forgive me.. you are furthering the conversation.. and doing more research on your own ... as long as you werent just relying on the experts to do all the work ... i approve ... you wouldnt be learning... otherwise ... and that is sort of the point of assignment ... as compared to how fast you can get someone else to answer it for you ... ken ps:.. they do not look like dandilions .... and that is part of the lesson ... those are the Taraxacum family per google .. no one has mentioned that .. again.. that is part of the lesson ... so quit using the improper term ... i could say they look like coreopsis flowers.. more than dandilion ... but they arent even suggesting that either ... so i dont offer that word ... words mean things.. and the flower IDs the family ... etc ...

Squirrel I'm glad you brought up the bookshelf. It is very outdated looking. I think I'll ask dh to cut a piece of wood and nail it up there. I guess it wouldn't look any worse than it does now, lol. I had plans to finish installing the crown molding tonight, but I am ticked off with dh for taking too long with another project so he is ticked with me, ;) I think we might need to take a break and relax for a while. Reading some of the 'why men won't read directions' thread in the kitchen forum cooled me off quite a bit. Men, just gotta love 'em!

I'm with you on Baldwin and if we're going down the dead road then I'd have to add in Angelo Donghia. I still have clips of rooms he did in the 70s that look great. There's a woman here in NY that lives in an apartment Billy Baldwin did for her, beige and French mixed with Lucite and quite wonderful. She never changed a thing. The Draper show was terrific. She had such a great sense of drama and color. There was a video of her as part of the show that was a great camp moments. It was done for a TV show in the '50s and she's a big lady wearing one of those floral dresses with a huge full skirt that rustles, like my Nana wore. Mamie Eisenhower hair and bracelets that rattle. We were doubled over laughing. She had a voice that made Julia Child seem shy. It was a hoot. One of her black dressers went for $200 at an auction not long ago. Someone got a big bargain.

Oceanna, I'm nowhere near a good enough crocheter to make such a cute squirrel! Don't you love it's tail!!?! : ) Thank you, Squirrel. I dearly do love my chicory flowers! That fairy is adorable.