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On 6/15/11 7:17 AM, in article ,
" wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:30:50 -0400, Cheryl Isaak wrote: On 6/14/11 6:36 PM, Ellice K. wrote: On 6/14/11 12:09 PM, in article , "Joan E." wrote: On Jun 13, 10:57 am, "Ellice wrote: LOL - we probably had the same set! Surely must be a great bunch of photos. I always had 6-shooter gun& holster sets, then moving on to cap guns. Then we also got slot cars - I remember those a lot. Yup, all those, too! In fact, I still have my metallic blue stingray corvette! I don't know if my brother still has the track and his cars, but I saved mine. I should ask him sometime. I bet he'd be surprised I still have my car! LOL - I was the one always playing with upgrading the controllers. Along with the boy next door - who was my age, and cute, but 2 years behind me in school - I was really friends with his older sister. Our mom's used to carpool us to a commercial slot car place that had a few huge tracks, many lanes. You'd go plug in your controller at a station along the track - kind of like pit row - and then add in to the races. I think this was one way they got the kids out of the way for a few hours on a Saturday in bad weather. We have a semi active slot car track in the house! I had a shrapnel collection, beautifully laid out in my room and my brother and I spent hours spying on the house next door. It had been requisitioned by the US Army for their officers and my brother had this idea (generated by all the signs etc that said "Walls have ears" "Loose lips sink ships" etc) that it was probably a cover and really they were spies. So we used to work our way right up to the windows, concealed in the laurels and watch their every move. Never having had it, imagine our surprise when for dinner one night they had tomato soup. That definitely said something was wrong! That sounds very fun! Didn't know that you wouldn't have had tomato soup - I think here it was a staple of the tinned food culture. Did you think the color implied it was something horrible? It was a different era, good kids were kids who were out and about. We were only in trouble if late for meals, otherwise, stay out from underfoot. I am quite sure that keeping kids in and simply escorting them to 'activities' these days is going to raise the very worst adults. Very true about being out and about. When we moved to FL, there was a lot of undeveloped land, swamps/woods surrounding our neighborhood. The gang would go out exploring - with walking sticks and knives of some sort for hacking thru the "jungle" - for hours. It was an amazing set of ecosystems - really - 'cause you'd hike thru a section of woods, and then there was suddenly marsh/swampland - and be careful for sucking muddy quicksand kind of areas -many a sneaker was ruined or lost. We found a gypsy encampment in the woods about 2 miles thru our wonderland - which was fine - at first. We'd seen some old stuff dumped there, but then when we stumbled on the encampment that was more interesting - until the afternoon when someone actually shot at us. Seriously - you never saw kids suddenly scurrying as fast as they could - and then the question of do we or don't we tell the adults (it was kids from about 4 families, all our parents quite friendly). I do believe we told, likely because the younger kids - about age 8 were pretty freaked out. But at least we had several months of exploring with just telling the folks we were out - exploring. We definitely were only in trouble if we were really late for dinner, didn't come when called - or hurt someone. Oh well, I won't be around when they are adults and rule the world ! Not as if there aren't plenty of troubled ruling situations now. Perhaps something will turn around - we're definitely seeing kids outside playing in our hood. There is a young bunch of budding cricketeers here. They play at the house across the street - and while I don't know why instead of in their backyard, they bat from the high part of the driveway - towards my house. So, constantly have the yard full of kids running over to fetch balls. They're pretty young - 5-9, and play with a cricket bat and tennis balls. There is actually a huge set of cricket matches every weekend at one of the athletic fields in our development. Must be at least a hundred people hanging about - I think a few teams come and play over the whole weekend. Fun watching the kids in the hood - it reminds me more of my childhood, as the kids come from a couple of blocks all around to play down our cul-de-sac - or with the driveway cricket pitch. Maybe there's hope. ellice |
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On 6/15/11 6:30 AM, in article , "Cheryl Isaak"
