In The Pink

The saying "In the Pink" means in perfect condition, especially of health. Some of you may have noticed that on occasion I have mentioned, though briefly, that I've had some health challenges. I am happy to say that I am getting closer and closer to that state of being "in the pink"! Let's hear it for good health!

Pink is also one of my most very favorite colors. If I am forced to pick a favorite I will usually choose pink, but I love other colors, too!

PINK!

It's girly ~ I'm girly. It's feminine ~ I'm feminine. It tends to work well with my skin tone. I could think of a million other reasons why I like pink and why it's a perfect color for me!

I'd like to show you some fabulous blogalicious, tattalicious, and pinkalicious goodies!

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Look at this beautiful pink box
that arrived in the mail from
Celestina Marie!

The box was a total surprise!
Look at the darling pink rose on the
pink background with white polka dots!
I am swooning over the pretty pink
and white stripes on the side of the box.

Just look at the beautiful white trim
on the side of the box lid!

Let's peek inside, shall we?

What's this peeking out of the pretty pink
sheer bag and rosy tissue paper?

It's a LOVELY painted tatting shuttle!
Look at the inside of the box, too!

Okay, now I did say that the box was a surprise.

The shuttle was not!

We had made arrangements earlier for her to
paint her beautiful shabby chic roses on a
wooden tatting shuttle for me.

I sent her this tatting shuttle
(that I purchased from Sistermaide's Etsy Shop).

And she sent it back looking like this:

Swoooooooon!

Oh, the photo does not do it justice!
It is beautiful with it's white background
and pink rosebud with pink polka dots!

Here's another "before" shot of the
tatting shuttle on it's side:

after:

She painted the sides pink and the post pink
with white inside the blades of the shuttle!

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Accompanying this lovely shuttle was
this pretty card:

It says, "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

The flipside had a personal note on it:

Thank you so much, Celeste!
I LOVE it!

Celeste is getting a tatted bookmark from me.
I told her I was going to wait until I had it done
to post it. As you can see, the shuttle is so
very pretty that I simply couldn't wait!

Edited 8/31/09:
You can see Celestina Marie's
blog post on the
shuttle by clicking here!

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Next, I'd like to show you that I got
some pink hand knitted house slippers
from Twyla of Two Crazy Crafters!

Aren't they cute?

Finally, an obligatory blogger foot photo!


They are comfy, too!

You know, I have always wanted a pair of
hand knitted house slippers and now I have them!

Twyla had a birthday giveaway and I was
one of the lucky winners! YAY!

Thank you, Twyla!
They are warm and cozy!

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Now, just in case you were wondering...
this is not just a blog about some gal
who "gets a lot of stuff from other bloggers"...

I do tat, too!

See!

Wink, wink, Jessica!

This is a sneak peak for all of you of some pink
tatting for a very special bloggy pal
(and you know who you are)!

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Thank you for visiting my blog today! Whether or not you like pink I do hope this blog post finds you "in the pink" yourself! Please say hello and let me know how you are doing!

♥

XOXO

A Rarity

Here's something unique and exciting!

I won another giveaway (or two)! Let me show you the goods.

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I won the July Giveaway from Jo in NZ
She has a blog called
"No Matter Where I go...
I Always Meet Myself There!"

The prize???

This fabulous hand stitched fabric post card!

Isn't it cool?

Look at the awesome stamped postmark
on the other side. She actually wrote on it.
Thank you, Jo in NZ!

I thought I'd post this in honor of
Postcard Friendship Friday!

Welcome PFF'ers!

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Next, I'd like to share the stitch chart I won
from Marjorie of
Moonsilk Stitches!

It's a nice pattern. It's stitched acorns.
I love acorns!

Thank you, Marjorie!

She even slipped in this bonus book
on teaching crafts.
It has a section on ethics in teaching
crafts. I thought that was kind of cool.
It talks about not gossiping about your students.
I rather like that. I've never gossiped about my
students, but did my best to create
an emotionally safe environment for learning.
I hope they felt it.

Sometimes I think about ethics in blogging.
I think similar things apply. I am not
attracted to blogs that put down others or
say negative things about their bloggy "neighbors".
I've even seen some blogs that "blast" someone
publically when maybe there was private issue
only shared in email. I think that's a big no-no.

On the other hand, it's always a pleasure to visit
blogs that send sweet shout outs about their
friend's blogs or blogs they admire.
It makes me feel safe visiting there!

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Thank you for visiting and allowing me the privilege of sharing some of my week with you! It is always a pleasure to share here in bloggerland. I hope you say "hello" before you run off to visit more of your bloggy neighbors here in the bloggerhood!

