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I love the way she restored part to the natural look, and then the painted pits have that distressed look - lovely. WELL DONE.

I grew up in Europe as well and of course having celcius and cm, and zulu time is much better :-) All these are more precise and more modern that the 16th century anglo-saxon ways of measuring anything, time, temperature or distance, that americans are so fond of, and think as THEIR way of doing things (hospitals work in mm, cm, military used 24:00 time format, need I continue?). Time to move to an international way of doing things. from NYC at 16:30, 17C, at at 100meter above sea level... CHEERS :-)

I second Bob's Red Mill cake mixes. The brownie mixture and the chocolate cake mixture are very very good and dense cakes, all you add is eggs and hot water. The only complaint I had with that brand cake mixes is that they have too much sugar, which i got around by sifting the cake mixture bcs the sugar is in large crystals, so with the right sieve you can separate the sugar... :-)

I used to make my own, until I went dairy free due to sinus issues. Making yogurt is wonderful, and it turns out deliciously tangy and it is cheaper to make yours with organic full fat or 2% milk. I find Fage too thick - that is not yogurt, that is yogurt sauce. The only time I bought fage was when I was making tzatziki and I was pressed for time, as it reduces the prepping time as u do not to wait for the yogurt to drain. When I bought yogurt I bought Stonybrook Farm plain organic yogurt and it was really good (at least the closest to the kind of yogurt I grew up with)

Besides making a list of the items you want to buy at IKEA, they also can tell you the stock of a specific item, the bin number and the lot you can find that item at the specific ikea location. So a few months ago, I went straight to the storage area, located the 3 items i needed, and walked out with my purchases...

hah - that is my easter picture :-)

DecoGirl, I could not agree more with you - not everything good is good for you. I have been having skin issues for the last three years and finally found out that I have hormone dominance. Been using tea tree oil for everything to disinfect - it turns out, it can increase your estrogen levels, making on deficient in Progesterone, and giving me all sorts of skin conditions...

who needs a timer when you have an Iphone, just tell Siri to remind you in 5 minutes, and put the ringer to loud.... as simple as that - I am all for good tools, and for saving my money when I can...

this is really interesting, bcs I own this same color for at least 5 years, (in oval deep 6quart or smth like that) I bought it at William Sonoma NYC 5 years ago. It doesn't have the gradient that the usual LeCreuset have, and I have been looking for another piece with a BOLD red/orange color without gradient. I decided to buy the staub orange/red tea kettle instead. So now the blue Le Creuset, the mustard le Creuset (not too obvious the gradient effect) and the orange staub, intermingle on my cooktop - they look good, and they are work horses... Now I use only the smalled all clads for small jobs.

ATRON - yep, go for 50:50 - you are never going to find your match - what are you going to do when you have to breastfeed - make your hubby grow boobs? or do what a friend of mine did that refused to breasfeed so her hubby and her would have to wake up equally to feed the baby - and denied her children one of the best things a mother has to offer, love, milk and connection?

ANNAMARIA - I wish I had read this when you first posted. I would have told you, that my hubby when we were engaged said a few times things like: some of us have real jobs (he is a VP), once I offered him a $100 when he needed money, and he said: no, I need real money...., and plenty of things like that, and yes he make 3 times what I make, but I have so many talents that he doesnt, including him never sending a shirt to the cleaners since we got together (that saves him $300 a month) . He loves to cook as much as I do, he used to do all his ironing and cleaning, we chip in the house, and I don't mind that now I am the one that cleans the bathroom every week, while he is busy putting out son to sleep. He travels for work, I go to work locally - I make sure he has a meal when he arrives home at 10pm from a 7 hr flight - that's how I see love, he makes sure to ask me when I don't feel well how am i feeling, makes me hot water bottles when I am pms-ing, and held my hand when had breast surgery, and fed me when our son was born and I did not know how to feed myself while breastfeeding our son. LOVE is never equal - it is complimentary - you fullfill each other - not to place each other on the scale... Never doubt your love, and a lot of times love is totally a state of mind - you either want to be with a person, for what you believe in, or you don't to be with that person.