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Other - I don't qualify as a mother, since I can't have kids. I've been an "other mother" to several people from infancy to adulthood, though, and it's nice when I hear from them on Mother's Day.

A trick master wood workers use is to mix sawdust from the same kind of wood with wood glue and fill cracks with that. I think, however, that your gaps are too big. Can you find a master cabinet maker to ask? That's who would know.

I'm an old-fashioned Southern girl, so I registered for my Waterford crystal, Haviland Limoges china, and Gorham silver, plus a few Pottery Barn things. I actually use my china, silver, and crystal when guests come over, and think of the dear people who gave them to me each time. People smile and exclaim delightedly when they're given ice water in a hefty old-fashioned glass. It always feels like I'm a little girl playing "grown-up" and it adds to the fun.

Autocorrect is pretty damn funny. I pictured one of those dishwasher soap bottles with a "waist" waddling around like a headless chicken.

I've been wanting to do this for years. Now I might!

I love the way the whimsical red plastic animal form balances/answers to the serious Phoenician horse antiquity under the table. Great style.

I don't need a trick. My mother's voice plays in my head every single time I leave a room -- turn off the lights! It's almost a tic. Happily, my electrical bills are low, though, so I thank her for it. She was zealous about it because, even in the early 60s, she was already an ardent protector of the earth's precious resources. We grew up with her frugal "green" ways and I love that I've followed in her footsteps. She just called it being a good Girl Scout -- yes, she was our Girl Scout troop leader, too.

I covet these French-inspired pushpins from Ballard.

You are right to be concerned. Also, that fabric does not look baby-friendly. Lead weights: not around babies, whose first instinct is to put things in their mouths.
Can you sew up some slipcovers that have fabric tabs attached that you can button around table legs? That would protect the fabric and keep the chairs upright without the danger of Junior strangling himself with rope.
It's true that there's only a small chance your child will strangle himself or cause brain damage by pulling a chair down on his head. Maybe one in a million. Still, I don't want you to be that one mom crying in the Emergency Room.