eclipsed by the response to my advert for
Japanese braiding - 37 responses in two days for those workshops but I'll work
on them about trying lace.
My love to you all,
L
Kind regards
Liz Baker
The Lace Bee
www.thelacebee.com
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We went to see the panels a few years back and one of the things I got was the
panels as s series of postcards that are joined together and pull out. It's
interesting to view them together that way
Worth a visit if you are out that way
L
Kind Regards,
Liz Baker
> On 19 Sep 2015, at 14:23,
Dear gentle spiders
For those of you who use Pinterest do not throw away the email that you
received today
Pinterest are trialling paid pins in the U.S. But this will eventually affect
us all
Take time to read the email as it tells you how to change your settings so
Pinterest doesn't push
Dear gentle spiders,
I've updated my Wordles (remember no lace police) to correct a spelling
mistake.
You can download them from my website
http://thelacebee.weebly.com/arachne.html
As before, feel free to use them and share them
Kind Regards
Liz Baker
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In about an hour we will be setting out for the national arboretum near Derby
for their ANZAC day services.
http://www.thenma.org.uk
Because we are driving we won't be having a gun fire breakfast today, I'll
save that for tomorrow but when we get home, we will be playing two-up as I
bought
Dear gentle spiders,
In a few hours it will be dawn in Australia and New Zealand. As the sun comes
up on the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings I hope and pray that the
spirit of ANZAC lives on with you all and that the dawn services take place
without incident.
Just a little over
I've made some wordles - word art from the phrases we used yesterday and they
are available on my website to download.
http://thelacebee.weebly.com/arachne.html
go to the acrachne page and scroll down to the bottom, click on the image you
like to get the full size and then right hand click the
As my local lace group is having it's lace day tomorrow and I have birthday
money I didn't want to go and buy a book that I already had (done that before)
so I found an app for the iPhone and iPad that let's you scan the bar code on
your book (or type in the ISBN number) and it sets up your own
If you have access to Facebook then do a search for the Lace Guild. As a bit
of a laugh we posted two pictures based in the 'keep calm' mottos. One was KC
and make lace and the other was KC and join The Lace Guild. And then we went
to bed.
They have gone viral.
I have posted both on my
Guys,
We have uploaded photos from today's workshops onto The Lace Guild's
facebook page. We would love you to look at them and to comment. If you have
not yet 'liked' us then please do - we are going for our first century of
likes only 8 more to get.
The workshops were inspirational.
Guys,
I have entered the 21st Century and joined facebook. On a serious
note it's so that I can understand social media better as part of a research
into promoting lacemaking through all mediums.
Twitter next
If any of
you are on facebook then please link up with me.
L
Kind Regards
Guys,
My DH showed me these sometime ago and I got hooked. I've just found
the 2011 one. Enjoy.
The first Australia day address from Sam Kekovich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtWVJikNnx4feature=endscreenNR=1
The 2011
address which explains why the Euro is in such a bad state ...
Don't forget the plasticine garden at the RHS show!!!
For which he won a
plasticine award or should that be an award made out of plastacine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr4Gbv9Fan4
Kind Regards
Liz Baker
thelace...@btinternet.com
My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my
website:
Minature Wunderland is the run by the guys who came over to the UK to help
James May make is record breaking model railway attempt a couple of years ago.
Brilliant.
Kind Regards
Liz Baker
thelace...@btinternet.com
My chronicle
of my bobbins can be found at my website:
I am going to let you into a secret. We found two different shoe shop (one in
Birmingham city centre and one in Burford) that when did exactly the samething
when I went in and said the usual; 'I like those, any chance you have them in
an 8 wide fitting', the girl disappeared and came back with
We were trying to work out how long to advise our delegates to wash their
hands before starting their cooking session. Apparantly, signing 'Happy
Birthday' for two verses is the right amount of time.
However, we have to
remind delegates to sing it IN THEIR HEADS. 16 people singing happy
In the UK, under food handling regulations, people should remove the gloves
and dispose of them when handling food. What makes me spit is that often they
prepare your food then hold their gloved hand out to take your money.
As we
tell delegates, when you have finished preparing some food, go
My day job involves food. I have to be current on my food hygiene
certification and I have certification on food safety that you would expect
for someone running a restaurant.
