Weekly Challenge #72

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" 
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• 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!

Welcome back everyone.
By the time you read this B-rad and i will be on our way to Edmonton, AB to see the concert production of Roger Waters' "The Wall" (you may know Roger from such bands as Pink Floyd...)  We are very big Pink Floyd fans in this house.  B-rad actually flew to the West Coast to see this show in 2010 just after Artoo was born.  I couldn't go, obviously, i was home with a very teeny tiny baby at the time.  So when we heard he was touring it again, I couldn't pass up the chance to see the show. 

Roger Waters = 50 Shades of AWESOME

So, this has meant that my mother has been 'training' with us for the past 5 months, learning how to feed Artoo (as his medical condition makes feeding very tricky, he's very susceptible to choking and aspirating) and how to read his signs, (both body language and actual sign language), and how to put him to sleep.  This will be the VERY FIRST NIGHT AWAY since Artoo was born 18 months ago.

It's only for one night, but we are going to be about 5 hours from home - so it's a little nerve wracking, as  well as exciting.  So, wish us luck interweb family!

Pansy from my flower bed

 So, here's a photo of one of my flowers in my flower-bed.... a purple pansy touched with yellow gold.  I took this photo with my new iPhone Macro lens that B-rad bought me for my birthday.  :D  So pretty.  It's been so nice to see my flowers growing and filling my beds with colour.

Playing Restaurant

 Chewie and Artoo had a fun playdate this week when i watched my girlfriend's two daughters for a few hours.  Chewie and Big E played restaurant while Artoo and Little E terrorized the kitchen.  It was fun, and so nice to be able to help out one of my friends for a change... payback for all the times she's helped me out in a pinch... well, it's a start anyway.

OM NOM NOM

Artoo is just becoming more and more like a little boy, and less like a little baby.  He is pulling himself up to standing everywhere, he likes to walk with us holding his hands, he's walking around supported by furniture, he knows over 50 signs, and he's starting to feed himself with a spoon!  We've been given the clear by his Occupational Therapist to start trying small finger foods with him, as his lip and mouth control has shown huge improvements.  YAY!  It seemed like he would NEVER get to this stage, all these little milestones that we took for granted with Chewie are SUCH a big deal with Artoo.  Yay Artoo!!


Weekly Challenge #72: "Tanglation Nation - Crescent Moon"
One of the wonderful parts of Zentangle is how it is always growing and changing and becoming something beautiful and new.  Part of the way this happens is through tangleations or variations of tangles.

In this week's challenge we are going to explore the tangle Crescent Moon -  one of, what i consider to be, a staple of Zentangle.  Play with this tangle, really open it up and take it for a drive... put the top down and let your hair loose!  Where can it go? What can it do.  What are you and Crescent Moon capable of together?

A Monotangle of Crescent Moon tangleations

Create a Monotangled* tile or Zentangle Inspired Art using only Crescent moon and it's variation.

*Monotangle is a term referring to a tile or ZIA that uses only one tangle - either in it's true form or tangleated form

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. 

Hey - i should note here quickly that i try my best to get the slideshows up in a timely fashion, but sometimes my life gets in the way (like when Artoo spends a week in the hospital, just for example) so, please be patient.  thanks.  HUG

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??