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Paperstone team raise £71 for charity by homebaking!

By Paperstone on 4 March 2014 in Charity, Food, Fun, Office Life with 0 Comments
Paperstone team raise £71 for charity by homebaking!

Staff at the Paperstone office got into the swing of things today by bringing in an array of homemade cakes, muffins, patties and other delightful edibles. This was in support of Dementia UK’s Time For A Cuppa fundraising initiative to raise awareness of Dementia and have some fun at work this week (3-8th March 2014). Together the staff raised £71 […]

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Have Your Chanel Bag and Eat It

By Paperstone on 4 March 2014 in Fun, Laptop Cases & Bags with 0 Comments
Have Your Chanel Bag and Eat It

If you travel to work by Tube, you’ve probably seen a few strange sights over the years. But have you clocked a woman eating her designer handbag? Commuters on a New York train were stunned when a blonde model started tucking into her quilted Chanel purse. The man sitting next to her moved away, a […]

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Bring Me Sunshine

By Paperstone on 3 March 2014 in Fun, Office Life with 0 Comments
Bring Me Sunshine

Finding it hard to get out of bed after weeks of dark, depressing, stormy weather? The lack of sunshine in the UK has brought an air of gloom to many offices and workplaces. “I can’t wait for winter to end” is a common complaint as an estimated one in four of us responds to glum […]

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Cup Noodle Worker Pic Goes Viral

By Paperstone on 26 February 2014 in Catering, Fun with 0 Comments
Cup Noodle Worker Pic Goes Viral

Next time you moan about your cosy office job, spare a thought for this poor employee of the Cup Noodles Museum in Yokohama, Tokyo. His picture went viral as he shoveled snow, dressed as Mr Cup Noodles in a giant foam cup. The Japanese capital recently had its worst blizzards for 45 years and there […]

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National Doodle Day 2014

By Paperstone on 24 February 2014 in Fun, Pens & Pencils with 0 Comments
National Doodle Day 2014

Stuck on the end of a phone and feeling bored? Most of us like to grab a pen and have a doodle – but why? Doodling helps to relieve our boredom and stop us from getting too stressed – it’s a playful way to deal with pressure. But is a doodle something more than an emotional […]

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Christmas Decorations

By Paperstone on 28 December 2013 in Fun with 0 Comments
Christmas Decorations

Are your Christmas decorations really posh, or have you put up some simple paper chains? Paper chains have been popular in England since Victorian times. They were often made by children and glued together with flour and water paste. It was a tradition to write the names of family members, relatives and friends on each […]

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Happy Halloween!

By Paperstone on 31 October 2013 in Fun with 0 Comments
Happy Halloween!

We are all familiar with the current Halloween celebration which is a scary extravaganza of haunted houses, gruseome fancy dress, trick or treating and pumpking carving. It is a common misconception that Halloween hails from the States but actually its roots are much closer to home… Halloween originated from an ancient Celtic festival known as […]

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That’s a wrap!

By Paperstone on 30 September 2013 in Catering, Fun with 0 Comments
That’s a wrap!

Pretty much every office and every home has some in the kitchen drawer. First of all used to waterproof military aircraft, Cling Film (polyvinylidene chloride) has been a world-wide hit. It was actually invented way back in 1933 by Ralph Wiley, a science student attached to Dow Chemicals. He discovered a compound which was very […]

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Choc Full of Ideas – Creative Uses for Chocolate

By Paperstone on 30 September 2013 in Chocolates, Fun with 0 Comments
Choc Full of Ideas – Creative Uses for Chocolate

Chocolate City here I come! Forget a boring little square of chocolate with your afternoon cuppa in the office. This velvety smooth, gorgeously stimulating substance has been used creatively to put a smile on people’s faces on many occasions. Australian Naomi Newton hosted a barbecue for her friends and family last summer – but her […]

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0-60mph in 5 Years?

By Paperstone on 17 September 2013 in Fun with 0 Comments
0-60mph in 5 Years?

A man in New Zealand is creating his own iconic car with a 3D printer in his garage. Enterprising Ivan Sentch decided to build a 1961 Aston Martin -the forerunner to James Bond’s DB5 – after getting a 3D printer for last Christmas. Mr Sentch is using a Solidoodle 3D printer to print out the […]

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