Tiamat_the_Red's Profile

I have a kitchen table from Craigslist that has a marble top on it. I bake and cook on it quite a bit so it's got some darkened spots (they look kind of wet) from oil where it's absorbed into the marble and some etched spots where acid ate away the finish. There's also a big scratch on the top from before I got it. That said, I really love it. It's pretty and it lends an ice cream parlour feel to my dining room. I'll try to remember to take pictures tomorrow and post them somewhere.

Making myself go to bed on time has been the most helpful thing ever. Being reasonably good about it even on weekends is critical, though. If you let yourself stay up late on weekends, it's just like jet lag on Monday morning.

The other most reliable alarm clock I've ever had is my cat. She always meows for breakfast around 6am. Saved me from being late a few times when I turned off my alarm on accident.

@Pi, the photo says they're teacups, so I would expect you can get them wet. I have a wooden tankard that I use when I work the Ren Faire and it can also handle water. If you use the right wood and/or the right finish, it handles water just fine.

If you couldn't get them wet, line them with that press and seal stuff, maybe? Or if they're big enough, put a glass or vase inside the other one.

If the slats are falling out of your bed frame, they've been cut too short. You can use sticky velcro to fix them in place and keep them from moving or you can cut slightly longer ones.

I used an antique bed frame for decades and never had a problem (not even as a kid prone to leaping into bed!). The squeaky frame amused me; it never stressed me out!

Don't forget about power lines! Make sure that you won't be planting something that the power company will have to come butcher in order to meet federal regulations (think those trees you see with big wedges cut out of them so the power lines can pass safely through the middle of them).

The two things I did that made the biggest difference for me between "student!" and "adult!" housing were to hang curtains and frame things for display. If it's not framed, it needs to be presented well; skip the pushpins or masking tape.

Other than that, TJMaxx and Craigslist have been good to me. Also, a furniture liquidation place worked out really well for me when I needed a couch. Don't be afraid to haggle. It can't hurt to ask.

I love the phone booth! It's totally the best part of the room. ^_^

@shanarang I'm so jealous! I love those posters but haven't got wallspace, I fear. He did some awesome Avengers ones, too.

These really don't strike me as posters for kids. More as posters for nerdy adults who are trying to enjoy the things they love without making their homes look like dorm rooms.

@RentingOnaBudget it probably depends on how complex the couch is. I would expect that if it has lots of curves and tucks and detail of that variety that it would be really difficult but if it's simple, with straight lines I would think it would be easier. That said, I've never done it myself. The one item I'm looking at reupholstering is going to a pro. It's too detailed for me to want to try.

Wait, since when is a backlight a PRO? I hate reading on tablets. It's just too obviously not a book.

And seriously? Amazon and B&N both lock you in with DRM so you can't go to their competitors without losing your books. To heck with them. I like Google Books, personally, especially since I can buy them through my local bookstore and they get a cut, too.

I love my little wireless-less Sony reader. It's tiny, the battery lasts for weeks and no one can "disappear" my ebooks when they realize they screwed up like Amazon did with, ironically, 1984. It's not quite a book and I would have sworn up and down that I wouldn't really like e-readers, but it's pretty awesome. Storage space for books is at a premium and my free hours almost never overlap with my library's open hours so buying them it is. At least the electronic ones only take up harddrive space (AND never have to be dusted!).