wee bit of tatting

Had some shuttles with beads loaded & made some doodles.   Grace Tan's heart pattern can be found on her blog - Grace Tats.   Carol's Butterfly pattern in the side bar or HERE.  I used Lizbeth, size 20 colors 139, 145 (pinks), 185 (blues/lavender).

While gathering with girlfriends, I tatted a familiar edge.                     

 The edge is called Marguerite
pattern by Mary Konior from A Tatting Book of Patterns.   Tatting for the Lafayette Lacemakers.    Not sure what event, but will be donated to the chapter for a Lace Demonstration event.   Using size 20 Lizbeth Color 603.    We were at the public library and after a test sample, I wandered upstairs to the book room.  The book with Johannes Vermeer's painting on the cover caught my eye first ... (The Girl with a Red hat, 1665/67).

 I found these five books, in five minutes, to total $4.50.   There are three books from a series called World of Art. Impressionism to Abstract Art has 207 illustrations, only 32 in color - but a nice book!  An AIC book about their collection -- and what I think a textbook with a beautiful photograph "Portrait of a Young Woman, called Mlle. Charlotte du Val d' Ognes"  1785.   Such a lovely image - says it is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.   So, I paid the $$$$ and am still awake browsing the art work instead of sleeping!!!   All are in good shape - and I didn't overpay per bookfinder.com prices.   Fun ness.

Second Hand Books

The Lace Guild

is having a book sale

Jan 8 - Feb 29.

See:

Second Hand Books

and click (excel or pdf)  for the list

and details.

Book Sale finds ...

Nick is leaving Weds night for Virginia Beach - the "Band Trip". I took him to the sale room for some reading materials. There is a verrrry loooong bus trip there & back. He collected an arm full of mystery & sci-fi.

I left with FIVE -- a couple paperbacks & 3 hard cover novels:
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Love in the Time of Cholera - Garcia Marquez [I HAD this & either loaned it out - or lost it]
John Irving: The Hotel New Hampshire & Trying to Save Peggy Sneed
Janet Fitch [wrote White Oleander] - Paint it Black
The Hebron Library is having their Book Sale later this week ... stay tuned.

This week-end is the Hillside Samplings workshop ... for My Stitching Chair Necessaire. I started this several years ago - in a class sponsored by House of Stitches. I got out my kit & have more stitched than I originally thought. Maybe with the workshop, I'll get motivated to get the stitching completed & think about the finishing!!!

Book Sale Finds ...

Knowing we were expecting a storm, yesterday -- I left the house in the morning & ran errand after errand. Did some shopping for clothing & groceries. I found a nice blouse [the new crinkle style] and dress jeans for holidays (at Kohl's) -- Thank you Tori for the Kohl's Cash. Bought all sorts of boring stuff at Target. Poor Alex was locked out of the house (in the rain) for awhile.

Picked up the boys at home & went out again to the post office, drug store, and public library. Even when the forecast is threatening, I have a hard time passing up a library book sale. These were fifty cents each:


This is the 2nd book I own by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Web info here.


Link to the Alice Hoffman web site.


I know you can read this book on-line at this link or here; however, I wanted text-in-hand.


Book Information: Ellen Foster

Alex found the 2006 "Cat Who" book & a book about scientific puzzles. Nicholas wanted a jig saw puzzle of a leopard. We did well at the book sale - which continues thru Saturday at the South Haven public library.

I see the New York Times has their 'best of 2006' and '100 notable books of 2006' posted to their web site. See Lelia's Xanga.

After spending YESTERDAY running a ton of errands, TODAY I'm back to the basement for more cleaning & pitching. I have the books in order & they all fit on the shelves. It is the 'other' stuff - boxes, misc kitchen items, photo albums, that I am not sure where to store.

It continues to snow. I'm not sure how much we will have when this storm passes. With groceries & books ... I won't fret being snowed in.

Public Library - Book Sale Finds

A couple weeks ago - for $2.75, I bought the books in the picture. White Oleander - Janet Fitch
Alice Hoffman - Here on Earth
The World According to Garp - John Irving
The Historian Elizabeth Kostova
Best American Short Stories / 1996

Today, I picked out [all but one is brand-new]
3 by Barbara Taylor Bradford: A Secret Affair; Remember; Three Weeks in Paris
Ian Caldwell: The Rule of Four (I think I may have already read this one)
James Clavell's Noble House
Jane Hamilton: The Book of Ruth (I never finished Map of the World)
Brooks Hansen: The Chess Garden
Alice Hoffman: Seventh Heaven
Frank McCourt: Angela's Ashes
Mary McGarry Morris: Song in Ordinary Time
Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient
Anne Tyler: The Accidental Tourist
Thomas Wolfe: Look Homeward, Angel (75th Anniversary Edition)
My Total: $4.75

Alex selected:
White Mars by Brian Aldiss
Star Wars by Greg Bear
2 by Lilian Jackson Braun: The Cat Who Had 14 Tales; AND The Cat Who Saw Red
Alfred Coppel: The Eighth Day of the Week
2 by Michael Crichton: Prey, Sphere
Lisa Gardner: The Killing Hour
Kay Hooper: Once a Thief
Brian Lumley: Maze of Worlds
Total: $3.25

Nicholas selected:
The Cat Who Played Brahms - Lilian Jackson Braun
Dan Brown - Angels & Demons
C.J.Cherryh: Angel With The Sword
John Farris - Dragonfly
4 by J.A.Jance - Exit Wounds, Skeleton Canyon, Outlaw Mountain, Day of the Dead
2 by Dean Koontz - The Funhouse, The Mask
Elizabeth Lowell: Running Scared [which I want to read when he finishes it]
Stel Pavlou: Decipher
Total: $3.75

Ok, now bring on the krappy weather ... I'm ready.