Becky's Bouquet

Some friends and I are taking the " 31 Days to Clean: Having a Martha House the Mary Way " challenge. We were going to start May 1st, hoping to end May 31st, but decided that if we want to take Sundays off and still hope to end on May 31st, we should start today. Today's Mary Challenge was to create a list of why I want to have a clean house, then write a mission statement "in the form of a paragraph, a poem, or a list." Here is mine. It is a condensation of my "why I want my house to be clean list." When pondering what type of wording to use, I considered that the worthy woman of Proverbs 31 was a woman of action. When reading the verses about her, notice the quantity of verbs describing this busy lady's activities. I desire to emulate her (which to me is not that overwhelming because we know she wasn't perfect--only Christ was and we are supposed to imitate Him--there's a thought can be overwhelming), so I chose to use words that woul

In the past, I thought tatting would be fun. I had heard it was difficult. So I had no desire to try it. (What a bad excuse and a poor attitude!) Then some folks started talking about it on an email list to which I subscribe. The focus of the list is people powered sewing machines (treadles and handcranks). Some were wanting small doilies to put on the spool pins of their machines. Usually there is a felt disc at the bottom of the spool pin--doilies are prettier. The purpose of such is to create friction so the spool doesn't spin free and let the thread get loopy between the spool and the tension assembly. If you watch sometime when you are sewing, the thread doesn't not feed evenly off of the spool, but rather in short jerks. So, back to tatting: some of these folks crochet little doilies, and some are tatting them. Someone pointed out that needle tatting was much easier than shutting tatting. Others began posting links to tutorials and videos. I excitedly followed along and