The last time I phoned up Ocado and told
them that putting raw and cooked meat in the same bag was an issue on food
I had to give up on on-line shopping. I have ongoing rows with the different
on-line supermarkets for the following reasons that I hate and they don't
think are an issue or worse, contravene food hygiene. What they also don't
understand is that when they deliver something broken or substituted
When we moved to sunny Oxfordshire I made the mistake of dropping into my
local Sainsbury's (Kidlington) on the way home from dropping hubby at the
museum. As this not a planned stop I did not have my hoard of eco bags with
me (I have a whole cupboard of the things including my cool bags - I mean
My local Waitrose has refined this system to the point of perfection. I like
to use the self scan handset because I know exactly what I've spent before I
get to the checkout and that is the ONLY reason I go through this torture when
I go shopping.
I go in, I put my card through the swipe
Please be aware that raw garlic can harbour Clostridium botulinum. This
bacterium causes Botulism. Now I know that whilst some people are thinking,
great grow my own botox but Botulinum is an anaerobic bacterium which means
that even if you cover it in oil and exclude any air it can still
I'm addicted to sun dried and sun blush tomatoes but all that olive oil that
is left ... I use it to cook my onions off for stews and pasta dishes as it
has herbs in it and the taste of the tomatoes.
Frugal eh!!
Kind Regards
Liz Baker
thelace...@btinternet.com
My chronicle of my bobbins can
Guys,
Thank you all for your kind words about my Mum's two doll's houses.
We are spending time with my parents late Feb for Mum's 80th so I will drag
out all the lace she has, including the miniatures, and photograph them all.
If you are looking for some inspiration for miniatures then alot
We got a phone call last week. I picked the phone up and said 'hello'. I was
immeadiately hit with the person on the other end saying very fast; 'you'll
never guess where I am'.
As I didn't recognise the voice or the number (we
have caller display which shows you the name of the caller if I've
In the UK you can register your telephone number with the TPS (Telephone
Preference Scheme) which works with all UK based callers - but not
international one or scam artists.
Also, once registered, don't let callers
tell you that you have to re-register each year. This is utter rubbish.
I
Lynn,
I'm sort of writing this as outraged of Bicester and in support of
you. My husband's initial reaction when I read your post to him was that you
should contact the organisers of the lace day to raise the issue with them but
as I started to type I realised that it would have been difficult
I can't resist sending you guys this link
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/
upload a couple of photos then go for the dance - it's just absolutely stupid
Kind Regards
Liz Baker
thelace...@btinternet.com
My chronicle of my bobbins
can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/
To
Jean,
You're OK. I signed it too so I won't tell anyone if you don't .
Kind Regards
Liz Baker
thelace...@btinternet.com
My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website:
http://thelacebee.weebly.com/
Many, many, many years ago I worked for a government department, snipped
If
One of the best makes of postcard, coin or stamp albums in the UK is a
company called Duncannon who make a set of stockbooks and albums (fixed and
loose leaf) under the trade name of Lighthouse. I suggest you google it to
find a supplier in the US.Â
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My father migrated his stamp collection
Dear Gentle Spiders
We were recently talking about christening gowns and a copy of Veronica
Sorenson's Modern Lace Design has come up on ebay starting at £1 with a buy it
now at £7 (£1.50 postage)
Item number is: 150578009872
There is a lovely gown pattern and table cloth pattern in this
/11, Clay Blackwell clayblackw...@comcast.net wrote:
From: Clay Blackwell clayblackw...@comcast.net
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Very smart CSI question ..
To: The Lace Bee thelace...@btinternet.com
Cc: lace-chat@arachne.com
Date: Sunday, 30 January, 2011, 22:49
I did not get the correct answer either
So,
I ask the husband and guess what, he got the answer right.
I may be looking into my life insurance in a couple of minutes
L
Kind Regards
Liz Baker
thelace...@btinternet.com
--- On Sat, 29/1/11, jeanette jeane...@maxitec.co.za wrote:
From: jeanette jeane...@maxitec.co.za
Subject:
He has now said why didn't I get the answer right (like I'm going to admit
that).
Hubby has explained his thinking that if the guy was there he must be a friend
of the woman's mother hence her killing her sister so he'd turn up again.
When I said this must make him a psychopath he was quite
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