[lace-chat] Re:fake turkey and huge chalice

2007-10-19 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Oct 19, 2007, at 2:03, Alice Howell wrote: If you want to put your mind to something strange, tell me how I can make a fake dead turkey .everything except the feathers. Sorry, no ideas there, unless you apply a bicycle pump to a chicken... :) Someone suggested paper mache but I

[lace-chat] leters to the editor

2007-10-19 Thread Jean Nathan
/Hopefully this brings a few smiles on a cold day/ It did! Think our UK humour is probably the best in the world, especially in making fun of ourselves, our politicians, our celebrities and our institutions, but I'm sure others would disagree. I really laughed at a segment of a comedy panel

[lace-chat] Admin: political jokes

2007-10-19 Thread Avital
You are correct, but there is also a 'gentleman's agreement' to tread carefully in areas such as politics because it causes ill feeling on the lace-chat list. Please, everyone, pull your claws in and try to exercise some tact and sensitivity. We know that there are different political views

[lace-chat] lacemakers in Prague

2007-10-19 Thread Andrea Lamble
Pavouci, We have recently acquired a flat in Prague (fairly central in Prague 1) and consequently I'll be spending increasing amounts of time in the Czech Republic. I would like to make contact with any lacemakers there (English speaking as my Czech is minimal!). Are there any groups that meet

[lace-chat] Turkey prop

2007-10-19 Thread rictorr8
Hi all - don't know if this would work or not, but there are plastic roasted turkeys available (somewhere) that look pretty much just like the real thing! Regards, Ricki in Utah Email and AIM finally together. You've

Re: [lace-chat] fake turkey and huge chalice

2007-10-19 Thread Bev Walker
Hi Alice and everyone A quick lightweight 'turkey' - use a very large brown paper bag, stuff with crumpled newsprint, paint vegetable oil on the surface, for that 'cooked turkey' look (presumably). Bunch the bag into a turkey shape (that's a loaded instruction) tying with string where needed.

[lace-chat] OK I just read it's a pucked whole turkey

2007-10-19 Thread Jean Nathan
What I said before but with a small ball imn a bag on the end of a tube for the neck and head. From a distance it could look OK. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL

[lace-chat] Turkey prop

2007-10-19 Thread Jean Nathan
Assuming it's a cooked turkey, what about unbleached calico (in the UK the thick cream cotton stuff used in upholstery or similar to the stuff used for curtain linings)? A bag stuffed with something light for the body and two near-cylindrical shape sewn on the sides for the legs. You could put

Re: [lace-chat] fake turkey and huge chalice

2007-10-19 Thread Beth Schoenberg
Alice Howell wrote: If you want to put your mind to something strange, tell me how I can make a fake dead turkey .everything except the feathers. It's for a theater play of Christmas Carol...the big turkey from the butcher shop that is given to the Cratchetts. My thought was fabric,

[lace-chat] fake turkey and huge chalice

2007-10-19 Thread Alice Howell
If you want to put your mind to something strange, tell me how I can make a fake dead turkey .everything except the feathers. It's for a theater play of Christmas Carol...the big turkey from the butcher shop that is given to the Cratchetts. My thought was fabric, stuffed with fiber fill. It

[lace-chat] Beware....

2007-10-19 Thread Sue Duckles
Morning all Having read all the recent emails regarding 'political correctness' etc. My ten pennorth has to be: Beware the thought police.. (for the source, see 1984 etc..) Sue in a sunny but cold East Yorkshire Checkout my daughters photos: www.kyra.duckles.co.uk To unsubscribe send

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Another Dwarf Joke

2007-10-19 Thread Tamara P Duvall
Hope this one doesn't offend anyone. Hope there are no dwarfs in our company. Or, at least, no dwarfs with, erm, size-impaired sense of humour.. From: R. P. I rear-ended another car this morning and just knew it was going to be a bad day. The driver gets out of the other car, and he was a