It's Already Fall

It's Already Fall

I'm so bad about keeping up with this blog.

It's been 8 months since I last posted anything.

That doesn't mean I haven't been busy.  Just to prove it, I'm adding several items that Cajun Stitchery has worked on this year.  

These pictures are definitely not all inclusive.  The machine has been busy this year.

Since last year I've been trying to digitize a Pensacola Beach design for each holiday.  I think that's been pretty much accomplished.

I did the Pensacola Beach Ball and the Pensacola Beach sign for Mardi Gras.  Turned out that lots of people loved the Pensacola Beach Ball but only a few cared for the Pensacola Beach sign.  So, I stuck with the Pensacola Beach Ball.

 This little Nutcracker tee shirt was special.  A customer contacted me on Facebook to do this.  She purchased the tee shirt online and had it delivered to me.  I did the embroidery and shipped it to her.  She paid with PayPal.  That was one of the coolest orders I've ever had.  The project just worked perfectly.

I digitized this crawfish awhile back and listed it in the Etsy Store as a digitized design for other embroiderers.  A potential customer contacted me recently wanting a patch with this design and "Crawdad" printed on the claw.  The potential customer never purchased it but I liked the design so much that I have it listed for sale on Etsy.

I made another USA flag quilt this year out of scrap fabric for my husband.  It really turned out nice, used up a bunch of my scrap fabric, and he loves it.  Yes, that's the Pledge of Allegiance stitched on the edges.

And then I started working on aprons.  Just because I wanted to do so.  Then I purchased waaay too much satin fabric in a myriad of colors.  But it makes me happy.

There is a special spot in my heart for the bridges-to-be who contact me.  From robes to handkerchiefs to anything needed to be embroidered for weddings.  I just love doing this.

Until next time

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Peggy

Cajun Corner – Vol. 6, No. 11 – April 27, 2014

 

Cajun Corner – Vol. 6, No. 11 – April 27, 2014

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

 

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As mentioned last week, I did embroider our tee shirts with the Pledge of Allegiance.  They turned out so good that I took pictures and posted on our Cajun Stitchery Facebook page.  Not long after posting one lady commented and purchased a tee shirt with the embroidery. Another friend has purchased one, too.  However, as the first lady and I were commenting back and forth, another person decided to comment. That comment was not very nice and basically said I was wrong to use the Pledge of Allegiance for monetary gain.  I didn’t feel the post deserved a comment.  Not long after that someone else posted a very lengthy post regarding the controversy of the Pledge of Allegiance.  I deleted both comments.  A little while later, another person commented that she was pleasantly surprised that no one had posted controversial comments.  Nevertheless, that post received over 1,000 hits.  More than I have ever had for a post on Facebook.

We went to a friend’s home for Easter.  Since George and I ALWAYS color Easter eggs and hide them at her house, she asked that we please refrain from doing this.  Instead, one of her guests was bringing her two little boys and would we please hide the eggs for the children.  We were delighted to do so, of course.  Well, not without a little bit of good ole Cajun fun.  We did color the Easter Eggs.  We did hide them for the little boys.  We did tell our friend that there were 22 eggs – 2 dozen shy 2 eggs that broke.  We did actually only have 20 eggs.  Hahahahahaha!!!!  I wonder if she is still searching for those other 2 eggs.

George has been very busy in the garden and caring for the lawn and plants.  The place is looking very nice right now.  One of our front yard plants is a papyrus.  The papyrus decided to take over the yard.  George dug all of the papyrus up but put one in a half whiskey barrel.  The papyrus looks very nice and we feel good because it won’t take over the yard and yet we still have a specimen to admire.  Funny thing is that as the papyrus has recovered from transplanting and winter, the soil is producing a few surprises of its own.  Johnny Jump Ups are jumping up in the pot along with a few other plants from our yard, including a tomato plant.  Our yard is always entertaining.

Even though the handkerchiefs have been a success in our Etsy store, one of the most popular handkerchiefs has been taken off.  It is the scallop edged hanky that has the thick scallop.  It just never looked right to me.  Oh yes, it is beautiful but as the designer there is something wrong with it.  One thing was that on each scallop there was a stitch or two in the middle that looked bad.  My wonderful embroidery tech taught me how to get rid of those stitches.  The issue is now resolved.  The next issue is unevenness of the threads when detached from the hoop.  I’ve been working on that today.  The outcome is that there will be a few more handkerchief designs available in our Etsy store in the near future.

