Cajun Corner - Vol. 5, No. 19

 

Cajun Corner – Vol. 5, No. 19 – May 20, 2013

Bon Jour!  Welcome to Cajun Stitchery’s weekly email and welcome to our family.

 

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Bet you thought I’d miss this/last week.  We had company all weekend and I’m just now getting to Cajun Corner. 

We had an excellent weekend.  Our embroidery tech arrived Friday evening.  We ate pizza, caught up on what’s happening with each of us, and played a bit on Clothilde.  Saturday she had a service call in Century but made it back around noon.  We played more on the embroidery machine and did some maintenance before we went to a surprise birthday party.  Sunday we really played on the embroidery machine.  She had another service call in the afternoon.  That evening we went to our favorite eatery, Paradise Bar & Grill, for dinner and enjoyed the Biscuit Miller Band from New Orleans while dining by the water.  We introduced her to one of our island drinks, the Bushwacker.  This morning she departed for home in Geneva, FL.

She introduced me to a new development in embroidery…glitter sheets.  They are used as vinyl lettering sometimes but she taught me to use them in embroidery.  That girl is always watching my back.  Her first response was, “The Nereids are going to love this.”  Her second was “All of the Mardi Gras krewes are going to want this.”  She left some scraps for practice and experimenting.  This stuff can be laundered but I want to work with it a bit and test how well it launders before I blind you with bling.

She is always answering questions for me but mostly we brainstorm together.  It is so much fun figuring out how we can make certain embroidery ideas work. 

It isn’t always her teaching me.  Sometimes I, too, have grand ideas that we share.  She liked my in-the-hoop design for the 10” purse.   Bless her heart.  She travels all the time and is so passionate about embroidery but rarely gets time to sit at her own embroidery machine and do things she wants.  I encourage her to make things on Clothilde.  So, she made her own purse.

Another novelty that Cajun Stitchery does is to embroider with serger thread.  Apparently, this is rare in the embroidery world.  Most of the time I stitch at1200 spm with the serger thread.  She found this so remarkable that she videoed the machine stitching out one of our heirloom designs at 1200 spm to show other embroiderers that it is possible. 

In addition, she loves to garden, too.  We are always sharing gardening information and ideas. 

And did I mention that she loves Pinterest, too.

Sadly, this morning Evie awoke and kept falling.  She couldn’t get her rear legs walking.  Dr. Armani told us last week that she does not have hip dysplasia but rather she suffers from arthritis.  He suggested that we start giving her fish oil.  She has been walking around all day.  Her legs are moving but occasionally one trips the other up and she falls.  We have an appointment with Dr. Armani in the morning.   In the meantime, we got the fish oil and started her on it today.  To be honest, we all started taking the fish oil today because it says that it promotes heart, circulatory and joint health.  We can all use that.

Sam was so good to Evie and refrained from trying to get her to play.  Evie did want to play but when she would get out in the yard and try chasing Sam, she would fall.  Please say a prayer for my sweet girl, who has been my shadow for many years.

Have a wonderful week.

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I read an article that even if you include credit to the webpage, you still are not supposed to copy and share other people's internet stuff and post on the internet.  Therefore, the sewing and craft project that I usually share -- those that are not my own -- will only be shared in our weekly e-newsletter.

Peggy Henshall

Cajun Stitchery

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cajunstitchery@yahoo.com

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Cajun Corner - Vol. 5, No. 13

Cajun Corner – Vol. 5, No. 13 – April 7, 2013

 

Bon Jour!  Welcome to Cajun Stitchery’s weekly email and welcome to our family.

 

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This weekend George and I moved some of Mama’s furniture from the garage into the house next door.  Oh man, the memories are flooding into my head each time I touch a chair, drawer, or any of her stuff.  Having sat in our garage since 2008, all of that furniture needed to be cleaned.  George would bring the furniture in and I would clean it with my Murphy’s Oil Soap.   Oh, that stuff smells good.  Before moving the furniture in, the house was so spacious and I was concerned whether we had enough furniture for the entire house.  It is funny how once the furniture starts moving in the place looks so much smaller.  We don’t even have all of the furniture in there yet.  For months, if not years, we have planned out where everything would go.  We knew that her California king size bed would not fit in any room in that little house.  Now that we are moving things in, we are finding that the furniture we had ear marked for certain rooms weren’t quite the size we had envisioned.  My precious dining room table may not fit where we planned.  We are, however, flexible and have already decided where to put the table if it doesn’t fit.

