[lace] It isn't a lace bobbin on ebay
This certainly isn't a lace bobbin - there's nowhere to wind the thread. I don't think it's a stilleto because the point's rather short and the taper's a bit steep. Thought there might be a stanhope (magnifying glass with tiny pictures of scenes of a town or village) in the blunt end, but the 'hole' looks oval rather than round and I've only ever seen round stanhopes. So has anyone got an idea what it is? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3244596103category=114 or search for item number 3244596103 Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lacemakers around Perth, Australia
Hello all and especially lacemakers in Australia, My lace class started yesterday and we have new girl in class she will come for a few weeks. She hasn't made any bobbin lace before and is now learning the very basics in our class. She is an artist and she is off to Perth the first of November for 6 months.She has got a bursary to study and in her work she is planning to use the technique of bobbin lacemaking. I have given her Lori Howe's website and Australian Lace Guild. She will probably join us here later on. I wonder if there are any lacemakers close to Perth with whom she can make contact. Please contact me off list and I will pass on any names and addresses to her. Many thanks / Sonja Sonja Sillay in Bristol UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here you can see some of my lace: http://community.webshots.com/user/sonjasillay - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] It isn't a lace bobbin on ebay
I think it's a stiletto. Take a look at this stiletto: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3241092100 the point is about the same size and shape. About the hole in the end - possibly for threading a ribbon through, to help you keep track of your stiletto? Maybe it went on a chatelaine, or just was attached to your sewing box so you could always find it. Another possibility is that there was a bit of curved glass set into the end, as a magnifier, that could have broken. This theory is a bit thin, I know, but if the seller can't tell it isn't a lace bobbin you never know what else they may not have noticed. Adele North Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) Jean wrote: This certainly isn't a lace bobbin - there's nowhere to wind the thread. I don't think it's a stilleto because the point's rather short and the taper's a bit steep. Thought there might be a stanhope (magnifying glass with tiny pictures of scenes of a town or village) in the blunt end, but the 'hole' looks oval rather than round and I've only ever seen round stanhopes. So has anyone got an idea what it is? - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] computers and firewalls
Technology- a love/hate relationship. I am in need of advice on firewalls. I use cable, windows XP with live updates and AOL. I was using Norton 2002 for viruses with automatic updates. When my subscription for updates expired I called Norton and they talked me into their Internet product which has virus protection and a firewall. The Norton person said I needed a firewall too. So I uninstalled Norton 2002 and installed Norton's Internet. I just saw an article in the newspaper that said XP has a firewall. So I guess that means I did not need the firewall from Norton?? Since installing the new Norton system I am constantly receiving Trojan back door subseven warnings. Sometimes when I am working I will look at the icons in the right hand corner either one or both of my virus protection and firewall will have spontaneously disabled, I have to go in and enable them. All of this I find frustrating. I do not know what to do. Is the XP firewall adequate? Should I get rid of Nortons firewall? Should I return the Internet program and ask for the new virus protection program? I do not know if the XP firewall was enabled before the Norton firewall was added. (I did call Dell and the tech said it was-do I believe them?) When Norton was added it would disable any other firewall. Does anyone have any ideas? Any help is greatly appreciated. Debra Jenny Green Bay, Wisconsin Rainy and 57F To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Philosophical Question
I'm looking for something light-hearted, but for which there is a definite right answer - ie not 'is Pepsi or Coke better'. Does anyone have any ideas for me? Heather How about That the earth is flat Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Philosophical Question
Thanks, Linda. I only have a page and a half in which to do my play. And it must be a play. Hopefully we will be marked on content not style. :) Heather At 09:17 PM 26/09/2003 +0100, Linda Walton wrote: Dear Heather, I suggest you model your play on one of the Socratic dialogues by Plato. Perhaps a scene in The Symposium, or something in the early part of The Republic will catch your attention and set your imagination running? To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Arachne Birthday List
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[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Idiots
