Scotch® Brand sets a new trend—Rabbit style tape dispenser

Scotch® Brand launches its one of a kind Rabbit Dispenser as the latest addition to their tape dispenser portfolio.

An essential home and office tool, the Scotch® Rabbit Dispenser is designed with a sleek shape, pointed rabbit ears, and comes in four fun colors– pink, white, teal, and black. Its lightweight, stable base and secure blade makes organizing convenient, safe and mess-free. One of the product’s functional features is that it is manageable to refill with the invisible and easy-to-cut Scotch® Magic™ Tape which then helps busy moms, dedicated teachers and students stay organized with style.

“We see that the youth and young professionals have grown to be more expressive in their creativity and individuality, that is why 3M Philippines always comes up with innovative products that meet both personal and functional needs of our market,” says Haydee Casapao, Stationery and Office Supplies Division Head.


Each pack of the Rabbit Dispenser contains 1 Scotch® Magic ™ Tape Rabbit Dispenser and 2 rolls of Scotch® Magic™ Tape 18mm x 15m. The stylish and economically efficient Scotch® Magic ™ Tape Rabbit Dispenser is now available in major bookstores and office superstores nationwide.

3M and Scotch® are trademarks of 3M.

I'll Start My Year Right with 3M!

When I received an invite for "Bloggers Lunch Tour" at 3M that includes discussion on budgeting tips and starting a year right, I replied with a big Yes! A big YES because I want to start my year 2012 right with 3M.


Before the event started, Rika Sophia Kamibayashi, Training & Communications Corporate Marketing & Public Affairs Manager gave us a brief history of 3M and their products.

3M was launched in 1902 in the Lake Superior town of Two Harbors, Minnesota. Five businessmen set out to mine a mineral deposit for grinding wheel abrasives but they came up with focusing on sandpaper products when they discovered that mining deposits were a little value.

Today 3M operates companies in more than 65 countries and manufactures and sells products in over 200 countries. In the Philippines, 3M was established in 1964 with now over 200 employees nationwide with its local office located in McKinley Hill, Fort Bonifacio and two satellite offices located in Cebu and Davao.

3M employs about 80,000 people worldwide.



3M captures the spark of new ideas and transforms them into thousands of ingenious products. The company's culture of creative collaboration inspires a never ending stream of powerful technologies that make life better. 3M is the innovation company that never stops inventing.

See the photo above. Here's a little trivia. The first man to set foot on the moon has 3M adhesives in his shoes.


How to start right 2012 with 3M.

New Year is all about beginnings - looking forward to what's in store for us in the coming year. but the New Year is also about looking back and reflecting on the changes we want to make.

As a blogger, the first in my list, of course aside from one of my resolutions and that is to have a healthy sleeping pattern is to be more organized this coming 2012. My workstation needs to be organized. Posting what I need to do and what I need to accomplish for the day should be listed down and stick to and should be accomplished in a day. I have joined before Post-it Notes meme and I hope it helps also in reality by posting down right in my computer reminders for some tasks and other projects need to be done.

3M in my life.

Honestly, I only know one clear tape and never in my whole life did I call it tape or clear tape. I'm sure you do too. We all call the clear tape as Scotch Tape. There is only one Scotch Tape that I use and never thought of it as a brand. Actually, Scotch Tape is a brand of 3M. It just simply lives in our lives. Scotch Tape, that is!

I am truly amazed with all the 3M products but what amazed me more is the Scotch Reusable Mounting Products. You can use it again and again. Amazing isn't it? This is just unbelievable but it's true and you can just wash it with soapy water and rinse and air dry and then ready to use again, again, again and again.


Scotch Reusable Mounting products are ideal for use on most flat surfaces, including stainless steel, plastic, concrete, glass, wood and painted walls. For best results, it is recommended to clean the wall-surface.

Scotch Reusable Mounting Products are now available in all National Book Store outlets nationwide. It will be soon available in SM Supplies Station Department, SM Hypermarket, SM Supermarket, Save More, Ace Hardware. Ace Express, True Value, Handyman Hardware and Office Warehouse.

3M Tour

We were lucky to have a tour inside Customer Technical Center. Technical Service Engineer - Consumer & Office Business Emerson John G. Tiu Ng toured us around and showed us the product lines of 3M and new formulas and how the products are being developed.


And here are the other photos inside the area where you can see all the products of 3M!



3M Businesses

Consumer and Office Business, Display and Graphics Business, Electro and Communications Business, Health Care Business, Industrial and Transportation Business and Safety, Security and Protection Services Business.


