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SUZY8TRACK, how can you say that? Did you read it all the way through?
A CHEESE board in his BUTT. You can't put a price on that, now can you?

Thank you, Janet. Too right.

I have a crush on those measuring cups.

I know it has been a while since garychen17 asked, but the desk above has to have been built with kee klamps and unthreaded pipe, or with a union tee, which lets the threaded female part rotate while the threaded pipe and the tee fitting remain stationary. (It's similar to the connector on a garden hose.)

You can also buy a "union" to join two threaded pipes end-to-end without having to twist the pipes, or you can screw flanges to the pipe ends and then bolt the flanges together.

The book you need to look through is Sunset's Simply Upholstery: Step-by-Step, Renewing Your Favorite Furniture. I think my local bookstore had it in stock. It gives a pictoral step-by-step reupholstering for a wing chair (toughest kind of chair, they say, to reupholster) with yardage estimates, how to match the pattern, how to make the welting/cording ... and other very useful techniques. You can do this with the help of that book, I say. But flip through the book, and if it's not what you want to do, then hang around the ReStore until you meet someone who does this kind of thing often. :) Or go on craigslist and find someone with before/after photos and a good history. Be careful, there are "semi-pros" who might think they can do this, but they won't care for the piece as you do. Besides, upholstery is a terrific skill to have and will save you loads of money over time, if you enjoy doing it. Good luck to you.

One Thanksgiving, while cleaning the cooked meat off the whole bird carcass, I discovered that the bone inside a turkey tail has an architectural beauty, with its delicate arches, seamless convergences, and symmetries. So I began to collect turkey tailbones and compare them. Larger birds have more complex tailbone structures, branching out from the same core. It's terribly interesting.

My knuckleheaded retriever discovered my bone collection. He found them terribly delicious. Oh well.

Happy thanksgiving, and may you also enjoy exploring familiar subjects in new ways.

I like it best in photo 5, where it has a more contrasting color and the white painted half-paneling protects it from collisions with feet/paws and furniture.

Remove it and install exactly what you want to see there. Sell on CL or donate this one to the ReStore. If you were inclined to modify it, I think you would have done so without asking AT. And this fixture is (or will be) right up someone's alley as it exists now ... so I recommend you sell or donate it.

Hey, I like the new Scavenger Southern Edition format. Listing finds by region instead of by city makes this feature enticing to urban outliers like me. And someday my (semi-rural) CL offerings could possibly be featured ... this is just fantastic.

I save them in the hopes of one day making a bottle cap portrait inspired by the work of Chuck Close or Molly B. Right. Or more likely, a mandala, a plaid, or a geometric tile pattern since I don't have the genius eye to create a pleasing version of someone I love enough to have them around as a portrait.