Re: [lace] Plumber cancelled

2003-07-05 Thread dominique
wll i knew air lines sold tickets twice but i didn't know medical plumbers did the same ... VBG dominique in Paris nice and cool but it won't last .. there's a terrible draught spreading in most of France at the moment. lucky i am in Paris , i won't have to let my plants wither and die ..

[lace] lacemaking doll on ebay

2003-07-05 Thread Bridget Marrow
There's a charming and very unusual Lacemaker Doll on eBay UK: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3231451268category=114 (sorry, I don't know how to turn it into a proper link) Item number 3231451268 Bridget, in Watford, England.

[lace] apology

2003-07-05 Thread Doris O'Neill
I am sorry if any arachneans had e-mails 'bounced' from this address anytime in the last three days. My mailbox problem is now corrected. --- Doris O'Neill--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the

[lace] Victoria Lace Convention

2003-07-05 Thread Miriam Gidron
Hi spiders, I have arrived back home after a wonderful vacation in the USA and Canada. I started off in Chicago visiting my son and family and continued to Ottawa just after Memorial Day. There I stayed with a childhood friend of mine. She and Malvary arranged a lovely small lace gathering for

[lace] Margaret Hamer's Lace 4

2003-07-05 Thread A Thompson
There are of course several examples of East Midlands Bobbin laces among the items in Margaret's collection. Margaret always referred to these laces as East Midlands, arguing that both plaited and point-ground laces were made in all of the counties, Bedfordshire, Buckingham, Northampton and even

Re: [lace] lacemaking doll on ebay

2003-07-05 Thread ann DURANT
It's a real pity that she disappears into the wallpaper! Ann, in Manchester, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Re lace, spice girls etc.

2003-07-05 Thread Jennifer Nielsen
Hi everyone, I know this is a bit passe now. I have been too busy to read my mail for a couple of days now and am catching up with my digests and other mail including one from Brian (from Cooranbong). Brian has asked me to do a favour and post the following to the list while he is in hospital

[lace] Quotes from Cervantes

2003-07-05 Thread Mimi Dillman
Hello, I post infrequently (or not at all!) these days... but finally I found something to say. Thursday night, on arriving home from work, my husband raced into the house shouting Mimi, come quick, you have to listen to this! In mystification I followed him downstairs, and found him

[lace] Re: Aust. Lace Guild site

2003-07-05 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
Thanks, Jean, for mentioning the site had changed. The piece of reticella is one I produced for a beginners workshop some years ago. It did not lay straight for the photocopying, and looks awful! I do much better work, and lay it out better now! In fact I have just done a nice, different, piece

Re: [lace-chat] Festivals

2003-07-05 Thread Lorri Ferguson
Redmond, Washington...The small town where I grew up (now the larger town where Microsoft has its headquarters) has a Bike Derby Festival. The town is located near a lake and the roads surrounding the lake make a 26 mile circuit which is used for an international bike race. The Queen

Re: [lace-chat] Festivals

2003-07-05 Thread Katrina Worley
On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 08:53 PM, Tamara P. Duvall wrote: On Friday, Jul 4, 2003, at 16:08 US/Eastern, H. Muth wrote: What other interesting and quirky festivals are there out there? Haven't *seen* it; left the area before it started... But, when I visited a lacemaking friend (and an

[lace-chat] good news - if it's true . . .

2003-07-05 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://www.msnbc.com/news/933922.asp?cp1=1 Microbe gobbles toxic plastic waste Researchers see new approach to removing vinyl chloride ASSOCIATED PRESS July 2 - Scientists have identified a microbe that gobbles up toxic waste deep underground, a potential remedy for

[lace-chat] good news if it's true?

2003-07-05 Thread rick sharon
Toni wrote about Microbe gobbles toxic plastic waste. On first glance this does look good, but it reminds me of a sci-fi story about a microbe that eats all plastic. Chaos theory suggests that this new microbe could evolve to do just that, nature finds a way (eerie music) VBGSharon on sunny

[lace-chat] festivals

2003-07-05 Thread Dearl Kniskern
dear spiders our festival is held in september and is called the wilderness trail festival for those who don't live in this area the wilderness trail was the first trail traveled by men like davy crockett and goes from richmond virginia on through the cumberland gap in western virginia to