The latest thing around here...

Hi, I'm a relative newbie here from the southeastern part of the US and
have enjoyed reading so many posts from everyone who've got the most
interesting things going on with their creative endeavors! You're all
so creative! It's inspiring, really and I hope just a bit of that rubs
off here. Here's something I'd like to add to the mix at the holiday
season and perhaps it'll give some an idea of what to make for their own
Christmas lists next year since it's a bit late in the month to try it
for this year.

Lately the latest craze in style has been purses made from place mats.
They're folded over, sewn shut up the sides and the tops have ribbon
straps sewn about an inch from the top edge on both sides. Is that
?'latest thing" reaching everywhere else as well? Just curious. One
sister is sending me a purse she has now to take apart, see how it's
constructed, sew it back together, then write down how it was made, and
send the instructions to another sister. The second sister has a tote
bag filled with all manner of place mats for making into purses! She's
going to become a one-woman industry it appears, but they re are simple,
cost little to put together and adorable! Anyone else heard of these?

"Denise Jackson Walker" skrev i meddelandet
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Hi, I'm a relative newbie here from the southeastern part of the US

Hej Denise!

I'm from South Carolina (Columbia and Greenville) and then lived in
Charlotte, N.C. for 12 years. Then I picked-up and moved to Sweden!!! :-)

Lately the latest craze in style has been purses made from place mats. . .
Anyone else heard of these?

Nope, we don´t do that in these here parts. :-) I get a LOT of good ideas
by combining Swedish traditional type sewing and crafts projects with modern
American trends like Fabric Bowls.

Take care,

Erin

Hi Erin, I'm from Simpsonville, SC, 14 miles from Greenville. I'm lucky
enough to be able to live in Florida during the cold months. Nice to meet
ya!
Barbara in SC & FL

Barbara Raper wrote:

Hi Erin, I'm from Simpsonville, SC, 14 miles from Greenville. I'm lucky
enough to be able to live in Florida during the cold months. Nice to meet
ya!

Cold months? How cold does it get, exactly, around there? We were told
that it rarely went below freezing and that there was rarely any snow,
just occasionally a light dusting. Is that accurate? I hate to be
sending my daughter off unprepared for viciously cold weather. But then
again, I suppose Pennsylvania is a lot further north than South Carolina.

Don't believe everything you hear! Be sure to pack her plenty of warm
clothes and a heavy coat. There might be 2 snows, when schools and stores
close for a day or 2. But yes, mostly ice storms, 2 or 3 a year, when
schools and stores close and power goes out. At home in SC I have flannel
sheets for my bed, DH wears insulated underwear for his outside work. It's
cold from Oct to April.
e-mail me privately for more info.
Barbara in SC & FL

I was in Boiling Springs about 25 miles from Greenville the end of last
month to visit DS & family and to celebrate DGD's 6th. It was cold! I wore
warm clothing and of course, the afternoon she(DGD) had her horse riding
lesson was the coldest afternoon so far this year, very cloudy and damp as
well. It was even too cold to shoot pictures of her practicing her first
jumps with the digital camera. I thought I had broken it, but after we got
inside the house, it worked fine.
Boiling Springs/Spartanburg is near Ashville, about 26 miles, I think. I
call it the foot of the Piedmont Mtns. though that may not be exactly
accurate.
Emily

Barbara Raper wrote:

Don't believe everything you hear! Be sure to pack her plenty of warm
clothes and a heavy coat. There might be 2 snows, when schools and stores
close for a day or 2. But yes, mostly ice storms, 2 or 3 a year, when

YIKES! She doesn't own any really cold-weather clothes -- the lowest it
ever really gets here is in the 40s -- and she's leaving for school in
two weeks! Time to pop up a web page and start ordering furiously with
express delivery!

Thanks for the info.

Melinda, my daughter is going to Charleston, SC for college, and the
school sent her a Chriatmss card with the school's quad covered in snow!
We were all a little surprised. I guess they sent it to prepare new
students for the rude shock of expecting to go to a "southern" climate!

Hope everyone is having a merry holiday! I'm taking a break from
marathon cooking--last night's dinner, this morning's breakfast
(homemade cinnamon rolls, yum!), today's lunch, and fixin's for dinner
tonight. Tomorrow, they're all waiting on ME, hand and foot.

Karen Maslowski in snowy, cold Ohio--our nation's deep freeze today

Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply wrote:
Barbara Raper wrote:

Hi Erin, I'm from Simpsonville, SC, 14 miles from Greenville. I'm lucky
enough to be able to live in Florida during the cold months. Nice to
meet
ya!


Cold months? How cold does it get, exactly, around there? We were told
that it rarely went below freezing and that there was rarely any snow,
just occasionally a light dusting. Is that accurate? I hate to be
sending my daughter off unprepared for viciously cold weather. But then
again, I suppose Pennsylvania is a lot further north than South Carolina.

Besides Charleston being cold in the winter and wet during the summer, there
is always a chance of hurricanes in the fall, and don't forget that it is
situated on a earthquake fault. However it would be a wonderful place to
live! I love it's history!
Barbara in FL and Greenville, SC

Erin Winslow wrote:

I'm from South Carolina (Columbia and Greenville)

My, what a small world! My daughter is heading from here in northern
California to Greenville (to attend Bob Jones University) on January 10,
and I spent a few days in Columbia as a child because of a
transportation breakdown while going from northeastern Pennsylvania,
where my dad and I both grew up, to Savannah, Georgia, where my mom's
family was and is still headquartered around.