This is going to be very short. I was taking files off my computer and putting them on CDs...and came across this picture of Celtic Dream Weaver...wearing and doing what she loves...She thought she would share the picture with you all.


When I have more time...I will write about my time in Ithaca during FingerLakesLaceGuild workshop and show some lacing pictures that I took.

Okay for some reason I couldn't seem to get Carol's tatting to show up on the blog....I am going to try it all by its little self....LOL...and it better work this time....
Well...it looks like the picture is now uploaded...enjoy...aren't they cute..take a look at the kitty cat charm in the witch....

My Halloween post....I know it is after Halloween....so lets call this post
"The Nightmare Before Christmas"
I decided to do an Halloween exchange with someone who I feel enjoys Halloween as much as I do. I got my exchange from Carol Amich way long time ago...but I just put the package in my antique wicker tea table. No I don't drink tea...hate it actually...isn't that kinda funny being English and Irish...but it is the truth...but give me a nice cup of coffee or cocoa and I am there. Anyhow....I felt I couldn't open Carol's package until I mailed her exchange off to her. I wanted to do something really I hoped was nice since she sent me Eli...which is pictures on another one of my blog posts somewhere. I made her a witch. This witch took me forever to make. I baby sit Monday through Friday my little grandson Peyton...and he doesn't give me much time for tatting...so I just kept working at it as much as I could. The other problem was I wanted to make two of them...so I would have one here so I could figure out what I did. Usually when I design something I design it as I go from a picture I keep seeing in my head. Sometime it looks like what is in my head and most of the time it doesn't...but I like designing just the same. So there I was making two identical witches. Halloween was coming and coming closer....and I just knew I wouldn't get it done in time.....so......I had to send Carol an email letting her know that her exchange wouldn't make it to her house before Halloween.
I know Carol got the package from me today for I got an email from her. Maybe she can share with you her thoughts of her witch named Miranda. My witches name is Madeline. I made them so the witches would look like they are trick or treating...note their trick or treat bags...complete with chocolate ...and not Carol's witch...she had bats on her bag. I did that intentionally. I wonder is she noticed the bats on her bag.
I painted their faces...and their dress are completely tatted. I also tatted their hats and them put them both together. The witches stand up with some encouragement. My witch is keeping company with Eli the elf right now. LOL
Carol sent me some candy...including a candy necklace and bracelet which I am giving to Timmy Guy...I am keeping the Peanut M&Ms for myself. LOL She also sent me her cool Halloween designs that she I think has shown around. Here is a picture of them.


Anyhow they were fun to make...and now I have moved onto Christmas exchanges...I wonder what I will do for them....hmmmmm.....I am not telling ...it is a wait and see for all of you.
Here are some pictures of the witches. Enjoy looking at them....

Sorry I have been really bad with posting here...been busy and I just kept putting the posting off. Anyhow.... At the end of September I went up to Lake George, New York. Lake George is in the Adirondack region on the eastern side of the state. It takes my husband about 5 or 6 hours to get there. This was a planned vacation for in Warrensburg is just north of Lake George and they always have the whole town Garage Sale...so you walk...and you walk and you walk until you just about drop. Here is a picture of the bandstand in the middle of the town. If you look really closely to the right of the blue car you will see a man with a black sweat shirt on and a tan colored cap. That is my husband.

In the next picture....you can see the bustle of people that were going up and down Main Street, Warrensburg.

I also got to get together with some of my Tatting Friends while I was in Lake George except I think we actually went to Saratoga, New York and I am not sure but maybe West Glen, NY. I was picked up by my friend Kathy Berndt. Kathy and I use to work together here in Canandaigua which is where I live. Kathy use to live in Victor, New York. Anyhow....we went down to Saratoga and I met up with some other tatting friends at a BEAD SHOP!!!!

I walked in that door and thought I was in BEAD HEAVEN. There is no bead store around where I live....so for me ...this was a real exciting to be in a bead store for the first time. I bet my mouth dropped to the floor looking at all those beads...and then trying to decide which ones to buy was hard. There were sooooo many. But I did buy some. And it was so much fun!!!

Here is some pictures of the Bead Store.

