I made it to the New Year!


Well, I survived the holidays. I made it through multiple family get-togethers, family dinners and a baby shower with minimal stress and fuss. Actually, I think everything went smooth and we all had a great time. My youngest daughter was able to come down from Omaha with the baby on the 23rd, a few days earlier than expected, though her husband had to work so couldn’t come.

For Christmas day I invited my parents and two of my aunts to dinner. I kept it very simple – we had soup and just a few sides. It made for very little stress when fixing the meal as the soup cooked in the crock pot over night and everyone brought something to go with it. Instead of spending all my time cooking I decided to use real dishes (instead of paper, the usual) and set a pretty table – which is usually the last thing I worry about. I also put a tatted snowflake by everyone’s setting for a small gift. I made several of Micheal’s quick snowflakes as I was running out of time and they tat up so nicely. The result was simple but very much in the season. We sat around and visited for hours, a very nice day indeed.

As for the new year, I don’t have any resolutions, but I do have a long to-do list. I have actually printed it out and put it on the refrigerator so that I can mark off each project as it gets done, and also so I don’t lose site of what needs to get done. It also will make it easy to see at the end of the year what I succeeding in finishing and what I didn’t.

Wishing all of you success in all the things that you want to do in 2009.

Last round of Bob’s coily

I’ve been trying to get the house ready for guests on Christmas day so haven’t had much time to post much. But I wanted to get the pattern for the last round of Bob’s coily up so if you were interested you could try it.

So here it is. I’m the only one that has reviewed it so there may be a mistake hiding there somewhere. Tat with care.

2 shuttles
Sht1 R 3-3+3-3 to 3rd p of 2nd R of previous round. RW
Ch 10 RW
SR Sht1 5 Sht2 5
SR Sht1 5 Sht2 5
Flower
SR Sht1 5-3 Sht2 5-3 RW
Sht2 R 3+5-5-3 to p of prev R DNRW
Sht2 R 3+5-5-3 to p of prev R DNRW
Sht2 R 3+5-5-3 to p of prev R DNRW
SR Sht2 3+5 Sht1 3+5 to p of first R of flower
SR Sht2 5 Sht1 5
SR Sht2 5 Sht1 5 DNRW
Ch 10 RW
Repeat from start, continue around. Join last Ch to 1st R.

Edgings and Ideas

I’ve been trying to organize pictures on my computer and found a couple of edgings that I really enjoyed doing. They were added to the bottom of magnet boards I made for friends’ birthdays.

One friend does Renaissance Festivals and at first I didn’t quite know what I would use as background. Then I found some wonderful dragon and castle material. This is one time I actually used beads and then added dragonfly and “gem” magnets.

The other one is really into elephants. Material with elephants, the one’s I found anyway, were rather dark. So I used material with bamboo plants on it so she could see her elephant magnets. The edging was in gold. I think the green really set it off well.

Both recipients were happy with their gifts. And I had a lot of fun coming up with edgings that looked good with the material.

I have been getting a lot of ideas lately seeing all the great things other people have been doing on eTatters and their blogs. The problem is there is so little time to try them out! Christmas is coming so I do have that excuse to sit down and tat because of needing gifts. Now, if I could just stay home from work I’d have a lot more time for the important things.