Weekly Challenge #168

Happy Monday Morning everyone!

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Hello my Tangly friends!
What a week!!

Thank you to everyone for the Birthday wishes.
For my birthday i spent the day with these lovely ladies

Margaret Bremner, Jenny Farrell, Lisa Heron, and me - all CZTs

 Jenny Farrell, CZT from Australia was over for Tangle U in April (...think summer camp for CZTs) - so she made the trip up to Canada to visit Lisa Heron, who lives in Regina, SK about 2.5 hours drive from where i live.  So - Lisa cooked up a scheme to get us all together under one room with my fellow Saskatonian CZT Margaret Bremner.  And that roof was mine!

Jenny and Lisa brought lunch and a cake, and we spent the day visiting and talking about Tangle U, and other exciting projects.

Artoo enjoying Jenny's tangled hat

Artoo was on his best behaviour and entertained us all with some singing and laughing.

No rest for the wicked

 And many CZTs were heartbroken when Margaret didn't make it down to Tangle U, but she shared the workshop she would have given with us, and we were grateful.   Jenny also shared some of the cool techniques and things that she learned at Tangle U.

cake was eaten

They hung out all day, and even stuck around for supper - B-rad BBQd for everyone and we all enjoyed some EXTRA cake!  Yay!  It was a good birthday! 

Gettin' my book signed

 On Tuesday, i met the ladies again - but for supper at a local bookstore where an old colleague of mine was having her book launch for her YA Novel "Queen of Fire".  So, i got to eat an amazing Pear and Blue Cheese salad, and visit some more with the CZT ladies, and go to a book launch, and see some great friends at the launch - all in one night! Yay me!!

Finally some warm weather

 The weather was finally nice enough for the boys to have some outside time....

Neighbour Friends!

 And on the weekend, my family and friends rallied together and we pulled off a very successful BBQ Fundraiser to help my family travel to Washington DC this summer to attend a Moebius Syndrome conference (For those who don't know, Moebius Syndrome is an extremely rare neurological disorder mostly affecting cranial nerves - Artoo has this)

I have the best friends and family ever.

Work work work!!

 We capped the week off with a belated Birthday BBQ at my mom and dad's.... and my mom made me this delicious cake! So pretty!

But not as pretty as my beautiful niece!

How was your week?

Weekly Challenge #168 Tangleation Nation: Rain

This week's challenge is to take an official tangle "RAIN" and use variations or tangleations of it.  I chose rain this week, solely because it has been raining for the past 24 hours. lol

You can find the step outs for the tangle Rain here.  I think this one will lend itself quite nicely to tangleations/variations.  I've made my tile a monotangle, but you certainly don't have to.  

I've also done this tile using a embossing/colouring technique that Jenny Farrell learned at Tangle U.  i'm still learning, but i really like it.

**DUE TO A DISGUSTING AMOUNT OF SPAM I'VE RECEIVED IN THE LAST WEEK I'VE TURNED ON THE COMMENT MODERATION FOR NOW, PLEASE BE PATIENT** THANKS!

Have a great week!!

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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 put it in the slideshow. (send submissions to: weeklychallenge at mail.com) [not gmail, just mail]. 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. - 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??