i would be so grateful of anyone knows what the name of the iris is that i am seeking and where i can buy some. My dear mother n law who has been gone for some time now used to have an iris growing in her yard and gave me some years ago.it was purple, and smelled like grapes.. very delicious.. i mean to say.. very much like grapes!! yum.. i would do anything to find it again .. Halp!! please email me with any ideas.. and thank you for the bottom of my heart :)

Wow, lots of plain whites here! And then the opposite mix and match crowd! OK, here's what I do: buy two sets of sheets that can go with each other, then mix and match OR keep all the same as the mood strikes. My daughter has bright pink set and a big loud flower set with the same pink along with blue and yellow on white background. Mix and match is easy. Son has solid royal blue set and rocket ship print set. Mix and match again! My own are a funky lime green/dark blue/white pattern -- stripes on the fold-down cuffs in the blue and white and then lime green with the blue and white dots on the rest of the sheet. Mix and match these with a solid dark blue set. It's fun to play around, and if you already have a set you can bring in a pillowcase when you go shopping and look for something fun to match. Plain white? No thanks!

I sometimes color co-ordinate them, but they aren't matching sets. I may have a couple of matching sets...but so far back in the linen closet that I never use them. A couple of years ago I bought a storage unit that belonged to an old woman who had kept stuff in storage for 15 years, but moved away and told me she wasn't going to pay on it any more. I had bought some nice antiques from her, so since I knew where her storage unit was located, when they had an auction, I bought it. I had offered to buy it from her but she wouldn't talk about selling. Anyway, I did get some very nice things out of it....and lots of the old sheets that I love that reminded me of the ones I got when I got married, back in the mid 60's, but they were yellowed from age and she was a smoker. So I put them aside and was going to throw them away, but I decided to bleach the hell out of them. I put them to soak with some Biz and some bleach...and then used fabric softener and they came out spotlessly beautiful and soft as can be. I love them. It doesn't matter to me that my sheets don't always match. I wouldn't buy a used mattress but it doesn't bother me to buy used sheets. Oh, and the reason she wouldn't talk to me about selling that unit....I came across a big box full of letters she wrote to her boyfriend. XXX in content. ;)

Thank you for posting that example! I was just checking in on this thread hoping to see an example of where I might locate it on a tub/shower wall in terms of height since I will want to access it while lying down as well as while standing. Not a big deal (obviously!!!) but I want it to look right and to function right. I'm sure he is going to lose it on me. I have found all of this quite stressful at a time when work is also quite stressful. Oh well. This, along with a couple of the bathroom rated command hooks for loofahs and we should be all good for storage sice none of my bottles are more than 13 inches tall. I was not thinking quite clearly yesterday when I went to the Tile Shop. I wonder if he will also charge me $200 for tiling the little one? I hope not. He really seems lacking in creativity and a desire to do anything beyond what he "has seen" or certainly to do what I want; first on today's agenda will be me telling him that we are going to find a way to recess a medicine cabinet in a structural wall (after all it does support only the roof, not another whole story). He told me yesterday it would be impossible to do so. I really think he usually just doesn't want to do the work or put in the effort and hopes I will just take him at his word if he seems unpleasant enough to deal with. What s smart strategy! It really is not reflected in his other AL reviews but maybe they just took it as him being a seasoned authority. I probably should remind him I am an Angie's list member.