Still trying

I started a Mary Konior pattern, the Spinning Wheel Glass Mat. I thought I was doing well until I realized I'd done something wrong and now I have to start over. It wasn't really a fixable mistake, so, I'm going to start it again and I have several more things I'd like to get started. I LOVE looking at Mary's books. I have 3 of them and keep finding things in them I'd like to make.

Tatting Class!

I HAVE BEEN ASKED TO START A TATTING CLASS!!!
  I can't even believe it! Another homeschool mom asked me to teach her girls to tat. She said she'd even pay me to do it. She's seeing if anyone else wants to get in on the class or not. Hoping I'm up to the task. I find that I need to work on my delivery or something. I don't always seem to be able to communicate things so that they make sense to other people, even when they make sense to me.

12 YEARS TODAY!!!

Today I have been married to the love of my life, the father of my children, a WONDERFUL father and husband for 12 years! I can't believe it's been that long! I love you Mike!

Just took this picture last week on a trail where we went hiking and saw an old farmhouse from the early 1800s with 5 other families in our homeschool group. There were 10 adults and more than 20 children!

He's Home!!!

My little brother is home on leave from Afghanistan! He's been gone for 8 LONG months, but he's home now for 2 weeks! We're leaving Saturday morning to head to the States to visit him and his family and some other family for a couple of weeks.
  We've been pretty busy here tying up the end of the school year. We have some BRAND NEW homeschoolers in the area, they're here from the States. They are brought up here by the opening of the Target stores.
  I haven't had a lot of time to work on my tatting, but it's coming with me to the States. I'm thinking of making a special notebook to put my tatting in as I make it and embellishing scrapbook pages with tatting.
  We're going to have a REALLY busy school year coming up this fall. We have 4 children. By September they'll be 3 1/2, 6 (in 1st grade), 8 (in 3rd grade) and 11 (in 6th grade). We use a literature based learning system and this means a LOT of work with school. They are learning SO well! We've been trying to get out doing nature walks more often, we've gotten a membership to the Royal Botanical Gardens. We're also going to be spending some time with some other homeschool families going to different events happening in the Niagara region dealing with the bicentennial of the War of 1812. It will be interesting to see this from a Canadian perspective. 
 Well, I'm off. It's nearly nap time for the younger children and there's things to do to prepare for Saturday.

New Shuttle and New Tatting!!

Way back I had ordered two shuttles from LaCossette. I had accidentally given her the address that we used to live in (ironically just across a parking lot from us). I had ordered two custom shuttles, one for me and one for my daughter. The shuttles were sent but never arrived either here or at the other place (my husband has gotten to know those neighbors very well now after all the trips he's made over there asking if they ever came). I felt awful that they never came, I had been looking SO forward to them! I was nearly in tears. LaCossette offered to remake them and send them again, but I felt it was unfair to her to make her not just spend the time remaking them when I'm sure she had other things to do, but to be out the funds for the shuttles when it was really my fault that they didn't arrive. LaCossette, being the amazingly wonderful woman that she is, remade my shuttle and sent it to me! It arrived today. Here is a picture of it along with my latest snowflake (I'm putting beads on it!).

The teal looking rosette is another one that didn't work out. 

Isn't my new shuttle amazing!?! It's the same rose that's in the header of my blog and everywhere else I can put it. 

Thank you SO MUCH LaCossette for doing this.

Sill Learning

I'm getting better at the rose itself, but I screwed up putting the points on it this time for the snowflake! I also had it ready to have beads on the picots on the points of the snowflake, but I make the mistake of not putting the beads I wanted around the ring itself, they were UNDER my picots instead of on the picot itself. However, I spent part of my morning researching what I did wrong and now I can try it AGAIN tonight! Here's a picture of my rose, I gave it to Caleigh, she really likes it. I'll make another rose (I LOVE making roses!) to put the new snowflake together with. Also, I need to cut my ball thread so that my points will be a solid color all around, I only want the rose to be variegated. I have to practice that too.

If anyone has any advise I will listen gratefully.

Got it started!

Well, last night I got my newest snowflake started. I got my beads all ready and hopefully it will work out the way I'm planning. I'll post pictures when I'm a little further along. (Hopefully later tonight or in the morning!)