TADA!!! WEEKLY CHALLENGE #200!!!!

KABOOM!!

Two Hundred Challenges under our belts.  Can you even believe it?  Two Hundred Challenges, over 1.7 million page views, and over 3000 fans on Facebook.  Sometimes i can barely even grasp it.

It's a brand new year! Are we all settling in to 2015? I've found myself writing the date with 2014 a few times... it usually takes me until mid February to get that straight. 

As we start this new year of challenges, i want to bring your attention to a few things.  The first one being this: I'm doing away with the slideshow.  This shouldn't come as a shock.  I'm sad to see them go, believe me.  They were pretty amazing.  I'm not shutting down the ones that are already in existence... so any of these slideshows should still be available to look at on line.  

Collecting the images and creating the slideshows was very time consuming, and even when i had some amazing help, it was too much for me to keep going.  Being a busy stay-at-home mom to two boys and one of those with special needs... it's just one more thing on my plate.

 Over the past few months i've been asking for your feedback on this, and the majority of you said that while you'd hate to see them go, you were onboard with making my life easier. ;)  

So, now the easiest way to share your submissions is to use the linkey machine.  You don't have to have a blog for that, you just have to have your image hosted online.  There are some great image hosting websites you can use, like Flickr or Picassa, or Pinterest to name a few.  They're all free and all pretty easy to navigate.  An offshoot to this is that i can't accept your images by email any more to upload for you.  i'm sorry.  i hope you'll understand.

The next thing i wanted to do was to bring your attention to the PayPal button on the right side of the blog.  I've created a TipJar through PayPay.  You never EVER need to pay to take part in the Weekly challenge...EVER.   

This is a service i provide out of the goodness of my heart for you because i love you and i love this community, and i'm sweet like that.  HOWEVER - if you think that the service i provide is worth a cup of coffee once a month - PayPal will help you do that.  

You can now set up a monthly donation that will come, safely, from your PayPal account. You can cancel any time from your PayPal account.   

There are three levels of tipping: Cuppa Coffee ($2/month), Micron Pen ($5/month) or Champagne and Cupcakes ($10/month) and if you're more a one-time lump sum kinda tipper, you can always tip via my PayPal address; madam_diva at yahoo dot com  

[if you're visiting my blog on your mobile device you can find the same tip jar in the drop down menu of blog pages or by visiting this link]

Now that that's out of the way... here's what you really came for....

Weekly Challenge #200: "Bi-Zen-Tennial Celebration!"

First off, i can't take credit for the term Bi-zen-tennial.  That's all on my friend Elisa Murphy - as with many things in our new friendship.... things just fall into place.  I had spent a good portion of Sunday afternoon trying to come up with some kind of clever title for this week's challenge... and was coming up blank.

cut to: an email from Elisa arriving Sunday evening congratulating me on my Bi-zen-tennial.  Perfect.  Just Perfect.  Thanks lady! 

I also received this sweet email from Rick and Maria at Zentangle HQ:

Two hundred  is quite a "festiva"
Can anyone hardly believe a. . .
Goddess named Laura
Zentangled an aura
All around us. . . ."Viva la Diva!"
Our Best Good Wishes to Everytangler's Angel 
The Great Laura Harms

2015 

Rick and Maria

Isn't that the sweetest? it's not every day a gal has poetry written about her.

Also Sunday as we celebrated B-rad's 35th birthday at my mom and dad's, my family surprised me be bestowing upon me this deliciousness!

Tasty celebrations!! (My niece is cute)

Om Nom Nom.... Moments after this photo was taken my brother shoved my face into my cake.
Classic.

So, just what is this week's Bi-Zen-tennial challenge?  

This week's Challenge is to use your Mac'N'Cheese tangle in a Monotangle.  Or, in other words: create a tile using ONLY your go to, or favourite tangle.  

And let's take advantage of the WHOLE tile! No borders! Let's extend from end to end, and fill our tiles BURSTING with Tangly JOY! 

And finally - put the number 200 (big or small) somewhere on your tile.    

200! Bi-zen-tennial!!

So - to recap: 

• Monotangle of your GO-TO or Mac'n'cheese tangle
• no border, extend from end to end
• stick in the number 200 somewhere!

And what kind of Celebration would it be if i didn't have a giveaway?
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ALSO!! if you are a long time lurker now is the time to join in! Your day to shine!  I would LOOOOVE to see 200 partipants on the linkey machine this week!  If we make it to 200 by Saturday at midnight, i will chose one lucky participant to be the recipient of a FOURTH prize!!! 

WOO! FUN!

I want to take this opportunity (quickly, as this post is uber long already) to let you all know how much i have loved being at the helm of this crazy ride... every day is a gift and i'm honoured to facilitate this space that you all have created.  You've all been so wonderful and i am blessed to be able to share Monday mornings with you.
Much much much love,
Laura

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