[lace-chat] Closet survey.
1. Do you know the direction your garments (jackets/coats/blouses/shirts) face without looking in the closet? (Y/N) Yes 2. Do all the garments face the same direction? (Y/N) If not, go to question 6 Yes 3. Do they face right or left? (R/L) Right 4. Are you male or female? (M/F) Female 5. Are you right-handed or left-handed? (R/L) Right handed 6. Is there any particular reason you hang them this way as opposed to another? No. Shirley in Corio, Oz. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of IMSTP.gif] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type Image/gif which had a name of Stripes_and_border_lightblu.gif] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Closet survey
I was going to answer this like Jean has done until I got to question 3 - do they face right or left - my clothes all face forward. Am I being surpressed by my parents because of their closet arrangements? Liz Jean Nathan wrote: I maintain the closets. 1. Do you know the direction your garments (jackets/coats/blouses/shirts) face without looking in the closet? (Y/N) Yes 2. Do all the garments face the same direction? (Y/N) If not, go to question 6 Yes 3. Do they face right or left? (R/L) Left To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Mayonnaise - was Olive Oil
Dear Dominique, Thanks for your lovely recipe. I must say the proportions for your French Dressing were a bit different from mine - I use 50% oil and 50% vinegar as the base (Balsamic is nicer). However, I thought you might like to try my Granny's old recipe for what is known here in Australia as Salad Dressing (Mayonnaise). Those who make this kind of dressing today often use 1 can of condensed milk and an equal amount of vinegar (white, brown, or even apple cider) for the basis. However, when Granny made her best dressing, she used to use the left overs from last night's custard. Now do I need to go through the whole process of describing how to make a custard? Here's what she did anyway. - Take about 1.5 to 2 cups of custard (she made big mobs of custard always :); add one cup of white vinegar and the juice of one lemon. - Then add a big pinch of salt; and about 1 heaped teaspoon of cracked black pepper - Mix 2 teaspoons of powdered mustard to a paste with water and add that. If you don't have powdered mustard, just add any really hot one - preferably NOT Dijon as it has a different sort of taste. - Mix it all up really well allowing the vinegar and lemon to thicken the mixture smoothly. - Now hard boil one egg. When it's done, smash it up and add it to the dressing. Yummoo Love David in Ballarat i must say i cook everything in olive oil including steaks and omelettes (which most people hate. you're supposed to cook them in butter ) and to me the only real mayo is made with olive oil ... vinaigrette (french salad sauce) is so much tastier with olive oil (for those who've never heard of it : one spoonful of vinegar, three spoonfuls of oil,salt pepper garlic parsley to taste and mustard too if you feel like it but then the sauce looks entirely different . dominique from paris 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] Closet Survey
Susan Definition: For a garment to face left, the front of the garment must nearer the left wall of the closet than the back of the garment (Left wall is the one nearer your left hand as you stand facing the closet). Reverse for face right). 1. Do you know the direction your garments (jackets/coats/blouses/shirts) face without looking in the closet? (Y/N) Y 2. Do all the garments face the same direction? (Y/N) If not, go to question 6 Y 3. Do they face right or left? (R/L) L 4. Are you male or female? (M/F) M 5. Are you right-handed or left-handed? (R/L) R (ambidextrous) 6. Is there any particular reason you hang them this way as opposed to another? No David in Ballarat Many thanks. (No, I'm not going to apply for a gov't grant):) Susan Webster Canton, Ohio 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]
[lace-chat] Closet Survey Results (long)
Thank you all for your help. As one of the 25% who make no effort toward consistency within the closet, this has been educational and fun. I had no idea it could matter so much to so many. This all started due to an off-hand comment within my family. When it grew to the point where a survey seemed in order, I was merely interested in seeing if there was a correlation between the direction clothes face and sex or handedness of the owner, but other issues have added flavor. So these are the results. 42 people participated; 31 female, 11 male. Of the 11 who made no effort to have clothes face in one direction, 4 were male. Turning now only to people who cared, only two mans clothes faced left. Of the females who cared, (24), 17 faced their clothes right and 7, left. There were several people who reported ambidexterity and a couple lefties, but not enough to judge. So I conclude that females are two-thirds or better more likely to have clothes face left as right, and men tend to think oppositely (stats very low here). There are a few other considerations like closet design and which side the door is hinged on that may enter into the mix, but Ill need the govt grant to pull that together. I did learn two things we all knew. People all want the hooks to go from the front to the back and if clothes are hanging in a staging area prior to being placed in the closet, they are hung facing away from the wall or door on which they are hung and/or facing the world (instead of the wall). One woman got so annoyed at her husband for failure to follow the proper guidelines for their joint coat closet that on a bad day, she would hook his coat with the hook coming from the back in order to have the coat face properly; she said, Let him deal with it Its perfectly obvious, but how the clothes will hang on the rod depends upon the orientation of the hook at the time the clothes are placed on the hanger. For those of us who end up the clothes facing both directions, I think its because we dont have a preference for how the hook faces while putting the garment on it. One woman maintains several closets and how clothes end up in the various closets depends on where she hangs that persons clothes after she irons them. Three people (2 M and 1F (see above)) said they would change the direction of the garment if it was wrong (but this wasnt really learned from the one-owner/one closet concept), so that could be more prevalent. Only one person (Tamara) cited any reason for hanging that had nothing to do with the clothes or closet design themselves (sentiment). Two people mentioned efficiency of removal/dressing when hanging the clothes. Another matter to take up with the grant money will be an exploration of the tendency to remove the garment from the hanger while the hanger remains on the rod versus removing the hanger as well. ? One man said that not only did all his clothes have to facing correctly (R), but that they had to be equidistant from one another before he left the closet. You may recall that the first two questions were, Do you know without looking which way ? and Do they all face in same direction?. Results showed that people who answered Y to the first also answered Y to the second: with one exception, the converse was also true, but one woman was surprised to find that all hers faced alike. Several people asked why I was doing this, but only one asked if it was a joke. Yall might think I have nothing to do, but that isnt true. I have so much to do I dont know where to start, but this was controllable, so I did it. Thanks again. Susan Webster Canton, Ohio To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Dazzling brilliance :-)))
