Beautiful pics. It's nice that your Cosmos are still blooming. Mine started very early and are finished now. How I love that Heavenly Blue!! I grew it last year, but never got around to sowing them this year. It's a pity they bloom so late. My Belle Blanche bloom lasted for less than a day, but there are two more just ready to pop. Thanks for sharing.

Sorry Alana! I'm stealing box #9. Current Standings Player #1 (Lisa) has Box # 3 (Denise's stolen from Karen) Player #2 (Mariann) has Box #12 (Lainey's stolen from Carmen) Player #3 (Denise) has Box # 2 (Mariann's stolen from Karen) Player #5 (Tracy) has Box #14 (Frozen-Alana's box stolen from Sue) Player #6 (Karen) has Box # 9 (Pat's stolen from Alana) Player #7 (Sue) has Box #5 (Tracy's, stolen from Lisa-frozen) Player #8 (Shirley) has box #10 (Carmen's, stolen from Barb) Player #9 (Pat) has Box #8 (Frozen-Shirley's) Player #10 (Carmen) has #1 (Lisa's, stolen from Karen) Player #11 (Becky) has Box #13 (Margaret's, stolen from Mariann) Player #12 (Lainey) has box #7 (Sue's) Player #13 (Margaret) has box #6 (Karen's stolen from Denise) Player #14 (Alana) has # Updated Number of Possessions Lisa- box 9, 5, 3 Mariann- box 12, 13, 3, 12 Denise- box 5, 12, 2, 5, 6, 2 Tracy- box 12, 14, 12, 14, 4, 8, 14 (frozen) Karen- box 3, 1, 3, 2, 9 Sue- box 3, 8, 14, 5, 8, 14, 5, 3, 5 (frozen) Shirley- box 10 Pat- box 8, 4, 8, 14, 8 (frozen) Carmen- box 12, 14, 12, 5, 1 Becky- box 13 Lainey- box 7 Margaret- box 8, 2, 6 Alana-box 3, 9 Alana's turn. Alana, have fun with your family gathering!

Thank you one and all for your comments and compliments!! My co-workers really do appreciate my endeavors to make the coffee room "prettier" and a nice place to "escape to". At our recent staff party, we had to write compliments/comments about each of our co-workers (anonymous)for a game we played and I got a lot of "Martha Stewart" type ones! Luvs, there is faux ice chips in the bottom of the two tall vases. Thought it went with the icy looking crystal trees. DD

Finally, we have pictures! Photo taken before the apartment was fixed and painted. Window is much taller, hidden here by a blind. Faces north. Dresser. It's twin will go in the wall-to-wall closet on the opposite side of the window wall. Wall light. Three of these will be wired together to replace a large, ugly square wall scone. Heirloom bedside table. Small area rug. The background is barely yellow. Blue clouds painting (above bed?) Proposed bedroom layout. Missisng is a photo of the armoire. It's old, plain and of the same medium brown as the dresser. Shelves above the bedside table. A wall of shelves (or three bookcases) on wall opposite bed (I've got over 1,000 books; they have to go wherever there's space). Top shelf will hold my collection of antique Paddington Bears. What looks like a box under the window is a short storage bench; it will have a cushion top and a hole on the side for my shy cat to hide in. It's white. Still need bed linen ... and colour for walls!