Weekly Challenge #156

Happy Monday everyone!
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Hello my Tangly friends!!

Can i just quickly say, before we even start... that i am SOOOO glad it's monday.  ;)

Chewie has been home from school all week - it's February Break up here in the Skatch - so kids have had the whole week off.  yaaaayyy...  O_O

My girlfriend asked me if i could watch her little baby for a few hours while she took her daughter to an appointment.  I was happy to do it and got in some much needed baby cuddles.

Chewie was pretty excited to hold the baby

 It's been so long since i had to handle infant cries and needs. lol.  i spent a good chunk of time swaying back in forth in a dark bathroom with the shower running so the little man would sleep.  :)

cute little bean!

With no reason to get up and going this week, the boys and i had a few cuddly times watching tv in "the Big Bed" (a.k.a. mom and dad's bed)

i'm not sure why chewie is eating artoo's hands.... brothers, who knows??

Artoo and Chewie had a lot of fun pretending to be a chicken, by putting this rotisserie chicken packaging on their heads.  Why this made them chickens, i'm not entirely sure - but hey, when the boys are playing together, away from me, doing their own thing - i don't ask questions.  i just take pictures.

The cutest little chicken you ever did see.

Some days were a little cabin fevery (it's still pretty cold here - average temps this week were about -15C or so), some days were nicer... and we had some fun times, but like i said - i'm glad it's Monday.  :)

Smiley-Face Mac-n-Cheese is my specialty!!

Weekly Challenge #156: "Curvy Gridlock"

A while back, i received an email from a challenge participant sending me her submission - and she said, in passing, that she wasn't very good at grid-based tangles because she couldn't draw a straight line.  Who ever said grids need to be straight?

Well, this week the challenge is to try grid-based patterns on curvy or uneven grids.  Feel the freedom of not being constrained in right angles!!

Curvalicious!

Good luck and happy tangling!

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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. - although to be honest the deadline is pretty forgiving.
 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??