Here is a picture of some of my tatting friends. From left to right we have Doris, Joanne, Ginny and Kathy. See the beads on the wall behind us?

Also during the weekend we got together at a coffee shop. I had coffee that night that was to die for since I am a coffee drinker and I hadn't had a decent cup in a couple of days....but there was also a ton of sweets....but I didn't get any...to busy chit chatting and showing tatting off...and seeing tatting done by others and just having a great ole time....

For instance....take a gander at Doris's Hat. Isn't that wild...and pretty. So here is a picture of hat without Doris gracing it...and a picture of Doris wearing her hat. She was a really fun lady!!

Here we are sitting around posing for the picture and having a good time. You can see I stole Doris's hat.

On Sunday that weekend it was raining kitty cats and doggie dogs....so my husband and I did not venture out to do anymore garage saleing so ....Kathy came and got me from my motel room and we went to Joanne's house and tatted there. I got to meet Joanne's sweet kids that were full of energy. I to got to meet Kathy's pooches too...

I want to thank the girls for so much fun. Also Holly, can you send me an email with everybody's email address that you see in the picture to my email address ...Joanne has it.

OOPS...the one picture that I wanted you to be able to click on and enlarge so you could see the picture better ....isn't enlarging...so I am going to upload it again. I want you to be able to see how wonderful these shuttles are.

Now for a fun post...can everybody say YEAHHHH!!!
I spent alot of today tatting away. It was my day off from babysitting. So here is a picture of what I am working...can anybody guess what it is???LOL....
In the picture along with my tatting is my horn shuttles from Peter. As you can see at the moment they are tatting workshorses...just doing what they are told...over and under, under and over...that is what they are doing...tatting their little hearts right out.
As you can see in the pictures the shuttles are so very smooth to the look at touch that they feel like glass. The etching is also nice and smooth. And look at the point on Blonde and Darko. They click so nicely too when the thread is passed between their points. And take a look at the artwork....what better artwork can you have than dragons and Phenoixes. Do you see the different colors of the horn...I bet you didn't know there was so many different colors did you? But Peter has his secrets for the horn coloring. If you are use to the Clover and Susan Bates shuttles...you will find these shuttle right at home in your hand and the beauty of the shuttle is...they may work like workhorses like Susan Bates and Clover shuttles that I know some of you just love but they are beautiful to the eyes too. Be looking for more of Peter's shuttles being shown here for all your Eye Candy Pleasure.
Let know if anybody can guess what I am now making...and NO it isn't another tablecloth...LOL

Aren't theses shuttles beautiful??!!

Anyhow...back to my tatting. Thanks for stopping by.

I would like to thank everyone who said a prayer for my husband and my family. I thought I would let you all know that the biopsy didn't show any cancer cells. The doctor did say that he will have to have test every so often to keep checking for any cancer. His PSA was up and they want to make sure they are ontop of it. So we are very much relieved by this excellant news. So much so that we are going on a vacation at the end of the month where I will meet up with a bunch of tatters. So I am very much so looking forward to his. More later on the vaction/tatting get together. But again thank you all for your prayers.

Do you remember the beads I found at a Flee Market at the Steam Peagent that was in Canandaigua? This is what I made using those beads. Like I said...It isn't a Nina Libin Masterpiece ( love her designs) but it is wearable LOL and looks like it could be a necklace, bracelet and earrings...a matching set. This is all the tatting I have done lately....will soon be embarking on something else.

Hi!!
My mind is on alot of things lately. This morning my husband went for his prostate biopsy. We won't know the results until next Tuesday. I so hate the waiting. He is a bit uncomfortable today and has been resting.
Sorry I don't have any tatting to show you...I haven't been tatting. I have been reading to escape things right now.
But my sweetie of a friend sent me some beads and thread today...I have been wanting to make a bigger purse maybe for everyday out of this varigated blue and off white thread that Erin sent to me a couple months ago. The beads will be great with the thread...so maybe I will start something. But it will take me along time to get it finished. This will be another huge project....
Why, Oh why don't I like something easy like stick figures....LOL

