At the end of the year. It is all candle lights

This is a candle light I gave to someone special in the nabourhood of Columbia SC. Another candlelight almost the same went in my Secret Santa Parcel.

And than there was a verry special candlelight made by my granddaughter.

She made it special for me and ofcourse also for her other grandmother. In the picture she is looking at what she made herself





I wish you all a Happy Newyear

A Surprise in the frontyard

This morning I saw something special in my frontyard. It is not a nice frontyard. All that will grow is allowed to grow. But this morning I saw some nice toadstool. One that you as a child always saw as the house of a gnoom. One about what we have a nice song, that we learned in kindergarten. I made some pictures and looked for the gnooms, but didn't see them.

Who got the Palmetto Ribbons at the Fair.

There was a lot of tatting at the Fair.
The Palmetto Tatting Guild had three special Ribbons
Best Double Stitches and Picots
Most Innovative Tatted Desing
Judges's Choice.
There were 34 different pieces. That is more than last year.



Here you see the three Ribbons
Left: Judges's Choice Mary DonoHue
Right: Best Double Stitches and Picots Donna Thompson
Left: Most Innovative Tatted Desing Pam Esbjerg

They are beautifull and so were a lot of other pieces.
I will show you one It is from My dearest Friend Pam Freck
She was still busy for the tatdays to make it
It was difficult to keep my mouth shut and Not say I can help tatting,
She has to do it herself. I admire her for her patience tat, retro tat and
at last those earrings in the group recicled what do you say aboud these


earrings? Aren't they cute? I hope you can see it well. The problem was
It has to turn It is on my PC as if had to be But When I brought it here on my blog it turned
Praying backwards didn't help so I left it as it is now.
When does it stop that fighting with my pc I want to be the boss but most of the time the PC is acting like he/she is the boss.

The Fair

Saturday 17-10-2007
The big day The Palmetto's are the whole day at the Fair in Columbia SC. We had to prepare the place they gave us for one day. We started at about 8.00 o'clock and at 9 the first visitors came in. We had a lot of things to show and the visitors know about the little tatted gift's we had. The spiders that was it, but butterflies went the most. Something special happend
All at ones there was a little girl. Her mother put her on the table and said " The lady of the sewing stand told me to show you this". It was really wonderful a dress with tatting all over the dress and a petticoat also with tatting. The lady told us she bought a big box with all kind of things, just for a few dollars In that box was another small box and in there was the little dress. She found some one who helped her with cleaning and repair some small things and here it is. Isn't this great?

Isn't it wonderful?

That was not the only thing what happened. You know that at the fair we try to teach the visitors to tat. There was a little girl about 5 years old and she wanted to learn tatting. Her mother said you can't do that, but the girl stayed and was patient waiting for her turn.

Pam has her special way with this kind of little girls. They can't hold the thread on their hand but you can lay the thread flat on the table and then they can do the stitches flipped and unflipped. The little girl tatted herself a necklace

You see here the girl tatting, also a picture of her beautiful face. But also a close up of her tatting. I hope we will see her back as a great tatter.

It was a great day. We were tired but tired in a special way. I hope to go again next year.

At Least something about me in Lexington

I didn't have time to put something on my blog earlier.
Pam and I are very busy with working on things for the state fair and we still didn't clean the windows (some poeple will know what I am talking about)
In the picture you see the items we are tatting for the fair to gave away
It is a tatybird from Martha Ess and also her paprica dragon. The little baby dragon , his name is Ringtrim and the designer is Anne Bruvold The other three small animals sitting there I don't know Who designed them. The spider is designed by Donna from the Palmetto Tatters
I am doing fine overhere We have a lot off fun
I hope to write something more soon

I am so proud

This morning I got my order in my mailbox
I found in the Netherlands a shop on line where I could order the buttons, I always see in the States. It is a shop with a realy nice name Grootmoeders Knopendoos, taranslated Grandmothers button box The URL is:
http://www.grootmoedersknoopendoos.nl/
And what is nice you can reed it in english.
I am tatting a lot of things, but the problem is: all the projects are for our magezine or for workshops so you havre to wait till after al the things are used

A new book of Ineke Kuiperij

Here it is a new book. Ineke shows her book to day in Horstmar in Germany. I am so glad that I can show the new book

In April she showed it to me for the first time.

I only saw the book not the train set But I have more pictures for you and as always you can order the book by me. I send the orders to Ineke

Here are 2 more pictures

Thiis a little bit better picture of the set and the last picture is the train and Railway station together with the village. I realy kike that

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I hope you like the train and station as much as I do