Bon Jour! Welcome to Cajun Stitchery’s weekly email and welcome to our family.
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Don’t forget to visit our blog at www.cajunstitchery.blogspot.com and www.cajunstitchery.etsy.com often.
This week George has been embroidering caps, visors, and more caps for the upcoming Mystic Krewe of Nereids Splash Party on August 21st at Paradise Bar & Grill, beginning at 3 p.m. We have found one type of visor that our machine simply does not want to embroider on and will, therefore, have to replace those visors. When we first started learning about cap embroidery, one of the articles that we read said that different machines had different quirks and to find the caps that your machine handles well and avoid the ones that your machine just doesn’t want to embroider. The only way you know is to try. These visors are anti-Boudreaux.
Aside from caps, caps and more caps, we did an Etsy blitz this week. One day we listed several items, one right after another. Then two days later we listed a couple more items. We got visitors. We got hearts. This morning I found that 3 of our items were used in 3 different treasuries on Etsy. Those are all good things. Two of the treasuries listed red lips smiley hankies in the pin stripe which was very encouraging to me. I’ve been noticing that I’m seeing more pin striped, ticking type designs lately. Maybe that is coming into vogue.
A surprise with the red lips design is that the zipper lips don’t get as many visitors as the smiles. And I think that’s exactly the reason. The zipper lips are not smiling. Just goes to prove that smiles attract people and frowns repel people.
Last night I changed the prices on several of our Etsy items. It’s our Christmas in July sale. Maybe this is the wrong way to go about doing it but I didn’t specify which items are for sale. Once you click on the item, it says it’s on sale but you have to click on the item first. I was thinking about having some sort of contest but I haven’t quite figured that one out yet.
After our last Cajun Corner, I received an order for 2 of the duffle bags. The customer said she was giving them to her children for back to school. Oh my! Is it that time already? Yes, it is. Start thinking about everything you need to purchase for your children for school. Do your children lose things? Mine sure did. Have their names embroidered on the items. You know that Cajun Stitchery can do patches. Get several patches with your child’s name embroidered and glue the patches onto their items.
Mama used to make us book covers for all of our books. They were not only handy because we could stick papers and pens in the slot the book cover created but there was no mistaking whose book that was. If Mama had had an embroidery machine, I’m sure our names would have been on each of those book covers. The problem with this is that each book is a different size, so there is no OSFA (one size fits all) and therefore, each book cover would have to be customized. But a name patch would work just fine.
We are getting geared up for the Arts & Wine Festival this year. The Cajun Stitchery staff has had meetings lately on what we plan to bring to the Festival. Ooooh, I’m excited.
The camellia napkins were a great hit. My friend is bringing them to her friends tomorrow. We did order the fingertip towels but haven’t received them yet.
I contacted a new wholesaler this week. During my telephone conversation with the nice lady at the company, she mentioned that she didn’t understand why customers didn’t use their free website option more. What they do is Cajun Stitchery gets a free website with the company’s catalog. This allows the customer to browse the catalog and see what is in stock and the prices. The customer can actually purchase items right there. It’s connected to PayPal. Our website is www.companycasuals.com/cajunstitchery. It is very new and I’m sure there are glitches to it, but try it out and browse around and see if you like it. Let me know what does not work, what you like, what you do not like, and I’ll try to tweak the site.
Christmas is coming and customers are starting to do their Christmas shopping at Cajun Stitchery. Get this out of the way as soon as you can.
This week was not all fun and games. One of the original krewe members passed away. I had only met her once or twice but liked her immediately. She had battled brain cancer for ten years and it finally won. It is sad that she is gone but good that she no longer has to endure a painful battle.
On another sad note, one of my most precious friends has found that she has breast cancer. The good thing is that it was detected very early and although she requires treatment, she should come through without any problems.
Always remember that we are just a call or email away at cajunstitchery@yahoo.com or 850-261-2462 and place your order.
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From Marshall Larrivere:
One day, Boudreaux was walking down Main Street when he saw his buddy Thibodeaux driving a brand new pickup.
Boudreaux pulled up to him with a wide grin.
"Thibodeaux", where'd you git that truck?'
'Tammie give it to me.' Thibodeaux replied.
'She give it to ya?
I know'd she wuz kinda sweet on ya, but a new truck?'
'Well, Boudreaux, let me tell you what happened.
We wuz drivin' out on County Road 6, in the middle of nowheres.
Tammie pulled off the road, put the truck in 4-wheel drive, and headed into the woods.
She parked the truck, got out, threw off all her clothes and said,
"Thibodeaux", take whatever you want.'
So I took the truck!'
"Thibodeaux", you a smart man! Them clothes woulda never fit you!'
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French phrase of the week: Je crois qu'ils vont se fiancer pour Noël. (I think they're going to get engaged at Christmas.)
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From: http://www.all4naturalhealth.com/herbs-for-cancer.html
Often underestimated because it is common, garlic is the number one anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal, and anti-parasitical herb. If something in the body needs killing, garlic is the herb for the job. Garlic is so powerful that people have killed their cancer from eating garlic alone.
If you have cancer, you need to be eating a minimum of 3-5 cloves of raw garlic per day. Eight cloves per day is a minimum if you are deathly ill.
Garlic is an herb that you cannot take too much of. Dr Richard Schulze, the master herbalist and successful natural healer, strongly advocates the liberal use of garlic to aid and strengthen the body. He has even gone as far as to say that if he is to use only one program or food for healing, it would be garlic. That’s how powerful garlic can be as an herbal remedy for cancer.
Garlic is truly one of the most powerful herbs for cancer fighting, as well as battling other diseases. When you are seriously ill, then the more garlic you are eating, the better. If you have cancer, you are best off eating 8, 12, 16, 20, or even more cloves per day. Having reeking garlic breath is a small price to pay for beating cancer.
It is critical you use high quality organic garlic which is potent and raw. Organically grown garlic usually has stronger health properties.
Quality garlic is hard, and its cloves are white. A good quality bulb of garlic will have around 12, large cloves, with each clove being around an inch long and as thick as an adult’s thumb. Garlic which has many small cloves (as many as 30 to 50) as well as being yellowish in color is usually of inferior quality.
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C’est tout, mes amis
Peggy Henshall
Cajun Stitchery
(850) 261-2462
cajunstitchery@yahoo.com
P.S. You are always welcome to stop by and look at all of the catalogs and pass some time with me, cher.
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