Cajun Corner – Vol.
5, No. 58 – December 28, 2013
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This week’s Cajun Corner should be filled more
with pictures than words. It should, but
you know that isn’t going to happen.
I sure hope every one of you and your families
had a wonderful Christmas. The week
before Christmas, my son, Hank, called daily to see if his package arrived
yet. When it finally arrived we put the
box under the tree. Hank called, “You
have to open the box. I have to explain
something.” So, we opened the box
expecting wrapped presents. Oh no, there
were two beautiful housecoats in the box.
What did he have to explain? He
just wanted us to know that the black one is for dad and the white one for
mom. That little dickens just couldn’t
wait. But that’s not all. He received
our package and delivered presents to everyone on the spot – without waiting
for Christmas.
I must admit that Hank takes after his
mother. For a long time I’ve said we
need pre-Christmas presents. Further, I
think that is probably why advent calendars were started with gifts for the 12
days before Christmas.
Although this season, thank God, has been very
busy with work, we did enjoy a pleasant dinner with friends early in the season,
after the Christmas parade. She had a
bit of an accident early in November on her bicycle and we all teased that she
should have training wheels. Guess what
we gave her for Christmas? Yes, training
wheels.
Early in the season was the SOB (Sisters of the
Beach) brunch which, as usual, was a hoot. The Wednesday night Mental Health
Night a/k/a MHN girls had a wonderful Christmas party. The Nereids also had a fabulous Christmas
slumber party.
Since the girls were all too busy to meet on the
Wednesdays after the MHN Christmas party, George and I took one Wednesday night
and went to Tippy’s Tavern for their prime rib dinner. OMG!
It was fabulous.
Cajun Stitchery’s studio was decked out for
Christmas. Hopefully, it will be more
decked out in years to come but I was very pleased this year. Since the front door opens into the “living
room,” we turned the living room into a show place for our wares, complete with
Christmas tree. Each day the Christmas
lights were turned on for customers to enjoy.
As you walk through the front “show” room, through the kitchen and into
our work room, we looked like Santa’s workshop.
Every stage of orders were hanging and stacked everywhere. It was great! Thanks to our local radio
station, Christmas music played constantly throughout the season. I made a red Santa Sack with zebra print fur
at the top. That Santa Sack carried beads
through the Christmas parade. It carried
presents and a change of clothes to the Nereid slumber party. It was displayed in our workshop and finally
was filled with George’s Christmas presents and placed under our tree for the
big day.
During the season we had several repeat customers
as well as new customers. All are my
friends now. There were a lot of names
embroidered on stockings; monograms on shirts; logos on jackets, and all sorts
of wonderful gifts and embroidery.
On top of that, Etsy was booming. I got so
tickled because I have an Etsy widget loaded on my android and every time we
had a sale, I could hear “cha-ching” from my phone. At first it kind of startled me. Later I learned to love the cha-ching
sound. We sold Christmas items, mermaid
stocking, laundry bags, placemats, and all sorts of thing. The best seller, by far, were the
handkerchiefs. Some were for wedding
showers and some for mothers and mother-in-laws. Several of the handkerchiefs were monogrammed
and several were not. Oddly, none of the
booger hankies were sold. I guess that
fad is over. However, lace is certainly
in. This was by far the best Christmas season
our little Etsy store has ever had.
We normally take down the Christmas decorations
on George’s birthday, January 2nd.
This year the decorations were put away the day after Christmas. Insofar as Cajun Stitchery is concerned, we
need to move onto the next season … MARDI GRAS.
I have begun decorating but more needs to be done. I’m taking this week between Christmas and
New Years to build up our Etsy stock and fill more orders that are still coming
in. Yes, we already have krewe jackets
to embroider.
In building up the Etsy stock, the first line of
business is mermaids. There are some
beautiful new mermaid items available already.
I have created a new baby bib design made on the
embroidery machine. This design has scalloped
edges and is much more girly and heirloom looking than the other rectangular
design. The new bibs have not been
listed yet. In fact, I haven’t even
taken pictures of them. That will come
in a later issue. But remember the
problem I had figuring out what to suggest for baby showers. We have that under control now.
This is the week for making resolutions and I’m
working hard on that, too.
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Mr. Johnson was overweight, so his doctor put him on a diet. He said; "I want you to eat regularly for two days, then skip a day, and repeat this procedure for two weeks. The next time I see you, you should have lost at least five pounds." When Mr. Johnson returned, he shocked the doctor by having dropped almost twenty pounds. "Why, that's amazing!" the doctor told him. "You did this just by following my instructions?" The slimmed down Mr. Johnson nodded. "I'll tell you, though, I thought I was going to drop dead that third day." "From hunger, you mean?" "No," replied Mr. Johnson, "from skipping."
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