Rats

While I did pretty much spend all day yesterday tatting, I managed to forget to take a picture of anything I made. I finished one mask, made a bracelet, a pendant necklace and followed it up with another, not quite finished yet, mask. There are no pictures of these things though since they are all just remakes of existing pieces. I did take a picture of one of the kids' pet rats though, so since it's the only one I took, it's the picture you get. This is Meg snacking on the couch. Right after this picture she scaled me like a mountain to get another piece of granola bar.

I did get a couple more sales yesterday, so again, thanks to those of you who shopped and shared! I also apologize for being one track minded lately regarding the sale. The bobbin lace and RPL are just sitting about waiting for me to come back to them, but I need to focus on the shop for a while. I'm still hoping to erase most of those car bills and it would be awesome if this was the kick the shop needed to get back to a steady flow of sales. I think that all this tatting might be inspiring me to design soon too. Here's hoping!

Rats

Another long, mostly tatting free weekend. There were lots of errands and catching up on shows still clogging my dvr. We finished watching the season of Daredevil on Netflix, which was very good. I even did a little crochet to keep my hands busy whilst watching that much television.

The most interesting thing we did though, was to get the oldest daughter her birthday present over a month early. She'd been wanted a rat for some time and we were looking for cages while the kids swam at their grandparents house. We had intended to just get a cage and accessories and wrap them as a gift, getting the rats later. Instead we found that the shop had the rats we were hoping for. It was a terribly unusual that they has such young rats, so instead we took the kids and let them pick the pets now.

The child didn't even mind that she was going to have to forgo more gifts on her birthday for this. The cats however are seriously unsure of this new development. It's been many years since we kept rats, and that was before we had kids, so this should be interesting.

I didn't have any orders in queue and I currently have no good ideas for any new designs. As usual I'm hoping some outside force will act on the situation and cause some positive change. Fingers crossed for some lace soon.