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I love wrapping with brown paper! I get it from shopping bags.

Ribbon gives it a festive touch. The New Yorker provides fodder for decoration -- I cut the letters of the person's name out of the magazine and glue it to the paper. A couple times I've even cut out whole words and composed impromptu 'found' poems!!

It's important to me to *feel* good, so I do wear clothes that make me feel good, but I don't wear makeup -- gives my skin a break! I feel good in clothes that are a little better fitting than t-shirts, but still casual enough that I can move and breathe and enjoy myself!

This is great! I figured out the 'comfy place to sit' the hard way when I had friends over and the only seating choices were straight backed chairs or the bed!! (It's a studio.) I quickly found some great lounge chairs for my eat-in kitchen that have made it much more comfortable and fun to have people over.

The one thing I'm missing is "One thing you really love." It's definitely a work in progress.

This is such a great idea!! Drawing is an amazing way to preserve memories from a trip, and to have it in such a compact bundle is perfect for packing!

I sometimes even buy postcards at the places I go and then draw pictures on the backs of them. I never thought of using colored pencils, though-- then I could write on top of the picture!

So true. This year I learned that housework is an every-day-before-bed kind of thing, not an every-couple-of-weeks-for-an-entire-day kind of thing. I feel much happier.

If they painted the window sills a teal blue, and/or added teal blue curtains, I would be in heaven.

Americans don't realize how different our mode of life here is from that of Europe. People there spend more time out and less time at home. A bedroom is often just used for sleeping and not playtime or homework.

I spent a lot of time in Germany with friends-- a family of 5 who lived in an incredibly small space, but they didn't spend much time at home. Mostly, they went outside and had picnics in parks and rode their bikes in the countryside for fun. Children at age 10 have freedom to go places without their parents-- from age 6 many ride their bikes to school alone. So it's not like people spend all day sitting/playing/exercising/eating in their apartments like we do in the US. The children would not be 'cooped up.' Europeans use public spaces much more freely and wisely-- and plan their city centers to be dense so that the countryside is never too far from home.