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Beautiful set. If the chairs are fibreglass you can spray paint them and use a marine coat on top. We did a whole set of white chairs and they've lasted up to my kids' rough use for over a year now. There's an excellent tutorial over at chairfag (I don't have the address handly... just google chairfag and I'm sure you'll find it!)

Not all Bloggers are professional Writers.

I think of AT as a Blog (officially are you guys a blog?)- and one of the nice things about it is the variety of people that write for this space.

I'd much rather have design savvy non-trained writers who make the odd grammatical error/spelling mistake/use the wrong word instead of someone who just tells a boring design story.

Also I totes need to declutter my house. This post has given me some good ideas. Thanks!

To me its no different than a jogging stroller type of setup, is it? I can't see that its any more or less dangerous.

But it looks absolutely ridiculous. I can imagine laughing hard if I saw a woman or man scooting along happily on one of these. Adult scooter riding is pretty goofy!

I spent many nights trolling around CL looking for a simple sideboard/credenza for our dining room. I would've gladly spent about $300 for something nice. Seemed like there were weeks where every listing was already sold by the time they replied to my email.

Then I went to Value Village - lo and behold I got a very cute teak credenza for $19.99. Made in Denmark. Its veneer, but its got a lovely shape and fits perfect in my dining room.

Value Village usually has total crap furniture, but its never priced high.

I also found an oil painting there about 10 years ago. Paid $19.99 and recently had it valuated by Sotheby's for $6K. True story!

I'm all for fun food, but for me, this is pushing it too much. Although I'm sure that food dye isn't good for you, I'm sure its no worse that whats in regular processed food. I am more concerned with the fact that it doesn't *look* like real food. It looks like candy.

I think its important that our kids' meals look a little more natural - meals are made from the stuff that comes from nature, and not from melted plastic which is what this looks like to me. Its so important that kids appreciate simple, real food and I guess this just goes in the opposite direction of that.

Love it!

We too, have 2 chairs in our bedroom. The only reason we have them there is because they were inherited from the now dead grandparents. They totally don't match the rest of the room, they make it more crowded, and they are major clutter magnets. I have no reason to sit in them - too small for sitting comfortably and reading in. What else would I do there?

BUT over Christmas we de cluttered and the chairs are laundry free. I now use the one on my side to pile my "outfit" on for the next day. 3 days in a row so far, LOL. Maybe this is a new trend for me!

I gave small houseplants to everyone at my son's 6th birthday... I said they were pirates desert islands. The party was a pirate theme - the loot bags were the plants with a skeleton figure sitting in the dirt, all stuffed into a clear celo bag with a couple of small candies. Most of the kids liked them, some kids were like "WHAT IS THIS?".

Personally I'm so tired of all the junk plastic loot bag crap that the kids bring home... I think the Christmas tree is great.

For next year maybe we'll do mini-terrariums, or a make-your-own mini terrareum.

i love it. reminds me of my 70's childhood and in a good way! to me, orange always says 'happy'.

this is one of my pet peeves. and my worst one is french words in the kitchen. after that comes words like "inspire", "spirit" and all that sort of successories type of language.

oh wow, remember those successories posters? yikes.

i do have a giant number 5 in my kitchen though and i love it. found it in a dead man's garbage. long story.