Thanks.You understand- when the body betrays the spirit! I didn't think I would like that one looking on close-up, but as the finished panel, it has wonderful movement and energy. I guess I can start with a small thing... like a trivet? Want to do a table top. Want to do a mirror. Want to do just a wall piece. But, I can start with a small thing. I knew an artist who while working on a little cabin he bought decided to put the most extraordinary mosaic on the floor of the bathroom (see, we got back to the bathroom forum purpose). It was not his primary medium, however his creativity just came through in everything he did. I had always hoped that I would get to mosaics by the time I was ready to tile a bath, kitchen... but did not. Need to practice a bit, then perhaps when the basement bathroom plumbing needs to be redone (what did the prev homeowners do behind those walls??) I may be ready to get creative!

Catching up on this post from yesterday… it just gets progressively funnier. Since we’ve bypassed delicacy, I’m not actually concerned about the *need* for an exhaust fan… And I agree that I don’t expect a guest bath to see much use…just the general strangeness of sitting on the sofa chatting with friends, while some one is in the bathroom two feet away. How often that would be a problem? Probably never… like you said, they can go upstairs. Bellsmom-- I’m impressed with your photoshop skills. That looks really nice!! Thank you! There really isn’t another spot for a powder room. We had considered moving it to the other end of the kitchen, where it could be aligned with the fridge and you wouldn’t see it as a boxed-out area, but then it’s really IN the kitchen. And disrupts the whole layout of the area. We’ve gone back and forth on the backdoor. Bumping it out to square the room would be ideal. But it would require adding a foundation, and also removing the concrete and brick stairs that lead directly down to already existing concrete patio. So it’s not just the door… it’s the other twenty things it affects. I wanted to square the room, and put French doors on the right hand wall, but there is a tree there, and adding steps down to ground level would require removing it. I love seeing it out the window, and was unsure I wanted to take it down. The problem with this project is that we are trying to fix someone else’s poor design rather than doing it right. Which may be only marginally easier than starting from scratch. Thank you so much for sharing all your thoughts!! I will upload a photo when we have some kind of mock up of the wall… hopefully it will give us a better idea of how it might look in reality. Bellsmom’s photo kind of looks too good to be true. And I liked the idea of bookshelves, although the wall would probably be better as a sofa wall, since the room is long and narrow and the sofa depth would be better not sticking into the room.

Breezygirl, it should work the same in Ipad 1 if your system is current. .? Historically, I've only been able to get my pics to upload using the Direct Link wrapped in the symbols as is hopefully showing up in the pic below. I think this method is what throws my pic bigger and makes the text of all other entries smaller. Here's what happens when I try it both ways - Direct Link and Http: Using IPad 2 & a photobucket app, here's what does (or doesn't happen) when I just insert the HTML code from photobucket link list: . Here's what I get when I use the Direct Link code from the photobucket menu, and wrap it in the symbols to the left of http, and to the right of jpg

Ok, Gill, I'm going to give it a go now..... It worked, Gill, thanks so much. I put up a photo of my newest jade - I have it just two weeks. With all the excitement of the competition I hadn't much time to think about it, but it seems fine. The photo is a little crooked, though.