Weekly Challenge #282

Happy Monday!

well, here it is. The last few days of summer before school starts for these kids.  We are trying to eke out the last bits of fun times before it's back into the routine of every day life.

This week i took the boys to a matinee to see the Secret Life of Pets, which they both really enjoyed.

Movie Time!

these trailers sure are bright

We also went and spent a sunny afternoon at the out door pool with my mom and my niece, had a playdate with friends from out of town, and then went out to dinner with some different freinds from out of town - and to top off the busy week Chewie started league bowling on Saturday mornings!  

THROW!

There was art to be had too, as i've been playing around a lot with some fun Happy Mail (which i'll post about later) and a big project i'm working on in the house - Artoo and I did a bit of chalk drawing, complete with chocolate chip cookies on our faces.

Artoo is writing out a playlist of his favourite songs here

Things will be chaotic - i'm sure - in the coming weeks as the boys adjust to getting back into school mode - Artoo will be going into the first grade and there will probably be some adjusting to going to school every day for the full day... for mama too.  Hold me.....

At least i've got tangling to keep my sane.

Weekly Challenge #282: "Spill It!"
A little while ago my bestie gifted me with two big delicious beets, fresh from her garden.  I love beets, so i was thrilled to have them.

That night, as i was washing and peeling and chopping the beets for dinner, i was awestruck, as i often am, of the vibrant magenta colour and i thought: I wonder what would happen if i spilled these peels onto a zentangle tile?

The result? a Big Beautiful Magenta splotch - which i used as a string and tangled.

here's the result

Beautiful

It was super fun and i still am in total love with this colour.

This week's challenge is to spill something onto your tile and then tangle it.  It doesn't have to be beets, lol.  

I also did an ATC using coffee as my Spill

SPLORCH

and then the finished result:

fancy

You could use coffee, or tea, or wine, or beets - anything that will leave a splotch!  Food colouring in water? Water colours? what else? Enjoy!

And if you're on the Zentangle Mosaic App, - i'm @iamthediva - come on by and follow me, and i'm going to be using hashtags on the app for each of my weekly challenges.  So if you're game use the hashtag #DC282 (Diva Challenge #282) for your tile this week!  You can also search in the app for people's contributions to the challenge by clicking on the hashtag from inside the app, or using the search function.  I'm also on instagram @iamthediva

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