Weekly Challenge #112

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. 

• I know that some of you have told me that the paypal button does not work, and some of you have had no trouble, i'm not sure why it's inconsistent, i've redone the code a few times... If all else fails you can donate to my paypal address which is madam_diva ( a t ) yahoo ( d o t ) com - also to those people who donated this week... THANK YOU SO MUCH.

Happy Monday!

This has been quite a week. Artoo went in for his procedure, finally, but we ended up staying in the hostpital for 3 days on antibiotics.

It's never fun to be in the hospital, but this poor little guy has had his fill.
He sure doesn't care for doctors or nurses or anyone he doesn't know looking at him or touching him... and who could blame him.

Taken earlier in the week, my happy little man.

Also, when Artoo is in the hopsital, that means that Chewie goes to a family members house for a few days.  This time it was my mom and dad's, and the poor guy - not only was he away from home, he was running a fever almost the whole time.  Luckily, he loves staying with family.  but it breaks my heart when i'm not able to look after him.

snackin' on Ketchup Chips (a Canadian Delicacy) at the doc's office

On Saturday afternoon, after they discharged Artoo, i took Chewie to the doctor - who told us to wait it out one more day to see if his fever would break on its own.  Sunday morning, he was no longer feverish.  Just kinda stuffy.  Thankfully, he's feeling much better now.

Seeing as we only got out of the hospital on Saturday, Easter was pretty low key at our place.  Also, seeing as our backyard is still under about forty feet of snow, the Easter Bunny had to leave the treats in the house.

the haul

Chewie was pretty excited to see the Easter treats this morning, including Star Wars toys for him and his brother, a Chocolate Bunny for him, chocolate pudding for Artoo, and a new "show".  Ever since the early 90s when, coincidentally, my parents bought a VCR, the Easter Bunny has brought a new show.  There are four of us, so i think a new show at easter was probably a very cost effective move for the Easter Bunny.

The E.B. did not disappoint, and Chewie and Artoo received "The Rise of the Guardians", which fittingly is about the Easter Bunny.



For Breakfast i made some very elaborate "awesome" easter egg shaped pancakes.

heh heh heh

Here's a shot of Chewie and his breakfast.  An Easter Bunny Pancake, an Easter Egg pancake and a hard boiled Easter Egg, decorated by Chewie himself.

Artoo enjoyed his Chocolate pudding, this is the CHOCOLATE AFTERMATH!!!

It was a good day.

Weekly Challenge #112: UMT v. XV "Tuxedo"
 As many of you know, the first Monday of every month is a UMT challenge (or Use My Tangle).

The challenge is to learn and use one of the tangles created by YOU.  (if you have a tangle you'd like to submit, please read the guidelines here)

This week's challenge is to try a tangle created by LeeAnn, a.k.a Ledenzer, called "Tuxedo"  Follow this LINK to find the instructions for this tangle.

Here's my submission:

I just love how my little tuxedos in the centre look like tiny Panda Bears.

This tangle is very simple, yet there's lots of room for tanglation!

OH! and before i go, i wanted to say that i'm trying something out for my lovely challenge participants who do not have a blog.  lately, it's been tricky for me to keep track of those submissions that are sent in by email, as they've been getting "lost" among my personal emails.  So.  I'm trying out a new email account that will only be used for weekly challenge submissions.  If you'd like to submit by email, please send your files to weeklychallenge(at)mail(dot)com  while i'm testing it out, i will send you a confirmation email saying i've received your submission.  If it turns out that this works, we'll move to this system in a more permanent way.

Thanks in advance.
Laura

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. (please email to weeklychallenge(at)mail(dot)com).  I just ask that you put in the subject line:  Challenge # ________

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??