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BTW, that's a really cute toy pitcher & tumblers, where are they from? I'm currently outfitting a toy kitchen.

It's a lovely crib, I wish it had been an option for me two years ago! (Although I do love our Nurseryworks crib.) I saw it in the Giggle catalog yesterday, it's also built using nontoxic materials and I think sustainable woods.

And, yes, I consider $500 affordable for a piece of furniture such as a crib, especially one made with nontoxic and sustainable materials. I don't think everything has to be ultra-cheap to be labeled "affordable." And no, I'm not rich, but I believe in buying quality when I can afford it.

It's a very sophisticated nursery, I love the use of color. However, they're going to have to change it once the child (Wyeth?) is crawling or walking, they're going to have to move those low picture ledges. And a few actual toys that aren't from Kid Robot would be nice.

A friend of mine worked at a California Internet startup that had a slide from one of the higher floors into the lobby. Pretty sure they tanked in the bust though.

I love so much about this room--the aqua and red color scheme, the great rocking chair, all the fab textiles... I have an antique child's desk for my daughter's room too (or will when my mom restores it!) Amazing job, you should be proud.

I have a large blank wall in my kitchen/dining room, and I want to put open shelving on it. But don't you need a really good extractor to make it worthwhile? As in, not having to constantly wash off the accumulated grease. Anyone have a suggestion as to how powerful an extractor is needed? We need to replace the one in our new house, right now we still have the original wall fan from 1954 above the range.

In the attic of my great-grandmother's house my mom wrote "Susan is a stinker" on the wall. Susan being her older sister. As kids they spent entire summers in that house. When I was a kid I thought it was fantastic that there was real evidence that my mom had once been a normal kid like us--one who got angry at her siblings and did things like wrote on the walls!

And in my current house, bought only a few months ago, there's a huge shaky "B" scratched into the concrete of the basement floor. Looks like something a kid did--and likely was done by the woman we bought the house from. She grew up there and was selling the house for her mom. Their last name began with a letter "B."

Nice photo. I think mine is actually a Bonde unit, not an Expedit, it's bigger and has much thicker boards on the outsides. But the cubbies are the same size. I bought it as a room divider/bookcase in an old apartment of mine. But now it's in my daughter's room, storing her books and toys. For hidden storage, I have Target bins covered in one of their Liberty prints. Looks pretty, hides a multitude of messy sins!

I know, it's too bad, my daughter actually loves the things (from before I knew about the batteries.) A friend gave her a Sleeping Beauty card that plays Tchaikovsky last year for her 1st birthday, and she danced to it! So precious. But they're just too dangerous. Children have actually died from these batteries.

Musical cards are a BAD gift--they're run by just the sort of tiny batteries that can maim and kill small children if swallowed. And since they're inside a card, there's only cardboard keeping the battery from your child. Don't give those cards to small children, and if you must, supervise them very, very carefully and put them way out of access when playtime is over.