The guestquilt squares are missing. I've sent people to look for them at the church, do either of you remember what the box they were in looked like? (I can't remember)
I've got the small purple card box with the unused ones, but only two of the signed ones.
[ April 24, 2005, 06:12 PM: Message edited by: dkw ]
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Woah. They were put back into the box that they came in, so there is a box with mostly signed squares and some unsigned squared.
Did they get put with the rest of the church clean up? Last I saw, they were on the chair behind the quilt square table, and the table was still set up.
[ April 20, 2005, 04:50 PM: Message edited by: katharina ]
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Do you remember what the box looked like? Color? Size?
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Flimsy, brown cardboard. When I saw it, it did not have a lid, although there was a lid behind me that might have belonged to it. That lid was...beige, I think. With blue writing on it. The box measured ... 2 1/2" x 10" x 14", approximately.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
I believe it was grey, 4" high by about 12" square. It looked to me like a stationary box, maybe what part of the invitations had come in. I would even go so far as to say a speckled grey.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I'm pretty sure there were three boxes that looked the same, neh?
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
(kat had closer contact with the box than I did, I must be thinking of something else. Although the squares were bigger that 2.5", so I think that measurment has to be off.)
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I like Kat and AJ, both quality women. Unfortunatly I haven't seen AJ around today but Kat's looking sharp.
Hobbes Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Didn't all of them make it to the reception? Or was that just the last box?
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Yeah, I think that 2 1/2" measurement is off, because the squared fit into the box. I think they poke out of the top a little bit, but I'm not sure about that.
I'd make a crappy murder witness. This is stretching my noticing powers to the limit.
"I remember a...church...with...pews. And purple. There was purple, right?" Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
The only ones I saw at the reception were a box of blanks. Two people signed them there, and those are the two we have.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I didn't see the box at the reception at all, but we came a little bit late.
What about the example squares and the pens? Are they missing as well? Maybe they are all together.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
As an aside:
quote:both quality women
It sounds like you're about to draft them to an NFL team, Hobbes. 'kat has suspect hands but would be a quality pick in the second round'
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Now I wish I owned a NFL team so I could draft Kat and AJ.
Hobbes Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Hobbes, that is both very sweet.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
I've got the example squares and two of the pens.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
I thought they went to either your mother or Icarus or Cor on clean up. I remember being worried and going "Oh ok, you are going to take these right" and the faceless person saying yes. I stole a couple of blanks for people to sign at the reception, if necessary, but didn't end up using them.
AJ
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
There she is.
Hobbes Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Mom remembers having them, and bringing them into my house. The box she remembers having is the one that's on my coffeetable, full of blanks. Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Look in the "blank" boxes again. I think I put all of the signed ones in the front and some of the "blanks" in the back. I thought about being really anal and sorting them by what color pen they were signed with but I know Kat would have shot me. They were long thin boxes not quite wide enough to be shoe boxes.
I *know* we didn't take them from the church, because we had discussed whether we should or not.
AJ
[ April 20, 2005, 05:14 PM: Message edited by: BannaOj ]
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
I have only one blank box. And I've looked at every single square in it.
I was really hoping that they were in there.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
They were still set up when we were taking pictures, right? All the Hatrack pictures. ]
Hmm...I didn't go back into the church after the pictures, so I don't if they were set up then. I know we didn't take them, because we walked back to the hotel.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
I *know* I nagged someone "You're going to take these right?" and got an affirmative before I left the building. Can you call the church office?
(There were a couple of cabinet like things behind the desk with standard churchish paraphenalia, could someone have put them in there?)
AJ
(oh and there should be two nearly full boxes if I remember correctly.)
[ April 20, 2005, 05:22 PM: Message edited by: BannaOj ]
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
There are boxes on a chair in this picture. Do they look familiar?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*peers at pictures* My description was totally off.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Note: those are the *large* posable people, not the cake ones. Do you know where they are?
AJ
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
katie, no it wasn't. In the first picture that Rivka posted the two boxes in question are the ones, that aren't as visible on the right, not the big box on the left.
AJ
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
(since dkw hasn't posted again, I wonder if she's found the Posable People or not)
AJ
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
I was teaching Confirmation class.
No, the posable couple seem to have eloped. Maybe they have the quilt squares.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
hmm perhaps the posable people are holding them for ransom?
AJ
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Considering that the Posable_People and boxes of quilt squares were last seen together, methinks there's a good chance that when one is found, so will be the other.
I assume whoever looked at the church, checked the . . . *gestures helplessly* . . . the cabinet sort of thing in the vestibule?
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
In theory.
