Yeah, both of those hybrids are very similar looking. In any case, you can repot it, but wait until next spring after it comes out of dormancy. If you repot now just before it goes dormant it might not have time to reestablish itself and that stress will just carry through dormancy, making it more likely to lose the plant. Sarracenias prefer a water tray with up to half the pot in standing water. In any event, all Sarracenias can be cared for similarly, all require winter dormancy in a cold place (in pots keep them at around 40-50 degrees all winter and do not let them freeze completely as pots are not as insulating as the ground they normally grow in) and short photoperiod during winter, all like a lot of water (mineral free distilled, reverse osmosis, or fresh rain water only), and all prefer the same medium for growing... sphagnum peat moss with sand or perlite in a 50/50 mix. In the growing season all Sarracenias prefer full sunlight outside, like garden plants. Never fertilize the plant (adding fertilizer can harm or kill your plant), it will catch insects for its fertilizer. It is possible to foliar feed with very diluted fertilizers, but it is not needed at all (more is not better in this case). Thats about it really.

Her little outfit, especially the bonnet, is great. (I'm not sure about the laptop computer, though.) You spoke of a "tin cup". The enameled steel cup she holds is probably as authentic as you can get. The term, tin cup, was a generic term applied to metal cups. Very few cups were made of tin in the 1880s, although tin was safe material for drinking and beverage cups. It would have been too expensive, on the order of a silver alloy cup. You would not have sent a true tin cup to school with a child. Canned goods and cups were mostly steel plated with tin. Every day cups were enamaled steel. In the 1940s, I had a folding cup. It was mostly a novelety. I'm not sure what the material was for my cup, likely aluminum. It could have been plated steel. The folding cup was not completely water tight, but held water long enough for one to drink. The cup tended to weep a bit so the user was careful to lean forward to keep from dripping on his clothing. New cups were fairly water tight, but with a little use and a ding or two and those leaked like a seive. The bottom line: A folding cup was a neat novelty and fun to have, but a regular cup was more reliable.

If you want to make something, you could do what DS did. She took 2 tall, footed urns and placed an antique door on top. If you use the resin planters, you could add rocks to weight them down. A narrow width door may be needed for what you want, and if the surface is too uneven (panels, shutters, etc)a sheet of glass could be used on top of the door. To keep the door from blowing off, you could glue it to the planters.

Some of you may have already read this on on the "Snafu" thread, but I have to say that despite all the problems I've had, in the end most things are turning out better! Can you believe I said that!!! :-O Venting Issue: Yes, it caused a 9-week stop work order and forced us to go with an outside plumber to move a shower drain pipe...but it also resulted in: We ultimately replaced all our polybutelyne water pipes that no longer meet code b/c they get brittle and crack over time (and they were 13 years old). We originally said "No" to it, but the long wait gave us time to think about it and we realized that the last thing we wanted was to have one of the many water pipes in our kitchen ceiling spring a leak and ruin the new kitchen plus it was less expensive to do now b/c the ceiling and walls were already opened up and most of the drywall work is already included in the remodel. A new hot water heater! Can you believe it...we had all the water pipes replaced and the next day our hot water heater sprung a leak! (Nowhere near where the work was done w/the water pipes). It turns out our water heater is under warranty until 6/1 so we got a new water heater for just the cost of labor...and since standards have changed since we bought the defective one, it's a much better one! Measuring error on the cooktop wall: We originally had two 9" standard cabinets (no shelves) flanking our cooktop. We were going to use them for tray storage since they were too small for much of anything else...even though we already have more tray storage than we need over the ovens & refrigerator. But now that we have the 6" fillers on either side and they're pullouts, we now have better storage for that location...mostly spices. [My only disappointment is that Omega's filler pullout...which BTW can be retrofitted since it's one piece...does not have adjustable shelves...so no room for oils there...but that's OK...one side will be spices and the other side will be baking things like colored sugars/sprinkles..still more useful than those extra tray cabinets!] Message Center: B/c of the measuring error on the sink wall that forced us to have a smaller pantry and eliminated our future Message Center for good, we got a niche in the pantry wall now for our Message Center. The future one was going to have to wait a few years until we had saved enough and had made other, more pressing changes. OK, we won't get the full Message Center that I originally wanted, but I will have something now. The jury is out on the granite right now!