With all of that said about handkerchiefs, we completed an order this week for three white with lavender stitching handkerchiefs that say, “No Ugly Crying.”  Yes, it is for a wedding.  Our customer is in Canada.  They turned out beautiful.

A gentleman called me this week wanting some patches.  “Do you make patches?” he asked.  Yes, we make patches.  It turned out that he is a truck driver who changed companies or opened his own company and needed some patches to put over the embroidered logos on his pants and shirts. His lovely wife came to the studio and showed me his shirt and approved the patch design.  They are done.  Before she left, I asked her how they found me.  She said that they live in Ensley (a small area just north of Pensacola) and they called every embroiderer they could find but no one made patches.  I suspect no one made small order patches.  Apparently embroiderers have a minimum number of patches required before they will take the order.  Luckily for this couple, they found Cajun Stitchery who will accept small order patches.  It is a shame that more embroiderers don’t take small orders.  There is a demand for “In Memory of” type patches.  As in this case, rather than tossing out good clothes, a nice patch can cover the older emblem.  In fact, any design can be made into a patch.  It is only a matter of putting the square, circle, or geometric shape outside the design. 

Since I was already working on patches, I designed a patch for a friend of mine who works protecting the sea turtles.  The patch has not been stitched out yet, but she loves the design.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK

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Cajun Corner - Vol. 4, No. 10

Cajun Corner – Vol. 4, No. 10 – March 17, 2012

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

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Don’t forget to visit our blog at www.cajunstitchery.blogspot.com, and www.cajunstitchery.etsy.com often.   We are also on Twitter and Facebook. 

Visit our on-line catalogs at:

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I have always been a basically lazy person looking for short cuts.  When Mama taught me to hand embroider as a child, my embroidery never looked as pretty as I wanted and I would give up and put it aside until I got another urge.  Before she passed on and while she lived with us, I would take out my hand embroidery and accoutrements.  She would watch me as I embroidered, or tried to do a new stitch or whatever.  Then she would say, “My Mama would have been so disappointed in me if I embroidered like that.”  Never put knots at the end of embroidery thread, it is a big no-no.  At least in Mama’s world it was bad. The perfect embroidery should leave the tail and weave it into the back of the embroidery so that you do not know where one ends and the other begins.  I took the short cut, as usual.  One of the real beauties of hand embroidery is that it is 3-dimensional.  There are stitches that create all sorts of knots (the intentional kind of knot), flowers, balls and embroidery that pops right off the fabric.  How in the world did women of olden days create such exquisite embroidery?  They must have embroidered 24-7, but then they would not have time to do all of their other chores.  Some embroidery, of course, was flat against the fabric.  I’ve seen hand embroidery depicting scenes that looked almost as clear and vivid as a photograph with all of the proper shading.  These were true artisans. 

Why all of this carrying on about hand embroidery?  I have seen and touched some exquisite hand embroidery this week.  The pieces were the kind of embroidery that you gaze upon and know they are so far out of your league you shouldn’t even try.  That led me to do some searches online, especially at Pinterest, on fine hand embroidery where I saw additional remarkable pieces of art.

When I first began looking at machine embroidery, I was intrigued with sewing machine embroidery (differing from embroidery machine embroidery).  Again, these are some true artisans.  Yes, there are people in the world today that can make their old Singers do fine embroidery.  The machine doesn’t need any special stitches at all, just a needle and thread that go up and down.  You hoop your fabric in the same kind of hoop that is use in hand embroidery, except you turn it upside down for the machine.  Take off your presser foot and use an embroidery presser foot – some don’t even use that.  Lower your feed dogs.  Embroider.  Initially, I did a few, very few, items using this method. 