♥

XOXO

A Note of Comparison

In my last post about "Ruffled Hearts" I shared a comparison of a same sized thread, size 20. There was a photo that showed the two same sized hearts next to a US dime to give an idea of their size. So many of you commented on how tiny you thought they were.

Yes, the hearts are small, it's true. What is interesting to me is that size 20 is actually a larger gauge in the crochet cotton thread sizes. Authentic "Tatting thread" is actually much smaller at sizes 70, 80, and 100.

I thought I'd give you some more size comparisons to see the differences in some crochet cotton and tatting thread sizes.

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Here is the heart in the same size 20 DMC thread

Next, we have size 40 DMC thread.

Here's is size 20 on the left next to size 40 on the right.
As you can see, size 40 is a bit smaller.

Smaller still is size 80 DMC tatting thread!

See?

Size 20 is on the left,

Size 40 is in the middle,

Size 80 is on the right!

Here's that same dime to show the size comparison.

As mentioned in the previous post the heart pattern
is called "Ruffled Heart" by Vicki Clarke.
The thread is "Summer Trail" by Yarnplayer (in all 3 sizes).

Just to reiterate the whole
"look how tiny size 80 thread is"
here's another photo of the heart
made of size 80 thread on the same dime.

Now, what does size 20, 40, and 80 all mean?
Why does the larger number correspond
with the smaller thread?

Click on over to
Jen's Tatra-Sutra
for her thoughts on this.
(Scroll down to the paragraph entitled "size")

I've actually heard something similar to this
from others, but this was the only page online
that I could find that explained it.

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Thanks again for stopping by to visit! As always, your visits and comments are a pleasure! I enjoy them very much!
I hope you are all having a fabulous weekend so far! I am!

♥

XOXO

Ruffled Hearts

It may seem that by the sounds of this blog post title that I am feeling out of sorts. It is actually the name of the pattern I used to tat these hearts I am sharing today.
Last week Yarnplayer asked me to test tat some of her beautiful HDT for her. She normally hand dyes DMC brand thread and may start dying Lizbeth thread now that it is available in size 20 AND size 40!
I had ordered some of her "Summer Trail" in size 20 and she sent along with it some size 20 (of the same colorway) in the new Lizbeth HDT! Woo Hoo! I love tatting thread treats such as this and welcome the chance to test tat them anytime! I am happy to report that both the DMC and Lizbeth threads tatted up very nicely!

Here, let me show you the two hearts!

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Here is the Lizbeth thread:

The heart pattern is called
"Ruffled Heart"
by Vicki Clarke.

I think it's a very pretty pattern.

***
This will count as
Motif #8
in my second round of the
25 Motif Challenge
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Next, is the DMC thread.

Here they are side by side.

DMC Cordonnet Special is on the left

and Lizbeth is on the right.

Here they are by a US dime to show
how small these motifs are.

Hope you enjoyed the show!

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Thanks for stopping by! Do say hello if you have the time! I'd love to hear from you. I will let you decide for yourself which heart you like best. I like them both. I hope all of you are having a fabulous week so far!

Hey, I just realized, it's "hump day"!!! Woo Hoo!

♥

XOXO

All Is "Right SIDE UP" With The World Again!

or what I really meant to say was: "FONTS and FLAKES"

Hi there! I am happy to announce that TattingChic is back in business! Woo Hoo! Thank you everyone who commented on my Technical Difficulties post! I really appreciate your warmth and support. Apparently, yesterday morning when I sat down on my couch to eat my breakfast (see what I get for not eating at the table?), I accidentally sat on my laptop. Mortified, I jumped up immediately as I realized what I had done. I looked at my desktop screen and it was

¡¡¡uʍop ǝpısdn

YIKES!

Hey, that reminds me of a little song:
(Feel free to click "play" if you're in the mood for Diana Ross)

Thank you, bpmandersloot!

I went on with my day and while on a break at work I ran into the IT guy. I mentioned my predicament and he immediately started to laugh. He did say that it was a challenge and he had never heard of it before. He told me he would research about it that evening.

Today I got an email from him. It said:

"Try this.

Some systems will invert the display when you press CTRL-ALT-Up Arrow or CTRL-ALT-Down Arrow. This feature is installed to allow you to fix the monitor upside down on the ceiling or other high surface - useful for public displays. To put things back the right way press CTRL-ALT-Up Arrow or CTRL-ALT-Down Arrow again."

