Lost Chart & Raise the Roof

Have you see the Raise the Roof Designs freebie, 'Cream of Ort Soup'? Done in the Campbell's soup colors it meant to cover a soup can to be used as an ort holder.

Mavia

I didn't look at it - but will. I'm so full of projects that are kitted to start, that I'm resisting what I can. That said, I have been open to adding little things - as most of the stuff in the queue are largish, not simple pieces.

Ellice

Where did you find it! I can find images, but not the chart!

Cheryl

What she said!

And man I wish I had an LNS again, I really like some of the charts.

Cheryl

The note at the bottom of the design says: 'Permission is granted to photocopy or enlarge this design. It may also be used in newsletters, web pages, ransom notes, outhouses or kitted with supplies, but never sold.' So from that I take it's OK to distribute it.

I can send it to you in a file. Just email me privately.

Mavia

Does this email work? C

I should add that it is a 1,850kb file for anyone requesting it.

Mavia

Come visit - we'll take you to a bunch ;^)

ellice

Definitely the way to find a lost item is to obtain/buy a replacement! I did that a few weeks ago - completely lost my walkingstick so went out and bought a new one. As I walked back through the door guess what I saw peeking out from behind a curtain! I rarely need it now, fortunately.

Pat

Ya know, I just might put it to DH that the kids and I go to DC for a few days after school is out...

C

Glad your rarely need it. But, OTOH, now you can have one in the front, and one in the rear of the house - or something like that.

I've really looked quite a bit for this - and all I can think of is that it's really buried inside something else, or mistakenly went out in the trash. There is a shredder right here - but it doesn't work - so it wasn't shredded. Ah, well, I'm glad I'll be able to start this as soon as the next little project finishes.

ellice

Just make sure that you give me a few days notice! The plan here is that we're out of the storage unit by end of month, there's a community yard sale on May 5 (yeah), and then I want everything unpacked or cleared out before end of May. It's a plan. And I'm doing an event on June 16. But, we do have queen size beds in 2 guest rooms, and a double size futon in the office (studio), and a sectional in the rec room, and the pool will be open. And it's only about 10-15 minutes to Donna, 15 to Ericka, 20-30 to Caryn, and well, the Baltimore contingent - we usually meet with an hour's drive.

Less than 10 to one LNS, about 20-25 to the next, 25 to a third..... And we're close to the new Udvar-Hazy Center from the Smithsonian. And am happy to drop folks off at the metro for downtown . Oh, and it's 6 minutes to one of the rinks.

Ellice

Me, too. Let's run away from home and open our own LNS.

Oh man YES! if only I didn't have to worry about college tutions

Cheryl

I just got off the phone with my daughter. College tuition is one of her upcoming headaches. DGS is a junior, and did pretty well in SATs. However Mom and Dad have good incomes, and grants seem to be geared for further down the salary scale. The tough thing is that there are two younger sibs. She has told young Mike that he will be spending his time writing applications for scholarships for the next year. $500, $1000 here and there, eventually adds up. His SATs were good enough for Maryland, and Virginia Tech, and somewhere else, a PA school I think; ; they had four schools listed for results to be sent to. He missed the math for GaTech by five points. However he admitted he took too long on one question, and couldn't finish the last three. He was so mad at himself, that I didn't have the heart to say "you knew better; the easy ones first, then go back!".

Been a rough day! A funeral ths mornng; I thought it would be quick, but it was a 1 1/2 hour Catholic Mass. I came home pooped, so I did another band on my sampler, and was lazy and bought steak for dinner!!

Gill

Gill Murray wrote: > I just got off the phone with my daughter. College tuition is one of

Tell me about it. In one way, the system is so skewed it discourages saving because financial aid is based solely on financial need, as determined by some seemingly arbitrary evaluation of income and assets. So you're basically told how much you can afford, and then you laugh and say, "oh, yeah? Where's that money coming from?" Unless you can save

*all* the money for college -- and nobody can -- hardly seems worthwhile. If a family can save $30,000 to $50,000 per kid - and that's a lot -- it almost counts against them in terms of financial aid availability.

College costs have gotten so out of reach, I think the system is getting more and more economically polarized. Much as it was pre-1960s. There are "rich kid schools" and "schools for the rest of us." And kids starting life with an enormous financial burden. My generation had loans, but they weren't the crippling numbers of dollars that people have now...for *undergraduate* costs, never mind grad school.

Sue

Did I mention our LNS will also sell Lotto tickets? Under the California system, when someone wins one of the big prizes, the retailer gets a nice check, too. Someone recently won the top prize, and the store that sold the ticket got something on the order of $600,000. That would pay a lot of tuition, and since my "kids" aren't going to college, you can consider the Corporate Tuition Reimbursement Plan to be entirely for the benefit of your kids.

Because you're right, we're not going to get rich running a LNS.

Absolutely. Our college had one scholarship for a measly $50. My roommate was applying for it, and I said something about it being not worth the effort for a lousy fifty bucks. She looked at me "do you earn $50 for one hour of work?" Nooooooo, I had to type a lot of pages to make that kind of money.