Weekly Challenge #199

Hello everyone! Welcome back, it's a brand new year and the 4th year of the Diva's Weekly Zentangle Challenge!

Watch as i slam you with photos! ;)

CHEERS!!

the cutest little Elves this side of the North Pole

Just before school ended for Winter Break Chewie found himself with some kind of a nasty cough l... it carried over the holidays - he's still coughing... although it doesn't sound nearly as nasty - Thankfully.  So, we spent a lot of the holiday making sure no one else got sick.. and we were mostly successful except now *i'm* sick.  :(

Chewie is FAR more excited than he appears in this photo,
which is still pretty excited, too bad Artoo wasn't there

I also took a laser ornament making class with my pal Tara where the website said we could submit our own designs for the lasers to cut out.....

We broke the class

 Leave it to the two Zentangle artists to come up with designs that ultimately broke the class.

the laser at work

Our designs, while adhering to the specifications of the artwork parameters, were too intricate and our pieces took longer to set up and longer to cut out and our pieces melted.  :(

Luckily, the lady took our work over the week and made them bigger and made them out of MDF board instead of acrylic.  

And so i'm the proud owner of a laser cut version of my very first challenge... Simplicity

Pretty neat, huh?

The Marathon that was Christmas was full of Christmas Magic.  The boys were mostly well behaved through all the gatherings and lack of sleep and lack of naps and over sugared and extra cookies and cakes and pies and people and relatives... 

We had some struggles with a case of the "Greedies" in Chewie's case.  I'm not sure how to address this in the coming years.  We are trying to explain to him that people give him gifts because they love him, and they took the time to find a gift for him - the VERY LEAST he can do is to say thank you and be grateful.  

Artoo's Rudolph nose

Chewie's Santa Hat

 We had such beautiful weather leading up to Christmas.  B-rad and I were excited because they boys were getting a toboggan for Christmas! But then, wouldn't you know it - Christmas day and the temps DROPPED waaaaaaay down.... and they haven't gone up.

We took it for a spin around the block but had to go back home because it was too cold

The boys got some fun board games this year, so we've been playing a lot of HeadBandz, Memory, and my favourite: Yahtzee!

I am a Key! I am a pillow!

as well as copious amounts of video games....

I am a helicopter! I am a tractor!

And now we're busting into year 2015.  Another year older, perhaps a bit wiser - but i doubt it. ;)
I don't like to do New Year's Resolutions - but i do like to think of goals...
this year i'm participating in a few online classes like Mandala Magic (again, for my 3rd year!) and the Documented Life Project (again for my 2nd year) and i've signed up for another 10K race, and a 5K Foam Fest run with B-rad and my parents....

and i've finally chosen my OneLittleWord to focus on for 2015.... BADASS (Thank you Elisa!)

What about you guys! Any awesome goals or art projects or focus words for 2015??

Weekly Challenge #199: "UMT: Hitch by HeidiSue"

this week's UMT comes to us from HeidiDue and her blog: TanlgeOoh! You can find the step outs for her tangle HERE

This is a great tangle, and as you can see - there is LOTS of room for variations.... i particularly like the one second from the left.  So fun.

For those of you who don't know, the first Monday of the month, is a UMT Challenge (Use My Tangle), where the challenge is to learn and use a tangle created by one of you! It's awesome for me, because i don't have time to try all the new tangles i see on the web on a regular basis. This challenge makes sure i'm at least learning ONE new tangle a month... 

if you have a tangle you'd like to submit, please follow this link for the guidelines for submissions. Each month's tangle is chosen at random by www.random.org 

Have fun with this tangle!  Have a great week!  See you all back here next week for the 200th Weekly challenge!!!

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If you have a blog or host your images on line (like on Flickr or Picassa or Pinterest), 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. ;)