Re: [h-cost] Re: lego troubles and $100 purses
Quoting celtkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What a great group this is... So glad to have found you guys. (Quick intro: I'm Kat who has been looking at 15th/16th c. costume for a couple years now and needs to get down to business and actually sew something) LOL -- I *so* resemble that remark! I got a dressmakers dummy for Christmas, I'm on draft 2 of a bodice sloper for an Italian (Medieval Miscellanea), and I have fabric. Now all I have to do is find some time to sew! Jerusha - Susan Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Tennessee Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: lego troubles
Bjarne wrote: Kids dont want to play with brigs anymore, they want to play on computers. Company didnt realise this and almost broke now! Tell that to my kids! We have a cabinet full of Lego bricks. And we also get the bimonthly Lego magazine. And we also have the Lego Star Wars GameCube game. Have you seen this? It is fantastic. It is the entire Star Wars saga, in Lego. You get to play whatever part you want, and whenever you shoot something or hit it with your lightsabre, it breaks up into Lego pieces! We love Lego here, and we do not have a large toy budget. Our Lego investment is probably the largest toy investment we have made. Gail Finke Obligatory costume content: Do you know that Lego people now have little fabric capes? They are for knights, Hogwarts students, etc. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: lego troubles
- Original Message - From: Gail Scott Finke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:17 PM Subject: [h-cost] Re: lego troubles Bjarne wrote: Kids dont want to play with brigs anymore, they want to play on computers. Company didnt realise this and almost broke now! Tell that to my kids! We have a cabinet full of Lego bricks. And we also get the bimonthly Lego magazine. And we also have the Lego Star Wars GameCube game. Have you seen this? It is fantastic. It is the entire Star Wars saga, in Lego. You get to play whatever part you want, and whenever you shoot something or hit it with your lightsabre, it breaks up into Lego pieces! We love Lego here, and we do not have a large toy budget. Our Lego investment is probably the largest toy investment we have made. I love Legos too!! Last year I bought MYSELF some Legos at last--some of the Orient Expedition (which I discovered AFTER they discontinued it) and most of the Knights Kingdom sets. My kids have Legos too, but they have a really bad tendency to not put them away, and mine are NOT combined with theirs! The Game Cube sounds fun, but I don't have a GC system, and don't foresee myself buying one any time soon. Dianne ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: lego troubles
I don't know who likes the Lego more, my kids or me. I like having the excuse to buy Lego. I want the new Viking ship. I love the Orient Expedition Taj Mahal. My boys could spend days designing with Lego. The company did go too far into the movie and sports tie-ins, thta's what cost them so dearly. The Star Wars game is available for PC (what we have, my boys love the game). The company is now going into robotics which seems very interesting. Costume content: last Halloween (2004) we had a group costume as the Lego Orient Expedition guys, Nick was Johnny Thunder, David was the Maharajah, I was Miss Pippin Reed, and Ben, my husband, was Dr. Kilroy. Was much easier than the previous year's Bionicle costumes. Katy On 1/27/06, Dianne Greg Stucki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Gail Scott Finke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:17 PM Subject: [h-cost] Re: lego troubles Bjarne wrote: Kids dont want to play with brigs anymore, they want to play on computers. Company didnt realise this and almost broke now! Tell that to my kids! We have a cabinet full of Lego bricks. And we also get the bimonthly Lego magazine. And we also have the Lego Star Wars GameCube game. Have you seen this? It is fantastic. It is the entire Star Wars saga, in Lego. You get to play whatever part you want, and whenever you shoot something or hit it with your lightsabre, it breaks up into Lego pieces! We love Lego here, and we do not have a large toy budget. Our Lego investment is probably the largest toy investment we have made. I love Legos too!! Last year I bought MYSELF some Legos at last--some of the Orient Expedition (which I discovered AFTER they discontinued it) and most of the Knights Kingdom sets. My kids have Legos too, but they have a really bad tendency to not put them away, and mine are NOT combined with theirs! The Game Cube sounds fun, but I don't have a GC system, and don't foresee myself buying one any time soon. Dianne ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume -- Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.VintageVictorian.com Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: lego troubles and $100 purses
What a great group this is... So glad to have found you guys. (Quick intro: I'm Kat who has been looking at 15th/16th c. costume for a couple years now and needs to get down to business and actually sew something) I found the lego conversation interesting, because the issue of 'WIRED' Magazine (geeky future tech stuff) which just arrived in the mail last week has Legos on its cover and the headline: The lego army wants you: How obsessed fans are helping Lego reinvent the world's coolest toy. Sounds like it's not over yet! ~Kat P.S. Bjarne, I love your embroidery. You might be surprised at how high a price you can sell bags for. A few years ago I made little gypsy bags out of embroidered silks and they sold for almost a hundred dollars each time, on eBay (opening bid was set at something like $7.99). I think people still greatly appreciate handwork and are willing to pay. My bags weren't very large, about the size of a small evening purse, no bigger than about 5 x 7 inches. And I didn't even do the embroidery. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: lego troubles
It's so nice to know I'm not the only Lego fan! I don't have any any more, but it was always my favourite toy (not counting my teddy bear of course, who I do still have). So when I was little and our holiday to Spain had to be cancelled, and we went to Denmark instead, you can imagine how excited I was - we actually got to go to Legoland **and** see the little mermaid statue! ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
