[lace-chat] Greetings

[The Lace Bee]

Dear Fellow Gentle Spiders,

I wanted to apologise to you all for being not actively participating in the 
Arachne lists over the past 18 months.  I kept moving the emails into a todo 
folder with the result that I never read them.

This isn't a sympathy email it's an explanation.  About 18 months ago I started 
to become more and more tired resulting back at the end of Jan this year with a 
very severe bout of vertigo that lasted over two months. The vertigo meant I 
was unable to drive, use a computer or actually do anything except sleep 
without feeling sick.

As the vertigo started to clear up I started to sleep more and more until 
around Easter I was sleeping 20 hours a day.  In the end, I ended up at the 
sleep clinic attached to a machine for 24 hours to monitor my sleep - the 
results of which I get back next week.  It is likely that this has been coming 
on for about 2 years now.

This week I returned to work after 7 months off.  Week after next we move house 
to make my work journey easier.

So, I'm putting aside a couple of hours once a week to reading my Arachne 
emails and replying.  We are only as good as the time we out in.

On a brighter note, in our move I've acquired a fantastic room in our new house 
to use for teaching.  There are no teachers in the immediate area so when i out 
an advert about classes I had 7 people interested in trying out lacemaking so 
I'm going to be able to start up classes in my new area.

Mind you, the lace response had been eclipsed by the response to my advert for 
Japanese braiding - 37 responses in two days for those workshops but I'll work 
on them about trying lace.

My love to you all,

L

Kind regards

Liz Baker
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Re: [lace-chat] D Day Embroidery Panels

[The Lace Bee]

We went to see the panels a few years back and one of the things I got was the 
panels as s series of postcards that are joined together and pull out. It's 
interesting to view them together that way

Worth a visit if you are out that way 

L

Kind Regards,

Liz Baker

> On 19 Sep 2015, at 14:23,   wrote:
> 
> found details of a museum housing panels of
> embroidery,

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[lace-chat] Pinterest chargeable pins

[The Lace Bee]

Dear gentle spiders

For those of you who use Pinterest do not throw away the email that you 
received today

Pinterest are trialling paid pins in the U.S. But this will eventually affect 
us all

Take time to read the email as it tells you how to change your settings so 
Pinterest doesn't push promotions onto you

If you use google then you will be familiar with how it makes suggestions based 
on you browsing history. Pinterest will do something similar. 

I know that many people on the lists use Pinterest as a way of gathering links 
to view later from other devices. 

L

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[lace-chat] Wordles now updated

[The Lace Bee]

Dear gentle spiders,

I've updated my Wordles (remember no lace police) to correct a spelling 
mistake. 

You can download them from my website

http://thelacebee.weebly.com/arachne.html

As before, feel free to use them and share them


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Re: [lace-chat] To our Aussie and NZ spiders

[The Lace Bee]

In about an hour we will be setting out for the national arboretum near Derby 
for their ANZAC day services.

http://www.thenma.org.uk

  Because we are driving we won't be having a gun fire breakfast today, I'll 
save that for tomorrow but when we get home, we will be playing two-up as I 
bought DH a special set from the Australian Military Shop and he has promised 
to teach me the rules.  If any of you are interested then you can read up here:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-up

Kind Regards
Liz Baker

 On 25 Apr 2015, at 05:44, phil powis phil...@live.com.au wrote:
 
 This afternoon pubs may be having a
 two- up game - betting on a coin toss - illegal on all other days of the year.

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[lace-chat] To our Aussie and NZ spiders

[The Lace Bee]

Dear gentle spiders,

In a few hours it will be dawn in Australia and New Zealand.  As the sun comes 
up on the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings I hope and pray that the 
spirit of ANZAC lives on with you all and that the dawn services take place 
without incident.

Just a little over 20 hours from now, I and my DH will be watching the sun rise 
here in the UK thinking again of you all and are attending the National 
Arboretum to pay our respects.

L 

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[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Lace Police

[The Lace Bee]

I've made some wordles - word art from the phrases we used yesterday and they 
are available on my website to download.
http://thelacebee.weebly.com/arachne.html

go to the acrachne page and scroll down to the bottom,  click on the image you 
like to get the full size and then right hand click the mouse button and save 
the one you like.

Feel free to use them on anything you like

L


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[lace-chat] My Library

[The Lace Bee]

As my local lace group is having it's lace day tomorrow and I have birthday 
money I didn't want to go and buy a book that I already had (done that before) 
so I found an app for the iPhone and iPad that let's you scan the bar code on 
your book (or type in the ISBN number) and it sets up your own library record.  
I then backed it up to a free Dropbox account so I could charge the info 
between iPhone and iPad and only type the info in once.

