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September 29, 2005

Educate yourself with a sewing machine

Let’s say you have a long-sleeve shirt missing a couple buttons, a pair of pants that has a torn zipper, a skirt with a tear and a pile of fabric and string just sitting in the closet. Would you know how to repair your garments or make yourself new clothes?

Well, if interested in learning how to repair clothes and design and make your own, Heidi has an idea: Take one of her sewing workshops. You will learn all you need to know to operate a sewing machine and navigate a piece of thread through fabric to make whatever you want, from a scarf to a toga.

Heidi, the owner of Heidi’s Needles & Threads, Inc., in Mariemont, not only is the consummate alterer of dresses, but she is an artisan of designing clothes and home decorating.

“We have the best clothing alteration in Cincinnati. I hear this from brides who have me alter their dresses and from their friends who come here after being told of my work,” Heidi said.

“We make dresses fit and look very good, and our prices are good, too.”

If you act – and act swiftly - you can take one of her classes, which begin Saturday, Sept. 8. Heidi is offering to teach people how to sew and make them familiar with patterns, machines, fabrics, skirts, pants, simple dresses, lace and elastic materials.

There are two classes: A basic and an advanced. Each class will last four hours on Sept. 8 and Sept. 15 and cost only $20 an hour.

After receiving college degrees in both fashion design and interior design – then following them up with a masters degree – Heidi opened up her business 27 years ago in Anderson Township.

For more information on how to sign up for the workshops, call 272-2211 or visit the store at 6822 Wooster Pike behind the Mariemont Inn.

Posted by johnston at 11:16 PM

Wanna go for a ride?

Want to get out of your backyard for a few days? The Travel Authority/American Express office in Mariemont wants to help you drop the rat-race and treat yourself to a nice vacation.

The travel agency is presently offering the “Tulip Time” cruise to Holland and Belgium.

Travelers will be taken on a nine-day cruise from April 15-23, 2006, for $1,799 per person.

This is how the nine-day cruise unfolds:

Day 1: Board your overnight flight, you’re going to Amsterdam.

Day 2: You are going to tour the city of Amsterdam, the “sophisticated and modern ... rich and fascinating” capital of Holland.

Day 3: After checking out the architecture, restaurants, marketplace and museums of Amsterdam, travelers will then venture to Arnhem-Dordrecht, where WWII’s Battle of Arnhem was fought. You will visit the Airborne Museum Hartenstein and the landscape.

Day 4: The next stop is Antwerp, Belgium, the country’s second-largest city and one of the world’s most integral seaports.

Day 5: You will then spend a day in Ghent.

Day 6: The prosperous merchant with lots of money being allocated to the construction to its buildings, the city of Middleburg also possesses one of the world’s most complex engineering structures. For your sixth day, you will visit this city and its Delta Works, a storm flood barrier that serves as the final defense in the battle against the water. The Delta Works was devised after 1,800 people drowned in one night in 1953.

Day 7: Have you ever been to Rotterdam? Well, if not, then, after day 7 you will be able to poke a colored cork tack into this city on your world map hanging on the wall. You will be treated to the Keukenhof Gardens, which encompasses more than 70-acres of parkland with lakes, sculpture gardens, greenhouses and a windmill. The city is also the world’s busiest sea port.

Day 8: Amsterdam-Volendam. Volendam is a maze of fishermen’s houses built on poles and a unique open harbor. The city is also home of Edem cheese and cheese markets are still held in the summer months.

Day 9: Homebound flight.

For more information, visit the The Travel Authority/American Express office at 6800 Wooster Pike or call 272-2887, fax 272-4355.

Posted by johnston at 10:58 PM

September 09, 2005

Do you know what you are missing?

If you haven't attended one of these events, you don't know what you are missing.

The Dilly Deli’s wine tasting events are growing more and more popular.

For example, literally dozens of people attended the Sept. 7 wine tasting date on the porch of the Dilly Deli to be introduced and educated on the Spanish wines by Jorge Ordonez.

Owners Chuck and Robbie Warinner have been holding the wine tasting events for a while, but as more and more people hear about the delicious occasions - either by word of mouth or from informative newsletters or Internet promotions - the more populated the palate-pleasing soirees are becoming.

And there will be a few more formal wine-tasting events before the end of the year; there are also “informal” wine tastings from noon to 3 p.m. every Saturday where patrons are introduced to featured wines to try.

"You can try all the wines for one low price, and then choose a glass or your favorite to enjoy with your lunch,” ownership said.

As with all formal wine tastings, people can sit outside in the nice weather with family and friends, try various wines from an eclectic selection of a featured distributer all the while being educated by a knowledgeable connoisseur in the process of making the wine, how it should be drank, what to eat with the wine and how to care for it.

The tastings usually last a couple hours, where people can dine and enjoy conversation with each other all the while being served new wine after new wine.

For more information on the formal wine tastings, call 561-5233, or visit the Mariemontbuzz.com for up-to-the-minute updates and schedules. The Dilly Deli is located 6818 Wooster Pike in Mariemont.

Posted by johnston at 12:57 AM