Re: [lace-chat] :-)) Interesting exercise

2004-06-08 Thread lynn
Don't forget Numbat. Lynn Scott, Wollongong, Australia Subject: Re: [lace-chat] :-)) Interesting exercise > Hmm. Narwhal? My spelling is probably wrong, but I'm pretty sure it > starts with an N. > > Weronika To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe l

Re: [lace-chat] windows

2004-06-08 Thread lynn
We bought a really nifty gadget from one of those hawkers in the mall. It consists of two heavy plastic pieces with sponge insert on one and squeegee (sp?) on the other and rather large magnets on both. The idea is to put the squeegee one (with string attached) on the outside window, put the othe

Re: [lace-chat] Re the Car

2004-06-08 Thread lynn
You better put that cake away Peter. Several lamentful comments were made about its absence at Lace Day, and of course Jeanine and your absence as well. Now on a lace question, as I don't belong to the other list, I am making a baby bonnet for a Christening gown from a pattern in Australian Lace

[lace-chat] windows again

2004-06-08 Thread Helene Gannac
Tamara wrote: >Yeah, and how are you gonna wash 'em? Do your Spiderwoman act? >It's true that, with casement windows opening inwards, you either can't >keep anything in front of them, or else have to move everything every >time (which is where the idea of "lufcik" - a small part of the window

[lace-chat] S.P. Thank you

2004-06-08 Thread margaret turner
To my S.P. thank you for the parcel, which arrived this morning,the pens will always come in handy, as will the threads and book mark I love the butterfly it is so pretty. I will have find somethin g for that frame. The thimble is so cute, I have put it with the olthers I have collected while trave

[lace-chat] Eco glass cleans itself with Sun

2004-06-08 Thread Sue Babbs
Even the BBC must be reading lace-chat these days!! "A revolutionary kind of glass that needs little cleaning could mean soap and chamois are binned for good. The Pilkington Activ glass has a special nano-scale - extremely thin - coating of microcrystalline titanium oxide which reacts to daylight.

[lace-chat] secret pal

2004-06-08 Thread awinner
Dear Secret Pal, What a wonderful suprise greeting me yesterday, a package already! I have hung the wind chime in the window, the garden marker is placed. The chocolates are awaiting a special time when I can sit down and enjoy..them. Some people savor wines, me I savor chocolates.

[lace-chat] cure for the bites

2004-06-08 Thread Maureen Harvey
I too got eaten alive whenever I went on holiday to warmer climes(as the weather here in UK is not usually warm enough for mosquitoes). While on holiday in Turkey nursing several nasty bites from you know who, a Turkish lady doctor who we just happened to meet gave me this cure that I have used ev

[lace-chat] Eco glass cleans itself with Sun

2004-06-08 Thread Jane Partridge
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sue Babbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >"A revolutionary kind of glass that needs little cleaning could mean soap >and chamois are binned for good. Huh. They could have come up with this before the closing date for Myth or Mystery! I've had another trip over to Coven

[lace-chat] Fwd: strawberry tarts from Thurlow

2004-06-08 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
I haven't seen this on on the chat, which is where it was, obviously, supposed to have landed, so I'm forwarding (I may be a cat, and a bitch, but I'm no hog ) Begin forwarded message: From: "Thurlow Weed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 8, 2004 18:15:12 EDT To: "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECT

[lace-chat] RE: tally flowers (was The Car)

2004-06-08 Thread Helen Bell
Lyn, Depending on how the centre of the "flower" is pricked, either do a whole or half stitch, bringing in the pairs (a la beds lace) and leaving them out to make the tallies the other side. I don't have my copy of that issue at my finger tips, and not sure which of the 4 issues it is in, but tho

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Ending It All

2004-06-08 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
Begin forwarded message: From: A.N. An 83-year old woman decided that she'd seen and done everything, and the time had come to depart from this world. After considering various methods of doing away with herself, she came to the conclusion that the quickest and surest method would be to shoot h

[lace-chat] Tally crossing

2004-06-08 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
I will email you the instructions, privately, Lyn. You need an 8 pair crossing, by the sound of it. from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [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] Question of literature

2004-06-08 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
Gentle Spiders, My mind has short-circuited again, and I can't remember the name of the sci-fi writer - American, I seem to remember (started with a B, I think) - who'd written "Farenheit 409". Possibly, it's a different number, also... :) But it's the temperature at which paper burns (as in: b

[lace-chat] Fwd: Question of literature

2004-06-08 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
OK... I was all wet on the numbers (not surprising ). And I forgot the first "h" (we don't *use* that scale much in Poland). But I was right on the initial of the author... :) From: Danek Duvall Date: June 9, 2004 2:00:36 EDT To: "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Question of li