It wasn’t long after I discovered the sewing machine embroidery that I found Doris (my Singer home embroidery machine).  Since I have already established that I tend to be lazy and search for short cuts, the sewing machine embroidery idea went out the window in lieu of machine embroidery.  With the embroidery machine, I did not have to think and plan as much.  Then Boudreaux (my first commercial embroidery machine) came into my life and, well, life has not been the same since.  Oh, how I love Boudreaux.  Now we have Clothilde.  Bet you thought the new one would be named Thibodeaux.  Clothilde works faster than Boudreaux, is more precise and user friendly.  Basically, she does better work, with more precision, in less time.  Of course, it would be a female. Lol

The next challenge is to figure out how to make Boudreaux and Clothilde stitch comparable embroidery to hand embroidery.  Hmmm.  There are some techniques available, albeit time consuming.  Please recall last year’s Easter Bonnet with the 3-D butterflies and fringed flowers.  Admittedly, the bonnet was outrageous but the techniques were solid.  What if I could turn those techniques into fine embroidery? 

The technique of making nice, professional patches used to be reserved for the Merrow machine.  Since the advent of embroidery machines and some ingenuity, professional looking patches are now easily made on embroidery machines.  The Merrow machine uses an overlock stitch and the embroidery machine uses a satin stitch, but they basically look the same.

Now that Clothilde has moved in, she brought her own set of computer programs.  One of the programs has some items about Schiffli machines.  I do not want a Schiffli machine.  The Schiffli machine holds 1,000 needles and if you think I am going to thread that many needles, you are out of your mind.   The Schiffli machine takes embroidery machines to the level of repeating designs on a plain fabric creating a fabric with repeated embroidery motifs that you can purchase by the yard.  I’m sure you’ve seen this type of fabric.  These machines are incredible.  They also make the lovely lace fabric by embroidering repeated designs on tulle, I think.  All of this can also be done on Boudreaux and Clothilde but in much smaller increments and it would take a lot more time.

I have carried on about embroidery and I think I saw one of our beans sprouting today.  The beautiful weather and the yard are calling me outdoors.  My annual red snapdragons are still blooming after 3 years and now we have yellow and white snapdragons that are into their second or third season.  The catnip is lush this year.  In fact, I brought a bouquet of catnip in the house the other day and George thinks I may have damaged my cats permanently.  They haven’t been the same since.  Ah, well, those cats need to lighten up anyhow.  Cats can be so serious.  Blackberry cobbler season is right around the corner.  Those beautiful little white flowers are everywhere.  I am hoping for a bumper crop this year.

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INTERESTING…

I found the following Vodka Soaked Gummy Bears at http://www.thatssomichelle.com/2011/08/vodka-soaked-gummy-bears.html

Shopping List (inspired by Cathy Macomber on the Tuesday Nite Wildcats)
1 bag of gummy bears or gummy candy of your choice
1 cup of Absolute or Gray Goose vodka (or enough to cover the candy completely)

Place your bears in a large bowl and pour over your vodka, cover with plastic wrap and let sit for at least 24 hours. I wouldn't go further than 48 hours, they may start breaking down.

Pour out your vodka (serve if you like, it will be pink and sweet from the bears) and carefully skewer your gummy bears. Arrange and serve.

IF YOU THOUGHT THAT WAS INTERESTING, TRY THIS…

(Found this on Pinterest)

Skittle bombs: take bottles of unflavored vodka and packs of skittles. pick a skittle color and put them all in a bottle. shake until they dissolve. Freeze to chill before serving.

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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.

Lagniappe means a little something extra

I still can't get over how popular the Union Thug can wraps are.  We mailed the first order out today.  The customer is a postal worker and had us make a Union Thug patch with a red, white and blue mailbox.  The patch is going to be a gift.  Of course, Cajun Stitchery includes a lagniappe with each order.  This customer is going to be surprised and delighted to see her lagniappe.  I had to stitchout a sample of the patch design on fabric, so I turned it into a can wrap.  Turned out cute, don't you think?

I finished an order for an even dozen of the can wraps this morning and as soon as I get the address, that order will be mailed.  The customer is a very dear friend of our's and I'm trying to decide on "the perfect" lagniappe for his order.

Sometime ago, when I was originally making can wraps, a friend of mine told me that she didn't like them because they weren't adjustable.  She drinks bottled beer.  The can wraps fit a regular soda or beer can.  Today I took a little time out to design an adjustable can wrap.  George loves it.  They are all done in-the-hoop.  I put eyelits in the design so that a string or shoelace or whatever can be threaded to keep the wrap snug at the size required.  I did one with elastic but the can slips out of the wrap easily.  We had other ideas but those were way too much work and we'd have to charge more than anyone would pay.

