setting up the nursery
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Topic: setting up the nursery
Posted By: Kazzle
Subject: setting up the nursery
Date Posted: 30 October 2005 at 3:00pm
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Wow its so exciting we have just started to get the nursery ready, mainly because i want it done before xmas lol, talk about wanthing things done now.
We have cleared out the room and my darling husband is painting the skirting boards and the ceiling, then we were going to paint the walls, but i have discovered that i cant handle being around the paint fumes, they really make me sick, so 3 of my girlfriends are stepping in to paint the room for me and help set up the nursery etc. Yah for friends, and of course yah for my daddy who is at the moment resanding and repainting the cot we got. i am starting to love being pregnant. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 30 October 2005 at 3:09pm
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How exciting! Yay for friends and family! ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 30 October 2005 at 4:00pm
| thats soo nice. i wish we owned the place so we could redecorate and paint and stuff. INstead I painted some pictures and put them in frames, replaced the curtains. It turned out well enough but would've loved to paint! Oh well, will redecorate when we move to Gisborne! You're so lucky Kazzle! |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 30 October 2005 at 8:41pm
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Posted By: faewie
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 10:20am
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Yay Kaz! how exciting! Im getting stuck into babys room today, clearing it off all my junk! lol
Im going to ask my landlord if we can paint the other rooms in the house that are boring boring white, my lounge and laundry are red and the kitchen and bathroom are lime green, it looks great (may sound ick!) If I buy the paint Im pretty sure I'll be allowed to do it. Im just wondering what colours to paint babys room, i know im getting way ahead of myself! but i was thinking maybe yellow, but still, the whole house would have to fit in together,,, i dont think i want baby in a red room! any ideas? ------------- http://www.snugglepie.com"> 
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Posted By: preggy_sunflower
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 10:59am
Go lime green maybe? That could be pretty cool. Maybe some purple curtains? He he! I love bright baby rooms, and would so want to paint our babies room that colour, but we don't have money to spend now on painting the room so will make do with mobiles, pictures etc to brighten up the room  ------------- Joshua Hadynn - Born 3 May 2006 |
Posted By: faewie
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 11:33am
yeah thats sounds great! Im trying to muster up the courage to ring my landlord, lol, fear of rejection and all that lol... if he says no, im going to move, I cant live here! lol... we'll see ------------- http://www.snugglepie.com">
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Posted By: preggy_sunflower
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 11:37am
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Go you!! If you can't do what you want when you're up the duff then god help the man who gets in your way My best friend painted her cot lime green and purple, and it looked SERIOULSY cool, hence my desire for a purple and lime green baby's room! Weird combo I know, but it's gotta be seen to be believed how cool it is! ------------- Joshua Hadynn - Born 3 May 2006 |
Posted By: HelenElla
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 12:40pm
| We are also renting so our babys room is boring cream but I bought some really cute teddy bear curtains. At dulux they sell a really cool kids range of paints that you can in so many cool kids colours that are bright and fun. You can also get them with your choise of glitter in them. If you just but a few test pots you can just do the furniture for little cost. |
Posted By: mumstheword
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 12:43pm
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we are renting to, yeah so we brought new curtains and winnie the pooh stick on wall boarders and wall stickers that arnt really stickers, they dnt ruin the wall, also i got a really nice pink mosqito net to hang over bubs cot, makes the room really gurly.. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Kazzle
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 1:20pm
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We are painting our entire house the same colour which is called sour cream, its a pale creamy yellow colour,
In the lounge we have a feature wall, and in the master bedroom and our spare room we will have a feature wall as well, but in the nursery we are painting it all one colour, and using the curtains, paintings etc to accent the room. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: HelenElla
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 2:41pm
I was soo eager to set up the babys room so we got it all done in august it was so much fun setting it up but now it's just frustrating going in and opening the curtains every morning closing them every night with no bubby to go in the cute little bassinet. I bet if we waited until the last minute bubs would have come early!
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Posted By: preggy_sunflower
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 3:01pm
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I think that is called Murphy's Law ------------- Joshua Hadynn - Born 3 May 2006 |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 4:21pm
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Jack's room is a bright lime green colour with a border 3/4 up the wall to break it abit. He has a white cot and the curtains are dark navy. It looks really cool, people always comment and I just love it! We just decorated the walls with some stick ons.
Lime green and purple go really great together! Purple is my fave colour, if we have a girl next (fingers crossed) her room will be purple  ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 8:48pm
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lolol sounds like a whole heap of kewl colours - only thing you might wanna think about it the fact that it may keep baby AWAKE!!!!!!
