Weekly Challenge #55

Happy Monday everyone!

First of all, as always - a few house keeping items:

• If you're NEW here (and there've been a lot of new additions to the party!) I'm working on creating some tutorials to help you out.  You can click on the links above or:  See "Getting Started"  and "Tutorials" 
• To see all the past weekly challenges - click the tab above, or follow this link
• Please grab the button for the Weekly Challenge (on the right  sidebar) to display on your blogs! share the fun!
• The limit of submissions to the slideshow is TWO, but please feel free to post as many as you like to your blogs.  I will take the first two presented to each challenge.
• and i want to say a very extra special big heart felt thank you to everyone who donated funds.  I continue to be amazed by the generosity of spirit of this wonderful community.  HUGS!

Well, it took most of the week, but i am feeling much better now.  I'm not going to lie, i felt awful for a good 3 - 4 days.  Thanks for all your well wishes.

 We finally got some snow here in The Skatch.  And the cold weather to go with it... the bulk of the week we had temperatures of -50C or so with windchills. Brr.

BRRRRrrrrrrrRRRRRrrrrr........

 In true Saskatchewan form, we didn't let a little cold weather keep us from pretending to be at the beach eating ice cream!

Ice cream!

Artoo has some frozen fruit instead

I've also spent some time this week working in my Tangle A Day calendar from Carole Ohl. I got it on Monday last week - so, i'll be working backwards as well as forwards.

It's been really fun playing in this calendar! Thanks Carole!
I also got nominated this week for The Most Fascinating Blog of 2011 in the Teaching category by Online Phd! Voting has started and is going for a few more days.  If you feel like casting your vote, you can click on the badge on the right. :)

Weekly Challenge #55 "String Theory v. VIII: Moebius Trip"

Thanks, everyone, for your submissions to last week's Purple Haze challenge. I spoke a bit about my son Artoo's disorder, Moebius Syndrome; a congenital nerve disorder affecting cranial VI and VII nerves controlling the lateral movement of his face.  Moebius is a spectrum disorder - so some cases are more severe than others.  We've been extremely lucky that Artoo's symptoms haven't been too difficult to adjust to.   (follow the link above to read about our story)

In last week's challenge i told you that Moebius Syndrome Awareness day is in January, it's actually tomorrow on January 24th!  In honour of my little dude, my sister-in-law and i dyed my hair purple!

It's dark violet with streaks of bright purple!! so fun!

Anyway, on to the actual challenge.  To raise awareness for this disorder, use the Moebius Syndrome Foundation's logo as your string, or create a moebius strip out of paper and tangle that... or some other awesome creative thing that i haven't thought of.  

Here's two versions of the logo for you to work with.  You can print them or trace them or draw your own.

Now here are my two version of the above tiles... all tangled up!

ALSO - please wear Purple on January 24th for Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day!! Do it for Artoo, cuz he's so cute - and is the youngest CZT around!! (lol, i was pregnant with Artoo when i was certified!)

If you have a blog, add the site-specific URL where your tile is posted to the linkey machine below! Don't forget to link back here so that others can join in the fun! (if you don't know how to find this, you can see my half assed tutorial here)

Also, please feel free to come back often and visit the links of those people on the linkey machine - don't forget to leave a comment or feedback, everyone loves feedback. ;)

If you don't have a blog but still want to participate, you can email your tile to me and i will post it here. (See the contact tab above for my email address)

The deadline for each weekly challenge is Saturday night so that i can round everyone up by Sunday. What this means is that i will stop adding tiles to the slideshow on Sunday. You're still more than welcome to do the challenges and add your name to the linkey machine. I will be more diligent with the linkey machine - by editing out the ones that don't work, the doubles, the links that lead to nowhere, the links that go just to blog home pages (this is why we need those site specific urls), and the spam. And there is some spam.  PLEASE do not put your *home* page in the linkey machine.  please? for me??