Cajun Corner – Vol.
5, No. 28 – July 20, 2013
Bon
Jour! Welcome to Cajun
Stitchery’s weekly email and welcome to our family.
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Good news.
We now have a new water heater.
We have learned to run the hot water next door so we don’t have issues
with that water heater. Remember: when it comes to plumbing is you don’t use
it, you lose it. We did have another
issue next door with the plumbing but our plumber said it was just a minor
thing to replace the pump in our toilet.
The water saving toilet didn’t pump enough water to flush into the
septic tank. That’s all fixed now.
Once our hospice neighbor’s family learned that
she was on hospice, they started arriving.
One of the sons told me that his mom doesn’t seem that ill. Well, the lady hasn’t been able to go outside
of her home for nearly 2 years. She
perked right up when they all started arriving.
She was enjoying the company, obviously.
We once had a dog that everyone kept saying we should have put
down. He was blind, deaf, had all sorts
of physical problems and wasn’t able to do anything but lay down all day. Every time we would take him to the vet he
would perk up and jump around and wag his tail.
Thank you for the feedback on the laundry bag
last week. Your feedback is vitally
important to Cajun Stitchery. Every
suggestion or comment is given a lot of thought and taken very seriously. You are the consumer. I made another laundry bag with a shoulder
strap and a pocket on the front. A pocket
large enough for laundry soap and the other laundry accoutrements probably would
not be necessary. Those items can be
placed in the laundry bag, itself. A
pocket for those items would be huge and probably not practical, unless the
items were small.
Remember the trapunto technique that was
described some time ago. Trapunto is a method
of embroidery similar to quilting. In
fact, it is used frequently in quilting.
A layer of batting is place
between some cutaway stabilizer and the fabric.
This sandwich of materials is then hooped and embroidered. The embroidery design has some open areas and
some more dense areas, almost like a negative.
Once completed, the unstitched, open areas puff up while the more
densely embroidered areas are stitched tight.
It does create a beautiful effect.
There are some trapunto designs in our stock designs. Some were stitched out this week and a new
one, of a zebra, was digitized.
Our young horse rider’s order was completed and
mom picked it up. She loved it.
One of my friends came over this week to place an
order and we had a wonderful time. She
was served coffee in one of Mama’s Fiestaware coffee cups and saucer. She was able to view a lot of our wares. She ordered one of our red, white and blue
baby bibs and needed some embroidery on a baby blanket that she purchased. She also ordered a clock but didn’t need that
order filled right away. It was such a
delightful visit.
The huge embroidery design is coming along. The digitizing process is extensive. Each piece of the design must be stitched and
tweaked until perfect. At this point the
design is about 500,000 stitches.
This coming Friday evening a very dear friend of
ours is coming over to spend the night in the house next door. We are going to have a slumber party. We will be celebrating her birthday and her
graduation from college. We seem to see
each other every few years at a funeral or some other type of affair but that
is all. There is a lot of catching up on
what is happening in each other’s lives.
Don’t forget the flour sack towels with the little
mermaids on them. They are $15
each. There is one for sale in our Etsy
store. More can be made. Get ‘em while they are hot.
Have a wonderful week
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Thank you Sandy Goodman for the following:
Facts you may not know………….
It takes glass one million years to decompose,
which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of
times!
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in
the ground for thousands of years.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that
is attached at only one end.
If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more
water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of
tobacco-related diseases.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman
numerals.
Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and
newspapers.
The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of
midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in
the New Year.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61
percent
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it
doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450F
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is
not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in
the ear.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean
The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be
propagated only by the hand of man
Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to
lower air density
The University
of Alaska
The tooth is the only part of the human body that
cannot heal itself.
In ancient Greece
Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the
song Happy Birthday.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
A comet's tail always points away from the sun
The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death
and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent
Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers,
that is why it is found in some medicines.
The military salute is a motion that evolved from
medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their
identity.
If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look
up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to
go. The first sense lost is sight
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were
unarmed
Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per
hundred grams
The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to
falling space dust
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for
mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy
Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because
they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the
bridge down
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of
excess fuel are needed at lift-off
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the
periodic table of the elements.
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