Alisande, just a heads up - Facebook has the same conditions that most websites do. Anything you post on their site gives them the right to use it. And they especially note that anything of yours that is shared by others gives them that same right even if you delete your account: "1 For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it." Not sure what subject to your privacy settings means, but the comment about sharing might give you pause. Here is a link that might be useful: Facebook Terms

Colleen, does the fondant hold the marzipan on? Or does it stand up by iteself on the sides? Writersblock, that's a good word...instagramization. Some of the best tasting food in the world is fugly. :) Including desserts. That fondant shell on the plate is the way I eat it unless the host/ess made it and is looking and I'm trying to spare her/his feelings. (For Lars who (for good reason) doesn't like to have his gender excluded.) Which reminds me: I used to attend conferences at this hotel/conference center where all meals were plated and served. The plates were gorgeous. The food looked lovely and appetizing. The breakfasts were mostly tolerable, the lunches were survivable especially if there was salad, and the dinners were inedible. Gorgeous served plates of disgusting, flavorless, inedible food. Luckily, sessions were usually done by 11:00 p.m. and the In-'N-Out Burger was only a mile away and open at least until midnight. That was barely into the cellphone age, first models past the brick, so way way before Instagram, but people would have been enticed by that beautiful food... I get the preservation qualities of fondant, but why is smooth so good? Just to be different? Do we really need cakes that need to be steamed like silk blouses? I'd much rather a pretty basket weave or scalloped textured buttercream on a wedding cake. I guess I'm just not stylish anymore. :) OTOH, silver dragees aren't nice to eat either, though very pretty. Thanks for teaching me to spell that, btw. I had thought it was -et. :) I have a fondant rolling pin. I use it for other things...

Don't let anyone kid you. The gray veining may be cool, but the white background, the largest part of the surface, is very creamy. I was all set to buy it until I saw it in person. Took a sample of my white doors with me (my doors are quite white, but not stark white-white) and it was awful. I would have been introducing a completely new element into the color scheme.

Yep, what Maureen said. Your photos are much nicer than any comforter and pillows will ever be. So select the photos you like best, then take a trip to Home Goods and get an inexpensive comforter and rug to compliment the photos. If you really want to stick with the black and white comforter you already have, which is very pretty, a great many of your photos will look fine with it. Black and white or color photographs would look great. I would hang three photos at most. I'm never a gallery wall fan, but I think it can get really chaotic in a small room. How long will your rare guest stay? A few days, a week? Pack a suitcase for that long, gather up any other bags you normally travel with, plus books, laptop or ipad, chargers, toiletry bag. Now situation yourself in your 10x10 room and spend the night in there. Put on bed clothes, get in bed and read a book, charge your devices, unpack or lay open your suitcase. Put the pillows in the basket. Put things on the nightstand. How does it all work? Are you tripping on things, do you have enough surface area? I recently did this in a guest room and it was quite eye opening!