The Yahoo! Crafter's Place Chat Club Newsletter

Just to say..."I did it myself!"

Your hair is the color of tomato soup!
April Fools, April Fools!
There's great big dog on your front stoop!
April, April Fools!
Well, look out the window; what do you see?
Peaches on the cherry tree.
I fooled you and you fooled me
This is April Fool's Day!

I've been searching for the rest of the lyric and a midi of this song for years now. It is a song I learned from Miss Norma Showers in grade school. We won't talk about how many years ago that was. I loved Miss Showers because she let me do the one thing I loved to do most, sing, which I took very seriously. Hey, I was that kind of a kid. I took everything seriously.
Welcome Crafters! to our Newsletter for April 1, 2000. And, in case you missed the point, today is April Fool's Day.
April is a month full of events. On the first, today, is April Fool's Day. On the second, the switch to Daylight Savings Time through most of the US and Canada. Then we have Palm Sunday (16), Passover (20), Good Friday (21), Earth Day (22), Easter (23), Secretary Day (26), and Arbor Day (30). If you tried to make crafts for them all, you'd have a crafting nightmare.
And just when you thought that month was over and you could rest, along comes May with May Day (1), Cinco de Mayo (5), Mother's Day (14), Armed Forces Day (20), and Memorial Day in the US (30 and 31). Don't you just love Spring. It's like we're in a rush to pack as much celebration in as we can. Well, if you don't remember or know most of these days, I discuss many of them on my website or just ask me. I have a thing for holidays.
BTW, not mentioned, both MGonzalez01 and I (AngelPie_Mouse) have birthdays in April. Of course, you could chalk it up to everyone is born some time, but I'm sure Mary would like an electronic birthday card or two or three.

Hello Crafter's

As I said last month, one of my favorite things to do is welcome new crafters to our club. Unfortunately, like last month, there were no new members this month either. This is becoming an alarming trend. What's happening to the crafters of the world? Where are they going? How come they aren't here with us, sharing? hmmm? (AngelPie contemplates mass e-mail to crafter clubs throughout Yahoo!).
Recruiting. You can add to the pool of knowledge we can all share in by inviting known craft addicts to join us. Remember our URLs are: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/craftersplace and http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/Street/3400 or the shortcut Yahoo!-Geocities is now bragging about http://www.geocities.com/craftersplace. Oh my, what's happening to the neighborhood?

If you have been following the message board this month, you know that about the only topic of conversation has been the article on rubberstamping I asked someone to write for us. mpack_99 had offered to really do it up right with pictures of equipment and projects. I can hardly wait (seriously).
But for the rest of us, well, maybe it is that we keep getting bogged down in projects and forgetting to tell each other about them. Or, maybe, we are ashamed to admit that our main project right now is painting the living room so it will look nice for company during Easter. Or, perhaps, you've been busy repairing winter storm damage, pulling out the screens to replace the storm windows, painting the eave troughs, or sprucing up the garden. Hey, these are legal crafts in a club where any craft goes. Tell us about it. You might save me a couple of days' agony if you've discovered a shortcut to getting these things done. Tips on saving paint rollers, doing trim work, covering up nail holes from old pictures...what do you got?

Winter is over. The days are growing longer and warming. It's time to replace the heavy glass storm windows with the screens you stored in the garage last Autumn. Oh, no, bent frames, torn screening, the things are rusting to bits...these will never keep the flies and mosquitoes out.
In southern California and most of the southerly states, of course, we live with screens in the windows year round, but that doesn't mean they aren't equally susceptible to damage and wear and tear. Last year, for example, I discovered that all the spline in all my screens had hardened and was beginning to let go. The sun tends to bake them quickly. The screening material in a couple of them was literally flapping in a good breeze, creating an on-ramp arrow for flying insects, "enter here." Not exactly what they were intended to do. Too, most of the screening material was powdering to dust with every good squirt of the garden hose, which has to be done often in So-Cal because of dust. It was time to replace them all.
I took one screen to a recommended hardware store for a professional replacement. Not being a standard size--what window in my house was standard size--they had to custom make it. Cost $35. Okay, if it is going to cost that much money per window, maybe I'll wait on the others. Then again, how much would it cost to buy the materials and do-it-myself?
While this project is more in the line of home repair than a craft, it is one that we probably all could use a little advice about just now. So, consulting my own memory and Home Depot, I offer instructions on how to repair, replace, and patch your window screens. Good idea, huh?
Photos and instructions for this project are offered in supplement. E-mailed readers see Word document nl000401b; on-line readers click here.

Daylight Savings Time
Don't forget at 1 a.m. this
coming Sunday to turn your
clocks forward 2 a.m. as
Daylight Savings Time begins
in most of the U.S., except
in Hawaii, Indiana, and parts
of Arizona.

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