Sandi and I decided to buy a Cricut machine a few weeks ago. If you’ve never seen a device like it before, they are pretty amazing. You load paper or thin plastic or vinyl into the machine, and use it to cut designs.  The “Expression” model that we bought can load sheets up to 12″ x 24″.

There are several competitive machines available on the market such as ones designed by Pazzles or the Craft Robo, but we settled on this one for a couple of reasons:

  1. It was less expensive (on sale) than the competing options.
  2. The supplies (knives, mats, etc.) are available locally.
  3. With a third-party software called Sure-Cuts-A-Lot, it can cut nearly any shape or font without having to buy lots of cartridges.  Although, we still have the option to do so — some of the cartridges look very useful.

Anyway, it’s tons of fun to play with, and we’ve started making lots of projects with it already, including the latest scrapbook pages by the girls. Expect to see a lot of the results in the future.

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