Big Sis~ You have more patience than I do...cheap men irritate me the first time. By day 2, I'd be thumping them over the head with something. :O) One of the dresses you sent fit Lili, but the others are a bit too big for her right now. Which is GREAT, because that means she has something to grow into! Lili has started to walk along furniture now! It's rough, though, because we don't have carpet- we're in endless remodel mode, so we only have the bare plywood floor. She keeps falling and hitting her noggin on the floor. Poor baby. I'm thinking of getting her a helmet. LOL It is hard to believe that she's that big already....wow, has this year gone by fast!

I decided on a non-custom one that says something like "Look Up, Not Down, Look Out, Not In, Look Forward, Not Back" KKelly & Igloo - could interpret that as Look Up (so you don't see your breasts going down), Look Out (so you don't worry about your insides falling apart) and Look Forward (so you don't look back in the mirror to see how big my a$% has gotten)!!! $32...we'll see if it is a nice addition or something that sits and waits to be hung...you don't have to put them on the wall, you can put on a glass frame and hang without the back of the frame (bad description). I may do something so I do not have to scrape them off the wall someday... And maybe, maybe, I'll be inspired to workout!

Update - will be drywalling over the speaker-cubbies. Painting the others to match the trim. Again, thanks to JTerri, whose mockup had me running off to dial our carpentry guy! Thank you, Lascatx. Its been a long post and you may have missed it, but I think we will either move to a city or a warm climate in the next 2-4 years, so not wanting to invest in anything. Especially rugs which are really hard to reuse in new spaces IME. Jterri, I think a piece of modern art could work well, but the odds I will find something i really like, that fits, at a price where I don't care if i can't reuse it in a few years, are kind of nil. But I will give it some thought, as maybe I could do a print. Also thinking of wallpaper/mural. Robo et al, I was thinking about my rug inventory. Their style is not the direction I was thinking of, but they could be worth looking at (and changing direction for). It occurs to me I have a fairly blank slate and a room with so much light. The only color/pattern is from a few throw pillows (easy to toss) and the ticking on the windowseats (neutral). There are three large off white masses -- sofa, ottoman and round table w tablecloth -- that obscure a lot of the rug and so perhaps could tone it down? So I could go with a rug that has a lot to say. For example here are 2 in inventory. The DR rug shown below was in my MBR here for a while, until i changed to a less feminine scheme w a rug I got in India. Here's the rug 10 yrs ago in my old DR in my first house. This one is really ummm, quite ... aggressive in its design. But OTOH I think the floral OTT quality goes with the highly feminine OTT vibe of my octagonal, cupola'ed, windowseated room. PS ....Wow, looking at these rooms, I think I know how I became a colorphobe! My eyes hurt. Psssst, and would you believe, my DR was a rouge color just before the photos above? Not sure I ever posted this before. In my defense it was actually a reddish pink.

@KW PNW Z8 - I totally missed the photo until you pointed it out!! She looks like a little doll! Sam is a really good boy - I’ve had him since the day he was born. I used to have his mom (a tiny yorkie poo) and dad (small yorkie). My daughter’s raised one of his siblings - unfortunately, his little sister passed away a couple years ago - bad vet. Very sad. I’m okay with bathing them separately - I’ve already been doing that for the past year or so. It takes too long to bathe Ella! I can get Sam in and out of the bath in like 4 minutes so I just do him first now. Ella‘s ears are pretty funny - everyone says that she looks like a polar bear. She has the best disposition. I actually was a foster mom for her and her brother. I wasn’t planning on keeping her. My mom had passed away unexpectedly- and she was the only thing that could make me smile. She’s the happiest dog I’ve ever met.