Angela Yoder My lovely Lorraine is the most popular design I sell. I have happily found a lot of blogs that are linked to her, so I thought adding lunch ideas for those of you who carry her would be fun to start compiling. I’m tinkering with the idea of creating recipe cards with my own lunchtime favs that got me through the crappiest work years of my life. Stay tuned.
Fit Sugar
SELF Magazine Lunch Article-March ’08
Team Sugar one and two
Too Fun.
I love this crazy little town. Check out this new website: http://www.everydayolympia.com/. Get yourself involved in a free listing and paid advertisment. Brought to you by the owners of a very cool store, ‘einmaleins’ – Downtown Olympia.
Danke Mathias und Trixy!
Update 2021, I removed the links as they are obsolete now. -ang
I received an email asking me to send another Lorraine Lunchbag back to NYC. This time, she is accompanying the Diet & Nutrition editor at SELF magazine on a morning tv show Monday! She will talk about the lunch article that was published in the March issue. When I find a link, or some videos, I will post to share. I was really excited about this happening, too. Anyone who sees this broadcast in NYC, tell me how it goes.
Thanks to everyone at SELF!
Hypothesis 1: It is possible to attach matte board to oilcoth using adhesive. Outcome: true. Problem: the only adhesive that works is Gorilla Glue, but it expands, becomes uneven underneath the material, and makes it look bumpy and unattractive. Otherwise, I LOVE Gorilla Glue for so many reasons!
Hypothesis 2: It is possible to machine sew matte board directly to the oilcloth. Outcome: true. Problem: material shifts and “walks” creating uneven edges. The inside of this isn’t nearly as pretty as I’d like.
This cute little “gift box” is from Simplicity Pattern #4320, “D” Shirley Botsford Designs. I made it as a purse, but I cannot legally sell it; to honor the copyright of the designer.
This was a tedious project, as is most of the work I do. Problems were solved and I may revisit this again in the future.
from “My Great Oilcloth Study” Fall Artwalk 2007, Inside Vintage, Downtown Olympia, oilcloth, matte board, thread, beads
Pacific City, OR. February twothousandandeight —this is for you, Aunt Bertie! 😉 
Hypothesis: It is possible to create a functional drawstring bag out of oilcloth.
Outcome: false. Problem: Oilcloth is bulky, therefore unable to close tightly with itself.
from “My Great Oilcloth Study Fall 2007”, Olympia Artwalk at Inside Vintage
oilcloth, thread, beads, batting
You loser-punk-ass people who create malicious software and trojans need a serious reality check…GET A LIFE!
Hey kids—I was infected with a very aggressive trojan-worm unwelcomed-download to my laptop today. It slowed all the processes so much I couldn’t work offline on my website. Warning pop-ups kept trying to get me to click on them every 10 seconds.
There was nothing in the Add/Remove Programs. Very sneaky. Stay away from this website—www dot the rental wizard dot com. They can tag what you Google Search so it comes up in the list. Very tricky. This evil website locked my Task Manager and would not allow me to close any programs! As I was looking for the problem files which I could not find, there appeared 3 new icons on my desktop: “protect files” with a sword and shield (bluish in color), “spyware” a square shape (orangish in color), and the other was redish in color, I forgot the name. When I found them in C:/ and hovered over with my mouse this website came up: www dot virus web protect dot com / shandler dot php.
I used our desktop computer to search for this website. Here is a link to what helped me with this issue: www.computing net Read the thread and follow the link to Andy Manchesta’s website to battle trojan ilk.
After I completed the fix, my virus software detected this: Adware:Win32/Vapsup. I quarantined it, not knowing if it was safe or not. Then I read this: www.microsoft.com Adware is a relatively new virus. Just wanted you to know—this is my cyber holding-hands-while-we-cross-the-street together. Remember being encouraged to do that when we were young?
Thank you Andy and Computer.net folks! You are cool people.
(Addendum, next morning)–Please note the website that the trojan was trying to open is: www dot ultimate cleaner dot com. That was in the address window. The address that showed up in my tab list was: www dot soft ware referral dot com / jump dot php ? wmid = 6010 & mid = MjI60jg5 & li It defaulted one of my tab homepages and was right there when I opened Explorer today. I deleted the tab.
***All the address in bold do not have spaces. I did not want to link to these creeps.
You know what it’s like to attend an event where thousands of people are: bumping into the one you didn’t see, “Oh sorry!”, slowly moving forward with the sideways head, what we like to call “tourist pace” when we attend our local Farmer’s Market every week; we know what we want, how to get there with the shortest trajectory, but visitors, who we are glad want to visit Olympia, slow us down with our game of getting in and out of there in record speed. I was a turtle, too, don’t get me wrong. There were things I saw that made my jaw drop; beautiful pieced quilts that painted pictures of a jazz musician and a ballerina, how to machine embroidery flowers with the smallest of ribbon, adorable hanging cottages in pumpkin shapes, soft sculpture dragons and elephant purses, glorious glorious East Indian fabrics with gold and shimmer in deep, deep shades of pinks, purples, and greens, hand beaded ribbons that almost made me faint (ha), and amazing Japanese fabrics with swans and chubby faces.
I talked to many nice people, saw a few seminars, had a Gyro and Mr. Pibb at 10:30am and it was delicious, walked at least 3 miles, and was the only one carrying an oilcloth bag. I even heard a bag seminar person say she doesn’t like oilcloth, ‘it’s too hard’. *sigh*
I saw; a fun fashion show from Simplicity patterns inspired by my favorite “Project Runway”, those same patterns were $5 at their booth so I bought a few, I bought a beautiful brown knit fabric which I had put back on the shelf twice because I wasn’t sure it would work with my pattern to make a tunic, a really nice sales lady helped me with that question, a lady got in line behind me to buy from the same bolt because she loved it, too, there was a cute teenage girl deciding which knit fabric to get and she chose a purple and black which was gorgeous and I winked and gave her a thumbs up and she smiled the biggest smile, and her mother had asked to borrow my pattern for a bit when I was talking to the sales lady.
I am so jazzed about new ideas that I can’t wait to try, I saw feeding frenzies (after product demos-Quick! Buy it now at this incredible price!), miserable, bored husbands which always make me laugh, booth after booth of cotton swatches, an amazing quilt with African face profiles embellished with shells and hoops from a vendor from Alabama, I met another Yoder from Florida, lots of mothers and daughters together which made me wish that my mom had been with me, matte board cutters, irons, many software booths to make your own patterns for those fancy machines which I do not own, and six hours of other memories I can’t remember.
It was very inspiring and I am so glad I went. I didn’t see anyone doing what I am, working in oilcloth. I am trail blazing on my own path. And that is alright.
Thanks for reading.