I always liked the idea of a cream room, with bits of colours, lots of pastel coloured ginghams made into curtains and duvet etc, separated by cream bits. - sounds corny but i've seen it done and it's cute. oh well - am stuck with olive green walls for now since we rent. ick ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 01 November 2005 at 7:55am
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One of our goals for next year is buying our own place and I can't wait to paint/decorate everything!!! I love doing stuff like that!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 01 November 2005 at 10:33am
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We painted the babys room in a colour called half spanish white, its nice. We did it a couple of years ago, though, as it was the spare room, but it goes great with the wooden cot and bed and drawers that are inthere as well. We decorated it for Jakey with mobiles and I am going to put an alphabet freize around the wall, one that i can take off and not damage the paint! I went preggo mad (nesting?) over easter and made rod finish all the painting and stuff around the house, he was knackered, but I was terified that the baby wuld be coming home to a paint fumey unfinished home! LOL. (another novel..) ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 01 November 2005 at 10:47am
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Maya's room is boring cream too with big exposed plaster since we're renting, but the landlord is having the place painted in a couple of weeks. Will be a pain having to live around the painters, but the finished result will be awesome as atm the walls have lots of exposed plaster from the previous tenants.
Maya doesn't have a really 'girly' room, her duvet cover is purple with farm animals, and she has some bright yellow, green and red plastic drawers for her nappies, wipes etc. and some matching plastic bins for er shoes, which look really cool but practical too (we have a matching set of bins in the lounge for her blocks and little people, they slot into a wooden frame). -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: preggy_sunflower
Date Posted: 01 November 2005 at 10:55am
Our whole house is the same colour - an off white colour, but the curtains are all very nice (Jono has great taste I have to say!). We own our place so can do what we want, but money is an object so will make do with what we have. BTW we went looking at nursery stuff over the weekend, and I nearly died at the cost of everything  A nice cot - $700!! A good stroller - $700!!! I never knew it was going to be such a HUGE expense!!------------- Joshua Hadynn - Born 3 May 2006 |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 01 November 2005 at 11:01am
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Farmers are pretty reasonable, we got a nice wooden cot there on sale for $399 and a jolly jumper 3 wheeler, which is great for $229 on sale ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 01 November 2005 at 11:10am
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I got a Pioneer Babylove 2 stroller for $330 from Baby Factory and it's great.
We also got the basic Alpha cot, plain white for $300. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: preggy_sunflower
Date Posted: 01 November 2005 at 11:16am
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The stroller I like is at Farmers, a Maclaren one - but think I will try out trademe to see what I can find on there. How soon do you guys think the room needs to be set up? I'm due end of April..... ------------- Joshua Hadynn - Born 3 May 2006 |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 01 November 2005 at 12:21pm
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We have the maclaren mac 3. It is fantastic!! We had the carry cot on there until this weekend and now he is in the stroller. I LOVE it!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Anjelmajik
Date Posted: 01 November 2005 at 2:21pm
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I started doing up the baby's room about a week ago hehehe...and bubs due in a month and a half! We rent our house too,though the landlord said we can paint if we buy the paint, but we can't afford it, so no painting for us... Instead, I looked up some Winnie the Pooh pictures on the net and enlarged them, printed them, then used them as templates for pictures to hang on baby's wall. I made individual pictures of eeyore, pooh, tigger, piglet etc, and put a poem underneath from winnie the pooh ie. how to be a tigger, and then framed them... they look great!! Another cool idea is to buy a piece of canvas and a few test pots of paint, then invite friends and family over to do their own little drawing for baby's wall..little kids love to contribute too! These pictures look great and are a special gift for baby that they'll be able to treasure forever! ------------- http://www.tickercentral.com"> 
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Posted By: preggy_sunflower
Date Posted: 01 November 2005 at 3:05pm
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Those are awesome ideas Thank you!! I'm going to try and come up with some stuff too!! ------------- Joshua Hadynn - Born 3 May 2006 |
Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 01 November 2005 at 4:48pm
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we got our JJ cot from farmers for 300 and an innersprung matress for 60(half price matress when buy the JJ cot),our biggest exspense with Xander was our 500 pram which we r selling now :( ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com"> 
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Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 01 November 2005 at 4:50pm
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with prams(theres a post sumwhere bout them),if wanting #2 relatively close to #1 shop round for pram that can take a 2nd seat ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com">
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Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 01 November 2005 at 4:54pm
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and may pay to get one with the heavier weight limit. ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com">
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 01 November 2005 at 9:37pm
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or get a phil and teds - so you can get the second seat and both kiddies can still be covered - i love ours - ayja is just now gettinga bit big to be in the baby part underneath paris, so in the next month of so we will convert it to the 2 toddler seats.. have tried it once or twice and ayja seems to like it, so just waiting for it to be a little warmer consistently. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: preggy_sunflower
Date Posted: 02 November 2005 at 8:47am
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This will be my only baby, so I can just go with a basic stroller I think? I can't get on to trademe at work, so I can't have a look at whats on there til tonight. Will check it out ------------- Joshua Hadynn - Born 3 May 2006 |
Posted By: p.lsarge
Date Posted: 02 November 2005 at 2:36pm
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We have just not long ago painted our babies room.