My next step with the can wraps is to do the new version with the Proud to be a Union Thug design and see if this speeds up the process any.

C'est tout, mes amis:>)

FANtastic Embroidery

I found a stock design of a fan and thought if I enlarged it and made it as a patch, perhaps it would be a functional fan.  The design was enlarged and embroidered as a patch but it's not sturdy enough for a fan.  However, I'm now thinking that if I glue some popcicle sticks on the back and make another fan for the reverse side, then sew the edges together, that may work.  Sure sounds like a lot of work for a simple fan.  I wonder if I sew one fan as a patch but digitize some slits for the popcicle sticks.  Then before I finish the edges, I turn it over, put the popcicle sticks in the slots and glue the other fan to the back, then put it back into the machine and finish the edges.  Hmmmm, that might work as long as the popcicle sticks don't get in the way.  I may give that a try...later.

Last week when I was at Wal-Mart, I found some pretty cool looking cotton fabric.  It's black and white.  One piece is like a leopard print but in black dots on white fabric.  The other is more of a tiger stripe, again, in black and white.  I've begun with the leopard dot fabric and I'm making some more handkerchiefs.  One was listed at the Etsy store last night.  Another is finished and I hope to list it today.

I need to get back to work on the diaper stacker.  The designs have been purchased but not stitched out.  They are monkey designs and are adorable.  The diaper stacker, itself, has been cut out and the edges serged but that's about it. 

A friend of mine emailed last week asking if we could embroider on boonie hats.  Boonie hats?  What is that?  It turns out that a boonie hat is a military hat with a wide brim.  One side can attach to the crown of the hat like one of those Australian bush hats.  George isn't sure if he can embroider on boonie hats, but surely we can.  We just need to practice.  So, we need to find a practice hat somewhere.

The same friend with the boonie hats has a couple of  shirts for me to embroider her logo.  And yet another friends wants her krewe logo on a couple of shirts.

Does it sound like business is picking up?  It sure does to me.  That's a good thing.

I better get back to work.

C'est toute, mes amis:>)

California or Bust

In the process of perfecting the perfect patch, I decided to make some luggage tags.  Sometime ago I was making my version of a luggage tag.  I didn't like the ones that I made and threw them all away.  But now with the patch down pat, the luggage tags should be prettier.  One of my friends was very interested in the luggage tags back then but I wouldn't sell her any because I didn't like them.  Since she is about to take a month long vacation in May, I did make her a special luggage tag.  She is heading toward California, so I made the tag "California or Bust." 

I have probably a thousand or more different monogram designs that few people use or order.  Customers probably don't order them because they don't know I have them.  So, I thought that I would use some of the monogram designs for luggage tags.  They really turned out cute.  I just used the initial H since that is my initial.

I did make some mermaid luggage tags with the word Nereid embroidered on it.  That's for my krewe.  They were a bit more difficult to make but not too much.

Once I got going on the luggage tags, I began realizing that many of my friends are getting ready to go on vacation.  It seems that this year people are traveling, again.  Since my friend that visited me a few weeks ago lost her luggage on the airline, I thought that luggage tags would be appropriate.

The luggage tags would make a nice Mother's Day gift for the mom who travels.  One of the more elegant monograms would be perfect for business traveling and/or men.

We are having a sale this week:  3 of the 2"x4" rectangular luggage tags with embroidered name or monogram for $10.00.  This sale is good through Thursday, April 21, 2011.

C'est tout, mes amis

Rhinestones, Logos and Actresses

For awhile now I've been interested in rhinestones.  You may recall the evening that I ordered 70 gross of rhinestones.  I'm still interested in the rhinestone but it all happened because of the patches.

