A thread most especially for MrsF and CT......(sshhhh, it's about laminators)

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Okay - I've decided it is time. I need to get one. I've been resisting the lure of a hot pouch for a few months now but I have finally succummed.

So where is the best (i.e. cheapest) place to get one of these addictive beasts?

Ohhhh, stationery.... I'm obsessed with the stuff. As yet I don't possess a laminator, but I think I might soon And labelling too! Fantastic!

(Is it OK to laminate my own drawings till DS is old enough to do some of his own? I am truly stationery obsessed!)

I love stationery. Notepads and notebooks are my particular weaknesses.

I love the sound of the label maker. How much was it? Dh has been drooling over one in Colmans but it was £45. Are there cheaper ones around?

Yes! Notebooks! With shiny covers that look like you could fill them with promising ideas and interesting revelations.

I have lots of empty ones But they're pretty!

That's me! Lots of potential uses for them but then when you get them home it seems such a shame to spoil them by writing in them.

Coppertop, that's just it! Lovely empty pages, too good to be spoiled by my scrawl

hand held label thingy? Tell me more Davros- please

DS1 is a real laminator fan- he can spend hours helping me laminate. I hate the cutting up and fiddling with velcro afterwards though (for PECS this is).

I spotted a cheap laminator somewhere the other day (somerfield??) Was stunned as my "cheap" one must have been bought about the same time as Davros' and was 70 quid.

The labelling machine was about £20. You usually get some tapes with it. You can get more expensive ones but this one serves my purposes.
Now to make you all jealous! I've got a little gadget that a friend brought back from the USA. Its a little corner cutter, you know the ones Lakeland do that make a cut out butterfly or flower etc? This one only does rounding of laminated corners! Haven't seen this in the UK, just those patterny ones.

I keep a look out for the corner cutters in my card making "circles. Never thought of that before!I usually just round the corners off with scissors!
I am using some memory games ATM both to encourage dd's speech and to stimulate memory function. I have drawn a cats face, about the size of a small plate, with a huge, cheeky grinning mouth, which I have cut out and laminated. I get dd to feed the cat by posting food picture cards through it's mouth, she loves it. Each time she feeds the cat she says,,"yum yum yum!"

I have a laminator and a labeller and a corner-rounder thingy all of them from before I even had a child, which must be maximum sadness. Made me v. popular among my friends for customized luggage tags though (laminator even came with a free package of luggage tag pouches). The corner-rounder came from my local Japanese stationery store -- the card making ones were all too fancy, they did elegant stepped corners and the like instead of just rounding.

Thanks to whoever posted the certificate maker site - we made certificates for dd1's and ds1's teachers to present them at the end of term today and they went down very well - tears in the eyes, even!
I have a simple corner cutter thingy too - got it from a friend who runs her own little business doing photo album things for/with people - Creative Memories, I think it's called.