This is another old joke but I enjoyed it again. Jeanette Fischer,Western Cape,South Africa. A wealthy old lady decided to go on a photo safari in Africa. She took her faithful pet dachshund along for company. One day, the dachshund starts chasing butterflies and before long the dachshund discovers that he is lost. So, wandering about, he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the obvious intention of having lunch. The dachshund thinks, Okay, I'm in deep trouble now! Then he noticed some bones on the ground close by, and immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the leopard is about to leap, the dachshund exclaims loudly, Boy, that was one delicious leopard. I wonder if there are any more around here. Hearing this, the leopard halts his attack in mid-stride, as a look of terror comes over him, and slinks away into the trees. Whew, says the leopard. That was close. That dachshund nearly had me. Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the leopard. So, off he goes. But the dachshund saw him heading after the leopard with great speed, and figured that something must be up. The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the leopard. The leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, Here monkey, hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that conniving canine. Now the dachshund sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back, and thinks, What am I going to do now? But instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen them yet ... and just when they get close enough to hear the dachshund says.. Where's that damn monkey? I sent him off half an hour ago to bring me another leopard! REMEMBER: IF YOU CAN'T DAZZLE THEM WITH BRILLIANCE, BAFFLE THEM WITH BULLSHIT. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] re: closet survey
At 07:23 PM 1/24/04 -0800, Bev Walker wrote: Does anyone have a closet where the rods hang out from the wall and your clothes therefore face you (or, less likely, face the wall...cf. the 5 red shirts observation...g)? The closet under the stairs in my sister's house has rods running from the back to the front, in order to take advantage of the full width of the staircase. She hangs her clothes -- at least those near enough the front that I've seen them! -- facing the front. It's a very old house -- rumor has it that it began life as a log cabin -- and all the closets are retrofit. And very hard to get into; it was only in the last few decades that people thought of putting wide doors on closets. First one I saw was in our first apartment in the mid-sixties. It had the usual narrow-door closets in the bedroom, but in order to soundproof the wall between our apartment and the next one, there was a closet the full length of the hall that ran along the common wall, and the long closet had accordion doors instead of a wall. That closet was the *handiest* thing! I didn't have stash to store yet, but I'd hang freshly-ironed shirts in it, then move one per day to the bedroom closet -- since there was always the same number of shirts in his closet, he didn't get antsy when it was almost wash day. -- 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 the snow still looks fresh on the lawn. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] l-c only raffle
Hi everyone This is for lace-chat only. I've been going through Stuff, trying to weed out that which I can part with - here is something I'd like to see go to a good home, it is a magazine/booklet instructions and patterns for an 18 soft sculpture doll, whose face can be turned to show waking or sleeping. She is a Victorian sendoff of the Cabbage Patch dolls. If you would like the booklet - which I bought discounted c. 1985 (the fun was in the chase) - send me your name. I'll take names until a few days after the next lace-chat digest. I'll post again. -- bye for now Bev, winter cleaning, in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] History through the eyes of kids...
Thank you for the kid's history. Just what I needed, a good laugh after spending some time in hospital. Please can I have more. Greetings from the knotter Dora UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dora.northern To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Happy Australia Day
I just want to wish a Happy Australia Day to all the Aussies on the list :-) I have just spent my Australia Day on Australian time, shoveling about 5-6 of snow from my side of the driveway, so I don't have to do it tomorrow morning in 10F temps :-) However, I can look forward to a real Aussie Meat Pie for my lunch tomorrow, courtesy of my DDH, who bought me a bakers dozen of pies from a place in Seattle, and carried them home the plane with him. They look like the real thing, so I will start with just the plain ol' steak pie. :-) And, he also thoughtfully bought a bottle of Fountain Tomato Sauce to slather on them :-) Cheers, Helen, Aussie living in Denver To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Happy Australia Day
On Jan 25, 2004, at 22:41, Helen Bell wrote: I have just spent my Australia Day on Australian time, shoveling about 5-6 of snow from my side of the driveway, so I don't have to do it tomorrow morning in 10F temps :-) That is most unfair; I am most aggrieved... You can't expect anything else in *Denver*, but it has snowed for 13 hrs *here*, and the only reason the accumulation is 3-4 (rather than 5 or 6) is that for the last 3hrs of it the snow was pretty much frozen, and tamped down the earlier efforts. It's 12F outside now and dropping... We laid in the necessary supplies (smokes and books, in my case; don't know what Severn thought was sine qua non, but he, too, went out yesterday g), neither of us is going to *stir* tomorrow, so we've decided to let nature do what she will with the driveway (and I didn't even try to dig my car -- parked in the open -- from under) But *we* are *in the South* (supposedly)... That kind of weather-behaviour is *unseemly* (and not the first time this winter, either); I put up with the heat and the humidity every summer, I'm not supposed to be putting up with this kind of mischief in winter as well. Grumble, grumble, bitch, - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