GOOD MORNING!!!
It is now six o'clock in the morning and here I am up and awake looking for something to do. I have actually been up since five this morning. My husband went in to work early for overtime. So he was already out the door before five. I don't know why... but when he is gone I sense it in my sleep or something and then I am awake. I toss and turn...and can't get back to sleep. This morning I had awful heartburn for some reason too....and finally gave up and got out of the bed.
What can you do when it is still dark out...and everybody else is still sleeping...??
I turned the computer on...but already I don't want to sit in front of it any longer really...Yesterday my daughter was on the computer all day and most of the evening reading fan fiction. I just don't know how she can sit in front of the computer for hours reading. I get bored easily and just can't sit in front of the computer that long.
I have already read my email...not too much exciting going on there. I have read about the 25 motif challenge...but don't feel I can come up with that many motifs....so I am not taking part in that.
I mentioned about my husband having to have a prostate biopsy done. I thought it was scheduled for Sept.22nd and I thought...man...why are they waiting so long before doing that...but I have found out I was wrong about the date...he is having it done on Sept 5th. But even so....I still hate waiting even that long to find out anything deffinate. I am so worried.
We were planning on going away at the end of Sept...but now our plans are on hold until we find out something for sure.
In my previous post I showed you Peter's shuttles...which right now I don't have...they got onto an airplane to points far from me. I also showed you the beads I bought at a flee market. I have made a necklace so far out of the beads...it is not a Nina Libin masterpiece...but it looks like a necklace. I still have more of the beads and I am going to make a bracelet and earrings I think to match...wondering how far the beads will stretch....When I get the bracelet and earrings tatted up I will post a picture of the set...until then....may you all find happiness.

I was in a hurry this morning...had to go to the dentist..."Dentist" is not a word I like...but I am back home now...anyhow...I should add here that the grayish/off white shuttle is horn from albino water buffalo that is only in the Philippines and china and the orangish shuttle is dyed black horn from water buffalo and the black shuttle is from water buffalo. Anyhow...these shuttles feel so smooth they feel like plastic. The points are nice and tight which the shuttles I got from Peter before were not tight...so I have to say that Peter stands behind his work. I told him I really can not tat with a shuttle where the points are not together and he sent me replacement shuttles with nice tight ends. I can't wait to see what else he comes up with. Now to go and play some more with the shuttles.....and no I will not be throwing mine against a wall. These shuttles are meant to be used gently and nicely. :)

Hi All!!
First I would like to show you the shuttles that I received from Peter Cua from the Philippines yesterday. These shuttles are just lovely...and they work really well. Peter really improved his shuttles. I know I gave him advice when I got the first shuttles from him...and he has followed through to make them perfect now. At the moment you can get a Peter shuttle from
http://www.tatting.co.uk/index-1.htm
I am trying to get them available here in the USA. I know it would make it easier if people could get their shuttles from here.
Also in the pictures notice the beads in the plastic bags. My husband and myself went to a steam peagent that was just outside Canandaigua, New York a week ago Sunday. They also had a flee market going on at the event. These beads which were sewn on some knitting...probably a sweater were cut off from the rest of the garment. I bought the piece of knitting with these beads attached and removed the beads after I got home. I plan on doing something with them...as you can see in the picture...I have already started to play with the beads and Peter's shuttles that I received in the mail.
The Lord works in mysterious ways. I got these shuttles yesterday...and yesterday was an upsetting day for me. When my husband went for his physical a couple weeks ago...his PSA was up in his blood. The prostate gland makes this ...but when it starts to move up it is hard if it is just the prostate making this or if it is prostate cancer. So yesterday he went to see an urologist. On the physical exam a hard nodule was palpated...which means it might be cancer. He has to go for a needle biopsy on Sept.22nd....to take a look at the actual cells to see if they are cancer cells. Since he came home and told me and I read the brochure he was given...I have been upset. I am scared and I am also at the same time trying to stay optomistic...but it is hard. My husband is 57 years old. Anyhow....please keep us in your prayers if you have read this. Like I said...I am trying to stay optomistic...but if he has to have surgery...that will mean time off from work...which means money problems again. I am just hoping it isn't cancer...and if it is...it is early where it can be gotten rid of before it is too late. Sept. 22nd is for me along ways away to find out for sure what is going on.
I hope you will enjoy the pictures. Thank you for letting me share with you what is going on in my life. We need your prayers that everything will turn out well.

