Jasmine - What a great deal you got on those pots! WooHoo! Also, thanks for the compliment on the seed packets. You have no idea the countless hours that went in to me folding paper until I found the perfect design! LOL! Here's how you do it: 1. Cut a piece of notebook paper in fourths. Each piece of ruled paper will become the seed packets. I normally just crease it it half both directions and tear along the creased line. 2. Use the short side of the paper as the top. (There are two short sides and two long sides, like any rectangle would have.) I also like to use the red line that goes down the page to the inside of the packet, so that would be facing you right now. Bring the top left corner and top right corner down and in to the top middle part of the paper where both points meet. Where they meet, is where you'll crease the top left and top right side of the paper. It should look like a point at the top that forms a triangular shape at the top of the paper, like the point on an arrow. 3. Bring the bottom of the paper up until it meets the bottom of the triangular shape and crease it there. 4. Bring the left side in to the center of the paper and crease it there. (The center is easily visible by the line that was made in the middle of the top triangle shape you already made. 5. Do the same thing to the right side bringing it also into the center and creasing it. 6. Bring the bottom up to where the the left side and right side straight lines end. 7. Fold the top flap down inside the bottom flap you just brought up to "seal" the envelope. It really is an amazingly simple mini seed packet that used lightweight, ordinary notebook paper. All I do is open up the right side (because I'm right-handed), pour the seeds in and fold it right back up. One thing I would highly recommend is writing on the ruled lines on the front of the packet BEFORE filling with seeds. It's that simple. I've seen a lot of origami packets that had to use the heavier, bulkier paper to stay firm and like a good packet, but this isn't one of them. I've also seen that if even one little line is not perfectly creased, the packets looks "off", but this isn't one of them, either. It's a very forgiving design that hardly shows a flaw even when my kids make them! I hope others will try to make them. If I can scan each image along the way, then I'll try to make another post with pictures. I blow these out while I'm watching TV without ever cutting or gluing paper. I can make over a hundred in no time at all. Just the first ones you make take a little longer as you get used to it, then you fly right through them! Blessings, Angela

Mary Ellen....have I told you lately I LOVE YOU!!!!!! i know you are generous, dear woman, but my goodness, this box was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious what a box woman. it is so over the top, so absolutely amazing and what a pleasure to open it and continue to unwrap item after item after item. it was like mary poppin's bag. what a joy!!!!!!! i just love every plant you sent me and look forward to adding so much of you to my garden beds. PLANTS: echinacea - mac and cheese oriental lily - angelique calendula - apricot daisy heuchera - mocha ppaf hosta - wheaton blue oriental lily - garden party hosta - earth angel (which is exactly what you are maryellen) gladiola bulbs - pink dreams, good news and vista canna - pretoria (i'm so thrilled to get a canna - i only grew one once before and never dug up the bulb/roots or whatever it's called). i googled this - it's gorgeous oriental lily - show winner SEEDS sweet pea thunbergea (BES vine - i never even saw these in RR boxes -- thanks) forget me nots (which i grow every year in my memory bed) as if this wasn't enough..... funny post it notes, which i'll use this week at work a mini garden stake and flag yummy goobers - which i have been snacking on while dinner is cooking a window hummingbird feeder a handpainted garden/jardin sign a tea time shadow box (DID YOU MAKE THIS??? this is wonderful) votive candle made locally in iowa (i love these, your "friend" sent me a few once upon a time) the most gorgeous porcelain domed votive holder, it's on my desk right now and it's gorgeous and brown hooks - i had to take a second look - 'splain them to me LOL and mary ellen....i absolutely adore you for sending to my sweet baby - seeing that bag brought a tear to my eye and a smile to my heart. she's already down for the night, but i'll save it for her tomorrow. i just love the miniature watering can, shovel, spade and fork set, bubbles and the cutest little bath gels in a cat and a lion package. she'll be sad she missed me open the box, so i set things aside for tomorrow. maryellen, like i said at the start - this package was over the top. it was a birthday and christmas box rolled into one. I LOVE IT ALL, I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! maryanne

Thank you booberry85 for the wonderful fabric and the seeds: pansy, cantaloupe, tomatoes, Navajo melon, and spinless okra. Will plant those beautiful pansy seeds today!! Thank you for helping me have a wonderful Christmas. :-) All my big quilts have dark green in them so the fabric is perfect. And yes chemocurl it has been a while since I was on the Test Forum so I did have to peak at my notes to make things red. :-) Pulled all the Christmas decorations out today. GFETE Best to you and many thanks, quiltingfox

When you purchased the original application it included a subscription of upgrades and updates. It was probably a year. If so, on the 366th day from initial installation the application would no longer be able to upgrade the application or update the definitions (.dat files). This is why a user needs to resubscribe when their current application's subscription is expiring or upgrade to the newer version. Based upon my prior readings and personal experience when I used Symantec if you upgraded the application you would loose credit for the days you have remaining on the prior version. If you just renewed the subscription you would retain the current balance and have an additional year added. My caution is that if you do upgrade with the trial v2010 it will ovewrwrite the current version. Then when the 90 days expire you will have no choice but to purchase the v2010. The option to resubscribe with your current version will be voided. Historically the cost for resubscribing a current version was much less than purchasing a new version. Remember when you purchase new you are buying the entire application and the subscription for it. I cannot speak to the cost differential today, but during the time I was using Symantec as I recall it was the difference of $15 versus upwards to $50. Some users upgrade their purchased AV every year. Some every other year. Some not at all as long as it is in the life cycle. All I ever advise to users now is if the cost differential is still somewhat similar to the above mentioned be sure the "improvements and offerings" of the new version merit the expenditure. If any other member comes up with more up-to-date information that is different than what I am sharing please listen to them. It has been a while and perhaps Symantec has changed its corporate thinking in response to the strong competition they have been receiving over the last years. DA