Sweet photo gifts for Father’s Day or Dad’s Birthday
by on April 10, 2010
in costco photo center, sams club photo center, walmart photo centre
It’s a show and tell day with some cool photo gifts I made with photos of the kids for their Dad for Father’s Day and his birthday. I made a dopp kit at the Costco Photo Center using of a fantastic photo I took of the kids. Then I made a photo tie at Sam’s Club Photo Center with a fun, crazy dress up photo I took of the kids when they were goofing off. Check out the video (note my kids being silly in the background)…
Oh, and the foam photo puzzle I referred to is from Walmart Photo Centre…came out so cool!
Stamps with my photo on them!
by on March 11, 2010
in Cool stuff, costco photo center
Awesome coolness is all I can say. I just went to Costco.com to make some stamps with a photo of my puppy on them. It was WAY faster than I expected. You’ll see on the video how surprised I was about the speed of the uploader…amazing! I, of course, chose a photo of my cockapoo puppy (shown below). A sheet of 20 stamp was $16.95, with 20% off so not bad for photo stamps. I’m thinking I’ll be making ones with a photo of my kids on them next. How great will these be for my Christmas cards?
It’s a quick video because they were so quick to make…
Remembering past pets through photo ~ part 2
by on February 4, 2010
in sams club photo center
I know I said I was planning to make my memory book of my pets on the Costco Photo Center site, but after I uploaded my photos there, I remembered that I would have to download My Publisher in order to make a photobook from Costco. As I am on a loaner computer while mine is getting fixed, I thought I would make my Reilly book at the Sams Club photo site and post again with my experiences making a Buoy book from Costco and My Publisher. So here’s how I made my memory book of Reilly at Sam’s Club…
My favs from CES
by on January 13, 2010
in Reviews/giveaways, digital photography tools
I just got back from CES 2010 and what an amazing show it was. Unfortunately, I spent more time in meetings than exploring the show floor but there were a few products that caught my eye. Here’s a glimpse of those…
The Polaroid Instant Mobile Printer is available at Costco and the Polaroid site for $49.99 and the Instant Digital Camera is at the Polaroid site for $199. I’m coveting the Polaroid Pogo Instant Digital Camera right now and my birthday is less than a month away (hint, hint) 
The Sony Bloggie is another great birthday present for me. So cool. I’d go for the Bloggie Camera Kit for $189.99. It comes with the 360 video attachment and a 4GB memory stick. Check out the fun colors (I personally like it in eggplant). Here’s a review with video footage of the Sony Bloggie.
Here are the Etymotic earphones that are my new favorite. The stay in my ears comfortably and block out other noise. I can’t wait to head out for a trail run with these!
You can get an Eye-Fi card at Costco for $59.95…the best deal I’ve found so far. Here’s the link to my review of the Eye-Fi card.
Some shameless self promotion… Here are some video interviews (one including me) from Pixalated Geek at the It Won’t Stay In Vegas party at the Atomic Testing Museum put on by the Parnassus Group and Scoble. Awesome sponsors like Blackberry, Clear, PlayStation, and many others
There are countless other great posts and videos from CES 2010… If you are interested, I’d start here with Robert Scoble’s post.
I didn’t take nearly the pictures that I meant to take, but here are a few below.
Trees make me happy
by on December 30, 2009
in costco photo center, digital photography tools
Remember my post from a couple of weeks ago about the poster I made at the kiosk at Costco? If you missed it, here’s the link to it. Well, for Christmas my mom had it matted and framed for me. I couldn’t wait to take it home and hang it over the piano. It will offer me constant inspiration and happiness. I LOVE trees. I also took the photo while on a relaxing hike with my mom on the Rattlesnake Ridge trail. Great memories as well as the peace and contentment trees provide for me
More Great Giveaway Opportunities!
by on October 6, 2009
in Reviews/giveaways
I’m loving these fun and generous bloggers out there who are doing giveaways for photo products. Here are 3 more to enter…
Enter Tania Bugnet’s (aka Lucky Canuck) giveaway for $25 in prints. Definitely could come in handy with the holidays around the corner. She does a great review here of the options available at the Walmart Photo Centre site…. Click here for her giveaway and enter by October 5th.
Jessica Benton (aka Riding with Jessica) has posted a fun giveaway for a CVS photo book. Even if you don’t enter her giveaway, you should head over and watch the cool video she made to show off her photo book of her family’s trip to Chicago. I love it! Her giveaway ends on October 10th. Click here to enter…
Erin Lowmaster (aka Connected 2 Christ) has a great review/giveaway posted here for a Costco poster collage. She made a beautiful 20×30 poster of her daughter Melody. Her giveaway ends October 14th.
More great opportunities to come so stay tuned!
The Best Stink-Eye EVER! Photo Contest!
by on July 23, 2009
in costco photo center
Submit your photo of the best stink-eye, glare, “you’re in trouble” look you can find and win a free photo poster or photo collage from Costco! Upload your photo to you favorite photo-sharing site and post the link in your comment here or you can email your pic to me at zaellen@gmail.com. By commenting and/or sending you’ll be giving your permission for me to post your pic here at Today’s Ellen Contest will run until 12pm on August 6th.
Mud-faced stink-eye
Some Flip Video Love
by on July 8, 2009
in costco photo center, sams club photo center
Totally have been LOVING my Flip Ultra. Can’t wait for an excuse to upgrade to the Flip Mino HD! Check out my demo…
There are quite a few places to buy a flip if you’re in the market. I found the Flip Mino here…Costco.com
and the Flip Ultra (exactly like the one I show on the video) here…Sam’s Club
My New Techie Toy ~ Eye-Fi Card
by on June 19, 2009
in walmart photo centre
SERIOUSLY! This is the coolest…just pop your Eye-Fi card in your camera and check out what you can do…
You can get an Eye-Fi card at Costco.com, Blacks, Walmart.com and lots of other places online and in stores!
I can tell you this is going to make my life SO much easier!
Looking for a coach gift (or Dad’s day gift)?
by on June 3, 2009
in costco photo center
Totally make this photo collage poster at Costco in 5 minutes on the kiosk, paid under $10 for it then picked it up finished an hour later…LOVE IT! Now for the trinkets for the kiddos on the team. Check this out!
Glory Girls 2009
