I learned that "swinging from a chandelier" can really be done. Recently, my sister informed me that her 22-month-old has done exactly that. Toddlers are also expert climbers. In addition to being part child and part mountain goat, this child is also part monkey. To bad she was promptly taken down off of the table from which she reached the chandelier and told "no, no!" before a picture could capture the moment. I still think the event can inspire a spider-monkey page or two! Journaling with scrapping is great fun but a picture is sure worth a thousand words. Hmmm, maybe I'll volunteer to babysit, then, take a picture of the lil' trapeze artist for documentary sake.

Let your munchkins inspire your creativity. Then let the Cricut machine and products help you to expand your creativity to realize some of the most amazing potentials!

Happy Cricuting :-)

A: That's a good question. So far it looks like you could have some Thanksgiving fun with the following Cricut Cartridges:
Stretch Your Imagination
Doodlecharms
Paper Dolls Dress Up
My Community
Speaking of Fall
My World (Mayflower, and Plymouth Rock)
Animal Kingdom (Turkey and the word "Gobble")
Dreams Come True (Pocahontas)

Feel free to check out the cuts on these cartridges at our website. Here's the link. Simply click on the Cricut cartridge you wish to view, then click on .

This week my life has settled back down to normal. Nothing new or exciting has happened in my home. I've been working on getting my lawn ready for winter and planting bulbs in the ground. Do you think the Cricut could help me plant flowers or is that asking too much of my little machine?--hummm.... For this exploration, I thought I would get ahead in my card making.

I needed a "Get Well" card because I have a few friends that could use some cheering up. I created a card that used one of the saying from Graphically Speaking then typed and welded my own phrase for the inside of the cared. I can now cut quite a few cards out and have them right at my finger tips. I love to be prepared. I think I need to sit down and create my Christmas cards, or maybe I should start on Thanksgiving cards next.

To make my cards I used the DesignStudio because being creative is so easy with this software. I used Graphically Speaking and Storybook for my card. I placed the "Life is Good" saying in a border and welded them together to give it a different look. Then I used Storybook for the font phrase that I placed inside my card. I've included the design incase any other Cricut (cut file) fans wanted to get ahead in their card making.

I am going to post a section to gather ideas on Christmas cards. If you have any ideas that you would like to share, please post them in this section.

Happy Cricuting! See you next week.

Crafty Kimber

A: This feature enables the user to rotate selected characters and cut up to 23.5" tall using the length of the 12" x 24" mat and paper, or up to 11.5" tall using the 12" x 12" mat.