A letter in the post

Do you remember when I blogged about the collar I made?

You know - this one.

When I sent the collar off, I included a letter explaining how the collar was made, my personal history in tatting, and that I did this in tribute to a late member of the Supreme Court who was famous for wearing beautiful collars with her robes. Oh, and I gave information on the Care and Feeding of the collar.

I mailed it off to the recipient last fall and hadn't heard a word. I figured it had gotten lost in the pile of presents that officials get.

I had kind of hoped to get some kind of official acknowledgement, perhaps a form letter from a staff member. I would have been satisfied with this.

I hadn't thought about this in a while. I had given up on hearing something.

UNTIL YESTERDAY!

Yesterday when I checked the mail I found this letter!

Please note the return address

(I checked my mail on the way to run errands. I HAD to open it immediately!)

And inside I found this lovely, handwritten note - from the Justice herself! And on her personalized official notecards, much more informal than official stationary!

And there was more - she had to continue on the other side!

OMG! OMG! OMG!

I am ecstatic! To receive such a personal thank you from such a high official is really unheard of these days. Usually the best one might get is a member of staff sending out a nice letter on official stationary.

For those who live elsewhere, this is as if you might have sent something tatted to your Home Secretary and got a hand written thank you note in return.

I look forward to seeing her wear this collar on the bench. When I do, I'll post about it!

Current tatting and more from the mail

I had more goodies that came in the mail last week.  I got a package from the lovely and talented Mme Fox.  I had done a thread exchange with her, and I received some pretties.

A lovely card, 2 kinds of Bre-Aly thread, some Lizbeth size 40, and a package of flat shell beads.  What fun!  I have the nicest friends.  Thank you, Fox.  I'll make sure this goes to good use.

Here's what I'm currently tatting:

A cross in Tatmom's Collossians Cross pattern, done in Navy Lizbeth, size 20.  I'm making this for my cousin's husband.  They moved my cousin into hospice care last week.  She has not regained consciousness.  Mom went to see her - she doesn't seem uncomfortable, more like she's just sleeping.  We all pray that a miracle will happen and she will just wake up.

On an off note - I saw this quote from Mark Twain and snorted.

“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

Hee.

My Cisco is such a handsome boy, isn't he?  And he has no aspirations in politics, just for petting.