Green

Green

     I found one, lone, green ball in the box.

Beads

Beads

      I remember, now, why I didn't like making them.  It takes hours, just loading up all the beads.  This set I am cheating and adding larger beads, instead of 1000+ seed beads.

Last Time

Last Time

  
       Last time I made these, I had gotten burnt out.  My aunt wanted 32 blue balls for her tree.   I better get with it, before I get burned out, again.

Mom

Mom

    My mom had given me an art set on how to draw Disney characters.  

Happy Birthday....Mom

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

      Merry Christmas....this is a, wonderful, present from my husband.  A set of 120, professional set of colored pencils.  Love these pencils....very creamy and the metallics are fabulous.  Working on my test, swatches, first.

New Friends

New Friends

     Rexy made a few friends, three little orphans.  He found them admiring the presents and tree.  Our little orphanage is really growing.  We now have two baby tyrannosaur's and one baby triceratops.  Cera is very excited about that. 

Click to see Rexy's next adventure.

Birch Box

Birch Box

        A friend had made us a, beautiful, box out of birch bark.  The bark came from his place in Alaska.  He sewed all the seams together.

Another

Another

       Within a days time, I won another give away of art supplies from Shannon M Valentine and Staedtler.  The watercolor graphite pencils look very interesting.

Pencils

Pencils

     Had entered a few giveaways and won a wonderful set of colored pencils and drawing pencils from Barb Sotiropoulos Art and Staedtler.

Project Box

Project Box

     I am all ready for Christmas and decided to start tackling one of my project boxes...actually a tub.  I haven't tatted these balls for years.  I had designed the pattern, when I started tatting, using a needle.  Since then, I shuttle tat them, using a large shuttle.  These were made with pearl cotton #12.

Gift

Gift

    A dear friend, from the farmer's market, works at one of the antique stores.  He said this had been sitting in the shop, for years and thought I might like it.  He thought it was tatting, but once I looked at it, it is gorgeous bobbin lace.  There also was an old shuttle.

Watermelon

Watermelon

       An old earring, with watermelon colored thread.

Secret

Secret

       My little treasures came from my secret Santa, Bonnie.  She must have know, I was low on purple thread and always need hand sanitizer.  She also gave me more thread, shuttle, hanky and lip balm.  Plus....a gorgeous tatted ball with a snowman hanging from the bottom.

Red

Red

     This is one of my favorite pairs of earrings, just tatted.  Reminds me of the Christmas season.  Can you see the design of the embellishment, incorporated into the tatting?

Cross-like

Cross-like

    This pair of earrings has a cross-like appearance.  The embellishment was very simple so my design needed to be a little more elaborate.

Swirl

Swirl

    This pair of earrings, the challenge was matching the tatted chains up to the beginning of the swirls on the embellishments.

Pendant/Ornament

Pendant/Ornament

       This could be worn as a pendant or hung as an ornament.  When I embellishment tat,  I like to extend the embellishment into the tatting.  Incorporate the design and colors of the embellishment to the tattling portion.  

Boring??

Boring??

    Every year I keep putting up the same decorations.  Baubles and Tatsmithing on the little tree.  Tatting and quilling on the big tree.  I think I'm going to change it up, but when I open the box...nope tatting and quilling is going back on the tree.  It has that elegant look to it.  So, NOT boring....gorgeous!!

Not quilling or tatting....my niece gave this to my husband, last year.  It was his most treasured present.  She had spent her own money to buy it for him.

I need to make a matching doily for the teapot on the bottom.  My husband got me the hutch for Christmas.  Something to display some of my best teapots.

What....how did he get into the picture....

Rexy looooooves his Christmas lights.

See what Rexy is up to next.

SM/LG

SM/LG

      Here are a few of small and large tatting cases.