Always looking for a better way to make patches, I went to a local fabric shop at the behest of a friend to get buckram.  I purchase a yard of the buckram and came home.  Okay, I picked up a few other items and fabric, too.  At home, I decided to do a bit of research on buckram.  Buckram is used in many way but usually by milliners for hats and to make the covers of books.  It is used in making patches.  So, I did a bit of research on the patch making.  Then I began reading about plastic backing for patches.  We frequently use plastic backing for our patches and the article I was reading said the plastic backing is the best.  Then I saw that the latest greatest thing in patches is a hot knife cut.  I've ever used a hot knife before, so I looked that up and found that many of the patches with intricate detail in the outline are cut out with a hot knife that melds the plastic backing, with the poly fabric giving a very secure and long lasting finish to the edge of the patch.  Well, at this point, I decided that I need to get me one of those hot knives.  I began the hot knife search and started getting a lot of sites for heat presses.  Just looking around the heat presses will secure the hot fix rhinestones as well as other types of embellishment.  I caught myself before getting in way over my head, but those heat presses seemed pretty intriguing.  So, I went to a company that I use for a lot of my embroidery supplies.  Yes, they have the hot knife, but ooooh, they have the heat presses, too, and a machine that applies the rhinestones.  I was a gonner at this point.  I ended up purchasing the whole patch kit which includes the hot knife.  Then I couldn't resist and purchased a real cheap-o rhinestone applier thingy.  George and I decided that if the cheap-o one works, we can always revisit getting something more pricier.  All of that because I bought a yard of buckram.  The kicker is that I haven't made a patch since I got the buckram home.

Since rhinestones were on my mind, I decided to break down and do the rhinestone motif on that adhesive plastic that I purchased with the 70 gross of rhinestones.  It just never made any sense to me that you put the rhinestones upside down on the adhesive, with the glue end facing you, and follow your design which is taped underneath the adhesive.  Then once all of the rhinestones are in place, you replace the backing to the adhesive enveloping the rhinestone motif that you just made.  You turn it over and take off the backing and iron the motif onto whatever you chose ironing on the adhesive plastic.  They say the plastic won't melt but when the ends start to curl, you know you are done.  Following the directions, I did a little mermaid motif.  Isn't she cute.  Now I have to figure out what I'm going to put her on.

I've been digitizing so much this week that my eyes were hurting last night.  Today I decided that I just want to embroider for the fun of it.  George hung out my hummingbird feeder that one of the girls gave me for my birthday.  The hummingbird book, which was also part of my present, gave the recipe for the home made hummingbird nectar -- sugar and water.  So, I had the hummingbird book out and it was very interesting and we kept reading about hummingbirds.  I finally decided to embroider a hummingbird.  I embroidered it on a white fingertip towel.  It turned out so cute.  Now I'm waiting on the hummingbirds to show up.

I digitized the logo for the Mystic Krewe of Fruitcakes.  It looked good on the computer simulation but not so much when I stitched it out.  The lettering has 3 colors in each letter.  My problem was that I ended up with over 100 trims which caused the back of the logo to have strings everywhere.  The problem with that is that they tangle and can jam the embroidery machine.  It also takes time and causes the needles to come unthreaded.  This little 3.5 inch, 11,000 stitch logo took an hour to embroider.  That will never do.  I was just exhausted and took last night off.  Now that I've had time to digest this design, I think I've come up with another way of achieving the logo without so many trims.  Not today, though.  I'll do that one later.

No one won the contest that ended Tuesday night at midnight.  The author of "Beat of an Island Drum" is Ms. Jane Waters Cooper.

The first person to email me at peggyhenshall@yahoo.com with the name of the famous actress who passed away today at 79 years of age will win a set of 4 napkins embroidered with your initials/monogram.  This contest will end tomorrow, Thursday night at midnight.  Good luck:>)

Cajun Corner - Vol. 3, No. 7

Cajun Corner – Vol. 3, No. 7 – February 21, 2011


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

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We are well, completely well now. The only remnant of the cold is that we still have a slight cough. George and I are rarely ill, but when we are, we apparently do it in a big way. I am so glad that is over and we can get back to Mardi Gras.

This weekend was mostly spent at our Krewe Den. Yep, we started dance practice on Friday and I’ve been working on the costume committee, too. It’s so nice to spend time with the girls. We always have so much fun together. The weather was simply beautiful and made working outside a pleasure.

Last week a dear friend of mine contacted me wanting patches for their krewe. They are the Krewe of Sirens in Pensacola. I worked with those girls for many years when I was a paralegal. It was so nice to touch base, again. I was going to Krewe Den during the day and working on the patch at night. It’s a little 3 inch patch and, of course, the lettering is always the hard part. Small lettering, as I’ve said before, is about the hardest thing you can do in embroidery. Larger lettering is a piece of cake. I digitized and re-digitized until finally last night I stitched out a patch that I was pleased with and the lettering was legible. I really wanted to use the Mylar on this patch to make it shiny but the Mylar is so shiny that it blurred the lettering. Now that the patch is done to my liking, I’ll go back in and do some tweaking and maybe try the Mylar, again. Now I’m just waiting to hear back from the girls about how they like it.

