Online Fabric Source

Smart kid!

Beverly

Reply to
BEI Design
Loading thread data ...

I have no intention of answering my DDs after I die, either. They can just suck it up and deal! ;-)

Beverly

Reply to
BEI Design

I'm sorry to hear that it was such a waste of time for you. I had read somewhere (many years ago), that as and when you sort out and de-cluter, you should bag stuff up. If you haven't used it in a year, the bag then goes to charity.

I would have hoped this consultation would have given you lots of hints and tips, and not tried to sell you things. However, it looks as though most of us in this thread are veteran pack rats and keepers of items of sentimental value - so you are in excellent company!

Regards

Sarah (slowly sorting out the sewing cupboard - and thinking "why did I buy that? over a couple of items.....) (but I've managed to get the sewing room back into use in the last couple of weeks - and - shock - done some sewing! (Even if it has mostly been alterations and mending!)).

Reply to
Sarah Dale

When dh and I moved here, we came from a 4br 2ba with large porches back and front. This is 3br 1.5ba and only a small front porch. More than big enough, as the kids were already gone when we moved here but.......

However, I discovered that our new church had a rummage sale twice a year. That isn't "throwing stuff out", it is "donating to a good cause". So, twice a year I looked around,and thought "I really don't need that" and gave lots of stuff away, then sat back with a satisfied smile and said "See, I'm all cleaned up". Invariably, a couple of weeks or so later I realised that all I had done was to expose another layer!!! Oh well, by now I have got rid of most of the superfluous stuff. The linen closet is still full, but I use all of that. Plus, we have too many dishes, but they are all English bone china which were wedding presents. I am fully aware that at some point we will have to move into smaller quarters, at which time I intend to take with me only the items which will fit, then call the kids to take what they want from the rest and sell the leftovers.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Reply to
Olwyn Mary

Wow, good news (I hope)!!! Banksville Designer Fabrics e-mailed me saying they have "cotton velvet in fuschia raspberry" and offered to send me a swatch without my having to pay to "join". Nice! Now if that one matches close enough, I'll just put the Dharma order in the stash.

Beverly

Reply to
BEI Design

Make sure everyone sees *all* of them. Have them make their list of what they want. Post it notes/flags work good here. If only one of them wants

*that* picture, they get *that* picture. If more than one wants it, have copies made. Good copies. Don't let the so called professional photographer in the family use their camera to "copy" the picture. It's cheap and it cheapens the memories. My one BIL did that, yyyuucckk! They're bad. Leftovers?? Distribute the 'theme' evenly if it involves them.

JMHO, AK in PA

Reply to
AK&DStrohl

Most of them are slides (forty-some year's worth). I am investigating slide scanners, I hope to digitize a lot of them and make Cds or DVDs for each of the DDs. It was only in the last three or four years that DH finally went to color print film, and those are mostly in albums. I have all the original film, too.

But, I also have several really old albums of DH's ancestors, sadly many of the pictures are not labeled, and no one of those generations is still living. I will offer them to the girls, if they don't want them I'll see if the Historical Society wants them.

Beverly

Reply to
BEI Design

My dad had 40+ years of slides - for Christmas last year we gave him a gift certificate to have the slides scanned and made into DVDs for each of us kids to have. I had looked into doing it myself, but the cost and time committment of a home slide scanner wasn't worth it to me. After some investigating on the internet, I found this company

formatting link
that we ended up using. I was very pleased with the end result. I'm not affiliated with the company (can't remember the acronym for that!) I also inherited several old photo albums from my mother - she didn't label any of the pictures. Almost anyone in the family who may know who these people are are already dead or live 800 miles away. So for now, they get stacked in a corner of my sewing room and I'll deal with them someday...

Nancy

Reply to
tteigen

Yes, George Carlin...one of my favorite skits!

A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it. You can see that when you're taking off in an airplane. You look down, you see everybody's got a little pile of stuff. All the little piles of stuff. And when you leave your house, you gotta lock it up. Wouldn't want somebody to come by and take some of your stuff. They always take the good stuff. They never bother with that crap you're saving. All they want is the shiny stuff. That's what your house is, a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get...more stuff!

Liz

Reply to
Liz

Dear Beverly,

I don't know if they still do it, but years ago, we had a similar problem matching a dyed silk purchased by the bride, and the need for matching fabric for members of the bride's party. The ensemble was to be the bride's Senior Collection, as well as her wedding garments, so the match had to be perfect for the stage. Either Thai Silks or Dharma asked for a sample, and dyed the fabric for us. It was a perfect match. I wish I could remember which site did the dyeing, but you could ask both, and save yourself a lot of grief trying to come up with the right color.

Teri

Reply to
gpjteri

I appreciate the thought, but the package from Dharma came Saturday: five yards (plenty to do extensive experimenting) cotton velvet, five different lots of dye, and all the miscellaneous chemicals for the job. DD and I are going to have a 'dyeing' party. ;-}

If we don't come close, I'll keep your suggestion in mind.

Thanks,

Beverly

Reply to
BEI Design

InspirePoint website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.