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  1. J

    Your favorite toys as a kid?

    My bear who was named Bambi (I still have him, my daughter plays with him, and he was my mother's before he was mine), wooden alphabet blocks (we had an enormous set that filled up a milk crate), my brother and my Lego pirate ship (actually, I think it was my brother's but we both played with...
  2. J

    I'm about to draw myself a bath, and...

    Epsom salts? Do you have nice, pretty slippers for after your bath? My Gramma used to swear by putting a used green teabag in the bath to make your skin soft, but I don't know if this was just something that she did or something that was common for her generation. She always specified that it...
  3. J

    I'm about to draw myself a bath, and...

    I read this and all I could think was "Oh how luxurious! A bath that I could be sure my toddler hadn't peed in!". Yes ladies, I'm pretty sure (despite her fervent protests) that my kidlet pees in our baths. :(
  4. J

    My New Granddaughter Is Here!

    How wonderful! Congrats to you and your family!
  5. J

    Ghost stories please..

    Aaah! First time I had to wrap a body and I turned her and she groaned I just about pissed myself. I had to put a stethoscope on her chest for a good two minutes to convince myself that she was really dead!
  7. J

    Ghost stories please..

    I've run a lot of codes. It's my job (crit care nurse), and usually we can bring them back. All of the instruments that we have to measure them say that they are dead, but then they come back. Not one has described and OBE or a bright light to me, though, and I'm usually one of the first...
  8. J

    Ghost stories please..

    Probably just my feverish brain but... I had moved out on my own and was living in a horrible little apartment with second hand furniture (mostly rescued from the trash) and I had caught the flu. I was sick, sick, sick and quite febrile with no one to take care of me. I had already missed a...
  9. J

    Is the powder room dying on it's feet.

    There was a thread that I read (I think it was in the Observation Bar) about tattoos and how some people didn't like them in which some posters expressed their opinion of them as ugly (I seem to remember one person saying that they were particularly ugly on women, especially "tramp stamps" which...
  10. J

    Take that You...You, Bagel Head!

    I've seen these before, since I have an interest in body mods, but I still think that it looks really ugly, uncomfortable, potentially dangerous and deforming and can't imagine why anyone would want to do this. I feel the same way about some other more socially acceptable implants/injections...
  11. J

    Is the powder room dying on it's feet.

    LizzieMaine, you just made my day!
  13. J

    New Ladies and Gents Step Forward

    I love the look of the 20's but as a lady with hips, I just can't wear it without looking like I am all bottom (the same can unfortunately be said about pencil skirts). I adore the late 40's early 50's (and the voluminous skirts are kind to my posterior). I am not very authentic, as I tend to...
  14. J

    For the seamstresses out there...

    *How long have you been sewing? I learned as a little girl, then promptly ignored it unless I had to hem or mend something. Hand sewing I have done for years in the form of doll-making, but I started to become more serious about sewing by machine when my daughter was born two years ago and I...
  15. J

    Best Night cream?

    I was chatting about what we use on our faces with one of my friends and she swears by a daily facial scrub with adzuki bean flour (she says she just puts a table spoon of dried adzuki beans in a spice mill and grinds them up into flour) mixed with water. She says it is what her Japanese...
  16. J

    Best Night cream?

    I just use the oil undiluted. It has a pleasant fruity scent and is pale orange, but doesn't stain my skin or fabric (pillowcase, clothing). I bought Divine Essences brand organic first cold press from the health food store. 30ml in a little blue glass bottle with a push squirt top cost 14$...
  17. J

    Best Night cream?

    I completely agree with this! I have fair, freckled skin that is prone to break outs and enlarged pores and burns easily in the sun and is combination oily and dry. Rosehip oil is fabulous. I started using it on my feet because I had a terrible burn on one foot that required a 3"x 3" skin...
  19. J

    Vintage candy that is still on the shelves

    I had no idea that there were two different ones, after a quick Google search I discovered that I am eating the UK version.
  20. J

    Turn out your vintage Purse or Handbag

    All I really want is a cleaner, more kid-friendly sewing room, so you are helping me achieve my goal! When you sew and like vintage you get A LOT of hand-me-downs from people who are cleaning out their grandmother's sewing basket. It's a very cute needle book, but I really have no use for it...
  21. J

    Vintage candy that is still on the shelves

    Ooh, and that Fun Dip stuff. I loved that as a kid and it was originally manufactured in 1942 and called Lick-M-Aid. They were called Lick-A-Stix when I was a kid. And Rockets necklaces (I think Americans call them Smarties, but here Smarties are these little chocolate candies and you are...
  22. J

    Vintage candy that is still on the shelves

    Mars Bars are my favourite candy bar. They are sold everywhere here, from the local dep to the pharmacy. The dark chocolate ones aren't very good though, I prefer the caramel in the regular ones. Has anyone mentioned Life Savers or Hershey's Kisses? Those are awesome. Is Poppycock...
  23. J

    Turn out your vintage Purse or Handbag

    St. Louis, would you like a needle book? I know it's not a sewing kit, but it is exactly like this: http://www.attunedtoantiques.com/2012/03/vintage-sewing-needle-books-are.html and came to me with four needles and a threader. The threader has "Japan" printed on it, and I suspect that it is...

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