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Making a gift for your kid is awesome! We write one book per kid per year for our children. It's been fun to make them more and more complex as the kids grow older. This year we wrote a choose-your-own-adventure for our 7 year old!

Also, I sell instruction kits for building large toys - a play kitchen, a play washer and dryer, and a play store. They take a day to build and use cardboard, glue, and a few odds and ends. Check it out: fortytworoads.etsy.com.

I just wanted to let you know that posts with a bunch of pictures, each of which should be able to be enlarged with a click have stopped working in Firefox 4 ever since Apartment Therapy switched to its new format. When I click on any but the first tiny thumbnail picture above, either nothing happens, or else the large-format picture goes away entirely and doesn't come back. This happens with almost all of these types of posts. Please fix!

Also, the Google RSS feeder no longer pull in images for all posts, just for some, selected almost seemingly at random. That is super-annoying. Finally, the "Daily Scavenger" posts no longer show up in the RSS reader at all. Please fix all of this.

I have a free set of instructions for building your own cardboard doll furniture on my blog - just go to http://fortytworoads.blogspot.com and look for the "free instructions" section in the column on the right. You can make a bed, chairs, and a table for an 18" doll/stuffed animal.

i love this store!

i think it just depends on the state of it. we give second-hand books all the time (and i mean new titles, not old editions), and as long as they aren't torn up or dirty, who cares? i do have a few relatives who would be pretty upset not to see a store tag on something, though...

oh pretty please pick me!

i'd love some of these! to give away... nah, to keep.

We names our daughter Lara. Unique enough that there won't be seven of them in her grade, but normal enough not to provoke double-takes. She will face the Lara/Laura issue, but I've been dealing with being called Ann (I'm Anna) all my life and it hasn't really traumatized me.

Babies R Us has plenty of soft cotton solid color crib sheets (all of mine are from there). Go to the mattress section, not the wall-o-theme-prints. They have very soft cotton green solid color onesies at babystyle.com (and they are the kimono-style, making them easier to get on than the over-the-head variety).

i do laundry on mondays. every monday is cleanup day, where the apartment gets a floor to ceiling cleaning. doing it once a week means it only takes a hour, since it doesn't get that dirty to begin with. plus then midweek i can relax knowing when things will be cleaned.