That dining room table has plenty of stories behind it.  Back in the early to mid-1970’s my Grandmother Theaux and I corresponded frequently.  In one of her letters she told me that she wrote my name under the dining room table and that when she passes that table belongs to me.  I really never gave it a second thought because, at the time, I did not have room for it.  A few years later she passed away.  I wondered what happened with the table because I never got it.  I figured everything had been sold to make money to care for my Aunt Philo and Uncle Dickey.  Years later when I did visit Mama in New Iberia, lo and behold, there was the table.  There was no sense is saying anything, so I didn’t.   One night, after Mama moved in with us, she told me that when they went to remove the furniture from her mother’s house there was a name written underneath the table.  I told her that I knew about that.  She said that she wanted the table, so she erased my name.  Well, I’ve got the table now. 

What’s so special about this table?  I was always told that the table is over 200 years old.  As the story goes, my Great Great Grandmother DuChamp had this table shipped from France to her home in St. Martinsville.  No doubt the table is old and definitely over 100 years old, but I’m not sure how they came up with 200 years old, unless the table was passed down in the family in France and then shipped to Louisiana.  My mother did have a wonderful imagination and could exaggerate things at times.  Nevertheless, I have fond memories of that table at my grandmother’s home. 

While working in the house today I perked our first pot of coffee in the new Cajun Stitchery.  Woo hoo!  Just kind of breaking it in. 

Our friend who was going to help us move Clothilde on Saturday forgot that he offered to assist at a funeral at sea on that day and promised to help move her on Monday.  That means no embroidery work on Monday.  That’s okay.

As I have cleaned furniture in the house this weekend, I keep remembering that I took pictures when we bought the house.  Actually, at the time that I took the pictures, George had already emptied the inside of the house of the clutter.  The pictures were taken so that we would have a before and after comparison.  I’m so glad I did that.  This weekend I took pictures of the inside of the house, after remodeling.  Today, George and I sat down and watched the two slideshows of pictures.  All I can say is that my husband is one heck of a guy.  Except for the heating and air conditioning, plumbing and refinishing the floors, he did all of the clean-up and remodeling by himself.  He began in 2005 and although he finished in 2012, there were 2 years that he wasn’t able to work on the house at all.

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April cold with dropping rain
Willows and lilacs brings again,
The whistle of returning birds
And trumpet-lowing of the herds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peggy Henshall

Cajun Stitchery

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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.

Cajun Corner - Vol. 5, No. 11

 

Cajun Corner – Vol. 5, No. 11 – March 25, 2013

 

Bon Jour!  Welcome to Cajun Stitchery’s weekly email and welcome to our family.

 

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Late again.  My only excuse is that it was a busy weekend.

A dear friend from Huntsville visited the beach for her birthday and the girls threw her a birthday party Friday night.  We had so much fun and literally laughed until we cried.  I got home around midnight. 

Saturday I visited a friend in Navarre at her hair salon.  That was a long drive in the rain but well worth it.  She and her staff at Studio 98 Hair Design are so much fun.  I always have a ball when I go out there.

I did get some work done on Saturday but not a whole lot.  Saturday night another friend of mine and I began messaging on Facebook.  She is such a close friend that we consider her part of the family but we never get to see each other until we meet a funerals.  We have a funeral to attend on Tuesday, thus began our conversation.  It seemed like we messaged for hours and it was delightful.

Sunday I worked on orders that needed to get out Monday.

A friend on Facebook messaged me that she is getting married on March 30^th and needed some embroidery done.  We met and the embroidery was done and delivered.  She contacted me this past Thursday saying she needs another handkerchief but asked if I’d mail it to her because she can’t get over here.  We mailed it to her this morning.  In fact, it was an easy order because she paid via PayPal.  That girl has done her wedding completely DIY.  The shirt sleeve with the groomsmen’s names embroidered on the cuff for her to make wine bags is such an adorable idea. 

The big project of the weekend was bowling shirts.  Why didn’t George do these on Boudreaux?  There is an explanation.  The design was about 11” by 11” and Boudreaux does not have hoops that big.  Plus there was gold metallic thread involved and, at least at this time, George doesn’t use metallic thread.