Called 'my library' 

Thought I would share 

L

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[lace-chat] Keep calm

[The Lace Bee]

If you have access to Facebook then do a search for the Lace Guild.  As a bit
of a laugh we posted two pictures based in the 'keep calm' mottos.  One was KC
and make lace and the other was KC and join The Lace Guild.  And then we went
to bed.

They have gone viral.

I have posted both on my website so if you don't have access to fb you can
down load them there - just right hand click on the image and choose save or
if you have an iPad .
/ iPhone then just press and old to access the save option.

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[lace-chat] Lace Guild Convention pictures on facebook

[The Lace Bee]

Guys,
 
We have uploaded photos from today's workshops onto The Lace Guild's
facebook page.  We would love you to look at them and to comment.  If you have
not yet 'liked' us then please do - we are going for our first century of
likes only 8 more to get.
 
The workshops were inspirational.  Thanks to all
of the tutors and to those people who attended them as this is what it's all
about.
 
If you haven't had time to sign up to facebook why not take the
opportunity to do so today.  

http://www.facebook.com/#!/thelaceguild

Kind
Regards

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[lace-chat] Facebook

[The Lace Bee]

Guys,
 
I have entered the 21st Century and joined facebook.  On a serious
note it's so that I can understand social media better as part of a research
into promoting lacemaking through all mediums.
 
Twitter next 
 
If any of
you are on facebook then please link up with me.
 
L

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[lace-chat] Something that tickles me

[The Lace Bee]

Guys,
 
My DH showed me these sometime ago and I got hooked.  I've just found
the 2011 one.  Enjoy.
 
The first Australia day address from Sam Kekovich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtWVJikNnx4feature=endscreenNR=1
The 2011
address which explains why the Euro is in such a bad state ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C89osd7Eicfeature=related

Now where is the
barbie...


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Re: [lace-chat] alternative project

[The Lace Bee]

Don't forget the plasticine garden at the RHS show!!!
 
For which he won a
plasticine award or should that be an award made out of plastacine
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr4Gbv9Fan4

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From: Jean Nathansnipped
I really enjoyed what James May did snippedWere
there any more?

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Re: [lace-chat] alternative project

[The Lace Bee]

Minature Wunderland is the run by the guys who came over to the UK to help
James May make is record breaking model railway attempt a couple of years ago.
 
Brilliant.

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  snipped  
Should you ever want a break
from lace making, and have about 500.000 hours to spare, then have a look t
this:
http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/exhibit/video/5-minutes-wunderland/
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Re: [lace-chat] Shopping: was; Green thing

[The Lace Bee]

I am going to let you into a secret.  We found two different shoe shop (one in
Birmingham city centre and one in Burford) that when did exactly the samething
when I went in and said the usual; 'I like those, any chance you have them in
an 8 wide fitting', the girl disappeared and came back with the shoe in my
size (apparantly no one wants a size 8 so they don't make many ... I WANT A
SIZE 8!!!), but also in a variety of colours and while they were in the stock
room they found other shoes in similar styles that I might be interested in.
 
The one in Burford I stood there with 5 pairs of shoes looking at them with my
husband telling that I was capable of making a decision even if it was just to
limit them down to 3 pairs.  I got it down to 3 and bought them all!
 
L
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 snipped I'm old enough to remember when you sat down, told the
shoe-store
clerk what you wanted, he measured your feet,
went into the back of the store,
and came out with three
pairs, at least one of which fit
perfectly.) snipped

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Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

[The Lace Bee]

We were trying to work out how long to advise our delegates to wash their
hands before starting their cooking session.  Apparantly, signing 'Happy
Birthday' for two verses is the right amount of time.
 
However, we have to
remind delegates to sing it IN THEIR HEADS.  16 people singing happy birthday
all slightly out of sync is a terrible thing.

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  snipped
 Well firstly I
would like you to wash your hands, 

snipped
Sue
M Harvey
Norfolk UK

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Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

[The Lace Bee]

In the UK, under food handling regulations, people should remove the gloves
and dispose of them when handling food.  What makes me spit is that often they
prepare your food then hold their gloved hand out to take your money.
 
As we
tell delegates, when you have finished preparing some food, go put the gloves
in the bin, wash your hands (whilst singing happy birthday ...) and put on
CLEAN gloves.
 
I do despair on occasions.