Here is an amulet bag that I came from my head dreaming of tatting....LOL. I think it is a pretty bag...though the pictures are kinda hiding that fact. But here it is anyways.

Yesterday I found out from the doctors that I am now prediabetic. So I am upset about this fact. I told my husband...and he just blew it off. I have always been afraid that I would end up with this...Diabeties is on both sides of my family.

I look at my husband who can eat and eat and eat ...and doesn't gain any weight. For me it has been a battle all my life. And people who are like my husband...don't get how hard it is to loose weight. And now...I will be battling diabeties the rest of my life. There is no cure for diabeties....so for now...I have to watch everything I eat...keep up the exercising for the rest of my life. So I am upset....and my husband can't figure out why.

I also found out my bone scan was even worse than last year's...but at least my cholesterol is now down. So I guess that is something. My blood pressure has always been low and now it is 110/70...so it is still low.

So anyhow....for whomever might be reading this...here is some tatting and here is some personal concerns of mine.

WELL HA!! I tried to upload that picture of my pillow cases twice....and twice the pictures didn't show up...but I didn't want to try to upload it again for the third time ....for geez...who wants to see the same picture three times. So I published the blog...and what do you know...there isn't even on picture of my matching pillow cases...so I will try one more time here.....
Okay...I see the picture now...so hopefully everything is now okay with this post.....

First I will show you some pictures to you of my Grandson Peyton Lee...and the steps of developing he has reached. He will be seven months old on August 9th. Anyhow...you might imagine that he does keep me busy. I don't have a picture of the crawling here...but I think most of you know...if he can sit...and stand...he must also be crawling and into everything....

I was looking on ebay this evening just for the fun of it and came across a pair of pillow cases. They have a simple tatted edge in pink with for simple embroidered flowers on the cases. This pair of pillow cases are pretty...and at the moment they are going for $46.07 with three days to go.

I have a pair of pillow cases that are also embroidered by me and the tatting going around the edge was also done by me. I did the tatting years ago..(when I thought I was the only tatter in the world..HA!! ). My husband's mother was very sick. She was having mini strokes and could not be left also...so between working full time in the evenings at the hospital...I spent the rest of the time staying with my Mother in Law till we could get her some place where she would be watched and safe...which was an adult home not a nursing home. This went on for about a month.

Anyhow...while I was staying with her I tatted the edging to past the time away. This pair of pillow cases I have to say has only been used twice. Once about four years ago when I had Tatman aka Mark Myers stay with me while he was teaching at Hector, New York. So Mark ...you were the very first lucky one to lay your head on them...but that was because YOU was special...a "TATTER".

The second time those pillow cases were used was when the same above tatter came to stay with me again earlier this year.....BUT.....I had another friend and TATTER staying with me also....so alas....the pillow cases had to be devided between the two...one to Mark (my tatting friend) and the other to Erin Halloway ( another my tatting friend). Now they are packed up again. Doubt they will ever have such Kingly and Queenly Heads laying on them again. LOL!!!

Maybe I should sell them....I could claim that royal heads have rested on them....LOL

But it was sure fun Having Mark and Erin here...a special time for me.

Here is the url for the pillow cases on ebay if you want to take a gander at the pair:

http://cgi.ebay.com/MOONS-OF-WILDFLOWERS-VINTAGE-TATTING-PILLOWCASES-nr_W0QQitemZ250014202668QQihZ015QQcategoryZ39452QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

And here is a picture of my tatted edge, embroidered pillow cases that have had royality heads layed on them.....

okay if there is two pictures of my pillow cases when this is published it isn't because I was showing off.....LOL...it is the Blogging process that has messed up.

Good morning all....who might come across my blog...either by intent or accident.
Been busy and Micheangelique ( my computer) has been naughty and has been playing hide and go seek with me. I have found out recently that my computer has been high jacked by alien beings that caught a ride on the Star Trek Enterprise.....Spock being the pointed ear scientist that he is...found Micheangelique and returned him to me. So now I can post a couple pictures for you...not much do I have to share....but something....
In the first pictures is my daughter's Cuckateal showing off. Her name is Pharaoh, a fitting name for a bird that rules the roost around here. We all actually thought she was a male birdie....until....one day we saw eggs in her cage.