From: R.P. Number One Idiot of 2003 I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center. A woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital. She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants. I told her that she better bring her daughter to the emergency room right away. Here's your sign, lady. Wear it with pride. Number Two Idiots of 2003 Early this year, some Boeing employees on the airfield decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747s. They were successful in getting it out of the plane and home. Shortly after they took it for a float on the river, they noticed a Coast Guard helicopter coming towards them. It turned out that the chopper was homing in on the emergency locator beacon that activated when the raft was inflated. They are no longer employed at Boeing. Here's your sign, guys. Don't get it wet; the paint might run. Number Three Idiot of 2003 Orlando: A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into the branch and wrote this iz a stikkup. Put all your muny in this bag. While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the police before he reached the teller's window. So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to SunTrust. After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the SunTrust teller. She read it and, surmising from his spelling that he wasn't the brightest light on the Christmas tree, told him that she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would either have to fill out a SunTrust deposit slip or go back to Bank of America. Looking somewhat defeated, the man said OK and left. He was arrested a few minutes later as he was waiting in line back at Bank of America. Don't bother with this guy's sign. He probably couldn't read it anyway. Number Four Idiot of 2003 A guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and demanded all of the cash from the cash drawer. After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of Scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to put it in the bag as well, but the cashier refused and said, Because I don't believe you are over 21. The robber said he was, but the clerk still refused to give it to him because he didn't believe him. At this point, the robber took his driver's license out of his wallet and gave it to the clerk. The clerk looked it over and agreed that the man was in fact over 21 and he put the Scotch in the bag. The robber then ran from the store with his loot. The cashier promptly called the police and gave the name and address of the robber that he got off the license. They arrested the robber two hours later. This guy definitely needs a sign! Idiot Number Five of 2003 Arkansas: Seems this guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. It seems the liquor store window was made of plexiglass. The whole event was caught on videotape. Ooh, that smarts. Give him his sign. Idiot Number Six of 2003 Ann Arbor: The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan at 12:50 A. M., flashed a gun and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away. - Tamara P Duvall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Arachne Birthday List
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[lace-chat] Interesting reading
Gentle Spiders, Had a wonderful haul from my last trip to the library... All fiction, as usual. The cream was Jeanette Turner Hospital -- Due Preparations for the Plague (W.W.Norton). Usually, I'm pretty sceptical when it comes to books centered around government conspiracies, but this one rang true more than most; for all it takes place in the US, the official excuses (can't make an omelette without breaking eggs; sacrifice of innocents, in the cause of greater good...) are universal; I used to hear those throughout my childhood. At the centre is a terrorist kidnapping and subsequent blowing up of an airplane in 1987, and the way the surviors (children of the victims) deal with it. Particularly poignant is the fact that the two protagonists come to terms with the past and start looking forward on September 9, '01, in NY city... Since the book is copyrighted in '03, that's obviously an intentional twist to the seemingly happy ending. Extremely well written, too, and I'm looking forward to reading more of Hospital's books (there had been 6 previous ones, according to the blurb). 2. Amin Maalouf's Balthasar's Odyssey didn't, IMO, *quite* live up to the blurb's praise, but it was very interesting all the same. First-person narrative of a Genoese merchant (but 3rd? 4th? generation living in the Turk-controlled Levant) of the disquieting year 1666. As so often happens with European fiction (the book was written in French but the translation is so seamless, you never notice it), the protagonist isn't *entirely* likeable -- much more a real person than a hero. I never miss that aspect when reading English-language fiction but, when I read something that's non-English I suddenly realise that I've been deprived :) 3) A whole series -- and, for once, our library seems to have got on the ball right from the start (the usual practice is to start with the second or third one, leaving one looking for that elusive first g). Rosemary Aubert's mysteries: Free Reign,The Feast of Stephen, and The Ferryman Will Be There. Not very heavy on the mystery part, but wonderful in the homeless/environment issues of the present-day Toronto. The last one was published in '01; do our Canadian members know of any subsequent ones that I can be looking forward to? - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
