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I did this in the small, oddly shaped hallway in our old apartment. The space wasn't usable for anything else, and it looked great.

It's very beautiful. But it seems a little crowded, like you would always be tripping over chairs and end tables on your way around the house.

I have never seen this thing before. But I have baked round loaves of bread in metal coffee cans.

Not being able to see you may make all the difference!

When my daughter wakes in her own room, she will fuss herself back to sleep after about five minutes. But when we share a room with her, she invariably glimpses us through the corner of her barely opened little eye, wakes all the way up, and screams until we pick her up and bring her into our bed.

Next time we have guests take over the nursery and have to move her in with us temporarily, I'm going to try the screen idea.

I like Bittman's waffles, but now I have to try JOC's!

I taught myself to cook from JOC -- the old version. It gave me the impression that cooking was difficult and one had to slog through a lot of preparation steps and cross-references to get good results. And slog I did! I even tried to make the cheesecake, which uses actual cheese, NOT cream cheese. Yeaccccccch.

I wish I'd had How to Cook Everything back then. Now I use that almost exclusively, and JOC is only a reference.

Unless the ramekin is somehow fixed to the bottom of the pan, wouldn't the batter just ooze underneath it?

They can all cook, but I'm rooting for Bryan because he's adorable and not a total jerk.

I think Kevin will win, though. I'll be taking a drink every time he says "I'm from the South...", "simple food," or "It's all about flavor". Dude. We get it.

We got married right after Christmas, so that year everyone gave us ornaments as Christmas gifts. That gave us a good start. Since then, we've only bought ornaments that we thought were really interesting, like dinosaurs, or a parachuting alien.

My mom still has all the felt ornaments that she bought for us at craft fairs when we were growing up. They were chosen to represent our interests in each year, so I have an ice skater, a softball player, a girl scout, etc. and my brothers have train engineers, firefighters and baseball players.

Little one eats at 5 PM! So we have "tea" then, and cook and eat a more substantial dinner after she is asleep.

Then we pretty much do the same evening things we used to do pre-baby.

I am looking for a nightstand in this very shape! Has anyone seen anything similar?