Mom pin

This is what I did with the MOM pin my daughter gave me for Christmas. The colors in the thread will go with most all of my sets of scrubs I wear to work. I will be able to wear it just about every day if I want to

Tatted bag

Finished this little tatted bag yesterday. It is 3 & 1/2 inches tall. I'll probably use it to hang on my arm and hold my ball of thread. I just love making little bags. Although this one more time consuming then crocheted ones are.

Tatted earrings

Newest pair of tatted earrings.

Another tatted daisy

Not sure what I will do with this one. Maybe make a tree ornament out of it.

Doodad

My first doodad tatting. I think it turned out pretty good. I am not used to just making up tatting on my own. I do much better with a pattern.

New tatted earrings

Here is the newest pair of earrings I have tatted. These are for me. I love the red and gold together.

My baby boy is home from college for the holidays. He got someone to cut all his hair off. I don't like it this short. It needs to grow out some.

We had our Christmas cantata at church. It went pretty good. But it sure got hot in those choir robes! I had sweat trickling down my face. I sang one verse of a song solo.

Organization

Do you ever spend hours organizing things? I do! I love to organize and re-organize things. I think I spend more time organizing then making things. Tonight I am organizing my tatting supplies once again. It's insane! One day maybe I will get everything just like I want it and stop changing it all around. Hahaha

Last night my husband and I went to our Sunday School class Christmas party. We really had a good time. The food was so good. One of the men of our church cooked the meal. He sure knows how to cook. He does catering for anyone who needs it. I dressed up for the party. I don't get the chance to dress up often. Tara sent me the lovely scarf I am wearing in the pictures from Africa.

I tatted this pretty little daisy. It is an old pattern. Westpinecreations had the link to it on her blog. I think I might make some more of them. It was fun to make and turned out so nice.

My baby boy will be home from college tomorrow for the Christmas holidays. I will be so happy to see him.

More tatting

I tatted this bracelet Sunday. I still have to put a closure on it. I used a plastic rhinestone trim for the center and tatted around. Very simple to make.

New tatted earrings

I have been working on tatting new earrings lately. Just finished this pair for my child to give her teacher. My child has finally made it through college! We are so proud!

First Day of School & Tatted Earrings

My baby boy is now a Senior!  Today is his first day back to school this year.  I can hardly believe this is his last year of high school.  Seems like just yesterday I was taking him to kindergarten.  Now he is all grown up.  He has turned in to a good Christian young man and I am very proud of him.

I have still been tatting earrings.  I love making these with the large beads in the center!  I have been digging through my boxes of beads looking for large beads.  It is so funny how when I am tatting earrings with small beads then I am digging out all of the small ones.  Then I change to large beads and have to go digging through for large beads!  It's an ever changing process with me!

Pink Earrings - $20

Zebra - $20

I have my poor car in the shop for repairs this morning.  Nothing too bad.  Just needed new brake shoes.  Friday as I was driving home the brakes were locking up on me.  The man told me this morning that probably the pads were slipping causing the brake to catch.  It was fine when I drove it to work this morning.  It is so nice that the man who works on my car is right next door to where I work.

My Daddy is doing good.  For those who have been keeping up with the saga of my Daddy being in the nursing home.  His mind is so much better since I had the doctor take him off that medicine called Seroquel.  My cousin saved his life by telling me he should not be on that!  He was so confused and agitated when he was on it and now that he is off it his mind is so clear!  It is unreal!  I love to visit with him and sit and talk to him.  I ask him a lot about when he was young and he remembers it all.  Yesterday when I was visiting with him his cousin, Earline, came by to see him.  That really made him happy.  He does not get many visitors and it is nice when he does.

Surgery and Vacation

I had Carpal Tunnel Surgery a month ago on my right hand. 
here is a picture of my hand before the surgery.

Here is a picture right after I got the brace off it.  They took off the big brace that they put on right after surgery and gave me a smaller brace to wear for 3 weeks.

Here is my hand right after I got the stitches out.  I was so glad to get them out!

The surgery went fine.  My hand is doing much better now.  It's still somewhat sore and I have to be careful not to hit it.  Last night I bumped it on the door knob opening the closet door and it really hurt bad. 

At least I am able to Tat and Crochet again!

I also went on vacation!  I left on Sunday, April 17th and came back on Friday, April 22nd.  I flew down to Tampa, Florida to visit my brother for the week.  It was the first vacation I have had in years!  I really needed the time away and really enjoyed it!

This is a picture of myself and my brother, Freddy, at his restaurant, Beef 'O Brady's!  I miss him already!

 This is my niece, Lacey.  We were at her basketball game.  She is so good in sports!

 This is Spike.  He is my brother's bearded dragon!

One of the highlights of my trip was getting to go to this fantastic bead store!  I live in a small town and there are not any bead stores close by.  The name of this store is Breezy's Beads.  It is actually in Brandon, Florida which is 12 miles from my brother's house.  He had to go over to Brandon for an appointment and as luck would have it the bead store was only a few blocks from where his appointment was!  So I went to the bead store while he was at his appointment!  It was a great trip and I hope I can go again sometime!

