Latest Beading and 1 thing tatting

My design peyote round stitching

Penguin

Whale (my design)

Netting (my friend Debbie showed me this)

Netting again (but I goofed it up LOL)

Peyote & Herringbone (from a magazine)

Peyote round (Experimenting)

Raccoon & Owl

Parrots

Peyote Round (my design)

And lastly a beaded parrot with tatting. I really like how it turned out.

Some new beading

PARROT

RING

RING

More Beading

SCORPIONS

 First Try not too bad

 2nd try better

Both hanging out together

Not Tatting but I wanted to share

I thought I was going to have a great week, I had plans for myself. Like always they get foiled. Whatever, lets move on.
My son got a bead pet kit for Christmas from my sister, Monday morning he wanted to try it before school. I agreed. We did a lady bug, it turned out great. Then we moved on to the Gecko, I did it wrong at first so it looked a little weird, I said he was drunk LOL. Then he had to go to school and he wanted to stay home and do more, mean mommy said NO!!
After he left I got a bug in my rear and decided to try 1 with different beads, only another way, the right way, that is lol
1 led to 2 and 2 led to 3 and now I have a mini invasion of  8 well actually 9 but he was done differently and isnt finished so no photos yet.
I am really loving doing this and am already figuring ways to incorporate it with my tatting LOL
Here is the happy family, the smallest one is about an inch long.

Some January Tatting

I have more to show but didn't get it photographed yet... I am getting in my funk again and that is not good at all.
Any ways, today I had an idea that had to do with my wooden bird houses. I pulled out the shuttles and went to work and I got this:

And this I did on Tuesday: Tatting Tea Tuesday: It was supposed to be an earring but didn't turn out right, as I looked at it, it seemed to look like a goddess. Then as I looked at it at a different angle as I was walking past on my flurry of cleaning up it had a whole new appearance: A genie bottle.

Maybe not but that is what it seems to look like to me, now to tat a tiny genie?

Christmas & some tatting

Now that Christmas has come and gone, I can show some of what I made:

These are ornaments for a rememberance tree. All the beads were from necklaces of my both grandmothers, I made a set for my parents and brother and sister, I have yet to do mine.

Here they are on a little tree which I bought for each one of them

I designed this necklace and earring set for my best friend and tatting pal :)

Hubby got me this case Ohhhhh how well he knows me I told it it would have been a better gift if it were filled with tatting supplies, but I had to fill it myself lol

 And of course what would the holiday meal be without a nasty burn?? Good one!! I got that getting the very last bit of food out of the oven before we ate! Atleast it was at the end of all the major cooking.

HOPE EVERYONE HAD A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY!!!!

~Sick Creativity~

Sick as in I got the flu, yuk! I am on day 3 allthough I am feeling better than I was, I still have an annoying fever, my ribs feel like I been beat up, and when I breathe deep my shoulders hurt. Pain from throwing up and dry heaves. Yesterday I felt better in the evening so I decided to tat a little and made this. I thought it needed more but hubby says it looks good as it is.

I made this the other day.

And this on yet another day.

My son has an appointment in Johnstown tomorrow. BAH!! Then I have to go to the bank to straighten out their mistake AGAIN!! Computers will be the death of us all one day LOL

Tiny Christmas Tatting (present for my tatting friends)

Here is my little Merry Christmas gift to you
A small file with 6 small designs for a little tree or jewelery.
The file can be found here or the drop down menu at the top under the pdf patterns
Here are the 6 little designs, I made mine with a size 10 thread so if you use smaller thread they will be small.

December 11, Sparklers in the Snow

Nate was a bit scared of it but we had a blast.

YES friends we were weird or just having fun

We had some left over sparklers from the 4th of july

the kids asked if they could do it

We said what the heck right???

Fun Times!!! Fun memories!