Weekly Challenge #286

Good morning everyone!
Another busy week in the bag.

My Niece Meegan turned 19 last week and as part of her birthday she was given two tickets to a Paint Nite here in Saskatoon.  She said the first person she thought of was me, so she invited me as her date and we spent a really fun evening painting together with a bunch of other ladies... check it out!

Mine on the left, hers on the right

 It was really interesting to see so many people painting at once - with all skill levels.

Meegan is super mad because her paint is not yet dry 

finished masterpieces!! 

 Because there's not a lot of space in my house for a magenta daisy, i gifted my painting to Meegan to put up at her place, so they match.   Also, a fun thing to note is that Meegan and I have matching paintbrush tattoos and her paintbrush has teal paint on it, and mine has magenta paint on it.  aww.

This week i crossed of a (relatively new) item from my Bucket List - and i saw the Broadway Musical The Book of Mormon.  It was amahhhhzing.  so funny.

Me and B-rad and our good pal Sabrina

 our friend Sabrina got a pretty sweet advanced sale months ago - and got us some amazing seats on the floor, in the centre.... right by the sound guy!  (B-rad's fave)

SOUND GUY!

 I haven't laughed so hard at a show in a very long time.  And everything about it was wonderful.  Such Satire.  But i'm also a very big fan of South Park and Trey Parker and Matt Stone.  They are brilliant satirist, in my opinion.

On Sunday i spent the afternoon with my mom and dad, taking their pictures.  In October they are celebrating their 40th Wedding Anniversary, and all my mom wanted for her anniversary was nice photos together... so she called the "best and cheapest photographer" she knew (her words) - me.  lol

So we wandered the river and the parks and took advantage of the beautiful weather and the gorgeous trees.

Here's a few of those pretty trees

 And here's a photo of me and my pretty mama.

So pretty

I haven't had a chance to go through the pics and edit any of them, but i think we managed to get a few really good shots.  They were so cute, smiling and kissing and being all adorable.  

Weekly Challenge #286: "Straight to It"

What's the challenge you ask? Let me get straight to it.  This week's challenge is to ONLY use straight lines.  You can use all straight line tangles like i have, or you could try using a curvy lined tangle, but with straight lines - for example, what would crescent moon look like if it was all straight?

Here's my tile!

so liney

I showed my tile to B-rad and he laughed and said: "It looks so angry, like... frustrated!"  this was before he knew that the challenge was to use all straight lines, so it's obviously out of character for me and it showed... it may have also been some kind of commentary on how i was actually very frustrated (i just got a new laptop on Friday - a PC and not a Mac because $$$$$$$ - and so i've been trying to retrain myself to the PC lifestyle.  hold me.) 

Have a great week!

And if you're on the Zentangle Mosaic App, - i'm @iamthediva - come on by and follow me, and i'm using hashtags on the app for each of my weekly challenges.  So if you're game - use the hashtag #DC286 (Diva Challenge #286) 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.  

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