I dreamed for years regarding my strawberry plant crawling into my window, it was sending out runners, I now have French Strawberry plants. Okay Jo Jo if you want send the picture with the seed and plant to me directly to my email address. I will ask John Trager, Now I really want to know. Guessing doesn't count. Tell him where it was found, in what state and city you purchasedi, and Nursery. I can't wait to find out. It not growing like a vine to me, it is growing too straight.The leaves do remind me a plants that I do have, and I just saw the seeds for the first time Mon. so perhaps? Norma He's pretty good at this an very accurate.

Well, I'm back from the salon ... and I'm in loooooove! The stylist did an amazing job, and I couldn't be happier. She spent two full hours coloring, cutting and styling and the outcome is everything I hoped for! It's very similar to the first photo I posted. She didn't want to go too dark with the lowlights so as not to give me a drastic change. My overall look now isn't something that would cause anyone to go, "Whoa! What did you do to your hair?" -- but it's caused several people in my office to look at me a bit longer than usual, smile and say, "Your hair looks really good today." It's so shiny and has a subtle multi-dimensional look to it. So now I'm out $150 (color, cut and bottle of straightening cream), but I consider it money well spent. Terriks, this was most definitely a pampering experience, which is such a nice change from my usual getting-half-nekkid in the bathroom and squeezing a bottle of foul-smelling stuff onto my head (inevitably getting a good deal of it on the floor in the process)! I may be a lot more high maintenance now. But I look better than before, too - so I think it's worth it. ;-D

Hee! I always read "cow slip" (not that the image is any better). Looks like I can't post links directly in this forum (as in kitchens). Here is another vintage yellow kitchen from rejuvenation: http://www.rejuvenation.com/catalog/settings/settingdisplay.html?setting_id=112&category=kitchen And again, the image of cow's lip from Lowe's that I just love: http://valsparatlowes.com/project-ideas/design-gallery/la_co_foy1.html And here are 2 photos of Butter on opposite walls of my breakfast room (the darker sample card is of RH Saffron for the trim). Same color, same room, opposite walls. What a difference! Now, I DO like both of these incarnations of Butter. And they look to me like the Rejuvenation and Lowe's photos linked above. But darn that butter! It also gets lemony in my kitchen--both in bright sunlight, and if I use cf bulbs. (I don't have a photo of the butter-turned-lemon for you.) I need a never-lemony butter. Maybe I just need to board up all the windows in my home, and control the yellow with artificial, unchanging lighting? ;-)

I used the Clarins Golden Glow Booster last summer for my face (I think they've just come out with a similar product for the body) and I liked it a lot. I'm pretty fair (Irish, blue eyes, blonde-ish hair) and burn easily, so I try not to spend too long in the sun, but I'd love to be tan all the time! I bought the Clarins product to hang on to the color I'd gotten on a trip to Florida and it really worked and looked very natural on me. Every day, I used two drops mixed with my daily moisturizer. It wasn't greasy or slick, and my moisturizer felt like it always did. It's a little expensive ($35 for a about 2 oz. at Sephora) but it lasted all summer. I'm going to buy it again, as well as the whole-body version.