Sheepishly raising hand I had some *ahem* help at the post office from little hands and my address label must have dropped out of the envelope without me knowing it. Sent you an email hon. Geesssh This is the second error I have made this week with seeds, must be the divorce turned me more into a newbie than I thought! Just goes to show, I really do need my gardening to keep me sane. lol Sorry for the confusion Pitimpinani

Heeyy, Deanna! You're sure up late for a workin-gal! LOL Hard to adjust to the time change, I bet! :o) To answer your question, that's a sport of my 'Francee'! She sported one set of variegated leaves one year, and I thought it was just a passing *fancy*, but when it showed up with more of the same type of leaves the following season, I divided it out! It held well, that summer and then I moved it to a bed where it got less sun, unfortunately (to avoid the tearing of the cream margins) and it failed to demonstrate the same vigor and variation. I don't know if that had that much to do with it, in reality, but by this Spring, it had reverted back to mostly the 'Francee' look! One leaf was all chartreuse with the cream margin but the rest were 'Francee' all the way! :o( 'Buff24' found a registered sport, that had the same look as mine, already named-so it apparently is a fairly common sporting habit! I understand, that 'Francee" is fairly prolific in sporting--a *fertile myrtle* maybe? But, then I guess it's not a matter of 'fertility' but mutating, instead?? Don't think I have that understanding down pat yet! Apparently, (according to one of the pics. at 'the Library') the registered 'Fancy Francee' is also very unstable! Here is a link that might be useful: 'Fancy Francee'

woo hoo,what a great foodies welcome! And yah, I am pretty much nuts! I love reading about food, what can I say. Almost as much as eating it. I can't wait to try more of the recipes here. It is so much more fun to cook in my almost complete new kitchen. Thanks all. Sue

I took my 7 year old son to a big fabric store nearby (Berkeley) today. We were there for an hour and a half. (He wasn't looking at fabric the whole time--he took a book to read!) He wanted fabric to make a pillowcase for his bed, and he found the most adorable sock monkey fabrics by Moda. We also got one for my younger son, and I made his pillowcase when we got home. It is so cute, now I think I'd like to make a comforter cover to go with it. And while most store bought comforters have all those loose, annoying buttons along one end, I figure if I make it, I can use my closure of choice: the zipper. However, that will be one mighty long zipper. And, not surprisingly, I have "zipper phobia." Funny how my first project with bias tape called for 6 yards of the stuff applied in one continuous piece. Now my first zipper might be a looooong one across a comforter cover. I'm searching online for the best price for the fabric... I was all set to work on some more "aprons" but ones that I can actually wear outside the house (which is becoming fashionable, believe it or not). But after 90 minutes in this shop, I am sad to say I couldn't find any fabric that I liked. Well--I found lots that I liked, but it all had a specific orientation (e.g. not stripes, but dots or flowers or some other pattern that were nonetheless in ROWS). So if I didn't get it exactly straight across the front, it would drive me nuts. I picked up a cheap pattern for a kind of "babydoll" type top that involves...*gasp*...darts. But the measurements on the back are so odd. They don't correspond to typical sizes (that is, I normally wear a 6-8, but when I go by my actual bust, waist, him measurements on the package, it equals size 12). Hmmmmm. I'm looking for fabric for this one... I also want to make an oilcloth shopping bag type thing to carry my knitting in. Speaking of knitting, my son is eagerly waiting for me to finish a pair of socks for him. So many projects, so little time!! Let's see--what else: I played with all the cams on the T&S. They don't work very well though, b/c many of them require the fine stitch setting, and my fine stitch eats up the fabric like crazy (which also prevents me from doing buttonholes). And my bobbin now loads/fills about once in every 8 tries. So that is really frustrating! I wonder why? :-) From the other side of the fence.... Francy