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wait, Spoonflower's wallpaper is removable?! That's probably dangerous :) I need to remove some nasty old wallpaper in my stairwell, and the idea of changing it up with fresh graphic designs every few years is pretty appealling.

The thing I don't like about the whole cash is tacky, honeymoon registry is tacky, non-traditional, but physical gifts (like camping gear) is tacky, posting a registry so you don't get 20 blenders is tacky, etc etc pronouncements, is that it casts a selfish and judgemental pall over the guest who makes these declarations all while casting the couple as selfish and greedy and expecting gifts from their guests. The thing is in American society if you go to a wedding you are expected to bring a gift, (and I don't mean that the couple expects you to bring a gift, I mean that the guest expects that they have to bring a gift lest other guests feel they are cheap or whatever or they themselves feel they're breaking some sort of unwritten rule of weddings.) so much so that even when the couple explicitly states that they do not what gifts or that you should donate to charity rather than giving gifts, people still bring gifts. I find it kind of tacky to impose one's own feelings about what is tacky or appropriate on a couple or on other guests. I think the appropriate etiquette ought to be that you choose to give a gift or not give a gift based on what one finds to be an appropriate gift, rather than ascribing someone's desire to be helpful to guests who might have different feelings about what's appropriate, or who have a desire for any gifts that happen to be given to not be next season's goodwill donation and thus a waste of the guest's money as an expectation of gifts or greed. Isn't that how all these people end up with a bunch of faddy kitchen gadgets they never use? Because the registerers are all afraid that they'll be considered tacky if they didn't stick with traditional registries and gifts, but they already had all the practical stuff they needed?

I recently got engaged, so I've been thinking alot about what's acceptable for a registry lately, mainly because my fiance and I have been together for a long time, and don't really need anything for a house. I started by checking to see if registering for camping gear could be considered housewares to set up for our home away from home. By the end of my wedding gift and registry google-thon it became clear that no matter what you do it is in poor taste or rude. Yup, tacky to tell people what they might get you if they wanted to get you something that you would use; rude not to give people lists and hints about what you would use; not cool to say you don't want gifts since you know everyone is going to get you gifts; guache to suggest if a guest insists on giving a giift it be in cash or gift cards because people like to give physical items. You can't win. In the end I think we're going to have a registry of some trade up kitchen items for those whose sense of wedding mores dictates they have to give a kitchen/china/house related gift; one of camping gear for those who like to give a physical gift of something we enjoy, and aren't already all-set on, but aren't hung up on wedding gifts being for non'hobbies' only, and a honeymoon related registry (I'm still working this out as ideally I'd kind of like to say 'here's where we're going on honeymoon, make a suggestion of something to do' and we'd get back 'Go get dinner from this taco truck, here's $15 to do it.' rather than our tickets will be $ can you help pay them off, which is less cool anyway. I like adventure.) And the registry info page of our wedding website will include that we don't expect anything but your presence, but if feel you need to give a gift we've registered at a few tradtional and non-tradtional places.'

g-d first eating an entire jar of nutella sin't an acceptable healthy breakfast and now drinking a gallon of fruit juice won't cure heart disease, Next you're going to tell me that despite the research making headlines this week, I cannot obtain immortality by drinking 63 gallons of coffe a day.Where will the madness end?!?! :)

I've never really had much luck keeping frosting from melting in the heat, so I don't really have any advice on that perse, but as an outside the cake box thinker, can you modify to not need the standard frosting, but keep the flavours? Are you planning to go all out with piped decorations on the cake? If not,what about making a cake that goes well with a glaze instead of a traditional frosting? (full disclosure, I think all cakes go well with a glaze :) especially if you aerate the cake so the glaze soaks down into it. mmm) I've given up on the outer layer of frosting even on a layer cake, by using ganache and a thin layer of frosting, or jam between the layers and then glaze over the outside.

If you still need to add the 'congratulations!' you could still use the candy letters or script it out in silver bullets. I think edible flowers and herbs also look really pretty on glazed cake.

Ha, I coudn't eat any of those dinner recipes as written as I am onion intolerant. There are actually a number of people with lilly allergies and intolerances, but it's almost impossible to eat anything in restuarants or prepackaged that doesn't include onion and/or garlic (which fortunately I don't have a problem with) I'd be eating a lot of dessert at your dinner party though (that's usually what I end up needing to do, unless I decide to just suck it up and suffer through the aftermath later)

I love the bull, but he looks set committed. I hate my current knife block because he came with a set of knives that turned out to be awful, and now that I'm replaceing them with knives I like (the pure Komachi knives actually, they are really awesome for being so cheap. razor sharp.) they don't really fit the block.

I've heard that the Ex knife block, while being aesthetically awesome contains pretty lousy knives and the design makes it hard to replace them with better ones.

good g-d, $50 for a task manager? Does it just do your tasks for you?

I was going to say if you hadn't already put the paper up that you could resin it and then attach the resin panel to the wall. If you wanted tile, I wonder if you coudlnt' just cut some thin MDF, tile that and then attach it to the wall.and caulk around the edges to keep water from getting up behind it. Then it would be removeable if you moved.

I'm always adding "kid" stuff to my home. I think every house needs a bit of whimsy/quirk/imagination to keep it from looking too stuffy or serious. I was so glad when Circo fianlly started making full size bedsheets, so at least the guest room can have cool sheets, now if they'd just up it to Queen I'd be set :)

Oh, I definitely second the request to add a link to AT from the main page. I read both sites, and have just one bookmarked because I've always been able to jump over to the other. Sure I could add another bookmark to my toolbar, but it would be nice to be able to jump back and forth between the sites without it. Loving the new look and channels.