Jeanne, what a beautiful setting. It all looks lovely together. Your DGM compote dish w/glass spoon and the other depression dishes are so neat. DF keeps telling me she is going to give me a snack set in pink that was DH's aunts and I can hardly wait. I love all of these dishes. I need to try setting a table w/o a full tc and see if I like it. You might need to bring out some more place settings if the gang shows up.LOL Simply gorgeous. Punk

Yes.... it would be cool on the top of a desk --- or on the back of the Kitchen counter... It is a really neat idea.... I like the little message/office center..... idea !!! Thanks for sharing ! H A P P Y T H A N K S G I V I N G * * * * * and a Very M E R R Y + C H R I S T M A S !!!! God Bless! Susiesunshine

Thank you for your response. The AC guy thought he was smelling creosote and ask where my furnace was, which I don't have. I have an air handler up in the attic. I had all the ductwork cleaned last week. Not much was in there. When I first smelled this odor back in April when I bought the house, it smelled like "a swimming pool" to me. Above this tar waterproofing on the outside of the house (because this is in the basement below the stairs) is a 1987 central air conditioner that still runs. I suspected they had water leaking from that unit at some point..because the copper pipes go into the closet and because when I removed the mulch from around the air conditioning unit outside THE MULCH SMELLED OF THE ODOR THAT I AM DETECTING. 3 Air conditioning repairmen later, and they all said the unit is not leaking and is running fine with no cost out of my pocket except for the service call. The windows are open every day and the bulkhead doors too. I am guessing it will not dissipate. I can smell it in my clothing if I leave my laundry to hang there near the washer. I would like to paint over this dry-feeling tar with something like a KILZ ODOR BLOCKER, but I am not sure which one I should use. Sadly, if I cannot overcome this I will literally have to sell the house. I have also removed the drop ceiling tiles in that area and the insulation- that ALL smelled of this odor. I will just have to cover it up, I guess. Any ideas what I can use? The Baxter Group out of Chambersburg, PA said they could sand the tar off the wall in January. Not sure I want to remove the waterproofing tar material, though, without a back up plan. And after all this, WHAT IF it is not even the tar being the culprit sickening odor? LOL OMG. Thank you for your information! Stay safe, Sir.

Go to the hardware store and purchase a stud finder, heavy duty hangers, some hanging wire, and a couple of eye hooks. The last three are listed by weight - have some idea of how much it weighs. Pound the hangers into the center of the wall studs which you have located with the stud finder. Screw the eyehooks into the window frame of the painting, and use the wire to connect the two. The last I knew, the hanger package had useful hints about exactly how to run the wire. It should be set up with two different pieces of wire holding up each end of the picture so if one fails, the whole thing doesn't come crashing down.