Cajun Corner – Vol. 6, No. 6 – February 16, 2014

 

 

Cajun Corner – Vol. 6, No. 6 – February 16, 2014

 

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

 

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Oh my goodness, did I forget to write last week?  I guess so much has been going on that I missed a week.

The krewe has been busy working on the float and sewing costumes.  In the meantime, we prepared for our krewe cocktail party which was last night.

The cocktail party was a great success.  Our krewe stopped having a Mardi Gras Ball a few years back and decided, instead, to have a cocktail party for close krewe friends.  The cocktail party has turned out to be much more fun and lends to more conversation.  The cocktail party was a masquerade party and not only did the krewe wear masks but most of the guests as well.  Several people sported Cajun Stitchery’s masks.  I sure hope they found the masks comfortable.  I wore mine all evening without even noticing the mask was on my face.

This year we began a new event:  The Mystic Krewe of Nereids Inspirational Woman of the Year Award.   This year’s recipient was Lois Jernigan.  Lois has been a source of inspiration to everyone in the krewe and everyone who knows her.  She has come through much tragedy in the past couple of years, including surviving a terrible stage 4 cancer.  I will never be able to remember the name of the cancer but she not only survived but did it with the best attitude of anyone we have ever known.  She laughed and joked every step of the way.  There were many times when we would all think or say that this is the end, but Lois would come through with that beautiful smile on her face.  In the middle of her treatment she lost her significant other and love of her life to a heart attack.  She has lost her hair, lost a tremendous amount of weight, lost her lover, and lost her home.  Yet, she kept that smile on her face and love in her heart and lived.  Lois was at our krewe den today thanking all of us for the award.  She looked good today.  She brought sunshine to our lives as she joked with each of us.  Congratulations Lois.  I cannot think of anyone more deserving of this award.  More than that, I thank you for showing us how to face adversity with a winning attitude.

This past week we have worked on logos on tee shirts, heirloom embroidery, masks, and an assortment of project.  A lady contacted me on Etsy and ordered 24 of our scalloped handkerchiefs with monograms for her wedding in early February.  We are in the process of making some really cute sparkly pouches for Studio 98.  More masks are coming up in the next couple of weeks, too.

Oh and Valentine’s Day was last Friday.  That was a pretty terrific day for me.  As it turned out, I was up and down all Thursday night with a sick dog.  I ended up sleeping on the sofa to be near the door to let him in and out.  When I awoke Friday morning, George gave me a beautiful open heart diamond necklace.  Yes, that’s the necklace designed by Jane Seymour (the actress, not the dead queen).  Yesterday he gave me flowers.  Oh he is a good husband.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK

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There are many different ways to make masks, but papier mache is one of the best. It requires nothing but white glue, cardboard, tape, and newspaper to make the basic mask. It is also very easy to rework and modify. Its biggest flaw is that it takes a long time to dry. Be sure to make your mask several days before you intend to use it. That way, you will have time to let it dry. Once it is dry, you can paint it and wear it on your big day!

Read more: http://www.ehow.com/how_4480482_make-masks.html#ixzz2tYBZbJo0

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Cajun Corner - Vol. 5, No. 29

 

 

 

Cajun Corner – Vol. 5, No. 29 – July 27, 2013

 

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

 

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Don’t forget to visit us at www.cajunstitchery.com, www.flickr.com/photos/cajunstitchery, and, www.cajunstitchery.etsy.com often.   We are also on Twitter and Facebook. 

Visit our on-line catalogs at:

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As my Aunt Philo says, “Getting old isn’t for sissies.”  Last weekend I joined a couple of friends and we visited another friend in the hospital.  This isn’t something that I would like to do often; although, it did turn out to be a nice afternoon.  We went out to eat lunch and chit chat, then onto the hospital where our friend was in high spirits.  I suppose as we get older, hospital visits become more frequent.  Remember the Christmas Savings Accounts.  A news savings account for hospital flowers and gifts would be appropriate now.  Thank goodness our hospitalized friend is now home.

One of our friends arranged for Molly Maids to clean our friend’s home.  We are all sharing the cost.  This is such a wonderful idea.  I used to clean the house spotless before we would go on vacation simply because I hated coming home to a messy house.  It was so depressing returning from vacation to a messy house.  I’m sure our friend appreciates this gift of cleanliness upon her return from the hospital.

