First, you have a very pretty pond. What is that light colored plant on the left of the picture, it kind of looks like a verigated spider plant? Wood around dirt and water tends to rot, so I don't know if the scrap wood will do you much good in the long run. I do think you could easily pull back a few feet to give the water a longer travel to the pond. I would build a small berm out of soil in which to set your waterfall basin. You might try hunting around for some rocks, sandstone or limestone etc, to help contain the dirt. A lot of people go to sites where new homes are being constructed, and ask the builders if they can have some of the rocks they're digging up. Or if you know someone with a pasture who might have some rocks that you could have. You'll need a piece of liner, long enough to cover the space you've decided on for your length. Be sure to overlap it with the existing liner in the pond so that no water can wash back up and escape.

the day after Valentines might be a good day to find an inexpensive Large teddy bear to put a bib on, pin a burp towel on its shoulder and add a clear handbag or celophane bag over his arm, filled with a couple more bibs and burp clothes. Find a basket to stuff with batting, throw on some pretty papper, put your bear and other baby things in it. Hmmm, still thinking.

Oriental Trading has piggy banks. For some reason, I can't post the link to the variety of piggy banks, but from the page I've attached, in the search field, type in piggy bank and you'll see a few different ones. Maybe the Paint your Own one would be cute.....depending on how many you had. You could paint your little saying on it. Here is a link that might be useful: Oriental Trading Piggy Banks

The organization of our remodeled kitchen has really helped. I was fortunate that we could rework our kitchen so that we could add more cabinetry. Creative nesting and unnesting of objects in the few cabinets in our old kitchen was so annoying that I really hated putting anything away. I love having a variety of cabinetry. I'm not of the drawer-for-all-purposes ilk. I love matching the items I want to store to the right type of cabinet. For instance, my large mixing bowls, stainless and glass, are on the bottom shelf of a door cabinet. It's really simple to open a door and get a good view of the bowls from the side (instead of a view of the top items only in a drawer) and to grab a bowl from the bottom of the stack without having the sides of a drawer interfering. I would hate having to pull out the entire stack of bowls every time I wanted one near the bottom. I use a variety of these bowls just about every time I prepare something and for me, the fixed shelf is the ideal spot. An all-drawer kitchen would have forced me to compromise. I love having lots of upper shelves. I can space them as closely as possible to make as much of the vertical space as I can. The more surfaces I have, the less nesting I have to do. Roll outs, although not as convenient as drawers, allow better use of vertical space. If a drawer is too deep space is wasted and if a drawer is too shallow it's unusable. I prioritized storage so that my most used items are in a drawer, on an upper shelf or in the front of a roll out or fixed shelf. Lesser and rarely used items get placed in the less convenient spots. That way, I have easy access to everything I need 90-95% of the time while keeping the flexibility of vertical space management with some non-drawer cabinets sprinkled in. My kitchen still gets messy but it always feels under control because I can zoom around the kitchen and get things put away quickly since a lot of nesting isn't involved. And I agree, our dw dish drawers have also helped with kitchen tidiness. It's a lot less daunting when only half a dw at a time has to be unloaded. I hated getting down on the floor in my old kitchen to find something on the shelf of a base cabinet. But I love the fixed shelf base cabinet that I have in my new kitchen because I was able to pick and choose the items that are best stored there. This type of cabinet offers more storage than any of my drawer or pull out cabinets. I think an all-or-nothing approach forces items to be stored in less than ideal spots. I would hate having my large bowls in a drawer but conversely, I would hate having my pots and pans on a fixed shelf. Adding some variety allows options and in mho, a better chance for optimizing storage.