Jamie Lea, I'm working on making a section of my site with some of my stuff on it. I'll let you know when I get it up (maybe today? who knows).

Shaun, I've never been to a crop before. My babysitter (MIL) is my scrapping buddy, and I definatly do NOT want to take Chance to one. LOL! Never been to a CM party either, but MIL likes their cutting system.

MIL and I have decided we aren't so much as scrapbookers as "Photo Album Preservers". That is, we don't do all the fancy tags and rivet things and embelishments. In one magazine, it said "pick one, maybe two photos for a page and work around it". In the end, you were looking at all the crap around the picture, not the picture itself! We do the 12x12 pages because we can fit more on them. We seldom do more than 2 mats per picture, use just a few stickers for fun, and jounaling to tell the story behind the pictures (who, what, when, where).

For some really great and cheap idea books, Keeping Memories Alive have 4 idea books for .99 each!
http://www.iboutique.com/cgi-bin/myers/htmlos.cgi/0113.3.358154898468794...
I eat them up nearly every day! I even had to have the one that is out of print and got it on Ebay. LOL! They are all about 30 pages or so, a really great value!