I upload pictures to a folder on a friend's web server, and use the same html link to his folder, instead of a photo-hosting website. Claire over on the New England Gardening forum uses Tinypic. According to her, the advantage of TinyPic.com is that it's very easy to upload one photo and link to it, and you don't have to set up an account. The disadvantage is that you can only upload one photo at a time, which is not useful if you want to show many photos. Claire's instructions for using Tinypic.com: 1. The photo files on your computer must be in a format such as jpeg or jpg. 2. Using Tiny Pic, you hit the "Choose File" button and it searches your computer desktop. 3. Choose one then select a size ("Resize" button), and then UPLOAD NOW. 4. When the file is uploaded, copy the HTML tag, not the IMG tag. 5. Paste the HTML tag in your post. Here is a link that might be useful: tinypic.com

Wow..these are all so beautiful!!! mel I hope you get to feeling better! mary lu I have followed your progress from when you first posted pictures and your gardens always amaze me! I go to the cottage garden forum often, mostly just read and look... Another one of my favorites is also on the cottage garden forum from 'gottagarden' and her red bed. She posted pictures of her 2nd year w/this bed and as usual my mouth drops when I see her pictures too See the link below Dena Here is a link that might be useful: Red Bed 2nd Year

I have copied just a few black and white photos on a good color copier at the stationary store.For about $1.00 plus you can get an 81/2 by 11 inch piece of paper run off and depending if you want it to be the consistency of a photo(shiny) it is a little more. Sometimes I think the color copies of photos that I have run off are better than the originals. I also cheat and have color copies of my scrapbook pages run off so that the grandparents canhave their own scrapbook pages. There is a little difference in colors sometimes but for the most part for $1.58, I could not get reprints, more stickers, paper, and my time to equal that. REspond backif you need more info.

Wendy, I love your graph paper and notebook! I saw your design on the other thread, and I love the pillar there! One thing I've learned from the gw forums is to check and recheck everybody else's work, especially the KD's! On one of the kitchen forum's "how to ask for layout help," it specifically says that overhead 2D plans are more helpful than the 3D views, so I will do that. But for me, I really need to visualize something to understand it, and the 3D views, like the IKEA planner makes, or those above that you revised from your KD's plans that had the mistakes, are way more helpful for me to understand how things will look. I also really like notebooks and/or folders! i know this is "low tech," but I'm going to print out some inspiration pics and pics of the actual appliances and things I've picked out, and make a scrapbook. It will cover all the rooms in the house, have the "before" pictures I'm shooting on Saturday, and then pictures of what I want in each room from the floor to the lighting, including walls, and pretty much everything. Then I'm going to take a lot of pictures throughout the whole process, and finally, the "reveal" pictures. I'll have it all on my computer too, but sometimes it's nice to flip through a physical hard copy folder/notebook, and it can be handy when you don't want to whip out your phone or tablet on site.