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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 9:54 am
I have one that hangs on the wall and doubles as a picture frame. It's about 24x16 and I love it. Doesn't take up much space, but accommodates all my long necklaces.
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Holly
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 10:29 am
Where did you buy that, Escapee? Sounds like something I could use for necklaces.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 10:45 am
You can always try something like this: jewelry display. My aunt has one of those standing jewelry boxes (think it's 3 feet tall?) that have the doors that open and then again fold out. Sis bought it at, I think, Kmart a couple years ago for around $80. Lots of room for all kinds of jewelry and the necklaces can hang on the inside of the doors or go into one of the 5 or 6 drawers. Only problem is her longer necklaces have to be doubled or tripled up to fit. That would be a problem with the display stands as well.
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Hermione69
Member
07-23-2002
| Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 10:50 am
She has necklaces longer than 3 feet??? Escapee, I saw something like that on the Walmart site. Glad to know you like it!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 11:02 am
Oh, the inside of the doors are shorter, Hermi, probably around 18 inches where the necklaces hang. And you wouldn't believe some of the stuff she has, lol. She loves her costume jewelry and most of it comes straight out of the 70's, things that go around the neck 2-3 times and still hang down to her belly. Since she's gotten older, she's stopped wearing anything that is really long (afraid to catch it on something) and has given me pieces to restring into something she can wear. I've been able to make necklace/bracelet sets from some and several necklaces from others.
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Hermione69
Member
07-23-2002
| Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 4:34 pm
Sounds cool. I love unusual jewelry!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, July 23, 2010 - 7:31 am
Back to the Vitamin D/sun exposure thing. I just took an online lecture with a dermatologist associated with the American Cancer Society and the message was that enough exposure to provide the vitamin D we need is not healthy in terms of skin damange and skin cancers, as well as eye damage and that it is best to get your vitamin D through diet and supplements. UVB radiation is stronger in summer, blocked by ozone and glass but causes cancers and sunburn. UVA: • Strong all day and all year long • UVA not blocked by ozone – 95% of UV radiation reaching earth’s surface • Causes cataract formation, photoaging (wrinkling/sagging skin), most photosensitive eruptions (drugs, autoimmune disorders), photoimmunosuppression, and skin cancer Just FYI.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, July 23, 2010 - 7:43 am
I don't have anything really long but I have a thing that hangs on the wall. wood frame with some dowels that let you hang necklaces and bracelets and the "door" is screen so you can hang or attach earrings.. then you can see everything at once. Longer necklaces just hang down more but they aren't enclosed behind doors. Not as elegant, but it works great.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Friday, July 23, 2010 - 12:12 pm
Thanks Sea. I have been walking through sunny car parks instead of the usual scampering, but that's about the most sun I'd ever get, so it's probably not worth even trying to get more. Plus the Vit-D supplements are tiny things and you hardly know you've swallowed them, unlike the calcium ones - arg. I'll stick to them!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, July 23, 2010 - 1:24 pm
Dang, Seamonkey, thanks for sharing that info. That is the first I had heard that. I wonder if it makes a difference what part of the world one is in? i.e. closer to or farther from the equator
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Karen
Member
09-06-2004
| Friday, July 23, 2010 - 2:30 pm
Does anyone know what font this is? I used it to make a part of my wedding video, then had to reformat my machine and can't seem to find it in my list of hundreds of fonts. Thanks!

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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, July 23, 2010 - 3:21 pm
Karen, try this place. You submit a file with the font in it and they try to identify it: http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
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Karen
Member
09-06-2004
| Friday, July 23, 2010 - 3:26 pm
Thanks, Hukd. I've bookmarked that for later - I know I'll need it! I finally found it. It's called Stereofidelic, if anyone's interested. 
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 6:53 pm
Anyone know what kind of tests a Clinical Neuropsychologist might do with a kid?? Ryan has a 4 hour appt with one tomorrow and he is very curious (almost nervous even) about what to expect. Guess I should have asked them before, but I am guessing it'll be like IQ tests or building blocks, etc. But if I had more of a clue, it might settle Ryan down a bit.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 7:04 pm
Julie, if you don't get any answers here you might want to PM Karuuna, I just saw in another thread that she has experience in that.
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Jmm
Moderator
08-16-2002
| Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 8:12 pm
Julie, here is a link that names some of the tests that they use. I'm not sure what they are, but you could look up the individual tests to get an idea. http://www.hmc.psu.edu/healthinfo/no/neuropsychologicaltesting.htm I googled neuropsychological tests.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 9:50 pm
Jmm, I surely have missed your helpfulness and just plain good sense these past few years. It is so good to have you back.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 7:20 am
Many thanks!! We are here right now! I am in the waiting room.
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 7:30 am
Best wishes Julie!!! My 13 yr old dd went through the testing last year, determined she has a problem with short-term memory. According to her the tests were tedious but easy enough, like being assigned extra homework. Worst part was that they kept telling her that a learning disability didn't mean she was dumb and she told me that she didn't feel dumb until they kept saying that to her ad naseum. I was going to list the tests that dd had but the link JMM provided sums it up nicely.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 7:52 am
I always like what my daughter's school called 'learning problems'. It was called Some Learn Differently. Much kinder and very true.
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Jmm
Moderator
08-16-2002
| Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 1:24 pm
Thanks, Juju. 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 2:18 pm
Hope the testing went well, Julie, and that it gives you some useful results. ==== Agree with Juju.. I got a goofy grin seeing Jmm posting helpful answers here.. ==== Juju, the dermatologist didn't mention location as a factor, just said they don't think you can safely get enough vitamin D through sun, so supplements were the answer. And they are also saying that while sunscreens are important, assuming they are applied properly, in large enough amounts and ahead of time before you go out, it is still important to wear hats, sunglasses and clothing that covers more of the body and to avoid the 10-4 hours. LOL.. I guess Dr Will had it right. Another alarming stat: Larger percent of women born after 1965 with skin cancers, thought to be a result of use of tanning beds by young women. Usually there have been more skin cancers in men. And she mentioned that in many places they are setting age limits so that young teens are not allowed to even use tanning beds, but they don't encouage anyone to do so. And, sadly for me, since I have never smoked, she stated that ssecond hand smoke exposure is a factor in skin aging (I lived with smokers for 33 years, plus 9 months in utero. I'm trying hard to use that sunscreen.. with my driving my left forearm is noticeably more tanned than my right forearm.. and often I leave home in very overcast weather, only to have the sun come out later. Spray tans are okay but of course do nothing to protect from the sun.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 1:11 pm
Call it a personal shortcoming, but I consider anybody who uses a tanning bed to be an idiot.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 1:20 pm
then I have the same shortcoming!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 1:24 pm
JuJu, ITA 100% I am a whitey, pale, freckled, glow in the dark kinda person. I have been ridiculed, teased, and told I looked like a ghost because I refuse to even attempt to get a tan. I slather the sunscreen on no-matter where I go, even make sure I use makeup with sunscreen in it. I used to get teased by SMIL for being white and her encouraging me to go to the tanner. I declined and said that I didn't want to look like her when I'm 50. Look folks, it's not that I can't tan, it's that I don't want to. I freckle like a trout with sunscreen on so why would I want to enhance that. Now, for a wedding last year I did the spray tan thing, and it was ok. Still, I would prefer to NOT look like a piece of leather in 20 years TYVM.
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