Finally got the pictures up on the website...

Hi All:
I am taking a bit of a break from sewing until "Psycho Kitty" settles
down a bit. Unlike Kate's well-mannered felines, our Pepper thinks that
everything's fair game! I did manage to take down and re-furbish the old
curtains in the family room, though. Not really an easy task as it meant
putting up new rods as well. I still have two valances to make and put up
and then that job will finally be done - it's only been almost 20 years of
hating what was hanging in that room! (Not so much the curtains - it was
the butt-ugly rods that just didn't work!) I waited for hubby to be gone
for a week and then did the job myself....with plenty of 'help' from the
kitten!
My other accomplishment was to update our family website a bit. It is
still extremely simplistic compared to Kate's, but it does show a bit of
where we live and some of the sewing I've done. The top picture of the deer
in my backyard actually has five deer in it (4 and 1/2, really) - I truly
think that they were planning an attack at night on my sundeck as that is
where I have taken to growing fuschias, roses, pansies and all of their
other non-perennial favourites. The site is:
http://www.rupert.net/~spilsted/
and, as I've already said, Kate's is a far better site - does Alan do a
lot of the grunt work on it for you, Kate?
As soon as I can get a copy of the "Tradition" outfits from Fiddler on
the Roof and the "Can-Can" petticoats I will add them to the site, too. The
girls in the towel wraps peeled the towels off 2/3 of the way through the
dance to reveal brightly coloured satin 'tube' dresses - that dance was a
lot of fun to watch and the girls had a great time doing it. We organised a
sewing bee to make the costumes and got them done in a day: the non-sewing
moms were our 'go-fers' between the tables and the rest of us cut, sewed,
pinned and such. Their head-wraps were towel turbans that were cut and sewn
so no one had to worry about it coming off mid-dance! We had a lot of fun
and everyone learned a little bit - plus, it meant that I didn't have to
make all of the darned things! (Ulterior motive at work: I'd much rather
teach them to sew the costume than make it for them all the time.)
Cynthia

Cynthia Spilsted wrote:
site is: http://www.rupert.net/~spilsted/ and, as I've already

Waaaaa, it "timed out". :-(

"BEI Design" wrote in message
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Cynthia Spilsted wrote:
site is: http://www.rupert.net/~spilsted/ and, as I've already

Waaaaa, it "timed out". :-(


Could be a 'net problem yesterday - all mail I sent to 'hotmail' accounts
yesterday came back unable to deliver as host unavailable.
Shouldn't have timed out - Michael showed me (and I actually remembered
something!) to break it into separate 'pages' for quicker loading -
especially important for those with dial-up modems.
Cynthia

Loved the photos, outstanding website.
Emily

Cynthia Spilsted wrote:

Could be a 'net problem yesterday - all mail I sent to
'hotmail' accounts yesterday came back unable to deliver as
host unavailable.
Shouldn't have timed out - Michael showed me (and I actually
remembered something!) to break it into separate 'pages' for
quicker loading - especially important for those with dial-up
modems.
Cynthia

I reached your site this AM, thanks. I love your costume work, how
very fortunate your daughters are.

I also have some wildlife in my backyard, though nothing as large as
yours. ;-)

--
Beverly
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Birds:
http://home.comcast.net/~bei.designs

Irene:
The hedgehog is also known by the very appropriate nickname of SRT which
stands for: "Spoiled Rotten Thing". She has two converted toques to sleep
in (both out of top quality wool - Lopi and White Buffalo) and a polar
fleece carry bag for being carted around the house or downtown. That is,
when she is not making herself comfortable up inside someone's sweatshirt or
t-shirt or in a Kangaroo pocket! Right now, she is sleeping in our queen
sized bed with my husband and the cat!
Cynthia
"IMS" wrote in message
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Cynthia, I love your sewing...and the African Pygmy Hedgehog! What a
cute thing!

-Irene

On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 22:53:44 -0700, "Cynthia Spilsted"
wrote:
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http://www.rupert.net/~spilsted/





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