You might try a special spray paint formulated for plastic: (website: first of its kind that bonds directly to most plastics) : KRYLON Fusion Spray Paint for Plastic Also see if your library has this book by Annie Sloan. She talked about decorating pots on Victory Garden (PBS) TV show and was their selling her book. Or check the Victory Garden Website: Annie Sloan's Painted Garden ISBN: 1571459278 AllBooksForLess has it for a bargain price. Sue

Strange Angel, wandering jew are said to need bright light to retain their variegation, but I have mine hanging on my balcony in a north-eastern exposure. It get a bit of filtered morning sun then the sun moves behind my building. The plant has been growing vigorously for three seasons now and hasn't lost any of it's variegation so I'm sure that spot will work for you as well!

There are a ton of them on EBay right now, all variegated and cheap and if you cant get it from Lowes or Home depot, wait till the last minute and bid on one or two of these, and get your basket. They have everything from single rooted long cuttings, to 6in hanging baskets for I think it is $12 right now. But the bidders could make it go higher. But if you know how EBay works, pick what you like, and then bid in the last minute of the auction bid as high as you want to go, and you can get it probably pretty cheap.

My Mom is moving in 40 days and I have been elected to stage her home for sale afterwards since I had such good luck selling mine in SoFla in '07. Both the new and the old homes are roughly in the same town as is my own, so moving/borrowing pieces is easy. Every single square inch of the house she is selling is in excellent condition- those are our pros. The cons are that this will not be the optimum time to offer a house for sale and the resistance I get from her "not liking" how I am decorating a home that her mother built decades ago. She understands in her head but her heart hurts a bit when she hears that I will be replacing some old light fixtures that her mother loved and neutralizing the "every shade of pink and orange known to man" color scheme that permeates the home. She would not move at all except she is coming on eighty years of age and is in a secluded area a bit too far from me- it takes me too long to get to her and in winter she is near inaccessible. The new house is literally seven houses away from me in a more populated area, so we know it is the right thing for her to do. Just that the process is difficult for her emotionally- leaving an old family home. Best of luck to all of us trying to sell this fall.