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Bethany, domestic goddess, wanted to support a good cause, so she ran a silent auction on her web site - for a custom-made quilt made from a child's baby clothes. She thought she'd raise maybe $100 - but the high bid was $700! The response was so good that she's now offering baby clothes quilts for sale on Etsy.Other people make baby clothes quilts, too.

So many toys, so many toy storage options! Here are three that caught my eye lately. Tracey Hanmer Karl of Creative Expressions:Kids makes these hand painted toy bins - there are over fifty themes available. Over in the UK, Heidi Alexander-Sleap makes some pretty wonderful hand painted toy boxes.

Children's toys are always an organizing challenge - and then there are the bath toys. Here are some of the options out there. Caution: There are sometimes complaints about organizers that rely on suction cups not sticking to the wall properly. 1. Let's start the animal parade of bath toy organizers with Peli's Play Pouch.

What do do with those very special children's toys - the ones they are ready to give up, but you're hesitating because they are special to you? Some professional organizers were discussing this recently, and organizer Heather Ahern of The FUNctional Home shared this suggestion.

As many times as I've written about this, you would have thought I'd exhausted the options. But no - here are four more! (Of course, this is beyond the normal approach of saving the best pieces in a scrapbook, a portfolio, a SchoolFolio, an archival box, an oversized 3-ring binder, etc.) 1.

Your kids bring home goodie bags filled with less-than-wonderful little toys; what do you do with them? This suggestion came in anonymously in response to my prior post about goodie bags and I thought it was worth sharing; you may not have all seen it buried in the comments.

Paul McGlothin and Meredith Averill - The CR Way: Using the Secrets of Calorie Restriction for a Longer, Healthier Life From The Oprah & Friends Radio Show with Dr. Mehmet Oz, 23 May 2008 The CR Way: Using the Secrets of Calorie Restriction for a Longer, Healthier Life by Paul McGlothin and Meredith Averill When it comes to living longer, scientists are discovering that less is more.

Do you suffer from stuffed animal clutter? Assuming you really do want to keep all the animals, The Zoo is a novel way to do that. It makes putting them away a snap, and they are all visible and easy to pull out, too. And I love that it comes from a family business; many thanks for John Chisholm for writing and telling me about his product.

1. Christopher Noxon is tired of overdone children's birthday parties. His three-step plan to improve things begins this way: Step 1. Immediate and total ban on goodie bags. There was a time, not so long ago, when kids got genuinely excited by those little sacks of toys and do-dads given on the way out of a birthday party.

I've written before (here, here, here and here) about ways to showcase your child's art: in custom-made books, on note cards, on web sites, on tote bags, etc. But here's a new one: Have a poster made showing your child's best work. [via Cool Mom Picks] Here's another option: Have a favorite work turned into a pillow.