Send a Quote Card
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To send somone a Quote Card, simply click on the "Send to a Friend" link below each image.
If you'd prefer to send a Quote Card using your own e-mail program, do the following:
For Internet Explorer users: Click on the "View Image Full Size" link just below the image you want to send. Then right click on the full size image and select the "E-mail Picture"
For Firefox users: Right click on the image, and select the option for "Send Image".
If asked, select "Keep the original sizes" and then click on OK (our images are already compressed so no need to make them smaller.)
Then use your email program to enter your TO: email addresses as well as any message you might want to include, hit "Send" and you're done.
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Reading The Bride On Her Wedding Day The bridal veil is the most joyful of lace to read. Every possibility is in it. Because of the sacramental nature of marriage, there is seldom anything disturbing in the bridal veil, rather it is possible to see the beauty of a life as it stretches only forward. The children’s faces can often be seen in the lace at this time and sometimes even the grandchildren the couple will have. Where there is a long train of lace that needs to be carried, it is often possible to see the full figures of the ancestors carrying the train which appears to float in places where the laws of gravity would dictate otherwise. A bride’s excitement on this occasion will often correspond to the number of persons attendant on the veil. —The Lace Reader’s Guide |
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I remember the first time I saw the Golden Gate Bridge. There was a man I was seeing for a short period. His family had a house in Sonoma County, and we drove up the coast to see it. For some reason, as we were driving across the bridge, he told me how many people kill themselves each year by jumping off that bridge. We broke up shortly after that. |
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When George Washington came to Ipswich, it was not for any political purpose, but because Martha fancied some black lace for a shawl she was having made. It was a phenomenon. This industry created and run by women was thriving like none before. |
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You’re not going to tell me you believe in that happily-ever-after crapola? |
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What distinguishes Ipswich Lace from all other hand-made laces are the bobbins. The colonial women could not afford the heavier decorative bobbins used by European women. Like everything else in the Colonies, the lace-makers had to make do with what was at hand. And so the bobbins they wound the thread upon were lighter, sometimes hollow, fabricated from beach reeds or occasionally bamboo that came in on the Salem ships as packing material, or even from bones. —The Lace Reader’s Guide |
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The Lace Reader must stare at the piece of lace until the pattern blurs and the face of the Seeker disappears completely behind the veil. When the eyes begin to fill with tears and the patience is long exhausted, there will appear a glimpse of something not quite seen. In this moment, an image will begin to form . . . in the space between what is real and what is only imagined. —The Lace Reader’s Guide |
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There is lace in every living thing: the bare branches of winter, the patterns of clouds, the surface of water as it ripples in the breeze . . . Even a wild dog’s matted fur shows a lacy pattern if you look at it closely enough. |
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Eva’s way of dealing with pain was to revert to the general consensus of truisms that most people dismiss as cliché. Clichés were generalities. They held truth, of course, or they wouldn’t have been so overused in the first place. But they didn’t leave disturbing images. They couldn’t harm. |
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Polite dinner conversation is very important. If you are stumped, try asking questions. It gets the conversation going and keeps the focus off you. Find out what they’re interested in, and what their preferences are. Offer something of yourself in the question; it’s more intimate that way. Appropriate dinner conversation might be to turn to the person next to you and say, “I like soup. Do you like soup?” |
