Thank You, Pamela!

Lately, I have experienced some challenges with my health. A friend had heard of this and sent a little something to cheer me up. Well, it worked! I thought I'd share it with you today!

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Pamela, A.K.A. Tatskool from

"Tat's A Kool Challenge"

sent a beautiful pink beaded heart made

of her beautiful hand tatted lace!

It arrived all the way from lovely Ireland!

Isn't it sparkly?

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She sent it in this adorable handmade card

along with some of her wonderful HDT

(Hand Dyed Thread)!

(Click on photo to enlarge.)

Here's the bunch of goodies together.

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Here is a close up of the thread.This is her new fabulous "Rasperry Ripple"

HDT (hand-dyed thread).

Pamela has started selling her beautiful HDT's

and they are available at her shop:

"Tatskool's Hand Dyed Thread"

She has featured her beautiful new line

of Choco-Rasperry HDT's

in this blog post.

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Take a look at this BEAR-y cute card!

She made this, herself!

I just love handmade cards and the photo doesn't do it justice.

The photo cannot show the beautiful glitter and details on the card

that are seen in person.
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Here's her very sweet note that she wrote inside:

Awww...that is so sweet, Pamela!

Yes, it certainly did add a sparkle to my smile!

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Okay, let's take a look at that beautiful hand tatted

lace heart one more time, shall we?

These beads are so sparkly because they

are crystal beads that are lined on

the inside with real silver!

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Let's have a closer look.

Very nice work, Pamela!

Thank you!

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It was so nice of you to come by and let me share this sparkly heart with you! I hope it has added a sparkle to your smile, too! I am grateful for the friendships I've made through blogging and Pamela's gesture is a fabulous example of that. Gifts are nice AND the fabulous support and kindness that we show each other in the blogging community are the true gifts! Thank you!

Be sure to say hello before you run off to visit Pamela's blog! :)

Love,

XOXO

Please Mr Postman!

Have you ever waited in great suspense in the hope that something would soon arrive in the mail!? I have! I just did, infact. My highly anticipated package arrived on Saturday.

Yippee!!!

It all started back in April when I did a blogpost about a certain pink teapot. An artist by the name of Deborah McNutt of The Painted Nest mentioned she would like the teapot. After conversing via comments and emails a private swap ensued. So, off went my tatted teapot to live with Deborah on the other side of the country! I had requested a bird's nest with robin's eggs and a robin in exchange for my teapot and Deborah complied most willingly. I have been so excited about the arrival of this bird's nest.

Well, I have to say, Deborah did not disappoint.

She SPOILED me rotten!

I am about to show you a fabulous package! Hold on to your hats, friends! It's going to be a long one! For your blogging pleasure, I have provided some postman music that I thought would be fitting with the mail theme of this blog post to entertain you. I hope you enjoy the following Beatles video I found on YouTube.

Thank you, cotizados!

Ya know, sometimes I wonder if my postman knows I blog about him sometimes, LOL!

Nah!

Okay, friends, grab a refreshing drink, get comfortable, and crank up the music 'cuz here we go!

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I couldn't wait to see what was inside this box! OMGoodness~

Looky at what was on TOP of the packaging!

A Vintage Workbasket Magazine!!!

It's from January 1957! I collect vintage Workbasket mags! Woo Hoo! Good call, Deborah!

It even has some tatting patterns in it!

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Okay, now, what's underneath this?
Oh, look at this divine tag!

Look at all these little packages and the Robin!

I think the Robin was kind of hungry from being in that box for so long because she flew right over to my angel birdfeeder to get a bite to eat! Can you believe it?

Hee hee, I think she felt much better after filling up on some birdie food.

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One of the little packages had this adorable altered notepad in it.

There is a little vintage rhinestone right on the center of that silk ribbon bow.

It's embellished so beautifully!

Just look at the little acorn fashioned out of a real acorn cap and a green pearlescent bead!
This just so happens to be the cutest notepad EVER!

It also just so happens that I adore acorns, hee hee!

See how it opens up?Cute!

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Okay, next is this lovely mini canvas of

....what else...

but a painted nest!

