Wax

Monica,

Did you take your train trip and come thru Sacramento this past summer?

just me, Cathy from KY in CA

It's used to wax threads for several reasons - one is to strengthen the thread (for gold work, etc.), and to make threads behave better (like silk).

BTW, I saw a lovely picture of you today. Joanne Gatenby (X's and Oh's) was so tickled to meet you and have her picture taken with you. She was showing us (our Guild) her pictures and stash she brought back from Nashville.

MargW

Yes, and just think of stilettos used for making eyelet holes, or a tekobari (sp?). Indeed there are a number of rather lethal tools in my stitching box.

MargW

As was the fashion then, my girls used to wear white sandals in summer and after they were in bed (6pm for sure) I would white the sandals ready for the next day. Must have been mad but didn't even think of it then !

I don't know of any Dad (or Mom) that let their kids work on the cars is "good clothes".

Cheryl (man, I miss those days)

My Mom had me "white" her nurses shoes; I had to remove all the scuffs and white them, seemingly every day.

Cheryl

This SO needed a spew warning.

I really don't like the looks of stork scissors, but I do own a couple of pairs. Got them from an eBay shop that sold scissors seized at airport security; I bought mixed lots and got these with couple of other nice pairs. They're "travel scissors" and I don't care if I lose them.

Cheryl

ROFL!

My laying tool may be the sharpest, pointiest thing I own. Pretty sure I could kill someone with that quite easily. Bash someone in the head with a frameweight. Or scroll rods, but that might take some time - have to be in shape for that one.

Looking forward to meeting everyone at Cathy's trial!

Donna in Virginia

Ouch - definitely. Though, I haven't seen too many stitchers in stilettos armed with tekobari. I have a "Best Laying Tool" - which is the shorter, made in the US similar tool. It is soooo sharp at the point that I've actually seen minor finger stabbings when someone (not just myself) wasn't paying attention. Hmmmm, could that become the best stabbing tool - it's lightweight, and small!

ellice

Has anyone but me used white shoe polish on Keds tennis sneakers or the white buck shoes I wore when I was in high school. Talk about doing nutty things ! lol

Yes, but not for years. Such are the times that if I had white sneakers I would use them, chuck them lol Actually to avoid the whole thing, I only buy black sneakers.

Definitely remember polishing my Keds in elementary school. But, then with the advent of leather sneakers, tennis shoes, also came some specialty whiting stuff for them. I seem to remember that when I was playing a lot of tennis, and had the pricier leather shoes - the idea of cleaning them with sneaker white stuff suddenly came into vogue. I did not have bucs - maybe a generation thing, but I definitely had saddle shoes, for way, way, too long, and remember my mom cleaning/polishing them when I was little, then me being required to do it - white and black polishes...carefully, as soon as DM thought I was able. Ugh.

Funnily enough, yesterday DH was with me at the grocery (waiting on an RX) so we wandered around, and right down the aisle with all that miscellany, including the shoe polishes. Which started us into "hmmmm, you ought to polish some of your shoes.... I know I bought you some cloths for that" and us remembering our youth when we really did polish shoes. When I worked for research lab, my first boss was recently retired on disability from the Army, and just about every day you could go into his office and find him sitting there, in socks, with his freshly polished shoes sitting on paper towels next to the desk. It was a sign of things to come... As later after his anxiety attacks started and he had to quit smoking, he would polish daily, along with hanging an enormous poster of the Mormon temple "disney on the beltway", and having a very large copy of the "book" on his desk - so you'd walk in, he'd be polishing and reading. Got harder to actually find him available for actual work conversations.

Ellice

I even remember when there were shoe shine stands on the sidewalks, or in the lobbies of skyscrapers, right in midtown Manhattan. You could most always see well dressed business men sitting and reading the newspaper while they were having their shoes shined before going into the office.

Lucille

LOL - there are still shoe shine stands in a lot of nice office buildings

-we see them here in DC, and in NY. I'm sure in other cities as well. And they're in the airports here. Of course, down there in sandal land you likely don't have too many ;^)

Ellice

"Cathy from KY in CA" wrote

If I was going to kill someone with STASH......I would put a Q-snap around their neck and strangle them as I snapped it together.......or choke them by taking a UFO, that I have looked at for years, and cramming it in their mouth.

Sigh. If anyone were to be killed with stash around here, it would probably be by avalanche of the stuff.

Dawne

No, that's this coming June. Does anyone know of a needlework shop in Reno or Spokane or in Portland, OR?

Mary Monica

Monica Ferris wrote in news:5f17bc3a-2f29-4369-a09c- snipped-for-privacy@k17g2000yqb.googlegroups.com:

HABERDASHERY DESIGNS, 5023 N. Addison St. , SPOKANE, WA, 99207

Okay, *someone* has to do this design!!!! lolol

Joan

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I remember whenever my sister got new tennies (cloth back then, and we still used shoe polish on them), she hated them looking so "new" so she'd stand there and step on herself to dirty them up!

Joan

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