George informed me today that he is going to move Clothilde to the house next door in the next couple of days.  When he does move her, I have to give him one whole day of not embroidering with her.  I’m so excited to have her next door and really start getting the business set up there.  This plan is starting to take shape.

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The following Spring Facts were found at http://www.parkrideflyusa.com/blog/2012/03/21/16-fun-facts-about-spring:

1. We’ve all heard the term ‘vernal equinox’. Vernal means ‘spring’ and equinox means ‘equal night’. Both words are from Latin.
2. Despite the term, the day when there are 12 equal hours of daylight and darkness usually happens before the first day of spring.
3. The first day of spring in the southern hemisphere is the date of the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, usually in September.
4. Benjamin Franklin was the first American to propose Daylight Saving Time in 1784. However, it wasn’t fully implemented in the US until after the Second World War.
5. The practice of starting Daylight Saving Time on the second Sunday in March in the US started in 2005.
6. Daylight Saving Time starts and ends at different times around the world.
7. In Europe, Daylight Saving Time is known as Summer Time.
8. The reason that there’s more daylight during spring is that the earth’s axis tilts towards the sun at this time of year.
9. Some of the plants that have strong associations with spring include dandelions, daffodils, lilies, primroses, hyacinths, tulips, azaleas, iris and lilacs.
10. Dandelions originated in Asia.
11. Several singers have sung about spring including Van Morrison (Celtic Spring), Billie Holiday (Some Other Spring) and Frank Sinatra (Suddenly it’s Spring).
12. Animals and insects associated with spring include the rabbit, frog, deer, fox, bear, bee, butterfly, ladybug and hummingbird.
13. Spring fever is not just a myth – the body may experience physiological changes due to changes in diet, hormone production and temperature.
14. Melting snow and additional rain may cause more flooding in spring.
15. Children grow faster in spring.
16. Spring is when birds return home after migrating in winter. About 1800 bird species migrate.

 

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.

Cajun Corner - Vol. 4, No. 47

 

Cajun Corner – Vol. 4, No. 47 – December 10, 2012

 

Bon Jour!  Welcome to Cajun Stitchery’s weekly email and welcome to our family.

 

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Once again, Cajun Corner is late.  Sorry. 

We have been very busy here at Santa’s Little Workshop.  George and I worked all weekend completing orders.  Heck, we even missed the beach parade.  It certainly was not a depressing weekend.  We had the Christmas music going and it really felt like Santa’s Little Workshop with Clothilde and Boudreaux stitching away.

George now has an embroidery program on his computer and is learning how to download designs.

Last week George decorated the house with a few Christmas things such as a small tree on a table.  We decided that we would go with a small tree this year because Boudreaux now resides in the living room.  Also, because we weren’t sure how Sam would handle a tree.  As it was, George put up our 5 foot Santa with the movement sensor.  Each time something moves in front of the Santa he animates and sings a song, moving back and forth, his head turning and arms swinging.  Sam was startled by Santa and wouldn’t stop barking at him.  We laughed so hard at him.  We turned Santa off.  A few days later, I noticed Sam approaching Santa and nudging his hands, as if to see if they would move.   That dog has kept a smile on our faces all year.

I did get a few minutes this weekend to tend the garden.  One of the tomato plants that we don’t recall planting is producing the largest tomatoes that we have had so far.  Sure wish they would turn red so we could eat them, but they are still green and growing.  We have a lot of cherry tomatoes.  The big beefsteak tomato plants have a few tomatoes on them.  They are still green and bigger than cherry tomatoes but not much. 

We are still harvesting bell peppers.

I know this week’s issue is short but we have to get to work.  Santa’s Workshop is never finished.

Have a Wonderful Week.

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Tip of the Day:

Found at http://roundisfunny.com/?cat=14

Next time you’re in an elevator alone, hit the button for your floor and the “Close Door” button at the same time. This varies by manufacturer, but the elevator may go straight to your floor (as opposed to stopping to pick others up on the way.)

 

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.

Cajun Corner - Vol. 4, No. 33

 

 

Cajun Corner – Vol. 4, No. 33 – September 2, 2012

 

Bon Jour!  Welcome to Cajun Stitchery’s weekly email and welcome to our family.

