Thank you all for the kind words. You all are the best. It's funny about those blue stones...they hung around in my garage forever...and then this idea popped into my head last year. I love cobalt blue anything! :o) Lynne, the pots all had rust holes in the bottoms but I added a few more with my drill. Bear Hugs! Kirk

Jane : TY. Yes, I was brave enough to do the kitchen myself. My poor DH helped me heave the countertops in place and replace the flooring but the tile, paint ect were my own project. It's not designer by any means but functional and much prettier than it was several years ago when we bought the house. At first look, it was plaid wall paper on half the wall, scary ick green painted paneling on the bottom and a HUGE rooster wallpaper border running around the whole room. Oh my! I stripped the paper and painted within the first 6 months since I couldn't live with the plaid chickens but saved money for a few years to really finish it. The computer with the original pics on it crashed ages ago but I did manage to find one pic of the snowman made from a christmas tree that I lifted from our oh so creative Candy. You can kind of see how the kitchen was in it... Nana: Yes, I did do the "happy dance". LOL Look for something forever and it's right in front of me when I walk in the door. woohoo. TY for your nice comments on my CC. It's came a long ways from the horrible mauve/brownish/purple-y colored filthy thing that smelled like a chicken coop when I brought it home. I LOVE having it as it's the one place I can decorate with "fun dangerous stuff" that the cat has no business getting into (like thin glass, easter grass, sand ..ect).

jeanne...you sly one..sneaking off for 11 days vacation...and even got some great shopping finds too! What could be better.. Love the cup and leaf plate...I'm looking forward to seeing how you use them. Love the pumpkin and old glass bottle... and that old photo collage is great. I love stuff like that. You and DH are looking might cozy by the fire.. He seems like a 'serious chef' cooking those Marshmallows!! lol I'm off to look at your Apple post... jane

Punk & Karen, I have accumulated quite a bit of "stuff" over the years, and I sometimes find things off season, when others wouldn't necessarily want to buy them, but I just put them in the basement. Jane, I shop TS in several different cities/towns so I have a larger selection from which to choose. You'd need to go to a lot of different stores to bump into me, LOL. Jeanne, that outline pumpkin has a point in the bottom to hold a candle, but only 1 crossbar, so the candle always wanted to lean. When I found that pretty wreath last week, it fit perfectly into the framework and gives it more presence than just one candle did. I did notice your outline pumpkin in your posting. As Karen has said in the past, we are a lot of kindred spirits on this forum, and therefore seem to have similar tastes! TTFN, Candy