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- Go to Creative Uses for Dryer Lint-----MerryAnne
renigade3, go raid it and let the lint fly!
posted by
benzinha
on January 15, 2005 at 10:08 AM
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KlaraRoberts, I thank you a thousand times for your kindness.
posted by
benzinha
on January 15, 2005 at 10:07 AM
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Very cute...
Made me want to go and raid my dryer!
posted by
Renigade
on January 15, 2005 at 8:56 AM
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Wonderful piece, benzhina! I never thought anyone could write this well
about lint!
posted by
KlaraRoberts
on January 14, 2005 at 4:10 PM
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MerryAnne, grandchildren are an artist grandmother's delight. We just let
our imaginations go and have fun. I had so much fun in my old neighborhood as a child and I wanted my grandchildren to experience some of that in today's more restricted world.
Sadly, I couldn't have your babies over. I am getting grumpier in my old age and only grandchildren keep me patient. I grow impatient with other people's children and like them to stay for Very Short Periods. I think that I sort of burn out using up my brain and imagination and patience, trying to be fabulous while they are here and I am drained when their parents come to get them.
You can do it MerryAnne, just pull your inner child out and let it play with the kids.
posted by
benzinha
on January 14, 2005 at 11:14 AM
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tapsel, you are like my sister. When she got her first dryer, she said,
"Art nowadays is really silly. Maybe I should make something out of this and become famous." She never did, but others did and they did become famous. She later said, "See? I was right!"
posted by
benzinha
on January 14, 2005 at 11:09 AM
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My Dear!
can I send my kids over to your house to play! you have waaaay more imagination than I have! :)
posted by
MerryAnne
on January 14, 2005 at 7:51 AM
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Benzhina - I knew that you would have lots of creative ideas for lint. I can remember when I got my very first clothes dryer about 1965 after years of hanging things on lines outside. I was fascinated with the lint and saved it for something but never could think of anything to do with it. Ended up throwing it out.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 14, 2005 at 6:45 AM
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Of course dear Benzinha, they have wool in Peru. One of the very best. llama wool certainly and the more expensive Alpaca wool (some sort of Llama too). I have two smaller, very colourful blankets too from Peru.
Bought at a market for almost no money (I paid about 6 dollars for 2), thought they were factory produced but had them examined whil I was there, and they were actually handmade! Normally about 50 dollars a piece!!
That salesman had a very bad day I guess!!!
Hope to talk with you soon! Take care!
Voyager9940
posted by
Voyager9940
on January 14, 2005 at 1:29 AM
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No, Voyager, but my sister bought it for me when she was there.
She was actually in the Peace Corp, muchos many decades ago, in Colombia and took a short vacation, buying wool all over Bolivia and Peru. Maybe it was llama fur.........what do I know?? I lived in Brasil and Honduras and Mexico and there was no need for wool anything there.
Why, is there no wool produced in Peru? Am I wrong, maybe it's Bolivian!?!?!? There are llamas all over the blanket woven into the pattern and now it's as thick as felt, as it is not to be dried in a dryer!!! It used to be for a double bed and now it's for a single. But, it stops the cold like a forest fire.
posted by
benzinha
on January 14, 2005 at 1:25 AM
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A yellow Peruvian blanket.... now I'm intriged here..... handmade in Peru dear? Ever been there?
Voyager9940
posted by
Voyager9940
on January 14, 2005 at 1:17 AM
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