Another museum with some lace is right there in CR is the Czech Museum. I
was the there the Sept. after the flood and there was a small bit in a store
front in a shopping mall with a few gorgeous costumes with some lace. I had
heard that the original building was repaired and the Museum has
I was in Cedar Rapids visiting my elderly aunt (I was born there) the year
after it flooded. The Czech museum itself was damaged on its ground floor
as it (was) right on the Cedar River, but I understand its been rebuilt.
They were able to move much of the lace and other valuable/interesting
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Christmas 2011 -- Birth of a New Tradition
As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high
gear to provide Americans with monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods --
merchandise that has been produced at the expense of American labor. This
year will be
I, to have never lost anything I've displayed. Partly because I took to
heart what I encountered in Phoenix when I participated in a display at a
museum by the Desert Valley Weavers. It was a Pioneer museum and the pieces
were to be displayed among the exhibits of household furnishings.
Priceless, Malvary!
Subject: [lace-chat] Murder at Wal-Mart
Tired of constantly being broke stuck in an unhappy marriage, a young
husband decided to solve both problems by taking out a large insurance
policy
on his wife with himself as the beneficiary, and then arranging to have her
This thread reminds me of my braids (and Buster Brown bangs). They were to
my waist when I was five years old. Mom had them cut off when I started
first grade because my hair is so fine and she had new-born twins and didn't
want to have go through that every morning. The thing is, I still
