Cajun Corner - Vol. 4, No. 49

 

Cajun Corner – Vol. 4, No. 49 – December 23, 2012

 

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

 

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The other night the dogs began barking.  They were barking the distinctive bark that means, “Someone is here.”  George was outside, so I let him deal with whatever it was.  I went outside at the tail end.  Two little girls from down the street had stopped by to give us a bag of lemons from their tree, and wish us a Merry Christmas.  Their daddy was letting them do this alone but was just a few yards behind them in the driveway.  I must say that it would take a lot to out do the sweetness from that little bag of lemons in the brown paper bag that says “Merry Christmas” written with crayons from a child’s hand.

Another neighbor dropped by this week delivering Christmas goodies and a card.  We are so blessed to have such good neighbors.

Last Wednesday night was our Wednesday night girls Christmas party.  I would love to share some of the pictures from that night but don’t really want to humiliate my friends.  Needless to day, we had a wonderful time.

Cajun Stitchery made it.  We got all of our Christmas orders done and delivered.  Cajun Stitchery is closed until after Christmas.

I’m still playing with the snap and grommet presses.  My red hoodie that I’ve had longer than I really should, has a broken zipper.  George gave me the idea to replace the zipper with snaps.  I simply cut the zipper off, rather than ripping seams and re-sewing.  The snaps were then placed appropriately.  The very top snap is on backwards, but the rest are perfect and functional. 

I made another little in-the-hoop purse that I plan to list on Etsy.  The black webbing strap is embroidered with a tiny floral motif.  The only thing that I don’t like is the grommets are both next to the side seams toward the front of the purse.  The seam was too thick for the grommets to connect.  Otherwise, the purse is adorable.  It is also fully lined. 

We have received some sad news this week.  George’s mama has pneumonia.  We are praying for her health.

***MERRY CHRISTMAS***

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Found the following at http://www.christmasfacts.net/funny-christmas-facts

Funny Christmas Facts

Christmas is a great period mostly because of the revelry, the feasts, good company and best of all the time off from work. There are many things that most people will know about Christmas; these are the more conventional Christmas associations including Santa, the Nativity story, the star of Bethlehem et al. However, there are other things that only those who go in search of the bizarre may know off hand. With this in mind, here is a list of funny, yet interesting Christmas facts.

• Pig head, it's what's for dinner. The traditional Christmas dinner in England used to be a pig head prepared with a mustard sauce. Most English folk are possibly quite delighted that this isn't the case anymore.

 

• Witches and Evil spirits are the greatest broom thieves. The Norwegians once believed that witches and devious spirits were likely to steal their brooms on Christmas Eve. Who knows maybe a mischievous prankster stole a few brooms during that period and the legend stuck.

 

• “Bah Christmas”. Perhaps not the best line created by Dickens, mainly because “Bah Humbug” just has that extra something special about it. Most people would probably agree that Dickens' decision to work on the famous catchphrase was a good move indeed.

 

• There is a special act in Britain that actually makes it mandatory to go to church on Christmas day. The act that is deemed the Holy Days and Fasting Act still exists, however, not so much enforced. Additionally no vehicle of any kind is to be used to get to the Christmas service.

 

• Forego throwing out your Christmas tree and make it lunch. The Evergreen is actually edible, well most parts of it anyway. In addition, it is nutrient enriched, so if you take the advice stated previously you'd be getting a good source of Vitamin C and roughage. Don't mind that you will be eating a tree; it's just one step away from any other vegetable.

 

• Bake your bread on Christmas Eve and it will remain fresh forever. If only. There is an old wives' tale that actually suggests that bread baked on Christmas Eve is mould resistant. While it cannot be known now how many people believed this, it's pretty obvious that any believers would be converted after the appearance of mould on their bread beyond 5 days or so.

 

• Kris Kringle really lives in the North Pole. But guess what he foregoes the reindeer and drives a 1984 Ford Tempo, additionally; he delivers Pizza instead of working in a magical toy shop.

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C’est tout, mes amis

Peggy Henshall

Cajun Stitchery

(850) 261-2462

cajunstitchery@yahoo.com

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Cajun Corner - Vol. 3, No.13