wrote: On 6/14/11 6:36 PM, Ellice K. wrote: On 6/14/11 12:09 PM, in article , "Joan E." wrote: On Jun 13, 10:57 am, "Ellice wrote: LOL - we probably had the same set! Surely must be a great bunch of photos. I always had 6-shooter gun& holster sets, then moving on to cap guns. Then we also got slot cars - I remember those a lot. Yup, all those, too! In fact, I still have my metallic blue stingray corvette! I don't know if my brother still has the track and his cars, but I saved mine. I should ask him sometime. I bet he'd be surprised I still have my car! LOL - I was the one always playing with upgrading the controllers. Along with the boy next door - who was my age, and cute, but 2 years behind me in school - I was really friends with his older sister. Our mom's used to carpool us to a commercial slot car place that had a few huge tracks, many lanes. You'd go plug in your controller at a station along the track - kind of like pit row - and then add in to the races. I think this was one way they got the kids out of the way for a few hours on a Saturday in bad weather. We have a semi active slot car track in the house! Wow - I'm impressed ;^) Ours isn't set-up- but as we're cleaning/clearing - we recently found DH's box of parts. Just what we need to go with all the other things in toy & sports world! E |
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Just finished Art Studio's Deco Wreath, ostensibly for DD1's room, but
who knows if it will ever make it there. I did all the outlining in Kreinik over the DMC, some gold, some in the 2 sagey green colors. Now working on Yvette Ungricht's "We Seek After These Things." And really wanting to start a design I made myself - a line sampler. Speaking of which, anyone here ever published a design? How do you get it copyrighted? I'm tempted to try self publishing this and pitching it to local stores. Would I have to get a business license and pay attention to funky tax rules and all that jazz? Lisa |
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On Jun 7, 11:58*am, "Ellice K." wrote:
Of course we're all laughing. SoCal).http://www.janezimmerman.com/Site/Student_Gallery.html you'll find it. *http://www.tonigerdes.com/workshops OOOhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These are magnificent! Where do I take classes? Wish there was something online like Victoria Sampler does! How good are the instructions? Could I figure it out myself, with patience, a wrinkle in my brow, and the tip of my tongue between my teeth? Lisa |
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On 6/20/11 4:55 AM, in article
, "Lisa R" wrote: On Jun 7, 11:58*am, "Ellice K." wrote: Of course we're all laughing. SoCal).http://www.janezimmerman.com/Site/Student_Gallery.html you'll find it. *http://www.tonigerdes.com/workshops OOOhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These are magnificent! Where do I take classes? Wish there was something online like Victoria Sampler does! How good are the instructions? Could I figure it out myself, with patience, a wrinkle in my brow, and the tip of my tongue between my teeth? Lisa Glad you like them. Toni's things are really lovely, and she's a very good teacher, and generally nice, fun person. WRT taking her classes - I'd send her a note and ask her where/when any of these pieces will be taught. She might show up on Shining Needle Society at some time. You can find them on Yahoo - it's essentially a group that handles the administration of on-line (cyber) classes taught independently of the guild meetings. Many fabulous teachers offer classes thru SNS. Try this to see their home-page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SNS_Home_Room/ I think Toni has been teaching at ANG/NAN seminars, and likely EGA - so she may be starting to teach some of these pieces at local chapters or regional mini-seminars. A lot of guild chapters will have workshops with national teachers once or twice a year. Oh, to your question - depending on your comfort level and experience - the instructions are good. But, some people really needed to have the instructor look over the shoulder, and do some further explanation. IME, with the class I took - if you're willing to do some doodle cloth work, you might be able to do her pieces with these instructions. Again, depending on your experience with laying threads, couching techniques. If you haven't done some laying of silks, then you'd want to practice with some floss, and get some hints about using the tool well to get that nice, satiny finish. But I don't think tons of tooth grinding would be involved - but definitely the tongue between the teeth ;^) Ellice Who will put up a couple of photos soon |
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