Good Morning, Everyone, Usha. A couple months or years, your plants look good. If you like Peperomia leaf texture, you'll love its flowers. Some people don't appreicate Pep blooms, but I feel both leaves and flowers are novel and interesting. About your TC. Some leaves have a red hue. All that means is it got/is getting plenty of light. In summer, when my TC/EC's are placed outside, 'shade,' foliage reddens. As long as leaves are firm your TC is doing well. Flora, thanks for posting Usha's photos. Kitten Toes. I've heard of Pussy Toes, but not Kitten Toes..lol.. Kitten Toes is a cute name, :) but which plant are you referring to? Common name differ according to location. In the west coast, Chlorophytums were/still may be called Airplane Plants. Midwest and East Cost, Spider Plants..only one example, but there are many many comman names. There's probably a comman name for every plant in the world, lol. Well, available plants anyway. Back in the day, Pothos, 'I know, I know, not the right name,' were called Devil's Ivy. Nowadays, signs are posted, simply Pothos. Lithops had a 'Toe' name, but can't recall what it was. Maybe Baby Toes? Also, Livingstone Plant. Karen..Direct summer sun can burn Holiday Cactus leaves, even after acclimation. They do best in bright, indirect. CC/TC/EC will thrive in shade, but too much shade will prevent flowering. Direct summer sun will redden leaves...if soil is left to dry for prolonged periods, placed in direct sun, good-bye plant. :) Toni

Kathy, I just pull off all the celery leaves & be sure not to have any stems,just the leaves(stems,even small ones don't dry well) I throw them in a colander run cold water over them while I mix them around little with my hand. Drain & dump on paper towels or absorbant terry dishtowel & when you can't see any moisture spread out on foil.Tend to turn very dark brown if wet. Should look light green with a few light brownish when dry. I have gas oven so I turn it on long enough to heat bottom metal & turn off oven & THEN place the foil on the metal bottom of oven, if you are in a hurry you can remove them in 30 mins & reheat (only takes couple of min.) Then TURN OFF & put in again. Sometimes I do this 3 times total.I've also put oven on at lowest setting & put the foil up on top shelf for 5-15 min. that's at 150%.Have to watch! They will be crisp & crumble when cool. Then I just breakup some & dump(make a v in foil to pour them into plastic snack bag. Put in 2nd ziplocbag, label & store in fridge. Good in all stews, soups, sauces, anything you want a celery flavor in. Well, I use celery seed in potato salad if I don't have fresh celery which I prefer. Talk of recycling GF actually carefully folds each plastic bag & gets it about 4 in sq & pops it in a large Kleenix type box.I think she said she could get 500 in 1 box but not sure! Is it ever neat at a yard sale, you just pull 1 out shake & put the items customer bought in it. I always have bags & even buy a few marked down bags of toys & wash them up so that I have toys for babies to teens. Parents & grandmas love it that the toys are washed & sealed in plastic bag with masking tape. Don't make any money but teaching lot of kids how to shop & make purchases & lots of happy smiles as they walk away with their "treasures" The parents are happy as kids looking at bags for them on their round plastic tablecloth on driveway & parents buy more as kids arn't whining. Been known to ask parent if fussy little one can have a cracker also!!OK, Yes I've had lot of YS & I have tons of stuff from an older lady that will call & tell me the closet pole broke, I go over & she starts giving me stuff like trunkfuls Then her roof leaked & they had to put new roof on, garage wasn't leaking but needed to match rest of roof so I ended up taking 9 carloads home. She isn't as much of a shopaholic as she used to be but sure got me through some lean days before I got on widow's benefits. With downturn tho people want things almost free!!Strange as TS prices just keep going up!! Oh, what does she give me besides clothes, well, new in box stuff, great for gifts, lots of expensive makeup(I take what I want &sell the rest) down comforters,King size sets for a bed,shoes(size 7-my size)fancy candle holders, pots & pans,tablecloths & napkin sets,musical Santa, angel, dolls.She gives me xmas paper & tags, suitcases, duffle bags,purses, belts etc. Any money over few cents in change I give back to her. I don't have much good stuff to sell right now except new sweaters & we are both small size 8 or 6 depending on company she got it from. She shops catalogs,QVC etc & other shopping channel. My house is looking like her house!! Drowning in good stuff but how can you say no to stuff I never in my life would buy. Now I live in jeans,GV has some great ones,Jones of NY. Some "wild" things I cut the beads off of & used on crafts!! Jan

I believe you have to print out the message and you can use a circle punch that's the size of the interior of the cap. Make sure that you pull out the plastic insert on the cap. Then you can glue or decoupage them on and the vendor says she/he uses epoxy for the clear finish. ~lorraine

Minnie, yours look great! I posted a pic of the ones I make over on the gallery. I changed the poem for mine,: At this time when we feel most blessed, Holidays can make us feel real stressed. When the "bah humbugs" start coming near, Just shake yourself up some Christmas cheer!! Here's part of the original write up from the magazine that I saved. I think there was another part about what to fill them with but I can't seem to find it. Anyways I also put in dollar store stuff like bells, glitter, confetti, fake snow, etc. I also saved the picture of the magazine ones and will post it on the gallery later. "This year, we have a solution to the problem of Christmas over - your own bottle of Christmas Cheer. This quick and easy project is guaranteed to cause smiles in even the most stressful situations. It sells well at bazaars and makes a great gift too. Start with a glass salt shaker. Use a long-handled paintbrush to reach inside and paint a small triangle nose on the center bottom with orange acrylic paint. Build a face around the nose by making two dots for the eyes and five dots for a smile with black acrylic paint." Anyways I think that painting the inside of the shaker doesn't sound like it would be that easy. What I did was just use a rub on snowman face on the outside of the bottom of the shaker.