download. Classic books like Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, and Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol are in the public domain. If you wanted to buy these in the store you'd have to pay for the printing and binding, but not on The Kindle.
So if you haven't bought that special someone a gift yet, consider The Kindle.
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As an Encore Bride I'm not into looking like the meringue-whipped cake topper doll on my day. I know that I won't wear white and so far I only have one design house I truly love:Pronovias. That is, until I found the most recent bridal line from Essence of Australia called Martina Liana. I came across this designer from another encore bride at the encore board on Weddingbee.com. I love that most of the gowns are offered in gold, champagne, rose and blue. In my humble opinion as a fashion design major, details on a "colored" gown show much better in pictures than a white dress will, if you don't believe me, look at the countless real wedding pictures in all the major bridal blogs. Can you see the details on a white dress when you take a full length photo? I've also read how many photographers enjoy non-white gowns, possibly for the same reason.
Who said this would be easy? Between the cutting and wiring and pictures and editing pictures and descriptions and oh my! Finally, it's open for business, please stop by, say hi, tell me what you think, etc.
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It's not often that I'll blog about a wedding twice. You may remember Jessica and John from the wonderful Big Video Show that Cindy (Stillman) and her team put together back in October. we yesterday Cindy (Patrick) blogged her photos and I just couldn't help but spotlight this wedding again.
I am a huge fan of Cindy's work, as well as her work ethic. She really knows how to be in charge and get the job done; all the while being courteous and friendly to the people she works with. When I hear we are working with her I know the day is going to be a great one, and this wedding was no different.