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Saturday, October 17, 2015

Inevitable Snowflakes

Fall has definitely arrived in Minnesota!  We had a beautiful September, and are experiencing chilly temps in October, but with scattered warm, sunny days.  I really love fall - sweatshirts and jeans, the crunch of leaves underfoot, and the smell of bonfires in the evenings. And abundant sunshine with beautiful leaf color means you-know-what.  Yep.  Winter is coming.  Snowflakes ARE inevitable.

In January, I had expressed my desire to get ahead this year, and make some snowflakes to put in Christmas cards.  I always wait until it's too late to get any made, so I thought I'd try to do two a month all year, and that would give me plenty.  In September, I had exactly two done.  Ha ha! Time to get moving on the goal of 24.  

So, my latest tatting is all snowflakes.  I now have 5.  Pathetic in count, but beautiful anyway!


All 5 are from Jon Yusoff's book Tatted Snowflakes.  I plan to continue with snowflakes from various other sources as well - there are many beautiful patterns, so I don't see the need to do the same one twice.  Yet ;)

I also FINALLY have a couple of wedding photos to share!  I don't believe any of the photos show the sash or even the dress in its entire beauty, but I'll share a few photos just because. I can't believe the big day was already two months ago!






And on this beautiful fall day, my other daughter and her fiance are having engagement photos taken. Their wedding is just one year away!

8 comments:

  1. Love the wedding shots, The bride has a beautiful smile and everyone looks so happy. Very nice pictures, you have a wonderful family :)
    I love your snowflakes, have one of jons books too :) and I too made myself the same promise and have a total of 3 flakes, Okay 2 and 3/4 of the 3rd one.

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    1. Thank you. I'm so glad I'm not the only one that waits until the pressure's on!

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  2. Your daughter is a beautiful bride!

    Yes, it is time for snowflakes. I also had goals of completing a veritable blizzard this year. You're way ahead of me. I'm still plugging away on my doily without one snowflake to show.

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    1. Oh, but your doily is worth a blizzard of snowflakes!

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  3. Love the photos! Everyone looks great! The bride is beautiful, and the lace straps on the dress are perfect - and so special!. So glad you had good weather! And a second wedding on the way! Congratulations to both happy couples!

    Those are beautiful snowflakes! (I prefer the tatted ones to the real thing!) I stopped putting pressure on myself to 'make' things and just try to enjoy the holidays. I often featured my tatting in a photograph on the card, which made things a lot easier!

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    1. I love the idea of a photo of my tatting instead of the real thing. That would eliminate some stress and be fun to play with some photo editing :)

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  4. Cool snowflakes and sunny sunshine-happy family/gathering :-)
    Thanks for sharing a very happy post !

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