Days 132 - 137, Another long post!

     Day 132, I worked on a challenge for Square One.  We had to use cubine.  I love this tangle and would love do have done more but this week is wild.  I have so many deadlines and things that need doing, the few moments I spent on the tile was all I had.

     Using quandry for Made by Joey's challenge and day 133 seemed pretty reasonable since I am in a quandry these days.  I just keep thinking how life will settle into a "dull" (oh yes!!) routine after school is out.  So here is quandry!  I also used this tile for the alphabet challenge - PQR.  The tangles are pinbawl, quandry, and rolling in.  I may also post it over on Stacked and Tangled.

     Diva asked us to do a duo tangle using bunzo and dex.  This is day 134.   I love both of  these tangles.  They are so much fun.  It is hard to believe that tomorrow is my last day with kiddos.  I needed a bit of meditative zen tonight.  I sat and tangled and reflected on this past year and of course, on saying goodbye.

     I almost forgot to get over to Adele Bruno's string challenge this week!  How could I forget one of my favorite sites?  Guess it was the pace of the day.  Right now though I can sit and work on day 135 and just relax.  I have moved furniture and loaded books all day.  Fortunately my class helped soooo much!  They were awesome. 

     Suzy Mosh has the coolest challenge - she gives us a letter and we have to use a new (to us) tangle that begins with it.  I try to use all new ones - sometimes I can, sometimes it is impossible.  This week I used three new tangles - eez, E, and effervescence - for day 136.  

     Can you believe that I started this monster sized post with a Square One challenge and it is already time for me to do another one?!  Oh my.  This summer, I simply must post more than once a week.  This Square One challenge was to use zingers.  So for day 137 I did a tile using zingers.  The tiles for this site have to be done in black and white only, but I may color this one after posting and add it to the front of a birthday card.

     Thanks for sticking with me on this long post.  The art work only takes a very short while, it is the posting and linking to other sites that make it so lengthy a process - well, for me anyway.  I think I will work on some school work now, then take a few minutes to do my inchie for tomorrow.  Just think, this is the last Sunday I will be doing school work for a few months!!!  Yahoo!  See you tomorrow with my inchie and thank you for dropping by!
    

Day 131

  Fun day at school today!!  My goal is to have the last five days super fun filled.  Today's theme was "Arts and Crafts" day.  Back when I first started teaching, there was time for Friday afternoon art.  Holiday art filled the walls.  Not any more.  It is cover this standard, reteach that standard . . . The fun things aren't so much around anymore.  Well, that is not totally true.  Our school (the wonderful crew of teachers) try very hard to make most lessons exciting.  And they succeed.  But either way, all of today was devoted to creativity.  We painted, cut, created.  I had a blast and I hope the kids did too.
     In addition to creating at school, I played around with a challenge or two at home.  I started a couple of challenges but the only one I finished was the one for Stacked and Tangled (a facebook group).  We used a new tangle, "4Mom".  Lots of fun.  I also combined this with the tangle challenge for Diane's site - using tangles that begin with the letters MNO, malestrom, nzeppel, and oops.

    Tomorrow's theme day is "Puzzles and Other Challenges".  I have a few things to get ready, so see you tomorrow! 

Days 129 and 130

     Just got in from sitting on a blanket in the back yard brushing Lakota.  We both enjoyed it immensely.  He loves to be brushed and I love to do it.  Sitting in the warm sunshine was a bonus.  I am super thankful for our air condition unit and the wonderful job it does, but sometime I need it a bit warmer. 
     Day 129 was time for a challenge for Made By Joey.  We had to work on black paper and do the tangle "mumsy".  I don't usually work on black.  It is fun, I just don't.   I think now that this is done I am going to use it for a birthday card front for someone I need this week.  That way it will have some use and not just stored away.  I need to give more tiles away or use them somehow. 

     Day 130, I worked on my inchies.  I did not get last week's done.  I looked everywhere for a picture of a leopard.  No luck.  So I drew one.  Then this week the word was diagram.  We had been doing these at school, so I went with the diagram of the Earth's inside.  Funny how Sunday turns into my inchie day.  Guess it is because I also work on a lot of school work that day and I have only a tiny bit of time for art work.  And an inchie is pretty tiny! 

leopard

diagram

     Thank you for dropping by and saying hello!  Only eight more days of school - great, except that those eight days are jam packed!  Busy me!

Days 127 and 128

     What a crazy week this has been!  Grades had to be in which meant a ton of make-up work and fixes required to get some things in for these kiddos.  Then to add to my growing frustration - no internet in my classroom.  In the hall - yes.  In the rest of the building - yes.  My room, no.  So I pulled a couple of chairs to the hall, left my classroom door open to monitor children and sat in the hall for most of two days.  It sort of paid off.  They came to fix it and in the process, I got a new computer - yahoo!  It is a sleek and lovely (and much faster) Mac Book Pro.  I had needed one for a couple of years, but was not high enough on the list.  I definitely am happy.
     For our Diva Challenge this week, #216, we had to use the tangle "brella".  I like this tangle.  I added some outdoorsy elements, and since we needed a brella, I thought there must be some myst around.  This was Day 127.