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snipped
Hmmm - I can understand where you're coming from, but here in
Australia all food handlers must wear those disposable plastic 
gloves. Isn't
that the case in the UK?
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Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

[The Lace Bee]

My day job involves food.  I have to be current on my food hygiene
certification and I have certification on food safety that you would expect
for someone running a restaurant.
 
The last time I phoned up Ocado and told
them that putting raw and cooked meat in the same bag was an issue on food
hygiene grounds the girl at the end of the phone said; 'Are you sure?'
 
Now
am I sure.  YES I AM.  I explained that I if my suppliers at work did this we
would reject the consignment with no negotiation.  She then asked 'Are you
sure?'
 
Head - brick wall, head - brick wall.
 
I have had an on going battle
with the major supermarkets who think putting gluen free bakery products in
the bread aisle is good so I don't feel vitimised by having to go to a
separate aisle.  As I said to the girl from Tesco's 'why on earth would I want
to go down the aisle that has the stuff in it that if I breathe in the flour
alone or bread crumbs will have me doubled up in agony?'  She replied; 'I
don't know'.
 
Urghhh!
 
For those of you who are abroad you can only imagine
the niceness of the people who work at Waitrose.  They get upset if things
aren't in stock, will spend hours looking for things for you and try to offer
alternatives and if you shop with them regularily even get a bit tearful if
you are looking a bit peaky or have a sniffle.  One time I had to go shopping
because I had run out of food and had flu like symptons as did the rest of the
family.  I couldn't order on line as our broadband was down so in person
shopping was needed.  When I went to the deli counter I stood back and
apologised for being ill and explained why I was out and while she sorted out
my order I was given lots of help and advice on how to get rid on my symptoms.
 
 
Kind Regards

Liz Baker

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Liz, I
have been reporting those supermarkets to Trading Standards and Public Health
on the first instance of them putting cooked and raw meat in the same bag, in
fact raw meat with anything else. I also have written to the chief executive
of the company concerned about the standard of their staff who put eggs in
with tins, and asking him to train staff in the reason why people have gluten
free products and the health risks to customers of substituting gluten
containing products for gluten free.snipped
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK

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Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

[The Lace Bee]

I had to give up on on-line shopping.  I have ongoing rows with the different
on-line supermarkets for the following reasons that I hate and they don't
think are an issue or worse, contravene food hygiene.  What they also don't
understand is that when they deliver something broken or substituted that I
can't have I then have to go our and buy it which defeats my buying it on
line:
 
- putting my tins of baked beans in with my eggs - result - smashed
eggs and sticky baked beans.
- putting my tins of baked beans in with my eggs
and raw meat - smashed eggs and egg soaked beans and raw meat
- putting my raw
meat in with my cooked or cured meat - yuck.  Contaminated raw meat and cooked
/ cured straight into the bin
- putting my raw meat in with my fresh fruit -
need I explain this one?
- putting any tins in with soft things like bread and
raspberries in the same bag - we had pink flat bread as a result
-
substituting my gluten free bread with gluten containing bread - hello? What
planet are you on.  I can't eat gluten - IT WILL KILL ME
- substituting my
fresh lemons with a bottle of lemon juice - so makes the GT's work
-
substituting my cooked ham for a tin of ham ... I'm not even going to comment
- substituting my decaf tea with non decaf tea - no I'm not saying anything
-
substituting my soya chocolate drink with milk based strawberry drink
-
substituting my gluten free flour with gluten based flour - ughh
 
I could go
on 
 
On one occasion where just under £25 worth of food was useless as it
had been contaminated and went through food handling and hygiene issues over
the delivery and the girl on the phone said I was being 'picky'.

Kind Regards
Liz Baker

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 Whoever came up with the phrase retail
therapy didn't do the weekly shop, neither are they any larger than a size
zero for clothes!

Or you could shop on-line and have it delivered with four
giant size tins of dog food in one carrier bag and just a tube of toothpaste
in another!  It never ceases to amaze me why they can't even up the
distribution between the plastic carrier bags.

I do shop on line if I just
can't get to the supermarket (DH doesn't drive), and am now glad that they now
have the option no substitutes. Before they did that I wondered at the
thinking of the person doing the shopping for me - I wanted fruit shortcake
biscuits and got fig biscuits; I wanted plain bio yoghurt for the dog and
fruit yoghurt for me - they hadn't got the fruit yoghurt I wanted, so instead
of sending another brand, I got double plain bio.

