Really?

This morning I did the most annoying thing.  I hid the ends on a pendant I made and cut them off with scissors that were handy.  About 5 minutes later I saw some fuzz on the pendant and went to brush it off only to realise that I managed to cut the top of one double stitch when I cut the ends.  So its ruined.   I hate when you get to the end of a project and something as simple as cutting botches the whole thing.  I would show you a picture of the pendant but I'm still devastated. Sigh.

Maybe dogs shouldn't...

Maybe dogs shouldn't TAT!  Give back the shuttle

Still tatting but someone's keeping me busy

I haven't been great at posting for the last couple months.  The blame for my lack of posting in the last month or so goes to this little girl.  Her name is Kneessaa because she looks like an Ewok.  I've learned a couple things about myself in the last 4 weeks.  One is that there's a reason I don't have children.  I'm just not capable to saying no or drawing lines.  My kids would have been the ones screaming in the store and running around like monkeys.  Its true and acknowledging it will make me a better person.  Fortunately, Kneesaa is a Shih-Tzu and I can just pick her up when she's bad.   She won't get very big.  I'd be screwed if she was a St Bernard.

I've also been working on writing out the patterns for my classes at the Fringe Element tat days this fall.  This is the shoe pattern I'll be teaching.  Everyone needs a tatted shoe!

just an update

I'm not in jail or anything...

My camera is currently experiencing difficulties.  Its never where I need it to be.  I'm blaming the camera but its really my lack of foresight.  I haven't actually picked it up to take pictures so I can't share any with you. 

I'm not tatting this week because on Monday I may have done a little damage to my forearms after several hours of gardening.  I was pulling a few thousand insidious plants out of my garden.  Its amazing how fast some plants can spread.  When they start to take over the lawn its time to take action.   There was so much dirt under my fingernails that I couldn't even walk past a tatting shuttle without the thread whimpering in fear.

I'm also devastated that I didn't win totusmel's give-away.  I need a few moments....

Trying to get to back in the swing of things

The last week of March we closed the clinic and went to the Dominican Republic.  The trip was lovely and yes the picture in the last post is from the trip.   The bad part was once I got home I was sick for Easter and really haven't been feeling great since.  It probably wasn't noticeable last weekend at the Finger Lakes seminar since I was bouncing around like a madwoman.   The excitement of the seminar temporarily overcame my fatigue but believe me when I say that I did not do nearly as much shopping as I normally manage.  I simply didn't have the energy to shop.  (still managed to buy a pair of shoes, lipstick and sunglasses)  Shopping doesn't include what I bought at the seminar.  I'll have pictures of that later.  I just unpacked the books and left the rest.

This week I'm a lumpy potato despite having Monday off to recuperate.  I even got a speeding ticket to prove how spacey I've been.  (almost ran over the police officer, thank God for the fluorescent jackets)  Next week I'll be all action! yep.

 This was the gift I gave out to people that mentioned my blog last weekend.

Off to the Finger Lakes

I'm taking off to the seminar tomorrow.  Along the way I'll be doing a little bit of shopping so it will take me a little longer than really necessary to drive to the Lodi Firehouse.  If you're coming to the seminar I'll be there with my copy of Sherry's new book Branching Encapsulation and I'm picking up a copy of Flare magazine so everyone can see Totusmel's lace in the magazine. I'm hoping that the issue with her pictures is out.   Please come and say Hi, tell me you read my blog and I'll have a treat for you! Remind me if I forget.  While your talking to me anyways please remind me to buy another needle for tatting.  I dropped mine under the deck last summer. 

In case you're wondering my project this weekend is the bracelet in the header.  For my class you need a shuttle, size 10 beads and size 20 thread.  I have clasps if you need one and I'll be giving you a mini lecture on clasps as part of the class.  For the raffle table last year I brought kits for a bunny bookmark.  It was the only draw where everyone won.  This year I'm bringing kits to make this Screen Door Heart.  I'm sure you've this kind of thing on a screen door before.  Basically you use to magnets to hang something decorative so no one walks through the screen door.  Sorry the picture is blurry in left corner because my camera is still traumatized by the beach.  I wasn't able to get a picture of the heart on the screen but here's the heart on the fridge, it makes a good refrigerator magnet too.  The kit includes a pattern, thread, 2 buttons, 2 magnets and beads.  

On another note I just realised that the wrong picture came up in one of my previous posts. Despite the right picture showing up on the draft I got a picture of another character instead of Professor Farnsworth from

Futurama. Professor Farnsworth was funnier.

ps in case you're wondering this is me

I forgot

I forgot what I was going to talk about in this post.  I'm sad to say I'm prematurely having a senior moment.  Couldn't have been that important!
My copy of Sherry Pence's Branching Encapsulation arrived in the mail today.  I'm taking it home to read tonight.  I'll bring it this weekend to the Finger Lakes Tatting Seminar so anyone thinking of purchasing it can take a look.  Sometimes it helps to see a pattern book before you decide to purchase it.   Sherry included lots of pictures and that always makes me happy!