How I got started in stamping - I was up in West Virginia and was writing back to friends in Florida and went into a Big Lots store and they had these little tiny rubber stamps about 1" in size, and a plastic handle that they fit on.  I would stamp a figure on top of my letter and on the back of the envelope.  I then went shopping and found my first big stamp of a cardinal on a pine limb.  Later, I got Rubber Stamp Madness and started writing to a lady in South Africa and she sent me stamps from there.  I got stamps and supplies for Christmas and birthdays.  When I got home from West Virginia Lila Taylor, a long time friend, was stamping too and so that was that.  I was hooked!!