Hello, all you know-all spiders, can you help me?
My library is having a demonstration on jewellery with French wire next
month. Ever heard of French wire, because I haven't!!!
Another case of : If it's rude or unusual, call it French, and everyone
will think it's OK? ...;-)
Helene, the puzzled
What fraction of a dollar is a dime?
Every so often (what a stupid phrase) when my purse (wallet) seems like it
weighs a ton, I remove all the low value coins - 1 pence, 2 pence and 5
pence - and put them in a jar. I either put them in charity collection
envelopes that get collected from the
Dear Helene,
To the best of my recollection, there is a beading technique for flowers
(using beads and wire) that is called French Beaded Flowers. I don't know
if the French is honorary.
Patty Dowden
At 12:25 AM 9/9/2004, you wrote:
Hello, all you know-all spiders, can you help me?
My library
Reminds me of the time, about 6 weeks after we moved to the United States.
My son was sitting state tests, one question of which was about a child
paying for something with x nickels y dimes. He could do the maths part of
it, but had to ask if he could have a translation of the terms first!
Sue
Patty, While you are correct about 'French Beaded Flowers' the French Wire
is not used for that. Earlier I answered Helene as follows:
Helene and all,
In the US, we have a product in jewelry repair/manufacture called French
Wire. It is a very small coil of ultra fine wire which is
New ones are getting more and more scarce... But the good old ones come
back once in a while, and are still worth recycling :) Of course, the
*premise* (a man in the 20th or 21st century writing a diary) is hard
to swallow, but, otherwise, it's a good one
From: R.P.
Dear Diary,
For my fiftieth
Reading your suggestions as to what French Wire, is I am wondering if it is
the wire that is used by the Maltese to make their beaut thread flowers. I
have just started teaching a Maltese lady BL, and she brought a couple of
framed pieces of her other work - these special Maltese flowers. As
Recently, I've found myself forwarding more and more jokes via the
subterrrenean routes instead of sending them to the chat (*when* I
forward them at all; not all that many new ones, recently... Could be,
because there's little to laugh about?). Mostly because jokes which are
new, and clean
A dime is 10 cents or (if my pathetic math is correct) 1/10th of a
dollar.
Cheers,
Helen, Aussie in Denver
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