[lace-chat] Needle felting
A friend of mine is considering doing a needle felted project. Has a kit with instructions, but has never done this before. Can anyone out there offer any advice? Carole Dublin, OH USA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] what kind of mattress do you like?
I am suffering from aches and pains and think that buying a new mattress might help. I need one oriented toward the aging body, and in my case, the heavy sleeper by which I mean not a deep sleeper but a sleeper who weighs a lot. My leg has been very sore and cramping due to other orthopedic/health issues and I think a new mattress might help. What mattresses do people like? One friend highly recommends the Tempurpedic, saying it has helped her and her husband, in their seventies and eighties to sleep very well. There is the sleep number bed, which seems a little gimmicky to me. There is the Hampton Inn bed which I have found very comfortable and which Hilton Hotels is kindly offering for sale. Then there is the alternative of going to the chain store Sleepy's where we bought my daughter a Simmons Beautyrest Shakespeare Collection mattress and box spring which seems quite comfortable, but I might treat myself to the next one up in the heirarchy, which seems to have an actual pillow/comforter attached to the top of it for added softness. Then there is the question of whether mattresses with memory foam are good or not. The friend with the Tempurpedic with memory foam recommends it. I am still grateful for all the cooking pot advice I received. My daughter is cooking up a storm and saving money by not eating out. Now she brings me cookies and cupcakes all the time. Devon in New Jersey **Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop000301) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] what kind of mattress do you like?
On 11/29/07 8:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need one oriented toward the aging body, and in my case, the heavy sleeper by which I mean not a deep sleeper but a sleeper who weighs a lot. My leg has been very sore and cramping due to other orthopedic/health issues and I think a new mattress might help. My bad leg liked my sister's spare bed, which had one of those egg crate foam pads on it. So I went shopping, but Walmart didn't have egg crate in my bed's size, so I bought flat foam that had been cut into squares, which claimed to be much better, but it helped very little and complicated bed-making, so I rolled it up and put it away. But I've twice used it, folded in half, to pad a plywood bunk while attending a workshop. And felt very smug as I heard the vacuum-cleaner whine of people re-inflating their air mattresses every night! One thing that helps a lot is a bunch of hard pillows made by stuffing two old, flat pillows into one case. I use them to elevate various body parts and take the weight off my hip. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where winter is setting in, but there's still color on some of the trees. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] what kind of mattress do you like?
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: foam are good or not. The friend with the Tempurpedic with memory foam recommends it. I agree with your friend. Memory foam is remarkably comfortable, in any case. -- bye for now Bev in 'Shirley' a little area near Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, 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] Needle felting
I would say simply go for it following the instructions in the kit - it is an interesting process and easier than handfelting, which I've done. -- bye for now Bev near Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Carole Lassak wrote: A friend of mine is considering doing a needle felted project. Has a kit with instructions, but has never done this before. Can anyone out there offer any advice? Carole Dublin, OH USA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] what kind of mattress do you like?
We have had a medium firm mattress that worked well until I had arthritis in my hips. I needed more cushion on top of the firmness. I couldn't justify the cost of a new pillowtop set just for the top two inches, and found a separate pillowtop section that went on top our existing bed. That two inches of feathers made all the difference to me. DH didn't care -- with or without the top. When the bed is stripped to change bedding, I shake the feather top. It's been more than a year and still doing just fine, at 1/10 the cost. I spent a night in a hotel with a sleep number bed. It adjusted just fine to suit me. It is an air bed with a pressure control on each side. I don't know what happens when the electricity is out. It may just retain whatever pressure was last put in. A good question to ask. My aunt got a tempurpedic type of bed. She says it's comfortable but it takes about a half hour for the foam to shape to her body. When she turns over, it again takes a half hour to re-conform to the new position. She may have exaggerated the time but it isn't instantly done. Go to a bed store, or two, and just try out various beds. If one feels comfortable, lie there for a while to see if it stays fine. This may help direct you to the type that will best work for you. Alice in Oregon -- dreading a visit to the therapist in the morning. Heard too many tales of agony in therapy. Wrist still painful without that. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am suffering from aches and pains and think that buying a new mattress might help. My leg has been very sore and cramping due to other orthopedic/health issues and I think a new mattress might help. What mattresses do people like? One friend highly recommends the Tempurpedic, saying it has helped her and her husband, in their seventies and eighties to sleep very well. There is the sleep number bed, which seems a little gimmicky to me. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
