Angela, I gave you a really long answer on this, but I don't see it (or your question) here. Either it's gone, or we have the wrong thread. Anyway, the tutorial link is below. I had great luck and almost perfect germination with Imperator and Chantenay varieties. Not so good with Rainbow Blend, which also didn't do well with traditional sowing. Either 1" or 2" spacing works. I use 1" and pull every other one for fresh baby carrots. Curt Grow, I hope those Bounty towels disintegrate easily. The cheaper ones actually work better, and toilet tissue or cheap paper napkins work the best for me. Here is a link that might be useful: Annie's Granny's Seed Mat Tutorial

I absolutely love my Xyrons...I have the 150,250,510,and the 900 and adore them all!! I use the 250 and 510 the most and almost daily for so many different projects. I don't think you will ever regret getting either version. The Xyron would be a lot more affective and less messy than any sort of glue on spray. They are not only sticker makers but certain version can also laminate with no electricity. You also use a line glue instead of the spray on such as hermafix, even Duck brand has a line glue that is awesome and really inexpensive. With the scrapbooking industry there are so many selections of glue available it's mind blowing. I wish you much success and look forward to seeing your finished projects. ginger

Buy a garland or bush of faux fall leaves, peel them off the plastic veining. Use a gold paint pen or fine point gold marker to write your parents' first names and wedding date on them, and scatter those around the gold pumpkins. Buy inexpensive plain glass votive holders, wrap with a strip of vellum cut to fit around the votive holder (overlap and close with double-faced tape) put a gold votive inside and write their names and wedding date on the vellum, then use the same pen to run a narrow band of gold on the top and bottom of each piece of vellum. Glue a silk leaf (veining removed) to the bottom with Aleene's Tacky glue or hot glue, and scatter a few of those on the tables for candlelight. You might check first to see if those are allowed - some banquet venues are funky about how candles can be used. Congrats to your parents on a wonderful milestone! Hope the party is terrific, and that you can relax and enjoy it, too!

hi, I just posted about ABs on the Craft & Dec page (post about going away gift). I'm in a round robin right now. Each participant passes their book to the same person after a certain length of time (1 month in our case). Each time we get another book, we work in it and send it on to that same person. Eventually our books come back to us. We formed a yahoo group just for sharing about our progress, and to post pictures. And yes, I think the main thing is to have a theme. I was really scared to take part in one of these, but now I highly recommend a round robin. I've also heard of "Tip Ins" --a kind of swap where others send pages or spreads that you "tip in" to your book. You can attach the pages directly to other pages, or cut off existing pages leaving only a tab, and glue the tip-in to that.