This year the Nereids had a private party at Krewe Den instead of the Black Tie Ball. I was sick and had to miss it but from the pictures and everything that I’ve heard, the party was a huge success. There is talk that we will start having the party instead of the ball from here on out. One thing that I heard over and over was that there were lots of people, lots of food and music, but you could actually sit down and have a meaningful conversation with people. At the ball everything is so loud that you rarely get a chance to have a conversation.

The gentleman from Oklahoma that ordered the 4 Gator patches from me emailed this week that he was very pleased with his purchase. That always makes me happy. I want to do a good job for everyone and it’s always nice to hear that the customer is pleased. When I don’t hear back from potential customers, it always makes me sad. I never know if they didn’t like the design, if they felt the price was too high, or the quality too low, or what the problem is. I don’t want to call and sound like a nag about it. If you order from me and are not pleased with any aspect of the sale, please, please let me know and perhaps we can do something to make you a happy customer. After all, that is what I want – Happy Customers.

Last week I was contacted by Boxercraft. They sent me their catalog. Wow! The stuff in their catalog is so cool. Probably more geared for younger people but it has some really nice looking clothes, a lot of animal prints, like zebra. I showed the catalog to my friend, Sharon, and she just loved everything. Anyway, I am the new local distributor of Boxercraft. Go to www.boxercraft.com and look at all of their stuff. If you find something that you like, I can get it for you and probably at a better price.

Cajun Stitchery has accounts with many vendors from napkins to robes to all kinds of apparel. If you are looking for something, let me know and I’ll see if I can get it for you via one of our vendors.

The Etsy Store always needs constant care. We’ve been in a couple of treasuries over the past week. I’m still making scarves. You know, my goal is to use up all of the fabric in my house. There is fabric upstairs and downstairs. Even after making all of the stuff that I have made, it hasn’t even put a dent in the fabric.

Another friend of mine has opened a business selling their own special hot sauce. The name is WTF Hot Sauce. We’ve been embroidering black ball caps with WTF embroidered in white on them. Embroidery is one of the simplest and most economical ways to market your product or business. Whether it’s a tote, cap, shirt, or jacket, it’s a great marketing tool.

Well, I have to get back to Boudreaux and embroider some satin jackets. Call or email me if you need anything.

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Thanks to Marshall Larrivere for the following:

The day after his wife disappeared in a boating vacation off Lake Verret , Boudreaux answered his door to find two grim-faced local policemen.



"We know it's late, Boudreaux, but we have some information about you wife," said one of the Cajun cops.



"Well,tell me! Did ya'll find her!?"



"Mais, we got some bad news, some good news, and den some really great news.....

What you wanna hear, first?"

Fearing the worst, Boudreaux said

"Gimme me the bad news first."

"I'm sorry to tell you, but this morning we found your wife's body in the water."

"Oh my God!" cried Boudreaux...

Swallowing hard, he asked, "An what's the good news?"

"When we pull her up, she had 6 twenty-five pound blue crabs and 12 jumbo crawfish clinging to her."

"Well if dat's the good news, what be the great news???"

"We plan to pull her up again tomorrow."



Did you know:

As the tallest state capitol in the United States, the building is 450 feet tall with 34 floors. Twenty-five hundred rail cars were needed to bring in the limestone used on the exterior and the interior marbles which came from distant places, including Vermont and Italy. The cost to complete the building was a modest $5 million. The architects used symbolism throughout the design of the building. As the square tower rises, it is cut away to an octagon at the 22nd floor. At this point four allegorical winged figures guard the corners and they represent Law, Science, Philosophy and Art.

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French Phrase of the Week: Vivre la vie à son plus plein (Live life to its fullest.)

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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.
S A L E
Perfect Fit V-Neck Tee from Boxercraft with your name or initials embroidered on left chest = $10.00 (plus sales tax/shipping as applicable)

Features a longer, tunic length and contoured fit. Constructed from extra soft 4.5 oz., 100% combed ringspun cotton.

Sizes – Adult XS-XXL
Sizes – Youth YS-YL