Retail Therapy: That's what friends are for!

I'm so excited! I just attended a scrapbooking fundraiser for our local Memorial Library this weekend with my mom and several friends. It definitely renewed my interest in scrapbooking. One of my friends, Amy, had an amazing Canon Selphy ES30 photo printer that doesn't require ink!!! The paper is thermal, so the photo is essentially burned onto the paper. It basically did one color layer at a time and the end product was amazing! It was much better quality than any of the one hour photo pictures I have purchased.

I knew instantly that I had to have one. She told us they were around $99 on Amazon.com. I couldn't wait to get home to check it out. I love to find a bargain and my mom gave me the goal to come home and find it as cheap as possible. I was shocked to find out they were on sale for $50. I had $15 in Amazon gift cards from SwagBucks and $54+ in my fun/bow money and $2.53 in Amazon Rewards, so I only actually paid $5.66 for the printer and a 100-pack of paper!!!

By the way, if you aren't using SwagBucks, you should be. There is nothing better than free stuff. For me, it's Amazon gift cards! Here's a referral link if you need one: http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/Marlana

Now, I cannot wait until school is out to start playing with it!!! Shipping was free for standard, so I went with the cheapest. It will take longer to get, but it will be sooo worth it because I wouldn't have purchased it if it hadn't been a bargain. :)

For those of you who are thinking how expensive it will be to print the photos, I live about 20 minutes one-way from the nearest photo developing center, so this printer will be perfect for my scrapbook photos that I need to only print a few at a time. I will continue to get the inexpensive deals for my regular photos at Walgreens. ;)