Monthly Archives: December 2012

Get professional photo results using everyday items you're likely to have on hand for props and backdrops. Our do-it-yourself advice from a professional photographer about lighting, staging and editing will help your craft products sell themselves!

Bulk buying reduces your carbon footprint. When you buy in bulk, you place fewer orders. That means fewer resources expended on packing, shipping, and delivering your orders. In the case of local items, it’s fewer car trips to the store to pick up items, and less energy, electricity, and fuel expended to provide.

In 1941, Georges de Mestral, a Swiss engineer, invented the hook-and-loop fastener that would become known as VELCRO®. There are other variations on hook-and-loop fastening systems, but the VELCRO® brand has resulted in a genericized term, like the way we use Kleenex® as a synonym for "tissue." He got the idea from the burrs that kept sticking to his clothing and his dog’s fur after he took his canine buddy on hunting trips in the Alps. The burrs were such an annoyance to remove that he got the idea for a strong but reversible fastening system.