Last month, I was asked to take a look at PrivateIslandParty.com & pick out a few accessories to try out. The site offers an assortment of party supplies, novelty items, and accessories. Many of the items are available in bulk, like hats, wigs & capes. After looking through everything, I picked out a black cape, fishnet gloves, and a child’s superhero cape. After placing my order with the site rep, she called me to let me know that the superhero cape was out of stock and that they were going to send me out a new one. I was told that the items were being shipped that day, but after three weeks I still hadn’t received them. I found out through Tomoson that the rep was no longer with the company and that a replacement shipment was being sent out. I received everything three days later. The black cape was nice, and you can leave the color down or flip it up. The gloves fit perfectly and just about reach my elbow. I plan of using them as part of a Rocky Horror ...
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Product Review — BuyCostumes.com
A few weeks back, I was asked to check out BuyCostumes.com & pick out a costume. BuyCostumes.com has a large variety costumes all year long, as well as tons of accessories. They also carry party supplies & pet costumes too. Since I had already picked out a Halloween costume already, I let my husband look through and see what he liked. The site is very easy to navigate & you can easily search by costume type, gender, size, price & more. They also have sections of related costumes, like Star Wars, Renaissance & TV characters. On the group pages, you can see both adult and children’s costumes along with all the suggested accessories. My husband & I literally went through the entire site, taking him about two days. He eventually went with the Tavern Man costume after I threatened him with a Hawkeye costume if he didn’t pick something. The costume consists of two pieces: a lace-up renaissance shirt and pants with laces to tie up the legs. We received ...
Product Review – 16×20 Printcopia Canvas
A few weeks back, I was asked to once again review Printcopia. Printcopia let’s you make prints, canvases, framed photos & acrylic prints of your photos. Last time, I got an 8x10 canvas. This time around, I got to get a 16x20 canvas. After a few days of debate, I decided to get one of my photos from Rockport printed. I went with one of a pelican sitting on a fishing boat. As like the last time, it only took a few minutes to upload and adjust the picture how I wanted it. I forwent the extra editing since this particular shoot didn’t need it. I received the print within a week. I came out great. They did any excellent job wrapping the canvas and the print itself looks wonderful. Its very attention getting and I’ve gotten lots of comments on it. Overall, Printcopia is still a great place to go to get prints of any kind. The prices are reasonable and the shipping is super quick. Prices will vary depending on what you are getting. The canvas print I ordered was $113 ...
Product Review — DreamHost (Part 2)
So, the past few weeks have been a bit hectic due to the blog transfer…especially with working on getting the hang of Wordpress and figuring out what plugins I need. Now that everything is settled, I can finish my DreamHost review. Since I am a novice at all the transferring stuff, I had Jacqui from Wacky Jacqui’s Designs do my transfer. She is a Wordpress master! DreamHost operates mainly on FTP, so it only took her about a day to get everything transferred over. I got in there & played around with plugins, and then she went in and finished up getting the layout fixed and other odds and ends. I only crashed everything once and fixed it myself, which isn’t too bad in my book. Overall, it was quick and easy. The server uptime has been great. There have been no outages at all, which is a great improvement over Blogger. Plus, when major updates come down, DreamHost will install them for you. I’m also able to get in via FTP to edit stuff if I need to. The best part is ...
Peelstar Review & Giveaway [ENDED]
I was recently asked to try out PeelStar. PeelStar lets you create custom decals and magnets of your children’s sports jerseys. The decals can be placed in school lockers or bedrooms, & the magnets can go on cars or anything else metal. My daughter is still a little young to play sports yet, but she is a huge football fan. We are proud members of the Raven’s Nation, so I decided to make her a purple jersey with her name one it. The site takes you right into the creator app and you can choose between several different sports (football, baseball, soccer, ect...). You are able to select colors, fonts, and add custom text. I used the general color scheme of the team, but tried to make it look different so as not to infringe on copyright. The jersey itself is purple with black around the sleeves and collar. The lettering (her name) and number (1) are white. You also get a big strip at the bottom with the team name, so I put ‘Ravens’ I white text with a black outline. I got it ...
Product Review – Signazon.com
About three weeks ago, I was invited to try out Signazon.com. Signazon is based in Dallas and lets you design your own custom banners, signs, car magnets & more. You can use customizable templates or use their builder to create your own. I had the option of creating a 2’ x 4’ foot vinyl banner. Many of you may know that aside from writing this blog, I also do graphic design & photography. I’ve designed several book covers for authors and I also create & sell stock images. I jumped at the chance of doing a banner because I have been pricing them for a while to have at FenCon. FenCon is a sci-fi convention held in Dallas & frequented by a lot of local and national authors. I’m sharing a table with a friend of mine, T. M. Simmons, and wanted to have something to stand out and bring people over. They have a large number of templates available that you can edit and add in your own images. I choose to go with the blank template. I uploaded my logo then added a few lines ...