In a message dated 10/25/2005 12:16:01 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was contacted by a young university student anxious to learn lace I think it would be nice if someone were looking through offerings at some city adult school or YMCA, looking for Salsa, for instance and saw lacemaking and decided to take it instead. Yes, it is true that people with the determination of Sir Edmund Hillary can climb Everest or find lace lessons, even locating small travel pillows ideal for taking on long bus rides to the suburbs, but what if it were as easy to find lace lessons as it is to fall off a log? << I'd like to think she might be one to offer a course eventually.>> Yes, it would be very good if someone youngish, learned the skills and then transformed them into a course that would be attractive to young people. I notice that this is happening with knitting. (Kidnapping and brainwashing a promising young person, is probably not advisable, though.) <<LOL half the value is in the process - like attending lace conference and finishing the class project - in terms of $ spent, the motif can be worth upwards in the thousands of dollars (counting travel, lodging, and of course class fee, purchase of extra materials, a book to go with - the experience though is priceless ).>> Yes, one must think of it as an entertainment expense. Thousands of dollars for hundreds of hours of entertainment. Really, when you think of how much it would cost to go to hundreds of hours of Broadway Shows, it is a bargain. It certainly keeps us off the streets and out of the bars and casinos. (Although sometimes people come out ahead in casinos, but that never happens in lace ;-) Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
