[lace-chat] Secret Pal - Merry Christmas!
Hi Secret Pal, I have been pestering my husband every day asking "Did it come?" and today, it did! I got your wonderful package. Receiving it at any time would have been a treat, but it arrived with plenty of time to spare for a Christmas delivery. As for January, the later the better. I always need a winter lift when all the glitz and activity of Christmas subsides. (But it's not winter where you are, is it?) So you're going to be off on a post-Christmas, **summer** holiday. California is not a very seasonal place. It is colder now, but just cold enough for a sweater, really. And it's been raining some, but hardly a dramatic seasonal change. I'm one of those people who doesn't think I need more than one of any thing, but now that I have two new pin cushions in as many months, I can see a real benefit of having each type of pin on a different cushion. And the cover cloth is charming. The print is busy with needles and scissors and spools of thread, but the texture is so silky smooth, just lovely. I really like the two bobbins and I must say that being not quite the same is just my style. There is a family story about the time I was sent to get new bath towels. I picked a polka dotted one and a striped one and a blue flowered one and so on until we had enough. It never occurred to me to get a MATCHING set. Do you know what wood the bobbins are made of, some native New Zealand type of wood, perhaps? I have collected an assortment of bobbins that capture my interest and I've about decided that all my unspangled bobbins need to be dressed properly (I am a dedicated square bobbin user, even have square binche bobbins), but I am not sure that it will be with beaded spangles. Maybe beaded lace frills (since I won't use them, but want to display them instead.) H. I'll have to think about that. I got a kick out of the New Zealand Lace Society magnet. It is always so interesting to see how each group symbolizes the art of lacemaking. I think the New Zealand symbol is kind of like a secret handshake. If you're not a lacemaker, you won't know that it shows two spiders and a stylized worker pair. Has anyone in New Zealand every worked the symbol in thread? It would make a dandy motif. Merry Christmas and have a wonderful trip in January, Thanks for all the goodies, Patty Dowden To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] FW: :) Nativity Accent
In a small Southern town there was a "Nativity Scene" that showed great skill and talent had gone into creating it. One small feature bothered me. The three wise men were wearing firemen's helmets! Totally unable to come up with a reason or explanation, I left. At a "Quik Stop" on the edge of town, I asked the lady behind the counter about the helmets. She exploded into a rage, yelling at me, "You Yankees never do read the Bible!" I assured her that I did, but simply couldn't recall anything about firemen in the Bible. She jerked her Bible from behind the counter and ruffled through some pages, and finally jabbed her finger at a passage. Sticking it in my face she said "See, it says right here, 'The three wise men came from afar'!" To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] did you know that ?
At 08:02 PM 12/18/03 +0100, dominique wrote: > i remember seeing a film from 1811 saying >four baths a year were enough ... Gee, I didn't know they had film in 1811! No baths a year are quite enough. I've had only one bath since we moved here in 2001 -- took me half an hour to dust the bathtub. Soaking in hot water is good for a lot of ailments -- but I always take a shower afterward. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where there is a dusting of snow on the ground. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Politically Correct 12 days of...
This has been around for a few years, but seems appropriate again... On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my Significant Other in a consenting adult monogamous relationship gave to me: TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual drumming, ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of members in good standing of the Musicians Equity Union as called for in their union contract even though they will not be asked to play a note). TEN melanin-deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the patriarchal ruling class system leaping, NINE persons engaged in rhythmic self-_expression, EIGHT economically disadvantaged female persons stealing milk- products from enslaved Bovine-Americans, SEVEN endangered swans swimming on federally protected wetlands, SIX enslaved Fowl-Americans producing stolen non-human animal products, FIVE golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced domestic incarceration, (NOTE: after members of the Animal Liberation Front threatened to throw red paint at my computer, the calling birds, French hens and partridge have been reintroduced to their native habitat. To avoid further Animal-American enslavement, the remaining gift package has been revised.) FOUR hours of recorded whale songs, THREE deconstructionist poets, TWO Sierra Club calendars printed on recycled processed tree carcasses, and ONE Spotted Owl activist chained to an old-growth pear tree. Blessed Yule. Merry Christmas. Happy Chanukah/Hanukkah. Good Kwanzaa. Oh, heck! Happy Holidays (unless otherwise prohibited by law). Unless, of course, you are suffering from Seasonally Affected Disorder (SAD). If this be the case, please substitute this gratuitous call for celebration with a suggestion that you have a thoroughly adequate day. Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] did you know that ?
easy . to subscribe , click on http://www.gophercentral.com/sub/sub- trivia.html it's a site i quite like . i just take no notice of the advertizing (he has to find the money somewhere ... ) Esther Perry a fait jouer ses doigts de fée pour écrire à ÒRe: [lace-chat] did you know that ?Ó. [2003/12/18 23:25] > >Where did you get this! Is it a website? Can we have the url? > > > If you copy the sentence into Google, enclosed in quotation marks, > you'll find it, and some other stuff as well ;-)) > > http://www.dribbleglass.com/subpages/laws2.htm > > Esther Perry > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] did you know that ?
Joy Beeson a fait jouer ses doigts de fée pour écrire à ÒRe: [lace-chat] did you know that ? Ó. [2003/12/19 16:32] > At 08:02 PM 12/18/03 +0100, dominique wrote: > > > i remember seeing a film from 1811 saying > >four baths a year were enough ... > > Gee, I didn't know they had film in 1811! > OOPS! they didn't . i meant 1911 .. . it was a film to show how to wash properly which meant the boy tucked his sleeves up and washed the arm as high as he could go , tucked his trouser legs up and washed from the knee downward , washed his face and neck and that was that ... and no more than four baths a year .. i never have baths either but it's only because my old flat only has a shower .. i lve soaking in scented foam ... dominique from nearly warm Paris.. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Secret Pal thanks!
Dear Secret Pal. Thanks for the Great package that came yesterday! Love the bobbins, the laminiated ones are really pretty! The NEC bobbin is great, were you lucky enough to get to go there? I can't imagine what it would be like to be able to see so much lace stuff in one place. For me, the Ithaca lace day is the biggest I can see. The purple bag is great, I love little project bags like that! I may have to make a pattern from it and make more of them. And of course, chocolate is always appreciated! hugs, Sumac Susan G. MacLeod Dummerston, VT USA www.sover.net/~sumac "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." John Wooden To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Secret Pal thanks
Thank you for the beautifully-wrapped Christmas parcel. I know, of course, from the contents list on the customs form that I have an Australian calender, diary and bobbins, but I am being very good and saving the parcel for Christmas morning, so I have more pleasure to come when I see the contents. My grandsons were fascinated with the Australian 'creatures' pulling Santa Koala's sleigh and have asked if they can take it to school in the new year to show off. Joan from Yorkshire To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Secret Pal thanks
Thank you Secret Pal for taking the time to wrap all my presents! Because they were so nicely wrapped, I put them under my tree. Thank you for the beautiful card and I will let everyone know just how< nice you were on Boxing Day. Hope you get everything you wish for especially a "roundtuit" for all your lacing in the new year. Korwyn in Thetford UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
