Hiya again,

Just a few pictures to show you all today. First I will show you my Janey,O Janey ornament. This is her new one. I made mine out of size 40 Lizbeth thread and the color numbers are :silver 605 and Wedgewood Blue dk. 656. This was a nice restful and fun pattern to do. Thank you Janey. If you would like to have this pattern to tat or if you would love to see her other patterns ...go here

http://www.e.n.e.btinternet.co.uk/

Her patterns are great. I have made alot of them over the years.

In past week I have been playing with leaves. I took this picture of Mark Myers Leaf that he designed when I saw him in 2005 at the Palmetto Tatting event. There is no pattern for this leaf but I do like it...so decided this week to play and see if I could copy it. In the first leaf I used some hand dyed thread that I got from Palmettos last year. It was done by Hope Bates I think. The colorway was called Sunflower. I also mixed in some green and oranges from the Lizbeth thread from Handy Hands. The last leaf I made using King Tut quilting threads. It is the one with the pink in the center of the leaf. Some leaves actually have pink on them. Now I know there are many different types of Maple Trees. I have Royal Red Maples in my yard and some I guess they are just regular Maple Trees. I went out side and gathered a bunch of them and sandwich the leaves between two layers of contact paper. I am using them for the Fall look around my house...but I noticed that the lobes of the leaves were not really as deep as the one Mark designed so I made my more compacted with no lobes.

Anyhow...I was just playing and having fun.

Wella.....enjoy the pictures. Now I am going back to work on my Nina necklace that I started when I took her class at the Palmetto's event this past September.

Today is November 1st and my oldest daughter Chrystal's birthday. She was born 34 years ago just after midnight on Halloween night. She is one of the reasons why I love Halloween so much as a holiday. This leads me to what I received in the mail from Battatter aka Carol Amich who also loves Halloween so much. First of all she made me this really cool crochet hedgehog which Carol told me she only knows how to single crochet. I think he is cute and sweet. It is meant to hold your knitting needles and crochet hooks in.

But Carol had to make the Hedgehog look Halloweenie....so she made Bat wings to put on the hedgehog. I haven't yet named my hedgehog...maybe some of you would like to help me come up with a name....I am thinking of naming him Dracula...what do you think of that?

So here is a couple pictures of my hedgehog...one with Halloween costume on and one with it off. She also make me a stick pin that you see sticking in the hedgehog. She said I could wear it as either a hair pin or a shawl pin since she knows I knit shawls too.

She also sent me some candy which I passed on to my two Grandboys that are here this morning and a Scooby Doo toy. She also sent me some writing things.

In the box was also some small pieces of fabric for my quilting endevenor to help raise money for Palmettos Tatting Event.

Speaking of fabric Linda Mageske of New Mexico sent me a business size envelope with some fabric scraps with a Christmas theme. Actually...that is all you have to do if you want to contribute to the cause of helping me raise money for Palemettos is stick some fabric and maybe some trimmings if you have any in a business size envelope. Just your small amounts can go along way into making something creative. I hope you will help me with that project of making the Halloween and Christmas quilt blocks. These blocks will be crazy blocks in style. Just write to me and I will give you my mailing address.

I also spent the past few days doing something fun with a Halloween theme and that is the cross stitch picture you see here. The chart is a freebie that I got from The Primitive Needle designer Lisa Roswell. I love her designs and I want to get the chart really bad for the design she called "Witches Hallow". I think once that sampler is done...you can still use the chart to make individual items that are in the chart in other projects. Here is her url for her designs incase you are interested in seeing her other designs. Http://www.WitchStitchO.blogspot.com/

The url for her website where you can order her designs is

http://www.theprimitiveneedlehome.com/storeDefault.asp

As far as getting the "Witches Hallow" chart....I will pay a bit at a time for it since I can't spend that much money all at once. ...But "Witches Hallow" is definately calling my name.

And in the last picture here that I will share with you is a tatted tree I made about a month ago. I was trying out some metallic thread that I received to see how good the thread was for tatting. I have to say the thread failed the test...but since I have been tatting so many years...I can tat with just about anything so I made this tree. The picture really doesn't show how the tree sparkles unless you can click and enlarge the picture. The tree is very pretty. The pattern came out of an old "Anna" magazine that I have.

Well Halloween is just about here. I want to wish everybody a Happy and Safe Halloween. My card pic that I am showing is a light ceramic scene I did years ago. I have others here like this. I even figured out in Illustrator how to Put Happy Halloween in orange on it and save it so I could put the picture here as my card to you all that stop by my blog here

I have some pictures to show you. About two weeks ago I took the Grand boys to the Pumpkin Patch to select a pumpkin suitable or carving and to have some fun. First I will show you some different kinds of pumpkins. I didn't know there were so many kinds and these are just the iceberg. I think I like the Cinderella one the best.

In the next few pictures are the boys having fun. The boy with his thumb in his mouth with the Cinderella pumpkins is Peyton my youngest Grandson.

In the next few pictures Chrystal and I took the boys to Wegmans ( the Western New York State Grocery Store) to trick and treat in the store. Here is a couple of pictures of them doing that.

I carved Peyton's pumpkin and Timmy did his own and I don't have pictures of their finished pumpkins because the pictures are on Chrystal's camera. But I also carved Kiara's Pumpkin. Here is a couple pictures of her with her pumpkin. Isn't she cute?? I now find not only do I call her my "Movie Star" but I also have caught myself calling her " Girlie Girl". I think she thought it was something to eat right NOW!!

