Nothing New Except TIAS Day Three

 I am starting to think my choice of thread was very wrong.  Maybe because there is so much gray or maybe it's the shape, but I am thinking it will be an elephant (which would make my sister very happy since she collects them).  

Since I had the cell phone out and my computer was updating, I opened my tatting tin to see if there was anything I hadn't photographed.  I had no idea that there were four rings in there.

The two colorful ones are both Marilee Rockley's design, Remembrance Ring.  The orange one is the first round of the same ring, and then just chains to finish it off.  The flower is beaded, not tatted.  

This snowflake (which is on its side) is another December Motif designed by Joelle Paulson.  While making snowflake after snowflake, I realized that I never make anything for my wonderful husband, so I grabbed obnoxious orange thread and blue beads to make a New York Mets-colored snowflake.  He didn't care, but ... whatever.  Thought that counts and all that jazz, right?

Hope you're all having a great week thus far! 

♥,
Stephanie Grace

Easy Stuff

Well, this will be very a boring post (aren't they all?).  I decided to finally take out the wooden ornaments that I bought last year on vacation and paint them.  I have no idea what I'll do with them aside from throwing them back in the box from whence they came, but at least they're not plain anymore. :-)

 Ugh.  You can't tell, but the snowflake is shiny, too. 

There is also a gift tag almost done.  I couldn't make up my mind about the background color, so I just might be taking out the paints again tomorrow.  You can't tell in the scan, but he's all pearly and shiny, as are the snowflakes (which also have bits of blue). 

Well, that's it for me tonight.  I hope you've all had a wonderful week!

♥,
Stephanie Grace

Christmas is Coming...

I realized that Christmas will be here before I know it, so I've been trying to focus on the little trinkets that I'll include in the cards I send out.  I bought Christmas cards on Halloween ... I'm as bad as the stores when it comes to rushing the holidays.  (Note: I'm generally miserable from now until all this holiday stuff if over.  I don't observe Thanksgiving and I hate Christmas.)

My plan is to mainly make snowflake ornaments, but I also want to do some other ornaments and, hopefully, some bookmarks if I can find a few patterns that I like and can tat quickly.  I just bought Tat's Where I Stopped by Nancy Tracy, but I'm a bit iffy on some of the patterns.  Does anyone have the book?  How do you handle patterns like the leaves bookmark?  I never trust just knotting and cutting, but I also wouldn't want to use glue on a bookmark.  I iz confoozed. 

I have had this pattern printed for literally years.  I've never been brave enough to try it for some reason.  It's a lot easier than I imagined, but I found the directions to be wrong in several places. 

Sunbonnet Sue; Big Book of Tatting, pg. 19

I used Lizbeth size 20 in Sky Blue Medium and Silver.  It's not a bad pattern, but I should have paid more attention.  My initial ring has the wrong side facing forward because I flat-out didn't realize there was no RW before adding the ball thread.  *rolls eyes*  It was my third time starting, though, so I just went with it.  

This is another "December Motif" by Joelle Paulson from leblogdefriole.blogspot.com.  All of the beads are pink, but none of them look like it in the scan --and the seed beads, in life, look white if you don't look closely.  They annoy me.  They're so pink together, but turn white on thread.  >.<  The thread is Turquoise Light --Lizbeth, Size 20, of course. 

Well, that's it for now, but at least it's something. 

♥,
Stephanie Grace

Nocturnal Tendencies

I'll start with the disappointment: This post has nothing to do with owls.  Sorry.  

For as long as I can remember, I have always been naturally nocturnal, especially in the warmer months of the year.  In trying to combat this and be awake during more "normal" hours, I often having what I call a "reset day."  This is when I skip sleeping altogether until the next night.  Usually, these days are not very fun.  I actually do try to sleep, but it doesn't happen.  Giving these days a name is my way of just accepting it as a normal part of my life.  

Often, those days end up being a Sunday (so, yes, I am writing on about one hour of half-sleep, its 9:20PM here, and I probably will not go to sleep until one or three AM.)  Yesterday, I decided that, if I was going to accept the sleep deprivation (which really doesn't bother me; if I'd listen to my body, my natural pattern would be around 36 hours awake; 12 hours of sleep; repeat), I might as well do something... so, I did...

December Motif Pattern available at http://leblogdefrivole.blogspot.com/

 Two Keyed Up Earrings and Pendant sets from Tatted Jewelry by Marilee Rockley

Lacy Treasure Pendant from Tatted Jewelry by Marilee Rockley

I left the Lacy Treasure Pendant plain because I wanted it for size comparison.  Yup, be expecting to see it again. ;-)

Pendant based on Roundabout Earrings by Marilee Rockley

The last one I actually made a while ago, but it was sitting here and I couldn't remember if I'd ever scanned it, so here it is (possibly again).

Well, that's it for me.  Time to figure out if my night should include even more tatting or if my wrist needs a break (my eyes certainly do!). 

Here are so scans of the Keyed Up Earrings and Pendants. 

Oh, everything is tatted using Lizbeth size 10 or 20.  Colors vary and I'm too lazy to look up the names and numbers.  They're quite different from the pictures and scans.  When am I going to figure out how to do one of those right? >.<

♥,
Stephanie Grace