A very good time had by all

Look at these pretty tatted rings that Hye-soon made. She loves tatting and I just know that she is going to go far with it here in Korea.
My girls treated me and my husband to an awesome Korean dinner and then took us to a movie afterwards. I am really going to miss them.

The future is snow bright!

There we so many good guesses to where we are going...and some of them I wish we WERE going to....like Switzerland and New Zealand! I've been to both countries and they are as gorgeous as you would imagine.

Jeff was the first to guess correctly. We are going to Alaska which is considered an overseas assignment. We were not expecting it because we didn't know it was an option for us. We are the world's biggest snow lovers and Alaska is a snowboarders paradise. Since English is the spoken language I will be able to understand what is going on around me...(something I have missed whilst living in Korea)....and I'll need to watch out for the bears and the moose, moose's, ....or is it meese?

I am leaving Korea in two weeks so I have a LOT of work ahead of me. I apologize in advance for missing out on blogs and leaving comments and such. Life is going to be in an uproar for me for the next few months...living out of suitcases and wandering from one couch to another. I will be closing the Etsy shop in a few days and it will be closed until after Shuttlebirds. If there is anything you want, now is the time.

I am looking forward to better health and getting my pottery studio back. Korea has not been good for me health wise. I think the only thing I will really miss is my tatting girls. I hope that maybe they can visit me someday in the U.S.

It's been an interesting year and I thank you all for sticking with me on this journey.

...to brighter days....

Split Rings, unwinding HDT and lots more laughter

Here is homework from last weeks tatting class! I am beaming. My girls can follow patterns, hide ends AND block all on their own!

And this week we learned SPLIT RINGS, and the shoe lace trick! I told them that they are no longer beginning tatters!

I also showed them how to unwind HDT. This buddy method is more fun!

What's next??? Well we still have adding beads, self closing mock ring, multi shuttle tatting and dare I try to teach clunies????

I LOVE TATTING! ....and I am soooo happy that my girls (who are now good friends as well as students) love tatting too!

4 o'clock ROCK

I asked the girls what they wanted to call our tatting meetings and "4 O'CLOCK ROCK" is what they came up with! We meet at 4pm every Monday and we "rock out" while we learn to tat. Cute huh??
As for what we decided to call tatting in Korea.....wait for it.....it's coming.... TATTING!! LOL!
Here is Kyoung-Mi helping our newcomer JinJu. It took some convincing to get JinJu to try it but I think she left the meeting very satisfied with her accomplishment.


All these girls are fast learners and I am very proud of each of them. I send them home with homework and they actually do it. So far HyeSoon is my star pupil, she just really gets it.
Today's lesson was joins but she caught on so quickly we jumped to chains and look what she did!


I am so glad we started these lessons because they are the highlight of my time here in Korea. It gives me a chance to make new friends and they are teaching me some Hangul in the meantime....but I must say they are better students than I am.