Fred Flare certainly has grown since I paid attention to it last. The sushi note set is adorable, and the personal library set makes me nostalgic for my quiet, solitary high school job as a library page. Also nice are the felt dot garland (where oh where else have I seen this?) and magnet board. And there is something so happy about this photo of the superball set.

I was wrong! Crayola brand chalkboard paint doesn't come in many pretty colors, it only comes in black, and that dark green in other brands like Krylon. I apologize to everyone who I might have led astray (errr... hi Erica). Turns out I just wasn't paying enough attention to this page, and going back I see that I must not have been the only one since they put up a huge bold statement at the top which was most definitely not there before. Oops.

Scott doesn't like store bought frosting, and I can't blame him, the whipped light and fluffy stuff I bought a while back for last minute office cupcakes tasted distinctly like Play Doh. Scott grew up with frosting made with Dream Whip and pudding mix. A simple example recipe is here. For those of you who, like me, are new to this Dream Whip stuff, it's like meringe powder, but slightly flavored and does not dry hard. It comes in little paper pouches like pudding mix. I'm curious, did you grow up with this stuff? Is this a part of the American foodstuff culture I somehow missed out on?