[lace-chat] Re:Recipes and questions

2003-09-11 Thread Louise Hume
>>Is Crisco a kind of fat? what kind? is there a UK equiv.? >It is a popular US brand name vegetable shortning. i.e. homogenized veggie >oil. OOps! Sorry, I miswrote. I meant hydrogenated vegetable oil. It is similar to margarine, but used in recipes instead of lard or butter. When I was a c

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Blonde's dogs

2003-09-11 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
I think I may have seen this one before... So many blonde jokes (my source's best friend collects" them, being a blonde herself), it's hard to keep track... At least it's short :) From: R.P. Fred was visiting his blonde friend who had acquired two new dogs, and asked her what their names were.

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Blonde Bowlers

2003-09-11 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
From: R.P. Two bowling teams, one of all Blondes and one of all Brunettes, charter a double-decker bus for a weekend bowling tournament in Atlantic City. The Brunette team rides on the bottom of the bus. The Blonde team rides on the top level. The Brunette team down below is whooping it up ha

[lace-chat] What I am thinking of today

2003-09-11 Thread Louise Hume
Thought I would share this bit that I received from my DD today. She lives in Virginia suburb of DC and drives by the Pentagon, (which was also hit by a terroist hi-jacked plane on 11 Sept 2001) every day. Louise ~ Dear folks, As you know, I make my living with words. But as I look back over

[lace-chat] Re: recipe questions

2003-09-11 Thread Joy Beeson
At 12:31 PM 9/11/03 +, Jill Treeves wrote: >I think Trex is the UK equivalent of Crisco - but not even sure if it's >still sold. All these "vegetable shortenings" are a cheap substitute for butter. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlin

Re: [lace-chat] Getting a rise out of the pants

2003-09-11 Thread Angel Skubic
Rofl, Well you know your over the hill and your body isn't what it used to be when your grandchildren tell you your midriff top is shrunk and somehow too short...and try to tug it down for you. (Even though their mother wears midriff tops and low rise hipster pants with pierced navel and it doesn'

[lace-chat] Upholstery

2003-09-11 Thread Jean Nathan
I reupholstered my previous 3 piece suite, and unpicked one of the cushion covers to use as a pattern. The covers weren't meant to be removed, and had a join in the wall on each side, so that the cushion could be turned back to front and the joins would still be hidden at the sides. Apart from whic

[lace-chat] Re: [lace] recipe questions

2003-09-11 Thread Jill Treeves
Helen I think Trex is the UK equivalent of Crisco - but not even sure if it's still sold. Regards Jill @ Heathrow, where the sun is trying to shine through the rain clouds. _ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download MSN Messen

Re: [lace-chat] Getting a rise out of the pants

2003-09-11 Thread Thelacebee
In an email dated Thu, 11 Sep 2003 8:20:27 am GMT, "Jean Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >When I saw photos of our school's 16 year-old leavers at their prom, wearing >bra tops and not a lot else, my reaction was "Good heavens! They're half >naked". That caused me to be frightened of what the

[lace-chat] upholstery

2003-09-11 Thread Barron
I've just been making the pattern pieces for what is basically a cover for the cushion for a monks settle. As a novice - I can machine sew, did a fair bit of dress making many moons ago but have never done any upholstery work - I'm not sure how to construct the sides of the cover. The cushion is on

[lace-chat] Getting a rise out of the pants

2003-09-11 Thread Jean Nathan
Betty Ann wrote: I obviously did that as part of my City & Guilds Certificate in Dressmaking and Pattern Cutting, but never knew it was called 'the rise'. It was always just referred to as the measurement from the waist to the crotch, even in the exam papers. then Tamara wrote: When I saw ph

[lace-chat] RE:Recipe and Questions

2003-09-11 Thread Louise Hume
Dear Margery. >What's "Silk brand cake flour"? or its UK equivalent? I think any cake flour would do. It is sifted finer than all purpose flour. >Is Crisco a kind of fat? what kind? is there a UK equiv.? It is a popular US brand name vegetable shortning. i.e. homogenized veggie oil. In the