I'm not being mean --- my son borrowed the camera to go camping for a week . ( Of all the times !) Oh God - I hope he doesn't call & tell me he dropped it in the lake ! UGH ! LOL

I wasn't posting last year, but my resolutions were to: 1. Spend more time in the garden, not just to work out there, but enjoying it (COMPLETE) 2. Design a pretty spot to help hide the utility trailer that we have (COMPLETE) 3. Redo the front fence so the utility trailer isn't sitting on the driveway and in the pretty spot (INCOMPLETE) 4. Fill out back bed with plant materials (COMPLETE) 5. Create a veggie garden (COMPLETE) 6. Gate off around the back of the shed so the dog doesn't run at the garden at full tilt from behind (INCOMPLETE) Overally, my garden got a lot of use last year. I had tea parties with girlfriends, birthday parties for my hubbie and stargazing parties with friends. I was able to build a veggie garden and with the remaining soil (I way over estimated) was able to build a mimicking flower bed (with no plants yet) on the other side of the patio. I bought over 100 plants to fill in my garden over the year (we have a local grower that sells any plant, all plants for $5 in a 1-gallon pot so I didn't manage to break the bank too badly either). My husband got into the veggie gardening and has told me that it's off limits to me now...LOL For this year, I want to finish all the things I didn't get done from last year as well as filling in the new patio bed and rearranging my front deck and putting new gardens around it (whether or not I fill them this year is yet to be determined). I have some expansion plans in mind for the back, but again, I'd like to have them dug over in the fall ready to be filled for the next year....excited to see all that 2011 has to offer.

Linda if you still can't get it right I can tell you how to post a photo to the Paper Arts Forum Gallery from the jpeg in your computer. It has to be 61K or less I think so first of all you'd have to resize it to that. then you could post a link to the gallery on this forum since we don't have a gallery here I think it would be ok since it is "paper" haha

I love this thread, too!! Wow! I've had building materials stacked around my house, including all my windows for years. A while back I realized that the only way to get rid of these things as to work to have them installed. Since 2008, everything I do, every penny I make goes into getting something installed. The windows were first and the space it made was AMAZING! Plus, then, without heat, it was still a million degrees warmer in here than it was with just Tyvek paper covering the windows!! My current whammy was taking a cabinet apart and retrofitting the drawers into another, reach-in base cabinet. I got rid of the 1st cabinet (making space) and was able to sort that bank of 3 cabs (reach-in, drawers now, and reach-in) so I could actually put my towels and linens in them, in the MBR and bath. Those are now out of boxes stacked against the wall. I have to cut down some 36" drawers (reuse center) and put the casters on the bottom for underbed storage. This will get make space for the few quilting projects I just cannot part with, but am not working on. That is my weekend goal. Someone, on another board, called these projects "broken teeth". You take care of this "tooth" and 5 other things get done, plus everything looks so good. AND it was so darned easy, you wonder why you didn't do it sooner. :)