Since my background is frozen is there a way to unfreeze it and remove the christmas lights?  I put the main base back in my garden and then sent to storage but the lights still stayed.
Also, have some pots that I don't need/use at all but discard is not an options.  Is there another way to get rid of them.  TIA

Tap the stardust icon underneath your garden and you'll see a list of your saved effects.  You can remove your saved backgrounds there.

Some pots are protected against accidental deletion but you will be able to discard them if you change your preferences to show less confirmations  (tap the mushroom, top left, and Preferences is there).  You may have to move them to your garden to discard them.

You can't discard pottery lottery pots at all, only sell them in the Marketplace.