I was planning to post something tatting related here this weekend but spent the weekend ‘down and out’. I got my second Covid shot (Moderna) on Friday at 11am. Due to bad weather, I decided not to go out to eat with friends after work and headed home. About 7pm I started getting chills and feverish and went to bed early. I tried to get out of bed on Saturday about noon-thirty and just wasn’t feeling good. I was sporting a 101.6 fever and even a bit nauseous. Spent all day and night, Saturday, in bed. Got up Sunday and my fever had gone but I felt ‘run over by a truck’ achy and just lazed around all day. Today, Monday, I’m back to work and feeing OK. Sure glad I got the shot on Friday and had the weekend to convalesce. The good news from what I read on the internet (you know how the internet is always right!) is that a reaction shows that the vaccine is working in your body.

In February 2019 my husband and I took a fantastic trip to 3 Italian cities: Venice, Florence, & Rome.

It was in Venice, our first stop on our adventure, that I found & purchased these lace pieces.

The true needlelace pieces were purchased in a shop called Il Merletto, just off the grand San Marcos Plaza. The lace shop was itself a marvel as it was in a very old ‘chapel’ and as such you could see the remnants of it’s previous use. Unfortunately, photography was not allowed, so I have no pictures to share with you.