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Just bought these for best friend's new baby, and she said they are her daughter's favorite toy by far!

I just used some this past Thanksgiving when making a sweet potato pie, instead of Rum. I'm not sure why I thought molasses would replace rum exactly, but I hate alcohol flavors in my baking, and I ended up loving the molasses. It had a richer, more complex taste, I think, because of it.

I can't believe Big Shrimpy wasn't profiled there. I love their stuff. Great colors, all sizes and shapes, you can wash EVERY part of it, and recycled filling. Last beds I'll ever buy (and I went through loads of them before).

The lantern sconces are so fun and whimsical! And the giraffe would make me smile every single time I walked into my son's room... thanks Ohdeedoh!

$5 seems really paltry to me, and how about the materials? If they are going to be animal/earth friendly, I would expect they would be using recycled materials at a minimum, too.

We just used one of the two handed silver baby cups my daughter got as baby gift when she was born. It's now a bit dented and tarnished, but when she moves up to big cups, we'll just polish it off and put it back on display. What's the point of a cup that's never used, right?

So adorable!!

My home office is a mess. It's right off the kids playroom, which of course is completely decorated and (mostly) organized, but my little home office is just my space, and it has so much potential (surrounded by floor to ceiling windows looking out over the yard, great light, decent space) but I just haven't made anything of it. I do share it with a 90lb dog, whose dog bed/dog dish take up some space, but that's no excuse for having it look so sad and unfinished given that we've lived here for 2.5 years. I fear if I don't deal with it now, I never will, and as I'm just coming off my 2nd maternity leave and planning to go full time with my own business. I'd LOVE a space that feels organized, coordinated, and warm - somewhere I'd really want to spend as much time in as possible... help me, Lauri!!

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We have the ducduc table and LOVE it - it works for everything from a train table to a chalk drawing board, and is the primary large storage (the rolling drawer underneath) in our room. That said, it functions more as a coffee/center of the room table than a table/chairs set, for which we purchased another inexpensive set that is pushed in the corner w/ two small chairs.

I have two beautiful kids, so I'm laughing to myself about how bad a mom I am that I'm picking a photo without them in it, but here we go... My favorite photo is actually of our family dog, Murphy, who's sitting out in the grass of our yard wearing fuzzy bunny ears last Easter. Murphy is a 90lb lab/pointer mix, white with black spots and a black ear, and he completely personifies the quintessential family dog. He gets drawn on by chalk, paint or markers at least once a week (the white coat is a great canvas), gamely chases bubbles in the yard, knows which toys are his and which are my kids' (never chews the wrong ones, thank goodness) and is honestly the sweetest, most gentle guy in the world. We dress him up every Halloween (so far he's been a princess and a pirate) but this past Easter was just classic, since my Mom had sent bunny ear headbands for the kids and we tried one on him. In this photo, he's sitting in the sun with the ears on, looking utterly humiliated but still such a good sport, knowing the "photo shoot" will be over soon and he'll be showered with kisses and pets from all of us.