Weekly Challenge #74

Happy Monday everyone!
First of all, as always - a few house keeping items:

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Welcome back everyone.
all i can say is Thank God that summer weather is finally upon us.  We've been spending a lot of time outside, which has been awesome.

my beautiful boys.

My heart just sings when i see this picture.  Chewie just LOVES his baby brother.
And Artoo practically worships his big brother...

Chewie and his cousin LeeLoo skipping hand in hand at the zoo -
is anything out there cuter than that?

My baby brother and his little girl invited us to the zoo - so we headed out for a very warm, mostly fun, somewhat frustrating excursion.  anyone who's tried to wrangle an almost 4 year old and an almost 3 year old will know what i'm talking about.  (Chewie is 1 year and 5 days older than his cousin)
The rest of the week was pretty uneventful  - Artoo had some appointments for speech therapy and she said he's doing great!

Weekly Challenge #74: "String Theory v. X: Eccentric Circles"

For this challenge - draw a string of eccentric circles (or you can copy mine if that works better for you.) and get a-tanglin'.

To draw them, i started with a small tear drop shape (but you could make yours rounder if you like) and drew radiating circle-esque shapes moving out.

according to wikipedia the definition of eccentric is:

Adjective
eccentric (comparative more eccentric, superlative most eccentric) not at or in the centre.
 not perfectly circular.
an eccentric or elliptical orbit having a different center.

my beginning string

second attempt

this one ended up looking a bit like a terrifying spider... hm

i quite like this one.

 Good luck, have fun - and see you all next Monday!

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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??