On Jun 21, 2006, at 13:33, Mary Robi wrote:
Okaay. I've been lacing long enough to want to invest in a
better pillow. I've been using ethafoam which are great for taking
places since they're so light, but I'd like to have a heavier pillow.
S what is the difference between a
HI,
I have been following the thread on the GST tax refund and have a question.
I will be driving rather than flying. Do I have to get my receipts stamped
at a customs office before I leave the country? Can I do this at the Duty
Free shop at the border? Thanks for the help and to whomever first
Ana Blanco used to urge us (lovingly) to try making and using a
bolster pillow, citing the comfort and convenience of using one. She
was so urgent and so loving about it that I did make one -- 20-odd
years ago -- and am still using it happily, for certain large
pieces. Ana said to stuff it
Dear Arachnes,
Sorry for taking so long to respond to this - I wasn't fully reading all of
the postings recently. I was very busy at the end of the school year and
then we went on a vacation to the west coast of Canada.
Kreink is selling off their supply of Au Ver A Soie through their
What you wrote is true, especially when you travel on an
international flight outside of the American continent. The trouble
was on a flight from Canada to the USA. When asked nobody knew about it.
Miriam
Miriam wrote:
Last year I travelled from Canada to the USA. I hped to get my GST
I've just been eating tea while watching a rerun of the Flog It! programme
in which the so-called expert Jethro Marle identified bone bobbins as ivory,
and when this was pointed out to him through emails to the BBC, responded
with I think I know ivory when I see it.
I was obviously so aghast
Jean,
It has been a rather serious, busy morning.
I stopped to read your email about the spangles/tracking threads and the
chuckle relieved my tensions...in fact I Ha-Haed out loud.
Thanks, I needed that.
Susie Johnson
Morris, Illinois
Where the sun has finally come out to bless the day!
Jean
Don't worry Jean, one of my students spotted that at the first showing and
wrote an indignant post, covering both the ivory/bone issue and this very false
idea that a profeesional lacemaker would have either the need or the time to
be looking at the spangles.
She got a slightly less
Everything you want to know about GST refunds can be found here:
http://www.cra-
arc.gc.ca/tax/nonresidents/visitors/individuals/individual-e.html
Click on 'Proof of purchase' to see what to do if you leave Canada by
car or plane or ship, etc.
Margot
Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers
Hello Spiders
It is a self fulfilling prophecy. If most of the lace comunity insists on
despising it, it will never become any good. Anyone can enter: indeed,
anyone can correct rubbish too. If enough people cooperate it works like a
charm and the truth and valuable information will sooner or
I think this was supposed to have gone to litst-at-large, so I'm
forwarding
Begin forwarded message:
From: bevw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: June 21, 2006 1:42:40 EDT
To: Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [lace] Re: GST refunds/now Portland conference
On 6/20/06, Tamara P Duvall
Alice said - -- who just mailed in her IOLI table
ribbon entry. You have three more days. Is yours in
the mail yet?
Yes, mine are already there with Debra!! I have one in each class!!
My first ever entry, as I always thought the competition was for Convention
people only. It was only last
To My secret Pal in England
Your parcel arrived today, and DH brought it down to work for me after
lunch - what a surprises, as ever.
The miniature bobbins are so cute, and I love the wee embroidery kit.
The lace on the postcard and card is mind boggling... definitely
something to aspire
Your last name stays put
The garage is all yours
Wedding plans take care of themselves
Chocolate is just another snack
You can be president
You can wear a white t-shirt to a water park
You can wear NO t-shirt to a water park
Car mechanics tell you the truth
The world is your urinal
You never have
If you are in the UK and get to a television, there is one of the auction
style antique programmes (can't for the life of me remember name at the mo)
and there will be some antique lace bobbins on imminently!!
Pam
Nottingham, England
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