Re: Kaleidoscopes for Beading (AD)

Yea... Me, too. With a good enough price, it might be worth a group buy, I think.

Is that the place near the Witch's Hat Tower? Deirdre

LOL, Deirdre, yes it is above the center and to the left as you face the center..... I have used that "Witch's Hat Tower" description with people who are natives and amazingly the have no clue where it is at!

And to me the tower is so much a landmark that really stands out..... it just sort of "screams" Halloween and you can see it so well from several routes, especially 94.

You didn't miss too much here by leaving here this summer, the good news is there were fewer mosquitoes than expected ... the bad news is, that happened because of the drought ... and a lot of crops have failed. I guess it is always something!

Thanks for the compliment! Happy Beading, Karen

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:26:47 -0400, Tink wrote (in message ):

I'd be willing to organize a group buy, because I think I'd like to get a couple for myself, to make into Christmas presents.

Kathy N-V

P.S.: The pearls got packed up today, and will be leaving here in the morning! Woo-hoo!

I used to visit a dear friend who lives in St. Paul very often, and my route across the river was via 94, so I passed the tower all the time.

Sorry it has been a bad year for farmers. I've been missing thunderstorms here a bit, but we had hints of one in this territory a few evenings ago. Amazing what one becomes attached to. I always feared for my computer in MN thunderstorms, but apart from that -- I like the drama of them, as long as I am safe and warm while they raise a ruckus.

Deirdre

If you do make a group buy, I'd like to be included.

Tina

So is there anyone out there willing to take this on? I'd love to participate. I just have too much on my plate right now to even think about researching and coordinating any sort of buy.

Hmmm I love kaleidoscopes and I think the beaded ones are cool, but I don't do that kind of beading.

Anyone interested in some kind of swap?? Bead a kaleidoscope for me and "fitb" (beads, jewelry, peeps...) for you?

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 21:54:08 -0400, Tink wrote (in message ):

I'll do it. I have the time to research, and I consider myself an honorable person (meaning I'm not going to take the money and run off with it. Besides, I can't run)

Tink, did you have a URL with the one brass Kaleidoscope that started this discussion? If I find that, we can go from there. If the units are ten - I want four, and we'll see how to allocate the rest.

Also Kathy, I'd be happy to bead a Kaleidoscope for you, with 2 caveats: Although you pick the colors, I can't follow a graph to save my life, and if the scope is big, I reserve the right to use size 8 beads rather than 11/0s.

Kathy N-V

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V :

]Also Kathy, I'd be happy to bead a Kaleidoscope for you, with 2 caveats: ]Although you pick the colors, I can't follow a graph to save my life, and if ]the scope is big, I reserve the right to use size 8 beads rather than 11/0s.

what a sweetie you are!!!!!

please put my name on the list for a couple, would you?

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

How cool!!!

You can use whatever size you want and you can do whatever pattern you want! You are such a sweetie!!!!! So - this means I'm in for the buy :)

So whatcha want in return?

Kathy K

Sorry forgot the slashes in the second one

article , Shirley Shone writes

Here's a place with slightly lower prices and lots of eye-candy:

Here's another... This time, not brass I think.

Ok. Amendment to that last one. Best price yet: $6.95 for 25 or more.

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 5:23:38 -0400, Tink wrote (in message ):

It looks terrific, and appears not to need a wooden egg on the outside to work. I'd like to go with this one, since it's small enough to wear when beaded.

Kathy N-V

Kathy, Hope you are doing better. I'd love to have 2 of the kaleidoscopes as well.

Hate to make you do this for everyone. I'd get them myself, but a lot of 10 is ridiculous to have to buy.

Thanks and keep me posted when you have the details. I don't always get to read the board, so e mail is better.

Juanita

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May fate bless us all according to our deeds.

Im not that far from St Paul, been there a couple of dozen times in my life, and I havent a clue what this Witches thingy is.. a hint please?? We had one good storm or two this summer. I missed them too, but not much. I live in one of those tornado magnets... aka trailer house. The grass is crispy, except at the golf course behind the house. Its odd to see the line of demarcation... irrigated and non. Maybe we will get lots of snow? Diana

It is visible from the highway as you cross the U of M campus area, near the river, heading east from the Mpls. side toward St. Paul. It is a tall, narrow cylindrical tower with a top that looks just like the archetypal witch's hat. A steep cone with a flat brim.

Sorry about the crispy grass. And maybe the winter snow will make next year greener.

Deirdre

Yes this cylindical one is the kind I like, and at $7, I'd like 3 or 4.

Tina