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Re: [lace-chat] Re: Green thing

[The Lace Bee]

When we moved to sunny Oxfordshire I made the mistake of dropping into my
local Sainsbury's (Kidlington) on the way home from dropping hubby at the
museum.  As this not a planned stop I did not have my hoard of eco bags with
me (I have a whole cupboard of the things including my cool bags - I mean the
ones that keep food cool not just the ones that look cool (such as my
Fortnum's bag, Eden Project etc)
 
As it was the biggest supermarket I'd seen
since I left the joys of Leicester (if you've been to Kidlington you will know
it's not that big but compared to the 3m Tescos in Bicester it's big (about a
1/3 the size of the Sainsbury's in Leicester and a similar size to my Mum's
Waitrose in Surrey, mind you, the Asda in Milton Keynes takes 3 hours to do
properly as it's the biggest supermarket in the south east of england - it's
bigger than IKEA next door) as I was saying, as it was the biggest
supermarket I'd seen in some months I grabbed a trolley and went for that
joyous sunday stroll up and down every single aisle.
 
Needless to say I found
things that I didn't even know I needed and strolled up to the till in order
to pay.  I carefully placed my items on the till in the perscribed order that
I was taught as a trained Sainsbury's bag packer (ok I trained when I was 18
but it's stayed with me) and as I reached the till realised that there was no
bags on show.

I said to the girl on the counter 'any chance of some bags for
packing' and it was then that I realised that I had moved to a whole new world
when you live in Oxfordshire.  Here was the girl on the checkout - not your
normal girl on the checkout, but an Oxford University student paying their way
through uni by slumming it in Sainsburys as she looked down her nose at me and
said; 'Why haven't you got recyclable bags to save the environment'.  

It was
as I started to defend my unplanned shopping that I thought .. S*d that. 
What's it to you?  I stopped my self short from apologising (apparantly
according to DH it's because I'm British and from Surry that I have to
apologise to everyone ... don't even mention when I got pulled by the German
police for having my motorway fogs on when I was driving in fog on a suburban
road ... I started the entire conversation as I got out the car with the words
...'I'm sorry, I'm English' ... I don't know if they thought I meant that I
was sorry and my excuse was being english or I was sorry that I was english.
(Don't mention the war ... I did but I think I got away with it))

I just said
to her, 'Is it a problem that I need to have bags?'  She hurumphed and
begrudingly gave me 2.  Each time I asked for more she gave me one more bag.
As this was slowing down the whole packing thing (and I'm good at packing and
can do it as fast as the guy in Lidl throws the food at me and that's fast)
the line behind me were starting to mutter.  I turned to them and said; 'I
didn't bring any bags with me so I'm only allowed one at a time to fill and
it's taking me longer ... anyone have a problem with that?'  The muttering
continued so I turned back to the girl and said 'apparantly they think you
should let me have more than one bag at a time!'

She almost threw the next 4
at me.

Strange but I haven't seen her since.

L

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From: Joy Beeson joybee...@comcast.net
To: Chat lace-chat@arachne.com
Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 15:29
Subject: [lace-chat] Re:  Green thing
Counting Walmart, there are five supermarkets in town, but
only three that I
can get to without making a big hairy deal
out of it.

Aldi expects you to
bring your own bags (bags, including
insulated bags, available at reasonable
cost) *and* expects
you to do your own packing.  I like their system best,
partly because I have to rush-rush to put my stuff on the
conveyor as fast as
the clerk takes it off, and partly
because I never find the canned goods in
the same bag with
the bagged salad.   And when I go by bike, I don't have to
take the stuff out of bags before I pack it into the panniers.

Marsh and
Kroger will throw stuff into the cart loose if you
insist on it in just the
right way.  I think the baggers at
Kroger are paid by the bag; they stop just
short of putting
empty bags into my bags.  Marsh gives a five-cent credit for
each bag brought and used, and fewer of the baggers are
snowed by canvas bags.
I bought the canvas bags from SuperValu (now Nichol's
Market) in another state
and another century.  They are
still going strong -- small holes in some, but
I'm still not
looking to see which bags the canned goods go into.

-- Joy
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Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

[The Lace Bee]

My local Waitrose has refined this system to the point of perfection.  I like
to use the self scan handset because I know exactly what I've spent before I
get to the checkout and that is the ONLY reason I go through this torture when
I go shopping.
 
I go in, I put my card through the swipe machine and it shows
me a handset to scan the goods myself.  I try to take the handset and it jams
and locks it's self it.  I now can't swipe my card again and it won't let me
have the handset.  I go to customer service and they reset my id.
 