As luck would have it~it's the perfect size to fit on my mini-easel! Hee hee!

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Ya know what else looks cute on my mini-easel?

The divine tag!

See the little bit of tatting she used to embellish it?

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Another little package held these inside:

The cutest little bird tags EVER!!!

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Next, is this pretty pendant that says TAT on it!

Here's a closeup.

Notice the cute little angel with the crown on it!
I love it because I think that Tatting is the Lace of Angels!

I thought this was the sweetest thing ever. It brought tears to my eyes knowing that she would take the time to make a pendant dedicated to tatting and angels just for me!

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Next are these artistically wrapped packages!
What could be inside?

The littlest package had the three little robin's eggs in them.

Deborah molded these herself out of a porcelain type clay!
So cute! I love robin's eggs!
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The last package to be opened was the larger blue one.
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You will not believe what was inside of it!
This BEAUTIFUL embellished bluebird box!

Here's a view of the front side of the box.
Look at the little birdy charm!
The top of the dangles is a real acorn cap!

When you open it up the inside is just as beatiful as the outside!

At the bottom of the box are three little eggs that have a 3-D like effect. The eggs are handpainted on top a nest of grass! So very pretty and very detailed!
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If you like this bluebird boxes, Deborah is planning on making
a series of them and selling them on her other blog:
The~Bluebird's~Song, so stay tuned!
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Thank you, Deborah! I love the box so much!
I thought it would look adorable in a little vignette
under a glass cloche on one of my bird's nest cake pedestals!

I thought it looked so sweet grouped with the bird tags and TAT charm.
What do you think?
The doily underneath is a vintage linen center doily with a tatted lace edging that I once rescued from an antique store.


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And last, but certainly not least, a little nest lay gently nestled at the very bottom of the box.

Just look at this darling nesty with the robin's eggs and Mother Robin!

I thought it looked sweet atop one of my cake pedestals.

Mother Robin is watching so dutifully over her eggs.

I love how the word "Family" is intertwined into the nest.
Just like these robin's eggs families are precious.
They are fragile and need warmth and protection.
A Family needs to be handled with great care!

Of course, I noticed the bit of tatting tucked
lovingly into the nest! So sweet!

Isn't that precious? Such attention to detail.

Deborah built this nest herself!

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Thank you so much Deb!

I am so touched at all the little tributes to tatting in your art pieces for me.

I love all of my gifts and will treasure them always!
Be sure to stop by The Painted Nest when you get a chance!

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It's such a pleasure to share my birdie treasure with all of you! Thanks for letting me play show-and-tell with you today! It's so nice to receive a lovely, heartfelt, and artistic gift from a talented artist and new friend such as Deborah. You should know that the thing that makes it even more special is that I have some place to share it with fabulous bloggy friends like yourselves! If you've made it this far in the blog post I'd love to hear from you so feel free to comment. I love hearing from my blog buddies ~ new and old alike~ ! Newcomers are always welcome, too, so don't be shy!

Love,

xoxo

SRE! Here I come!

The Ribbonsmyth has announced their winners for the April giveaway and I won a fabulous prize of Silk Ribbon, trims and embellishments! I've been wanting to get started in SRE (silk ribbon embroidery) and CQ (Crazy Quilting) for such a long time! This is my chance! I cannot tell you how excited I am! I received my fabulous stash earlier this month.

May I show you the "goods"?

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There are samples of beautiful fabric and lace. Some beautiful samples of lovely silk ribbons.
Some goodies to show off my finished work on as well as embellishments.
Some buttons, sequins and bits and bobs to do embellishing!

Thank you, Vickie from The Ribbonsmyth!
I love my prize!

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Thanks for letting me share my goodies with you! I'm looking forward to using them sometime. First I have to get some tatting UFO's turned into FO's and then I can start on learning a new skill! I'm also working on tatted gifts and swaps so those come first! PRIORITIES! LOL!

