Weekly Challenge #107

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 tabs above
• 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.

Hey everybody!
Happy Monday!
so, i don't want to jinx it, or anything, but it seems that things are slowly getting back to normal at our place.

I hope you all had a great week, and a happy Valentine's Day.  B-rad and i celebrated by giving each other a high five.  That's how we roll.

I did a little more celebrationy type things with the boys, though.

MMMmmmmm

 Chewie and i indulged in Chocolate Glazed Heart Shaped Donuts and Artoo had himself some chocolate pudding.  Some day he'll be able to eat regular solid foods... until then... CHOCOLATE PUDDING!!

I'mma gonna eat this chocolate

 Also, here's a photo of my little hipster.

I think he rocks these frames, don't you?

 Friday Grandpa and I were treated to Chewie's Preschool Valentine's Day tea.    The class sang us songs they'd been learning all year, and served us sugar cookies and "tea" at our own classy table complete with a sparkly centerpiece Chewie made at school.  It was awesome, he was so cute, pouring out the "tea" for dad and i.

My dad and Chewie, having Tea.

What a gentleman, he poured tea for his mama first, then Grandpa, then himself.

My beautiful cousin got married this weekend in Calgary, so i made a road trip with my mom and dad and brothers, leaving B-rad at home with the boys.  (I wrote this post on Friday, so i'm sure i'll have things to say next week about my trip)  Everyone wish B-rad luck and patience.  :)


Weekly Challegne #107: "New Official Tangle: Quandry"
This past week Rick and Maria released, in their Zentangle Newsletter, a brand new Official tangle into the world... and it's awesome.  It's called Quandry, and it's based on a Rice Shaped oval type thinger. (technical terms only here!)

I've been playing with this one in my calendar, and it's pretty sweet.  When i get back from my trip, i'll post my tile!

Feb 1st is a quandry...

The challenge is to play with the new tangle, get to know it.  See how it works.

One tip i have - i find it easier if you don't concentrate on building the flower, but instead concentrate on building triangles off of triangles, similar to Tripoli.

Have fun!

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??