I go back
again with the nice man from customer service, he swipes my card and ... the
handset jams.  He is now really embarrashed and goes and clears my card
again.  He comes back and just hands me a handset from his desk.
 
I go round
the shop with my list and bags.  I scan products and I put them straight into
my bag and if there is an offer it beeps and me like a frustrated beepy thing
and gets upset because I don't want 56 packets of dog food to go with my cat
biscuits.
 
After about an hour, carefully going up each aisle in turn and
marking off my list and getting into fights with the other customers over the
last pie or dish cloth (they are civilised in Waitrose but can be vicous when
cornered those John Lewis women) I go to the checkout.
 
Because I am strange
and believe in paying cash I have to wait in line at the customer service
(rather than scan a finish bar code, hand over set and leave - it charges your
card).  After I have stood there about 20 minutes (thinking about my
defrosting icecream and frozen scallops) listening to people's weird things
they need help with they scan the final bar code and say 'just a minute while
I close your shopping and get your total' ... followed by the frown and the
fatal words, 'ah it's saying that you need to rescan to check your shopping'.
 
So, having carefull, scanned and packed my shopping in the bags I want it,
has to be taken out and rescanned and repacked.
 
Everytime it has come to
exactly the same total as I had it.
 
So ask from the bottom of my heart ...
WHY WAITROSE  WHY ME?

Kind Regards

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 From: Jean
Nathan j...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk
 snipped
One supermarket uses the
first of the above or they have handsets which you use if you've registered a
credit or debit card. With that, you put your bags in the trolley, take the
goods off the shelves, scan them with the handset, put the goods in your bags
in an organised way and finalise at a separate checkout. You push the trolley
to your car and move the bags from the trolley to your car boot.

We used to
be served - now we serve ourselves. We always had the goods checked out - now
they want us to do it ourselves. How long before they start expecting us the
fill the shelves as well?

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Re: [lace-chat] Soup Stew enhancer

[The Lace Bee]

Please be aware that raw garlic can harbour Clostridium botulinum.  This
bacterium causes Botulism.  Now I know that whilst some people are thinking,
great grow my own botox but Botulinum is an anaerobic bacterium which means
that even if you cover it in oil and exclude any air it can still multiply and
grow.
 
Guys, please be careful.

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Just one word of caution -- when storing unprocessed food in oil,
keep
it refrigerated. There is a small risk of salmonella:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/food-aliment/holiday-fete-eng.php
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Re: [lace-chat] Soup Stew enhancer

[The Lace Bee]

I'm addicted to sun dried and sun blush tomatoes but all that olive oil that
is left ... I use it to cook my onions off for stews and pasta dishes as it
has herbs in it and the taste of the tomatoes.
 
Frugal eh!!

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 Dear Friends,

 Until recently I
would usually throw out the vinegar mix leftover from the jar of pickled
cucumbers.

I'm not sure how many realize that whatever you put under oil
cannot go off. snipped

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[lace-chat] Mum's Doll House

[The Lace Bee]

Guys,
 
Thank you all for your kind words about my Mum's two doll's houses. 
We are spending time with my parents late Feb for Mum's 80th so I will drag
out all the lace she has, including the miniatures, and photograph them all.
 
If you are looking for some inspiration for miniatures then alot of the
furniture that Dad made was from X-Acto kits - everything precut, you assemble
with PVA glue, sand, stain, wax and add the fixings that are included in the
kit.  If you can find them they are very easy to follow.
 
For the lace work I
used both Roz Snowden's books (very inspirational) but also, I found that some
of the minature sample pieces in Pam Nottingham's buck point technique book
that were intended for use as piece in a broach - they were very easy to make
by using Bridget Cook's Practical Skills in Bobbin Lace as a reference point
for starting and finishing the pieces.  And look at one of them over Xmas I
was amazed that I had to look twice to see where I'd started.  
 
What I have
found with minature lace is that using good quality silk makes a big
difference.  I had first toyed with using silk when I bought a piece of
antique lace for Mum in Amersham.  It was Edwardian Beds and was made in silk
so that seemed period enough for me to start off researching.
 
 
Cottons when
working on fine pieces seemed too thick and I was concerned that the closeness
of the work might cause rubbing of the thread and potentially breakages.  Once
I had bought a selection of threads from Piper Silks (who else!!) I was hooked
and the final pieces looked as though they had been made contemporarily to the
Doll's house's period.
 
Dad stopped making pieces for the Doll's House in
2001 when he lost the sight in one eye due to macular degeneration.  Six
months later, he lost the sight in the other eye to the same cause. 
 
