Penstrokes Tuesday

     Is it only Tuesday?  It has been an eventful week so far.  Nothing major, just busy than my normal laze about.  I was out at the doctor's yesterday (just a follow up and all is fine), then I came home and worked on challenges. 
     Every Inchie Monday's country/word was Turkey.  I decided on a Turkish looking outfit, and of course the flag.  I am displaying the inchies this year on a chart where they look like stamps.  Sort of cool.

     Diva's Challenge #353 was to make a heart zendala.  I love heart shaped tangles.  I chose to use a slight tangleation of Valentiney.  That is a fun tangle to play with.  Then it just really needed some glitter so I used gel pens to color it!

        We are doing a series of "finish my string" over at Joey's Inspiration.  This week we had to use a string done with the tangle Andromeda.  I had been wanting to play with b'twined so I made a fence for the Andromeda to hang over, plus I added some mist!

     Using Melinda Barlow (and her awesome videos) as inspiration I have been tangling some quotes.  I think I shall buy some mats and fix them up to sell.  Or just do them for fun - who knows?  Anyone have any quotes to suggest? 

     I hope you are having a wonderful week.  Thanks for dropping by!  Hugs!

Happy Tuesday!

Hello!  I hope everyone is having a wonderful week!  I am.  The rain has finally stopped - at least for a while.  They are even saying we may reach the 70's for a few days.  Odd for February.  I really prefer seasonable weather.  I will take cold now, mild springs and hot summers. Oh well.
     Every Inchie Monday's word was Cuba.  I really don't know much about this country, but in googling it I learned it is a very beautiful county.  The houses are colorful and the beaches are gorgeous!  I chose to focus on the beach. 

      Joey has given us a "finish my string" challenge full of ribbons.  I had a lot of fun with this one and got to try some newer tangles for me in the process.  I used a purple prisma and some gamsol blender to add some color to my tile.  I used several tangles in this piece -  hibred, diamante, danzer, brace-s, diva dance, nzeppel, emingle, d'eneh, and boomerang.

      Diva's challenge #352 was to use a nested heart string.  I drew my string and started with a new tangle (to me) called cindyer.  Totally messed up.  It is in my sketch book on the back of another piece so what do I do???  Black marker to the rescue!  I covered the outside heart with black.  Then tried the tangle again - more carefully - on the other side.  Since I wanted balance I used black and red to make more bold stripes.  Actually I like it and am sort of glad the option of throwing it away was impossible.  Thus proving there are truly NO mistakes in zentangle (at least none a little ol' black marker won't hide!).

     This past week I have been working in Color It's book Dogs, Man's Best Friend.  I sort of chose a "focus" book for the week.  Or so it seems.  Here are the ones I have finished this past week.

      I am keeping up with my walking.  Right now it is in place or around the house, but it is movement and that is more than I was doing.  I try to get at least a mile every day.  I wish I could do more.  Maybe one day I will. 
     Take care and thanks for dropping by!  I hope you have a wonderful week! 

Rainy week!

    I am so thankful I have no where really important to go this week as it is going to be a really rainy week.  They are saying possible flash floods.  Thankfully we live in a spot that does not flood, though our back yard is a standing pond right now.  Lakota loves it - not.
     I am moving ahead with my Hawaii race.  I usually can do about a mile a day in very short increments.  Not much but way more than I had been doing.  Here is the pic of my shirt and medal as promised!  Aren't they gorgeous?

     This week's inchie country was Romania.  I really know very little about this country, but enjoyed looking at all the Google pictures.  I immediately thought of Dracula's castle.  So my inchie has the flag, a castle and a little bat!

     Joey's challenge was to use string #150 and the tangle Eddyper.  I really love this tangle.   It looks just like rolled up paper.  Check out all the other entries at Joey's site.

     Diva's challenge was all about the Olympics - "Heart of a Champion" and hearts!  so I drew 5 hearts, colored them like the rings and tangled in and around them.  I used 5c Aura (yellow), betweed (blue), crescent moon (black), double core (green), and paradox (red).  Around the outside there is a very modified version o Decoloop Echo. 

     Here are my latest two coloring sheets for the past week.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

     I hope you all have a wonderful week and stay healthy!  Hugs!

         


I. Did. It.

       Seriously.  I did.  I finished my virtual race.  I was hoping the pictures of my t-shirt and medal would be ready today, but I will have to post them next time.  They should come in the mail tomorrow.  I signed up for my second race - The Road to Hana.  A virtual trip around the coast of Hawaii's Hana Road.  It is 59.5 miles!  I probably will be forever finishing this one, but what is the rush?  Anyone interested in doing this go over to Yes Fit.  It is a lot of fun.
     This week's inchie was Zimbabwe.  I know next to nothing about this country.  I discovered they some of the world's most beautiful falls and of course, there is the African wildlife! I chose the flag (I sort of have a pattern going with those for now at least) and one of my favorite animals - the elephant.

       Joey's Creative Inspiration had a great challenge - use string #91 and the tangle knightsbridge.  I decided to use a mix of knightsbridge and emingle.   I like to try different grid tangles within knightsbridge.  Otherwise it is not a tangle I often use.

      This week's challenge at Casa Diva's was to use a heart string and the tangle rimana.  This was a lot of fun. 

       I took to pinterest again this past week for some more color palette ideas.  That is a lot of fun to do.  It makes coloring a design very quick and relaxing.  Here are my "color palettes kitties".

     Now I think I shall go and do some scrapbooking for a bit.  I went through the hassle this past week of cleaning my craft corner.  Well.  Sort of cleaning.  Reorganizing.  I now can get to my cricut stuff without a MAJOR moving of other items.  That has made it very nice.  Ideally I would love a craft room and one of those super sweet pieces of furniture - the scrapbox 3.0 - but in a house this small, that is not going to happen.  So I reorganized! 
     Hope you all have a wonderful week and stay healthy!  I am perfectly happy to have avoided this nasty flu going around!  Hugs!