I had a great day today getting caught up on a few things that were stressing me out. I am beginning to relax. We are putting up two Christmas trees this year. The first one is up and in the computer room at the front of the house. It is hard to describe without sounding like it is a bit strange. It has white lights and several wooden seashells on it. I bought the shells in a large quantity box at J.C. Penney here when they went out of business many years ago. They must have used them to decorate, not sure. Anyway, the are about 2 inches across. My husband likes to deck the tree with the white lights and shells. I must say it is very striking when lit at night. Our other tree will be live one that we will put up next weekend. That will have multicolor lights and be decked with assorted bulbs and ornaments collected over the last 31 years. No theme, just warmth and memories including many received in garden website swaps. I am anxious to start unpacking each memory to deck on that tree. It is very cold here and we are having flurries tonight. The week ahead looks cold and bitter and the map of the whole country looks pretty miserable. It isn't starting out so great so far. Stay warm everyone and have a great week ahead. Margo

Michelle, you're just having way too much fun, LOL. The martini glasses sound great and I want to see those cruets. Diana, get a disposable camera and when you get pictures developed you can get a CD with the pictures on it. Load those onto the computer and then you can put them on photobucket or a similar site or send them by email to one of us and we can post them. At least, I'd try to post them, I don't make any rash promises, LOL. Annie

marti, I sent you an email. Faye

That's a nice looking Santa, and what a neat idea the silicon "lid" is for preventing boiling over. Thank you for sharing! Satine and I are swap partners, and she wrote to me just a few days ago. She doesn't have a computer right now, so she hasn't been able to write or check the KT. She was a wonderful fall swap partner, and I feel lucky to have her as a swap partner again for this one. I mailed her package on Monday.