As you
can imagine, for someone who had painted models to the standard that you saw
on the page (the mounted Drummer is now in the Einsikillen Regimental Museum
as a gift from my father) it was extremely difficult for him to adjust.  We
took the opportunity to do things that he had put off for years - Eurostar to
Paris to see Napoleon's tomb, the lake district, Eden Project - we travel to
big things that he can see (this year Waterloo and the TinTin museum).  But
with my mother's help, he built Winsor Castle to show off his Britains'
models.  Mum and Dad now sit together and Mum reads to Dad things that he is
interested in ... and my mother is now a great expert on German Fighter Aces
of WWII, the British Postal System, Greek Battles of WWII  it is rather
strange as she buys my husband and my father the same books.  Then she sits in
my house discussing the number of kills of different German Fighter Aces.  She
was also rather good at Duxford
 where she was starting to recognise planes and impressed a couple of American
Vets with her knowledge.  Maybe we could get her on Mastermind next.
 
Macular
degeneration has robbed my father of his sight and because during my childhood
my father was increasing ill with managable health only really in the past 15
years there were many things we never got to do together.  But his ill health
gave my father the time to paint and make things.  His lost of sight has
allowed us to do things together that we never had the chance to.  Strange how
things go.
 
I have realised that there is no such thing as a disability - in
the words of one of the UK charities - I don't see disabilty, what I see is
abilty.  My challenge now that I have decided to accept is to see just how
accessible I can make lacemaking in the UK.
 
L

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Re: [lace-chat] Warning

[The Lace Bee]

We got a phone call last week.  I picked the phone up and said 'hello'.  I was
immeadiately hit with the person on the other end saying very fast; 'you'll
never guess where I am'.
 
As I didn't recognise the voice or the number (we
have caller display which shows you the name of the caller if I've stored the
number  ie everyone I know) ..
 
So I just said ...
 
 
'No, I can't guess
and I've no idea who you are either.'
 
There was an audible gulp at the end
of the phone and a sheepish voice said; 'o, I've got the wrong number' and
hung up.
 
 
Two days later the same number rang again and said before I could
even get out a 'hello' ...'I'm just letting you know I'm home'.  'Great', I
said, 'and who are you?'
 
phone went dead again.
 
L

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From: Linda Walton linda.wal...@dsl.pipex.com
To: Lace Chat
lace-chat@arachne.com 
Sent: Saturday, 14 January 2012, 10:55
Subject: Re:
[lace-chat] Warning
  
[with apologies for duplication to Lesley Blackshaw -
when I sent this yesterday I was in a hurry to go out to an appointment and
pressed on 'reply' instead of 'reply all'  --  Linda]


I used to get these
calls too, but I seem to have put a stop to them.
(Crossed fingers!)
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Re: [lace-chat] Warning

[The Lace Bee]

In the UK you can register your telephone number with the TPS (Telephone
Preference Scheme) which works with all UK based callers - but not
international one or scam artists.
 
Also, once registered, don't let callers
tell you that you have to re-register each year.  This is utter rubbish.
 
I
used to work for BT and if we called people on the TPS scheme for marketing
calls without their permission they could sue for compensation.  It's that
serious.
 
Ls

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 From:
Malvary Cole malva...@sympatico.ca
To: Linda Walton
linda.wal...@dsl.pipex.com; Lace Chat lace-chat@arachne.com 
Sent:
Saturday, 14 January 2012, 14:23
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Warning
  
Linda
wrote:   - does anyone else have any schemes that have worked? I'd really
like to know!

One thing I've found works (sometimes) is asking to be put on
their 'do not call' list.  We are able to register our phone numbers to a
government 'do not call' list and I always ask them WHERE they are calling
from (not what company) and if they are in Canada, I point out that they are
contravening the law and if they want to continue with the call that is fine,
but I'll have to report them and get them prosecuted.  They usually apologise
for calling and hang up (we are quite polite in Canada!).

If the call is from
the U.S. then that threat doesn't work, so I ask if they have a do not call
list to put my number on.  If not, then I ask them to hang on because there is
someone at the door.  Going back to them sometime later they've usually gone
or if not, they are not getting very far with their marketing do I tell them
they need to get another job because they are failing miserably at the one
they've got.  Then I hang up.  One time I told the guy there was someone at
the door and when I came back to the phone a few minutes later he was still
going through his patter, so I put the phone down again.  After 10 minutes, I
spoke and asked if he could repeat what he had said because I'd not heard a
word because I'd been to the door and then had to go to the bathroom.  He hung
up!

