Thanks guys! Kristy, that's a good idea. I had tried to use my kids' laptops to get on, but the ports are missing. 3 laptops, and not one of them could get on either. ugh. Gonna have to get somekinda back-up..my comp has crashed on me several times already today. Completely shuts down and restarts on it's own. Lotsa error reports. I wonder if the main problem is Windows XP? Gonna have to maybe uninstall and re-install it. But I don't have the WinXP software to manually download it, and I am scared that if I uninstall it I won't be able to get online to reinstall it. Maybe the comp guy can do it for me. I'll have to give him a call..I just feel bad about bothering him cuz he spent so much time on my comp already, and did alot more than he had to, and he didn't charge us since he's my son's friend's dad. I don't want him to feel like I am taking advantage. what to do, what to do.

Love your 5th photo. Daylilies, rose campion, white petunias, they are lovely together. I love the old fashioned feel that the rose campion gives to a garden. I also like the way you have your picturs lined up next to each other, and the fact that you can click on them to enlarge. I will have to spend some more time learning how to use photobucket. Christine

Well, I guess I answered my own question. I went out to look over cameras today and fell in love with the Sony Cybershot T100. It looks like a great camera and seems really easy to use. I called a friend of mine to see if her husband who used to work as a professional photographer could check out the specs online. He didn't have to, he owns two! I guess that is a good enough endorsement for me, I'm going to go buy one tomorrow. He even offered to help me with anything I had questions about, but he said it is so easy to use (with a couple exceptions) that I probably can figure it out with no problem. Thanks for the input. By the way, my Elph bit the dust in an interesting way. I was showing my husband some shots I took the day before and saw my rabbit being cute from the corner of my eye. So I switched to picture mode, adjusted the zoom (before turning so she would not stop playing with the paper bag), the turned to snap the photo. When I looked it was so badly blurred it looked like the picture was melting. So I looked at the screen, and everything I looked at looked that way! Something must come have loose, a lens I guess? If I gently shake it I can hear something rattle. The guy at the shop said I must have dropped it and jarred something loose, of course it was in my hands when it suddenly went blurry. Weird! Believe it or not, I have owned it for 5 years and never dropped it, my cell phone wishes I could say the same about it!

Readerlearner .. aw, thanks! It's seriously nice to hear you like to read my posts. I always kind of feel like I'm running in a million different directions at once and I figured that you all probably thought I have a form of decorating attention deficit disorder. We live in North Carolina. I'm originally from NY though and I know from comparison, the cost of living in general is much, much lower here. JGTBM .. I'm almost 99.9 % positive I'm going to go with Wbgroovy's suggestion and do the black polkadots, with the green velvet cording. I called and put a hold on the green velvet today since it's in the discount room, I can't beat $5 a yard for velvet. I'm going to try to get there tomorrow to pick it all up, then drop it off at the shop. Budge .. I love the idea of fringe! My next big project after these chairs will be a sofa for this room, maybe fringe will show up on it :) I stopped one other fabric warehouse today and boy, they had awesome prices on some stuff. I dug through their remnant stacks and found two pieces I really liked! I bought 4 yards of this at $2 a yard, it's indoor/outdoor and I'm totally in love with it. I'm not sure it's going to go on the glider yet, but I think it looks great on it. I bought 6 yards of this and again it was $2 a yard. I have this in mind to do a seat cushion for a bench I'd like to put in the hallway : Just showing them from the top :