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I can't stop laughing.

I bought some black polyester fabric at the local market for £1.50 a metre and sewed them behind our existing ikea curtains in the baby room. Its pretty amateurish and crude but it works a charm and i spent almost no money and no time doing it. cheap and cheerful is fine with my baby - he's no fashionista... yet!

I love this shop and I try to hit it every time I go back to Vancouver. Its so inspirational and calming to go in and take in all of the lovely stationary. Its beautiful, simple and nostalgic.

I know this isn't really answering your question but...

Isn't 18 months old enough to be potty trained? All of the children in my family were potty trained by 8 months. In fact, most of the children I know have all been trained within their first year- even if they couldn't walk. As soon as they were able to sit their parents would just plop the baby on the loo when given a potty signal, and then wait for elimination.

While I was in college, I lived with a Brazilian girl who was a complete drama queen. She also ate toast without a plate, never tidied after herself and spoke at the top of her voice at all times (but truly these were the least of her offenses).

I confronted her about her behaviour and asked her to be a little bit more considerate. When she freaked out and made it all into a big drama by instigating racial slurs at me I sought revenge by peeing on her toothbrush, spraying Detol on her fruit so it would go off quickly, turning the lights off in whatever room she was in, and taking an *extremely* long time in the bathroom when she was late for work.

This all worked and within 2 weeks she moved out. I do not advocate the kind of behaviour I demonstrated but it did work. and she was racist...and painted her bedroom walls terracotta.

Ouch. Too pricey for me.

Actually Baby Yaga, you were talking about what my concerns are now that I'm pregnant. Well its true, my ability to tolerate smoke is the least of my concerns (although it wasn't when I was suffering from morning sickness- it was actually one of the top concerns as my nausea was all consuming).

What is currently at one of the top of my concerns is bringing a baby into a world of judgmental, dogmatic freaks who try to impose their stoic viewpoints onto other people and get offended when other people might voice a different opinion. (please notice my lack of exclamation marks because I'm able to convey a calm and rational sentence)

If I was you I would stop worrying about what my list of concerns should be and start to consider what kind of "guests" I invited into my home before I tarnished all smokers with negative stereotyping.

I love smoking and my husband all of our friends smoke. We have never smoked indoors no matter how rainy and cold it is. Unfortunately I recently became pregnant and went right off the smell of smoke so that means not even the out door space can be a smoking area. I hope once the baby is out I'll be able to be reasonable again with the smell of smoke. If there is one thing I can't stand is an anti smoking nazi!! hehehehe

Thanks for all the nice comments about our fireplace and our dog. Both my husband and my doggy love it. We just moved into our new flat and haven't had much money to decorate it, and we definitely didn't want to do the cliche candles thing. We thought the doggy mattress was cheap enough and cute. Thanks for the suggestions anyway!

Of course! The traditional bento boxes of Asia are made of metal and you can buy them on Amazon at this link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000H92LWE/ref=nosim/wwwmakikoitoc-20

These are what we used as kids and you can heat them up in a steamer.