     String Challenge #91 was day 128.  We had to use vano, zin, and 2-n-5.  I added some color - just because. 

     Friday was field day for our school.  This is the big event for us.  Our kids love it.  This year PTO paid for an inflatable water slide!  That was the life of the party!  My kids were having a ball and getting soaking wet!  So much fun.  Surprisingly, the day was an overall success without me having to fuss at all!  Wow!  That was miraculous!
     Thank you for dropping by and leaving me some zen and smiles.  I love your comments and maybe when school is over I can spend some time leaving some comments myself.  I go look, but don't have time for even much of that. 

Day 126

    Quick post - so many things to do!  And seriously doing the art work is more fun than posting about it.  At least since I have limited time.  This challenge for day 126 is for the Square One Facebook group - "tripoli". 

    Thank you for dropping by!  Have a great day!

Days 124 and 125

     Day 124 is for an alphabet challenge to use tangles that begin with the letters J, K, L.  I also plan on putting it up over on Facebook for the Stacked and Tangled challenge.  I used the tangles - jaracu, lamar, knot rickz, luna, kunstler, and jalousie. 

     The New to Me challenge (Day 125) had a bit of a twist.  We had to use a new tangle or two that started with the letter W.  But this week we also had to use a tangle by Anne Marks, a fantastic tangler.  I am using sunflower and warangaie. 

    Back to school work.  This time of year I don't think I will ever finish it all.  I always do, but it is so hectic.  Thanks for dropping by.

Days 117 - 123

     Oh I hate this time of year!  No, I really love it, but at school this is "finish this, finish that, test this, test that" time!   I don't want to do those things - I want to enjoy my class for those last two weeks.  Not give them "busy" work so I can complete all these tasks for everyone around me.  I want to laugh and smile and build memories.  It has always been frustrating.  I hope to squeeze in some fun over the next two weeks.  Then I have to say goodbye.  That will be hard enough.
     Day 117 - I worked on the New To Me challenge.  We had to use new tangles with the letter D.  I went through my notebook and made my usual list of possibilities.  Then settled on only one of them.  I was going to add more, but really just like the simple look of only using "dream-dancer". 

     Today we walked to a nearby park with our classes to let them have a "celebration" of finishing the state testing.  It was fun, but my knee is not a very happy part of me right now.  In fact it is screaming how unhappy it is.  It is not a long walk, it is just a bad knee!  Tonight I finished up a piece I had started last night.  This is for Adele Bruno's string challenge.  I chose to use all three suggested tangles on her string - lanie, laced and garlic cloves.  This was day 118.

     There is wonderful person in our neighborhood Food Lion grocery store that we have gotten to know.  She has shown us so much kindness over the many years we have been acquainted.  Her name is Joyce and she is one of life's special people.  Just yesterday she gave me - for no reason - a wonderful embroidered lunch box!  Wow!  I was super surprised.  So to thank her I made her an ATC card.  This was just a small token of appreciation for her (and Day 119).

My new lunch box from Joyce!

     Day 120 and drawing a  labyrinth for our Diva Challenge.  I kept drawing a really good one, then discovering it was also really small.  Way too small.  Then I would draw a larger one and it wouldn't be good at all.  This took a while.  But it was fun!  I only used one tangle inside the labyrinth - "signalz".

     Today was our AG (agriculture) day field trip.  I am exhausted - and that describes it mildly.  So for day 121, here is a photo from our trip.  This should count - I took 52 of them!  Gracious!

Rope that steer, cowboy!

     I worked on my Journal52 entry for last week.  I had it all planned, but just didn't have time last week.  The topic was "treasures".  I cut a treasure chest and then filled it with things I treasure and some cut outs of jewels to finish filling it up.  What do you think of day 122?

    Journal52 for this week was "observation".  I thought of my school observations at first - we had to have six  this year!  But then another thought popped in my head.  I loved reading Harriet the Spy as a child.  It was one of my very favorite books.  I even grabbed my own notebook and carried it around like Harriet for a while.  So for day 123, I looked up the book and used the cover to draw from, then added a lot of quotes from the book around it.  I have to say this is one of my favorite pages for my journal.  I may decide to reread the book.

    And now.  I have a super-sized stack of papers to grade, some computer things to enter, and plans to work on.  Oh my.  Such "fun".  I think my creative endeavors are over for a while.  I can find the time to draw for 15 minutes or so each evening, I just can't seem to find the time to post.  So, you get to put up with extra long posts every now and then!  Sorry. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope you have a very blessed day.