Annette Price

ABOUT ANNETTE

Annette Price is a business owner, educator, artist, journalist, wife, and mother of three.

She started Speeding Bullet Comics in 1998, near historic downtown Norman, Oklahoma. Speeding Bullet, known for its family atmosphere and community involvement, has been nominated for the Will Eisner Spirit of Retailing Award, the highest honor among comic book specialty stores.

Annette enjoys teaching both children and adults. As a certified eBay Education Specialist, she helps beginners sell products online. She also teaches cake decorating at the beginning and intermediate levels.

Food artistry is another entrepreneurial avenue. Her professional cakes and confectionary carvings win festival awards and take the spotlight at weddings.

Annette is an editor, writer, graphic designer and photographer by trade. With a magna cum laude degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma, her credentials include the prestigious Dow Jones Newspaper internship and experience at major newspapers in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Annette and husband, Matthew, celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary in 2007. They live in Norman with their three daughters: Rachel, Audrey and Miranda.

LINKS

Speeding Bullet Comics features over 5,000 graphic novels in stock -- giving the store one of the largest selections in the Midwest. You can learn more about the store at www.speedingbulletcomics.com.

To learn more about Annette's Selling on the Internet classes, see her listing in the Education Specialist directory or find her class at Moore-Norman Technology Center.

Annette's cake decorating classes are offered at the South Penn Campus of Moore-Norman Technology Center. Her cake and cookie decorating class for the Summer Youth Academy is designed for 9- to 11-year-olds. Visit her Flickr site to see photos of her cakes.

To visit Matthew's web site, visit www.matthewlprice.com.

To contact Annette, click here.

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Fri Dec 5

The Garbage Bowl

Part of the fun of Christmas shopping is coming across items that are so horrifying, it’s hard to believe. This year I discovered Rachael Ray’s Garbage Bowl, part of the overpriced Food Network line of kitchen products.

garbage bowl Endorsed by the chirpy cooking guru, it’s 10 inches in diameter, plastic, dishwasher safe, and made in China. It’s marketed to hold food scraps to save you trips dashing back and forth to your kitchen trash can. It’s not particularly attractive. Oh, and it retails for $18.95.

$18.95? Really?!

Having a mini trash receptacle nearby in the kitchen is a great tip … but why would anyone spend so much on trash? Use a paper plate. How about a cheap bowl from the dollar store? Or just scoot the kitchen trash closer.

I went to thefoodnetworkstore.com to get some insight on what makes Rachael Ray’s Garbage Bowl so spectacular. Here are some of the reviews:

“This Garbage Bowl has become a great addition to my kitchen. Now I don’t have to pull the trash can closer or setting a bag on the counter to put my trash in all I do is throw it in the “garbage bowl”. I’m loving it and have recommended it to family and friends.”

“I bought two……one to use as a garbage bowl, and the other to use for salad.” Doesn’t this defeat the purpose of a designated garbage bowl? Hope she doesn’t confuse the two.

This woman claims the garbage bowl helps combat obesity: “Obesity has reached a staggering amount in the US. One great way to combat that is to prepare your meals at home and keep the kids involved. Cool tools like this keep your kids interested and help them see it’s cooler to make your own food than to buy a Happy Meal with some throw away toy.”

“It’s saves alot of time and steps. I have bought 4.” She needs FOUR Garbage Bowls?

This one was just too weird: “My 10 year old daughter loves to cook with me, so I purchased this bowl and used it as her Easter basket. She was sooo excited!”

There were 132 reviews for the Garbage Bowl when I visited the site. By the time I made it to Page 3, I was convinced I had stumbled upon a cult and couldn’t read any more. Please, if anyone is shopping for me, do not buy me a bowl for my temporary garbage. I’d rather have socks.