I get pounds of cloves, alspice and stick cinnamon for the
oliday pommanders
You can also get inexpensive bulk spices at Indian stores--we buy our cloves
for pomanders this way.
Ann Wass
-----Original Message-----
From: REBECCA BURCH <ctrvlyf...@sbcglobal.net>
To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 5, 2011 12:30 pm
Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
If you have any Amish or Mennonite communities nearby you are in luck. I get 10
ound sacks of canning (non-iodized) salt from the local Mennonite bulk store.
his is also where I get pounds of cloves, alspice and stick cinnamon for the
oliday pommanders that I make every Christmas. Much cheaper than all those
ittle bottles from the grocery.
Rebecca Burch
enter Valley Farm
uncan Falls, Ohio, USA
The only twelve steps I'm interested in are the ones between the flat folds and
he brocades. --Anonymous Costumer--
-- On Wed, 10/5/11, Mary + Doug Piero Carey <mary.d...@pierocarey.info> wrote:
> From: Mary + Doug Piero Carey <mary.d...@pierocarey.info>
Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
To: h-cost...@indra.com
Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:43 AM
<chuckle> Well, if its an archaeological dig that
you're wanting... hmmm...on top...
my green resist dye dashiki whose fraying seam allowances
need work
new black pants for shortening
old black & tans striped pants for waist elastic
deep red shirt with loads of braid from a friend's trip to
Greece to be disasembled & cut down 2 sizes - without
disturbing the braid!
a VERY odd black leatherette cropped jacket which Dear
Hubby spotted in a second hand shop& INSISTED I must buy
if it fit, "that's part of some costume, I know it, and
you'll never find anything like it when you need it" despite
my policy of "NO NEW PROJECTS! Tanjd@mmit!" and his policy
of "No conventions, I want to do other vacations for a
while!". So, why do I need a costume piece I have NO
glimmer of an inspiration for? To go to the bottom of
an at least 15 outfit list, for destinations that we won't
be going to for at least 5 years? <sigh>
and finally, Dear Hubby's pirate costume shirt from last
Halloween, whose cuff & buttons never got done when my
buttonhole feature revolted. (Praise the holy name of
the saint who invented safety pins!)
Do the dozen knitted scarves in the basket in the laundry
room count? They are the almost completed summer stash
reduction project. How about the basket full of
clothes awaiting their dyebath? I gotta find a grocery
store with NONiodized salt for the dyebath. Pounds and
Pounds of it.!
And I have cleared at least 1 square meter of sewing room
floor this last week!!!
Back to my mending!
Mary Piero Carey
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