Another friend who has battled cancer has now been told that she is in partial remission.   There is no total remission for her type of cancer.  This is wonderful news to all who have walked down this road with her.  She has the best attitude of anyone I have ever known.  Even when the days were about as bad as they could get, it seemed as though something worse came along.  Through it all her attitude remained on a high note.  Watching my friend go through this terrible time in her life has assured me that a good attitude has healing properties beyond that of medical science.

The gnome mystery continues.  Now one of my friends shared that you can purchase gnome statues dressed in Saints attire.  Sure enough if you search for “Saints Gnome” you will find them for sale.  However, our gnominator remains a mystery.

Our Wednesday night girls night out has been cancelled the past few Wednesdays because our host was in the hospital.  This past Wednesday I offered to host our evening at the house next door, our new Cajun Stitchery studio.  There were about 11 or 12 of us and we had a fabulous time.  I provided the ham and the girls each brought an appetizer, dessert, or side dish.  The new stove was used for the first time and the new refrigerator that had been pretty much empty, now sports lots of leftovers.  Everyone got a tour and loved the house.  The “before” pictures were shown on my computer for comparison purposes.  Everyone agreed that George did a wonderful job remodeling that house.   Mama’s dishes and utensils were used.  I know that made her happy.  The evening was a total success.  Everyone enjoyed themselves.  The last car load left around midnight.

One of my friends who joined us Wednesday night told me that she was so proud that Kate and William named the new Royal baby after our own King George.  I like that.  When George was King of the Nereids, we would call him King George the dragon slayer.

I ordered a bolt of white organza fabric and it arrived this week.  It isn’t opened yet but I’m envisioning some really pretty items with it.

There is still a good deal of sewing and embroidery to do for our studio.  Curtains, shower curtains, table cloths, chair covers and rugs need to be made.  Towels need to be embroidered.  Mama’s double bed does not have a headboard.  George is going to make the headboard.  Since I’ve been digitizing and embroidering headboards lately, I thought that I should design an embroidered headboard for the double bed.  I digitized a 14” mermaid and stitched it out on one of the curtains.  It looks pretty good but still requires some tweaks.  We also need to get another mattress to raise bed higher off floor.

A friend ordered a photograph of three horses digitized and embroidered.  He calls them the Three Musketeers.  The horses belong to one of his friends.  This design was too difficult for me to digitize, so we sent it onto our digitizer.  The result is beautiful.  To achieve the shading, the design has several layers of varying colors.  The photograph was a bit dark and we simply used lighter colored thread to achieve the lighter coloring of the palominos.  It is funny that last week we embroidered a design for a young lady riding a horse in a barrel race and this week we are embroidering more horses.  The end result of embroidering the 5” wide design on a brief case.  It really turned out nice.  Since one of the stitch outs was on a bar rag which also turned out very nice, that was included in the order.  I enlarged the design to 10”, put an oval appliqué around it and stitched it onto a towel.  The towel may hang in one of our bathrooms at the studio. 

Looking at our Etsy store, we seem to sell handkerchiefs pretty regularly.  I wanted to embroider a handkerchief with a monogram within a frame.  The frame that was chosen is one of our heirloom designs and I used the letter P as the monogram.  Of course, any letter would go inside the frame.  As I stitched out this new handkerchief, I pondered a scalloped edge.  The scalloped edge handkerchief was digitized and stitched and works out rather nicely. 

The huge embroidery design is still coming along.  All of the pieces involved take a lot of time.  In the end it will be a work of art.

Almost any design can be embroidered on a beach towel, bath towel, hand towel, or any kind of towel.  They make wonderful gifts and are great for wherever towels are needed.  Imagine your monogram on a set of towels in your bathroom; all matching each other and embroidered using the color of the room. 

Have a wonderful week

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Thank you Helen Szymanski for the following:

An elderly couple had just learned how to send text messages on their cell phones.

The wife was a romantic type and the husband was more of a no-nonsense guy.

One afternoon the wife went out to meet a friend for coffee.

She decided to send her husband a romantic text message and she wrote:

"If you are sleeping, send me your dreams.
If you are laughing, send me your smile.
If you are eating, send me a bite.
If you are drinking, send me a sip.
If you are crying, send me your tears.
I love you."
The husband texted back to her: "I'm on the toilet.
Please advise."

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