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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Cajun Corner - Vol. 5, No.48

Cajun Corner – Vol. 5, No. 48 – September 29, 2013

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

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This past Sunday my wonderful embroidery tech visited for a few days. She is always such a delight. We played and played at the embroidery machine. She resolved some issues that I had and taught me some wonderful techniques.

She is semi-vegetarian. I call her that because her husband is vegan. Vegan is her preference but she will eat just about anything served when away from her husband. One of our dear little Nereid Love Ladies, Lisa, is the chef at Wild Roots on Pensacola Beach. Wild Roots is a unique little restaurant. They are open for breakfast and lunch. They serve vegan, meat, gluten free, or whatever your request happens to be. Every time my tech comes to town, George and I try to take her to cool places that have something on the menu that could kind of sort of be classified vegetarian. Usually we fall short of that goal. Wild Roots was perfect. George and I got a meat laden sandwich while she had vegan. We were all satisfied. I highly recommend Wild Roots. Besides, Lisa/Wild Roots were one of the finalists in our recent Taste of the Beach contest. Way to go, Lisa. We are so proud of you. With all of the wonderful chefs on Pensacola Beach, to be one of the finalists is quite an honor.

There were two pillows on One King’s Lane sometime ago with an embroidered peacock on the front. It was unique because the peacock tail flowed off of the pillow. The pictures have pretty much gone viral on the internet. A couple of people have approached me wondering how that embroidery was done and if I could do it. This is one of the techniques my tech and I played around with while she was here. And, we figured it out. It really is not any new technique. It is done in two pieces. First the tail is embroidered and cut out. Then the tail is connected to the fabric where the body will be embroidered. Then the body is embroidered. I tried it and it does work. So, one of my friends suggested that I make mermaid pillows using this technique, with the mermaid tail flowing off the pillow. I am digitizing that design now.

Not long ago I embroidered some beautiful lace Christmas angels. The design had little holes designed into the embroidery that I thought were for the hook to hang on the tree. I was partially correct. However, there were several of these little holes and I couldn’t figure out the need for so many. My wonderful tech showed me that these holes connect, like buttons and buttonholes, turning the angel into a 3D ornament with only one of the holes used for hanging on the tree. It was one of those “Duh” moments.

We have several lace Christmas tree ornament designs that I hope to embroider soon.

Yesterday was partially spent making more You Have A Booger hankies since the last one was sold this past week. I still get tickled at this. That hanky has to be our best seller, especially around Christmas. One of the hankies that I made yesterday had a black dot on the fabric. I don’t know if it was from the fabric or if I got a drop of oil or something on there. Nevertheless, George said it was perfect because it looked like a booger. Oh yuk!

For those of you who wanted the mermaid flour sack towels, we have several listed in our Etsy store; as well as a pair of black and gold fleur de lis pot holders.

Tomorrow is the funeral for our neighbor, Ms. Joyce. Cajun Stitchery will be closed but re-open on Tuesday.

Have a wonderful week

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Thank you Harold for the following:

FOR THOSE WHO LOVE THE PHILOSOPHY OF AMBIGUITY, AS WELL AS THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF ENGLISH:

1. ONE TEQUILA, TWO TEQUILA, THREE TEQUILA...... FLOOR.

2. ATHEISM IS A NON-PROPHET ORGANIZATION.

3. IF MAN EVOLVED FROM MONKEYS AND APES, WHY DO WE STILL HAVE MONKEYS AND APES?

4. THE MAIN REASON THAT SANTA IS SO JOLLY IS BECAUSE HE KNOWS WHERE ALL THE BAD GIRLS LIVE.

5. I WENT TO A BOOKSTORE AND ASKED THE SALESWOMAN, "WHERE'S THE SELF- HELP SECTION?" SHE SAID IF SHE TOLD ME, IT WOULD DEFEAT THE PURPOSE.

6. WHAT IF THERE WERE NO HYPOTHETICAL QUESTIONS?

7. IF A DEAF CHILD SIGNS SWEAR WORDS, DOES HIS MOTHER WASH HIS HANDS WITH SOAP?

8. IF SOMEONE WITH MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES THREATENS TO KILL HIMSELF, IS IT CONSIDERED A HOSTAGE SITUATION?

9. IS THERE ANOTHER WORD FOR SYNONYM?

10. WHERE DO FOREST RANGERS GO TO "GET AWAY FROM IT ALL?"

11. WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU SEE AN ENDANGERED ANIMAL EATING AN ENDANGERED PLANT? (Eat them both!)

