I have been scrapbooking for about 8 years, but have just recently gotten serious about it. I never seem to have the time or the space to get much accomplished. I recently started attending a once-per-month crop at an arts and crafts store and would like to start attending another one that is all day one Saturday per month. I manage to get around 4 pages done per evening at the crops. I am currently 6 years behind on my daughter's book and 11 years behind on my son's book.

Using my monthly allowance plus a gift card I had received I bought myself a Cricut machine for Christmas. It came with two cartridges, so I am all set to get going with it. I had bought myself a 2 1/2-inch Zyron sticker machine the month before so I can turn my newly made letters into stickers, making them so much easier to put on the page. I sat down last night and completed the following page for my ds scrapbook. I am quite pleased with how it turned out.