The Wonder That is Bubble Wrap

The temptation to package burst the bubbles of bubble wrap is almost irresistible for many people, but how they do it in a plastic protective film? Well, it was the creation of two engineers, Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes, which came almost by accident. Originally, the proposed use of the plastic guard was like a wallpaper of plastic, but it was quickly determined that the product is most suitable products in the damping system was. After the discoveryof bubble wrap the pair of engineers founded the Sealed Air Corporation in 1960.

The product starts life as polyethylene resin which is melted down and formed into two sheets of clear plastic film. One of the sheets is then wrapped around a drum which has holes punched into it and the suction is then consequently applied drawing the film into the holes to create bubbles. The second layer of film is then placed onto the first and laminated on to in order to trap the bubbles which have been created. There is a process which ensures that the air cannot escape which occurs during this process; however it is a trade secret of the Sealed Air Corporation.

Bubble wrap is available in several sizes and forms from large heavy duty rolls for large objects to small Bubble Bags for protecting lighter objects. The diameter of the bubbles ranges from 6mm to 25mm and the height of the bubbles can be anywhere up to 44mm.

The uses for bubble wrap when protecting products are endless and its invention has lead to many variations of the product. One of the most common ways is to protect an item during transit using a Bubble Bag. Consumers can Buy Bubble Bags in order to protect glass objects being scratched or damaged amongst other things. Another variation of bubble wrap is adhesive bubble wrap which has a sticky side which will stick to almost any surfaces. The obvious use for this is to line the inside of packages in order to protect the contents.

In summary bubble wrap was an entirely accidental discovery which has greatly benefitted the packaging industry and has solved the problem of damaged goods. It is perhaps one of the most effect methods of keeping products safe in transit, and lets face it once it arrives it is always fun to play with it and pop the bubbles.

How to Make the Perfect Easter Basket for Your Toddler

Browsing online, I saw a toddler Easter basket selling for $65. Since when does a parent have to spend so much money on a basket filled with a stuffed animal, candy and plastic grass for a two-year old? You can spend a lot less and create a basket that's even better because it's tailor made just for your child.

Here's how you make a perfect Easter basket that will not break the bank and make a great impression on your terrific toddler:

1. Start with a basket you already have at home. Don't buy that Easter basket at the grocery store that you will use once and then pitch into your garage to be lost forever. Can't find a basket? Look for a small plastic storage bin, decorate a shoe box, or extra plastic wastebasket. Nix the cellophane wrap.

2. Skip the candy and load up on healthier treats instead. Your toddler's favorite fruits or crackers will do just fine. Or try a new brand of cracker. If your toddler is asking for candy, just include one small chocolate egg or a few peeps. Remember the less your toddler is exposed to candy, the better!

3. Instead of filling plastic eggs with candy, fill them with beans instead. Tape them up with colorful electrical tape and you've got a new shaker instrument. You can also fill the eggs with small toys or stickers.

4. Include items you need to buy anyway: a toothbrush with one of your child's favorite characters, nice socks, new character underwear or pajamas.

5. Great toys to include are inexpensive items like crayons, sidewalk chalk, coloring books, toy cars, stickers, play doh, rubber duckies and other toys for the bath.

6. Celebrate the coming of spring with some outdoor activity toys like a Frisbee, bubbles, or ball.

7. Write them a simple note that says "I love you" or "Happy Easter." Encourage them to say each letter in your note.

Create your basket with your toddler in mind. Include some of his or her favorite things and you'll be sure to have a hit! And it will cost you a lot less than $65.

Kalypso - The Diva Red Cap Oranda Goldfish

My fish is a Diva!

I'm not kidding either...

Let me tell you a story about what just happened in the past few days...

It has been an extremely busy week, and I didn't feel like cleaning out Kalypso's 10 gallon fish bowl. She has 2 filters with bubbles and a floaty fish toy that she loves snuggling and pushing around the bowl.

Kalypso has grown quite a bit in size since I got her in the spring. I'd say she's more than doubled in size. So, I got this new 10 gallon bowl just for her as an upgrade from her 5 gallon bowl. A big difference.

Now, when I didn't feel like cleaning out all of her home the other night, I brought out her 5 gallon bowl just for the night (I call it her condominium), so I could clean the 10 gallon in the morning. It was already late at night, mind you.

