First Time Mom and Losing It

**I received the product below free for my review. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be a good fit for my readers. All opinions are 100% my own.


For as long as I can remember I always loved crafting with printables. I started designing graphics and custom made all of the decorations and souvenirs for my sister's baby shower. I remember trying to do everything on a budget so I made everything myself instead of ordering from custom websites. Everything was coming along until I ran out of ink! Not only the black cartridge but the color one too. Back then cartridges were about 35 bucks each so buying that ink really set me back in my budget. Since then I started to only print what was extremely necessary like coupons and confirmations and only printed on the draft setting.


Now that I am homeschooling my toddler I saw the tremendous need to start printing again so HP Instant Ink came to the rescue! There are a lot of great homeschooling websites and pins that I wanted to print them all! With HP Instant Ink I #NeverRunOut of ink and I can print them all! With HP Instant Ink you are saving up to 50% on ink by having your HP Instant Ink eligible printer know when it is running out of ink and signaling a shipment of new ink right to your door. Instant Ink is extremely affordable too with packages ranging from $2.99 to $9.99 depending on how many pages you print monthly. I love that Instant Ink counts the number of pages you print and not what you print. You can print out all full-page photos if you wanted and it would still be the same price.
HP Instant Ink can be cancelled at any time and there is no annual fee however there is a really great 3-month offer.



I like to use our long car rides as fun learning time so I created these booklets that I could print and just take along with us. Making them is simple. All you have to do is print each page out and sew a long line of stitching to bind them. If you don't have a sewing machine you can just use a stapler.

Title Page
Colors Page
Letters Page
Numbers Page
Shapes Page
Coloring Pages

If you never ran out of ink, what would you print? 

**I was invited to both events talked about below. All opinions are 100% my own.


I had the pleasure of attending two events in Times Square, NYC last Sunday and Monday! Although I live in NYC I don't travel deep into the city much so it was nice to have an excuse to go. First up with the HP MyPrintly event at the beautiful DoubleTree Suites.


First we got to sit at the crafting table to craft away and get some frames ready for all of the pictures we would be printing. There were tons of fabulous HP printers for a day of wireless and unlimited printing! Next up was the Cupcake Decorating Station. There I created a cupcake for the toddler to enjoy the next morning. I am so happy the to-go boxes did their job and the cupcake traveled nicely back to the Bronx on the subway.


Then we got up to mingle with other blogging moms and a few dads to check out the amazing new products that HP had coming out. HP Instant Ink is a monthly subscription service where they automatically ship out ink to you once your printer indicates that ink is low. How cool is that to have unlimited ink!


HP is also coming out with this amazing printable photo paper with a sticky back so you don't even need a frame to hang it up. Just print, peel off the backing and stick on the wall! The sticky part doesn't ruin your wall and easily comes off. Two apps you should be downloading right now is the HP Cards app and the  app. The HP cards app is a super easy and fast way to create a photo greeting cards and send to print it out right from your phone. With the   you can print out all of the pictures from your connected social media accounts like Instagram. One of the coolest new feature of some of the HP printers is the ability to print out pictures automatically from specific hashtags you set!


Monday morning was the Disney Social Media Moms on the Road in NYC event. It was a half day conference that was located in the beautiful New Amsterdam theater right in the heart of Times Square. Right now Disney's Aladdin is performing there so it was amazing to see all of the decorations and even the Genie lamp!



At the conference we got to mingle with other amazing Disney loving moms. We first got to learn about all of the amazing new things that are happening at the Disney Parks. They are doing different campaigns and events to let everyone know that Disney Parks can be enjoyed by every age! I was under the impression that for a kid to enjoy Disney fully they had to be at least 5 years old. That is definitely not the case with fun things for toddlers and even babies to do now.

I was also excited to hear that the Disney Cruise Lines will begin embarking from NYC again in October of this year. They will also be showing a Disney Princess Rapunzel Broadway show during the Disney Cruise Lines too.
After learning about the new happenings at the Disney Parks and Disney Cruise Line we got to learn tips from some amazing speakers on how to better our brand and interactions with our readers. I learned a lot so I hope to make my blog a better experience for you guys.  Lastly, we got a private tour of the New Amsterdam Theater. It was pretty cool to learn all of the history of this beautifully old theater. We even got to go to the prop room to try one some on!