Day 84

     I made it today - to school that is.  There were times I almost gave it up, but I managed it.  I tried to eat hardly anything so my stomach wouldn't roll.  Not healthy I guess but the only way I could deal with the day.  Two more until spring break.  Oh I hope I am not sick during break. 
     The challenge at Made by Joey was to use a border or borders as part of your string.  This was fun.  I added just a touch of a color border to separate the areas even more.

      Have a great day and see you with day 85 soon! 

Days 82 and 83

     Not feeling any better right now, but the beauty of tangling is I can sit and very quietly draw.  And should I have to dash from the room, I cap the pen.  There are no paints to put away or anything like that.  That is nice.  Plus it is very relaxing when I definitely need that.  
     Day 82 was a challenge (yesterday's work) for the New to Me website by Suzy Mosh.  We had to use tangles, or at least one new tangle that began with the letter O.  I try to use all new tangle with that letter. So far I have been able to do that.  For that tile I chose opera, ozzie, and oola.  All three were new and lots of fun to draw.
     The Diva's challenge was what I worked on this morning.  We had to use a spiral string.  I love the looks of that type of string, but have a lot trouble getting it to be "right".   I started to go over to Michelle Beauchamp's site to look at some of her work, because in my opinion she is number one with spiral strings.  I decided that I really did not want too much influence on what I might do.  Now that I am finished though I may try another one after looking at her work. 

Day 82

Day 83

    I think I will finish sipping this water and then take a nap.  My goal is to be at school tomorrow.  Probably only a teacher would understand this, but it is more work to be absent than to go in.  Trying to find a sub last night was ridiculous.  I must have called 20 people!  Thanks for dropping by and I hope you are having a wonderful day.

Days 77 - 81

     Lots of days to enter!  I hate having to do them all at once, but it has been a busy week.  Then weekend arrived and I immediately got sick.  Apparently a stomach virus and much worse than the last round.  I can't decide what I need to do about school tomorrow.  I hate missing,  but I can't seem to hold anything down. 

     Day 77

     This challenge piece was for Made by Joey.  We had to use the tangle "rose" in a sphere.  I decided on phicops (I think) for a string.  I am not so pleased at how it turned out, but overall I guess it is passable.

     Day 78

     For the Tickled to Tangle challenge, I had to use amoeba, arrowheads and antique.  I am okay with this tile.  Maybe it is just my mood but nothing is appealing to me right now.  Sorry.

     Day 79

     Square One's challenge was to use mooka.  I used to avoid that tangle but here lately I really enjoy playing with it.  Combined with aquafleur and few others, it has an underwater look.  Lots of fun with this one.

     Day 80

     The inchie word for this week (Every Inchie Monday) was lasso.  I searched everywhere for some smaller thread or yarn, but no luck.  Thanks to my brother for tying this for me.  No way would my fingers cooperate. 

     Day 81

     And so we arrive and what I did today.  Journal52's prompt for last week was "Just Write".  Not a problem for me as I love to write.  The piece I chose came from about 12 or so years ago.  I had had to take a writing class for school and this was one of my pieces.  The writing is small, but I had to get it to fit.  The piece itself has some need for work, but this is how it was for me then and it still holds a lot of emotion for me.  I wrote about the trip we took as a family to California and the time mom got so sick.  We nearly lost her then.  Being so far from home was a nightmare for all of us. 

     Back and forth to the computer.  I really feel quite poorly and hope for better tomorrow.  Have a great day and I promise the blog will not transmit germs! 

Days 75 and 76

     Day 75

     For the New to Me challenge, I used 4 tangles that I have not used before in a piece.  The letter we had to use was "B".  My tangles are B, banderole, boze, and BWIYA.  There is really nothing unusual about the arrangement - I just played a bit with color.

Day 76

     Diva wanted us to go green for St. Patrick's day!  I used the tangle "oof" for my string.  I have recently rediscovered this tangle in another challenge and am having so much fun using it!

     Have a wonderful day and thanks for dropping by.