She had a pretty plant new glass beads at the bottom and fresh water, and she was sitting right next to my computer, so that she could see me!

The next morning, I sat down to check my email and do about 30 minutes of work. Kalypso was fine...Swimming around, happy to see me, etc.

However, I was sitting there no longer than 10 minutes, and all of a sudden, she turned upside down, floating, as if she were dead! No warning of distress, nothing visually wrong with her either.

Freaking out, I called my mother over who turned her right-side up, and moved her back and forth to keep her gills working, as an angler would returning a fish to water.

I rushed to clean up her 10 gallon bowl, fill it and replace her fish friend and filters, etc. It was a panic and a frenzy...

No sooner did we put her back into her large home with her bubbles from her filter, did she change her tune.

Seriously, it was as though she was boycotting, saying, "If I don't have my bubbles, I'll just die!"

I think she was depressed that I took away her huge home, her fish friend and most of all, her bubbles! She loves her bubbles.

Within 1 hour, she had perked up as though nothing ever happened. She's lucky we're so diligent and I love her so much - she's a special fish - because anyone else would have flushed her...She wasn't moving and upside-down.

Boy, did she show me!!! Don't move your fish into a condominium from a huge mansion, especially if there are no BUBBLES involved! They might just die!

How melodramatic!

by Kimberly Edwards

Safe: Children's Toys Great Gift

Most importantly, unless you are positive as to everything you want to buy, you will want to purchase your gift basket last. You do not want to have to choose what you will give based on the size of the basket you have already bought.

Select an assortment of the safest toys for the baby.

A few great ideas are to purchase items such as classical or other instrumental music to play in the nursery, perhaps even some sing-along music, for when the child gets a bit older and begins to imitate speech.

Another idea is to buy the baby a mobile. These items, however, are very popular for baby showers, so check with your other friends to make sure the mother is not bombarded with dozens of mobiles.

The best books for infants will be waterproof and therefore drool proof. If books are a part of the child's life from the beginning, he or she is more likely to become a more intelligent individual. So even at the earliest stages of a baby's life, books are important. Books with different textures, colors, and things for the child to touch like little flaps that lift to reveal something once the child is touching and investigating and not sucking on everything in sight.

Teething rings. Believe me mommy will need them. There are great teething rings available that the child can hold on his or her own and that will help soothe the pain of teething without having to use too much medicine to numb the baby's gums.

Another great idea for toys in the cart contained in a child is a gift of natural things, such as bells, mirrors for the crib or playpen, and perhaps even a crib or playpen - which would be a gift for that! Of course, you want to see if the mother already has a crib or playpen for the first child.

Hikers are perfect for the new baby, not only to help him or her learn to play on foot, but also as a different place when the child is sick in her crib or playpen. There are also hikersfunction for eating, bet the better ones I believe are the walkers that have toys attached to them. This way the baby will stay entertained, and you will not have to worry about picking up dropped toys.

Another great idea for gift baskets for babies is to get a bottle of bubbles. They are non-toxic, of course, but even the smallest baby will be enthralled with the bubbles floating down.

There are many kinds of baby toys out there that you could include in your baby gift basket. I hope some of these ideas can help you.

Bubble Machine

I still like bubble

During childhood, I like everything and do not use, the bubbles Dass fact, using my mother, myself, the courts most of the time the push of a detergent on the bottom of the pool and allows me to fill with water. It 'been so exciting for me, but I enjoyed it even more bubbles. I had some bubble maker, too! I did make just the right mixture of water and soap may> Bubble sticks better than the ones you buy in stores, and even the air pressure was enough to blow bubbles as possible.

I realized how good of a mechanical ventilator bubble work

Looking at my car the first bubble, but I knew I had it all wrong. It was not a bubble machine, in reality so much as a giant bubble maker. Basically it was a ring of fabric moving at the end of a long pole, and might hugeBubbles bigger than my head. It 'was a birthday gift, and I would play with him for hours from now on. It 'was my very favorite toy in the world.

But later I found a couple of machines, the bubble could burst, that way (no pun intended). I once had a bubble gun that was actually a magic wand with a fan behind it, but it worked well, I do not know that after my first bubble machine, I noticed how even a mechanical ventilator bubblecould work!

Bubble Machine - awesome!

