I see a lot of beautiful tatting done with beads as I surf through blogs. Now I don’t do much with beads for several reasons, the foremost being that it’s not very portable, at least for me. But a friend asked me to make a butterfly and an idea came to mind that would look pretty with beads. This is the result, what I had mentioned I was working on last week. This is made in Lizbeth size 20, black for the body and Caribbean for the wings, with 10/0 seed beads. I’m counting this as #11 of my second 25 Motif Challenge – it certainly was a challenge for me!
A mini vacation
My husband and I took a long weekend and went to Colorado this last week. Our timing was great as the aspens are in the midst of changing their colors for fall. It was gorgeous in the mountains! We stayed in a Bed and Breakfast called The Ice Palace. We had a wonderful stay there. I highly recommend it if you ever want to spent the night in Leadville.
Leadville’s elevation is recorded as being 10,152 feet, which took us a little while to get used to. We also went up to Independence Pass, which is a little bit higher : )
We enjoyed a guided horseback ride from Mega Mountain Magic that had some pretty magical views. We don’t ride much so at the end of our two and a half hour ride I was glad to be done, but sad at the same time. You know the views are wonderful when your guide stops to take pictures, too!
We drove up to Weston pass and stopped once in awhile to enjoy the colorful roadsides.
The road did get kind of rough. But it was worth every mile!
It was a wonderful, long weekend with just the two of us this time. Quite a difference from the trip we made to Washington, DC earlier in the year. Each trip was great in it’s own way and I’m fortunate to be able to have done both this year.
Rooibos was the tea for today. I sipped several cups this morning as I finished off a bookmark and went through vacation pictures. A wonderful start to the day even though I have to go back to work this afternoon.
May all of you have a wonderful week and enjoy a little tea and tatting if you can.
Gorgeous photos of your Colorado vacation! They make me want to go there.
Your butterfly is an inspiration, it looks fantastic (and I am sure would look just as great with or without beads) — such graceful wings!
Will you share the pattern?
Great photos! Your shot conveys all comin
the exuberance of your description.
The butterfly is very pretty!
Fox : )
Your butterfly is amazing! 🙂
oooh pretty butterfly! I love the colors – is that your own pattern?
Thanks, Isdihara. Yes, I will share the pattern. I'm taking Sharon's Design-Tat class hoping to learn how to diagram patterns to make my patterns clearer. So it might be a little bit, but hopefully not too long:-)
We had a great time up there, Fox.
I'm glad you like the butterfly.
Thanks, Elizabeth. I love Caribbean and it looks so good on butterflies! Yes, it's my pattern.
Thank you, God's Kid. I thought it came out very well :-))
Someone like me, living in Holland, can only dream of such an area!! Whow!!