[lace] Re: tourist question from me
I've got a tourist question! We (husband, self, son, daughter-in-law and 3 grandchildren) are coming to Florida in Feb to meet up with 2nd son and American daughter-in-law plus dog for a holiday. I'm so excited - more than the children, I think. My questions are - is there anything lace related I could see or do in the area? We are staying in a villa in Kissimee. and the next question - what is a typical breakfast in America? like the way that bacon and eggs are 'typical' of Britain.? Any info on either/or would be gratefully received. Libby Inglis in sunny (currently but rain clouds massing again)Shrewsbury UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Sorting database
Hi, Tamara. If you're using Appleworks database, here's what you do: Click on Organize, then on Sort records. Then click Clear. Next, on the Field list, click on the first field you want to sort by and click Move. Continue doing this until the fields are in the order you want to sort by. Then click OK. The order of the fields won't change, but they'll be sorted in the order you've designated. On Thursday, January 4, 2007, at 12:25 AM, Tamara P Duvall wrote: At the moment, the database and I have a disagreement: I think it ought to list the catalogue by author, while it thinks that listing in the order I've fed teh entries is "good enough". Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot/seaspray/SeasprayLaceGuild.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Raffle: Afficot
When I was in France in Sept., I saw videos of Alencon and Argentan needlelaces being made. In both cases, a lobster claw was used as an afficot. Over Christmas, I made the supreme sacrifice :-) and ate 2 lobsters. Three claws have been spoken for, but I have one left over. So, if anyone would like a 'Genuine Nova Scotia Lobster Claw Afficot', (sorry no meat left attached) please email me privately. I'll pull the winning name out of a hat next Thurs. Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot/seaspray/SeasprayLaceGuild.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] unsubscribe
Hello all Arachnies Well I havn't been lacing for a long time, (2years)now, and havn't been very active on the list either, and due to a course that I have to go to, for 4 weeks + 1 week, work wise, winther pruning og trees, and a chainsaw course, I will be unsubscribing on sunday, and at least for all the summer and autumn, After my dicorce and the moving to my new home, I just havn't had any power in me to do lace, even my teaching I have given up, stopped teaching in dec. 06, so I have to make some deap breathtaking, and start all over again, but have to have it all on a distance for a weile. I have meet a lot of lovely people on the list, some I have been spoken to on skype, some e-mail in person, and I just love this media, talking/mailing people all over the world, seen some homes from above, on google eath, and through the webcam, see lace work at once, and for thouse who asked me for help, I could tell straight away where the problem where, and that fare away from me. Thankyou for the time I was here, I will be back again, some time mayby first in a year Happy Lacemaking to you all Love Dorte from a rainy Denmark. www.spaces.msn.com/members/MrsTee www.skype.com mit skype navn: mc535xv www.sonderborgmc.dk - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] RE: [lace-chat] unsubscribe
Good luck Dorte, sorry to hear you are shelving the lace making for a while I usually find that if I have a problem a few hours lace making takes me away from it all and things never seem so bad after. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dorte Tennison Sent: 04 January 2007 14:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace-chat] unsubscribe Hello all Arachnies Well I havn't been lacing for a long time, (2years)now, and havn't been very active on the list either, and due to a course that I have to go to, for 4 weeks + 1 week, work wise, winther pruning og trees, and a chainsaw course, I will be unsubscribing on sunday, and at least for all the summer and autumn, After my dicorce and the moving to my new home, I just havn't had any power in me to do lace, even my teaching I have given up, stopped teaching in dec. 06, so I have to make some deap breathtaking, and start all over again, but have to have it all on a distance for a weile. I have meet a lot of lovely people on the list, some I have been spoken to on skype, some e-mail in person, and I just love this media, talking/mailing people all over the world, seen some homes from above, on google eath, and through the webcam, see lace work at once, and for thouse who asked me for help, I could tell straight away where the problem where, and that fare away from me. Thankyou for the time I was here, I will be back again, some time mayby first in a year Happy Lacemaking to you all Love Dorte from a rainy Denmark. www.spaces.msn.com/members/MrsTee www.skype.com mit skype navn: mc535xv www.sonderborgmc.dk To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.3/614 - Release Date: 02/01/2007 14:58 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.3/614 - Release Date: 02/01/2007 14:58 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: tourist question from me
