I plan to make all my seedlings (that I can handle) flower, then force them for the following year, and give away. I already promised the first one for Cindeea, for she sent me seeds, the second one for Maria, for her seeds... And then the rest will go to Project Angelfood. Hopefully they will see it as a nice gesture and not an unnecessary burden. :o)

I got mine today too, and just in time! I'm leaving at some strange hour of morning on tuesday, and this is the last day they could have arrived that I would've had a chance to do something with them :) I wasn't expecting them, I was so surprised! in a looong stretch of inconvenient days, they arrived on the ONE convenient day possible. I love it when that happens, it's usually the opposite. lol. they're extremely wilted and I don't blame them, LOL. the more hardwood part seems pretty firm but the thick green stems are a little rubbery. the growing tip on the coral pink appears to have just given up, but the ecuador has some decent sized leaves and they seem to be perking back up again :) so, someone needs to tell me when I get back who to send the moneys to! :) omg, and I think I still owe theresa money for the lotus tubers! if I owe anyone money please let me know. lol. things have been so crazy lately! thanks again, lindas and gloria and everyone on here that made this possible. you guys are absolute dolls. Ria

I am doing all three of our baths at $1000/bath. You can say it's really half-bath re-dos because in the two full baths I'm leaving the shower or tub alone. Downstairs half bath, completed: got a Victorian style pedestal sink and toilet from Home Depot, $100 and $200 respectively. Ten years ago, don't have the exact figures. Settled for Kohler polished nickel rather than brushed nickel faucets at HD because polished was $180 and brushed would have been $200 more custom order. Four and a half feet of bead board for one wall, baseboard, some molding, cut down a wall mirror I found on the street and made my own inset medicine cabinet. Less than $100 for carpentry and paint. Inexpensive hexagonal floor tile, $50-80. HD light and GRCI outlet, receptacle box, couple feet of Romex. $60. Splurged on Thibaut wallpaper, Augustine hummingbirds, $200 there. Master bath, in progress: $350 Toto toilet, online. $120 tall NuTone medicine cabinet, online. $50 floor tile, HD. Sink, $64, online. Light, $30, HD, Romex, GFCI, new switch, call it $20. Wallpaper, $60, eBay. Wall mount faucet is going to be $60-$200, online. Plumbing conversion to wall mount is going to be less than $200 even if it means waiting until my brother comes up for Thanksgiving. Shower doors removed, $5 vinegar and Comet bathroom spray, steel wool and emery cloth, look new again. Left over paint for ceiling. Kids' bath, planning stages: 60" Pegasus Exhibit Vanity, listed $749 HD, negotiated to $600 price-matching, but bought it $360 new, Craigslist. Looking for double vanity top Craigslist, can get something for $100 but not quite what I want, cultured marble top would be $350 at Lowes, I have time. 3'x4' mirror, HD, $80. Light, $60, HD. Medicine cabinet, NuTone again, $60-$120. Faucets, $200-300. Shower curtain and curved rod, $100. Towel rods are inexpensive wooden drapery brackets and wooden closet rods, custom length so I can put them on the studs because children will do chin-ups, $30. Paint, $30. Floor tile, $80. Better try to cut back on the vanity top or faucets. Keeping toilet and tub. If you stick with neutral colors and simple lines, inexpensive doesn't look cheap. Stock items at the big box stores are half the price of custom orders. Online is often cheaper than big box. Craigslist and Habitat for Humanity resale stores can get you quality items for not much especially if you live in an upscale area. The guy I got the vanity from got it from HD's bashed-up cardboard carton outlet, I have to find out where that is. You get one splurge per room. Tradesmen are expensive; educate yourself to DIY. DIY can be better quality than tradesmen sometimes. Concentrate on the overall effect, and make compromises on individual items that don't compromise the overall effect. What would be the most expensive thing to change? Can you leave it alone and live with it? I left alone the pale grey tiled walls and terrazzo shower pan in my bath, and will leave alone the grey tub and toilet in the children's bath along with the white tiles finely speckled with grey. Neutral colors, simple lines; I can work with them. What do you hate? I hate 1960s busy mixed color tile floors; they were well done and will outlast Armageddon but I tiled over them. I hated the blue toilet and blue boxy sink in a grey-tiled bath. Gone. I hate marbled Formica chipboard vanities and metal-rimmed pea-green sinks. I hate low-end mingy 4" spread builder's grade faucets. Will be gone. I hate sickly fluorescent lights and vinyl floors in bathrooms. Gone.

Hi, Lav! Yes, the middle doors in the hutch will be glass. I'd looove to have more glass, but alas...we need hidden storage. I did swing two open units for my cookbooks and pitchers though. :) I'm using corbels on the hutch for sure and maybe some on the other side of the room, too. I want to hold them up under the cabinets before making the final call on where I want them since I can't seem to add them into the mock-ups.