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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Cajun Corner - Vol. 5, No. 26

Cajun Corner – Vol. 5, No. 26 – July 6, 2013

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

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Hope everyone had a wonderful 4^th of July. Our’s was peaceful. We had plans to go to a friend’s home for the festivities. Sadly, she had to cancel because her uncle had a massive stroke and she thought she might have to catch a flight to Boston on the 4^th.

A couple of girls from my krewe and I had made joint hair appointments for July 5^th. Unfortunately, we had to cancel the hair appointments.

On top of the cancellations it has been raining cats and dogs since July 4^th.

George and I watched the New York City fireworks show on TV and a couple of neighbors dropped by to visit. It is always pleasant when these neighbors visit. They are a couple of comedians, like Gracie Allen and George Burns. They started telling jokes and between the four of us the jokes simply got worse and worse, until we were laughing because the jokes were so bad.

A lot of digitizing has been going on at Cajun Stitchery as well as stitching out some really cute Mickey Mouse designs.

During the process of checking out pricing with one of our wholesalers, I noticed some adorable baby and children onesies, bibs, and tee shirts. First, I saw the little onesies with the tutu. These actually come in black, white, and raspberry. They are completely out of the raspberry color. I fell in love with these little onesies. Then I saw the little red, white and blue patriotic onesie. I simply had to buy some of them. In fact, I also bought some of the little tee shirts with the tutu. See the attached photographs and visit our online catalog at http://www.imprintit.biz/cgi-bin/cobrand/site.w?location=olc/catalog-home.w&top=catalog&frasmes=no&target=main&sponsor=000699. Since I was purchasing the onesie tutus, the tee shirt tutus, and the red, white and blue onesies, what the heck, I went ahead and purchased some of their little white jersey bibs. For the little boys, yes, they have camo onesies and tee shirts. So, if you need baby presents, come see me. Since my precious great granddaughter’s, Kayla’s birthday is August 4^th, she is getting one of each.

Kayla loves Mickey Mouse. I’ve got most, if not all, of the Disney embroidery stock designs. Mickey now adorns the little white tutu onesie. I fiddled around with another of the Mickey designs and realized that it wasn’t red, white and blue and also wouldn’t work on the black onesie. I was just compelled to stitch the design out, so, I made a bib with the design on it. I’m not sure if it will go on Etsy or if it will become part of Kayla’s birthday. There is a cute red, white and blue Mickey Mouse design that will go on the patriotic onesie.

This morning we couldn’t get hot water. Yep, the water heater passed away. Do not panic. We have hot water next door. George has been diligently working all day on finding the best and most perfect water heater for us. The problem has been that it has to fit in a closet in the living room. These days the water heaters can be pretty big. Initially we thought about the tankless water heater. The problem seems to be additional circuit breakers are required. Now we are thinking about heat pump water heaters.

Whatever we get cannot come too soon. I’ve been washing dishes by hand all day. Since I was washing dishes I also cooked dinner. It was just a homemade hamburger helper type dish but it was really good and I used bell peppers, tomatoes, basil, oregano, garlic, cayenne pepper sauce, and parsley all from our garden. That mixed with ground meat and macaroni and cheese equals a big YUM.

While I was in the garden harvesting dinner, I pulled up one of our carrots. Wow! That was a huge carrot. The carrot was so big that I measured it. It was nine inches of beautiful carrot. I think I see George’s famous carrot salad in our near future.

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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Your Car and Vinegar:

Keep car windows frost-free overnight in winter by coating them with a solution of 3 parts white distilled vinegar to 1 part water.

Polish car chrome with full-strength white distilled vinegar on a soft cloth.

Remove unwanted decals and bumper stickers by covering them with a cloth soaked in white distilled vinegar, or by repeatedly spraying them with full-strength white distilled vinegar. They should peel off in a couple of hours.

Rid the windshield wipers of road grime by wiping them with a white distilled vinegar-soaked cloth.

Remove the leftover odor after a rider has been carsick by leaving a bowl of white distilled vinegar overnight on the floor.

Get rid of hard water stains on your car with a rinse made from 3 parts soft water to one part white distilled vinegar.

Wipe vinyl upholstery with a mixture of equal parts white distilled vinegar and water.

Remove winter road salt residue on car carpeting by spraying with a mixture of equal parts white distilled vinegar and water, then blot with a soft towel.

Remove the hazy film that builds up on inside windows by spraying with white distilled vinegar.

Remove dirt and stains from car carpeting with a mixture of half white distilled vinegar and half water.

When doing car maintenance, soak rusty bolts and screws with white distilled vinegar to make them easier to remove.

Loosen chewing gum stuck to carpeting or upholstery by soaking it in white distilled vinegar.

Create an all-purpose window cleaner with a few ounces of white distilled vinegar in a quart of water.

Give leather upholstery an extra shine by cleaning it with hot white distilled vinegar and rinsing with soapy water.

