My ever growing Cricut Cart Collection

So.....I have a new addiction. Buying carts on Ebay! I didn't realize how cheap you can get carts there. For a year I have been eyeing the Spongebob Squarepants cart (all those pics of Kenji that I've yet to scrap), but I couldn't bring myself to pay $90 for it, and I NEVER saw it go on sale.
Well Monday I took a look at Ebay and saw that the bidding was in the final 2 minutes, so I put in my max bid of $20, and I actually got it for $14.60 and free shipping! Next, I thought I'd try aquiring Forever Young, and made my max bid of $22.00. I lost a couple of items before I was able to win one for $20.30. Let's just say that I'm hooked. Which led me to my next dilemna.......how to store my every increasing collection.

After my shelves took a tumble this past weekend, I'm using every square centimeter of my closet, so I'm needing to purge and make better use of my space.

I found a great idea on YouTube! So I took a standard shoebox (the booklets fit perfectly), made a cute little bag for my carts from Bags Tags and Boxes cart (shopping bag 3"), designed an index card on Design Studio (George and Basic Shapes) and dusted off my P-touch and made labels.

I made sure to write all the Serial numbers in the booklet (just in case).

I've got my next shoebox ready for all the new carts I'm sure to be buying on Ebay....

Tri Fold Shutter Card

While checking out some fellow Circlets blogs, I found this awesome Shutter card. We're going to celebrate our neighbor's daughter, Catie's, birthday tomorrow at Dave and Busters, so this find was quite timely.

If you want to make your own check the tutorial out at

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/trishuttercard

Enjoy!

In bed with my knee....going stir crazy!!!

I did something to my knee on Monday, so I've spent the last 2 days off of my feet. Not an easy "feat" for me!!!
I finally was able to hobble down to the basement today, only to find that my shelves in my scrap closet had come down with all its contents. Kenji and I spent an hour cleaning and reorganizing. I didn't want my labor to go to waste, so I mustered up the strength to pop out a 4th of July layout using my new Cricut Lite Cart "Block Party". I LOVE this cart...with as much as Rob loves to BBQ, I'll have lots of opportunities to use this cart. Purchasing it was bittersweet for me, since I've NEVER paid full price for a cartridge, but since it's a WalMart exclusive, the chances of it going on sale are slim to none. It could show up on Ebay some day....but who wants to wait!!!

New to all this......

So I joined the Cricut Circle for the exclusive cartridges and found that I'm really enjoying the social aspect of the Circle.
I'm trying to figure all this out, so hopefully you'll have patience and not give up on my feeble attempts at blogging.
I'm also looking at this as a way to jump back into my favorite hobby.