Butter London nail polish is my latest favorite! I love the colors, the coverage, and the packaging. Butter London finishes range from matte, to shiny, to shimmer, to glitter, and any and every color you might be looking for. AND Butter London products contain no formaldehyde, Toluene, or DBP.

Don’t you love nail polish names? I think the coverage on the Butter London polish is great. I am a little more daring on my tootsies. I go for the wild colors with my pedicure, but go with more neutral color on fingernails. What is your favorite nail polish brand? You know I love to hear from you in the comments section.

Have a graduation party coming up, or wedding, baby shower, or just like crafts? I found a great website with products for any gathering or project you may have going on. This week you need to check out save-on-crafts.com.

Look at these glass decor balls! L-o-v-e!

They have a huge selection of preserved flowers.

Cupcake tree

Little girl dress for party favor at baby shower!

Lots of outdoor lighting options

Fiberoptic centerpieces

And don’t forget they have craft items too

I think they have some great prices and unique items, so be sure and check out save-on-crafts.com. Let me know if you are a crafter in the comments section.

My son gave me this wonderful leather handbag for Christmas.

I love a good tote bag and this one is really, really nice. Very high end quality leather, soft but sturdy. It has the trademark Fossil key dangling from the strap.

I love there is no middle insert. I hate those pesky things. Always get in my way. For me it’s a great office bag, for carrying files to meetings, laptop, iPad, important papers, or lunch, which is also important. It is a little large for me for an everyday handbag, but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be for someone else.

If you haven’t checked out Fossil lately, you definitely need to. They have lots of great leather goods, as well as watches, clothing, jewelry, and shoes.

And don’t you think this handbag would compliment the one I already have? Hint, hint!

Full disclosure, my son works for Fossil. He’s kind of a big deal. But he will tell you that we are big Fossil fans from way back! I remember giving my son a Fossil watch for his high school graduation. He is about to get his Master’s Degree next month. Maybe I should get him another watch?

This is one of those posts that if you already know this, just humor me. I like to think I bring you this information. Have you been seeing all those black and white boxes in magazines, on products themselves, and in other forms of print? Those boxes that look like a secret message everyone knows but you? They are QR codes. QR stands for “quick response”.

Evidently we are now too lazy or inpatient to retype in a URL address. Along comes the QR readers, and you only need scan a code with your smartphone to be taken directly to the website the box is advertising. Some people are now even including the QR on their business cards, so you can scan and add their information quickly to your contacts. You know, without having to retype them.

I work in the legal field. Lawyers like to product lots of paper. I recall that responding to discovery meant boxes and boxes of documents. That transformed into one or two CDs, then maybe a flash drive or external hard drive, depending on how much information was stored. I predict some day all of those thousands of pages of discovery will be produced in one little code.

Most may be familiar with Red Laser, a barcode scanner that I have had on my iPhone for years. It works to scan both the barcodes of products and the QR codes. There are several different free apps out there that do the same thing.

I downloaded multiple QR readers on my iPhone and have to say that the i-nigma app seemed to work the best for me. It scans both QR codes and barcodes super fast. I found the difference between the i-nigma app and the others was that the i-nigma app takes you directly to the page coded in the QR box. It does the same thing for the barcodes, except gives you a list of available prices and stores for the merchandise.

It also appears to have a great menu bar with lots of options. I like options. I like menus. Even if they aren’t for ordering food. If you go to the app store for either the Android or iTunes, you will find lots of free QR code readers to choose from.

If you scan the QR code above with your smartphone, it should take you directly to my home page. Ain’t technology grand?