These bloggers are lucky enough to have been apart of 3M tour. They, not only learned more about 3M products but also learned more tips on how to be more organized this coming year 2012 and I was one of the lucky bloggers too.


One of the games we had was picking what's the genuine Post-it. Few came up with the correct answer. It is very simple to identify what's the real Post-it. Post-it is tidy and clean, never bends and it conforms.

Our Fashion Style Workstation. We made our workstation as organized as we can using 3M products but we ended up to 3rd place out of 3 groups.

More of 3M Products

During the press conference, bloggers were given a chance to ask more about 3M products. Bloggers ask more about new 3M inventions and the new Scotch Reusable Mounting Products.

Do you have any test reports on the strength of Scotch Reusable Mounting Products? The weight that the products can hold?

The maximum weight is 1lb and it is positioned for lightweight mounting/securing. The reusable feature has been tested and the product is useable for more than 10 times.



For more information, please visit:

Website: www.3M.com/ph
Twitter: @3MNews

rush invitation

At last, we're finally done with the invitation card. When we started this invitation, I thought it was a tiring job but it's not. We spent almost overnight for printing, cutting, putting ribbon and some finishing touch. We used the combination of pastel peach, powder blue and light blue for the materials. So here's what you will need in making invitation card and the sample computation for 80 pieces.

Materials needed: cutting board, cutter, scissors, puncher, ruler

specialty board 40 pcs (10 pcs at P45.50, roughly $1) $4
specialty paper 80 pcs (10pcs/pack at P25.00) $4
ribbon $1
envelope 5pcs/pack at P20.oo (P20 x 16pack=P320) $7

Estimated cost = P700 roughly $16. These are only my estimated prize. The cost may vary depending on the material you will use. Specialty board is best for invitation and business cards. Now, I'm publishing this to advertise our product. You may contact me at my email address should you need any rush invitation card. Half kidding! lol. I just want to share the product of our eye bags.

I Need Ink

Okay, finally my two nieces started to design the invitation cards. I'll show you the photos of them later when they finish the product. They are planning to invite at least 70 guests for the birthday. They just started the layout and edited the design and I guess it will take few hours or overnight to get it done. They completed the list of eighteen candles and eighteen roses. Oh my! It seems like they're going to invite the whole community for that grand event and if they print all of those, it will consume much of the ink. Now if I buy cheap ink cartridges and just have it refilled in the store when emptied, then I would be able to save money from printing. Oh well, it is even better, it costs less and gives sense of accomplishment for the effort they exerted. Also, it helps them enhance the creativity inside them and besides printing time would not take them three days of waiting but just count few hours from now and it's done!

school supplies

We were supposed to go out to buy more supplies for my kids but my older daughter came home so tired from school. I let her rest for a while but then she fell in deep sleep. She needs to buy more things for school. School days just started and so we expect more expenses to come this week. Aside from the list that was given to them before the start of schoolyear, we still need to buy more school supplies like index card, manual for Laboratory Science and some drafting materials. Other supplies like printer ink will be purchased online. I think it is cheaper to buy direct at the website, besides I can choose different ink of high quality brand if I purchase it online. Being mom, I need to be smart in buying things for my kids. Days are getting harder today. I have to eliminate buying unnecessary things that are not really important and allocate the money that I saved to other school projects and activities in the future. Are you done with your list too? Here's my school supplies shopping tips for all moms out there. Do your shopping in the most earliest time to avoid the rush and long lines; and shop and compare between two stores and get the best offer, most affordable and discounted price.

smart buyer

We're planning to go out tomorrow to buy more supplies since we only have six days or more for school opening. My children agreed to eliminate shopping of unnecessary stuff and shop only those that are really needed for school. Other school things like school shoes and bags were the ones they used last year and that's fine with them. They understand that days are getting harder and this is just part of our cost cutting measure. My teenage girl likes to buy more books rather than any other stuff and I think that's good for her. She's a bookworm. The only supplies that we bought the last time went out malling were pens, pencils and notebooks. I'm glad that my children were not after for material things and they're happy and satisfied only with what they have.

I bought ink last month but I think it is already empty. My little girl used to print pictures straight from the camera and that consumes much of the ink. Anyways, I'll check it online and see more available supplies. I'm a smart buyer and I always look for ink price comparison to help me choose quality and affordable product. I think I need to remind my children to just have the pictures printed in photo shop to save enough ink so that they can use it for their school project instead. Be a smart mom too, compare the prices first before you finally place your order online.