On a lighter note <LOL>

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Hello ladies

I was watching a very interesting tutorial on shibori dyeying over drinking glasses and using ... condoms! So Robert walks past my office and I said "Honey, you need to go to the pharmacy and buy us some condoms!  I need eight in total." 

He nearly jerked his head off his shoulders and said "What??!!  I am 59 years old and you are in menopause!  Why do we need condoms?" and walked away in a huff and puff <LOL>

I called the pharmacy this morning and spoke to my dear friend and said to her that I want the smallest possible condoms.  She laughed and said "Linn, we don't stock SMALL condoms!  Condoms are for "big things".  Didn't you know that?  And in any case, what do YOU and Robert want condoms for?"

I then explained that it is for shibori dyeing and she didn't have a clue what I was talking about.  But she did send it to me.  Two packs of three each plus one free.  Ribbed and chocolate flavoured! <LOL> 

So Robert is now really inquisitive and demands to know WHY I want eight condoms and whether he must hire a private investigator to see what I get up to during the day when he is away at work <LOL>

When I explained to him that the tut showed the woman tying the bits of fabric into a shibori knot and then securing the dyed knot with a condom fastened with an elastic, he said "Have you perhaps thought that maybe she cut off the tips of a disposable glove?" <LOL>

No, of course I didn't!  To me it looked like condoms and it still does!  But come to think of it, it could be cut off tips of the fingers of the disposable gloves!  Have a look at this tut and you tell me if Robert is right or not ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTS7usNTiOU

It is in Russian.

Or maybe it is those tiny tiny tiny little party balloons?

Regards

Linn

[Pandagirl]

They are probably finger cots like here www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=finger+cover&tag=mh0b-20&index=aps&hvadid=3527191211&hvqmt=b&hvbmt=bb&hvdev=t&ref=pd_sl_1kr9pbzett_b

That's a great story. :-)

[Shepherdess]

That is a very funny story and yes finger cots is my guess too. They do look just like mini condoms

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<LOL> Yup, that must be it! I have never heard of, nor seen, finger cots .. now I know something like that exists! Thanks Ladies :-)

Regards
Linn

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Guess what? Our country has finger cots! <LOL> I emailed a screenshot of the finger cots to my pharmacist friend and her assistant Mary tracked it down for me. Sooooo cheap too! They delivered it for me and I have just opened the packet ... what a giggle it was! <LOL>

I didn't know how to roll it onto my finger and Robert said "Oh Chicken (his nickname for me) ... here, let me show you how to put on tiny tiny tiny little condoms!" <<LOL>

Going to be fun trying to put this over the dyed Shibori knots! <LOL>

Regards
Linn

[elizabeth]

Linn, I'm having to snort quietly as I read this at work during lunch. You're TOO funny!!
And then I got the the part of Robert showing you how to put on the finger cots and I burst out coughing!!

Chicken.. There's a story in that, but not today, please!

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<LOL> Elizabeth, the nickname "Chicken" came about when Robert was doing machining at a client's factory and sometimes he would answer the phone. The company was called "H.E.N. Tool & Dying" and one day I said "Hello my Hen" and he replied "Hello my Chicken" and it stuck :-)

I am his "Chicken" but I don't call him "Hen" ... he is my "Hunny Bunny" :-))

Regards
Linn

[jwugg]

Haha, loving the thought of chicken condoms!!

I have done this technique a few times without any, ermmm, 'extras'! by just pinching & twisting the tops of the flowers, although they don't come out quite as defined as hers. I like it done with watered down paints to give a soft, Monet style watercolour flower effect, it's pretty (& they sell very well).

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Jill ... <chuckle> ... now I am in hysterics trying to imagine chicken sized condoms! <LOL>

Robert told me this morning that I must put my little bag with the "tiny tiny tiny little condoms" in a dark cool place otherwise the latex will perish over time. He also asked whether he could have the chocolate flavoured ribbed ones for his own use and I shouted "NO WAY!!!" <LOL> He said he was just teasing me and that I could either return it to the pharmacy for credit or give it to some youngsters that can use it for protection against unwanted pregnancies and/or HIV/AIDS. I think I will do the latter :-)

He did say that HE was not taking it back to the pharmacy for credit! <LOL>

Regards
Linn

[elizabeth]

More thanks, Linn,
I shared this with my DH last night and we had a fun time imagining your husband showing you how to roll the finger cots down.
I was going to ask you what you were planning to do with the extras :-)
Also, I would think that the lubrication would interfere with the dyeing, but the ribbing might give some interesting patterns.

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<LOL> Elizabeth, you make me laugh :-) You can tell your DH that I wanted to roll it onto my left hand's pinkie - of all fingers!

Regards
Linn