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...I searched for a long time last year and came to the conclusion that no Julie had not gotten a chance to post pictures of getting ready for CTC. I did find where gotpeace91, or Leah, did post pictures and a description of all she did to get ready for it. There are also a few ladies on that same post that offered some helpful information. I found it at this link viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12245 and it was what I used along with the introduction to the guide to help me get everything set up the way we wanted. You are in for a great year! We had a blast this year (as always with HOD ), but it was a good year of growing for both boys! I think the only consumable is the student pages... also in the Genesis Study she asks the students to underline and write in the margins, but we just wrote in our own Bibles and that worked fine for us. Another mom in a different thread thought about printing off Genesis chapters 1-11 for her children to write on...if you do not want to do one of these options you may want to get an extra copy of that book. HTH I just bought the student sheets and they have beautiful maps in them. (Very Nice! ! Student sheets.)
Life ran away from me and got too busy somehow! 
Leah did a super post on getting ready though, and that along with reading the "Introduction" and skimming the teacher parts of the "Appendix" should be helpful. I did print the "Child's Geography" maps in color. There are not many, and if you don't have a color printer, you could head to a friend's house and borrow hers - as they work on the same maps for awhile, and there won't be too many to print that it would be asking too much of your friend. 
For Wyatt, way back, I didn't have a color printer, and just used black and white. It worked alright, as you could see the colors on the screen anyway, but if you can print them in color, it is nice. 