moccasinlanding, I went to Thistlewood, and I just spent 30 minutes reading the site. It's great. Thanks for posting that link! I found a post about how to get scratches off white plates. I'm a little scared to try it (liquid Barkeeper's Friend), but I think I may have to try. To answer your question, I follow waaay too many blogs. If any of you have a Mac, there is a program called Reeder that will take all the RSS feeds you subscribe to in Google Reader, strip out all the ads and other "icky" things (like flashing banners, canned music, etc) and reformat them so that all you see is the text and images. It's beautiful, and very efficient. Imagine having a beautiful magazine, all about decorating (in my case, anyway!), delivered to your computer every day, for free. Of course, Reeder is also very dangerous. I can now follow about 45 blogs in less than 15 minutes a day. Unfortunately, it looks like Thistlewood Farm does not allow people to follow with Google Reader. Sigh. But some of my favorite blogs are: Better After: http://betterafter.blogspot.com/ Between Naps on the Porch: http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ Jennifer Rizzo: http://www.jenniferrizzo.com/

Wow Julie, what a pretty house! Could you share more about the book making site? I guess I should just ask does anyone here have a blog? I thought there might be a list on this site somewhere but I can't find one. Carol

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