Meadow House and Sunflowers

MEADOW HOUSE
SUNFLOWERS

100 Percent hand painted hand crafted ONE OF A KIND Ceramic tatting shuttles are here!!!!

The Bird House
Autumn Prairie

I will try my best to list one a day or at least one every other day as time permits.

Tat it up!!!!

Special new shuttles coming right up!

I am excited to present to you my newest ceramic shuttles. I have been experimenting again (you know I thrive on that). I have finally found some permanent enamels so that I can now paint landscapes and other things that catch my fancy. This is something I have wanted to do since I started producing my one of kind ceramic shuttles four years ago. I could just never find the right medium until now.
Here are the first completed shuttles. They are all hand painted by yours truly. I will offer them up for sale this coming week in the Etsy shop.

Where am I finding the time to do all this you ask?? Well, I just don't sleep anymore and while I am not sleeping I might as well be doing something right?

Now let's get one thing straight, my lack of sleep has very little to do with Miss Piccadilly. She is wonderful and has been sleeping through the night since she was 8 weeks old. It is my fault entirely and I accept all the blame. I just cannot sleep when DH is away...and now that I am acting as a single mom and taking care of every living soul under my roof and everything else that consists of keeping a household, sleep evades me.

So with all that is going on in my life I am unable to attend Shuttlebirds this year. I am sure everyone will understand. I will dearly miss my favorite event of the year...and I will miss all my favorite peeps! There are some exciting new teachers this year so if you are at all able to attend I definitely recommend it!

Miss P is now 12 weeks old...can you believe it? She is my little muse. She gives me energy and makes me laugh every day. What a precious little "old soul" she is!


Piccadilly 12 weeks old
In case anyone is wondering how sweet pea pumpkin britches miracle baby is sleeping through the night already...it is all due to the wonderful BabyWise method. Since birth we have been working on this plan. The book promised she would start sleeping through the night between 8 and 12 weeks and sure enough it works like a charm. The main benefit from her predictable sleeping habits is that she is a very happy baby. YAY...I certainly need that!

Easter Egg is back!!!

"EASTER EGG"

I am feeling slightly better today. My hands are "out of order" again...so I am inventing machines to help me do my winding work. My kiln blew up (o.k....not literally but it will cost hundreds to fix it..which means no pottery and no shuttles for awhile.)

Tomorrow is a VERY special day for my blog but I don't know if I can muster the energy to celebrate. I am taking life hour by hour so we shall see what tomorrow brings.

Inspiration overload BEWARE!!!

I have been busy. I am kept up at night with all the ideas I have been having....sooooo, I have to take advantage of the creative bursts when I can.
Here are the results. I apologize if these posts are getting tiresome...it's just what is going on right now.

All these new tatting threads are totally handpainted. I mix the dyes as I would water paints and then I "go to town" on the thread as if it were a canvas. These theads have complex shading and color variances. I hope you enjoy them.


I love fuchsia flowers. Being an artist, I cannot commit to just one favorite flower but this one is definately in my top 5.

"FUCHSIA"

This next tatting thread I am super excited about!!! I was agonizing over if it could be done without ruining a whole bunch of expensive thread. But since the idea sprouted I couldn't get it off my mind so I just had to give it a go.

"SUNSET CLOUDS"

And finally, I created "TUTTI FRUTTI" which is similar to the "Cirque de Couleur". This batch, being handpainted, is much more colorful and saturated.

"TUTTI FRUTTI"