Day 73 and 74

Day 73

     I had a few minutes to work on the challenge for Square One.  We had to use the tangle "oof".  At first I was a bit put off by a tangle I wasn't too crazy about.  Then the more I played with it the better I liked it.  It has so many ways it can be varied.  I am still exploring variations in my sketch book.

Day 74

     An inch is about all I have for creativity today!  I have a stack of papers to grade that is daunting at best.  But I did work in one tiny bit of creativity.  The word for Every Inchie Monday was "nail".  I wanted to find a tiny nail to glue on my inchie, but could not find one small enough.  So I went with another meaning of nail.  I don't paint my fingernails, but I do admire the beautiful artwork others wear.  It is amazing!

     Guess I better get back to work!  Have a wonderful day. 

Days 69, 70, 71 and 72!!

     I had such great intentions of sitting down each night after creating and posting my blog.  You can see how that worked out!  I had papers to grade.  I had some other things I wanted to do.  I also wanted to spend those precious few minutes creating not blogging.  So the posts all piled up and here we go!  Four days worth!

Day 69

     I worked on Diva's duo tangle #208.  We had to pokeroot and cubine.  Both are fun go to tangles for me.  The issue came in trying to get them to look okay together. 

Day 70

     Over at Made by Joey's challenge, we were given the string and had to use the tangle "clove".  I haven't ever used this tangle but decided rather than to fill the string to use it for a background instead.  Plus a little bit of color and voila! 

Day 71

     On Thursday, Kelly gives us a prompt.  Of course, we don't have to follow it, but it is there to help us along.  Actually it looks like I followed her prompt of spring.  I didn't really.  I had started this picture over the weekend when we were having some really pretty spring weather.  So it seemed like the right time to finish it up.  Our weather still feels like spring, but I do wish it would get dry.  I am so tired of rain.

Day 72

      Tickled to Tangle up for today!  The string is a shamrock and the tangles are lucky and shrock.  I really had fun using lucky.  It is not one I had used that much.  One of the petals of the shamrock turned about a bit "wonky".  It was the first one I did.  The others seemed okay.

     I finished up today's piece of creativity (Day 73, Saturday).  But my brother is at the computer and scanning it isn't going to happen for a bit.   Oh well, it is finished.  I will post it tomorrow with something for Day 74.  It has been a very long tiring week.  This is the first full five day week I have worked - due to weather issues - in a very long time.  Needless to say, I felt worn out by the end of the week.  Thank you for dropping by and leaving me some sunshine.  Maybe you can chase this rain away!  Have a blessed day!

    

Days 67 and 68

Day 67

    I am slowly feeling better.  I still cough a lot when I change elevations - sitting, standing.  But right now I am on the mend.  I just hope tomorrow and school doesn't zap me.  I don't have a lot of energy.
    I love Suzy Mosh's challenge!  It really forces me to dig around and use some of those tangles I never seem to look at after putting them into the notebook.  Sometimes there are a lot to choose from, sometimes only a few.  The two tangles I chose are "amalea" and "acrosstick".  Obviously the letter was A.  I used acrosstick as my string and nestled amalea into the center boxes.  Kind of cool how it turned out.

Day 68

    Every Inchie Monday's word was Egyptian.  Many, many years ago I purchased a set of Egyptian hieroglyphs stamps.  I have no idea why.  They were just interesting.  On the inside of the set, it shows you how to write your name (and anything else) in hieroglyphs.  The stamps wouldn't fit on the inch, so I had to draw them.  They - supposedly - spell Cathy.  I am not sure how accurate this is since I don't know many ancient Egyptians.  Either way it is kinda fun!

My hieroglyph kit

     Today wasn't quite as bad as I feared.  I am however extremely worn out.  Bet I don't have any trouble sleeping tonight, or right now if I just lay my head on the keyboard!
     Thanks for dropping by and saying hello!  Have a grand week!  Ours looks to be rainy.  I so wish we could have some dry pleasant weather and so does my labbie, Lakota!  He wants to go out and play so badly.