Mike gets odd gifts from vendors trying to sell things, usually they aren't much, and we give them to my dad or whatever. Of course my favorite was Seattle's Best. They gave him a BUNCH of stuff. Including coffee.
Anyway, one of them he pulled out earlier that I hadn't seen yet was a memo pad holder. Simple thing, pretty cheap actually, I don't recall which company and wouldn't say anyway. Convenient yes. But CHEAP. Plastic over cardboard. I can do plastic over cardboard!!!
I have TAPE!
It's got slots for business cards, and a little loop of elastic to hold a pen, no snap/hook and loop tape closure like most of my notebooks have now, and I've done a refillable holder or two already, which I thought I posted here. I didn't.
( looky here )The one Mike had was vertically oriented and had one of those little "scratch" pads in it. Dirt cheap it is. The paper reminds me of that *awful* stuff my high school typing class had.
I asked him if he would use one if I made him one, he said yes, but he can't promise he won't lose it, heck, I KNOW that. He's as good at losing things as I am.
EDIT: 4 that are perfect, 4 more that are just a bit small but have great magnification, 4 more large, weak magnification, but nifty, and 8 double convex lenses that make things smaller. I forget the name of that sort of lense, but THOSE I can use for suncatchers/pendants.
Also!!! GOT the box from Edmunds Scientific. I ordered the Bag of Lenses for myself. Gotta say.. very happy with them, even compared to Science and Surplus. The thing I LIKE about Science and Surplus is when they have them, you get all one kind, but sometimes a small size. I got some from ES that are only going to be good for gluing stuff on and turning into necklaces that way, but the magnifying ones!! They are larger and thinner, and 5 of them have a truly decent amount of magnification. (I haven't checked all of them yet) So even if I only count the 5 I *know* are completely usable for what I use them for
( clicky here to see )they only cost 2 dollars each. (the bag was 10) AND they are glass. I've priced magnifying lenses. I do so frequently, and usually that cheap they are plastic. Plus I'd have to break the frames to make them usable for necklaces.
OH I'm happy.
-Shala
PS.. another edit.. I'll happily traded one beaded magnifier pendant for a Bag of Prisms, a Bag of Magnets, and a Bag of Optical Components. I know.. they don't have the prisms in stock. Darnit it all.
Click here. Colors and chain length would of course be of your choosing.