I really did the same thing using MS Paint, a scan of a page of graph paper and a bunch of graphics copied from a seed seller. The problem I have with that is that I can't really get the angled gardens placed and "planted" easily, so I had to work back and forth between Paint and an old PhotoDeluxe program I happened to have. I can spend hours and hours on this stuff ! I think I played with that program for about four hours last night ;-) Here is a link that might be useful: Annie's Kitchen Garden

blakey - My brown sugar is stored in a Anchor Hocking cracker jar (the ones with the aluminum lids in the close up of the jars) bought at Target. Haven't had a problem but someone else said they didn't think those were really airtight. So maybe a bailjar / fido jar with a rubber gasket would work - that is certainly airtight. Flyleft - yup - love the Nambe - I think they are so sexy looking. But can you believe the big bowl in the center is a $20 knock off from Target? cotehele - can you believe that tin ceiling was hidden under a [gasp] drop ceiling when we bought the house. Unfortunately, we had to sacrifice two thirds of the tin in the other section of the kitchen because it had been destroyed, but were happy to salvage this little bit. Plus we are fortunate to have tin in very good shape in the Master. Tin was considered a fire deterrent and our house belonged to a Fire Chief in the early days... ncamy - glad to have helped you with your planning. I have learned so so much from this site and have been so inspired I am glad to pay it forward.

I am so envious of you folks with ReStores! Since this is a very low income area there are a lot of junk shops, I can pop a spare backplate and the small rosette (since it needs a matching key escutcheon that wasn't on that door) into the glove compartment. Unless I'm really stuck, I'd prefer to avoid the architectural salvage guy down where I used to live because he is viciously overpriced - like $100 for a single doorknob that was one of about 50 matching ones, not exactly rare and unusual - and very disorganized. I may take more photos and scan rubbings and send them to some other places that sell old pieces and offer hardware matching. Kim, right this minute we're in the "this sucks this sucks this sucks this sucks i hate this house will someone please shoot me NOW" mode because it's slurping down money like a kid with a frappe - milkshake, that is. Between last week's and this week's disasters we're expected to hit $10k, all "WTF??" expenses, not the expected ones. We were counting on having additional expenses, but we were expecting to have some proceeds from the other house to buffer them. Right now I have a plumber (overpriced franchise plumber, but my regular plumber doesn't have the right equipment) downstairs snaking tree roots out of the sewer line, since we had a huge backup last night. We're also extremely peeved with our home inspector for how many things he completely missed. flyleft, we've already been up in the attic and down cellar to find absolutely nuffin in the "If Walls Could Talk" genre. I found traces of a hideous "country blue" wallpaper in the master bedroom - PO painted right over the electrical outlet plates and stuff so if you take the plates off, around each receptacle is a little border of blue wallpaper. Around a defunct cable outlet (no cable attached to it anymore) I tried soaking and peeling some back. No, it's stuck right on there something fierce. So, when we get to that room we'll sand off all the paint boogers and drips, spackle and feather off the seams, and then either skimcoat and paint or put up wallpaper w/liner. *gasp* DH is much more amenable to wallpaper in this house, since it "fits the house", as long as I choose monochromatic or unfussy patterns like most of Bradbury's "Morris Alternative Fills" line. But that's a ways down the road: we need working sewer, properly working electric, fully working heat, etc. before we get too far into "pretties". (I admit I have spent a little bit on "pretties" though: we got wood blinds for the LR because keeping DH in clothes is extremely difficult ;-) , rods for my cheapie eBay curtains, slipcover for my wonderful new couch which people were fighting over last weekend, and a couple of cheap secondhand furniture pieces. I'm still looking for a mailbox and the mailman is getting a little irritated with us!) We do believe that the large brass chandelier in the dining room is either original or very close to it - it's heavy as all get-out, can tell ya that much. If we take it down it'll be hung up in the attic wrapped in sheets for safekeeping. I did pick up, at a yard sale, two antique pan chandeliers: one looks very much like Rejuvenation's Belmont. The other looks sorta like this. I paid $15 for the pair. KGW had a chandelier restored for a surprisingly low price, I think at JF PeGan; I'm thinking about sending them over and seeing how much a complete restoration would cost. The little two-light would go beautifully in the entry. I'm not sure I like the large one as well, maybe I'll have it restored and sell it (depending on how much the restoration goes of course).

We might have! I am 29, so your 32-year-old and I undoubtedly crossed paths. I went to Hillsborough schools and SMHS and played several sports, which meant meeting a lot of people at other schools. Did your older daughter go to Crocker? She may have known my sister, who is 38. It's surprising how many people lived in the area or were already familiar with the Flinstones House. I wasn't expecting so many people to share in my nostalgia, but it's nice! I like hearing everybody's different childhood names for it.