We told you about Duck Brand gaffers tape scholarship contest a few weeks ago in a posting on one of our other blogs. This contest offered scholarships to high school students who designed prom wear from duct tape. Duck Brand duct tape has announced the winners of its “Stuck At The Prom” scholarship contest. Click […]
These are definitely worth sharing. The online version of the British paper The Daily Mail posted these photos of sculptures made from clear carton sealing tape. Look at the pictures and then give it a try. You can get the carton sealing tape by clicking here. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s […]
Amy Winter, a librarian in Mentor, OH, is running a summer activities program where she shows kids how to use duct tape to make craft items. Using duct tape to make handy items like wallets and book covers is not really new, but the name of Ms. Winter’s program certainly is. She calls it “Ductivities”. […]
The Hall of Fame Weekend celebration at the Baseball Hall of Fame gave a “tip of the hat” to masking tape. Ex-New York Yankee Ron Blomberg explained that he had always put a piece of white masking tape on his batting helmet for luck. Read the story here. Click here to get your own good luck. […]
Animal lovers in Boise, ID used duct tape and a swimming pool skimmer to rescue some baby ducklings trapped in a storm sewer. Using a stick with duct tape on the end and the pool skimmer, the rescuers were able to unite the ducklings with mom. Click here for a link to the story. […]
“Some Assembly Required” at engineering.com, one of our favorite “do it yourself” web sites, shows you how to make your own hovercraft, one with enough power to actually move you over the ground. As you might have guessed, it will require a lot of duct tape. click here to watch a “how to” video. […]
St. Louis Today reports that a tiny piece of clear adhesive tape that came back from the moon with Neil Armstrong covered with moon dust has been reclaimed by NASA before it was set to be auctioned off later in the month. The tape was purportedly stolen by a NASA employee, sold to a collector […]
Not so long ago, achieving the title of Miss America was about as good as it got for American girls. Not anymore. Teresa Scanlan, the reigning Miss America, and the youngest in 90 years, is ready to compete for the title she really wants. Miss Duct Tape! Scanlan heads to Ohio for the 8th Annual […]
While we’re on the subject (breast taping, what else?), apparently there is a product called called fashion tape that is designed to prevent that embarrassing ” nip slip”. Not sure exactly what this stuff is, but we’ll do some research and get back to you. This Cosmo article seems like a good place to start. […]
We’re always on the lookout for new tape uses, but this one caught us off guard. It appears that singer Katy Perry got more than she wished for when she prayed for larger breasts and ending up using gaffers tape to hide her new assets. She shared her story in Rolling Stone and you can […]