I was a DJ of the time, and the bubble machine was something that I had borrowed business partner, a good friend from the same period. I had never heard of bubble machines, but when I finally saw one, I was fantastic! E 'put out a literal swarm of air bubbles in the air and over the whole space. I had never seen anything like it, and all the dancers seemed to love it. Since then I havedecided that I needed to have one. I bought my own bubble machine, presumably for parts. However, I would like to work at home more often. I liked it, and found that all the years that passed, I still had the same passion for soap bubbles. It 's nice to know that there are some things that never change.

Toy Squinkies - # 1 reason parents should buy this toy

Squinkies surprise inside is a small toy doll toy, come in plastic gumballs. (The toy distributors in supermarkets) for children to open pop anxious to see what is inside the toy Squinkies. These dolls are figures such as animals, animals, fairies and little people Squinkies. Often described as "soft, squooshy and soft, there are already several hundred Squinkies collect.

They are sold in> Bubble-Pack series and set of game and can be used, pencil toppers, jewelry and toys to play, obviously. One of the goals of most children are Squinkies series to collect all in one, and the manufacturer, toys Blip, a new series to keep their interest are always fresh.

These hundreds of small toy doll is now spur Kid's ideas about how to be "to create the scenes and villages and their own jewelry bracelets and MixingAdaptation to different Squinkies. Children are the exchange and trade, and its system of small-commerce, because they have so many different dolls Squinkies as they strive to achieve.

Children will beg Squinkies this season, but the # 1 reason that parents should buy is that they are great "reward" for good behavior! When children behave when they are - they get a Squinkies. Make your bed, your room clean, doing promotional duties - Squinkies. All parents know that childrenTo do what you want (or what it should), much faster if they know they have a reward!

The concept of getting a "premium" enhanced if Squinkies Gumball Machine Play September It 'exactly what the name suggests, Gumball-like, once donor Squinkies surprise inside plastic ball when you insert a coin and the purge button. Imagine the tension in which the child is waiting anxiously to see what their"Reward."

The toy includes Squinkies;

Squinkies Bubble Packs - 16 different games in each pack

Play Set:

Collection Pastry Surprise Gumball Machine Play HouseGumball Settee Time Machine Play Surprise Surprise SetPalace's Plat

Mini-Set:

Under the Mar-a-SurprizeBride SurprizeShopping Royal Fun Fun Surprise Surprise

JewellerySets: (Squinkies bracelets with interchangeable)

Birthday Surprise Surprise SurprizePrincess Fantasy

The real number one reason parents should buy toys Squinkies is that, like educational toys that help children in their early development, Squinkies will help shape positive behavior that their will to make life, and you, very much easier .

It's in the Bag, the Party Favor Bag That Is

The purse for the party is always a need for the party.

Organizing a party, more and more people these days need more party favor gift bag or believe - that a party is to be preferred? Is there a way to say thank you to the party guests. Keep a small gift as a memento of the occasion. This is not mandatory, was part of keeping up with the Jones', is something that most people at least consider. Kids Party 'does not favor bagsbe expensive, as such, but must prove that thinking.

The support group of kids bags - the bags themselves - should not be shiny, complicated or expensive. Most shops sell stationery bag with handles, those durable enough for a reasonable price. Like what you put in them - well, that depends on you, on the theme of your party and your budget. For a children's party there are many ideas gift bag can be used to fill this simple gift bags.

Thinkthe theme of the party. Pulling one out of thin air, let's go for "football". If the kids attending the party are interested in football, then they will be glad to receive some football theme filled party favor bags - a squishy, foam-rubber ball, perhaps, or a figurine depicting a player. If the theme is something else, such as "horses", then the gifts can again be themed towards that subject. There are temporary tattoos, sticker sheets, bubbles, and even fun, inexpensive craft kits that would all be great party favor ideas for kids. The party itself should not be about the gifts or the bags, but the gift bags should accentuate the occasion.

One thing that can make kids' party gift bags stand out is the way they are presented. You can buy them plain and then decorate them - indeed, this shows a welcome personal touch. Depending on how you have chosen the gifts, you may even personalize the contents and the exterior of the bag for each kid. If, for example, it is a football related party, you can draw the logo of their favorite team on the bag (ask your kid to find this information out, or squeeze the kid's parents for info). The more thoughtful the gifts, the better. And every child who receives a party favor bag will leave the party happy as can be.