[lace-chat] :-)) Flogging a dead horse

2004-05-22 Thread Jeanette Fischer
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that, when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in today's government and in big corporations, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as: 1..

[lace-chat] INNER PEACE

2004-05-22 Thread Malvary Cole
INNER PEACE I am passing this on to you because it has definitely worked for me... the simple advice I read in an article, I have finally found inner peace the article read: The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you've started. So I looked around the house to see

[lace-chat] what kind of 'lace'?

2004-05-22 Thread Alice Howell
Greetings, Here is a tablecloth with 'tape lace' that I don't think is that. I'm thinking that it's more like cutwork and whitework. They claim it is 150 yrs old. You stilll have a day and a half to bid if you collect whitework.

[lace-chat] long lace curtains

2004-05-22 Thread Alice Howell
I'm still browsing on eBay. Here are some tambour lace curtains 140 long. Very pretty, but WAAY too big for my windows. Anyone making a wedding dress? Or a wedding veil? There's two pair of these on sale, and that's alot of yardage.

[lace-chat] Question of language, again...

2004-05-22 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
Gentle Spiders, Need y'all's help again... :) I'm trying to do the write-up on the infernal 2-Pair Inventions booklet, and have got a knot which I'm unable to untie by myself, not being mathematically inclined... From 45+ years ago, I seem to remember that there was a term when things moved

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Mother's Dictionary

2004-05-22 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
I'll take the Polish tack on this one; *our* Mother's day is... May 27, I think? So, it's still in time... g From: M.A. Amnesia: condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to have sex again Bottle Feeding: an opportunity for Daddy to get up at 2am, too Defense: what you'd better

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: ... and that's the truth !!

2004-05-22 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
From: T.H. Late one Friday night a policeman spotted a man driving very erratically through the streets of Dublin. He pulled the man over and asked him if he had been drinking that evening. Aye, so I have. 'Tis Friday, you know, so me and the lads stopped by the pub where I had six or seven