[lace] Lace bobbins on 'Flog-it!

2005-10-07 Thread Jean Nathan
Anyone in the UK watch Flog-it! on BBC2 just now? 72 old lace bobbins (but not necessarily antique) - bone ones described by the expert as ivory. Valued by him as GBP70 - 100. Only reached 40 and didn't sell because the reserve was 70. The majority were fairly simple turned wood, a few with

[lace] Rosalibre brooch

2005-10-07 Thread Jenny Barron
Does anyone on the list know of a UK supplier for the brooches used in the Rosalibre book? I've just finished my first bit of Rosalibre and once it's off the pillow I would like to use it as intended. Thanks jenny barron Scotland - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the

Re: [lace] Rosalibre brooch

2005-10-07 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Hello Jenny They are Jana Novak's Moravia brooches, so try Roseground (Pat Hallam). Although not listed on the Roseground website it does say that they are Moravia partners and to contact them for any other Moravia products. Brenda On 7 Oct 2005, at 19:32, Jenny Barron wrote: Does anyone

[lace] fun things in the mail

2005-10-07 Thread
Many thanks to Janice and her sparkley spidery socks raffle drawing! She said it was a fair drawing, and since she makes lace, we must believe her! Anyway, I had a giggling fit. You made my day. Beth McCasland in the murky swamps of the Big Easy where fall has arrived, nice cool 82F/27C

[lace] lace books

2005-10-07 Thread Janice Blair
I just purchased a few books from HamiltonBook.com including Sandy Woods Alphabet Inspirations in colored bobbin lace ($16.95) and Bridget Cooks Plants Flowers in Lace and Special occasions in Lace, both $4.95 each. Now I have my order confirmed I don't mind giving out the information. They

[lace-chat] Re: weasel-y bits

2005-10-07 Thread Joy Beeson
At 11:50 PM 10/1/05 -0400, Tamara P Duvall wrote: The rule is on its way out, as the above example illustrates, I wonder when it came in? Nothing was said about it when I trained to be an English teacher in the sixties. -- Joy To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing

[lace-chat] Re: Tiny Url

2005-10-07 Thread Joy Beeson
At 08:05 AM 10/6/05 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would love to be able to send Tiny Urls or even just normal-sized ones ( :)) to my friends when I have found something really good on the Internet, but don't know how to find one - is it written somewhere on the page I am viewing? Look

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Tiny Url

2005-10-07 Thread Joy Beeson
At 06:12 PM 10/7/05 +0100, Brenda Paternoster wrote: http://www.q7design.demon.co.uk/Graphics/graphics.html Been there and learned something he didn't mention: In addition to taking several times as long to download as the 72dpi image, the 300dpi looked quite a lot worse! My browser didn't

[lace-chat] Re: Tiny Url

2005-10-07 Thread Jean Leader
Joy wrote: Should I tell him about the typo in the second paragraph of the opening page? Yes, yes a thousand times yes! How else is a webmaster who maintains hundreds (and I mean hundreds) of pages on a purely voluntary basis going to know of errors? and Violates the first rule of

[lace-chat] Congratulations

2005-10-07 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
Brenda - who's just passed the website design module of the CG Diploma for IT Practitioners with flying colours!! Congratulations, Brenda. Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL