ali,, you can post again as long as you change something in the subject line.

Be still my heart! Nope, I couldn't work there. LOL. My three major weaknesses are Plants, fabric and books in that order. I worked at a greenhouse/nursery before I opened my own and the boss allowed us to purchase our trees, etc at wholesale. We kept tally sheets in the break room of our purchases and mine was always several pages long and it got taken out of our paychecks before they were issued. I can't even imagine all the UFOs working in a fabric store would create.

I've always planned to do a Baltimore Album style quilt, using all Batiks for the applique. These pictures inspire me to start thinking about that again. I love these fabrics!

As our reno progressed (in limbo stage right now, however), DH and I had been working our way around the kitchen, DIYing/planning the various drawer dividers. This is one of our potential knife drawers/areas for the moment: I originally slotted the left side for longer prep tools, and was going to set up the drawer beneath it for knives -- DH would DIY a drawer block, as soon as I spec'ed out a design. As much as all those knife blocks keep everything so neat and tidy, they take up too much space. (And, ditto Fori: we like/need to see our blades.) And because we're upgrading our knife collection baby steps at a time, I don't really know what size block I'll eventually need. (Just bought these terrific Victorinox bread, carving and boning knives from CutleryNMore for really good prices, if you don't mind the white handles. OK, we didn't need the boning knife, but the extra $9.99 got me free shipping. @practigal: check it out.) The original packaging is perfectly fine until we can decide either to purchase 'official' sheaths/shields (so we can continue to toss the knives into the drawers) or go with the Ikea knife holder inserts (thanks for the tip -- will need to check that out). Unaccounted for in the pic, as they're still sitting in the soon-to-be ditched countertop block: 8" chef's, paring and utility knives.