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I’m a winner!

Linda, over at “A Swap For All Seasons” had a drawing the other day and I won!
I have recently started following Linda’s blog of decorated cards and tags to be inspired and get ideas for more uses of tatting. I have not actually made any cards or tags yet, but I hope to.  When she had her drawing I thought it couldn’t hurt to enter and I got lucky!
Look at all the goodies she sent!
There is the ‘fly’ card and ‘Dad’ tag she made recently, dimensional stickers, washi tape, string, ribbon, lace, buttons, blank tags, background paper, a stamp and material, all in shades of black and grey.  Even the tissue paper they were all wrapped in! This is so cool!  Thank you, Linda!
We were on a family vacation when the package arrived though I had been told I’d won and knew it was coming.  It was nice to have such wonderful mail waiting for me when I got home!  
Now I’m imagining how I can incorporate some tatting into decorating one of those tags she sent!
“You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.”
George Lucas
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Gift from umintsuru

Tatted by umintsuru
Aren’t these earrings gorgeous?  The picture doesn’t do them justice at all!  Wendy has a much better picture over on her blog. 
These are my gift from Wendy for her Pay It Forward giveaway.  They are made with Lizbeth “Spring Fling” in size 80.   When I opened the envelope there were a lot of “oohs” and “awes” as we looked these over.  Thank you very much, Wendy, I love them!
Looking back over my blog posts I realized I hadn’t posted what I gave for my PIF, inspired by Wendy’s post last fall.  Medictabs,Robert and Suztats were the first three people to leave a message on my blogpost and were the winners.  When I decided to do it I didn’t have even a small clue of what I was going to send them, so it took a little while to get them done.  But they finally were sent off.

I’ve always wanted to do some Crazy Quilting – but I don’t quilt and rarely embroider, so it hasn’t happened yet 🙂  Instead I did a little “CQing” on Altoid tins for their gifts.

I added a few things on the inside.  Each was different inside and outside, but similar.

 The pink heart is a needle threader. The “match book” is a needleholder.  Each one also got a decorated shuttle that coordinated with their thin, and a ball of J &  P Coats size 80 tatting thread – it all fit inside the tin.

This was a lot of fun to do.  And really nice to win Wendy’s PIF.  Thanks again, Wendy 🙂

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”  William James

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