Dry rosemary leaves can be incorporated into handmade paper. I did it. They can be added to small stuffed toys - any stuffing, especially nice in toys filled with some kind of seed, like bird seed. (I once had a lot of bluebonnet seed (=lupine) and made small rag critters stuffed with it. They came out like miniature bean bags - very interesting.) Rosemary added to pillow stuffing is said to improve memory.

OSH, you're cracking me up. I opened the post determined to tell you that you're obsessed... then saw the chair, and now I think (as I've thought before) you're a smart cookie. And delivery, too! How could you pass it up? Imagine that in your office, with a red lumbar pillow, contrasting/complementing that new, fabulous rug. Too much? Or just right, in a very slightly over-the-top kind of way?

"Sunny feel" is exactly what I need :) My kitchen is rather dark (although I'm installing a sliding door soon and hoping this solves it), and that tile is so yummy. I've been wanting to incorporate an apricot tone to a kitchen as long as I can remember - sort of a homage to my mom, who passed away several years ago and, who adored apricots lol. It just would make me happy to come into the room and see that color; sort of a trace memory of her with me there daily. I just hadn't found a single tile yet which captured the essence of what she represented to me and that tile is so cheerful, warm and homey that it really does evoke "mom" for me. May I ask what you wound up paying for it? *gets ready to faint*

I think it's a swell gift idea and would be pleased to find it in my stocking so I hope your gifts were received with good cheer, Lynn. My friend's son recently had his done and was tickled to find some Australian native DNA in his background. Scandinavian/German/Italian was all that was in the oral tradition of the family, so it was a neat surprise. Our family's Ancestry.com hobbyist received an email from a "surprise" cousin that we did not know we had, after several family members' DNA was registered. Photos were exchanged and yes, there is no way to deny the blood kinship--he looks just like the rest of us, poor fellow. The generation of folks who might have been shocked/hurt by this surprise family member are all gone, and I am glad for him that his lifelong question of paternity could be answered. I can see that it might be awkward for younger families who find out they have siblings they never heard of, but I'm a fan of sunlight in dark family corners-- and I also think it's time that some kinds of families stop acting like those situations never happen "among our kind of people", lol. I also had my dog's DNA done and I'm getting our newer dog's done, too. Very fun to find out what went into these rescue/shelter mutts we love.