Archive for February, 2009
Great Lashes in a Blinc
As an Asian woman, I have the great fortune of being blessed with incredibly straight hair. Unfortunately, this also applies to my incredibly straight lashes. In fact, they’re more than straight. They actually grow in a downward direction. So needless to say, the eye lash curler and I have grown to become close friends. We’re [...]
The K-Cup Challenge: Coffee People Cowboy Coffee
Once my life’s mission, it’s been over a month since my last K-Cup Challenge post (this sort of feels like a confession). I’m sure my friend’s over at Shoffee.com (the guys who hooked me up with my latest round of samples) are wondering just what the heck is going on over here at Qwowi.com. Metaphorically [...]
Getting Organized with Spice Stack
The kitchen is one of my favorite rooms in the house. If we ever remodel the space, I’d spring for the taller cabinets in order to maximize storage. You can never have too much storage right? For the cabinets I have, I like to keep them organized. I have bins, baskets, and other accessories [...]
Qwowi Golf Review: Hands On With the uPro GPS from Callaway
If you’ve checked out Qwowi’s golf section at all before, you’ve probably already read at least one of my numerous posts about the uPro Golf GPS (recently acquired by Callaway). I’ve had my eye on the uPro since it was announced almost a year ago. My take from day 1 has been that the uPro’s [...]
Custom Framing with Real Memories
I am definitely guilty of taking tons of digital pictures but never actually printing anything out. We all do it. We have memory cards full of birthdays, weddings, vacations, and miscellaneous shots of dogs on laundry…okay maybe the last one only applies to me. I’ve actually gone so far as to sort my pictures in [...]
Qwowi’s 2009 Golf Gear Guide: Final Thoughts and the Dream Bag
As the sun sets on the 2009 Golf Guide, you’d think that after writing 14 days worth of content (not including today) and well over 30,000 words I’d be completely over the whole golf thing. Instead I find myself looking forward to this season more so than any other to date. I’ve got a lot [...]
Qwowi’s 2009 Golf Gear Guide: Women’s Gear
I hadn’t actually planned on devoting a day’s worth of the 2009 Gear Guide to women’s golf, but the number of responses I got to my product inquiries from the makers of gear for women was so tremendous, I figured I’d throw a section together or the ladies. After all, how hard could it [...]
Qwowi’s 2009 Golf Gear Guide: Putters
With no club in the bag does a golfer have more choices than he (or she) does with the putter. Pretty much every major manufacturer produces a line of putters. There are countless specialty companies as well. And then, of course, there is the little guy who is hoping to score the next big [...]
Qwowi’s 2009 Golf Gear Guide: Fitness, Nutrition, and Training
In a perfect world, fitness, nutrition, and training would have each gotten an entire day devoted to it, but this is already day 13 of the guide, and if I’m being honest, I just don’t have it in me. I’m tired. I could easily devote an entire website to golf training products and never [...]
Qwowi’s 2009 Golf Gear Guide: Wedges
I love wedges. They are, without hesitation, my favorite clubs (though I love the big dog too). Those who had the pleasure of watching me learn the game (which involved more than few bladed shots back and forth across greens), might wonder if I’m a glutton for punishment. I have gotten better with my wedges (although [...]
Qwowi’s 2009 Golf Gear Guide: Golf Balls
You can’t play the game without a ball. And there sure are plenty of them on the market. If I spent just 20 minutes looking around I could probably come up with over 100 different golf balls spread out between nearly as many manufacturers. But here we are at the end of week 2 [...]
Qwowi’s 2009 Golf Gear Guide: Sunshine and Rain
Before I say anything else about the multitude of products designed to protect you and your gear from the elements, let me first say this; 2009 is a big year for umbrellas. Yeah… I know. Umbrellas aren’t the sexiest pieces of gear you’ll find on the golf course. They’re not as much fun as [...]
Qwowi’s 2009 Golf Guide: Irons
As we get closer to winding down week 2 of my Golf Gear Guide, I hope you’ll forgive me the indulgence of a little rant. As much as I love playing golf, trying new clubs, and even writing this guide, I hate, loathe, and despise (yes I know those words all pretty much mean [...]
Love Notes by Making Memories
I love “love” paper. Who can resist the beautiful colors and sentiments? But it can be hard to find love paper that isn’t, well, cutesy – or just too limited to Valentine’s Day. I mean, unless you are making Valentine’s Day cards for everyone in your child’s class, who really needs dozens of papers that say [...]
Qwowi’s 2009 Golf Gear Guide: Golf Bags
Shopping for a golf bag can be a bit daunting. Sure, some guys will just grab the first bag they find with their favorite logo on it, but guys like me, we agonize over the decision. Do we want a stand bag or a cart bag? Can we justify both? How many pockets to we [...]
Qwowi’s 2009 Golf Gear Guide: Hybrids
As you may recall from the fairway section of the golf guide, I said that fairway woods were generally uninteresting clubs. A good bit of the reason for that is the emergence of hybrid clubs. Hybrids have found their way into an increasing number of golfer’s bags as replacements, not only for hard to hit [...]
Qwowi’s 2009 Golf Gear Guide: Footwear
Here’s what I don’t understand; guys will spend $400 on a driver, $400 more on fairway woods, $1000 on irons, $300 more on wedges, $100+ on a putter. They’ll spend $150+ on a bag, $40 for a dozen golf balls, and then, for reasons that completely defy logic, $60 on a pair of golf [...]
Qwowi’s 2009 Golf Gear Guide: Fairway Woods
Fairway woods are boring, and I’m not talking about trajectory. Let’s face it, Fairway woods just aren’t that interesting. The technology doesn’t seem to advance like it does for drivers, and when there is actually something new, it’s usually hand-me-down technology from the big stick. In nearly all cases the fairway wood is very much [...]
Qwowi’s 2009 Golf Gear Guide: On Course Accessories
On course accessory…how’s that for a broad description? For the purposes of my taxonomy, I’m defining it as any thing you might keep in your golf bag, that isn’t the bag itself, not a club or a ball, and doesn’t have anything to do with protecting yourself from the sun, or the rain (that comes [...]
Qwowi’s 2009 Golf Gear Guide: Golf Apparel
The apparel section of our 2009 Golf Guide is a first for Qwowi. In years past I may have mentioned the very occasional article of clothing, but mostly I pretended we were all golfing naked. Since the apparel market is such a HUGE part of the golf industry, this year I figured covering apparel in a [...]
Qwowi’s 2009 Golf Gear Guide: Drivers
As I mentioned in my introductory post, this year’s Golf Gear Guide will be a bit different from years past. Instead of breaking the guide down by manufacturer, I’ve decided to do it by category. I made the change for a couple of reasons. Firstly, my hope is it will allow me to include products [...]
February is Golf Month at Qwowi.com
That’s right, February is golf month here at Qwowi.com. Starting on the 2nd, and running for 3 straight weeks we’ll be featuring golf, golf, and more golf. Unlike most of what we do here, the Golf Gear Guide isn’t a collection of product reviews (those come later…after the snow melts), but it does offer a [...]
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