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From: MaryW
Date: 12-10-2005, 10:30 AM (1 of 38)
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Dear Santa: I have been very good. For Christmas I would like to have................ok ladies, fill in the blanks. 
MaryW
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User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542 
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From: Hogmami
Date: 12-10-2005, 10:42 AM (2 of 38)
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world peace
Carolyn
Michigan |
User: Hogmami
Member since: 09-30-2004 Total posts: 800 
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From: DorothyL
Date: 12-10-2005, 10:45 AM (3 of 38)
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A light in my sewing room. And world peace. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: bren
Date: 12-10-2005, 04:20 PM (4 of 38)
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Lot's and Lot's of embroidery thread in every colour under the rainbow... And World Peace Bren:
Don't let anyone ...Live Rent Free In Your Head |
User: bren
Member since: 11-30-2002 Total posts: 489 
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From: Magot
Date: 12-10-2005, 04:42 PM (5 of 38)
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too much Miss Congeniality here..... snow! OK world peace but I'd go for ratification of the Kyoto agreement... love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626 
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 12-10-2005, 07:20 PM (6 of 38)
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More time with my dear Grands... and more ideas on small gifts to make for babies and young children less fortunate.. I cannot think of anything to ask for for me personally.. I have everything I need, I guess.. I am counting my blessings..
Sew With Love
Libby |
User: LeapFrog Libby
Member since: 05-01-2002 Total posts: 2022 
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From: Sherri
Date: 12-10-2005, 07:57 PM (7 of 38)
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I would really like a new wardrobe that actually fits. And WORLD PEACE. Sher My website
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User: Sherri
Member since: 02-07-2001 Total posts: 357 |
From: Chrysantha
Date: 12-10-2005, 10:18 PM (8 of 38)
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I would like the ' mystery stereo' thats been haunting me for over a yr now to STOP. COMPLETELY. FOREVER.... Thats all I want or need...thank you.. Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414 
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From: allie-oops
Date: 12-11-2005, 09:04 AM (9 of 38)
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[QUOTE=Chrysantha]I would like the ' mystery stereo' thats been haunting me for over a yr now to STOP. COMPLETELY. FOREVER.... That's what I want too, Chrys - makes me even nuttier, especially when I'm trying to sleep. I'm sick of taking sleeping pills or wearing headphones listening to music just to GET TO SLEEP.  And maybe more snow.  Allie "onward through the fog"
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User: allie-oops
Member since: 10-25-2002 Total posts: 282 
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From: debsews
Date: 12-11-2005, 09:33 AM (10 of 38)
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I'm like most of you - have what i need but would love more time with the DGC. And of course world peace! Chrys - what makes me crazy is just when there's no song playing my dh will come into the room singing something and then it starts up again! Gotta love menapause!!! |
User: debsews
Member since: 09-16-2005 Total posts: 254 |
From: pretnichols
Date: 12-11-2005, 09:54 AM (11 of 38)
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World peace and to win the lottery -- and then my true wish list -- an embroidery sewing machine, all its accessories, more material (not that I don't have enough), more time for sewing, more time for lots of other things too -- Oh well, gotta go, the laundry is calling me and I have to be at work in 10 minutes! Have a great day ladies! Peggy Peggy
So little time, sew much to do........... |
User: pretnichols
Member since: 10-16-2005 Total posts: 342 |
From: mamahoogie
Date: 12-11-2005, 04:34 PM (12 of 38)
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Well I guess we all want World Peace and more time with family but materially speaking - a Babylock embroidery machine with an endless supply of every colour of Sulky thread possible and lots of material - of course, a larger sewing room to fit it all in would be nice too. Violet I've decided to live forever - so far, so good.
