Weekly Challenge #178

Hello Tangly people!

i'm Ba-a-a-a-a-aa-aaaaack!!  Did you miss me?

thank you so much to Amy and Carolyn for their guest posts while i was gone!  I really appreciate having them step in to help so i could spend the time with my family.  I knew the Challenge was in good hands!

So! we'll take a quick break from my CZT15 recap so i can give you a very brief run down of my trip to Washington for the 11th Moebius Syndrome Conference (i took over 400 photos!!)

The Harms crew at the zoo

We visited the Smithsonian National Zoo, it was a nice day - not too humid - a nice day for the zoo.

PANDA!

A highlight of the zoo for me was seeing the pandas.  The line was long, and i could see my family getting impatient, but before we left when B-rad and i were planning what to do, he asked me: "What do you want to see that you will be disappointed if we don't see?" and it was the pandas.  (Pandas are my spirit animal!)

Chewie was super excited to be on the top of the bus

We took a little bus tour and saw some of the sights at The Mall.

Like the Smithsonian Botanical Gardens:

The whole family

And the Smithsonian National Art Gallery: 

I could have spent DAYS in here....

B-rad's mom and dad came on the trip with us to the Moebius Conference, my mom too.  (My dad wasn't able to make it, sadly)  It was sure nice to have those grandparents around, B-rad and i got to go have drinks in the bar with our friends, and we got to do a bit of sight seeing as well. 

This House is White 

Mr. President

The Washington Memorial 

The boys had a good time at the conference, Chewie loved the kids centre and Artoo hung out with us.  We had some interesting and encouraging consults with specialists - there's some exciting work being done right now between Mt. Sinai, Boston Children's and NIH... and at the end of the the conference there was a Talent Show!

Artoo sang a song and won a trophy! He was so proud.  Us too.

Cutie Patootie

It was an awesome trip, i love meeting up with our extended Moebius family!!  We'll see them all in 2 years for the 12th Conference in L.A.!

Weekly Challenge #178: "Duotangle by the Letter!"
This week's challenge is a Duotangle, but with a bit of a twist.  Instead of me assigning the two tangles this week - you are going to chose your two tangles based on your name!  If you've not been there, www.tanglepatterns.com is an amazing library of tangles!

My name is Laura Harms, so my two tangles will begin with "L" and "H"

For my tile, the two tangles i chose were LOGJAM (by Wayne Harlow) and HOLLIBOUGH (Zentangle)

I've been meaning to try Logjam for a while now, and Hollibough is an old favourite.  I kind of liked putting together a stand-by with a new one, to get me back in the "Zentangle-zone", but you don't have to do that.  You also don't have to use tangles from Tanglepatterns either, it's just a really great resource.

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 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??