In the next picture is an amulet bag. The pattern is from Diana Stevens book with some alterations done to it. This is all the tatting I have done lately. Sad but true......

Hi All!!!!!!
So Erin...do you like my type color...?
I thought I would share just a few things with you all.
One is I got a Coconut Shell ( not the actual tree but the coconut shell ) shuttle that I received from Peter Cua in the Phillippines. The shuttle is very smooth to the touch and tats like a dream. Here is the front and back of the shuttle. It really is a nice shuttle. I expect that we will see alot of cool shuttles coming from him down the road. He has been sharing with me his ideas and the process of doing different style shuttles. Wait till you all see what he will next have up his sleeve.
Next I would like to show you just a couple small things I have tatted lately. Nothing too exciting...but here you go.
The first one is a butterfly that I tatted from a pattern of Debbie Arnold. You can get this pattern from her by going to her website here..
http://www.ds9designs.com/


The shuttles you see in this picture is purple/and blue with gold and reinstones were decorated by me last year I think it was. The beautiful pink shuttle was designed by Erin Halloway. I love the pink one alot!! It is very pretty...and sometimes I just stare off into space looking at it instead of tatting.
The blue shuttle below is a plastic one or bakelite...I don't know which that my daughter Chrystal found at an antique store for me. I love the marble silver/gray/blue look of it. I was thrilled when she gave it to me. It is really hard to find tatting shuttles anywhere...she was lucky
which means so was I.

In this picture you see again the Coconut Shell shuttle I got from Peter Cua from the Phillippines. It really is a nice shuttle t work with. The shuttle on the left and the purple one under my snowflake were both decorated by Erin Halloway. Again...I sit and stare at them sometimes...the pink one on the right is one I decorated.
The snowflake is a pattern of Roger aka Freedman.
You can go here for the pattern

http://groups.msn.com/TheSocialShuttle/gypsophilasnowflake.msnw
It was a pretty easy pattern to do. I added a bit of metallic thread with my Victorian Splendor Valdani thread that I have.
Anyhow...this is all I have to say for the time being....I have been enjoying swimming when I can and loving the nice very warm weather we have been having.

I am sorry about the double picture in the previous post...but...dummy me for one...don't know how it happened...and number two...I don't know how to fix it....so no you didn't have one too many drinks today...it was me....

Here is a few pictures I will add today. The one with all the different tatted motifs with the black background is some motifs I tatted while waiting for motifs to come in the mail when I did my Online Center Piece that I called " Beauty in the Eyes of a Tatter". I scanned these way back long ago at the begining of the centerpiece. I also want to mention that I have a CD that has all the motifs pictured individually along with the envelopes and letters that accompanied the motifs that I received in the amail at that time. There are tons of pictures on that CD and the motifs are close up. I had thought about making the pictured CD available to other tatters. Of course I would have to charge to do that for it takes CDs and my time to make the CD. Is there anybody reading this that might be interested in the CD?
Back to the scan of the motifs...if you have seen one of Mark's work of Art with the soldiers and it says "Make Tatting, Not War" those are my motifs I tatted in the background. Interesting how Mark did that.
Also ...here is a couple more tatted butterflies I have made in the past. These butterflies were my just sitting and tatting out of my head. Can't design like some people...but I like to play with my threads, and shuttles just the same.
Enjoy!!!

Hi ALL...who maybe visiting my humble blog. I know it has been awhile since I have posted...but not too much exciting is going on to write about. But to at least put something up here...just so you guys don't think I fell off the earth or something...here is a couple butterflies I have tatted. The orange one is from a book called "Tatted Butterflies" by Adelheid Dangela. If you like tatting butterflies...this is the book for you. I love this book. The purplish butterfly is a design by Eva Siding and the pattern use to be on the Round Robin Site....but alas...the site is no longer available. I used her wing design...but I changed the body. I didn't want the body so open and floppy. As you can see I added beads to the butterflies to make them both sparkle...got to love the dazzle and glitz beads can give your tatting.
I hope it won't be so long when I post again...but it probably will be....
Enjoy the butterflies in the meanwhile.