Day 52

       Last night late the snow we got was soft and fluffy and absolutely perfect!  This morning it is icing so the snow is hard and crunchy.  Rough on Lakota's feet.  Not any fun to play in either.  But we enjoyed it a bit last night.
      I worked on my several projects today.  Some are not quite complete.  I will hang on to those to use this week for the 365 days of creating!  I know this week will be busy, so projects needing just a bit to finish might come in handy. 
      For Square One - Purely Tangles (a facebook group), we had to use the tangle "stircles".  I was okay with that tangle, but after combining it with nzeppel (which I love), I felt satisfied with the results.  Honestly, it probably won't get a LOT of use, but it was fun to try it out.

     Our Journal52 prompt was aromatherapy.  Really?!  I had absolutely no clue as to what to do.  So I went to google and googled images.  Sounds crazy huh?  But there were lots of them.  So I found one I liked and then pulled out my watercolors and gave it a try.  As you can see, I am not the world's best painter.  I see what I want in my mind, however it doesn't always happen on the paper.  Either way, it is done.

     I went ahead and worked on my inchie for Monday.  The weather is bad and I am on a creative roll.  Yahoo!  The prompt was "snail".  Mine is simple, but cute.

     Now . . .  what next?  I think I will play around in my sketch book for a while.  Or maybe go make some lunch.  Yep, that is a plan.  Thank you for dropping by and I hope your day is filled with blessings. 

Day 51

     Crazy week for school!  Off Monday for a holiday, Tuesday for ice, Wednesday for actual snow - not much but it was white for a few moments, Thursday was a 2 hour delay because of temp.  I just knew Friday would be delayed also.  I "knew" so well, I left school computer and papers to grade at school.  Figured I would get them Friday.  Imagine my shock when Friday was cancelled altogether.  We are expecting a wintery mix some time this afternoon and they did not want to chance an early dismissal after doing a 2 hour delay.  Now I could whine and wish I had my school work - yeah, right.  I have a three day weekend and I can't do any school work!  Oh woe is me!  Don't worry about me though, I will find something to occupy my time.
     Day 51 - I finished up my challenge for Adele Bruno's string challenge.  We had to use the tangle patterns kozy and inaura.  Neither one were ones I had spent any time with.  They didn't seem to fit in the string we had to use so well - at least for me.  It will be interesting to see what others do.  I added a bit of color to "help" it out.  Not my favorite, but fun.

       Last post I mentioned my facebook friend that passed away, Millie Galliher.  Our group is doing tiles and pieces of art to honor her.  The admins are going to put all of these together and share with her family.  Her nickname was the "Mooka Maven" because she had worked with that tangle so much and done so many wonderful variations of it.  I decided to use some mooka in my tile for her.  I know I said it before but this loss has really shaken me.  I suppose one could say I didn't really know her, but how do we determine that?  I feel like I did.  I wish I had been actually around her.  But to those of you out there in blog-land I cherish your friendship.  It may appear fleeting or minor, but you are an important part of my life!  And don't you ever forget that!

    Thank you for dropping by and I wish for you a wonderfully blessed day! 

Day 50 - Year of the Goat!

     It has been a roller coaster week.  Each day, the question of "will we go to school?"  comes up early.  Then there was the loss of a person I went to school with.  I hadn't thought of Chris for years and then there was her picture and all those memories.  Right on the heels of that was a lot of concern from one of my facebook groups about locating a member - Milldred Galliher.  It was discovered she had passed away.  I never met Millie, but I consider her a friend.  She had a fun personality and was always so encouraging of others.  All in all, it has been a bit of a rough week.  To top it all off, I think the weather is causing me some leg pain.  Yep, rough week. 
      Diva's Challenge was to do a tile for the Year of the Goat.  Mine is pretty simple, but I like it.

      I hope you are having a blessed week.  Take care and stay warm!

Days 48 and 49

     Day 48 - Suzy Mosh's New to Me Challenge gave me an opportunity to work with Helen Williams's tangle "steps".  I love the look but hadn't been able to feel comfortable with it until now.  I also add some other new "s" tangles - stonework, square in a square, and slender.  This was a fun challenge.  Sometimes the biggest challenge is finding new tangles.  So far I have been able to keep all the tangles on a piece new and starting with the selected letter.  Not bad, huh?

Day 49 - Finally got back to the Journal52 page.  The prompt was Valentines.  I got several cute cards from my kiddos at school, - boxes of yummy sugar free chocolate too.  I thought I wanted to do more of a Valentine from a more serious "love" perspective.   So I went to my favorite chapter of the Bible, Corinthians, and used it as my inspiration.  After all, that to me is the greatest Valentine ever given.

  I hope you are having a wonderful day!  Take care and thank you for dropping by!

Day 47 Every Inchie Monday

     Every Inchie Monday's word was texts.  I don't text very often.  I really don't want to bother with it.  So I took a less traditional route and went more traditional - okay, you get what I mean.  So here is my math text book! 

     Have a great day!  See you again soon.  This every day thing is keeping me hopping.  The side benefit is that I am getting more and more comfortable on my new computer.  That is a good thing.

Day 46

    Day 46 - Where is my snow?  I know. I know.  Those of you who are being besocked by the white stuff think I am crazy.  But all I really want is one really pretty day of white fluffy fun.  That's all.  What did I get after all the promises - rain.  Dreary, sloppy rain.  Great day for crafting though.
    I cut a few things for my journal52 page, but that is probably tomorrow's task.  I also cut and made six birthday cards for teachers at school.  That was fun.  I make a huge mess when I cut so it about takes up my whole day if you count clean up.  It is fun though.

     Thanks for dropping by.  I must clean the table off if we are going to have supper.  One day I will have a dedicated craft room.  Then I can leave all my messes out and in progress!  See you tomorrow or the next day!

Days 44 and 45

      Brrrr!  It is cold outside.  No snow yet, but perhaps some tonight.  I can't believe we have had no snow and all around us people are digging out from under the white stuff.  I am out of school for our Winter Break through Monday.  If it wanted to add a few extra days, well,  . . . I wouldn't mind.
      Day 44 is the facebook challenge from Square One.  We had to use the tangle "huggins".  I remember when that tangle gave me such a terrible fit I avoided it at all costs.  Now, I use it often and really like it.  Of course, my brain is still saying the whole time "over, under, over, under"! 

     Day 45 - I really intended to spend part of today working on my Journal52 prompt.  I have it all planned out.  But I am going to need to cut some pieces on my Cricut and that means covering a large part of our den with my stuff!  Since we had a new computer game I was wanting to spend more time with, I opted to finish one drawing and work on another.  The nice thing about zentangle is I can work on it a few minutes here and there and I also don't make a major mess like my other crafting projects.
The first drawing was nearly finished except for shading it.  The other one was inspired by a drawing I saw on Facebook.  I wish I could remember who the artist was in order to give credit, but I can't.  It really doesn't look like that one, but the inspiration is obvious.  Quite often I am inspired by others.  I promise I am not intentionally trying to copy their work (or yours), but appreciate the ideas you all give me.  I do make a habit to look once and then work without looking again.

     I suppose I am going to have to force myself to get busy on lesson plans on the possibility we will be in school.  I would much rather work on my inchie and journal page.  Thanks for dropping by!  I hope you have a blessed day.