Gifts

To me!

These wonderful items are from Tabatha that I received for our Advent exchange.  That container in the back has seven different colored seed beads.  Each bead color is in it's own compartment so each can be opened without releasing loosing opening all the others - great!  The ball of thread is Lizbeth "Springtime" #115 in size 20.  I haven't used it yet but it's such a 'spring-y' color I'm thinking of using it for something for Easter.  The cute book is a journal, an encouragement to keep jotting down my patterns.  And the pens aren't regular pens but crochet hook pens.  And they are soo pretty!  I've been keeping one in my purse so I always have one handy. 

All of these items are in such pretty colors they make me think "Spring!"  We've had such a mild winter here that it almost seems like spring already.  We actually had a thunderstorm yesterday with high wind and hail.  Very spring like, indeed.  Of course, it could come up and snow any day - it's still only February.  But tatting with "Springtime" thread, using those pretty beads and crochet pens, and jotting down ideas in the journal (did you see the tea pot?) will make it feel like springtime anytime. 

I didn't have any tea this morning for Tatting Tea Tuesday, I had coffee instead.  I was just too lazy to try and choose which tea to drink this morning :-)  I've also been too busy this week to tat, so there's no tatting to show.  I have a list of things I want/plan to tat, just not the time.  I'm hoping that this week is a little better on the tatting front.  

May you have a bit of tatting time this week, too. 

"Youth is not a time of life: it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it it a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life."

Samuel Ullman