TIAS day 3 and 4, and Celtic Medallion

Hi,
Its a bit dull and overcast today, we had rain yesterday and over night but its beginning to get cold again and they say a frost tonight. I noticed in Mothers garden there is a sole daffodil flowering, I don't think the plants know if its time to flower or not.
Today I am showing you the TIAS this is day three, yep we have gone around in a square. and this is day four any ideas what this is yet. Don't forget if you guess correct I will make you one, whatever it is.
I put the link for the TIAS on the last post if you need it.
I forgot to tell you that I am using coats No 20 cotton in pink, its an old ball I found a few weeks ago when I was looking for something else.

Now this is a Celtic medallion pattern which was on "intatters" in the last couple of weeks, the pattern is by Becky Clark
here is the link
Its a lovely pattern and not too difficult well if you don't a mistake like me, this one shows the cock up, I was using Lizbeth thread no 20 butterfly breeze, I love this colour thread. Vernon said no one would know but I do and I like my tatting to be as perfect as possible.

This is my second attempt this time I used Lizbeth thread Grape Pizzaz no 20. and it worked out better this time.




We are busy clearing out mothers bungalow, not easy when she has not thrown away correspondence since god knows when, hopefully we are nearly to the end of the correspondence, I still have the bureau to tackle perhaps I better not speak too soon, we have sorted out the clothes and she has nearly all of them in the nursing home, its just books and other personal items to sort now, then the furniture, seems a never ending job. To be honest we are both feeling worn out.
I hope you are keeping well and until we meet again take care
Hugs
Margaret

Northern Lights over Teepees

Hi,

I was sent these beautiful pictures and I thought I would share them with you.

These are
spectacular and the teepee's are so pretty in the
dark But, check out that thermometer!!!!
NORTHERN LIGHTS, YELLOW KNIFE ,
CANADA

BELOW IS
A FIRE RAINBOW - THE RAREST
OF ALL NATURALLY OCCURRING ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA.
THE PICTURE WAS CAPTURED

ON THE IDAHO, WASHINGTON BORDER. THE EVENT LASTED ABOUT 1 HOUR.
CLOUDS HAVE TO BE CIRRUS, AT LEAST 20K FEET IN THE AIR, WITH JUST THE
RIGHT AMOUNT OF ICE CRYSTALS AND THE SUN HAS TO HIT THE CLOUDS AT PRECISELY 58 DEGREES.
I hope you have enjoyed these lovely pictures, thanks Sue for sending them to me.

Take care,

Hugs

Margaret

TIAS Day Two

Hi,
Sun shining, but cold, at least it is dry, nice to see the sun has got his hat today, hopefully we will have a few days of it.
Here is day two, no I still don't know what it is, anyone willing to have a guess, remember anyone can join in with the guessing, if you are right at the end, then I will make you a copy of the item.
If anyone would like to have a go at tatting the TIAS then here's the link, it is open to everyone including beginners.
We are having a day at home, I have to make some new cards for my craft table and Vernon is having his usual nap after lunch, gosh its seems ages since we spent a whole day at home without going out or visiting mother. It will be back to the grindstone tomorrow and sorting out her bungalow. We took a few bits of shopping i.e. her magazines etc., in yesterday, we are planning to go and see her on Tuesday, with a few more bits for her room.
I had trouble with blogger yesterday, so if you did not get a comment on your blog it was not for trying blogger would not let me, it kept freezing on me.
I hope you are keeping well where ever you are and until we meet again take care
Hugs
Margaret

TIAS Day one

Hi,
Its January and the start of the tatting challenge again.
The TIAS or Tat it and See this is day one, anyone can guess what it is, I have no idea what it will be and like last year it was almost to the end before I found out it what it was.
So if you want a guess as it goes post a comment and if you are correct I will send you one whatever it works out at.
Update on Mother yesterday she went into a Nursing Home at Ston Easton, Nr Radstock, Somerset called Clare Hall, its a lovely place and beautiful gardens, her room over looks the front of the building and the gardens so she has something to look at.
Now I have a bungalow to empty and sort out, its going to be a long job over the next few weeks. Mother seems to have collected a lot of things over the years.
I was hoping to do the Sunday Cd challenge but although I have got my mojo working and an idea I have not had time to do it this week, oh well I will have to try and do it next week.
Until we meet again Take care
Hugs
Margaret

Vernon's Dad 80th Birthday Card.

