Day 17 and 18

Eighteen days in the new year and eighteen days of meeting Kelly's Creative Challenge.  Whoo-hoo!  Will I make it 365 days?  Only time will tell.  It will be easier when school is out for summer, but not by much.  I craft - to some small degree - every day.  I have to.  It gives me the peace and the energy charge I need.
     Day 17 - Over at the facebook group, Square One: Purely Tangled, we are given a tangle and that has to be the focus.  We can add other tangles but the push is to keep it basic - no color, tile size only.  This week's tangle was BB.  Although I rarely use this tangle, it was fun playing with it.

     I have all the prompts for Every Inchie Monday so I could work ahead.  Yeah, right.  Like actually being very far ahead would ever happen.  Day 18 (today) I worked on my inchie.  The prompt was (I hope it is obvious) elephant.

     Now, I plan to continue the elephant theme and work on a 3D elephant out of paper that a friend wants me to do.  I will show you that tomorrow for day 19 because I probably will be just finishing it up - hopefully.
     Hello to my new followers!  My site is growing - wow!  Thank you for dropping by and leaving me some sunshine.  Have a blessed day!

Day 16 - Tickled to Tangle string challenge

    I love this challenge.  However sometimes I only love some of the tangles.  This week we could choose from echoism, bales, ennies, and poke leaf (root).  Out of those, ennies just doesn't do much for me.  So I left it out.  I did try using bales in a bit different format.

     Thank you for stopping by and visiting.  Have a blessed day!

Day 15 Photography!

     I am not a super photographer, so there won't be many of these.   But I took my class on a field trip to a fantastic museum - Tellus Museum of Science.  It meant a bus ride of a little over an hour with 70 very excited third graders, but well worth it.  I thought I would put a few pics up from our trip.

I would love to show you more - I took 35!  However my kids are in most of them and I can't post their pictures.  Just take my word, I was busy snapping very creative pictures, making fossils out of clay and digging for dinosaur bones!  Have a great day!

Day 14

    I feel like I am going in circles so this is appropriate today!  Lots to get done this week and my head is spinning.  Lots of news to share too - but that will have to be in my next post. 

Have a great day!

Day 13 Diva Challenge Number 200!!

     Wow!  Two hundred challenges!  I wish I had been around from the very beginning but I missed a few.  Just a few actually.  I think I came in around the second year.  But it was Diva who fueled my passion for this art form.  Her site was also the reason I had to do a blog.  Had to.  I had to be able to post my challenges.  Congrats to you Diva and a huge thank you for all your hard work.

     One of my many "go-to" tangles is paradox.  I love this one.  Thank you for dropping by and saying hello.  Also a huge thank you to the new followers I have gotten recently - it still amazes me I have any followers so each one is super special to me.  Have a blessed day!

Day 12 - New to Me challenge

     For today's challenge I did my tile (again in my Tangle A Day Calendar) for the New to Me challenge.  I chose to use ciceron as my focus because it is one I don't think I ever used.  I put it in my notebook and meant to use it one day but never had.  So this was the perfect opportunity.  I also added a couple of other tangles that begin with a C that have seen limited use by me - chebucto and Charlie.

Thanks for dropping by and have a great day!

Day 9, 10 and 11!

     Day 9 is a tile I did for the Square One Challenge over at FB.  The tangle we had to use was nzeppel, which I love and use a lot!  Still trying to keep all the challenges (zentangle ones at least) in my Tangle A Day calendar.

    Day 10 - The journal 52 prompt was "Just Be".  This gave me a mental fit!  I could not come up with any idea.  So off to google to find a quote to center the page around.  I found several I really liked and then narrowed it down to one.  One of my pet peeves is to be talking to someone and they start looking around or change their focus.  I get so upset.  Unfortunately some people I really like and have to deal with daily are very bad about this.  Eye contact people!  Come on! 

Day 11 - Every Inchie Monday's word is giraffe.  I got to play with my new set of markers I got for Christmas and had some fun. 

     Ta-Da!  I have done eleven days of this challenge without missing one!!  Woohoo!  It has been a struggle - not to create, but to get them posted.  I am getting pretty quick about it.  Thanks for dropping by and leaving me some sunshine.  Now off to get creative with some lessons for this week - maybe I need to do an art project focusing on fossils!  or division!  Then again maybe not.