Make your car extra shiny by adding a few drops of white distilled vinegar to your bucket of water.HEARD BY MILLIONS.*

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Saturday, June 15, 2013

Cajun Corner - Vol. 5, No. 23

Cajun Corner – Vol. 5, No. 23 – June 15, 2013

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

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Don’t forget to visit us at www.cajunstitchery.com, www.flickr.com/photos/cajunstitchery, and, www.cajunstitchery.etsy.com often. We are also on Twitter and Facebook.

Visit our on-line catalogs at:

http://www.imprintit.biz/cgi-bin/cobrand/site.w?location=olc/catalog-home.w&top=catalog&frasmes=no&target=main&sponsor=000699

and www.companycasuals.com/cajunstitchery.

George and I love to experiment. Last week George read that you can dissolve the egg shell right off the raw egg with vinegar. Once dissolved, the egg will bounce. He took the raw egg and put it in a glass, then filled the glass with vinegar. Sure enough in a couple of days the egg shell was gone and the egg in-tact. It felt rubbery, so I took the egg to bounce it in the sink – SPLAT. Well, that part of the experiment wasn’t true. I’m just grateful that I tried to bounce it in the sink rather than the floor.

It turns out there is a mystery on Pensacola Beach. Several of the girls found gnome statutes in and around their front yards this past week. No one knows who put them there but the guessing has begun. To make this even more intriguing, the statutes arrived on different days. Emails have been flying speculating on who the gnominator is. I’m sure this will be a topic somewhere in the next issue of the Island Times.

A friend contacted me for some embroidered towels. She is helping with a cooking contest on the beach and wanted something to give to the participants. She explained to me that her sister had given her a kitchen towel that she absolutely loved and would like to get these type towels embroidered. At first she said they were made from cheese cloth, but I questioned that there would be cheese cloth kitchen towels. After a bit of research, she sent me an email directing me to where these towels can be located. They are flour sack kitchen towels. Off to Wal-Mart I went in search of these fabulous kitchen towels. They were readily available and I purchased 20 of them. Once home, I decided to wash and dry to pre-shrink for embroidery. After they were laundered, I measured to see how much they shrank since the label said 100% cotton. They didn’t shrink at all.

The flour sack towels were not cheese cloth but very similar. Although Wal-Mart calls them flour sack towels, they are not. I remember spending summers with my grandmother in Woodstock, Georgia. She was an avid cook and her flour came in flour sacks. They were more like linen. The “flour sack towels” would have let you sift flower through them. The more I worked with these towels, the more familiar they seemed until finally the light bulb went off in my head. They are made of gauze which is basically cheese cloth.

When my sister, Nancy, had her first child, Deshawn, our little family began learning about babies. It wasn’t until Hank was born that Pampers were invented and on the market. The diapers we used for Deshawn were gauze diapers, exactly what Wal-Mart is selling as flour sack towels. The only difference is the towels have a hem on each end. A few years after Deshawn was born, Nancy had Joey. Then after Joey was Hank. By that time Mama, Nancy and I had determined that gauze baby diapers made the best dust rags and kitchen towels in the world. So, here we are and they are selling them as towels. They are super absorbent. They would have to be, right? To be baby diapers they would need to be absorbent.

With the “flour sack” towels in hand, I decided to see how they would handle embroidery. The first design I tried was a 6” by 3.75” mermaid design. It turned out perfect. That towel has now been listed in our Etsy store. Today I’ve been busy working on my friend’s order. Oh, and did I mention that we purchased 15 more flour sack towels today?

Another friend is about to become a mother-in-law and asked me to be thinking of something for the newly weds. The bride is trying to embrace her Philippine heritage and my friend would like the embroidery to reflect this. At the same time, the bride is not a “bling” person and steers more toward mute/earthy tones. This weekend I’ve been doing a bit of research on Philippine history and culture. Since the Philippines are island, the décor is not that different from any other beach décor. However, I did run across a Filipino legend or two or three at Wikipedia that intrigued me.

Sirena is a mermaid, a sea creature with a human upper body and a fish tail instead of lower extremities. They attract fishermen and tourists.^[1] Sirenas are reportedly often seen ashore by fishermen, especially in the towns bordering the Pacific Ocean.

Siyokoy are mermen, sea creatures that have a human form and scaled bodies. The Siyokoy is the male counterpart of the Sirena. The lower extremities of a Philippine merman can either be a fishtail or scaled legs and webbed feet. They could also have long, green tentacles. They drown mortals for food.^{[citation needed]} Siyokoys have gill slits, are colored brown or green, and have scaly skin, comparable to that of a fish.

And then there is:

The Filipinos in the Medieval Period said that it started somewhere in a place now called "Tandang Sora". There was a fisherman that was attracted to a tilapia, a kind of fish that is abundant in tropical countries. This fisherman was sexually attracted to the tilapia and raped the fish. After 4 months, the fisherman was shocked when he saw that this tilapia was pregnant. He could not believe as for what he saw that night, it was also the very night that the fish will have her delivery. The fish gave birth of a half human, half fish creature. As the fisherman knew that this creature is so valuable, he then named it "GEM". They also said that when a "Sirena" get a hold of a stone called "DARNA'S STONE" this creature can be seen as a whole human.

I think the décor should be mermaids.

Have a wonderful week.

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY