Ooooh... Jenn you have been an addict longer than me! I have been an addict since 1995! It started off with stamping and progressed from there. I have converted my dining room into my computer/scrapping/animal room and my living room is now the dining room and my family room is the family room.... who the heck needs a formal living room anyway I try to be organized I just suck at it! LOL T

I love embellishments. I cannot have enough colors of eyelets, brads, and don't even get me started on ribbons and fibers. I get into swaps for those mostly so I can have a nice selection. I have a couple of skeins of fiber too for the purples and pinks that I love so much. Cannot get enough! And then organization is KEY so that you don't go buying duplicates of things. Last year I gave myself the gift of organization by creating a scramping space for myself with a place for everything. I find I USE things more when they are organized. Have you ever been to an Ikea? Organizational nirvana! I pretty much stick to CTMH paper because it gives me one less thing to go GAGA about. The 60 colors in the pallette is plenty to work with. Then I can focus on all the other doo-dads that I want to add to it. I have so much metallics, vellum and mulberry paper though. I have a whole cart just for specialty paper! I dye my vellum and mulberry to whatever color I want using my inkpads. So versatile that way! And metallic accents. Cannot get enough of them. I have tilt-bins for all of those doodads too. It's like a trip to the hardware store with all the hinges and thingamebobs in there! I wish we could post pics of our scrap areas! Sally Lynn M. Director, Close To My Heart www.inkyheart.com

Tonya, you crack me up! And you are so cute! Have you already done WLS? CTMH is the only company I have ever been a consultant for, so you got me there, girlfriend! I had no intentions of selling anything -- I just WAY wanted a discount after I got my first catalog. My 'upline' is in Nebraska, because that is FAR FAR AWAY. LOL! she is a doll, but that was a requirement for me initially I was very gunshy about the whole thing, ya know? And look at me now! I enjoy the 'teaching' aspect of being a consultant. It is like teaching how to do new things and people just happen to buy stuff too. I am soooo comfortable with that. And with 80 people now on my team... I guess it works! LOL! So don't throw out the idea of becoming a consultant. If you *can* do better, you *should*! Let me know if you want to yak about it. My e-mail doesn't seem to link here, but it is [email protected]. Well, wish me luck. Friday still looks to be the day for my WLS. Egads! SL

Thanks for the info! Its on QVC? Is that a shopping channel? How weird is that. I am so going to have to TIVO those!!! xoxoxojenn

You just have to love what you sell and it all works out well in the end. The customers just see how much you love 'your' product and its over... They are caught hook line and sinker....After all isn't that how all of us demo's and consultants got in.... Its a bug, a virus....ugh!!! I have it bad and there is no cure, nor do I want to be cured! xoxoxojenn PS: Love CTMH stuff. Stampin'Up! Demonstrator Scrapbooking/Stampin' since 1993