Cajun Corner – Vol. 3, No. 13 – April 3, 2011


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

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I was expecting my friend from Orlando in last Sunday. She is an embroiderer, also. In fact, she is a machine technician for one of the big embroidery machine companies. Her job keeps her traveling and last week she had a job in Pensacola. She was going to get into Pensacola Saturday, work Sunday and we were going to catch up with each other Sunday night. As it turned out, her flight from Atlanta to Pensacola was delayed. Instead of arriving at 10 p.m., her flight arrived at 12:30. The car rental businesses were going to be closed and she was sort of stranded. We agreed that I would pick her up at the airport and she could stay with me. Her flight arrived at 12:30. George and I were driving around and around at the airport waiting on her to come out of baggage claims. Finally, we parked and I called her. She was here and waiting on her luggage. I told her we were outside and would wait on her. We waited and waited. After awhile, she called. She was in a line of passengers waiting to find out what happened to their luggage. The luggage was finally located. It never made it onto the plane and was still in Atlanta. Delta said they would deliver her luggage to my house on Sunday. Poor little thing had no clean clothes and no tools. We left the airport around 2:30 a.m. She had to be at her job by 9 a.m. She is tall and slender and I’m short and squatty but she wore a pair of pajamas and I had a new polo shirt in stock that fit her. I drove her to her job and we got there by 9 a.m. Her luggage arrived mid-morning at the house.

She left Tuesday morning and we had a ball while she was here. We worked on patches, and digitizing. She taught me to embroider on card stock. Really, it can be done. I asked her who in the world would order custom made embroidered card stock. She said that it is very unique and some people like this sort of thing for their wedding invitations and other cards. Interesting.

I attended the Studio 98 open house Friday night. Wow! That was a wonderful party. It was well attended. The band was fabulous. The food was delicious. The punch really had a punch. It was fun watching the young girls dancing and playing around. Reminded me of my youth. Of course, I wore my Studio 98 visor, too.

Back on March 8th, I was contacted by a friend who wants quotes on embroidering her new krewe logo on caps and visors, and t-shirts and polos. That tells me that the logo must be no wider than 3.5 inches (t-shirts and polos) and no taller than 1.5 (visors) and 2 (caps) inches. The design is beautiful. Thank goodness she said there is no rush. I have diligently been working on this logo since March 8th. I cannot quote a price until I know how many stitches are in the design. The only way to know the stitch count is to digitize the logo.

There are a few issues with this logo. One is that the letters in the krewe name are gold with purple spots and outlined in green. The gold lettering and the green outline are not a problem. Putting the purple onto the lettering is a big problem. This is one area that my friend from Orlando was trying to help. I have now learned masking. But this lettering will take a very long time to stitch out. The other thing that is a problem is that she has 2 tiny parrots in the logo. To get these parrots to resemble parrots at such a tiny size is not easy. Then under the name of the krewe name is “formed 2011” even smaller than the krewe name. Any lettering under .5” is small. Even at that I can usually find a font or make the lettering nice down to about .3”, but less than that and you need to get a specialist in tiny fonts. At this size the satin stitch cannot be used. The “formed 2011” is .13”. Even straight stitching didn’t look good. Luckily, my friend explained that in those cases, you enlarge it to something that can be done and tell the customer that lettering that small cannot be done. There is no font to plug in. I had to create the lettering, stitch by stitch.

I actually digitized this logo at 5” and plan to reduce to the 3.5”. First, I need to stitch it out again and again until it stitches out properly at 5”. Right now it has 16,000 stitches.

I purchased a couple of patterns with baby booties for the baby shower people. The first pair that I made took awhile to make. It usually works that way because you are learning the directions. These booties are adorable. I made a pair to match one of the cute little hats that I made. The pattern shows these booties in an assortment of ways, different fabrics and trims. What really caught my eye were the embroidered booties with the date of birth embroidered on the sole and the ornate monogram – single initial – on the top of the booty. Now I can’t wait for an order.

Our first iris of the season bloomed this week. The camellias are about over. The roses and snapdragons are in full bloom and look like they are velvet. Even the abutilon and hyssop are blooming. Sassy the Satsuma has many flowers and the lemon next to Sassy is covered in blooms. I love spring.

My friend, Chrissy, won last week’s contest. Another friend, JoAnne, won a contest during the week on the blog. Ladies, your items are ready for you.

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This may not be a Cajun joke but it sure is cute, nevertheless. Thanks to Courtney Winstead for the following:

Sister Mary Ann, who worked for a home health

agency, was out making her rounds visiting homebound patients when she ran out of gas.

As luck would have it, a Texaco Gasoline station was just a block away.

She walked to the station to borrow a gas can and buy some gas.

The attendant told her that the only gas can he owned had been loaned out, but she could wait until it was returned.

Since Sister Mary Ann was on the way to see a patient, she decided not to wait and walked back to

her car.

She looked for something in her car that she could fill with gas and spotted the bedpan she was taking to the patient.

Always resourceful, Sister Mary Ann carried the bedpan to the station, filled it with gasoline, and carried the full bedpan back to her car.

As she was pouring the gas into her tank, two Baptists watched from across the street.

One of them turned to the other and said,

"If it starts, I'm Converting!"

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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.