After finishing a rather rough and tedious week at Casa de' Krausz, I came home ready for a long nap. Much to my surprise, my new playtoy came in the mail and my husband had already opened it for me. What is it you say? Well to not keep you in too much suspense, I will tell you that it is (BY FAR) the neatest invention since the Ziploc bag. It's a Cricut! I must confess that I have had a sick addiction with these things for some time now. The commercials that come on at 3am are mighty convincing as to the awesome-ness of this little gadget. I have honestly found myself watching HSN on purpose just to see what other nifty things the little Cricut could do.
Last week I was talking with a colleaugue that has a scrapbooking business and I confessed my addiction. She assured me that it WAS in fact the neatest little machine and that she bought hers on Ebay for a mere $80. Hmmm. The Shopping Network says they are much more than that. I felt it was a challenge of sorts. Game on... So I created an account with Ebay and began my search. I would watch and watch to see what buyers were good and how people did their bidding (most of them dirty bidders I must say).
I randomly saw this one that said 'used' and the starting bid was a mere $39. I of course jumped in head first and honestly forgot about it. "No way this sucker will stay at that price, right?" Well much to my surprise, two days later I received an email telling me that I had one the dream of all dreams for less than $40 shipped. Thank you Heavenly Father.
I must admit though that I was leary about the 'used' part since there must ALWAYS be a catch. However I just opened the sucker up and she is brrrraaaannnnnddddd new. Could life on a Friday afternoon get much better? (I'm lame so don't laugh that a Cricut makes my week..) Now I am scattering around the house looking for scrapbook paper and testing it out. Once Jake gets home, the entire house will have nifty little notes saying "I love you" and "Cool" and "Inspiration" on them.
I think my weekend is set!
Friday, May 1, 2009
My new playtoy
Posted by Jacob and Crystal Krausz at 2:29 PM
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I don't know if George has one, but I wanna come play with it!! I've been drooling over them, too. Yay for such an awesome find!!! =]
I'm in love. Come over ASAP!!!!!!!!!
That is so awesome that you got it for that price, what a steal, I have been secrectly drooling over them too, I thought it was just me. I'm so jelous in a good way of course. I'm so excited for you!
i've been dying to play with one of these! i don't have one (and can't justify the expense for what i would use it for). but kudos to you for finding such a steal! we so need to get together for a girly fun night!
and, do you scrapbook? i've been wanting to start a crop circle (scrapbook group) for a while now... or just random crafts (kristy and i have talked about this one).
I LOVE SCRAPBOOKING! WE DEF NEED TO START A CIRCLE. ARE YOU GUYS FREE 2 WEEKENDS FROM NOW? I WANNA HAVE A GIRLY FUN TIME EXTRAVAGANZA
Just give me the date and time and I can plan it with my husband. Saturday's work the best with my husbands work, I hope that's ok
weekend after mothers day, i will (should) be free. i'm out of town (again) mothers day weekend. just let me know!
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