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Who says the ledge has to be flat and horizontal? One could install an "anti-shelf" at a 45-degree or greater angle, which would keep the space above open, transition from the narrowness below, and prevent any objects (animate or in-) from gathering on the ledge.

If it were my home, I would use a secure but reversible installation method, to permit the ledge to return to duty as a display shelf in the future, after the child has acquired a fear of fall-down-and-go-boom.

Yonella, first thing is oil and preheat the iron, or put more oil in the batter, or both. Real vegetable oil (peanut is good) is a far better choice than non-stick sprays, which can leave behind a sticky residue.

If you're still having trouble, you could try to season the cooking plates if they are not nonstick/teflon coated. Just as you would do for cast iron, just oil it well then heat it up and let it stay warm for a while. After that, make a few ugly pizzelles, keep your courage, add more oil and heat, try again, and soon you'll be in business, cranking them out just like Nonna.

After you go through all this to get the pizzelle maker well seasoned, you will want to keep the seasoning on it by washing it with hot water only, and just scrubbing it with a stiff brush and using no soap. Once the pizzelles are coming off clean, it won't be a big deal to give it a quick rinse and a wipe. Hope this helps.

This home is refreshing and beautifully curated, and the tea station makes me HAPPY.

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.