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With young children, I'd skip a rug for now. All you need to do otherwise is start shopping for curtains, light fixture, artwork, and paint.

Turnips and rutagabas are two different roots. Turnips are white-white, and rutabagas are more tan/offwhite. Turnips are more bitter and rutabagas sweeter.

They are delicious roasted, I like to mix carrot, potato, turnip, parsnip, and rutabaga. Wonderful in stew too! This is one of those foods people write off as yuck when in reality it is sweet...

Fortunate to have a yard, we do our entertaining in the warm months. Inside, there is a dining "nook" that isn't large enough for a table! (Due to a closet and the kitchen counter extending into th...

No computer allowed for me, but I tend to do too many chores with not enough playtime with the cat. I greet and feed cat; dispense with mail; put away shoes, outerwear, keys (so as to ...

I've been wanting to make a fall flavors lasagna, but just can't entice the husband (and it makes so much, this is a must). Maybe the Mexican one will work as a transition.

Make many crepes and make a filling (or just use jam)--then layer the crepes with the filling. It looks like a cake.

That was really a joy to see.

Ha! Having been in girlonthem00n's situation as well as having been locked in a public restroom (and having to go under the door--good think I'm skinny), I could use these tips.

red--pops of it are fine, but it has to be small doses

No reason to avoid floor length in living room--like others said, just pull out sofa a bit. I would leave the kitchen as is. In bedroom, a/c is obviously an issue, so maybe make some ro...

Please no perfume ads! I cannot tolerate any artificial scents, and natural candles with essential oils are a godsend.

If you are 1) set on your color scheme, 2) set on keeping the chair, and 3) not able to afford reupholstery for now, then the only option is a throw. Urban outfitters sells large fabric panels (the...

It depends on the rest of the wall and what you are going for. If you want to make the ceiling appear higher, etc., then you'll have to move it (ugh, then the pain of patching the holes). But, if y...

Dori Sanders's sweet potato pound cake (her book is Dori Sanders' Country Cooking: Recipes and Stories from the Family Farm Stand).

I'm more about the MM clothes lately, like that dress the young bohemian chick is wearing in the photo above and everything Betty wore in this week's episode.

The light of CFLs doesn't bother me in the slightest. Even with the mercury, the efficiency results in less mercury emission from power plants. I always hated throwing away light bulbs--I found it ...

That appears to be a medicine cabinet--or is it just a mirror?

Gee, it is serendipity day. I want to do just that to my island (the beadboard/paneling overlay to the base). Thanks AT!

I wish I had this problem--love your back splash and counter tops. You say the rest of the house is gray, gray/blue, and whites--what helped me was to consider 'What color do I love?, What color co...