Cajun Corner – Vol.
5, No. 42 – August 18, 2013
Bon
Jour! Welcome to Cajun
Stitchery’s weekly email and welcome to our family.
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Still working hard on this beautiful, large
embroidery design.
I saw a pattern for an embroidered muff the other
day. It reminded me of my mother’s wedding
to my step-father. My sister and I had a
real cute white furry hat and muff. We
more or less shared. The day of Mama’s
wedding we both wanted to wear the hat and muff and began to argue. Mama decided that one would wear the muff and
the other the hat. There is a picture of
Mama and Daddy leaving the church after their wedding. Nancy and I were in front of them. What the picture does not show is that we
were fighting over the muff.
Every little girl would love to have a nice
furry, soft muff. Even in southwestern Louisiana, little girls
love muffs in the winter. They are so
soft, so romantic, and so girly. They
are very easy to make. I made one when I
first got Doris, the first embroidery
machine. It was made from some soft faux
fur and a pretty mermaid was embroidered on the front. The lining was a satin fabric and a pocket
was constructed on the inside. A friend
of mine saw it and fell in love with it.
I know this because she took it and said “Mine.” I haven’t seen it since. Hope she was able to use it.
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Oatmeal lowers cholesterol. According to The Mayo Clinic the top 5 foods
to lower your cholesterol are: (1) oatmeal, (2) fish and omega-3 fatty acids,
(3) nuts, (4) olive oil, and (5) foods with added plant sterols or stanols. We eat the first 4 items pretty regular and
now we have oatmeal at the studio in case we want something to eat during the
day. High cholesterol can cause strokes.
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We went out to eat Wednesday night at The Oar
House. George bought me a mermaid tee
shirt. Reminds me of the time we took
our embroidery tech out to eat at this same restaurant. The waitress had not been by our table in
awhile so we called the restaurant on my friend’s cell phone and asked the
waitress to bring us water. It was all
in fun and our waitress, at least appeared to understand and laugh along with
us.
A scalloped edged handkerchief was designed a few
weeks ago. Since that time it appears
that all sorts of shaped edges will work for handkerchiefs. An organza hanky was made with multiple scallops
along the edges. I don’t think we will
be selling that hanky since it occurred to me that since the organza is shear,
when you blow your nose, you can see it.
Ewwwww. We’ll use the organza for
other items, not handkerchiefs.
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Etsy sales have picked up a bit. We sold another “You have a booger”
handkerchief. It always makes us laugh
because that handkerchief design has out-sold everything else in our Etsy
store. We sell lots of napkins,
handkerchiefs, and other items, but that one hanky design always seems to sell.
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Several friends are heading out to a mermaid
retreat on the east coast. They will be
gone for five days. During their retreat
they will have walking mermaid tails made, a photo shoot, and there was some
talk of them performing. Oh my. I can’t wait until they return with all of
their stories. A couple of the girls
attended a Merpalooza last week in Tampa. There should be some really good stories when
these girls return.
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Browse around. There
are ladies styles, as well. We carry
name brand shirts such as:
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Bill Bass
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Calvin Klein
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Cubavera
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Featherlite
o
Hilton
o
Inner
Harbor
o
Jonathan Corey
o
Nyne
o
Robinson Manufacturing
o
Sierra Pacific
o
Van Heusen
o
Weatherproof
Now that Christmas has come to mind,
I realize that Christmas items need to be made soon or we won’t be ready for
the holiday rush. With that in mind
today was R&D day, research and development. Card stock can be embroidered. It needs to be embroidered with cross-stitch embroidery;
otherwise, the needle and thread can tear the card. Today some old cards were used for embroidery
samples and it not only worked beautifully, but metallic thread worked nice, as
well. There are several other methods
that need to be tried and developed but it sure seems that embroidered
Christmas cards may be in our repertoire soon.
Continuing with R&D day, the new
organza was hooped and embroidered with metallic thread. That worked out remarkably well. This, too, led to additional ideas that will
require R&D.
The little North Pole sign or even the Christmas lights wreath
with the monogram in the center would be perfect for napkins. A friend of our’s loves his Christmas
dishes. So much that he would love to
use them all year. Do you have Christmas
dishes? A set of fanciful holiday
embroidered napkins with your monogram would certainly enhance your table
setting.
Have a wonderful week
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Thank you Jeanne Tawney for the following:
The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their
parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next
day, the kids came back and, one by one, began to tell their stories.
There were all the regular types of stuff: Spilled milk and pennies
saved. But then the teacher realized, much to her dismay, that only
Janie was left.
"Janie, do you have a story to share?"
'Yes ma'am. My daddy told me a story about my Mommy. She was a
Marine pilot in Desert Storm, and her plane got hit. She had to
bail
out over enemy territory, and all she had was a flask of whiskey, a
pistol, and a survival knife.
She drank the whiskey on the way down so the bottle wouldn't break,
and then her parachute landed her right in the middle of 20 Iraqi
troops. She shot 15 of them with the pistol, until she ran out of
bullets, killed four more with the knife, till the blade broke, and
then she killed the last Iraqi with her bare hands."
''Good Heavens,' said the horrified teacher. What did your Daddy tell
you was the moral to this horrible story?" "Don't f**k with
Mommy
when she's been drinking."
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