Where do you buy your accessories? I need a replacement blade (I need the normal blade for my Cricut Cake) and both Michaels and Joann Fabrics are out and have been for weeks. 

Anybody have good ideas where else to check? Maybe online? I just hate paying shipping.

Sorry no one has answered you - I've been tied up with both jobs, but Faith posted a few sites on where to get cartridges, which I have checked out and they have amazingly low prices, even on the accessories. 

Check them out.

http://www.customcrops.com/

http://hallmarkscrapbook.com/

http://www.cricutdirect.com/Default.asp

For those, I usually wait until Cricut stuff is on sale at one of the craft stores and then go pick up a few! If I was ordering other stuff on those sale sites, then I'd definitely order them from the websites if they are less expensive! I am a bargain shopper lol!

Is the Cricut hard to use? 

Not really and I have been so bad not using my Cricut.  I have been making a list of things that I want to do in the new year and using my Cricut is one of them.  It is actually really easy to use, at least I think so.