Back to School!

    What an awesome first week back with children I have had!  I love, love, love this group!  Of course, because of looping, I have had most of them, but there were enough new faces to make it interesting.  They are all such great kids.  The "flow" of this week has been great.  Things have just seemed to come together.  I know there will be days, hopefully not weeks, that I won't feel as super-charged as I do right now, but I am really enjoying the moment!
    Unfortunately, my "free" time is getting limited.  The wonderful days of sitting and tangling til noon or so has evaporated.  I worked really hard to get the challenge and dare complete.  The challenge from Diva (see side bar) was hard.  I love the tangle "copada", but I had trouble coming up with a string.  So I decided to do a zendala.  I used the compass to give me a circle base, but the rest is free hand, as you can probably see.  I think I like the finished piece, except for maybe the circle in the center.  That went a bit astray.

Challenge #85 UMT:Copada

    Erin, over at The Bright Owl (again check out side bar), made it easy on me this week!  The template was cool - I loved it at first sight.  The directions were even better - use one tangle only, variations were accepted, but only one tangle.  I did have a bit of trouble deciding which tangle.  But once that decision had been made it was peaceful and relaxing to just tangle without thinking about what to do next.  I only completed one template and with school work to do that may be all I get to, but I printed all three sizes and who knows?  I might need that "zen-place" this week.

Dare #22 - Crescent Moon

     Last week-end before things got all schooly-fied, I purchased Sandy Bartholomew's e-book Inspiration Sketchbook.  If you haven't gotten it, you should check it out.  It isn't very big and only cost $8.50.  The drawings and tangles inside are purely Sandy!  I love her work and this is no exception.  You can find it at Bumblebat.com.  I started playing around with some of the tangles included and decided a Celtic circle would be nice.  Again I used the compass to get the circles, but beyond that it was freehand again!  Except for the tangles, Betweed and Pea-Nuckle, the rest come from her book.  Lots of fun ideas here!

Celtic Circle

     This pretty much sums up my week - at least artistically.  I could tell you about reading programs, recess, math ideas and making microwave s'mores with 20 eight year olds on a Friday afternoon, but I won't.  I love when you leave comments and I really appreciate your stopping by.  I am trying to comment as I view all the wonderful artwork, but nowadays I can't seem to do as much of that as I wish.  Bear with me, I will get more of a routine going (I hope!).  Take care and I hope your week was as great as mine!!
                                                     Happy Tangling!!