I'm glad you stopped by. If you are interested in winning giveaways all you have to do is enter! You don't have a chance if you don't comment. Speaking of which, a Vintage Touch is having a fabulous giveaway where she will paint any of your favorite object (excluding people-she's not offering portraits) as the giveaway prize! Isn't that cool! If you win you just need to send her a photo and she'll paint it. I think I'd send a photo of some of my tatting with a shuttle if I won. What would you want her to paint?

Just click on the badge above to visit her blog or click on this link and enter the giveaway. I'd love to hear from you before you run over there! Be sure to say hello!

Luv,

XOXO

Treasures in Blogland

Blogland is like an unexpected world just waiting to be discovered. Behind every nook and cranny, under every rock there are little treasures to be found! I've found a few such treasures lately! I'd like to share them with you, if I may.

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In May I won a Birthday Giveaway

hosted by Carolyn of Draffin Bears!

I was one of 4 lucky winners!

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Carolyn sent this pretty card and

sweet handmade dough ornament! She wrote the sweetest note inside!Isn't her hand writing beautiful!?
Thank you, Carolyn from Draffin Bears!

I am grateful for your friendship!

She makes the most adorable Teddy Bears

and has a shop also called Draffin Bears.

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Next, from the talented Ruth Perry

I received this beautiful pink celtic style tatted bookmark.

Ruth tatted this herself.

Ruth also goes by her pen name Rozella Linden

and has written a many books on Celtic Tatting.

Celtic Tatting is a style of tatting where the tatting intertwines

as you make the lace. It's quite intriguing.

This type of tatting shuttle was made special for Ruth

when she published her "Celtic Tatting" book

through Handy Hands Publishing. Barbara Foster,

owner of Handy Hands Tatting, asked her if a thinner

shuttle would work better for this type of tatting and

so the Celtic Tatting Shuttle was "born"!

The Celtic Shuttle is thinner than a typical tatting shuttle so

that it will slide in between smaller spaces that

celtic tatting creates. Ruth tells me that the

following shuttle was the result of this design request. Can you see how it's long and skinny?

This shuttle, Ruth told me, was one of the first Celtic shuttles

ever made. She said she no longer has a need for it

and so she passed it on to me!

I am honored! I haven't learned celtic tatting yet,

so, no pressure there, LOL! I certainly will now!

I have many of Ruth's books!

You may be wondering how I happened to acquire such

tatting treasures from Ruth, a woman I have never met, but have admired her talent for many years.

It just so happens that she had a "yard sale" earlier this year which I participated in. It was like a grab bag where you made a bid and got some her stash of threads, beads, shuttles, and tatted bits. This is only some of what she sent me. I'll post more about this later.

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Thank you for coming to see some of my treasures I've acquired in blogland! It's been a pleasure to share them with you. What sort of treasures have you come across in blogland lately? Feel free to share your thoughts with me. Comments are always welcome here! Don't forget, the friendships I've made with many of you are the greatest treasures of all!

Sincerely,

XOXO

May and June Snowflakes From Fairiebees!

As promised I have a blog post for you! This is about the arrival of some tatted lace snowflakes from Fairiebees. I had previously won a giveaway from her that lasts all the year through. Each month I have the good fortune of looking forward to a snowflake from her! This month the Snowflakes for both May and June have arrived.

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May's snowflake arrived on June 1st.

Here's a close up:
Isn't it pretty?

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Here's is the June snowflake that arrived within the last week.


Here's another closeup:

Thank you, Crystal from Fairiebees!

I love the way each snowflake is packaged with the

pattern information on each snowflake.

Very cool!

Cool, like a snowflake...get it???

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Thank you so much for stopping by to see some beautiful hand-tatted snowflakes! I'm glad to share them with you. It's always nice to share with friends a little bit of something that brings joy into your day, wouldn't you say? I think so. I think that's one of the wonderful things about this magical place we call blog~land! We kind of get to flit around like butterflies visiting lovely flowers in a beautiful and magical meadow and get to visit so many different places and see so many different things that we wouldn't be able to in our "real" lives. Thank you so much for taking the time to visit with me today. Comments are always welcome, so I'd LOVE to hear what you have to share with me!

Toodles,

~TattingChic

xoxo