More snow...

This one was next to fall, on the 2nd of December...

Just because it looked a delight when I picked up the pattern from the stack and I went no further.

This is Nancy Tracy's Layered Tatted Snowflake...

Isn't it a pretty thing.  I had fun tatting this little beauty.

It's been snowing...

It started snowing on the 1st day of December with this flake...but I haven't had a chance to photograph any of the flakes that have fallen from my shuttles until this afternoon.

This is Sharon's simple flake from her Snowflakes-For-Christmas post, it just seemed a nice little bit to play with to get the storm going...

I have a couple more flakes photographed and loaded to blogger, but I think they will wait until tomorrow...if I spread them out a bit, perhaps I will gain a chance to photograph a few more.  For now, it is late, and my shuttles are calling to me...though my pillow is sure to begin it's serenade soon as well.

Colorado Sunrise...

Just because I found it inspiring to see a sunrise this lovely, I thought I would share with all of you...

The sunrise on the particular morning these were taken started out with deep corals, pinks, and violet.  It faded as the sun rose to glowing golds and creams set against lavender skies...

Seeing Green...

Once again, I wandered a few antique or junk stores simply for the enjoyment of the hunt and the rather enjoyable perusal of things old and well loved...

Brought home a few vintage children's books and a couple of lovely silver leaf shaped trays.

I found very little in the tatting realm this time.  These two lovely green hankies were certainly beautiful, though I didn't bring either of them home...they just did not capture my fancy at the time, though looking at them now I am somewhat regretting that...and will likely be green with envy should I not find them again if I should I return for the pair.

Never-the-less...I took pictures and thought I would share them with all of you today...

End of the Roses...

Tonight may be the end of this years roses as a relatively hard freeze is predicted for tonight, and so I wanted to document the beauty of the last few bouquets here...

Purple Iceberg with Sheer Bliss and some sage on the left,
my Rosie Posie's favorite rose, Angel Face, on the right.

Sunset Celebration on the left, Marmalade Skies on the right...
both with white cosmos and sage.

Oklahoma, with marigolds.

It is always so hard to see them go, they are usually at their finest when the freeze hits...with so many buds ready to bloom that it is truly a sad thing to see them go each fall.

I enjoy the small pleasure the flowers bring...their scent and color as I drink a cup of tea, the enjoyment of arranging a vase, the delight of wandering the garden and seeing a new beauty growing, watching a single bud unfold in the silver vase on the bathroom counter...

It is said that all good things must end, but I know that, in the Spring, my roses will bloom again.

Another tatted vintage find...

Here is a beautiful find that I meant to share with all of you a couple of weeks ago, I even had the photos taken and loaded on blogger...just needed to type a few words and post...life is like that though, full of unexpected interruptions...

This beautiful dresser scarf is one that I found at a little second hand shop on Vashon Island that is a favorite haunt of ours while on the island...

It is a lovely linen piece with ecru thread inserts.  It is the same on both ends.  I am afraid I wasn't able to find a place to lay out the entire piece to photograph it nicely.  It is a very usable piece and I plan for it to be on my sofa table when I find time to rearrange again...

I love the insets and the edging is lovely, I don't believe I have seen that particular edging pattern before and I really love it...

The price wasn't bad either...rather a steal at that price, I felt!  But I love tatting...and though I think the art is growing and more people are aware of it and understand more about it at present, there are many who do not see the time and love that goes into it yet.

At any rate, I hope you enjoy the photos of this pretty piece!

Blackberry goodness...

Have been spending time with blackberries of late...cobblers, muffins, tonight was a pie...and blackberry jam.  I have 25 jars, 20.5 pints thus far...and I get to make it all in this incredible vintage hotpoint stove...