Day 145 - Inchie, Some Purk, and a bit of Diva

       Every Inchie Monday's word was envelope.  So I made a tiny envelope and put it on some stationary type paper I had for scrapbooking.  I think it is cute!

      I love how the tangle "purk" looks, but I don't use it very often.  Not sure why.  Maybe it is that it doesn't always fit in what I am doing.  But for Square One, purk was what we needed to use, so purk it was!

      For our Diva Challenge this week, we had to use straight lines only!  No curves.  Believe it or not this flower was done only using straight lines.  I enjoyed this challenge! 

     I hope you are having a great day!  I am enjoying a rainy day today.  Hate that it is raining but I am glad to see some rain for our yard.  I love the relaxed pace of summer.  Thanks for dropping by and visiting some!
       

Days 143 and 144

     Day 143 was work on Journal52 pages.  I still am one behind, but I will get it caught up - hopefully sometime this week.  Week 20 was "good advice".  I had all sorts of serious thoughts, but in the end silly won out.  We used to love to go out into Papa's garden and drop a watermelon on the ground, then sit down right on the spot and eat it.  Now, admittedly, they would have been so much better if we had put them in the fridge or at least under a shade tree for a while.  But that never stopped us.  Whenever we would eat watermelon with Papa around, he would give us his piece of advice - "Don't eat the seeds, a watermelon will grow in you stomach."  For a long time, I was not too sure about whether to believe him or not.  I think I will stay clear of seeds just in case.

     The other Journal52 page was for week 21.  It was a real challenge for me.  The topic was to do a list of top tens - whatever you want.  I am by nature an avid lister.  Everything gets a list.  And I do mean everything.  Seriously.  So the hard part was to figure out what to list.  Books, movies, people, quotes, foods - I thought through them all.  Finally I decided on listing the top ten ways I enjoy being creative.  (Keep in mind, there are probably tons more I could add). My top ten for the moment are - tangling, drawing in pen and ink, quilling, woodburning, making books, making cards, scrapbooking, painting, writing, and designing houses.

     Leftover water color inspired me to do another stack for Stacked and Tangled, Day 144.   I always take whatever paint is left on the palette and spread it around on scrap paper.  Then it is there if I need it and I don't feel like I have wasted it.  I stamped some flowers around on the scrap paper - just in case.  So for this tile I found an area I really liked and cut it out.  Still plenty of scrap left another day.

     Now I am off to watch some you-tube videos.  One of my summer goals is to learn how to put products on TeachersPayTeachers.  I have ideas, just no know-how.  But I will learn.
     Thanks for dropping by and leaving me some sunshine!  Have a wonderfully blessed day!

Day 142 - Diva challenge

     Woke up to a very chilly Friday morning!  Super chilly for summer.   I wish I lived somewhere where the temp was about 75 degrees max during the day.   Then around 50 at night.  I love my summer time off from work, but I don't like the heat summer usually brings.
      Diva wanted us to use a white pen on black this week - option 1.  Option two was to draw on a "found" surface - something different.  For quite a while I have been meaning to get something on the cover of my sketch journal.  This was the perfect chance.  The cover is very bumpy and I wasn't sure it would handle drawing very well, but it did.  I was just going to put the drawing in the center but the ink was so friendly, I just kept at it.  I am quite please with this.  I hope it doesn't wear off over time. 

   Now, I have the rest of the day ahead of me and I need to begin to work on some Journal52 pages I am behind in.  Hopefully they will be finished between today and tomorrow and be my post for day 143.  Lots of fun stuff to work on!
     Thank you for coming by to visit! I hope you are having a wonderful day! 

Day 141

     Lazy day!  Slept in, of course.  Played with Lakota in the yard some.  Did some tangling.  Generally a wonderfully boring day!  I am looking forward to a whole summer of wonderfully boring days!
     For day 141, I worked on Adele Bruno's string challenge.  I liked the way the little bit of green pen made it different.

     Have a great day!  Thanks for checking this out. 

Day 140 and CELEBRATE SUMMER!

  I am so happy to announce this is the first official art piece of the summer!  Yahoo!  School work is done, room packed, tons of paper work turned in - it is all over for a few months.
     Susy Mosh's challenge, New to Me was day 140.  We were asked to use a new tangle beginning with the letter X and also feature a tangle created by Sue Jacobs - who does totally awesome tangles.  I chose to use "octonet" by Sue.  Not good.  It just did not turn out the way I envisioned it.  Around the edges are XAV and Xtracto.

      Now what can I do with all this free time . . . should I look at my math notebook for next year??   Sorry, old habits are hard to break!  Thanks for dropping by!
   

Day 139

     This tile does double duty!   I am posting it over at Diane and Carolien's site for the alphabet challenge.  The letters we had to use were STU.  My tangles are tri-linz, sails, up and away, teardrops, snood, and unyun.  I am also using it over at Made by Joey's site for her challenge to use a flower string. 

 

I guess it really does triple duty because it is also day 139 of the Create Each Day challenge at Whimsy and Zen!  The triple crown of tangling!  I really like the flower, but the background bugs me.  I started a woven type background - which probably would have been too busy anyway - and made a mistake so I turned it all black! 
     Hope you are having a great day!  One more in-service day for me and then summer here I come!!

Every Inchie Monday, Day 138 and a Trip Back in Time

     Every Inchie Monday's word this week was "movie".  I had several pretty good ideas, but the one that won out was a memory.  Aren't all good ideas woven in old memories in some way?
     I grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina.  At the time there was only one theater of quality in the area.  If we wanted to go to a movie, we went to the Carolina theater.  Then it was safe for mom to drop us off and pick us up in a couple of hours.  Lots of weekends were spent there while she shopped.  We also went to many movies as a family.  I saw The Jungle Book and most of the Disney classics there.  I swooned in my seat to all of Elvis's movies.  Our school took a class field trip to see The Sound of Music.

     The smell of hot (horribly bad for you) buttered popcorn lingers in my mind.  At the time it was the only place you could get Milk-Duds.  My mom loved them so much she would clean out her purse before going and then fill it with packages of milk-duds so she could have them at home.
     I went on my first date there.  It was a play and not a movie, but it was there.  Holding hands and  uh, well, it was there.
     The theater has claim to a lot of firsts.  It was built in 1927 and was the first and only building at the time to have air conditioner in the entire state!  At one time the balcony was "reserved" for blacks.  It was nearly torn down until a group of people raised money to save it.
     Inside there were these wonderful ornate pieces of architecture.  Elaborate statues in alcoves along the wall.  The seats were a deep red velvet sort of material.   The curtains were huge and posh - more red velvet.    There was an organ that announced the shows.  It was (and probably to some degree still is) GRAND.

     My poor inchie pales in comparison to the memories this place brings.  But it would take more than an inch to capture this piece of my history.

     Thanks for dropping by.  You know, I probably wouldn't see as many movies as I do nowadays if it weren't for Netflix and the convenience, but I can't help think I have lost something of the experience that the DVD and microwave popcorn have replaced.  Have a great day!