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User: mamahoogie
Member since: 12-25-2002 Total posts: 461 |
From: Dede
Date: 12-11-2005, 05:55 PM (13 of 38)
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In this order: - A healthy father - Peace and no more famine - More time with my brother and the kids - A decent job when I move. That's all. |
User: Dede
Member since: 03-23-2001 Total posts: 469 |
From: vickki
Date: 12-11-2005, 06:32 PM (14 of 38)
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That every little child in this world is happy,healthy and not hungry. Vickki |
User: vickki
Member since: 08-21-2005 Total posts: 374 |
From: gm23237
Date: 12-11-2005, 08:38 PM (15 of 38)
| More love in the world, more acceptance of others and an end to the war in Iraq. |
User: gm23237
Member since: 11-03-2003 Total posts: 145 
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 12-11-2005, 08:49 PM (16 of 38)
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For everyone who is hurried, rushed or overly active to stop, be patient and take a good look at what's really important in this world............Peoples feelings, our health, and love for one another. Then I want a new Singer 5 thread serger. That's all folks!!!!!!! I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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User: MotherInLaw
Member since: 06-25-2005 Total posts: 1118 
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From: trini
Date: 12-11-2005, 10:32 PM (17 of 38)
 World Peace, love and consideration for one another;and of course, a spanking new fancy sewing machine.
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User: trini
Member since: 09-17-2005 Total posts: 74 |
From: Chrysantha
Date: 12-11-2005, 11:53 PM (18 of 38)
Luckily my husband cannot sing or whistle (vocal cord damage at 16.) So he can't sing or whistle me crazy on top of the 'mystery stereo'. (thank heavens for small favors). Although he DOES threaten me once in awhile with the words...."shall I sing to you and the ferrets ?"...I always say, no thanks...Mikey is deaf and the rest of us wanna keep our hearing, thank you. 
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414
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From: glamma1940
Date: 12-13-2005, 01:12 AM (19 of 38)
| I would just love to have one week without any problems from my grown-up kids. One week where they called to say Hi & not add anymore to it. No wife problems, no kid problems, no money problems (at least not any they want me to help with), no husband problems, no job problems---the list goes on. Who says it's easier when they grow up???? |
User: glamma1940
Member since: 08-11-2005 Total posts: 21 |
From: MotherInLaw
Date: 12-13-2005, 01:20 AM (20 of 38)
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Glamma1940, You must be reading my mail or something I feel the same way you do. Why can't they just keep their problems to themselves. Then I wouldn't have to worry so much. My mother use to say "When they are little they are little problems when they are big they are big problems" she said a mouth full.......Amen to that I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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User: MotherInLaw
Member since: 06-25-2005 Total posts: 1118
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From: MariLynnTX
Date: 12-13-2005, 04:22 PM (21 of 38)
And I am truly thankful. I woke at 4:40 this a.m. and looked around my room and thought how lucky I am this year, compared with several previous ones. Last year, after I had 3 operations in rapid succession at3 different hospitals and 3 different doctors and my children all decided I couldn't live alone any more or drive a car any more, I was very unhappy. But here I am, at Jon's & Melissa's (with their children Brandon 7, Zachary 6, and Michelle Nicole 2) with a beautiful room and bath, my own furniture, my computer with printer, tablet, scanner, etc.,my tv, my CD player, DVD and VCR, my piano in their living-room, and a sewing corner in Jon's huge workroom with all three of my machines, shelves for my bins of fabric and stuff, my other children and grandchildren nearby, and the sweetest daughters-in-law anyone could possibly ask for, all offering to take me for coffee with my friends, to shop, to visit, and I overflow with gratitude and am ashamed of every time I have blamed God for troubles or complained about my children and their problems, or being short of money. None of them want me to buy anything. even for myself. But I told them I am going to buy my own electric scooter and all my gifts for them for Christmas. I don't need anything at all, just to see them all at Christmas, as we are planning. We will sing carols and think of Jonnie and Mark who loved our Christmas celebrations so much and go to midnight mass and pray for peace. I have so much for which I can be thankful, especially my 7 children and 15 grandchildren, and DILs and SILs. I wish for all of you a very happy loving Christmas.  MariLynntex
Life is a song...we give it harmony or dissonance.
