Okay ladies, so I'm already addicted to the forum (have been for months) and now I discover there's a scrapbooking discussion/thread. I'm in heaven. I'll try to take pics' of some of my layouts to post (not nearly as intricate and absolutely beautiful as many of your layouts but I've recently invested in a new Canon XT (the old XTI)- and I think it will get me ever more into my scrapbooking (if that's possible). I do want to know what you ladies suggest if I want to start getting in to the threadwork into my layouts (do you use a regular sewing machine or one of the craft 10 dollar sewing machines simply used for scrapbooking??). Thanks and hopefully you don't mind a new person in this thread/discussion group. Thanks in advance!