Hi Carol, I do it in Picasa, just choose however many pictures you want 2, 4 or more and then send it to collage..then you arrange your pictures and just enlarge them to fit the collage box..so simple even I can do it!!..no extra software needed. Basically, I love Picasa except for the nasty little habit it has of when you send pictures to your albums they normally go to the end of the album..sometimes it makes a mistake and they end up somewhere in the middle of the albums and throws off the sequence and that is what messes up my pictures sometimes in these posts.. I go back to check and there is a different picture there..very frustrating since you can't at that time fix it..if you move one, they all get messes up... But since I have about 7,000 pictures, (not all hippies) I'm not going to change at this point..it doesn't happen all that often... You can also write text on the picture, very simple... Donna

Zoe, here's another pic of Rainforest. It's been in the high 50's and 60's for over a week and down in the high 30's and 40's at night and the colors of Rainforest changed again. In a few days we're supposed to heat all the way back up to the high 80's and you should see most of the dark pink go away again. I think a lot of what I've shown you is what you can expect too:) I love seeing a rose change colors. BTW I should be adding photos of Green Ice too today or tomorrow, what about yours? The whiter ones are the older blooms, so these are the range from buds to old blooms.

Scaphappy, Yes!! I saw it in an advertisement for the American Quilt magazine but I never subscribed and I haven't been able to locate the magazine with this pattern. I would be forever grateful if you can find this pattern. I tried my hand at making up my own pattern, but there is something not quite right about what I am doing. Maybe the block is not square or ??? Thank you so much!!

Thank you, I'm so flattered! Our kitchen is roughtly 17'x17'10". The room with the fireplace is the family room and a separate room. I am happy with the lighting plan, there will be two pendants above the island, and everything will be on dimmers. Cat_mom, your kitchen is gorgeous and appears to be larger than 13x13. Your kitchen no doubt inspires a lot of envy. ;-) Here's our aerial plan, with the family room appearing off the page to the left. We'll put a round kitchen table to the left of the island (empty space on drawing, bottom left corner) in front of the large window. The column will stand on its lonesome which we considered getting rid of but it was too pricey. Maybe in the future. As you can see in this old photo, our kitchen island used to end into the column to "ground" it, but it limited our island size. The old kitchen didn't make use of all the available walls so I'm happy with the new layout. A few more of our old kitchen. You can see that we put a temporary desk in the wasted space here: This blank wall will house the new desk and pantry area. A good shot of the column here.