I'm just poking this thread to see if that will get it to move down the message list. McTavish already answered me, so this should just die off, but for some reason Gardenweb's been keeping it at the top of the list. Maybe responding will make it move on. :)

Thank you! I have been always curious about the resale thing. In every house we bought, the DW was was old and sort of ugly and was always the first thing to break - to my delight as I was "dying" to replace them - without any interference on my part, LOL. It never stopped me from buying the house. It is so easy to replace a DW, why would it be a deal-breaker for anyone? Yes, FP tall tub one sounds like a great option! There are some critical reviews on AJMadison website from people saying the DW does not clean. Do you think they just got defective units (as two of you and other reviewers loved theirs)? Here is a link that might be useful: FP reviews

Fonts are tricky. It all depends on how current your fonts are or how old the fonts were that the person that originally designed this piece used. Every 3-5 years the font houses update their font libraries and tweak the way fonts display (all an effort to get publishers to buy new updated fonts every so many years). For home use it shouldn't be a problem but if you line up your Arial Bold along beside someone elses Arial Bold they may not display exactly alike. I use Adobe Indesign and Photoshop which allows me to place your image into a document and overlay it with an empty text box. I can then guess at the font, type in the text and change its color to something other than black. Then I can slide it over on top of the original text and see if it is a complete match. If it isn't I can highlight the text in both the image and my font control tool and by using my arrow buttons on my keyboard advance through all the fonts on my system to see which font does match up. I came up with: top line: Neutra Display - Bold - with the leading set at 240 second line: Avenir LT Std - 35 Light - with a scrambled leading throughout the text line (you'll have to tweak it letter by letter to make a true match)

Soooooo......I've been googling images and scrolling through countless children's book illustrations on flickr and emailing very talented people like Hillary of Wee Wonderfuls, Sarah Jane of SarahJanestudio, and Tasha of A Little Sweetness to ask if they will custom design a couple of blocks...and.....no....they aren't doing custom work at this time. But today I did purchase a PDF pattern from Sarah Jane today that will help me with at least one block. And, I found some nice vintage images on flickr to save to my computer and then I can resize them on Photoshop. It looks like I may end up with revising a little boy to be a little girl, making a little girl into a bigger girl, and putting a man's head in one image onto the body of another man's image. I'm determined to get this how I want it! But I am finding lots of cute images for future projects and web sites of some wonderfully talented people. Teresa