Days 86 - 88 and some extras

      Oh the wonderful spring weather that has happened for my spring break!  Granted, it is a bit colder than it probably needs to be, but still the sun is shining and it is so lovely outside.  I have shaken the stomach nightmare - unfortunately, being a very "sharing" sister, I shook it right onto my brother.  Yikes!

Day 86

     I worked on my challenge piece for Adele Bruno's Tickled to Tangle.  This was sort of a tough one because it had tangles that I had trouble getting to work together.  We had to use kelp, printemps and mumsy. 

Day 87

     Today I worked on using the tangle "squid" for Square One.  I haven't really played with this one so much.  However once I started it turned into the only tangle I used.  I had a lot of fun with this one.

     I also worked on one of my journal pages for Journal52.  I had gotten behind and really want to try to keep up this year (of course, I won't, but I still want to try).  This week's prompt was "spring cleaning".   Not really how I want to spend my break.  So I decided to take a more comic approach. 

Day 88

      One more journal prompt and my inchie.  The inchie word was "oak".  I guess this turned out okay, but it is not my most imaginative piece. 

     The journal prompt was from a couple of weeks ago.  The prompt was "Inspiration Board".  I decided to collage what inspires my work - or at least some of it.  I am not really much of a collage artist.  I enjoy the look, but always feel I miss the spontaneity of a good collage.  Either way, it does cover a lot of what makes me want to create.

     I hope you are having a wonderful day!  I guess my creative time is over or at least that is what the look Lakota is giving me is saying.  I think I see some football in my future . . . Thanks for dropping by and sharing your comments! 

Day 85

    I finally finished a piece I had been working on for several days now.  I wanted to try some flowers I had seen on someone else's work (sorry, I can't remember where) but wanted something different.  So I drew the flowers and then "added" some tiles to the background.  I decided to set the tiles apart, I would use the brown tone pens.  I love this piece because it is different.

    I hope you are having a great day - one more for me until spring break!!! Did you hear my large shout?  I am so looking forward to some time off. 

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.