Cajun Corner – Vol.
5, No. 1 – January 6, 2013
Bon
Jour! Welcome to Cajun
Stitchery’s weekly email and welcome to our family.
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Happy 2013!!!!
George ended up spending the week in Atlanta
It was a difficult week. The New Year holiday made it a bit difficult
getting the funeral plans finalized, but in the end they did what had to be
done. On top of everything else,
George’s birthday was Wednesday, the day they received Mom’s ashes. George and his sister left Atlanta
A lot was done at Cajun Stitchery during the
week. The dogs, cats and I spent the
week alone with an occasional visit from neighbors. We were able to churn out some beautiful
embroidery though and work on some creative designs.
This upcoming week already looks busy with more
heirloom embroidery and a large ball cap order.
Sometime ago a friend told me to sell no more
than 4 or 5 different types of things in your store. Just have a lot of each of those things. Etsy allows 10 categories of items in each
Etsy store. My new embroidery friend in Alaska
Reviewing our Etsy sales from last year it
appears that the one item that sells most is handkerchiefs. Our plan is to build up our handkerchief
supply and turn our Etsy store into just handkerchiefs or handkerchiefs and
another item, perhaps scarves. That is
Step 1. Later on we may open a second
Etsy store for a couple of additional categories. The Etsy rules do allow you to have more than
one store but they make a point that they do not encourage this practice
because it can become confusing. Now
the question is what to do with the other items that I make.
Yesterday was the Queen’s Brunch for our
krewe. We get together over mimosas and
bloody Mary’s, eat a fabulous brunch, socialize and then our past queens retire
to a private room where the envelope containing our votes and kisses are
tallied for our new queen. Only the past
queens know who will be the new queen until the announcement at the King Kake
Party. We usually begin the Mardi Gras
season on the island with our King Kake Party that same afternoon. At that time we serve King Cake and then
announce our new king and queen. This
year John Thomas was crowned King Nerius XXII and Peggy Henshall was crowned
Queen Doris XXII. It was simply a
magical day for me. Those girls are the
very best. I really like the tiara a
lot. I wore it until bedtime last night. Actually I wore it to bed but it wasn’t comfortable
sleeping with the thing on my head. The
tiara returned to my head this morning and I wore it all day.
I began designing my royal logo last night and
posted it on Facebook.
We also found that the Pensacola News Journal
wasted no time in publishing an article on our party before the evening was
over.
Today we had a birthday meal for George at a
friend’s home. I wore the tiara. Food was great. Conversation was wonderful. We had a lovely afternoon.
This Mardi Gras season is very short and very
busy, but I plan on doing it all and attending it all. Here we go…
J
Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler
J
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Thank you Harold
Wilkes for the following contribution:
The General went out to
find that none of his G.I.s were there. One finally ran up, panting heavily.
"Sorry, sir! I can explain, you see I had a date and it ran a little late. I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but it broke down, found a farm, bought a horse but it dropped dead, ran 10 miles, and now I'm here."
The General was very skeptical about this explanation but at least he was here so he let the G.I. go. Moments later, eight more G.I.s came up to the general panting, he asked them why they were late.
"Sorry, sir! I had a date and it ran a little late, I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but it broke down, found a farm, bought a horse but it dropped dead, ran 10 miles, and now I'm here."
The General eyed them, feeling very skeptical but since he let the first guy go, he let them go, too. A ninth G.I. jogged up to the General, panting heavily.
"Sorry, sir! I had a date and it ran a little late, I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but..."
"Let me guess," the General interrupted, "it broke down."
"No," said the G.I., "there were so many dead horses in the road, it took forever to get around them."
"Sorry, sir! I can explain, you see I had a date and it ran a little late. I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but it broke down, found a farm, bought a horse but it dropped dead, ran 10 miles, and now I'm here."
The General was very skeptical about this explanation but at least he was here so he let the G.I. go. Moments later, eight more G.I.s came up to the general panting, he asked them why they were late.
"Sorry, sir! I had a date and it ran a little late, I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but it broke down, found a farm, bought a horse but it dropped dead, ran 10 miles, and now I'm here."
The General eyed them, feeling very skeptical but since he let the first guy go, he let them go, too. A ninth G.I. jogged up to the General, panting heavily.
"Sorry, sir! I had a date and it ran a little late, I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but..."
"Let me guess," the General interrupted, "it broke down."
"No," said the G.I., "there were so many dead horses in the road, it took forever to get around them."
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C’est tout, mes amis
Peggy Henshall
Cajun Stitchery
(850) 261-2462
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all of the catalogs and pass some time with me, cher.
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