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Ever since my children were small, I've been taking them to see Tom Chapin in concert.

When they were toddlers, someone gave us a Tom Chapin CD and we played it over and over in the car, learning the words to "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and my personal favorite, "Billy the Squid."

Q. I inherited a beautiful set of mahogany bedroom furniture from my grandmother several years ago. Two pieces, the chest of drawers and the vanity, are cedarized. Although the set is almost 70 years old, the cedar scent is overwhelmingly strong. Anything I keep in there must be washed multiple times before I can wear it, or I smell like mothballs. If I put scented drawer liner paper in the furniture to diminish the cedar smell, am I damaging the wood? If lining the drawers with scented paper is not a good idea, what else can I do to get rid of the mothball smell?

I realize the purpose of cedarizing the wood had good intentions and it does keep the moths away, but if I wear the clothes that I keep in there, the smell keeps people away. Help, please.
-- via e-mail

A. They don't make furniture like that anymore. Most newer cedarized furniture loses its scent in a few years. Try lining the drawer bottoms with regular shelf-lining paper; it is better than scented paper that would disguise the cedar scent with another one. If that works, your problem is solved. If it does not work, you may want to try applying a coat of shellac on one drawer side at a time until you have achieved a tolerable level that preserves the moth-proofing quality of the cedar.

Food at weddings is hit or miss affair; mostly miss. It's really hard to serve well-cooked, flavorful and interesting food to large numbers of people simultaneously. Whenever we are invited to a wedding, I consider eating something before, just in case.

Jennifer Brown/The Star-:edgerWorking at her studio in Montclair, jewelry designer Angie Atkins, top, uses pliers to remove parts from an old computer.

The Montclair mother of three fashions jewelry from the tiny treasures she finds hidden in the printed circuit board (PCB) in computers. It's also known as the mainboard (or mobo for short), system board, or on Apple computers, the logic board.

Does this compute?

It's all part of the 46-year-old Atkins' efforts to be green in what she says can be a "dirty" jewelry industry.