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By Aimee, December 29, 2011

One of my favorite things about the new year is getting new calendars. Yes, calendars plural. I love organizing stuff, and this year we got an awesome selection of calendars. My husband got Angry Birds, I was given the Farmer’s Almanac calendar, and I am waiting for a Totoro book from Japan as well. Together we are very excited about the Build-a-Robot calendar we got! If you love paper craft, this is the calendar for you, and it’s on sale right now for just $5.99, so go get one while you can.

It’s not January yet, but I spent a bit of time tonight building January’s robot. It was really fun to put together, and helped me beat away a bit of the winter blahs. Every month has a robot ready to put together with a little folding and some glue. The robots come ready to punch out of their papers, so you don’t have to cut anything, and they have all the folds marked for easy putting together.

I can’t wait to put together a new robot each month! It was really fun to put this one together. If you want to have a little fun each month, the Build-a-Robot calendar is sure to be your new favorite calendar.

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By Aimee, December 22, 2011

Oh my goodness! I couldn’t wait to post about this because it is so amazing. The Olloclip iPhone Lens turns your iPhone camera into quiet the wonder camera! It’s 3-in-1 lens features a fisheye, a wide angle, and a macro. I was pretty excited about the fisheye lens because I think there is a lot of fun to be had with them. However, once I gave the macro a whirl I was instantly impressed. The macro is amazing!! Here are a few shots with it (remember these were taken with my phone!):

Pretty amazing right? I can’t wait to try it out on more things. We already have been having fun seeing what details we can capture on the tree. And speaking of trees, this is what our tree looks like through the fisheye lens.

If you have an iPhone and enjoy taking photos, you really need one of these! It just slides over the phone, and is easy to take on and off. It’s little so it can fit into your purse no problem, and it works with any photo app too. I do believe I am in love with a lens!

You can find the Olloclip at ThinkGeek, and they have an Olloclip Facebook page where you can also try to win one for yourself! So excited to play with this new toy over the holiday break!

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By Aimee, December 17, 2011

Geek confession time. We absolutely love Portal 2. The first Portal game was great as well, but being able to play the co-opt part of Portal 2 has really added to the fun. And yes, each of us played the first person game all the way through, together, while the other one watched. It was just that fun. From time to time, you might even hear us referencing quotes from the game, not that you would know what we were talking about unless of course you too played the game.

"Preparing to dispense product."

Finally, our own turret! Oh, so maybe it’s a turret flashlight that talks and says turrety things, but it’s about as close as we will ever get to having the real deal! And that is of course the only way we would want it (unless the turret was special of course, and didn’t actually want to kill us). There is a Wheatly LED flashlight as well. Also? The turret comes in packaging just like the one in the Aperture Investment Opportunity #3 video. Very cool, very cool indeed!

And while we all know that the cake was a lie, these cookies are totally real! Portal Cookie Cutters! Once again, our decorating skills need a bit more skill, but we had so much fun trying to create Companion Cubes, turrets, and even portals! Sadly, our cookies expanded a lot, and some things look a bit “puffy”, but you get the gist. By the way, awesome cookie bakers reading this… how do you get your cookies to look so perfectly shaped?

Cookies in progress!

Here is my attempt at decorating a turret cookie. It’s not the worst, but let’s be honest, it’s not exactly great for someone who used to work in a cookie shop!

And one more Portal item before you think me truly obsessed. An Aperture Laboratories scarf! Or rather, an Aperture Thermal Neck Wrap, you know, if you want to get scientific about it. See in the photo, that’s SNOW  behind me, a scarf is a must have, and this one is super cool. Warm.

Yes friends, now you know the truth. We love Portal. If you love the game too, and want fun Portal items be sure to visit the links. If you haven’t played the game yet, what are you waiting for?

Big thanks to ThinkGeek for encouraging my Portal obsession and providing the items for review in this post. As always, my opinions are my own.

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By Aimee, December 2, 2011

Do you enjoy watching documentaries? We love them because we always learn such interesting things. Recently we got the chance to watch Toyland. As the name suggests, it’s a documentary about toys and of course, toy makers.

The movie follows one toy maker’s journey (Tim Walsh) to create his toy, you get to see him create prototypes and pitch the product to big game producers. In between his story, we also get to look back at the people who brought us Slinky, Play-Doh, Radio Flyer wagons, Twister, Nerf, Ant Farm, Kerplunk, Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, Mouse Trap, Operation and more!

It’s really so interesting how some of the toys we love came about, and what happened to the people who made them. There were a lot of things we didn’t know, for example that there is actually a toy design college! And you really have to hear what happened to the inventor of the Slinky!

Big thanks to Tim Walsh for sending the DVD for our review. Here is a bit of what you will see if you choose to watch Toyland.