Bird Nest: You can use dried moss, the decorative kind that is put in potted plants, to make a nice birds nest. The process is a bit messy, but yields nice results, I suggest working on top of some waxed paper or a paper towel. Take a small amount of the moss and knead in some Tacky glue...just a tiny bit, until the moss is almost saturated. Shape the moss/glue blob over the end of a dowel or some other object of the right size which you have first covered with plastic wrap or waxed paper. Pop it off and allow to dry. You might want to glue in a bit of the moss, (not the kind saturated with the glue) at the bottom of the nest. If you want eggs, make them from polymer clay.

Alice Zinn- Pt. St. Lucie FL

Plugs for Lamps: Brooke Tucker's lamps come wired, with lots of generous wire length, and no plugs. That's fine with me! Because I cut off those ugly out of scale plugs anyway. Some people replace them with the special small ones that are closer to scale (but still not IMO). I just hard wire mine to the tape wire after I feed them through two carefully positioned eyelet- rimmed holes in my wallpapered matboard-covered wall. Brooke's lamps also have two insulated wires the whole way, from fixture to the ends. No hassle to split them like I have to do with the ones that have plugs.

Anne Gerdes

Coloring Book: Here is a Dutch site with 1554 printable 'things' to color:
http://www.kleurplaten.nl/

Marjon de Haas

Printing on Fabric: I have just recently tried this myself for the first time and with success. I used an old white dress shirt of my husbands that I cut up (he'll never miss it!) and pressed onto freezer paper. For complete instructions on how to do this go to:
http://wingsnthings.tripod.com/chicken.htm

Marilyn, MI

Search Engines: I finally have something I can add to this thread. For search engines try http://www.webplaces.comHarriet Copyright

Doll Molds: Some time ago I asked if anyone had the address of the Jean Pardina mold company. I have recently discovered it -- Jean has molds for small dolls and figurines. Her website shows just a FEW of the molds she carries. Jean Pardina Molds, P.O. Box 951, Columbia, CA 95310, www.jps.net/pardinas

Judy in TN

Magnifier: I'm pretty sure the Micro-Mark catalog has the magnifier with light on the headgear thing your mother is looking for. Http://www.micromark.com

K. Lee

Fretwork: You might try Georgia Laser. Don't hesitate contacting Cathy for some custom work. Great people to work with. http://www.georgialaser.com

Jon Lash

Animals

Dogs: Karl Blindheim-Bjarnesonn's address is 59 Isabella St.#502, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4Y 1M9 (416) 921-7802 and of course there is out own Alice Zinn iamazin@aol.com

Dawn

Business

European payments: Deidre asked about payments between Europe and the US... and since Birthe from Denmark, a SSer and I just conquered this problem when I made her Chow Chow for her, I thought I'd answer. Although there are probably several ways to solve this, this is what we did. I emailed her my bank's 'wire instructions', my branch and account number and she had the money wire transferred to my account! There was a fee on my end, and I presume on hers as well. But the bank took care of converting the money and the transfer was instantaneous!

Alice Zinn-Pt. St. Lucie FL