HI ALL, Paula, I got your package, thank you, it was a five minute task! Treasea, I opened your package and all of your seeds are in there loose with no names so I'll treat them as extras and toss one into each envy until they are gone. I wish photobucket wasn't having issues, I'd love to post a pic of the extras that have been sent in. I'm waiting to get all the envies in before I begin the drop one in each until all the extras are gone. Lisa

I am right there with you! We are also living on our site, in a 37 foot motorhome with FIVE children, dh and myself. I told dh last Saturday that the "camping fun" has worn off, and now I'm ready to be out of this RV!! ;o) We still have hangers on our 3rd floor, finishers on our first floor (they are still in there scraping away), electricians advising me that no one can drive in our driveway tomorrow morning because they'll be digging a trench out to our barn for electricity, the tile crew (a very large one) start tomorrow on the showers, and I'm trying to paint swatches of paint on the walls to hurry up and choose our wall colors. Uggghhh. My tile was delivered a week ago, and I can never get in there to lay a bunch out and see how it looks. The only day they take off is the day we are off at church and then hanging out relaxing, not dealing with our house. :o( So, hopefully as people send you patience from this forum, they'll send some my way too. I am ready to have some privacy back! This afternoon, dh and I were having a discussion about locking in our rates. It's time to do that, and we were debating on points, interest rate choice, etc. WEll, I look over and the entire finishing crew is out having a smoking break on our back deck, and they are staring over at us. We had another window in the rv open. I felt like asking them which option they would choose.... it was obvious they were hearing what we were saying. Oy! This is crazy. I am a fairly private person, and our home is our sanctuary. Lately it feels more like a zoo!! :op

update......... I met up with the man, who has been teaching stained glass for the past 8 years, at the same store, where I got the first 5 pound grab bag of scrap pieces. the ad read $1 and I thought it meant that but in actuality, his wife meant it to be $1 per pound...still very reasonable. so, after having a tour of his studio, which is 90% packed up, for them to move to Tuscon in about a week, I was able to see the bins he had of the scraps. very nice colors and pieces...they were good sizes and none too big...all suitable for mosaic pieces or even scraps for stained glass projects, which I don't do. he didn't know how many pounds there were, cuz he didn't know if anyone wanted just a little bit or all of it, so he got a bathroom scale and set the first bin on it... it was more than 60 pounds and the second one was just close to the same.. they were divided up into main color catagories.. blues, greens, misc and clear, mixed with the opaque white. I'm thinking while he's weighing....man, there's no way I can get all of this..it's adding up to over $120....I just don't have it to spare... he stands up and says that he's gotten good deals on glass in the past and wants to be able to help someone get started in working with stained glass, in any capacity...and it's suitable for mosaics. then, he says that the lowest he dare go is $50.... done deal.........you betcha! so, he huffed and puffed, while he carried each bin to the trunk of my car...carefully set them in there and we continued talking. he showed me the cabinet he has the main large pieces in... holy cow!!...he said there's about fourteen hundred dollars of inventory in there! absolutely stunning glass of all colors in the slots...some were 4' tall.... wow, it was a small shop of it's own... there was one sheet I liked, in a subtle sherbet sortof color..he said he never liked it and just gave it to me... that was a freebie... I'm totally thrilled with it all and he said that as they pack, if anything should crack or break or he decides to just not take it..he's got my cell# already programmed into his cell #...and he gave me a few quick tips on how to get a pattern from the paper to the glass, without losing the pattern of the glass underneath..things I wouldn't have even had a clue to ask about. his daughter will be setting up a website, after they get all moved. anyway, that's the latest update.... .(*_*).

Hang in there, you are making progress. We did demo in mid-February, and I have not had a functioning kitchen on any level at all since then. My contractor is not in jail, thank goodness, but sometimes I wish I could put him there! Not really, but there have been mistakes and delays galore. This is the second time I've done a kitchen renovation, so I know that it will seem like it will never be done, but eventually it will. So be patient a little longer. I finally got my granite installed today, and a back door (but not steps so I can't go in or out the back door). When I get home tonight, I may actually have working sinks in my kitchen, hallelujah. So I won't have appliances for ages, but I may be able to wash a dish in my new sink! But only before the sun goes down, because we don't have a single light in the kitchen. I actually am finding it harder to be patient now that we are getting closer. That light at the end of the tunnel is so enticing!