AWESOME!!! What a terrific find! I love old issues of magazines best and old gardening books too.

Welcome Hmazie...I agree with ronnie..I didn't read the whole name (I guess I only read what I wanted to read) then looked at the post and the date and was momentarily confused. I'm sure we will get used to it. I have done MANY searches and never found a mosaic magazine...but like everyone has said, now that you found us you will not need a magazine!!!! I am a book nut and have tons of great mosaic books if you need any ideas for great books I'd be more than willing to throw out some titles at ya!!!

The people that frequent GW Kitchens forum are researchers who look far and wide for the perfect faucet, sink, range etc. The internet has made this possible. If you are not internet savvy (or just don't like searching endlessly), do not have a big box store or design center nearby, or don't have access to tons of design magazines--You Wouldnt know what options are available. When my parents designed their kitchen 40+ years ago, they drove 2 hours each way to get something that was not the ONLY option available in our small town: two major builders whose interior fixtures and finishes were all identical in every house they built (and every house was "custom"). Anything that has been replaced since has been on the advice of a local plumber (whatever kitchen faucet he had on the truck--and its a cheap horrible faucet), and whatever fridge fit in the slot that the local appliance store had...coupled with the fact that my mother in particular seems to think a faucet you spent 50 bucks on in 1969 should cost $50 now, not $500. So they were told what was available and they took the advice. For them it WAS what was available. I recently did a kitchen for a client who moved, but I had done some interior design work for her when she lived in her old place. When I saw the kitchen...I said Wow! this kitchen has held up well!. She said "Huh?" and I said "For a kitchen that was put in in 1980 or so it looks great!" She said: "But I put in new cabinets and countertops and floor in 1997!" She hired a kitchen fabricator from her church bulletin who came and measured and semi-custom fabricated her cabinets and countertops: He gave her an option of two door styles, two wood species and one finish(natural). Same with hardware, same with laminate...she didnt even really know what Corian was. So, she got the same kitchen more or less that anybody who hired him got. And he happened to be in a time warp. He is probably still installing the same kitchen. When we did her new kitchen in 2006-7 she was shocked, (and overwhelmed) by all the options. People who are not design junkies really have very little idea of whats out there. (And before the internet had no real way of finding it either, unless they had a good designer or builder)

You may not see what I see Annz, lol. If you have enabled this feature in your preferences, there is a small check box under the posting box which reads: Check here if you would like post replies emailed to you. Please note that you must enable this feature on your Preferences page by checking off 'Allow other users to send you email'. If you have the feature enabled and you check the box that is offered to you, every post to that thread will go to your email box. That is what I mean by "subscribing" to a thread. The problem is that once you sub to a thread, the "preview post" button moves down and in it's usual place you get a highlighted button that says "click here" followed by: if you no longer wish to receive notifications for this message. After writing a post I hit the first highlighted button under the post box by rote. Sometimes, that first button gives me a preview of my post (if I am not subbed to that thread), other times (if I am subbed to the thread) the first button merely unsubs me and takes me back to the general forum. Then, if I am lucky enough to realize I did not post my message, I have to go back, recover the post, and submit it. The problem is simply that having a key button (the preview post button) move around, causes me to frequently do something I did not intend to do. Maybe it's just me and my half-heimers but I've never had a moving button on any other forum and it's driving me nuts!