Product: Scanmarker
Seller: http://scanmarker.com/pen-scanner/
Rating: 5+ Stars
Price: $80ish USD
Made possible: discount from the makers

Features: 
 --Ultra-fast scanning
--Accurate text & number recognition
--Works with any application
--Integrated text-to-speech recognition
--Translates words and full sentences in over 40 languages
--Barcode recognition

Okay so I have had this for about a month. It is amazing and I really cant express it enough. Whether you like typing or not, there is no point to type something which has been nice and typed already! 

If you have anything that needs to be re-typed (quotes, lyrics, a lab procedure, etc etc) this is exactly what you need. It scans things perfectly right into your document or page!

Its a very sleek clean tool with no buttons or ways to mess up. Hold it like a highlighter and scan, scan, scan! 

Cons: The program takes a few hours to install on a computer when you first get it. After that, I know this will last years and years and save sooo much time and hassle. 

Listen to what I have to say in this short clip: 

As always, this review can be found in the reviews catagory in the left sidebar :)

Sorry, I was hoping to have this written and published weeks ago...I feel so bad about it, but a short review it is. Where did March go???

Title: Raspberry Kisses
Author:  Cecelia Dowdy 
Publication Date: December 4th 2014 
Rating: 4 Stars (In English: “It Was Quite Good”)

Synopsis: 
Facing eviction, Rhea Morrison, a young grieving widow, must save her failing bakery. Her 
recently-injured twin sister, Raven, loans her money – stipulating Rhea attend a singles retreat to spy on Martin Lane, Raven’s new love interest. Disgruntled, Rhea attends the retreat and is attracted to Martin. She discovers that Martin can help save her bakery. 

Pastor Martin laments over his secret, traumatic past mistakes. He’s destined to lead his father’s church, despite blatant rejection. He can’t love Rhea - he’s yet to forgive himself for his past, and if Rhea knew how he used to be, she would have no interest in pursuing a relationship with him. In spite of their shared attraction, he helps Rhea form a plan to save her business. Martin, a former successful bakery owner, can expertly create delicious pastry recipes. 

Rhea feels torn about her attraction to Martin – he’s a pastor, and after her husband’s death, she vowed to never get involved with another pastor. Plus, her twin sister, Raven, has strong feelings for Martin. Can Rhea let herself have romantic feelings for Martin – knowing it would hurt her sister? 

Can Martin and Rhea overcome their past so that they’re free to love again? 

My Review: 

What drew me into this book was that the characters were real. None of this "just romance" than I first was afraid I had gotten myself into based on the nice and mushy cover.....

No, this book covers grief, self esteem challenges, financial setbacks, wanting relationships. etc.  Marvin speaks Spanish well enough that he is able to have a largely Hispanic congregation and give opportunity to those that otherwise would not be as successful in the English culture here.

The book was a collage of weighty conflicts of realistc people and realistic lives... but it also took time to describe some pretty rockin' desserts, lol. Gotta love good food :)

I would say that my favorite part of reading this book (although I have to say I loved that it was a quick read and its quite inexpensive) was that the characters were largely unknowing of what was going on around them. It was great fun to anticipate how these things would play out!

All in all, I read it easily in an afternoon and can easily rate this book to be a solid 4 Stars.If you get a free afternoon this spring, you really should look into it. 

I can recommend it to everyone and anyone, and specifically to those that are into realistic fiction and/or struggling with new beginnings after any sort of challenge.  If you are interested, you can read a sample of the book here as well as purchase the book from Amazon in the Kindle Edition. It is not currently available in Paperback or Hardcover. 

Kindle Edition: http://amzn.to/1bWuoWp

*** Cost: $0.99 ***

Cecelia Dowdy writes "I'm a Christian fiction romance author with books published by three major houses: Steeple Hill/Love Inspired, Barbour, and Crossings Book Club"

Her website is: http://ceceliadowdy.com/

This review was provided (although not additionally sponsored) by the author.

SALE UPDATE: Until April 3, all orders will come with 10% to 40% credit. You can double these!!! 



Overpriced clothing is annoying.

Have you ever been shopping, say at the mall, and you see this pair of cute shoes you like in a window, and hey, they're on sale so, what have you got to loose... Lets go take a look, you tell yourself. 

But when you go in, you see that they're $175 on sale for $95. 

It's a huge sale, sure, but still: way. too. expensive. 

And all of a sudden you're uber-mad at the store for being so overpriced..... . Because you really liked that pair of shoes, or handbag, or pair of sunglasses, or dress, or whatever it was. And do they think money grows on trees???

And here is the solution: Twice. 

Twice is an online discount store that snags all the high- end goodies and gives them to you at a fraction of the cost. 

At first, I was interested in a similar site ThreadUp but I recommend Twise 10x over ThreadUp because ThreadUp is merely a online yard sale (update:they call it a online thrift store) and although they have a greater spectrum of things they sell -they also sell baby clothes, outerwear, and such- most of the time you get a lot less quality because of "Tiny Flaws" which include spots, stains,  missing accessories/ buttons, and cracks (as with a pair of boots I pulled up) You can't see anything on their site before creating an account by handing over your email address and a password so I won't waste any more of your time, enough said. You've been warned about them. 

Ahem. Anyway.....And like BJs, there are always sales on Twice. Yesterday is was 10% off but convieniently it ended at midnight yesterday. 


UPDATE: Until April 3, all orders will come with 10% to 40% credit. You can double these!!! 

If yousign up with me, I'll give you $10 credit to get you started. Deal? Deal. 

If you sell something from the back of your closet, they'll pay you for it (and for shipping) 

And I'll give you $10 more. 

Yeah. It's pretty cool. I happen to really like Twice and the steals they have. 

Let me show you what I ordered last

Sadly I had to pay shipping, making my total 4.95 more, because the subtotal wasnt enough... I'll live though. 

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