The Fireplace Steps Outside

Outdoor firepits are so California to me, definitely on the list for our perfect house. But I'd build the wood-fired oven first, no matter how passe it's become by the time we actually own a house.
The Fireplace Steps Outside - NYTimes.com

LMNOP Online Magazine for hip, stylish parents and their children

Yup, more cuteness

LMNOP Online Magazine for hip, stylish parents and their children

Amazon.com: The Redwall Series

And some books to check out next library trip

Amazon.com: The Redwall Series

Okido - Home

Magazine for M

Okido - Home

Famille Summerbelle Online Shop

New prints from the artist who did the sweet family tree

print. I'd *so* be wallpapering if we owned our place.

Famille Summerbelle Online Shop

Fabric, becausesometimes I think about sewing..

Lots of great suggestions in the comments for mail-order sources and a few places to check out on our next trip to NYC....So much of the available clothing forM's age is nasty in all senses ofthe word. Tomboy is how we've solved it for now, but maybe in the next year I can get out the sewing machine again

sugar city journal: fabric conundrum

EPGY

What does it say that Stanford's gifted program's form only prints out half the information you've entered. And that you have to fax or mail it? OK, I know, it's so they can have a parental signature on file but what, there are so many desperate gifted children whose parents are ignoring their talents that the program must be protected from them registering themselves? I think the *kids* need to be signing these forms.

Well, it's a step above the DeAnza College application with it's randomness in acceptable formatting of dates and phone numbers. WTF? Was this like some challenge for the upper divisions - design a form to run on weird outdated hardware, and divide into teams but don't talk to each other?

Oh, and by the way....

Welcome!

Thanks for applying to De Anza College. Your admission for winter quarter 2009 is confirmed.

Yup, that's me. Wish me luck