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User: MariLynnTX
Member since: 08-13-2001 Total posts: 256 |
From: Bama
Date: 12-13-2005, 06:47 PM (22 of 38)
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That's very nice Marilyn. You are blessed. Dear Santa, I just want my house to be clean and have all my shopping done before my family comes over on Christmas Eve. Could you send over some elves to help? |
User: Bama
Member since: 03-21-2000 Total posts: 2116 
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 12-13-2005, 07:41 PM (23 of 38)
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Marilynn, To have children as wonderful as those you have, they have to start with a wonderful Mother who taught them well. The most important thing in life is to love one another...... everything else falls in place where it goes naturally if that's in place. You seem to have given a lot of love to your children and they are paying you back. You too have a wonderful Christmas Holiday. God Bless Hugs Susie I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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User: MotherInLaw
Member since: 06-25-2005 Total posts: 1118
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From: Shellymoon
Date: 12-13-2005, 10:31 PM (24 of 38)
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I want to remember in the next year all the lessons I've had to learn the hard way in this year....and no repeat lessons.... I'd also like more time to sew, but that's a gift only I can give to myself. Even Santa's not that magical. Shelly Moon
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User: Shellymoon
Member since: 05-27-2001 Total posts: 240 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 12-14-2005, 09:13 AM (25 of 38)
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I had a lovely gift yesterday. My oldest daughter came over for the afternoon and evening to sew with me. She is making doll clothes for a little friend. I lost a whole day of sewing on my Xmas gifts but it was worth it to work with her. She is good with many textile techniques -- cross stitch, knitting, crochet, tatting, bobbin lace -- and I bought her a machine a few years ago. She uses it mostly for mending and small things. She liked digging through my scraps and planning outfits for the doll. She says that is what she is good at -- picking the pattern and the fabric for me to make. This time I made her do the work and it turned out really good so she was very proud of herself. It was great. Her dad came home and they made a pizza. He really enjoyed that since he doesn't get much chance to spend time with her because they tend to both work during the others off hours. It was a great day. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: Mom of Six
Date: 12-14-2005, 09:22 AM (26 of 38)
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I would like a year of no funerals & no emergency room visits, Next year has to be better than this one was. I would also like my 21 YODD to gain the confidence she needs to start driving. & possibly get her own house. I would also like another DGC. but since the married DD says no way & the others aren't close to being ready I guess I'll have to wait on that. For material things I would love an embroidery machine. I don't know where I would put it but I'm sure I could find a place. My other wish is for a back massager for my chair. tried one when shopping & it felt so good. Barb
Happiness is having time to sew!! |
User: Mom of Six
Member since: 11-03-2001 Total posts: 1115 
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From: DorothyL
Date: 12-14-2005, 09:28 AM (27 of 38)
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Barb -- I had one of those back massagers and I used it so much I wore it out in a year. It was wonderful. Now I have a hand held one and I like it too but Lucy the dog likes to bark at it so it is hard to use while watching television. She barks at vacuum cleaners, blenders, hair driers and coffee grinders too. She would love to get at the lawn mower or snow blower but we are afraid she would blow out of them in bits if we let her near! Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: texas_angel
Date: 12-14-2005, 10:21 AM (28 of 38)
| First off I'd like for the world to be safe and happy. We need more love in the world. For me I'd like to have the electricity done so we can start moving into our "new" house. Then more time to sew, but I'm working on that one...LOL. And for lots more fun here at Sew what's news! Thanks Mary for a wonderfull place to meet new friends. |
User: texas_angel
Member since: 08-17-2005 Total posts: 54 |
From: Magot
Date: 12-14-2005, 10:38 AM (29 of 38)
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It's an interesting picture you paint, Dorothy of "Lucy through the Snowblower" when you pick up the bits - do you think you will still find the bark? Glad you had a lovely day with you daughter. Mine is supposed to be going pattern and material shopping for her wedding dress but I think she would rather have her arms sawn off.
