We all know who Hello Kitty is, right? Since I have two boys it’s not often I get to have girly products laying around the house. So when I was asked to review a product for Marino Andriani, LLC, the largest licensee of Hello Kitty products in the world I didn’t know what to choose! I ended up picking their pink laptop sleeve and giving it to my Mom, who ironically had no clue who Hello Kitty was. Yes, probably the only person in the universe that had never heard of Hello Kitty.
Although I don’t own a laptop I fell in love with the laptop sleeve. It is top quality. I secretly wished I hadn’t given it away and put it in my closet for when I buy my own laptop. Haha. It’s so cute. It even has little Hello Kitties that dangle off the zipper. You can read my original review here: Introducing a New Line of Hello Kitty Items From Marino Andriani, LLC.
This time around when I hooked up with Marino Andriani, LLC I was determined to find a Hello Kitty product I could keep all for myself! I decided to check out this cute little Hello Kitty flash drive that you see below. You can’t tell by the picture I took but it’s not hard plastic like you’d expect. It’s more of a rubbery material that reminds me of a pencil eraser. It comes with a little chain that has a cap on the end. While the drive is connected to your computer you can put the cap on Kitty’s body so that it doesn’t get lost. Pretty genius. The only problem I had, unfortunately was that this won’t work with my desktop computer because my computer has a flap that closes over the USB drive area and it gets in the way when you open it. Hello Kitty’s head was just a bit too big to fit properly. It kept bumping into the flap. So if you have the same issue you may not be able to use this with your desktop. I don’t think there will be any issue with laptop use though!
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Where To Purchase:
You can find Hello Kitty products by Marino Andriani, LLC in stores all over. They have a large selection at Target stores where I have personally seen the laptop sleeves. You can view all the products they make at http://www.sparklebee.com/
Join The Facebook Page For More Hello Kitty Giveaways
You want in on a little secret? You can enter contests over on the Marino Andriani Facebook Page, called SparkleBee. They love when people interact with the page. They like to hear your opinion on the products they are testing and creating and they often have a giveaway going on for their fans. All you have to do is “like” them to keep up on the latest products.
In fact they love their fans so much that 1 of my readers will win 1 of the Hello Kitty products seen below, courtesy of Marino Andriani, LLC. Pick your favorite and then scroll down to enter!
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Congrats to Amy G!
Prize: 1 reader will win their choice of the above Hello Kitty product. You can read more about them at http://www.sparklebee.com
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Giveaway is open to residents of the US 18 yrs of age or older. This giveaway ends: Wednesday September 7, 2011 12am EST. Winner will be contacted as soon as possible and announced on this post. Winner has 48 hrs after receiving my email to respond, otherwise I will choose another random winner. I will be using random.org to do this.
Disclosure: I received the above product in order to facilitate this review. No monetary exchange took place. Your experience my vary.
GFC