Malvary in Ottawa, where we have had 2 days of storms - freezing rain and
snow - and the city ploughed the side street and mine  and dumped everything
on the sidewalk along the front of my house.  The sidewalk plough has cut a
path through and the end of my drive now has a 3ft high and about 4ft wide
pile at the end of my drive, so I'm not going anywhere for a while.  It is
also -20 with a windchill of -31. 
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Re: [lace-chat] photocopying

[The Lace Bee]

Lynn,
 
I'm sort of writing this as outraged of Bicester and in support of
you.  My husband's initial reaction when I read your post to him was that you
should contact the organisers of the lace day to raise the issue with them but
as I started to type I realised that it would have been difficult to question
the lady you met without it feeling like the third degree.  She probably
bought the pattern in good faith.
 
When I started making lace my teacher
would happily copy patterns and charge you her students for doing so - saying
that she had bought the book for the group and without us paying for the
pattern she couldn't recoup the money to buy new books.  
 
I wouldn't pay - I
believed that buying the book opened up a whole collection of patterns and
where it was a single pattern then the author of the pattern deserved the
money.  For very old, out of print patterns then I have bought second hand as
first choice (because the author would have got royalties from the original
sale) or as a last choice, borrowed from the library on occasions.
 
One lace
fair I went to, a friend was looking at a pattern and I was looking at another
and she said we should buy one each and photocopy them.  They were only 50p. 
I bought both.
 
I do understand that some people have limited funds to buy
books and patterns but with patterns anything from 50p to £3 it's not that
expensive to get a pattern to make.  Even new books can be as little as £8 -
let's be honest, it's the equipment that is the investment not the pattern and
the thread.
 
When I started, I gave my parents a list of the books I really
wanted and I got one for easter, one for my birthday and one for Christmas -
other family members quickly took up this plan too so I built up a fantastic
library quickly over 2 - 3 years.
 
OK - outrage over!!!
 
Hubby still thinks
you should have found out who sold it and gone and broken their windows!!
Kind Regards

Liz Baker

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 From: Lynn Turner
l...@churchmeadowcrafts.com
To: lace lace-c...@dont.panix.com 
Sent:
Sunday, 4 December 2011, 20:42
Subject: [lace-chat] photocopying
 
I was a
supplier at Cranmore this weekend and was approached by a lady with a
query
about my Continental Lacemaker chart. The chart she showed me was my
pattern
but certainly not bought from me, it was badly copied and had a plain
front
with a photocopy of the photograph from my pattern. I know swapping of
patterns does go on but this lady had bought the pattern from someone at a
lace day in Essex. I'm not sure what I can do about it at this time but please
be aware if you are buying cross stitch or lace patterns that they are genuine
patterns.
Lynn Turner
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[lace-chat] Elf yourself

[The Lace Bee]

I can't resist sending you guys this link
 
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/
 
upload a couple of photos then go for the dance - it's just absolutely stupid
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Re: [lace-chat] EU bureaucracy

[The Lace Bee]

Jean,
 
You're OK.  I signed it too so I won't tell anyone if you don't .

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 Many, many, many years ago I worked for a government department, snipped

 If you think I'm joking, I'm, not - it really did happen. Have I breached
the Official Secrets Act which I signed?

 I suspect that still happens, especially in the EU.

 Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK

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Re: [lace-chat] Postcard storage

[The Lace Bee]

One of the best makes of postcard, coin or stamp albums in the UK is a
company called Duncannon who make a set of stockbooks and albums (fixed and
loose leaf) under the trade name of Lighthouse.  I suggest you google it to
find a supplier in the US. 
 
My father migrated his stamp collection to their albums some years ago - you
can get every type of archive quality insert for them.  No they are not cheap
but they do a range from mid to high price and they are exceptional.
 
I googled them and got their web address:
 
http://www.duncannon.co.uk/store.asp/d=4
 
Normal disclaimers are attached - don't own the company, just a very happy
customer.
 
I do highly recommend them.

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From: Sue Babbs sueba...@comcast.net
Subject: [lace-chat] Postcard storage
To: lace-chat@arachne.com
Date: Wednesday, 18 May, 2011, 19:14


I have both my grandmothers’ postcard collections, dating back to late
1800s. one is in a postcard album, which was seriously disintegrated when I
was given the collection. I would now like to remove the cards from it (so
that I can view them from time to time), and ideally would like to store the
cards in albums where I can see both sides of the card. It is fascinating to
read the messages on the reverse.