Hi,

Today is Vernon's Dad 80th Birthday, we had a party last Saturday as Becky (Dads Grand daughter) was going back to Tanzania for 9 weeks working. It was a lovely party with many of the family and friends. Dee did a beautiful spread and the cake I ordered on the Internet arrived on time, and I must say it was a lovely cake.
Back to the card, I made this parchment card to my own design, I put a blue footballer for Chelsea which is the football club Dad supports. The motorbike peel off in gold was like the one he had when Vernon was a little boy and two chickens also in peel offs because they had chickens in the garden when they lived at Batcombe in Somerset, they moved there when Vernon was seven years. I wanted a card that brought something from years ago. I did a simple design in embossing and perforating. I don't think this was my best effort and took me about five hours to do.
At the moment with mother in hospital I don't seem to have any time. I put a blue sheet of paper behind the parchment sheet and used a blue ribbon down the side, the ribbon is from Joanna Sheen's online shop.

I know those who regularly visit my blog must be wondering, Vernon was 65 year old last November and here's his Dad 80 years old today, Vernon is his step son and has been since he was three years old, so hes the only Dad Vernon has known.

Well I hope hes had a lovely day and here's to the next twenty years because he says he going to live to be one hundred and wants a telegram from the Queen............ could be King Charles by then.

Update on my Mother she goes into a Nursing home today, on the next post I will tell you all about it.

I hope you are all keeping well and until we meet again take care

Hugs

Margaret

My surprise today

Hi,

Look what arrived in the post today, back in November I won a giveaway from Wanda in the US, I know she posted it at the beginning of December and I must admit I had forgotten about it, so when the postman came knocking this morning with two parcels I was surprised.

Thank you Wanda the parcel was lovely containing a pair of small scissors, two balls of Lizbeth thread, of which I do not have, Peacock Blues no 20 and Autumn Apple pie No 40. A book about Kansas landscape and the most beautiful bookmark.

The other parcel was from the Lady Shuttle Maker, I brought one of her hook pens on Christmas day from her esty store, its like a pen but without the ink instead it has a tatting hook which when you press it, it comes down just like an ink nib.

I hope you have had a nice day I am off to see and do the TIAS (tat it as you see) that started today, if you remember I did it last you and it turned out to be an aeroplane, so I wonder what this years will turn out to be.

Until we meet again take care

Hugs

Margaret

The last Christmas Cards.

Hi,
At least its stopped raining and the wind has finally died down. These two cards were made for Christmas, I wanted something that was not the usual things Christmas cards have but were for Christmas. The top one was for Vernon's Dad and the other was for Dee Vernon's sister.
We were unable to go up to Oxford over Christmas because I had flu but tomorrow we are going up to Dads 80th Birthday Party and then I can give them their cards. I was so late with them that they missed the post and we said we would take them with us on Boxing Day. Well they say the best laid plans don't work, and in this case they did not.

I used the tatting pattern 5 point Celtic motif which I have done before but I made them with 10 points instead of 5, the pattern is a Sue Hansons Pattern, I used Lizbeth Christmas thread no 20. I put the motif on a gold miri board card, the backing paper was free from a magazine. The ribbon is sheer from Joanna Sheen's online shop. I have done several of these before and I think they are lovely for cards. I finished off the cards with gold peel offs.
This is a close up.
I hope you like these cards, I wanted something different and I hope I managed that, none of us felt in the mood for Christmas after Peters death. The rest of the family got brought cards which is very unusual from me, but we with so much going on I just could not find the time to make some for them.
I was going to do a challenge card for the Sunday CD Challenge, but with the week I have had I have not had time for myself. Mother is now going into a home so I have been looking at nursing homes for her, I think we have found the one that will suit her, its now just getting the paperwork done and then sorting her bungalow out. Vernon's is wandering how he found time to go to work with all the wandering around we have down over the last few weeks, he would have had a lot of time off work to help me.
I hope you have a lovely weekend and until we meet again in Blog land take care
Hugs
Margaret