Ann Onnymouse!

Remember the mouse that that TOG 'down south' shared the other day?? (This pattern) 

 Well, this particular TOG had the pleasure of test tatting it!! 

 I christened her.... hence the post title!! I've fed her cheese to stop her running away. Although I can tell you that mouses much prefer chocolate.... It's what the field mice that get into the house think anyway! Think they're brought in by the cats!! 

 Reminds me of a story from 'Mummy' a number of years ago when she had 2 cats and no kids. One cat brought a mouse in (dead) and deposited it on the floor. It was spotted, and she said to the cat 'What's that doing there?' Said cat promptly picked it up, went into the kitchen and deposited it in the food dish!! Lunch!!! LOL 

 Anyway, I know you want to see... here's my version of Ann...

 

She is pretending to be a Kangaroo!!

What do you do when you get bored???

Morning All. So what do you do when you get bored? Read a book? craft? I find a couple of empty shuttles, thread, buttons, beads.... then decide what to make!! 

 We've been 'up north' in Scotland, furry grandchild sitting whilst Young Sir and Young Mrs were away on honeymoon. Of course I had thread, shuttles and beads with me but no buttons. This meant that I couldn't make myself earwigs or a bracelet from one of Jane's button patterns. So, I was BORED!! Mind you, it's taken me a few days to blog this purely because we came back to a completely drained loo! No water in it at all, cept for the cistern!! Flush, it'll pull back to almost empty.... turns out there was a blockage way down the line to the road, past all the other cottages!! Everyone must have had problems of the sewer allowing their loo to fill with water and drain slowly at the very least! Sorted this morning by good old Yorkshire Water... well the engineers are friendly! 

 Anyway, back to tatting... reading that TOG's blog, where she was making leaves and I started thinking.... grabbed the pattern, read it, and it set me off thinking.... Would it work if I made the centre as a ring and split rings.... It had to be tried!! The shuttles needed emptying anyway (my excuse and I'm sticking with it!) I'm sure someone else will have come up with the same idea....

I wonder what it would look like with beads.... Oh and here's a pic of the furries with their owners. The cat is missing, she wouldn't sit still!!

 

I'm sure you know....

That this particular TOG is mad on both owls and dragons!! A few years ago I shared the stories of McVroom (way back in January 2014) and Hagua in August 2014. I'll link them if I can work out how to! The pattern is here  

McVroom is the Scottish Loch Dragon, and loves to fly overhead in rain! You can tell he's there because it's wet!! Anyway, I've found out he changes colour! Around Halloween he turns autumny colours and starts really flying! Rain, wind and falling leaves add to his fun. Hiding in the autumn trees is simple, and he flicks them off with his tail! That's why not many people know about Scottish Loch dragons, because they don't see them when they're admiring the autumn colours of the trees, they're well camouflaged!. They are fun loving and extremely mischievous! Wet or dry leaves fall and most people assume it's the wind.... the wet ones dry on the ground eventually, and crunch when you walk on them, which McVroom does at on October 31st, just as it's getting dark.... so you can't see him, but you can hear his tail clunking on the ground behind you!! Then people think all sorts of weird things.... but it's not!! Here he is:

Thats better!!!!