Hi All, I did three days this week - Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday - in the Hollytrees Museum in Colchester. demonstrating bobbin lace-making - the museum is a sort of domestic museum with dolls' houses, domestic equipment etc - and was busy for the whole six hours every day! The lunchtime sandwiches were gobbled between setting pins - it was a toss-up as to whether I went without the sarnis and jiggered up the blood sugar, as I am diabetic, or gobbled them up, and was prone to indigestion!!! - but the local paper's photographer came, took photos, and pictures - of me and the lace, as well as me and the little girl making lace - were in Wednesday's local paper! The write-up was OK too - not huge, but quite pleasing!
I had 'persuaded' my Better Half' to laminate some small bookmarks with my details on one side, and 'I made lace with Carol' on the other, and every person who tried received one, and they seemed to be quite well-appreciated - it may be an idea for others to copy, as, to give credit where credit is due, I 'borrowed' the idea from laminated bookmarks I had purchased in the Lake District, and bookmarks with the Gt Clacton Lace Club sold at their lace day quite a few years ago. We actually finished three snake bookmarks - one a day - so I was busy when I got home too, winding more bobbins, and setting up the pillows. (I must admit to being quite surprised at the number of people who did 'Have-a-Go', but they did all seem to be enthusiastic.) So - it was a really enjoyable three days - hard work, especially as I had had quite a bad time after the stent was taken out a week ago after the kidney stone op. Up to the Monday, I was dubious about how long I would be able to cope but, as the Museum staff were wonderful - cups of tea and coffee, and enquiries to my well-being every so often, as well as the fact that I was making lace most of the time, and not moving around too much! - made it really enjoyable. Anyway - back home now, feeling an ache in my back and shoulders from bending over lace pillows, but feeling quite happy about how well it all seemed to go! Carol - in Suffolk UK ----- Original Message ----- From: "the Mouzons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lace@arachne.com> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Newspaper story on Line -- oops >. He had come in and watched Erin making lace on her own > little pillow, and wanted to do an article on us. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
