I have to tell you my experience this week. Early one morning I heard a 'pop' in my lace corner. As I stared at the corner trying to figure out what the sound was, there was a louder 'crash' and the top shelf of my lace bookcase pitched forward, all over the floor. What was worse was that the books hit my lace pillow rack and knocked pillows on the floor also.
I picked up a few books, and the pillows, but two shelves on the pillow rack were bent downwards. Since I had to leave to go to lace class, I just left everything. That evening, I looked more closely, and saw that the second shelf of books had also fallen, but had fallen only 1/2" and landed on the tall books of the third shelf. The books didn't pitch off the shelf. The shelf-support brackets had given way. (Cheap bookcase!) Since class is over, and I had the day at home today, I worked on my corner. Repaired the pillow rack and put the pillows back. Bought a new bookcase and put the books on it (but not sorted out yet). Got new brackets for the old bookcase and put my small lace pillows on the shelves instead of a ton of books. However, all the other lace supplies that I had to move are still waiting for me to put them back. I think it will have to wait for tomorrow. I have to tell another story. A lady in our lace group was sitting at home making lace a few months ago, and heard a horrible crash upstairs. It was her glass-doored lace bookcase, fallen off the wall. Glass and books were everywhere. She decided it was her signal to get rid of some of the lace books. She donated a huge pile to the lace group to sell with the money going to the teacher's fund for future classes. (The group library got first pick of the books.) Now, I'm not getting rid of my books, yet. In fact, some of mine were purchased from her donation. I got a new bookcase so there is room for them all. <G> I wonder what surprises I'll have tomorrow. Happy lacing, Alice in Oregon - Recovering from a 5-day lace design workshop. Oregon Country Lacemakers Arachne Secret Pal Administrator Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