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: Pudge99
Date: 12-14-2005, 11:12 AM (30 of 38)
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#1 on my list. I would love to have everyone in my house healthy on Christmas. Since Halloween there has been someone sick almost everyday. Everyone now is just getting over a big Flu like sickness that kept them all home from school for a solid week and we had one emergency room visit for an asthma attack. #2 I would love a way to make guaranteed money without leaving home and without selling stuff. #3 An embroidery machine and the time to learn how to use it. #4 A knitting machine and the time to learn how to use it. #5 A house elf. But not Doby. Enough things get broken around my house as it is. #6 All the equipment and the money to pay the electric bill so I could have a Christmas light display like this (http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/daytondailynews/video/christmaslights.wmv). #7 That world peace thing ya'll are talking about would be nice but them my hubby would be out of a job. So then there would be nothing under the tree for us. Gina
Pictures of my successes and failures Pfaff 2040 Janome Mylock 134D Singer Futura CE-100 w/ Autopunch Husqvarna Viking 3D Sketch |
User: Pudge99
Member since: 10-30-2001 Total posts: 1375 |
From: SummersEchos
Date: 12-14-2005, 03:12 PM (31 of 38)
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Awesome show Gina, but I sure would not want them for neighbors. We hada huge Christmas castle not far from us, and at first it is cool, but then it gets to be a pain with all the traffic and mess people leave behind. Now the castle has been moved out of our street into a nursey in their parking lot, which is much better.
Summer
FREE FALLIN |
User: SummersEchos
Member since: 09-29-2004 Total posts: 884 |
From: Magot
Date: 12-14-2005, 05:30 PM (32 of 38)
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GINA I LOVE THE LIGHTS - that is so wild! And horrid if they lived next door!
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 12-14-2005, 09:45 PM (33 of 38)
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There was a fender bender in front of that house and the police made him TURN it all off...whata shame...no more Christmas lights.
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414
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From: Pudge99
Date: 12-15-2005, 02:17 PM (34 of 38)
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There are several neighborhoods around here that are traffic jams due to the Christmas lights. My street is the most lit up in our neighborhood. People do the 5 mile an hour cruise-by already. It helps that we are a through street so we don't have the culdesac bottleneck. It will be a long time before I could afford a set up like that. Until then I will stick with my After Christmas Clearance shopping until every tree, shrub, and blade of glass has lights on it.
Gina
Pictures of my successes and failures Pfaff 2040 Janome Mylock 134D Singer Futura CE-100 w/ Autopunch Husqvarna Viking 3D Sketch |
User: Pudge99
Member since: 10-30-2001 Total posts: 1375 |
From: bridesmom
Date: 12-18-2005, 10:54 PM (35 of 38)
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My Dear Santa wish is for no more war, no more hunger, no more homeless, no more senseless killing innocents with guns, no more gangs, then I'd like to win a lottery. Then I could pay for all my kids education and new homes for them, AND retire so I can sew and sew and sew. Oh, and jobs for all those soldiers who will be out of jobs cause there is no more war!
Laura
Tickled pink with my Innovis 4000D |
User: bridesmom
Member since: 01-21-2004 Total posts: 2026 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 12-19-2005, 08:43 AM (36 of 38)
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Laura -- Didn't you just get a new bed? Some people just want everything! Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: Sewhappie
Date: 12-19-2005, 06:49 PM (37 of 38)
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that is AWESOME!!!!!!!! They had stories on the local news about that House. It's in Mason Ohio, which is near Cincinnati, he has it set that you turn to a setting on your car radios and you can hear the music to go with the lights. (Can you tell that the guy works with computers in his daliy job!?!?!?!) This way he is not bothering the neighbors with the music over and over. Though some of the neighbors have said that they turn on the radio to the music just to be able to enjoy the show!!!!! I just want to be able to see my DH have as much fun every year as he has had this year shopping for gifts for his gift exchange person. It's taken 25 years for me to be able to get him to relax and enjoy the Holidays!!! He is wanting to get something for everyone, even if they are not on his list!!!!!! I would like to have a helper to get my sewing room back in order, and a new sewing machine, a Bernina would be nice!!!! To someday, not anytime soon, be a Grandmother. See all three of the kids)DD,DSIL, DS)get their degrees and Masters and good jobs, and be happy in their lives. |
User: Sewhappie
Member since: 10-27-2001 Total posts: 1427 |
From: bridesmom
Date: 12-20-2005, 04:33 AM (38 of 38)
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Dorothy, yes we got a new bed, and I need to win the lottery so I can get some sheets and a duvet cover and fabric to make a skirt and a dog to sleep in it, cause it's so honkin big!
Laura
Tickled pink with my Innovis 4000D |
User: bridesmom
Member since: 01-21-2004 Total posts: 2026 |
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