Cajun Corner – Vol.
5, No. 18 – May 12, 2013
Bon
Jour! Welcome to Cajun
Stitchery’s weekly email and welcome to our family.
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It has been nice this week walking next door to
work. Working in a large room with good
lighting and lots of space to spread out is a dream come true. The creative juices are flowing. There is a separate room for cutting, sewing,
and storage. George put peg boards up
for my thread. The problem is that it is
hard leaving and coming home.
Last week we took the dogs for their annual
check-up, shots, license, etc. They are
both healthy. Sam is keeping Evie
moving. She is in real good shape for a
13 year old Labrador retriever. The vet,
Dr. Armani, was surprised at Evie’s good heath.
He was more surprised at the size of Sam. The last time Sam was at the vet’s he was 40
pounds. He weighed in at a whopping 80
pounds last week. And, he is NOT
overweight.
Date night turned out to be Friday night. We got some Chinese take-out and a new movie
and enjoyed the evening at the Cajun Stitchery house. The movie was the life story of Coco Chanel
and starred Shirley McClain. I’ve always
loved the rags to riches story of Coco Chanel.
She was a very tenacious woman. I
also like the clean lines of her designs, her little black dress, and what she
did with jersey.
While browsing through some designs, I saw some
that I’ve never stitched and just wanted to stitch the designs. They were horses and created in black
work. Several people commented on
Facebook about how pretty the designs were.
I think I’m going to make placemats out of them. In the meantime, I made some coasters out of
one of the designs. While working on the
coasters, I made some butterfly coasters.
Not being able to upload my photos onto Etsy was
very frustrating until I had the bright idea of trying to do it on Google
Chrome. The uploading worked perfectly
using Google Chrome. So, I decided to
list the 2 new handkerchiefs. I got as
far as the pictures and realized that I’ve already sold those hankies. I had nothing to list. Now I plan on listing the horse and butterfly
coasters. I need to make more things to
list in the Etsy store because we have had several sales lately. It never ceases to surprise me what people
will buy. The “You Have A Booger”
hankies still seems to be a hot item.
George has been working on the lawn and garden
and we are planning several fun things for the yard.
Ever have a craving for a special food? George did.
He was craving boiled shrimp.
Yesterday he went to Joe Patti’s and bought 10 pounds of Gulf
shrimp. Wow! That’s how much I buy when we have guests
over. The shrimp were boiled and we ate
our fill, and peeled the rest. We froze
some and have some left over in the frig for snacking.
Have a wonderful week.
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You’ll need:
1 yard nylon tulle and strong thread
These
Bath
Using
your tulle lay it out flat and turn over a hem of 5 inches, keep folding it
over in 5 inch sections till it is completely folded into a long 5 inch wide
pile of tulle.
Pin
it to secure and using a strong thread sew the middle of the length together
tightly.
Cut
the edges of the length to remove and folds and using a running/gathering
stitch sew from one end to the other.
Draw up the tulle into a puff that fits into your hand and secure with stitches. Pull the puff around to open up the layers and to create a nice circular puff. Trim it into a ball with some sharp scissors.
Peggy Henshall
Cajun Stitchery
(850) 261-2462
P.S. You are always welcome to stop by and look at
all of the catalogs and pass some time with me, cher.