12. IF A PARSLEY FARMER IS SUED, CAN THEY GARNISH HIS WAGES?

13. WOULD A FLY WITHOUT WINGS BE CALLED A WALK?

14. WHY DO THEY LOCK GAS STATION TOILETS? ARE THEY AFRAID SOMEONE WILL BREAK-IN AND CLEAN THEM?

15. IF A TURTLE DOESN'T HAVE A SHELL, IS HE HOMELESS OR NAKED?

16. CAN VEGETARIANS EAT ANIMAL CRACKERS?

17. IF THE POLICE ARREST A MUTE, DO THEY TELL HIM HE HAS THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT?

18. WHY DO THEY PUT BRAILLE ON THE DRIVE-THROUGH BANK MACHINES? (This one I never figured out)

19. HOW DO THEY GET DEER TO CROSS THE ROAD ONLY AT THOSE YELLOW ROAD SIGNS?

20. WHAT WAS THE BEST THING BEFORE SLICED BREAD?

21. ONE NICE THING ABOUT EGOTISTS: THEY DON'T TALK ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE.

22. DOES THE LITTLE MERMAID WEAR AN ALGEBRA?
(This one took me a minute)

23. DO INFANTS ENJOY INFANCY AS MUCH AS ADULTS ENJOY ADULTERY?

24. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A CIVIL WAR?

25. IF ONE SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMER DROWNS, DO THE REST DROWN TOO?

26. IF YOU ATE BOTH PASTA AND ANTIPASTO, WOULD YOU STILL BE HUNGRY?

27. IF YOU TRY TO FAIL, AND SUCCEED, WHICH HAVE YOU DONE?

28. WHOSE CRUEL IDEA WAS IT FOR THE WORD 'LISP' TO HAVE 'S' IN IT?

29. WHY ARE HEMORRHOIDS CALLED "HEMORRHOIDS" INSTEAD OF "ASSTEROIDS"?

30. WHY IS IT CALLED TOURIST SEASON IF WE CAN'T SHOOT AT THEM?

31. WHY IS THERE AN EXPIRATION DATE ON SOUR CREAM?

32. IF YOU SPIN AN ORIENTAL MAN IN A CIRCLE THREE TIMES, DOES HE BECOME DISORIENTED?

33. CAN AN ATHEIST GET INSURANCE AGAINST ACTS OF GOD?

34. WHY DO SHOPS HAVE SIGNS, 'GUIDE DOGS ONLY', THE DOGS CAN'T READ AND THEIR OWNERS ARE BLIND?

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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Cajun Corner - Vol. 5,, No. 25

Cajun Corner – Vol. 5, No. 25 – June 29, 2013

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

ΘΘΘΘΘ

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http://www.imprintit.biz/cgi-bin/cobrand/site.w?location=olc/catalog-home.w&top=catalog&frasmes=no&target=main&sponsor=000699

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Last week’s Cherries In The Snow turned out okay, I guess. It was very stressful. A very dear friend of mine, who is a wonderful chef herself, corrected my recipe a bit for me. She emailed and said that I should probably leave out the sour cream. I did.

Saturday began just fine. I went to the store and purchased all of the ingredients. The first step was the angel food cake. This is a mix where you only have to add water. How could anyone mess that up? Well, guess what? I bought some aluminum foil baking container things with plastic lids. That way I could just leave it at my friend’s home and not worry about getting my plate later. So far, so good. The aluminum foil bake ware was pretty deep. I figured that I would put just enough cake batter in each aluminum foil baking dish to come about half way up and then I’d have room for the whipped cream, cream cheese, and cherry pie filling. This all made sense to me.

Got the bowl and mixer out, put the water and cake mix in the bowl, and began mixing these ingredients. 30 seconds on low to mix everything together; then 1 minute on medium. Do not over mix. The oven was on the correct temperature. The box said not to grease the baking dish. Everything was perfect. I poured the cake batter into the dish and the batter only came up about ¼ to ½ inch. Perfect! I put the pan in the over and began mixing another cake. When I finished mixing the second cake and put it in a pan, I opened the oven door and put the pan into the oven. A few minutes later I went back to check on it. OMG! The first cake had risen over the top of the aluminum baking dish with a rounded top and the second cake wasn’t far behind the first.

At this point I panicked. How am I going to get all of that other stuff on top of this cake and in the same pan? I started thinking that maybe I could cut the cake in half and put the topping in the middle. That would be ugly. I made a panicked plea on Facebook. One friend assured me that it would be okay. Another assured me that she doesn’t cook either and I should go to the store and buy a cake.

After the cakes finish cooking, I pull both beautifully rounded cakes out of the oven to cool. They were at least an inch or two above the pan. I sat waiting for them to cool. That took much to long, so I stuck them in the freeze. My patience was wearing thin with those cakes.

Then I began the topping. I put the heavy cream into the bowl and beat it at high speed. Little milk sprinkles covered me and everything in the near vicinity. It did thicken as the mixer continued to whirl. The sugar was added. Things began to look up. The whipped cream was nice and thick and sweet. Then I added the blocks of cream cheese. The word “cream” is a misnomer for that. You would think something that was cream would be smooth. Oh no. The blocks went into the whipped cream and the mixed was chewing those blocks of cream cheese and spitting them out. When I say “spitting” I mean I had cream cheese all over me, all over my kitchen, and all over my dogs. God bless dogs. My companions licked up that cream cheese until I know their tongues had to be tired. Nevertheless, the mixer kept whirling and eventually mixed all of the cream cheese with the whipped cream creating a mixture with a million tiny lumps of cream cheese. That was about all of the time that I intended to spend on that mixture.

