Old Friends, Old Threads, Funny Birds

Having just posted about finding some old friends I remembered that I wanted to check a box in our den (currently known as the downstairs junk room) that I knew had some old bobbin lace books inside that I am selling on Amazon.  I thought maybe ... just maybe ... I had kept an old tatting book or two.  When I opened the box I was disappointed to find no tatting books but I did find a few small containers wrapped in moving paper.  I opened one of them & found some spangle making supplies (beads & wire & such). Inside another package was a handpainted wooden box in which I had stored some divider pins which were decorated on the tops with various glass animals.

I was pretty sure the other day that I had kept some old tatting threads & as you may recall I went upstairs & half-emptied two closets in order to go through boxes to find them.  I did that twice.  No threads.  I was really puzzled by this as I could have sworn that I had kept a few tatting threads in particular.  They were size 80s which could be used for lacemaking as well as for tatting.  Well, I opened another small package in the book box & there they were ... the tatting threads   : )

Hooray   : )

Another hooray ... Betty called me & we had a wonderful time catching up!  It was like we had never been apart   : )   It's funny how the twists & turns in our lives have run along similar paths.  We are planning to get together this fall for a visit   : )

When I downloaded the above photo of my tatting thread I had completely forgotten that I had taken 2 photos of a cardinal in our little birdbath the other day.  We are swamped with cardinals throughout the winter (they enjoy coming to our feeders) but once it starts to warm up they go off somewhere else.  Therefore I was quite surprised to see this waterlogged guy   : )