Monday's Inspiration

Hi folks I am experiencing difficulty with internet connections so this will be the last post for this year. Looking forward to starting back January 1,2014.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly,

despairingly, acutely, miserable, wracked with sorrow,

but through it all I still know quite certainly that

just to be alive is a grand thing."

-Agatha Christie

Thursday's Inspiration

"In three words I can sum up everything

I've learned about life: it goes on."

-Robert Frost

Wednesday's Inspiration

"The true way to render ourselves happy is to

love our work and find in it our pleasure."

-Francoise de Motteville

Tuesday's Inspiration

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts

as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."

-Rene Descartes

Monday's Inspiration

"Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive;

enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make theHor

most of what you have. It is later than you think."

-Horace

Weekend's Inspiration

"Take the time to come home to yourself every day."

-Robin Casarjian

Friday's Inspiration

"Life is a process. We are a process.

The universe is a process."

-Anne Wilson Sehaef

Thursday's Inspiration

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread,

they can sure make something out of you."

-Muhammad Ali

Wednesday's Inspiration

"Stop wearing your wishbone

where your backbone ought to be."

-Elizabeth Gilbert

Tuesday's Inspiration

"People, even more than things, have to be

restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,

and redeemed; never through out anyone."

-Audrey Hepburn

Monday's Inspiration

"Decorate yourself from the inside out."

-Andrei Turnhollow

Weekend's Inspiration

"How we spend our days is, of course,

how we spend our lives."

-Annie Dillard

Friday's Inspiration

"Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat."

-Malcolm S. Forbes

Thursday's Inspiration

"Too low they build, who build beneath the stars."

-Edward Young 

Wednesday's Inspiration

I hope everyone has enjoyed my tatting pictures. For the next month or two I will be showing pictures on some of the gardens we have in the parks here in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.

"Life is really simple, but we insist

on making it complicated."

-Confucius

Tatting and Tuesday's Inspiration

Celtic Snowflake. Pattern by Ruth Perry.

"Yes, know thy self: in great concerns or small,

be this thy care, for this, my friends, is all."

-Juvenal

Tatting and Monday's Inspiration

"When you have exhausted all possibilities,

remember this- you haven't." 

-Thomas Edison

Tatting and Weekend Inspiration

"We shall never know all the good 

that a simple smile can do."

-Mother Teresa

Tatting and Friday's Inspiration

"One does not get to know that one exists

until one rediscovers oneself in others."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tatting and Thursday's Inspiration

"Life is so constructed that an event does not,

cannot, will not, match the expectation."

-Charlotte Bronte

Tatting and Wednesday's Inspiration

Celtic Snowflake, pattern is by Ruth Perry.

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."

-John W. Gardner

Tatting and Tuesday's Inspiration

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance,

the wise grows it under his feet."

-James Oppenheim

Tatting and Monday's Inspiration

Vision Necklace, pattern is by Yarnplayer and can be found here- http://yarnplayertats.blogspot.ca/2008/12/vision-tatted-necklace.html

"Insist on yourself. Never imitate."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tatting and Weekend's Inspiration

"Everyone has his or her own way

of learning things. His way isn't the same

as mine, nor mine as his. But, we're both

in search of our own destinies."

-Paulo Coelbo

Tatting and Friday's Inspiration

"How wonderful it is that nobody need

wait a single moment before starting

to improve the world."

-Anne Frank

Tatting and Thursday's Inspiration

"The good life is inspired by love

and guided by knowledge."

-Bertrand Russell

Tatting and Wednesday's Inspiration

"Taking joy in living is a women's best cosmetic."

-Rosalind Russell

Tatting and Tuesday's Inspiration

"Do not allow yourselves to be

disheartened by any failures

as long as you have done your best."

-Mother Teresa

Tatting and Monday's Inspiration

"Live your questions now, and perhaps

even without knowing it, you will live along

some distant day into your answers."

-Rainer Maria Rilke

Tatting and Weekend's Inspiration

"Happiness comes when your work and words

are of benefit to yourself and others."

-Buddha

Tatting and Friday's Inspiration

"Think positively about yourself."

-Norman Vincent Peale

Tatting and Thursday's Inspiration

"The best way out is always through."

-Robert Frost

Tatting and Wednesday's Inspiration

"Those who dream by day are

cognizant of many things to escape

those who dream only at night."

-Edgar Allen Poe

Tatting and Tuesday's Inspiration

"Working in the garden....gives me

a profound feeling of inner peace."

-Ruth Stout

Tatting and Monday's Inspiration

 "If you don't like something, change it.

If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Don't complain."

-Maya Angelou 

Tatting and Weekend's Inspiration

"Dreams are necessary to life."

-Anais Nin

Tatting and Friday's Inspiration

"People who say it cannot be done

should not interrupt those who are doing it."

-George Bernard Shaw 

Tatting and Thursday's Inspiration

This is an eighteen inch wide doily that I made as a heirloom piece for my daughter to hand down to her children. It was made from size 80 hand dyed thread. The pattern came from Georgia's website for the online tatting class.

"When the heart weeps for what it has lost,

the spirit laughs for what it has found."

-Sufi Suying

Tatting and Wednesday's Inspiration

"It is by going down into the abyss that

we recover the treasures of life. Where you

stumble, there lies your treasure."

-Joseph Campbell

Tatting and Tuesday's Inspiration

"There are three ingredients in the good life;

learning, earning and yearning."

-Christopher Morley

Tatting and Monday's Inspiration

"Don't part with your illusions.

When they are gone you may still

exist, but you have ceased to live."

-Mark Twain

Tatting and Weekend's Inspiration

This doily is another one of my creations.

"True life lies in laughter, love and work."

-Elbert Hubbard

Tatting and Friday's Inspiration

This doily is own of my own designs.

"Just don't give up trying to do what you 

really want to do. Where there is love and

inspiration, I don't think you can  go wrong."

-Ella Fitzgerald

Tatting and Thursday's Inspiration

As you can see this doily was the perfect home for this very large piece of Green Calcite.

"Adventure is worthwhile."

-Amelia Earhart

Tatting and Wednesday's Inspiration

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward,

and try to keep looking upward."

-Charlotte Bronte

Tatting and Tuesday's Inspiration

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere

sense of living is joy, enough."

-Emily Dickinson

Tatting and Monday's Inspiration

Don't take life seriously because

you can't come out of it alive."

-Warren Miller

Tatting and Weekend's Inspiration

One more row to go.

"What's the use of worrying?

It never was worthwhile."

-George Asaf

Tatting and Friday's Inspiration

"Not knowing when the dawn will come,

I open every door."

-Emily Dickinson

Tatting and Thursday's Inspiration

"The indispensable first step to

getting the things you want out of life

is this: decide what you want."

-Ben Stein

Tatting and Wednesday's Inspiration

This is after 5 rounds.

"Life appears to me to be too short to be spent

in nursing animosity or registering wrong."

-Charlotte Bronte