Caffinna’sCreations

First of all there were so many great ideads it was hard to decide. I had to find a way to whittle down the submissions. So my hubby suggested that I not count the bathsuit/biki ideas since Eunice already has a permanant bikin on. Then I decided to look for the one of a kind suggestions, it was still very hard to decide. I ended up going with the ideas that gave me the biggest smile and/or giggle.

 So here they are: For the knitting yarn stash prize there is a tie  because I just couldn’t make up my mind between two enteries. Jane and Jen, who both entered via email, won with their submissions. Jane submitted the idea of what amounts to a Red Hat Lady outfit; and Jen submitted the idea of creating half knitted socks and mini knitting needles and little balls of yarn for Eunice to sit in, knitters haeven! So I have contacted them via email for their information.

The non-knitter winning idea just cracked me up to no end! It came from QuillDancer, Blackfleece for when Eunice wanted to act up and be naughty! So Quilly I’ll comment on your blog, or you can email me at Caffinna at bright ok dot net with your iformation so I can send you your non knitting prize from my stash of swap goodies.

 Thanks to  everyone one who participated!

Due to a number of requests, I decided to see if I could get some more “Eunice N. Style” little collectables. I purchased mine threw ds’s school choir fundraisor, as mentioned previously, but I found the fundraisor’s website. Eunice is nolonger being offered, or at least not that I could find on the website anywhere. I tried to do a web search for the company that made/distributed Eunice, and gave up after reading over 200 realistate listings, ugh! I went back to the fundraisor’s website and left an email message asking about Eunice, how I had purchased one threw son’s school fundraisor last fall, and mentioning that I (and a number of fiber artist friends!) were interested in purchasing a number of additional units of this addorable collectable! If I hear anything back I’ll be sure to let you know. [ If you want to contact them the link to the contact form is http://www.cherrydale.com/form.htm ]

Edited to add:

Here is the reply I received:

Hello Jan,

I’m sorry but the Eunice n Style is an item that we no longer offer.

Thank You,
Debra Vanarsdall

My mother stopped by yesturday. She stopped by to tell me that late thursday night my beloved Uncle Floyd, 90 years old, had passed away. He had said all of my life that old was always 10 years older that whatever age he was at any given time. So now old forever be, in my mind anyway, 100 years of age. I will miss you and always love you Uncle Floyd.

I’ve been hit with a stomach virus, I’ll save you from the wretched details.

Well I was hurting pretty dag gum bad. Bad enough in fact that I gave in and started using one of dh’s pain patches! At-least I can knit without utter complete excruciating pain!

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I am just thrilled, tickled, and overjoyed at all of the submissions so far for ideas for outfits for Eunice, and so she. Besides the ones submitted via the comments here, I have about 20 or so in my email inbox! I may even have to expand the number of prizes, but will let you know. Rember keep the ideas coming as deadline is 29th of this month with the winner(s) being announced by the end of the month. You may submit as many ideas as you wish.

Even if someone has already submitted your idea, go ahead and submit it anyway. But submit your version with a funny story/reason behind it!  If you’ve submitted an idea but then come up with a funny story for it, then go ahead and re-submit it! You have until the 29th of March.

If kiddo’s fundraisors ever do include a catalog with anothe Eunice type charactor, I’ll post the information and howto’s of how anyone who wishes to can order one from kiddo online. I would have last fall if I had known so many might have wanted one! (Their fundraisors are such that out of town family/friends can be given a special code to order online and kiddo gets the credit for having sold the items from the company’s website.)

 Ralph Valine wrote:
SOME OF YOU ARE TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER THESE

Sit back, relax, listen, read, & smile. Kind of of reminds you to stop & smell the roses of life, and to give Thanks to God for Life and Memories!!!!

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN…?

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
Nearly everyone’s Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You’d reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
their hair done every day and wore high heels?

You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn’t pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?

Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
at a real restaurant with your parents?

They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did?

When a 57 Chevy was everyone’s dream car…to cruise,
peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were
because they were always in the car,
in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
and saying things like, “That cloud looks like a .”
and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?

And with all our progress, don’t you just wish, just once,
you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace,
and share it with the children of today?

When being sent to the principal’s office was nothing
compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Basically we were in fear for our lives,
but it wasn’t because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.

Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!
But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.

Send this on to someone who can still remember
Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy,
Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery,
the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows,
Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.

As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games,
Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool,
and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn’t that feel good, just to go back and say, “Yeah, I remember that”?

I am sharing this with you today
because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on.
To remember what a double dog dare is, read on.
And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
old enough to know better and too young to care.

How many of these do you remember?

Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Newsreels before the movie
P.F. Fliers

Telephone numbers with a word prefix…(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines

Peashooters
Howdy Dowdy
45 RPM records
Green Stamps
Hi-Fi’s

Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Studebakers

Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
The Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs
15 cent McDonald hamburgers

5 cent packs of baseball cards -
with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

Penny candy

35 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop popcorn

Do you remember a time when…

Decisions were made by going “eeny-meeny-miney-moe”?
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, “Do Over!”?
“Race issue” meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
It wasn’t odd to have two or three “Best Friends”?

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was “cooties”?
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
A foot of snow was a dream come true?

Saturday morning cartoons weren’t 30-minute commercials for action figures?
“Oly-oly-oxen-free” made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from
their “grown-up” life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya!

This is Eunice N. Style, my little Ewe. Okay, she’s figurine that I purchased from ds’s school choir fundraiser last fall. She’s adorable isn’t she? (The only acceptable answer is YES!)

Anyway, To the left is Eunice with the “wool” fleece coat on (it’s not quite sheering time, eh). To the right is Eunice in her bathing suit as I prefer to think. Eunice came with 6 outfits, but that isn’t enough. Eunice is a lady of style, hence the name “EUNICE N. STYLE”. She came with a Thanksgiving, Christmas, Winter, Rain-gear, Hula Skirt, and Fourth of July outfits.

So I need your help. I need ideas of what kinds of outfits to create for my little Eunice. If you are a knitter or crocheter and submit a winning idea I will send you a skein of yarn as a prize! If you are a non-knitter/crocheter and submit a winning idea you can choose a prize from amongst my swap booty of goods which you’ll be shown upon winning. So get your creativity going and submit those ideas either by comment, or via email Caffinna@brightok.net

This is a cause I can wholly support. Knit from your stash phewy. I need to heft up and fortify my stash, build it’s muscles, bulk it up before I can afford to put it on a diet…yes, that’s it. So, while I wish this were my idea (but it isn’t, idea came from here http://nigelk.org/knitters/?p=354 ), it is a cause I can whole heartedly support!