Do any of you know of a reliable supplier of archival quality postcard albums
in the United States?  I have seen this site:
http://www.vintagepostcards.com/archivalstorage.htm
but don’t know anything about their reliability

Sue

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[lace-chat] Christening Gown pattern

[The Lace Bee]

Dear Gentle Spiders
 
We were recently talking about christening gowns and a copy of Veronica
Sorenson's Modern Lace Design has come up on ebay starting at £1 with a buy it
now at £7 (£1.50 postage)
 
Item number is: 150578009872
 
There is a lovely gown pattern and table cloth pattern in this book
 
L

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Re: [lace-chat] Very smart CSI question ..

[The Lace Bee]

And so the saga continues because even tonight hubby asked me again why noone
else got the answer 'right'.  It's not too much CSI.  The actual reason he
thinks like a psychopath is simple, he's trained to.  Having been in the Army,
the Air Force and private security for more than half his life he has to think
this way.  Oh and for a while he had spooky tendancies.
 
He is actually very pleased that he is the only one to get it right!!!
 
Mind you, I've put the large torch by the side of the bed as it makes a good
cudgle.

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Liz Baker

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From: Clay Blackwell clayblackw...@comcast.net
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Very smart CSI question ..
To: The Lace Bee thelace...@btinternet.com
Cc: lace-chat@arachne.com
Date: Sunday, 30 January, 2011, 22:49


I did not get the correct answer either (and after reading through, was
relieved!!).  I posed the question to my DH, and he had absolutely no
idea about an answer.  So, I'm sleeping soundly tonight, as usual.

On the other hand, I suspect with all of the CSI episodes out there, if
your DH likes to watch them, *that* could explain his answer.  If so,
you can sleep soundly too!!

Clay

On 1/30/2011 5:23 PM, The Lace Bee wrote:
 He has now said why didn't I get the answer right (like I'm going to admit
 that).
   
 Hubby has explained his thinking that if the guy was there he must be a
friend
 of the woman's mother hence her killing her sister so he'd turn up again.
   
 When I said this must make him a psychopath he was quite unphased by it and
 is, I think , actually proud of the fact

 Kind Regards

 Liz Baker

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 From: Agnes Boddingtonag...@weatherwax.karoo.co.uk
 Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Very smart CSI question ..
 To: lace-chat@arachne.com
 Date: Sunday, 30 January, 2011, 22:20


 I don't think I'll bother asking ... afraid he may get the answer right.
 Agnes Boddington


 So,

 I ask the husband and guess what, he got the answer right.

 I may be looking into my life insurance in a couple of minutes

 L

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Re: [lace-chat] Very smart CSI question ..

[The Lace Bee]

So,
 
I ask the husband and guess what, he got the answer right.
 
I may be looking into my life insurance in a couple of minutes
 
L

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From: jeanette jeane...@maxitec.co.za
Subject: [lace-chat] Very smart CSI question ..
To: lace-chat@arachne.com
Date: Saturday, 29 January, 2011, 19:21


It seems to be the season for silly e-mails.  Fortunately I got the question
wrong!!

Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa.
 

Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the
bottom for the result. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads.

No one I know has been right.

A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met a guy whom she did not
know. She thought this guy was amazing. She believed him to be her dream guy
so much, that she fell in love with him right there but never asked for his
number and could not find him. A few days later she killed her sister.

Question: What is her motive for killing her sister?

[Give this some thought before you answer, see answer below] 



   
 






Answer:
She was hoping the guy would appear at the funeral again. If you answered
this correctly, you think like a psychopath. This was a test by a famous
American Psychologist used to test if one has the same
mentality as a killer. Many arrested serial killers took part in the test
and answered the question correctly. If you didn't answer the question
correctly, good for you. If you got the answer correct, please let me know
so I can take you off my email list.
 

 
 
 

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Re: [lace-chat] Very smart CSI question ..

[The Lace Bee]

He has now said why didn't I get the answer right (like I'm going to admit
that). 
 
Hubby has explained his thinking that if the guy was there he must be a friend
of the woman's mother hence her killing her sister so he'd turn up again.
 
When I said this must make him a psychopath he was quite unphased by it and
is, I think , actually proud of the fact

Kind Regards

Liz Baker

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From: Agnes Boddington ag...@weatherwax.karoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Very smart CSI question ..
To: lace-chat@arachne.com
Date: Sunday, 30 January, 2011, 22:20


I don't think I'll bother asking ... afraid he may get the answer right.
Agnes Boddington


 So,

 I ask the husband and guess what, he got the answer right.

 I may be looking into my life insurance in a couple of minutes

 L


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