Archive for February, 2009

Do cats like denim?

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Liz asked:


I’m in the process of adopting a kitten and don’t know what to do about toys and spare bedding. I have a lot of old denim and an considering making a few toys and maybe a blanket, would that be advisable?
I’d probably just sew/knot strips of the fabric together for the toys and sew panels together for the blanket (I’m limited to hand-sewing), I can’t find anything about cats and denim, so I don’t know how far off I am! If you can help me, thanks!
I just want to add that what I plan to make out of denim is just spare–I do plan to get real toys, but I don’t want to be up to my eyeballs in commercially made stuff. And the blanket(s) are to keep around to mark its “area.”

Beverly

Liquid starch?

Monday, February 16th, 2009
Cori asked:


I am in the process of wallpapering my bathroom with fabric. I have heard that I need to do it using liquid starch. Is liquid starch the same thing as corn starch mixed with water? If not, can I make it myself without having to buy the spraycans of it?

Juan

What to do about Ebay?

Sunday, February 8th, 2009
mymissmochakitty asked:


I am so frustrated! Ebay has blocked communication with a would-be customer for one of my custom quilts and now I can’t get to her to answer any of her questions. I sent her a message that included my personal e-mail, which was probably against ebay policy, but this has happened to me before and I always complete all my transactions within ebay. I need the personal e-mails for later in the process when I send pictures of the quilts as they are being made and fabric swatches before I get started. I don’t know what to do! She hasn’t responded on my personal e-mail yet and it’s been a week since her last e-mail that I couldn’t respond to. I tried having a friend contact her through the message system and ebay wouldn’t let her do it either.

Kathleen

Is this a scam? Got an email for this “job” opportunity?

Monday, February 2nd, 2009
takeashot30 asked:


Would you like to work online from Home/Temporarily and get paid weekly? We are seeking to offer you a Job position with our reputable company, Global Source Fabrics And Textiles. We need someone to work as a Representative/Book keeper in USA,Australia and Asia/Europe.This is in view of our expansion program to USA,Australia and Asia/Europe, where we presently dont haveany office. You don’t need to have an Office and this certainly wont disturb any form of work you have going at the moment.

Our integrated yarn and fabric manufacturing operations use state-of-the-art textile equipment from the world’s leading suppliers. Order processing, production monitoring and process flow are seamlessly integrated through a company-wide computer network.
* The average monthly income is about 4000.00 USD.
* No form of investments from you.
* This job takes only 1-3 hours per day

About the job:
We have sales representatives all over the world to distribute our products.You know, that it’s not easy to start a business in a new market (being the USA,Australia and Asia/Europe). There are hundreds of competitors, close direct contacts between suppliers and customers and other difficulties, which impede our sales promotion.We have decided to deliver the products upfront, it’s very risky but it should push up sales on 25 percent.Thus we need to get payments
for our products as soon as possible. Unfortunately we are unable to open Bank Accounts in the US,Europe, Asia & Australia without first registering the company name.
Presently with the amount of Orders we have, we cannot put them on hold. For fear of loosing the customers out rightly to our competitors.Secondly we cannot cash these payments from the USA/Australia,Asia, and Europe soon enough,as International Cheques take about 14 working days for cash to be made available.We lose about 75,000 USD of net income each month because we have money transfer delays
*Hence Your task is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payment process.You are not involved in any sales. We make direct contact for sales of products. Once orders are received and sorted we deliver the product to a customer (usually through FEDEX).The customer receives and checks the products. After this has been done the customer has to pay for the products. About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through bank to bank transfer depending on the amount involved. That is why we have decided to open this new Job position for solving this problem.

Your tasks are;
1. Receive payment from Customers
2. Cash Payment at your Bank/Cash point
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of our offices as you will be instructed.

For example you receive payment of 3000.00 USD you take your income: 300.00 USD Send to us: 2700.00 USD First month you will have 15-20 transactions on 3000.00-4000.00 USD so you may calculate your income.For example 18 transactions on 3500.00 USD gives you 4410.00 USD Plus your basis monthly salary is 1000.00 USD Total: 5410.00 USD per month After establishing a close co-operation with us you’ll be able to operate with larger orders and you’ll be able to earn more.Our payments will be issued out to you.Deduct your weekly salary and forward the balance to the company via western union money transfer or money gram money transfer We understand it is an unusual and incredible job position. This job takes only 3-7 hours per week. You’ll have a lot of free time doing another job, you’ll get good income and regular job.But this job is very challenging and you should understand it. We are looking only for a hardworking,reliable and honest worker who will satisfy our requirements and will be a consistent representative. We are glad to offer this job position to you.
It seems a little fishy.

Yolanda