I'm thinking of going myself, just to be sure. I really don't have time this week, though. Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
quote: I thought about being really anal and sorting them by what color pen they were signed with but I know Kat would have shot me
ROFL
My wife sorts all the pool balls by color when we turn the tray back in. The one ball and the nine ball (yellows), the two balll and the ten ball (blues)....
You two would get along great, but I would end up hitting you both with a pool cue.
Kwea
Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
quote: It looked to me like a stationary box,
If it's a stationary box, then it's wherever you left it.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
*snort* It's nice to see you, punched heart.
Posted by whiskysunrise (Member # 6819) on :
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
*frets* I hope they turn up soon.
AJ
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I have no doubt they will turn up, probably with the larger posable people who will still be giggling and blushing after the honeymoon.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Has everyone who might have been the last to see them tried self-hypnosis? Try this easy method; my dad taught it to me when I was 8 and lost my Annotated Shirlock Holmes, and it's worked every time but once for me ever since.
Sit down in a comfortable spot (preferably without noise, bright lights, or distractions, although I've done this with all three going on, it's just harder). Close your eyes, and relax. Think of a color you like, a calm, soothing color. Now concentrate on that color. Don't think of anything else, just think of and visualize that color until that color is all that you see. Once you are completely focused on that color, ask yourself, "Where is the last place I saw the missing object?" (In this case, box of quilt squares.) I usually, at this point, get an image of the last time I saw it flashed across my mind, and am able to go find it.
Really, it's only not worked once, and that's when I was outside, in the rain, with no coat or umbrella. Hard to get comfortable enough in those conditions.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Unfortunately, everyone knows exactly where they saw it last -- on the table in the narthex. I'm hoping when we find the person who picked it up from there he or she won't need hypnosis to remember what s/he did with it.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
quote:Don't think of anything else
I believe my brain completely lacks this ability.
AJ
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
What's the difference between a "narthex" and a "foyer"?
AJ
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
dkw, I was hoping someone would try this and get a flash of the person they saw walking away with it or something. It'll turn up, don't worry.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
AJ, mine does, too- except in a hypnosis state. Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
quote:What's the difference between a "narthex" and a "foyer"?
A narthex is a like a foyer to the sanctuary. Some of the other doors to the same building also have foyers, but they lead into hallways and meeting rooms and such.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
hmm, I suspect I've only gone to uncivilized churches, they've always just called the narthex the "foyer" in announcments.
However, I am sorry to say, that I did pass a United Methodist Church this morning on the way to work, that had these words on their sermon billboard.
"Ventillate Vertically"
I presume they were referring to prayer... but it was a bit much. I couldn't help wondering what you would have said!
AJ
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
This plastic laundry hamper was in the ladies changing room, since it’s what I brought the flowers to Ames in. Mom & Patty moved it to Bob’s car, filled with stuff, including the plastic cover for my wedding dress. We brought in the plastic cover on the morning after the wedding, put our dirty clothes from Saturday in a smaller plastic bag and stuffed it in the top of the laundry hamper. When we got home to pack for London, we brought in the laundry hamper and set it in the bedroom by the other laundry. Then we left for London. By the time we got back, we’d forgotten that it had anything in it other than laundry.
Posable people, candle lighter, memorial candle, covered pans used for boutonnières, sewing kit, CD of reception band and QUILT SQUARES all accounted for.
There was actually a lot more missing than I’d noticed.
[ April 24, 2005, 05:45 PM: Message edited by: dkw ]
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Wahoo!!!!
Posted by KrabbyPatty (Member # 7055) on :
WHEW! I was feeling soooo bad, since I knew I'd packed them up. Just had no idea where!
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
YAY!!!! Posted by Aunty Eem (Member # 7743) on :
So glad you can relax about those, Dana Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Oh, awesome. Yay!
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
I'm glad you all found the missing items and I just want to reassure KrabbyPatty that, considering everything that needed to get done and packed and transported etc.., she need not feel quilty.
quote: WHEW! I was feeling soooo bad, since I knew I'd packed them up. Just had no idea where!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
YES! Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
quote: I'm glad you all found the missing items and I just want to reassure KrabbyPatty that, considering everything that needed to get done and packed and transported etc.., she need not feel quilty.
Is that, technically speaking, a pun?
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
I'm not sure I'd call it a true pun, more like a play on words.
Edit to add:
quote: pun, use of words, usually humorous, based on (a) the several meanings of one word, (b) a similarity of meaning between words that are pronounced the same, or (c) the difference in meanings between two words pronounced the same and spelled somewhat similarly,
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I'm not sure I'd call it a true pun, more like a play on words.