A few weeks ago I was invited to HP’s Internet Week After Hours Soiree to check out some of their new products. Some lovely fellow bloggers, friends and we were able to try out their new HP Photosmart e-All-in-One printers (Liz even won one for her mother!). I was able to print up high quality photos that I had uploaded to my Snapfish account via the color TouchSmart display. It even has a wireless option, where you can print from another PC in the home or from your smart phone using using HP ePrint. 
We were also introduced to HP Creative Studio, which offers bookmarks, flash cards, and mini journals to keep you on track and record special memories from the year. With each purchase of HP’s Multipurpose Paper, Everyday Photo Paper or Advanced Photo Paper, parents can create their own collage from the Disney Print Center presented by HP. www.disney.com/printmagic.
HP’s brand, Snapfish, also has a variety of printing options for gifts and such that they offer. Back-to-school items like personalized Photo Notebooks and Photo Desk Organizers are also great as both parent and grandparent gifts. We always send something photo personalized to our parents now that we live so far away from everyone. It’s always a nice touch! I’ve been quite impressed with the print quality of the pictures that I upload online as well, even the iPhone photos.
WIN IT:
I’m happy to offer one of my readers (have you subscribed?!) a $50 gift certificate to be used online at Snapfish.com. To enter, just leave a comment telling me one aspect that you find handy about the HP Photosmart e-All-in-One printers or Snapfish’s plethora of personalized products.
One entry per person, please. Contest ends at midnight on Tuesday, August 24th. Good luck!
UPDATE! WINNER CHOSEN via Random.org:
PB and Jazz!! Congratulations and thank you to everyone that entered!
This past weekend feels like a blur. It’s now Thursday, incredibly, and a week has past since the craziness of BlogHer ’10 started.
I had a great time. I had wonderful room mates at the Hilton, and made some great friends and memories. I even got to spend some time (not enough) with one of my closest friends, Sue, who inspired me to start this blog.
Loukia of LouLou's Views and Me
There were some chest-tighteningly-beautiful moments, ones that made the whole weekend worth it.
Grown women wearing bright, beautiful tutu’s and big smiles all in the name of one boy who needs a little lift (and maybe a miracle).
Women that had lost children and husbands and parts of themselves, some of whom weren’t afraid to share their stories and heartbreak out loud, in front of hundreds of faces at the conference.
I cried, then laughed, then cried harder, then laughed harder at the Voices of the Year Ceremony.
I made dear friends that couldn’t have been more lovely, wonderful, and real.
Emily, Design Her Momma
Adam Avitable
Casey, Moosh in Indy
My friends here in the city threw some fabulous, rockin’ parties and I couldn’t seem to make it to all of them. I even ate McDonald’s. At night. At a party (those who know me know this is rare).
Aimee Giese, Greeblemonkey
I got carsick in cabs with out-of-townies, and even that was fun. I’m usually sick in cabs by myself.
Some of us ventured out to the Meatpacking District to get fancy on the roof of the Gansevoort Hotel. How there are no pictures of this night, I’ll never know. Later on we met up with more friends for an unforgettable-and fantastic-night of karaoke.
Update! Found the link to Maria’s video of karaoke. Awesome.
That, to me, is the magic of BlogHer.
There wasn’t nearly enough time to see everything or meet everyone that I had wanted to. It felt like a really incredible first date, and then BlogHer ’11 called for a second date.
I’m in.
*I took only two photos the entire time I was at the conference, and I took them on the bus tour that I hosted with New York City Mama. I didn’t want to lug around the DSLR with the 75′ lens, so I relied on my friends. If I didn’t LOVE to take pictures, I’d do this more often!
The building building that the one in "Friends" was modeled after. Think "Central Perk".
View from the tour bus
Mother, dental school widow, fashionista. Suburban transplant adapting to life in Manhattan and loving it.
