Happy International Tatting Day

Happy International Tatting Day to all my fellow tatters and tatting lovers. In celebration I thought I would post a couple of my favorite tatting projects that I have personally made.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"All we need to make us really happy is

something to be enthusiastic about."

-Charles Kingsley



Weekend Inspirations

 

"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there

and do something remarkable."

-Wendy Wasserstein

Friday Inspiration

 

"Action and becoming are one."

-Meister Eckhart

Thursday Inspiration

 

"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook."

-William James

Wednesday Inspiration

 

"Life isn't about finding yourself.

Life is about creating yourself."

-George Bernard Shaw

Tuesday Inspiration

"The most beautiful makeup of a woman is

passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy."

-Yves Saint Laurent

Monday Inspiration

"I may not be there yet, but I'm

closer than I was yesterday."

-Anonymous

Weekend Inspiration

 

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

-Seneca

Friday Inspiration

 

"However long the night, the dawn will break."

-African proverb

Thursday Inspiration

 

"Always bear in mind that you own

resolution to succeed is more important

than any other one thing."

-Abraham Lincoln

Wednesday Inspiration

"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath

won't cure, But I don't know many of them."

-Sylvia Plath

Tuesday Inspiration

 

"As long as you're going to be

 thinking anyway, think big."

-Donald Trump

Monday Inspiration

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow

is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"

-Lucy Maud Montgomery

Weekend Inspiration

 

"All life is an experiment."

                                                    -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday Inspiration

 

"Never dull your shine for somebody else."

-Tyra Banks

Thursday Inspiration

 

"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."

-Colette

Tuesday Inspiration

 

"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee,

the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain,

Feel the wind. Live your lifee to your fullest potential,

and fight for your dreams."

-Ashley Smith

Monday Inspiration

 

"If you would hit the mark,

you must aim a little above it."

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Weekend Inspiration

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must

be careful about what we pretend to be."

-Kurt Vonnegut

Friday Inspiration

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

-Aristotle

Thursday Inspiration

 

"Every day may not be good, but

there's something good in every day."

-Anonymous

Wednesday Inspiration

"I have never made stupid mistakes.

Only very, very clever ones."

- John Peel

Tuesday Inspiration

 

"Give me a place to stand and I will move the world."

-Arcimedes

Monday Inspiration

"Our deeds determine us as much as

we determine our deeds."

-George Eliot

Weekend Inspiration

"What does not destroy me, makes me strong."

-John Milton

Friday Inspiration

"Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed.

Maybe they just need to run free til they find

someone just as wild to run with them."

-Sarah Jessica Parker

Thursday Inspiration

 

"Our lives are defined by opportunities,

even the ones we miss."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wednesday Inspiration

 

"There are some things one can only achieve by

a deliberate leap in the opposite direction."

-Franz Kafka

Tuesday Inspiration

"Take time for all things:

great haste makes great waste."

-Benjamin Franklin

Monday Inspiration

"There is more to life than

simply increasing its speed."

-Mahatma Gandhi

Weekend Inspiration

"The secret of joy in work is contained

in one word-excellence. To know how to

do something well is to enjoy it."

-Pearl S. Buck

Friday Inspiration

"I think somehow we learn who we really are

and then live with that decision."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Thursday Inspiration

 

"You are what you think about all day long."

-Robert H. Schuller

Wednesday Inspiration

"Never forget that once upon a time,

in an ungarded moment,

you recognized yourself as a friend."

-Elizabeth Gilbert

Tuesday Inspiration

"Be what you are. This is the first step

toward becoming better than you are."

-Julius Charles Hare

Monday Inspiration

"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekend Inspiration

"What do we live for,

If it is not to make life less

difficult for each other."

-George Eliot

Friday Inspiration

"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it."

-Suzanne Weyn

Thursday Inspiration

"Your aspirations are your possibilities."

-Samuel Johnson

Wednesday Inspiration

I included this picture of the trunk of a Weeping Willow trunk because it's knareld trunk says to me what a hard life it has had in it's over 100 year life.

 

"Always be a first-rate version of your self,

instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

-Judy Garland

Tuesday Inspiration

"If you want to be happy,be."

-Leo Tolstoy

Monday Inspiration

 

"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder

Wedding

Hi Everyone, there will be no further posts until Monday as my daughter is getting married this weekend and I need the extra time to finish her veil. I will try and post a few pictures next week.

Wednesday Inspiration

"A strong person and a waterfall

always channel their own path."

-Anonymous

Tuesday Inspiration

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

-Confucius

Monday Inspiration

"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same."

-Francesa Reigler

Weekend Inspiration

"Don't follow your dreams, chase them."

-Richard Dumb