Karen, welcome to The Pad's Family!!!! I wont tell you how marvelous this community is, as I can see you already have show for it, and I know how amazing it can be to be around other scrappers that inspire our creativity to go places we may never have gone without!!!!
about the user name thing, I see Justine already mentioned Julie and Kim J, Cheryl
@gonewiththewind may know , not sure.... when I came first (pretty much like you, shopping and lurking for 2 or 3 years then joined the community) I didn't realize I already had a profile here, so I made a variant of my nickname... a few years later, can;t remember what happened, I asked Laura if it would be possible to merge the accounts to keep my original nickname, so she did it...but the user name in the store I don;t think it needs to be the same as forums & gallery? is a separate sign in....
anyway, look forward to seeing more of you!!!
by the way, we have AMAZING live chats... you have a list of this weekend ones (only half hour) I am hosting today 3pm EDT, if you can, make it,, we all love "meeting" live, even if not voice or camera, I think it gives us more of a "real" feeling.
welcome once again.. .and you couldn't go without kissing Bart!!!!!!!