Tatting and Monday's Inspiration

"Always remember that the future

comes one day a a time."

-Dean Acheson

Tatting and Weekend's Inspiration

"Do not dwell in the past, do not

dream of the future, concentrate

the mind on the present moment."

-Buddha

Tatting and Friday's Inspiration

"I am always doing that which I cannot do,

in order that I may learn how to do it."

-Pablo Picasso

Tatting and Thursday's Inspiration

"I like my money right where I can see it-

hanging in my closet."

-Sarah Jessica Parker

Tatting and Wednesday's Inspiration

"It takes courage to grow up

and become who you really are."

E. E. Cummings

Tatting and Tuesday's Inspiration

"Kindness is always fashionable."

-Amelia E. Barr

Tatting and Monday's Inspiration

"They always say that time changes things,

but you actually have to change them yourself."

-Andy Warhol

Tatting and Weekend's Inspiration

"Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever."

-Mahatma Gandhi

Tatting and Friday's Inspiration

"My life should be unique; it should be

an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday's Inspiration and Tatting

"Only those who will risk going to far

can possibly find out how far one can go."

-T. S. Eliot

Wednesday's Inspiration and Tatting

"To be what we are, and to become what we are

capable of becoming, is the only end of life."

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Tuesday's Inspiration and Tatting

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Monday's Inspiration

"It doesn't hurt to be optimistic.

You can always cry later."

-Lucimar Santos Lima

Weekend's Inspiration and Tatting

"When your inner and outer energies

radiate in harmony, you are blessed

 and spiritually magnetic."

-Jasmine Heiler

Friday's Inspiration and Tatting

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient to living,

it's a way of looking at life through the

 wrong end of a telescope."

-Dr. Seuss

Thursday's Inspiration and Tatting

This is a doily that I designed 2 years ago. I am hoping that life will slow down a little when my partner and I retire soon so that I can finish my book of doilies. 

"You have to leave the city of your comfort

and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

What you'll discover will be wonderful.

What you'll discover is yourself."

-Alan Alda

Wednesday's Inspiration and Tatting

"How many cares one loses when one decides

not to be something but to be someone."

-Coco Chanel

Tuesday's Inspiration and Tatting

"Goals are not only absolutely necessary

to motivate us. They are essential

to really keep us alive."

-Robert H. Schuller

Back to Tatting and Monday's Inspiration

It has been awhile since I have shown any tatting pictures so for the next month or two I will be featuring pictures of some of my tatting.

This is a tiara that I made my daughter for her prom.

"You only live once, but if you

do it right, once is enough."

-Mae West

Weekend's Inspiration

The bride and groom. This wedding almost did not happen as Shannon's husband works in the military and was not given leave permission until noon on the day before the wedding. Then we had a major snow storm so his flight was cancelled. Poor Greg had to drive 24 hours straight and arrived at 2pm on Saturday for the 4:30 wedding. 

"Every day is an opportunity

to make a new happy ending."

-Anonymous

Friday's Inspiration and Wedding

My daughter having some fun before walking down the isle.

"Your soul is all that you possess.

Take it in hand and make something of it!"

-Martin H. Fischer

Thursday's Inspiration and Wedding

For those of you who do not know my daughter was going to be having her wedding at the end of march in Winnipeg, Manitoba which is a 2 hour car ride to the airport the 1 1/2 our flight and then a 3 hour car ride to her place which I could not do. So when I called her to say I would not be able to make it she hopped on a flight and arrived on January 16 and planned her whole wedding from scratch and it was held on February 9. I did not get the time I wanted to tat for her wedding so I made her this small tatted Celtic Heart for her something blue.

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination

of states we have to go through. Where people fail

is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it.

This is a kind of death."

-Anais Nin

Wednesday's Inspiration and Wedding

Wedding Gown

"Clouds come floating into my life,

no longer to carry rain or usher storm,

but to add colour to my sunset sky."

-Rabindranath Tagore

Tuesday's Inspiration and Wedding

 My daughter, Gregg and I went out shopping for veils and the only ones that I liked where the cathedral length ones which started out at $600.00. My daughter came up with the idea of us making her one and found a video on how to make one but it was going to take too long so she said " Dad we are going to make one using a hot glue gun to attach the lace." I was not crazy on the idea but it turned out great and she was able to have a 17 foot long veil for under $50 because the lace she picked out was old stock in the store and had some yellowing in it bought we bought a box of lace whitener and it came out perfect. Shannon and I walking down the isle. One very proud Dad.

"Self-knowledge is the beginning 

of self-improvement."

-Baltasar Gracian

Monday's Inspiration and Returning to Tatting

Hello all my friends as some of you know my daughter was married in February. I will be sharing some on my blog over the next few days.

This is a picture of my daughter Shannon, myself and my partner Gregg.

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

-Peter Drucker