I then took the cakes out of the freezer. Thank God, the cakes sank in the middle, like a low volcano. The cream mixture was spread over the two cakes – much thicker in the middle than the sides. Finally, the cans of cherry pie filling were opened and poured onto the top of the 2 cakes.

I must admit that in the end the cakes didn’t look bad. I believe the cakes, at least most of them, were eaten with no ill effects.

Lesson learned. Next time I’m going to the store and buying a cake.

At the dinner party I learned that more ladies received mysterious gnomes during the week. Each gnome seems to be doing something indicative of the recipient. For instance, one of the gnomes has a book and was given to a retired librarian. The mystery continues. There has been lots of speculation but the gnome giver remains anonymous. However, a new gnome language is appearing. A lady gnome is now called a “misgnomer.” The entire affair is hilarious. Everyone seems to wish they had been the one to think of carrying out such a wonderful prank.

Yesterday evening I went to get the mail. As I walked into the front yard, a young man who appeared to be in his 20s, was riding what appeared to be a new, red, shiny bicycle, stopped and said, “Hi, my name is Jerry.” He stuck out his hand and I shook it. He continued that he was looking for someone to hire him to do yard work because he needed $20; he is homeless; and he needs a place to stay. Just something about this guy hit me wrong. It was kind of creepy. Sam, the giant dog, was next door barking his head off and the guy seemed a bit startled by Sam and mentioned the big dog. I politely said no to the guy and off he went.

This morning my Mardi Gras King called me to say that his truck was stolen from his driveway last night. My King lives only a couple of blocks from me. He said that whoever it was went through his sister’s car and then stole his truck. He contacted the Sheriff’s Department but was also getting the word out to everyone he knows in hopes that someone sees his truck.

Later in the afternoon, one of his friends did, indeed, see two guys driving his truck in this area. Stupid thieves didn’t even leave the vicinity. They called the Sheriff’s Department and the truck was found abandoned near a park a few blocks from me. My king was thrilled to have his truck back. As we talked, I mentioned the guy on the bicycle from yesterday. My king said that a guy on a bicycle had been riding in his area yesterday and appeared to be scoping out the place. One of my neighbors saw the bicycle guy, too. In fact, he said that the guy had gone into several cars but never took anything; not even money. The whole neighborhood is on alert. How odd that the thief rummages through vehicles and doesn’t take anything. Hmmmm, I wonder what he is up to?

The flour sack towels with the little mermaids on them are doing well. They are $15 each. There is one for sale in our Etsy store. More can be made. Get ‘em while they are hot.

My poor son had to have his dog put down this week. The whole family is grieving. Pets become such an important part of any family. They are family members and it hurts when they pass. Her name was Paradise and she was only 6 years old. They spent the week back and forth with the vet trying to figure out what is wrong with her and finally it was an internal tumor that burst causing her to bleed from her nose. She is no longer in pain.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

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Thank you Courtney Winstead for the following:

THIS IS A GOOD One for the history
books.

ON JULY 20, 1969, AS COMMANDER OF
THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR MODULE, NEIL

ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT
ON THE MOON.

HIS FIRST WORDS AFTER STEPPING ON
THE MOON, "THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP

FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND,"
WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND

HEARD BY MILLIONS.*

BUT, JUST BEFORE HE RE-ENTERED THE
LANDER, HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC REMARK

"GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY."

MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGHT IT WAS A
CASUAL REMARK CONCERNING SOME

RIVAL SOVIET COSMONAUT. HOWEVER, UPON
CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY

IN EITHER THE RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE
PROGRAMS.

OVER THE YEARS, MANY PEOPLE
QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS TO WHAT THE -

“GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY” STATEMENT
MEANT, BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED.

ON JULY 5, 1995, IN TAMPA BAY,
FLORIDA , WHILE ANSWERING QUESTIONS

FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT
UP THE 26-YEAR-OLD QUESTION ABOUT MR. GORSKY TO ARMSTRONG.

THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED
BECAUSE MR. GORSKY HAD DIED, SO NEIL

ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD NOW ANSWER
THE QUESTION.

HERE IS THE ANSWER TO "WHO WAS MR. GORSKY":

IN 1938, WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A
SMALL MID-WESTERN TOWN , HE WAS

PLAYING BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE
BACKYARD.

HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL, WHICH LANDED IN HIS NEIGHBOUR'S YARD
BY THEIR BEDROOM WINDOW.

HIS NEIGHBOURS WERE MR. AND MRS.
GORSKY. AS HE LEANED DOWN TO PICK

UP THE BALL, YOUNG ARMSTRONG HEARD MRS.
GORSKY SHOUTING AT MR. GORSKY,

"SEX! YOU WANT SEX?! YOU'LL GET SEX WHEN THE KID NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!"

IT BROKE THE PLACE UP.

NEIL ARMSTRONG'S FAMILY CONFIRMED
THIS IS A TRUE STORY.