So, upon arriving home I immediately tried it after turning on my laptop! Lo and behold! It worked! YIPPEE!!! Easy and free fix! THANK YOU IT Guy (and you know who you are, although, I'm pretty positive you don't read this blog, LOL!)!!!

WHEW!!!

Apparently I had sat on the exact combination of CTRL-ALT-Down Arrow which turns it upside down. CTRL-ALT-Up Arrow turned it right side up again.

All is right (side up) with the world again!

It is so good to be back in the saddle again! Sewmuchfun4, it looks like you were right on the money with your suggestion as it was right what the I.T. guy said, thanks to you, too!

Now...back to what I was gonna say earlier before all this crazy turning-my-world-upside-down stuff.
What I really meant to post about today was that you may have noticed some changes on my blog lately. I had changed the font style of blog titles. I wanted to share with you some info about that.

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This cool blog called Kevin & Amanda

had this very cool post here:

How To Use A Cute Font For Your Blogger Post Titles

Feel free to visit this blog if you're interested
in spicing up your blog a bit with some CUTE fonts!
It's way cool!

Amanda even writes back when you ask her questions in the comments!

Thanks, Amanda!

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I also wanted to show you that I received
the July snowflake from Fairiebees

Here's a link with all the snowflakes together.

Thanks Fairiebees!

I look forward to getting my
tatted snowflake in the mail
from you every month!
I'll be sad when the year is through.

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Sorry, about all the distractions! I was feeling very discombobulated and I think it shows in this post! Isn't that a great word? I love that word... "discombobulated"! It just sounds like things are all jumbled up and a mess, LOL!

Okay, okay, I know, I need to "get a life" if I'm all worried about my computer being unavailable for a 36 hour period, LOL!

See how much you guys mean to me!?!

It's nice to have a visit from you! Feel free to say hello and stuff! I missed you guys while my computer desktop was upside down! LOL!

(((HUGS)))!!!

XOXO

Technical Difficulties

I am very sad to report some technical difficulties. Due to poor judgment on my part I accidentally sat on my laptop. This caused a unique problem. The desktop screen now shows up

¡uʍop ǝpısdn

No kidding. I will be computerless until the situation is resolved. I am writing this at another location which I will not have access to during the weekend. I will miss all of you very much. Please don't forget about me. Well, how can you? Who else sits on her laptop and makes the screen upside down?

If anyone knows the solution to this feel free to leave it in the comments, LOL! It even has the IT guy at work stumped, LOL!

Go ahead, laugh, it's funny.

....sort of....

XOXO

P.S. EVERYTHING is upside down on the computer so that means no e-mail, no facebook, no twitter, nothing!

WAHHHHH!!!

Everybody Loves A Winner!

Hi there! It's August 1st you know! I know it's a big day here at TattingChic! Some of you on other parts of the planet may have wondered what is taking me so long to get down to business. Some of you have moved onto August 2nd already. Some of you are getting ready for bed.
It's only 8:30 in the morning on August 1st here in Sunny California!

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The big day is finally here!
The day to announce the winner of:

So, I went to:

to find a winner out of

280 entries!

So, without further adieu
the winner is comment #215!

Congratulations, comment No. 215!

Comment #215 was Debra!
Here's Debra's comment:

Yes, Debra! You DID get the second entry
for posting the button!

(Just click on the image above to go to her
blog where she posted the button.)

Thank you for following me, even though it wasn't
a requirement. I hope you accept the friendly
invitation to come back and visit often!

Your prize will be on it's way just as soon as
you email me with your mailing address!
I sent you an email from your profile and
need to hear back from you within one week!
:)

Congratulations!


8/7/09 Edited Update:
Debra got her package and
posted about it here!

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Next, I wanted to share some more
winner's news with you!

I won this award from Sy
of Sy's Tat-About!

Thanks, Sy!

So, since everybody loves a winner,
(right?)
I am passing this award to EVERYONE
who entered my 50,000 Visitor Giveaway!
Thanks for celebrating with me!

See, we're ALL winners!

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Speaking of winners...
I would LOVE to be the winner of
THIS fabulous giveaway!


If you'd like a chance to be a winner, too,
just click on the image above to go to a giveaway
for a fabulous Zephyr knitting needle set!
Thank you, Things Mom Like and KnitPicks!

Don't worry...if I won it...I wouldn't
tat LESS, just knit more!
How about you?

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Thank you for stopping by so I could share the winning news with you! I hope you say hello during your travels through bloggerland! Your visits are always a pleasure and comments always welcome!

XOXO