I have a whole list of things I need to be doing:
finish the pigs
make another pig for a friend of mine
tat several edgings for table runners
tat snowflakes
tat earrings
tat more snowflakes
For the last two days, instead of getting any tatting done at all, I was side tracked into putting together a themed basket for an auction.
In our community we have a retirement village that is in part sponsored by most of the area churches. All of these sponsoring churches were asked to donate a themed basket to be auctioned off at a yearly fundraiser that is later this week. This basket was brought up at our congregational meeting this last Sunday – and the basket has to be turned in today (Tuesday.) As no-one else was inclined to do it, I volunteered. So, for the last two days I’ve been hustling to find items for the basket and get it put together.
The theme: “Tea”
Yesterday I went shopping for the items I wanted in the basket. The church gave me a set amount of money to spend and I had to come up with enough tea related items to fill a large basket, enough to make it worth bidding on, within that budget. I am the only one that made the decisions on what would go in it *hehehehe*
I started out at
Prairie Harvest, a local store that is a kind of a health food store but also carries loose teas. I also bought some of their homemade peppernuts and some colorful candies to put in. (I bought some wheat free peppernuts for me while I was there – yummy!) I went next door to
Kitchen Corner for a tea infuser and tea bag rest. Then down the street to an antique and flea market to look for tea cups. I found a set of two cups and saucers with pink roses on them that I liked, as well as a hanky that I thought would look good in the basket. Then to a secondhand store where I found a basket I thought would work. Then to the Dollar Tree where I picked up the filler paper, flowers and cellophane to wrap the basket. Then to Wal-mart for a few more choices of cookies.
[I was not compensated in any way by any of these stores. I just went to the ones that I thought would have the items I needed]
Whew! That was a lot of shopping in just a couple of hours.
Then home to start trying to put it together.
This morning I made the tag with the church’s name, theme and contents and finished putting everything in the basket. And, of course, it had be decorated a bit, too. And then it had to be delivered.
I did include a little bit of tatting. I found a bookmark I had made a while ago in Lizbeth Pink Cocoa that fit right in with the pink in the cups and hanky. I also put a tatted butterfly on the front of the tag and a couple of simple tatted flowers on the back.
This is the back before I added the flowers or included the bookmark to the list. I added a little tea bag to bring in the basket’s theme to the tag.
The tea cups that I found.
The filled basket before I added the cellophane.
The completed, wrapped basket. I couldn’t find a cellophane bag to put it in that didn’t have all kinds of decorations on it so I had to buy a roll of cellophane instead. It was fun putting it around the basket – okay, not really.
I thought it came out well. I don’t know that I will ever find out who will eventually get the winning bid on it, but that’s okay. I had fun putting it together and it’s for a good cause.
Now I need to get back on track with my tatting. Where did I lay those shuttles down??
“Even if you’re on the right track you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers
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