we have painted it in a loevly deep grapey purple and are having granny apple green curtains, with a pinted toy box, and book shelves. it all looks really really good. we thought we had heaps of time and shouldn't rush things as our baby isn't due until end of January but i have to say that the room still smells quite strongly of paint so it does take a while to get rid of the smell. So if painting i would highly reccommend painting as soon as possible. But it's all so exciting. ------------- Lara |
Posted By: preggy_sunflower
Date Posted: 02 November 2005 at 2:40pm
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Those colours sound gorgeous Be the room looks amazing! ------------- Joshua Hadynn - Born 3 May 2006 |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 02 November 2005 at 2:42pm
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Posted By: mumstheword
Date Posted: 02 November 2005 at 3:19pm
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We have just brought our pram from farmers, a bertini, teal and black and it comes with the new born baby capsule that locks onto the pram while baby is still little instead of getting them in and out of the carseat you just put the carseat onto the pram, its great and looks nice, we got the pack for $428, came with pram, carseat, rain cover, boot cover, head snuggler for the cars seat, belt covers for by babys chin, and a sun shade, the pram also has loads of strorage, saddle bags on the sides ect.. its fantastic... ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: preggy_sunflower
Date Posted: 02 November 2005 at 3:38pm
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Wow, that pram set sounds awesome! Is it a 3 or 4 wheel model? ------------- Joshua Hadynn - Born 3 May 2006 |
Posted By: mumstheword
Date Posted: 02 November 2005 at 3:43pm
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Its a 3 wheel pram, its awesome I couldnt belive the deal they had!! I paid $500 for calebs 3 wheel pram when he was a bub and it was crap compared to this one ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 02 November 2005 at 7:06pm
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my friend has that bertini pram too and i am jealous! i have a 3 wheel steelcraft which is great and i love it but the convenience of having the capsule also and all the other goodies you get with the bertini are awesome! if i was in the market for a pram, i'd definately get that one. ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com">
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 03 November 2005 at 5:19pm
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Its funny how all the topics seem to continue rotating as new people get preggy!! A few months ago there were a few of us asking the same questions about nurserys and prams etc.
Our nursery is white with a pastel yellow feature wall and navy curtains. And I just love my BabyLove 3 wheel pram from Baby Factory ($250). Its really light and easy to steer and I love taking Hannah out for walks in it. ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 03 November 2005 at 7:39pm
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Oh i know im not that far in but i have already decided on a pram hehe its the bertini one aswell Im not normally a fan of 3 wheelers but i love that one Getting a touchwood cot (sleigh design) and the nursery is gonna be decorated in winnie the pooh! hehe can you tell i have been waiting awhile for this moment?
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Posted By: lenabeanz
Date Posted: 03 November 2005 at 8:51pm
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Talking about prams etc - I have a friend who is expecting twins next year and also has a 6 month old (will be one when twins are born)
What do you guys recommend for 3 kids under 1 pram wise? Cheers ------------- http://www.snugglepie.com"> 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 03 November 2005 at 9:20pm
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weeeee 3 kids under one!!! adventurous!!!!
the only thing I can think of is to grow an extra pair of arms so she can push two prams! sorry, i'm not much help. i can't even cope with one kid. just wantedt o say that i hate my buggy. it pays to spend a bit extra and get something decent. as soon as hannah can walk i'm going to push ours off the cliff. (it's the kingston jogger type. useless.) |
Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 04 November 2005 at 9:26am
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lena-theres twin mountain buggys(triton trekker and pedigree brands) which can have 2nd seat attached to front. ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com">
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 04 November 2005 at 10:02am
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My sister has twins and a toddler (she was 1-ish when they were born). They have two options pram-wise - one is a triple buggy for out walking but it doesnt fit in any shops! so they also have a narrow double one (with one seat in front of the other) for the twins and then Paige goes in the front pack. hope that makes sense! ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 04 November 2005 at 10:29am
AAAAAARRRRGGGHHH!!! 3 such young kids....  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 05 November 2005 at 3:35pm
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I thought u were keen for more already Ana?! ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 9:27am
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Posted By: lenabeanz
Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 7:40pm
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Well I went into Baby Factory on Friday and I think it was the Urban buggy (the 3 wheel sporty one) and you can get those in the twin model then put a toddler seat on the front. Price $610!! Wendy is going to faint!! (She is on a TIGHT budget)
I will be looking on trademe for a cheaper buggy for her and just tell her to buy a toddler seat new! Is the double one the one with baby in the back and a built in seat in the front that doesn't recline (asked the girls at babyfactory and thats what they said) My Advice - DONT have 3 kids under 1!! Haha ------------- http://www.snugglepie.com">
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 7:41am
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OK guys, maybe the theory is better than practise in this case, heehehehehehehe ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 9:08am
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i dont think urban do toddler seats. i have the single. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: lenabeanz
Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 9:46am
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it was one of those 3 wheel sporty ones! Maybe it was the Mountain Buggy?? I should just get the brochure out of the car!! ------------- http://www.snugglepie.com">
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Posted By: mumstheword
Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 4:15pm
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hey my friend has a twin moantain buggy for sale, in really nice condition ill se how much she wants for it if anybidy is interested.. be cheaper than buying a new one.. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mumstheword
Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 4:18pm
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and its one you can attach a toddler seat to.. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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