No idea about lace in Kissimmee, but a guess at the most popular breakfast is bacon and pancakes and maple syrup, with or without eggs (and your son & daughter-in-law should be able to translate all the names for cooked eggs for you) Sue - Original Message - From: Libby Inglis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:19 AM Subject: [lace] Re: tourist question from me I've got a tourist question! and the next question - what is a typical breakfast in America? like the way that bacon and eggs are 'typical' of Britain.? - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lace Guild Website update
Dear David - in blustery Glasgow, Again and again through the years, you have provided your professional expertise to lacemakers throughout the world. We appreciate what you do to help Jean keep The Lace Guild's website interesting and current. For this, perhaps we should bestow upon you a new title. Lord Lace? Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center > To start the new year we did a January update on the Lace Guild > website, and finally got round to mounting some pieces from the > October Lace magazine (too busy before Christmas). Otherwise just an > events update, and a stop press notice about visiting The Hollies > during February (or not). > > David in blustery Glasgow (Jean's gone off to see a lace exhibition) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: tourist question from me
--- Libby Inglis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and the next question - what is a typical breakfast > in America? If you're eating in restaurants, I think the most typical breakfast is 2 eggs, meat, potatoes and bread. The meats are usually American style bacon strips, ham, or little sausages(which are different from English sausages.) The bread could be pancakes, toasted wheat, white, rye, or sourdough bread, baking powder biscuit, or English muffin. A drink may or may not be included in the offering. Drinks would be coffee, tea, juice or milk. However, there are many other offerings on a menu besides the basic breakfast. Most places offer waffles, french toast, cereal (hot or cold), omelets, or other creations of the chef. On the other handif you go to a Fast Food place, you will get abreviated versions of restaurant meals, with a very common one being an English muffin with ham, egg and cheese in the middle of it. Being an American, eating in England was an adventure. You will probably have an adventure coming here and adjusting to our food offerings. You might need some terminology explained, but you should be able to find something edible even if it is different. Have a great trip. Sorry I'm too far away from Florida to know what is offered there. Alice in Oregon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Gentle inquiry.
Dear Lacemakers, Does anyone know the whereabouts of a Mrs. Joyce Willmot. Perhaps an email or snail mail? If you have any information could you contact me privately? Thanks Susie Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 815-942Susie Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 815-942-1838 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of tech.gif] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] re A strange question for a tourist
Devon, If you're in the area you could visit Nottingham - the Castle is now a museum which has some "proper" lace, as well as lots of english civil war stuff that might of interest to a non lace maker, and there is also the Lace Hall which I enjoyed when I went there sometime ago, (OK it's not "proper" lace but machine made, but still very interesting). Rosemary from wet & windy Somerset - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] 'puter-moron?
I may be a total, incurable, 'puter-moron, but I do seem to manage to stir up interesting conversations at just the right time, no? I don't think you are the moron. Most softwaredeveloppers are satisfied when a piece of software can accomplish a task and forget to investigate wether people can accomplish anything with that piece of software. It is as stupid as building houses with ropes in stead of staircases. So please keep asking questions to the real morons to cure them. Jo Falkink - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] tourist question from me - Florida
In a message dated 1/4/07 4:23:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > We (husband, self, son, daughter-in-law and 3 grandchildren) are coming to > Florida in Feb to meet up with 2nd son and American daughter-in-law plus dog > > for a holiday. I'm so excited - more than the children, I think. > My questions are - is there anything lace related I could see or do in the > area? We are staying in a villa in Kissimee. > and the next question - what is a typical breakfast in America? like the way > > that bacon and eggs are 'typical' of Britain.? > Dear Libby, I believe there are Florida lacemakers subscribed to Arachne, and hope you will hear from them. In case they do not write to you: There is a small lace collection at the Henry Flagler Museum in Palm Beach Florida. I suggest you do an internet search of that museum for more information - hours, etc. And, you might write to them to confirm that the lace room is open, or call them when you get to Florida. Situations in museums