Jenny, This is great. You obviously have a 'way with words', have you worked in journalism before?
To others who may wish to try the same. Jenny wrote a 'local' story about a local person, but with references to the global whole. She made it short and informative, with references to web sites and local groups that the reader could contact. Great job, Jenny. Lorri ----- Original Message ----- From: Jenny Brandis<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lace@arachne.com<mailto:lace@arachne.com> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 12:41 AM Subject: [lace] what can I do? Hi everyone Reading the Arachne emails made me realise that we tend to think that lace making is either a dying art or for old people. Well I decided to try to make a difference in my little area of the world. Below are two press releases emailed today to the local newspapers in both Kununurra and Wyndham. I have already had a response from the Kimberley Echo Newspaper ( www.kimberleyecho.com<http://www.kimberleyecho.com/> ) asking for a photo. I am sooo thrilled. PRESS RELEASE 1 The Kununurra Telecentre may be loosing their Coordinator but lace making has gained a new devotee. Jenny Brandis has recently begun to learn the age old art of bobbin lace making from the newly revived Ord Twisters group. Their teacher, Alice Cunningham has brought out her tools and knowledge to assist the new lacemakers. Alice and her students have demonstrated and presented their work at the Kununurra Agriculture Show in the past and have always done well. "My lace has been compared to bandages and fish net stockings, so I have a way to go before I am in the same class as Janet or Alice, but I keep on trying." says Jenny The basic equipment can be as simple as dowel, pins, thread and a pinboard but can expand as you learn into a glorious selection of spangled bobbins. The group meet each Thursday evening at the community owned Telecentre between 7 and 9. All are welcome to attend. PRESS RELEASE 2 Shakespeare said "Oh, what a tangled web we weave ...." well, the same can be said of the lace makers of Kununurra. Feel good story In early February Jenny Brandis, of Telecentre fame, decided to start on a long term goal of hers. She was going to learn to make old fashioned lace - not buy it but actually make it. Being computer minded she started with Google and quickly found that she was not as alone as she thought. First she found the newsgroup Arachne ( www.arachne.com/<http://www.arachne.com/> ) and promptly joined to lurk and learn. Her introductory email brought responses from all over the world including an invitation to join the Australian email group Gumlace. That was the beginning of Jenny's journey. Being in Kununurra she had assumed that there would not be a lace maker within teaching distance. And then along came 4 emails saying that there was a lace making group in Kununurra, run by Alice Cunningham. Jenny joined. In the meantime, Jenny was having trouble finding the basic tools of the trade and the internet answered that too. Make your own. The hardware manager look a bit strangely when she asked for the 2.5 mt lengths of dowel be cut into 25cm lengths, he looked even stranger when she asked about wood lathe chisels! Even her husbands tool shed was not safe, she salvaged some polystyrene sheeting, his high impact sheet from his swag and even used his liquid nails. But it was worth it. Jenny then had 40 bobbins and a pillow to work on. While this was going on, Jenny was keeping both Arachne and Gumlace informed of her progress via her website ( www.brandis.com.au/craft/lace.html<http://www.brandis.com.au/craft/lace.htm l>) and after returning from Easter she was thrilled to collect the mail each day. For a week she received small parcels from all over Australia. Each with at least one pair of bobbins from fellow Gumlace people. People she had never met! People who understood the isolation of shopping so far from a capital city. People who cared. Jenny's desire to learn has revived the interest of the Ord Twisters group and they now meet each Thursday evening at the community Telecentre between 7 and 9. All are welcome to come along. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.3 - Release Date: 4/5/2005 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
