Chickadee the border stones are just stacked, but, I am planning to mortar them in place this winter. They have been in place since spring 2005, and have settled and sagged. Thanks for your comment on the E.Es, the speckled one is 'Mojito' a real favorite. Omar, those are nice. I've seen them before. I'm afraid my list of future projects is already too long. Jim

I know what you mean about sales. Do you have a CM consultant you regularly buy from? If so, does she keep a card (I think it's called Memory Savers card or something), where she tallies all your purchases? When you buy $250 from a CM consultant, you get $25 off your next purchase. That's like saving 10% off everything you buy. Except that you have to wait to see the savings. But I think this is a good deal. There are a couple of scrapbook shops near me that offer purchase savings cards too, but both of them offer 10% after $200 in purchases. That's only 5%. So in the long run, CM is a better deal. Also, my CM consultant (my sis too!) offers a Workshop card, that when you attend 6 workshops, your next one is free. Ask your CM consultant about these offers. Kelly

Dorothy -- Hopefully by now you have found a local CM person. The paper is acid free and lignan free - all of which is popular now because it doesn't react with your pictures and destroy them -- as did the paper in those old scrap books and magnetic page albums. And, of course it comes in beautiful colors and textures. And, no, I am not a consultant!! Marcia

I'm not a big CM fan. Their paper cutter is too small and doesn't cut the 12 by 12 pages. Mine also cuts a ragged edge from the start it never did cut well. Their circle and oval cutters are the best that I have ever found. Why anyone would spend mega bucks on things like their square punches is beyond me when it is so simple to take an ordinary cutter and cut a square. I love the Friskars type cutter because it is a cinch to make a frame using this type of cutter. Many of the girls at our local scrapbooking store started with the CM albums and are getting very bored with the white pages and end up covering them with the fancy papers. Their albums are expensive but the quality is better than some of the cheaper albums out there. The best albums I have found are from a company called Fraser-Grimm. It's a small company that I believe operates out of Windsor Ontario but my local scrapbooking store sells their albums. They are durably made and covered with fabric and they have quite a selection. I bought some special fabric and had them make me an individual album and they did a beautiful job. I'm not big on stickers. I make most of my own embellishments so I can't comment on those since I don't use them.