change a lot year-to-year. There are 3 IOLI-Chartered lace clubs in Florida - Greater Orlando Lacemakers, Jacksonville Florida Lacers, and Sand Dollar Lacers (in Niceville). There is one person listed in Kissimmee in the IOLI Handbook for members. Her profile says she is a bobbin lace teacher, and she also has an interest in crochet and knit laces. If you would like me to make a private inquiry for you, I will be happy to do so. IOLI members are never supposed to give out personal information from our Handbook (for security reasons, etc.). Breakfasts in America include regional and ethnic preferences. Fruit and juices will be plentiful in Florida. There are various ways of preparing eggs, various kinds of pancakes, all kinds of muffins and toast - of each kind of grain. Also, we have cereals of all kinds that come in boxes - cold and to be cooked. For the children in your traveling party, milk comes in a variety of options, including soy milk for those with allergies. Everything is usually served in very large portions in public restaurants, so ask about quantities. Many restaurants have a menu with choices just for children (smaller portions) and for (senior citizens). You'll see - lots of foods. Italian, Japanese, Chinese, French, Spanish, etc. Lace is usually not served at American breakfast tables, though it may be worn to them! Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Building a catalog in Excel -> html
My EXCEL spreadsheet on bobbin and needlelace references now has 5828 entries. The items I record for each work are: Author Title Publication date Language Media Numberd pages Category Type ISBN Editor or Curator Publication Series Publisher Printed by Copyright information I have a multipage guide as to how things should be added to the spreadsheet, with further explanations of the items above. Personally, I favor Filemaker Pro for the search function - it can read in EXCEL spreadsheets and has a flexible search option. If anyone wants a copy of the bibliography, I'll be happy to send you one. Laurie Waters - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: tourist question from me
Libby Inglis wrote: . . . what is a typical breakfast in America? like the way that bacon and eggs are 'typical' of Britain.? Bacon and eggs are also typical here. But it's streaky bacon. Unless you order "Canadian bacon". And the toast is served warm -- and soggy, if you order it in a restaurant and don't get really, really energetic about insisting that they not soak it with melted margarine before bringing it out. (Order "dry toast".) Breakfast depends on who you are and where you are -- if you are a hard-working Midwest farmer, "biscuits and gravy" are an excellent breakfast. Biscuits, of course, are unsweetened scones, and gravy is meat -- usually sausage -- in a white sauce. (I learned just recently that in Britain the word "gravy" is reserved for the vile concoction that's dyed dark brown with caramel. Though I must confess that the dark-brown gravy that Penguin Point (a local fast-food chain that also does catering) served with the fried chicken at a Christmas Dinner I attended was good -- even though it *looked* like Gravy Master, it tasted like chicken gravy.) Dried-beef gravy on toast is also good, but don't touch "creamed chipped beef" with a ten-foot pole. For "creamed chipped beef" they soak all the flavor out of the beef and then put in away too much, so you get a mouthful of dry fibers coated with bland gravy. I think that fried mush is extinct -- *nobody* works that hard any more. Mom would cook corn-meal mush to serve as hot cereal for one breakfast, and make enough to have left-overs to pack into a mold the length and width of an ice-cube tray and twice as tall. For the next breakfast, she'd turn out the loaf of mush, slice it about a quarter inch thick, fry the slices in bacon grease, and serve them with syrup like pancakes. (No butter!) Mom always served caramel syrup that crystallized when cold, so she had to devote a small saucepan to it. In these wealthier days, I use nothing but real maple syrup -- when I'm allowed sugar -- and heat it in the microwave. Pancakes are also typical -- an everyday meal in my father's youth, a special treat now. I usually order waffles at a restaurant, because I can't make them at home. Or an omelet, though they always put in too many eggs. (I never eat more than one egg at a sitting when cooking for myself.) Restaurant pancakes are seldom fit to eat, as they make them from cake flour instead of bread flour, so they are nothing but a structure to hold the syrup in place. Grandmother invented the Silver Dollar Pancake when the boys at Daddy's school took to bragging about how many pancakes they had eaten for breakfast. She didn't get any credit for it when Silver Dollar Pancakes enjoyed a brief vogue a few decades after her death -- she didn't invent the name "Silver Dollar", and that was the marketable part. (Not to mention that the fad makers had never heard of Grandma.) The now-extinct silver dollar was a large coin. Surviving examples are worth five or ten times face value as junk metal. I've forgotten what the merits of a pancake the size of a large coin were supposed to be. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] RE:building a catalogue
