I was fortunate to view the interesting plant Dipteronia sinensis at Quarryhill Arboretum at Sonoma, CA this past spring. With only a casual glance one would think it was a negundo or henryi. Quarryhill Botanical Garden is a non-profit botanical garden dedicated to advancing the conservation, study, and cultivation of the temperate Flora of Asia. It is a very interesting place to visit. Their collection is at the most only 15 years old, so plants are very young. It will be a spectacular place to visit in 15 years! Their website hosts a very useful Database of Asian Plants in Cultivation. It allows you to find Arboretums throughout the US that have a particular plant. http://www.calacademy.org/research/...yhill/index.asp

Thanks for the quick response to my question Oddie. I have some bottles of Mod Podge that I haven't used in awhile, sort of forgot about it as a glue. I will give that a try. You are right--the problem I had using the little beads was that they "clumped" too much in places. I'll try just sprinkling them on over some Mod Podge and see if that will work better. Thanks for the help. I always love your creations. I looked at your egg wreath and it looks better than many I have seen in the stores. Great job on it! Luvs

The other contender is golden crema a little costlier - Once more there is not much information about this one. (I now have a snap of it though). If you can point me to some more information on this one, that would be good too

We had been getting Papa Murphy's take and bake Cowboy pizza almost every Tuesday for several years when they had the '$10 Tuesday' special for any large pizza. Then they raised the price to $12 a couple months ago and i am boycotting them now. We started getting Digiorno and it was pretty good but still lacking something. I saw Screaming Sicilian on sale for $5,49 a couple weeks ago and bought 4 after remembering the good reviews here. We tried the Supremus Maximus last week and it was really good. I think we'll try the Mambo Italiano tonight. I also bought a Mother of Meat and Three lil' Piggies. Has anyone tried their Stromboli? It would be handy to nuke it up for lunch at work.