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I love having magazines. Online resources are great, but I find that the ideas I encounter there get forgotten quickly. It's far easier to pour over pictures in your hand than on a screen. I keep my magazines for a time, then tear out ideas that particularly move me, creating my own magazine in a sense. Then I revisit the idea notebook and take things out, replace them with new ideas.

I like Do it Yourself Magazine the best right now. Lots of great ideas for using on-hand and upcycled materials. Always an enjoyable read and holds up to multiple viewings. I've also recently picked up "My Home My Style" which is a small, ad-less publication.

Go ahead and use the Krylon for plastics. I've used it for a bistro (resin) set I had that sat outside all summer long for about three years and it's only now starting to chip.

By the time it chips up on you, you'll be ready to change the color anyway.

As an aside to this event, the Restore location in Elgin, IL (on Rt. 31) are donating 10% of all their sales to Haiti relief through the end of the month.

I agree that text-as-decorating has probably seen its day. This is my home, not a retail store telling me what's for sale in this room. And the last thing I need to see when I'm in a crappy mood is a sign commanding me to "Laugh."

Mid-century is probably here for a little while longer though, especially thanks to Mad Men. It won't take long for the real classic pieces to be chosen as timeless and we'll be on to the next neo-movement. (Does anyone ever wonder if/when we'll revisit 80's pastel?).

With all of this scary economy stuff going on lately, I was JUST thinking about the glut of mcmansions and wondering if it ever came to it, would they divied those houses like they did in the depression. (I live in one of those turn of the century split-up homes now.)

I'm not sure if it would be impossible to divide up those mcmansions, though. Probably the biggest issue would be to get the municipalities to go along with the idea. But if it was a matter of necessity, it could be done.

I've had a little accent lamp on the back of the toilet forever. The only time I ever use the overhead light in the bathroom is when I clean (to be fair, I'm lucky enough to have two big casement windows that go all the way to the floor in the room).

I leave it on in the evenings and cloudy days. It's very cozy and gives off more light than a candle.

This is what's always been known in my family as the "Ravinia Table".

A couple of us have them and we put them together for one large table to spread the feast out on.

Is that the building Maddie Hayes hung from in the Moonlighting pilot?