I've been reading the various posts on this topic with a degree of professional interest - and personal curiosity. Having trained as a librarian and spent 4 years learning cataloguing (on cards no less, and then computer tagging), then going into private industry only to have almost all of the card cataloguing rendered somewhat redundant in terms of assigning subject headings, it's an interesting conundrum that's being solved in some creative ways. I use MS Access for my own personal db (but it needs some serious updating), and have a more sophisticated version for the RMLG library. It's by no means perfect for the tasks I demand of it, but it's acceptable. Since I started my own db before I became Guild librarian, I started from scratch and created something that at the time served my purpose for it, and have tweaked as I've gone along. What you create will be dictated by how sophisticated you want your file, and its purpose/s. I created my own thesaurus for my db, and have applied and refined and added to it for the RMLG library. It's comprehensive enough for our needs, and I have 2 levels of indexing. The controlled terms are from the thesaurus, and are generally standard terms in lacemaking, with a level of detail down to specific equipment and techniques. I also have an uncontrolled terms list that is for terms that might be more local in nature, names of people, and terms that I don't want to use in a regulated form. This is instead of see and see also headings (if you are old enough to remember them on the bottom of catalogue cards or in Sears Subject Heading List). My cataloguing fields are standard, and I don't specify format any more than monograph (which is a book), analytical (article in a magazine) or AV. If it's an unpaged loose leaf item, it's put in the pagination (1 vol. loose leaf). In the end, simple is better than over-engineered (although over engineered can sometimes be more fun). Cheers, Helen, Aussie in Denver, where we are still digging out from a good 3 feet of snow from 2 storms. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: tourist question from me
On Jan 4, 2007, at 21:38, Joy Beeson wrote: I've forgotten what the merits of a pancake the size of a large coin were supposed to be. Um... So that the boys could eat more of them and then brag about it? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Sorting database
On Jan 4, 2007, at 7:28, Margot Walker wrote: Hi, Tamara. If you're using Appleworks database, here's what you do: Click on Organize, then on Sort records. Then click Clear. Next, on the Field list, click on the first field you want to sort by and click Move. OK. So I hadn't been doing the "Clear" schtick, though I seem to have been doing everything else right. I've tried it now, with "Clear", and it'sd still "no cigar". I used "author" (in ascending order), and got: Torenhave, Burkhard, Kortelahti, Voelcker, Cook, Löhr, Stang, Nordstrom. Not quite the order I fed them in (Cook went in first), but pretty much. And it's not an order which makes any sense, not in any alphabet I'm familiar with. Nor do I seem to be able to "highlight/copy/paste" (like Ican with paragraphs in ordinary documents), either, even assuming I wanted to shift each entry into its proper position manually. Pox on technology... Continue doing this until the fields are in the order you want to sort by. Erm... On second thoughts... Am I supposed to be doing this until *all* the fields are "moved" to the sorting order part of the window? PS. Tried to sort by title and it worked just fine. But author... no, and no, and no. Torenhave wants to be first, with Burkhard below her, etc... G. Very discouraging; what's the point of sitting here and typing in all that info, if all I get is a mish-mash? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Sorted out
Thank goodness for the little boys who grow up into 'puter geeks... :) My son, having sorted out my husband's database (Star Office), had a few minutes to sort out mine. He looked at the mess long and hard and noticed that what was being sorted alphabetically was the last word (ie, Bodil, in "Torenhave, Bodil"; M in "Cook, Bridget M., etc) Turns out, the puter is so smart that, when I decided to use "name" for the "author" field, it assumed that I'd type in "Jane SMITH", not "SMITH, Jane". So, I had two choices:either retype all the names in "everyday manner" instead of the "officialese", or change "name" to "text". Changed "name" to "text", this being a much simpler thing by far. And, lo and behold, at the next "sort by author" everything was as it should be... I'm greatly relieved and will resume cataloguing ( I had given upin despair for a few days). Too bad my son's leaving tomorrow; I dare say I'll come up with with something new but equally stupid the moment he flies off to CA. PS Thanks, Robin and Carol, for your suggestions. As it turned out, the bug was elsewhere... The possibility of a space in front of Torenhave flipping it up top was intriguing but unlikely. I have two entries under "Torenhave" (the book and its translation); my finger might have slipped once but chances of it doing the same thing twice were less. And it still wouldn't have explained why Stang was before Kortelahti and Voelcker before Löhr... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
