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What if you don't have a cast iron skillet?

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You might try something like this pretend sewing machine for now? Along with some lacing cards and embroidery stuff with dull needles for now. Once she's older, you could get her a more legit children's sewing machine, as long as she's still interested.

we saw it at the college park [near dc] ikea a month or so ago. planning on getting some for our nursery!

i'm a little late to this party, but we bought two conversion kits for our crib, when we bought it in the first place. one kit changes our crib into a toddler bed, and the other one into a twin bed. we completely plan on using the toddler conversion kit. we moved to maryland for a job a little over a year ago, and the rooms in our town home are *tiny.* there's absolutely no way i can fit a twin bed in with my daughter's dresser and still have room to move. i hope she'll use it for a couple years until we can move into a house with bigger rooms. and i'm pregnant with my next baby. we plan on getting the same kind of conversion kits for it's crib too. they'll both have gorgeous furniture that they can take with them to college.

as far as potty training goes, we haven't entered that realm. but i'm sure we'll find what's right for us when the time comes.

and goodness. some of you people can sure be rude and snippy. it makes me feel bad for all of the kids who are friends with your kids, because they must be rude too. :( and no one likes a rude friend.

yay!!! rachel!!! she's one of my creative idols. :)

honey butter is my favorite! i love it on homemade bread the best!

my mom and i took dinner to a family one time who was sick, and in the arizona heat, it melted a little in the car, so it was runnier than normal. we just assumed that everyone knew what honey butter was, but it turns out that they thought it was homemade salad dressing...the next day they commented on how interesting it was. haha! we joke about having honey butter on our salad now.

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maybe it has to do with the shade of green? like a green with a lot of blue in it, might suppress it while a more yellow-y green encourages it.

i always heard blue shouldn't be used in a kitchen during my interior design classes. because it's the color of a lot of molds. and green and red encourage eating because a lot of fruits and veggies are green and red. and yellow is the most irritating color to the eye, so that's why fast food places use red, green, and yellow so much. like McD's for instance, red makes you want to eat, but the yellow wants you to get in and get out and be fast. [[i'm not saying any of this is proven fact. it's just what a guest speaker and our teacher told us. so don't shoot the messanger.]] ;)

this is sooo wonderful! we're trying for baby number 2 right now, and it's nursery will be 8'11" by 9'3". it definitely is frustrating when all of the catalogs and inspiration homes i see have gigantic rooms.

thanks so much for sharing!
<3katie

it kinda made me want to barf. and also reminded me of the second harry potter movie when harry blows up his aunt marge/the 6th [new] harry potter movie where horace slughorn has disguised himself as a giant lounge chair. so apparently these just remind me of harry potter in the long run. lol.

i think her home is lovely. and i love that she shared it with us.

the yellow and white sofa that was from urban outfitters- is it comfortable? we've been eying the green one but i heard they're not comfortable from the one review on UO's website, so i was wondering if i could get a second opinion.

thanks again for sharing! you gave me some wonderful ideas!

<3katie