And here is the last picture I will share with you. Some of you might remember the Christmas Tatting Exchange on Gina' Tattinggodess list. Last year my exchange person was Vicki Clarke from Canada. I had gotten an advent package which means I had a package to open for 25 days until Christmas. Vicki was so clever and I really loved what she sent to me. Two of the things she sent to me was one a Halloween bracelet. Take a look at the black pumpkins and the Green scaredy cats on it. I wonder if Vicki made the bracelet or found it somewhere. I would love to get more buttons like what is part of the bracelet. The other cool thing she sent to me was this cool orange beaded tatted amulet bag with the bat hanging down. This is the perfect time of the year to be wearing both of these and I am ...so much fun Halloween is. Both of Vicki's present are sitting on top of the box I got from Battatter (Carol Amich). I know she has already opened my exchange to her...but if you came here to see what she sent to me...you will all have to wait until tomorrow...Halloween.....LOLLLLLlllllll

I actually have lots of pictures that I have been hording here. I guess it is finally time I share...All my bags were packed I am ready to go, a wave to my husband and I was gone, don't worry I didn't look back..well maybe.......leaving on a jet plane, I don't know if I can contain all my happiness...leaving on a jet plane look out Erin here I come...LOL...Lots and lots...but Erin's got the real good pictures...and her blog is showing wedding pictures...I can't top that on my blog but I did have a good time flying south through O'Hara's airport ...also known as Mark aka Tatman's favorite airport...LOL.

Okay...I guess I will start with O' Hara Airport first. I had plenty of time getting to my next flight. As I was looking for my correct gate...and since I love all kinds of artwork my eyes get drawn to it. I saw these really cool benches that were painted. So I took some pictures which of coarse. Here are a few pictures...

I actually found a storefront at the airport that sold Godiva White Chocolate Candy Bars. I did buy one...It was so good. I have been looking around here for Godiva White Chocolate but haven't found it yet...

Erin the best hostess there is in Knoxville, Tenn. loves to show the Southern Hospitality...including trying to teach me to say Y'All like Paula Dean does...I failed miserably...is it because I am a true Yankee from New York I wonder. Anyhoo...Erin my hostess took me to one of my favorite places when I visit Knoxville and that is to go to West Knoxville to Bead Heaven....here is a couple pictures showing what Bead Heaven looks like.

And LOOKIE there is my hostess Mrs. Raymond now, but in this picture she was still Ms. Erin Halloway. In my next post I will show where Erin and I were frolicking in the University Trail Gardens which just so happens to be the same place Erin and Raymond were handcuffed ( spiritually speaking that is) in Holy Matrimony...

If this blogger looks like it was written and put together screwy...It is all blogger's fault...I hate blogger sometimes...

LOOKIE what I can do and I will be eight months old on October 25th. I can sit, I can stand on my knees and on my own two feet. You can see Grannie in the background there. Maybe you can see why Grannie isn't tatting much...she is always playing with me...the "Little Movie Star" ....that is what my Grannie calls me. My Grannie looooovvvveeessssss me....and I am so happy....

I had been thinking awhile about trying my hand in micro macrame'. I might even do some designing on my own eventually once I start to feel more comfortable in doing this work and maybe marrying it to tatting. We will see what will happen with that as time goes buy...which time keeps right on moving so fast that is is tomorrow yesterday. Anyhow...here is my my necklace. I got this pattern from Donna. Here is her blog url incase you are interested.
http://www.knotgypsydesign.com/ Donna sells kits and patterns. She also has downloaded free patterns and a downloadable tutorial incase you want to learn. She also has an Etsy shop. You will find all of this information on her blog.

Also I got a huge surprise in the mail today. About two weeks ago someone on Arachne List had given his accounting of what he thought of some of the stuff he saw here in America. There was also a discussion of chocolate. This person was from Belgium I believe. Anyhow....I had written to the list and mentioned how I LOVE white chocolate and it was funny how I had to go all the way to England in order to buy a huge white solid chocolate candy bar without the cereal or cookie crumbs in the chocolate. Well, Margery Allcock from England saw my message.

Yes Folks, I got a big solid white Belgium Chocolate candy Bar in the mail but that wasn't all...she sent me some Foreign Postage Stamps and also....another real big surprise...a pair of painted Bobbins for Bobbinlace making. The pair both have a mouse painted on them. One mouse is eating berries under a mushroom and on the other bobbin the mouse is in a strawberry patch. I love both of the bobbins. I should mention that I wrote to Margery earlier this year and was able to buy a few things from her that she was selling so she knew I collected foreign postage stamps and that I also did bobbinlace.
What a surprise huh? I was so thrilled with the package which was a huge surprise. THANK YOU Margery!!! You sure brightened up my day. Things are hard right now for me since my husband lost his job earlier this year and all of our dreams were flushed away from Corporate Greed.

Here is a picture of the necklace I made using the Fringe Element Heart Pattern designed by Jane Eborall. Note how I did the catch and how I attached the two side arms to the heart. It is one that is used in macrame' necklaces and bracelets alot. Anyhow...I would model it for you...but to save everybody's eye sight I decided to just post a picture of the necklace without me. Enjoy it! Let me know what you think. I love this heart pattern.