[lace-chat] :) Fwd: "... and that's the truth !!"

2004-05-22 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
From: T.H. Late one Friday night a policeman spotted a man driving very erratically through the streets of Dublin. He pulled the man over and asked him if he had been drinking that evening. "Aye, so I have. 'Tis Friday, you know, so me and the lads stopped by the pub where I had six or seven pi

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Mother's Dictionary

2004-05-22 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
I'll take "the Polish tack" on this one; *our* Mother's day is... May 27, I think? So, it's still "in time"... From: M.A. Amnesia: condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to have sex again Bottle Feeding: an opportunity for Daddy to get up at 2am, too Defense: what you'd bett

[lace-chat] Question of language, again...

2004-05-22 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
Gentle Spiders, Need y'all's help again... :) I'm trying to do the write-up on the infernal 2-Pair Inventions booklet, and have got a "knot" which I'm unable to untie by myself, not being "mathematically inclined"... From 45+ years ago, I seem to remember that there was a term when things move

Re: [lace-chat] INNER PEACE

2004-05-22 Thread dora.northern
Hallo Malvary, your mail came just at the right moment. The nurse left me for what I hope is the last time. And I am looking forward to starting to open things, such as you just finished. One thing is bothering me. I have to do the housework again, which was forbidden up to now. Try as I might, I c

[lace-chat] long lace curtains

2004-05-22 Thread Alice Howell
I'm still browsing on eBay. Here are some tambour lace curtains 140" long. Very pretty, but WAAY too big for my windows. Anyone making a wedding dress? Or a wedding veil? There's two pair of these on sale, and that's alot of yardage. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=22

[lace-chat] what kind of 'lace'?

2004-05-22 Thread Alice Howell
Greetings, Here is a tablecloth with 'tape lace' that I don't think is that. I'm thinking that it's more like cutwork and whitework. They claim it is 150 yrs old. You stilll have a day and a half to bid if you collect whitework. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=39453&i

[lace-chat] INNER PEACE

2004-05-22 Thread Malvary Cole
INNER PEACE I am passing this on to you because it has definitely worked for me... the simple advice I read in an article, I have finally found inner peace the article read: "The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you've started." So I looked around the house to see a

[lace-chat] :-)) Flogging a dead horse

2004-05-22 Thread Jeanette Fischer
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that, when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount." However, in today's government and in big corporations, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as: 1.. Buy