Cajun Corner – Vol.
6, No. 21 – September 7, 2014
Bon
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This has been a very rough week. Most of the Labor Day weekend was spent
working on a rush order for a left chest logo that was needed on Monday. Tuesday was going to be our Labor Day
holiday. When Tuesday arrived I received
a disturbing call from one of my Nereid sisters telling me that one of our
youngest members was in the hospital.
She suffered from a cardiac arrest Monday morning and had been in an
induced coma ever since because of the time she went without oxygen to her
brain caused swelling in her brain. I
sat at the hospital on Tuesday with the family and one of my fine finned sisters. Although she was still in a coma, the medical
staff was bringing her out of the coma.
I was able to visit with her, although she was still comatose. The medical staff brought her out of the coma
on Wednesday morning and the neurologist was able to perform an EEG which
revealed a complete lack of brain activity.
Since one of her brothers suffered from kidney failure and was on
dialysis, the family decided that her kidneys should be donated to him. The protocol for that procedure took a day or
two and turned out that they were not a match.
The family then decided that her kidneys, and other salvageable organs
would be donated and she would be able to help at least 3 additional
people. She was taken off of life
support this past Friday at noon.
Needless to say work was not a top priority this
week.
A few orders did come in from our Etsy store
which, of course, were filled and shipped.
This weekend I have gone through all of the items
in our Etsy store and placed 94 items in a Sale category. A lot of the sale items are marked down at
least 50%. If you are looking for
Christmas gifts and stocking stuffers, please browse around the store.
This year we have had a few issues with the post
office not delivering our items. The
only way I know to track through the mail is via priority mail. The policies in our Etsy store have
changed. The default is 3 day priority mail,
and first class mail upon request.
Shipping to Canada
remains the same, first class mail, because priority mail is outrageously
expensive to Canada .
Another addition to our Etsy store are a few fall
and Halloween items. Only a couple of
Christmas items have been listed at this time but I do plan to list more.
All in all, I just want to get rid of the old
stuff in order to make room for newly created new stuff. As always, I am open to ideas and
critiques. So, bring it on. What do you like about the shop and your
shopping experience? What don’t you
like? Got any ideas on improvements?
George found two old dining chairs that were left
over from the previous homeowner or somehow got in our garage. He took the seats off and painted the chairs
white, at my request. I plan to recover
the seats with, of course, embroidery. I
just have to decide on the design. You
can never have too much seating.
Last year I was looking for large bolts of fabric
to make curtains for the studio. I found
an online site out of New York
that seemed to have what I needed. All I
wanted was plain, white muslin. I
purchased 100 yards of plain, white muslin and received a fabric that did not appear
to be muslin. It turned out that it was
100% polyester muslin. That was pretty
difficult for me to understand. In my
mind, muslin is a 100% cotton fabric. I
went back to the site and found they offer 100% cotton muslin and 100%
polyester muslin. After a little
research I found that you can purchase about any kind of fabric you want in
polyester or a poly-blend. The polyester
fabric is, of course, cheap. The truth
is that I’ve just about used up my 100 yards of white polyester muslin on a
myriad of items. It is strong but doesn’t
have the nice cotton feel to it.
However, it goes against my “all natural” side. I later purchased 75 yards of 100% cotton,
red muslin from the same company and I am satisfied with that purchase. I really like the company because although
they are the middle man, they state that they purchase only from mills in the USA . Their fabric is all made here.
The same issue appeared recently when I purchased
chiffon scarves from a different wholesaler.
The caption stated that they were 100% chiffon. When they arrived, I found them to have the
same feel as chiffon. The tag says “100%
poly – Made in China .” I suppose they are 100% poly-chiffon.
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