Tatting Tea Tuesday Again

Tea Time ~ Originally uploaded by nikilynn

The photographer who manipulated this photo is only 15 years old. She is magnificently talented. Go see her other work! And she has a BLOG!


I emptied my phone of photos last night. Here is something I completely forgot about. Do you know what it is?


I am pretty sure I took it at Ding-A-Ling, a downtown craft supplies store. I'm also pretty sure it is macrame. But WHAT is it? LOL! I wish I'd taken a photo of the whole thing. i know I took this part because I was mentally translating it into tatting and wanted it for reference. See the woven picots? Angel wings or butterfly wings may be what I had in mind. I know I've wanted to use woven picots in both but haven't managed to get around to it yet. Maybe when I complete the design program I'll feel motivated to do so.
(Afterthought- it was not at Ding-A-Ling. They do not have hardly any open floor space with all the craft supplies taking up so much room. This must have been a shop in Noblesville when I walked around with my son & DIL at an open air mall there.)


Here's something else I forgot about. This is a new water feature at Purdue University. It's over by the Burton Center and Child Development & Family Services building. I was early for an appointment one day and sat in front of this and meditated for awhile. There are also benches and landscaping to make it such a nice place to be, listening to the water trickle down. I guess it is lit up at night but I have not seen it yet. You can't really see the glass panel that well but it is etched in Purdue icons - a tractor for its agricultural beginning, numerous engineering symbols, mathematical equations, the PU logo, etc.


And this is just a happy label I found in some 2nd hand clothing I bought made out of flax linen. Isn't that a wonderful thought to be wearing?