This is a bracelet I have tatted.  I have to put the clasp on it yet.

 This is a bookmark I have tatted.  I have also been working on some earrings.  I just love tatting!

I am hoping I can get enough things tatted to be in the arts & crafts show the first weekend in November.

A little Tatting

This is a small cardinal I tatted from Miranda's free pattern over at Tatting Fool's blog.  I just love how he turned out!  I just gave him away to a dear friend of mine who collects cardinals so I will have to tat myself another one!

Below are two bookmarks that I have tatted.  I did them in purple and gold which are the school colors here in town.

Below is a little picture that my friend has.  The table and vase look like watercolor and the flowers are tatted.  I would love to make something like this.  I will have to brush up on my watercolor skills.  I never was very good at painting!  I am afraid the pictures are not really clear.  It is hard to get a good picture of something in a glass frame.

My "baby boy", Keith, decided to sit in my lap!  What a big baby! hahaha  I should be the one sitting in his lap! 

This is my daughter, Tara, and her friend, Tiffanie.  Tara is the one with dark brown hair.

This is my daughter, Amber.  Tara's cat, Lily, is laying on her leg.  That cat loves to be in that chair or laying on anyone who is sitting in that chair!



Birthday and Cat who rules the recliner!

My baby boy has turned 17!  It is so hard to believe that my baby is nearly grown up!  He definitely looks older then 17 at 6"2 and with a beard.  It's weird how it grows from ear to ear and under his chin, but not on his chin.  He shaves it every so often.  I am so proud of him.  He is a sweet, kind, Christian young man.

Here is his cake.  He loves Fun Fetti cake and wanted me to get 4 boxes of it and bake them and stack them on top of each other and ice them.  I told him that was way too many.  So we settled for two boxes of cake mix!

He got a nice bow for his birthday.  He is really into archery and very good at it!

This past Saturday night I was sitting in the recliner doing some handwork.  My daughter's car, Lily, decided that she wanted to lay on the footrest.  So she jumped up on it and pushed my legs out of the way!

 My daughter thought it was so cute and she took Lily's picture.

 Lily can be very territorial!  Every time I tried to put my foot back on the footrest she would bite me!  Here is a picture of her biting me!  Let me tell you, that cat bites hard!  You can't play with her too much cause she will bite you and sink her claws into you!  Our other two cats you can play with and they will just barely put their teeth on you and not claw you hardly ever.  But not Lily!  So I just decided to leave my feet off the footrest!

 Then my son came along and picked her up and carried her off.  Notice how she is over his shoulder.  She loves to be held this way.  My daughter has held her just like she was a baby since she was a kitten and Lily does not mind it at all!  She really is a sweet cat.  Just got to watch out for those teeth and claws!

This is what I was working on while sitting in the recliner.  Kokeshi Key rings.  Actually they have a hook inside of them and you pull your keys up into the doll and they are hidden.  I had made myself one a year or so ago and a lady saw it and wants one.  So I decided I would make several and maybe I can sell them.

 Here are my Kokeshi dolls before I put their hair on.  The one on the bottom left is the one I had made myself a year or so ago.

 Here is a little tatted bookmark I made.  I love tatting!  I am getting better every day with it!

 I spent almost 3 hours on Saturday at the doctor's office.  I have a sinus infection and ear infection.  It has been going on for nearly a week now and I was treating myself with over the counter medicine, but that was not doing the trick.  Finally went to the doctor and got a shot and some antibiotics.  Sure hope this mess clears up soon!

Too long gone!

I feel like it has been forever since I have posted on my blog.  It has been quiet awhile.  I have had a lot going on at home and have just kinda been out of the loop.  I had to make the decision to put my Daddy into a nursing home and that was very hard.  I kept him at home as long as possible, but when he got where he could not walk at all I just could not manage.  We have a good nursing home here.  It is only a little over a mile from where I work and from where I live.  I know a lot of the ladies who work there as they come to where I work to buy uniforms.  I go up and visit with Daddy every morning before I go to work and then I go and sit with him for  few hours on the weekends.  He is happy there and is well looked after.  But it was still a very hard decision to make to put him there.

Below is an art project Daddy made at the nursing home.  He gave it to me for my birthday and Valentines since my birthday is close to the end of January.  I love it!

I have been doing some tatting and crocheting lately.  Below is a pair of earrings I tatted for my daughter, Tara.  I had trouble getting a good picture of them.  I hope you can tell what they look like!

 This is another pair of earrings I tatted.  I hope to tat lots more earrings and sell them.

 I have crocheted lots of rings.  My daughter, Tara, loves them all!  She picked out lots of them that she wanted.  So here she is modeling the ones she choose and I gave to her.

 I also had a lady want me to crochet her a band for her watch and attach crocheted flowers to it.  The result is below. 

 Here is a close up of one side of the band.

 And here is the other side.  If you look closely at the flower on the far left you will see that it is a tatted flower.

I am going to try and post more often to my blog.  I really love posting, but sometimes it just seems I don't have much to say.