One other idea, which I use with my 8-year-old:
Would she notice if you just "did away" with some things? I put unused stuff in boxes in the basement (has to go in a box out of sight)....
I think we'll have a style-of speech change because of Obama:
OUT: Fake Folksiness, and "dumbing down"
IN: Using correct grammer and vocabulary
I blame Reagan for ...
I do regret a change I made in the 1980's when everything had to be Conran's white: I ripped out a tiny kitchen cabinet to put in something more capacious.
The thing is, that tiny, roa...
I also noticed that the new cabinets go all the way up to the ceiling. This looks MUCH better, but I bet it's more expensive to do, particularly in an older, not-so-perfectly square room.
Also, you can take pictures of stuff you feel connected to but don't really want to keep (mom's pewter collection?)
Those files take up almost no room on your hard drive.
My Lithuanian grandma made something like this in her Chicago walk-up apartment. She scalded 1/2 gallon of whole milk, then mixed in a quart of cold buttermilk to get the curds to separate. She sal...
My coop on Thompson and Prince rented to a film with Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts. Oops! The amount of money paid for the location fee did not really cover the additional taxes the coop had to pay ...
I had the same outcome (holding it FOREVER) as in bostonkayla's post. The cats just wouldn't take the leap from "toilet with cat-protection" to "totally normal toilet". I think if I'd had a second ...
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What, women don't need public urinals?
One other idea, which I use with my 8-year-old: Would she notice if you just "did away" with some things? I put unused stuff in boxes in the basement (has to go in a box out of sight)....
Wonderful Shopsin's Restaurant has (or had) this with a chicken base. I've been faking a version for years, so thanks for the recipe!
Isn't that what unfinished handmade rugs always look like? (before all the warp is woven into the weft)
Thanks for the excellent tutorial! I love the dumpling rosette, which explains volumes about patience in cooking well!
Heh? Dexter is the big Mat-Cutter maker. http://www.artstuff.net/dexter_mat_cutter.htm Is this Convergent Evolution?
I think we'll have a style-of speech change because of Obama: OUT: Fake Folksiness, and "dumbing down" IN: Using correct grammer and vocabulary I blame Reagan for ...
I do regret a change I made in the 1980's when everything had to be Conran's white: I ripped out a tiny kitchen cabinet to put in something more capacious. The thing is, that tiny, roa...
And here I thought it was an artwork by Andrea Zittel: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/andrea-zittel.php
I also noticed that the new cabinets go all the way up to the ceiling. This looks MUCH better, but I bet it's more expensive to do, particularly in an older, not-so-perfectly square room.
We had an ikea table that had the same up/down mechanism. We loved it, and this looks much nicer, so, yes. Get it.
Also, you can take pictures of stuff you feel connected to but don't really want to keep (mom's pewter collection?) Those files take up almost no room on your hard drive.
Yup, Taureg. I paid about $3.00 for mine. They're more like Molas http://thorup.com/makeamola.html
My friend's dad kept the hen up there one winter. Apparently the henhouse was too cold in January. Mostly she just sat in her nest.
My Lithuanian grandma made something like this in her Chicago walk-up apartment. She scalded 1/2 gallon of whole milk, then mixed in a quart of cold buttermilk to get the curds to separate. She sal...
My coop on Thompson and Prince rented to a film with Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts. Oops! The amount of money paid for the location fee did not really cover the additional taxes the coop had to pay ...
perfect chair-ness
Simple and beautiful
I had the same outcome (holding it FOREVER) as in bostonkayla's post. The cats just wouldn't take the leap from "toilet with cat-protection" to "totally normal toilet". I think if I'd had a second ...
Brilliant! Why didn't someone think of it sooner?