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Gasp! I wish we had an actual hallway somewhere in our house.

Huh. I wasn't aware that my cat requires his own drinking glass.

Yay! I have been looking for paint by number sets for YEARS that lead to a painting I'd actually want to keep when finished.

Another vote for the Bumbo & Boppy pillow being useless (to us, anyway). Also, those velcro swaddle thingies - swaddling with an actual blanket works just as well, and then you have an actual blanket to use for non-swaddling purposes, also.

Any thoughts on how she attached the chalkboard?

Thanks for all the input & ideas. It's helpful to have the perspective of people who have older kids (compared to my toddler, that is) and have been dealing with larger volumes of artwork. :)

I like the digital photo or scanning ideas, but as some people have said, having the real thing in your hand does have special significance.

I also really like the idea of purging around each birthday and deciding what to keep. Perhaps I'll settle on some combo of keeping only a handful of really significant/wonderful pieces each year, scanning those same ones plus a few more, and trashing the rest.

I have almost no artwork from my childhood (unless there is a stash I'm unaware of), and I took art lessons for YEARS. I don't know where it all went. I wish I had some of it to look back on. Not every scrap of paper or goofy crafty project, but a few things from each year would have been nice to have.

OK, I am officially coveting these. However, there's an awful lot of white on them. I expect they would get grungy-looking pretty quickly...

These are great. Anyone have any leads on tutorials/instructions for making something similar?

We've been really happy with our Kinderville bowls & cups. They are made of silicone, but it's really thick, heavy, sturdy silicone (not the floppy thin stuff I've seen in some stores). The bowls are flat-bottomed, and that makes it easy for my son to use his little toddler utensils with them. I've seen the storage jars starting to crop up at some stores here in Minneapolis, but you'll probably have to go online for the bowls & cups.