Re: [lace-chat] Re: raffle!

2005-08-08 Thread Lynn Scott
>Thank you so much for the Piecework magazine, it arrived today. I have a lot of delicious reading to go through as the new Martha Pullen Vintage Collection book also arrived, with more lacey things. Thanks again, Lynn Scott in Wollongong To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [lace-chat] Sweet stay-at-homes

2005-08-03 Thread Lynn Scott
Thanks Ricki for the poem, tis many a long year since I heard his name mentioned in poetry. I still remember just a few lines of one of Walter de la Mare's poems that I learned in 4th grade in Gimli, Manitoba, Canada, "Slowly, silently, now the moon,...", at least I always thought it was his writi

Re: [lace-chat] Harry Potter - different covers

2005-08-02 Thread Lynn Scott
We have the children's cover, I think for all the editions, and proud of it. Just before the sale of No. 6 they announced that HP had sold 255 million copies, which approximately is 51 million sets of 5 books. Judging by this house alone, it has been read by 4 different people, they there are the

Re: [lace-chat] Re: raffle!

2005-07-25 Thread Lynn Scott
>What an absolute surprise, thanks so much, I look forward to getting the magazine, how very gracious of you to do this fine deed. Lynn Scott, Wollongong To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EM

Re: [lace-chat] Harry Potter

2005-07-17 Thread Lynn Scott
I started it Saturday evening and skipped church Sunday to finish it. Loved it, lots of surprises and a few things that aha moments, a bit of teenage angst, not as much action, but it certainly leaves us hanging for the big finale whenever that gets written and published. Once the 92 years old FI

Re: [lace-chat] Re: dangers of giving address

2005-07-16 Thread Lynn Scott
I am not worried about stalkers, etc., but I did google my "maiden" name, and came up with the lace-chat quiz that I answered when I first signed up to Arachne, that sort of surprised me. Lynn Scott in Wollongong, Australia To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containin

RE: [lace-chat] Reese's peanut butter cups

2005-07-14 Thread Lynn Scott
Yummy, thanks Kim. Lynn in Wollongong Australia To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace-chat] Reese's peanut butter cups

2005-07-14 Thread Lynn Scott
me at will - not quite the same, but a reasonable substitute. Lynn Scott Wollongong Australia (formerly Canada), where I am neither rich nor famous enough for any stalker to care To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write

Re: [lace-chat] The sad demise of Miss Moore's machine - long

2005-06-15 Thread Lynn Scott
>There is a CSM site, would you be agreeable to sharing it. My inlaws happen to have aquired one of those machines. My FIL would love to use it to make 100% cotton socks, however, there are no instructions. At the moment his wife makes socks up as fairly flat pieces on the knitting machine and t

Re: [lace-chat] FYI knitting on planes

2005-04-20 Thread Lynn Scott
Carolyn said: I was surprised to discover that at least from the US the Clover thread cutters are forbidden. Apparently there is a blade inside that can be accessed ... > > Please tell me how many terrorists would know there is a blade in a Clover cutter, they look like a pretty pendant to the cas

[lace-chat] Birmingham UK shopping

2005-02-21 Thread Lynn Scott
Thanks to those who responded regarding shopping for ladies attire in the Birmingham area. I have forwarded your suggestions to her and look forward to hearing that she has found something to wear. Lynn Scott in Wollongong Australia To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the

[lace-chat] Birmingham UK, shopping for ladies

2005-02-20 Thread Lynn Scott
. You can reply privately to me if you like and I will forward any ideas to her. Thanks, Lynn Scott in Wollongong Australia To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Modern Art

2005-02-11 Thread Lynn Scott
Liz, I agree with you about the National Gallery, I took a visiting artist friend there last summer. I have an oil painting that she did, which I am sure is better than most of what I saw there, and she is legally blind. Lynn in Wollongong, Australia To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [lace-chat] Credit card scams

2005-02-05 Thread Lynn Scott
of significance has noticed and had them moved. I never use them. Lynn Scott in Wollongong Australia To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace-chat] Bungalow

2005-02-02 Thread Lynn Scott
>Noelene, the difference in measurements for houses still confuses me, it is square feet in Canada, rather than square metres, and although your house is big, I don't think it takes up the entire hilltop, it just seems that way. M.Lynn Scott, Gwynneville,Australia To unsubscribe send

Re: [lace-chat] Truly awful 1970's recipes

2005-02-01 Thread Lynn Scott
I nearly hurt myself laughing at the descriptions that go with the cards, a very clever and comic narrator. Lynn Soctt in Wollongong Australia To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace-chat] It's New Year

2004-12-31 Thread Lynn Scott
ll on the data base. David in Ballarat Just how hard were you pulling on your lace bobbins - remember stroke not grope LOL. Lynn Scott in Wollongong -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 30/12/2004 To u

Re: [lace-chat] RE: Dairy-free cake recipe

2003-08-18 Thread Scott
Just one change for those in North America, instead of 1 1/2 cups of self raising flour, use 1 1/2 cups of flour and the appropriate amount of baking powder. (Something I learned the hard way when I changed locations from Canada.) Lynn in Wollongong Australia > > Chocolate Fudge Cake > > 1½ cups

Re: [lace-chat] mugwumps in Potter

2003-08-01 Thread Scott
Bev I found it, good thing I can speed read. In our book, which may not be the same as the other editions it is on page 276. In the chapter "The Hogwarts High Inquisitor" when the Daily Prophet prints an article announcing the appointment of Dolores Umbridge, part of the article states, "Rumours

Re: [lace-chat] Health tips

2003-07-31 Thread Scott
Thanks Martha, that explains so much. I don't have any sinuses under my eyes (mine never developed, the good news about that is that although the upper ones can be excruciating, I won't get bags under my eyes). Now if I could only get a piercing to drain the lungs I wouldn't do too bad. Lynn in W

Re: [lace-chat] Health tips

2003-07-31 Thread Scott
> Jean said: if the sinuses don't drain with your head in the normal upright > position, why not try standing on your head? Why won't it work then? > Because there are people like me with chronic bronchitis and sinus problems whose phlegm is way to sticky - gross answer but that is the way it is

Re: [lace-chat] mugwumps in Potter

2003-07-31 Thread Scott
I will look it up, it was about 2am when I read it, will let you know. Lynn in Wollongong > > I give up, where in book 5 is 'mugwumps' - I knew I had something > important to do today - so I've been looking :) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe l

Re: [lace-chat] Sillinesses reproduced

2003-07-28 Thread Scott
Which station Ruth? I have been travelling back and forth to the Sydney airport for the DH, and I could use the giggle, especially when I pick him up at 10:30 tonight. Lynn in Wollongong. Just as an aside, did I miss the original reference to Mugwumps, I just read the word in the fifth Harry Pott