 

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George has been working with Boudreaux lately.  Now that we have Clothilde, I rarely work with Boudreaux, unless I need to use some of Boudreaux’s hoops.  Boudreaux has a greater variety of hoops than Clothilde.  As time goes by, and money comes in, we’ll get more hoops for Clothilde but for now Clothilde has the biggest hoops and Boudreaux has the largest variety of hoops.  Nevertheless, George had stopped embroidering when he went next door to remodel the house.  He’s back in the saddle, again.  He is definitely my hat guy but can do it all on the embroidery machine. 

It turns out that Clothilde embroiders on structured hats better than Boudreaux.  When we first began embroidery on hats and caps, we simply couldn’t get Boudreaux to stitch on structured hats.  We read periodicals saying that different machines embroider better on various types of head wear.  That must be true because Clothilde does fine with structured hats.  The problem is that Clothilde has to stop all of her beautiful “couture” embroidery to do the hats.  Some day we will replace Boudreaux with an Amaya but that is way down the road.

A local pastor contacted us requesting embroidery on his robe.  The digitizing was done and he brought the robe over for embroidery right before Hurricane Isaac.  As he was leaving, he asked if we were prepared for the storm.  I told him that I prayed the then tropical storm would go someplace else and not hit Pensacola.  We were prepared but I believe in prayer and TS Isaac just had to go elsewhere.  As it turned out, Hurricane Isaac did go elsewhere and we only got some tropical storm winds and rain.  When the pastor returned to pick up his embroidered robe I asked the topic of his sermon this week.  He said, “Forgiveness.”  I told him I was surprised it wasn’t on the power of prayer.

Speaking of Isaac, I was very happy that my friends and family in New Orleans and SW Louisiana were not hurt by the storm.  The ones I’ve been in touch with told me that they never lost electricity but did gain a houseful of guests who had lost electricity and utilities.

As I said, we just got wind gusts and some rain.  The wind did clean out the trees.  Sammy, the 70 pound, 8 month old puppy, must have thought it was Christmas.  He is a retriever, after all.  As the branches would fall from the trees, he was running around retrieving all of the limbs.  George said it would have been nice if he had then stacked them all together, but such was not the case.  Sam has played with tree branches all week, just running around with branches in his mouth.  He is a bit perplexed about a large palm frond that fell.  He tried carrying it around but it was just too big. 

This November I turn 62 years old.  I have debated all year whether or not to apply for early Social Security.  Cajun Stitchery is three and a half years old and doing well for three and a half years.   After vexing over this, I decided to go ahead and apply.  I did the entire thing online.  Now I have to make an appointment with our local Social Security people and bring them my certified birth certificate, and then it is done.  Wow!  It is just amazing to think that I have reached this age.  Does this mean that I am now old and wise? 

Next Sunday the Mystic Krewe of Nereids will be hosting our annual Splash Party at Paradise Bar & Grill on Pensacola Beach.  The event begins at 1:00 p.m.  We will have a dunking booth, lots of water guns, 50/50 raffle, and raffles for water guns and coolers and a whole lot of music and fun.  Please join us and bring a friend.  I think our charity this year is breast cancer.

Cajun Stitchery has embroidered krewe tee shits for the Splash Party.  Just look for the girls in the California Blue tee shirts.  That will be us.

Have a wonderful week.

HAPPY LABOR DAY

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If you think last week’s Louisiana Crazy Laws were, well, crazy, then take a look at some crazy laws in Florida.  True?  I don’t know.  But I found this at http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states/florida

 

Florida Crazy Laws

 

• It is illegal for a doctor to ask a patient whether they own a gun.
• The state constitution allows for freedom of speech, a trial by jury, and pregnant pigs to not be confined in cages.
• One may not commit any “unnatural acts” with another person.
• Unmarried couples may not commit “lewd acts” and live together in the same residence.
• Corrupting the public morals is defined as a nuisance, and is declared a misdemeanor offense.
• Doors of all public buildings must open outward.
• It is illegal to sell your children.
• Women may be fined for falling asleep under a hair dryer, as can the salon owner.
• A special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing.
• If an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle.
• It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.
• Men may not be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown.
• Having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal.
• It is illegal to skateboard without a license.
• When having sex, only the missionary position is legal.
• You may not fart in a public place after 6 P.
• It is considered an offense to shower naked.
• You are not allowed to break more than three dishes per day, or chip the edges of more than four cups and/or saucers.
• Oral sex is illegal.
• You may not kiss your wife’s breasts

 

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.