Twilight

Our daughter and her family have been here for the week... and we have entirely enjoyed their visit with us... and they are leaving today for the trip back home...  boo hoo... we will miss them being here...  but have enjoyed every single minute with them...  

So last night in the TWILIGHT hours...  I took some ME time and created this Zendala from the Bright Owl Challenge...I just had fun filling in all the little spaces...  

 During this visit with our family, I taught my grandson (8 years old) and daughter how to tangle...  they have fallen in love with it...  

So I hope that Heather Amy will participate in a few of these challenges... she is a natural...  took to water like a fish does...  

So did Riley...  so much fun with the three of us tangling...  

Anyway...Heather Amy asked if I ever did animals? with tangling... I have done a few... but nothing much... and she wanted a few owls... so I started to fool around with creating some critters...  

So Erin... this is for YOU...  

 I think I must have done about 15 owls... and they are so cute... I had a blast doing them...  

Heather Amy and I framed a few and distressed the frames... and she is going to make an area in her sun room for them... 

So much fun to be had, with simple things...  

Hope you all have a SUPER wonderful New Years... and please if you are going any where... drive safely...  

Happy New Year!!!  To one and All...  may it be the best ever year...  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

In and OUT...

I love making things look like a rounded object... with shading and creating it is so much fun...  and of course like life... an illusion...  looks like something it isn't...  but it is real... or isn't it??? Oh well... of course it is real... I am holding it in my hand... and you can see it on here...  right???  Oh dear me... another question to ponder...  

 Today I am moving my studio around... and also combining my sewing, felting, jewelry making, knitting and that kind of 'craft'  into my paper crafting studio...  it will be a lot in one space... but I need to use that other bedroom...  so I will be busy tossing things and making room for all these loving things...  

so the In and Out of my life is what this is all about...  trying to make a ton fit into a one pound box... . do you think it can be done???  If yes... I need your help...  please come on over and HELP me...  LOL... 

Thanks for stopping by... and please send me your love... I need it today...  I dont' like throwing things away...  YIKES... did I say I as throwing things away... please forgive me for my moment of weakness...  

Have a great day... and I do hope I will be back tomorrow...  LOL... 
I will be... see you then... 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

In the Reef of LIFE

Sometimes we just float along with the current... and other times we swim like all get out to go somewhere...  somewhere important that we feel we need to go or get to...  

Which is it that you do???  Are you going with the flow of life... or swimming against the current and not getting anywhere???  You should look at the inner being of YOU... and see where you are inside too...  so very important in the REEF of LIFE...  

So here is my feeling on paper...  

 This was done on an 8.5 x 11 paper and I colored it with pencils... even though I used watercolor pencils... I didn't use water on them at all...  just blended them...  totally enjoying myself 100%...  

I love snails... and love the purples and blues with all the greens in the background...  so much fun for me.  

So... think the next time you are frustrated...  are you going with the flow... or against the current...  and then create your own reality...  

Thanks for stopping by... and I do hope that you had a WONDERFUL Christmas and holiday... Planning on a fun time with daughter... but now her hubby can't come... but we will have her and our grandson!!!  Know we will have a Super nice time....   See you tomorrow... 

Love, Light and Peace.... Bonnie  

Merry Christmas to one and All

Merry Christmas 
And I do hope that you have a very very happy one... no matter what holiday you celebrate...  

I have done a very fun ornament today... and hope that you enjoy the new Fancy Nancy that I used on this one...  
I think that new tangles are so very much fun to use... the only way you really start to learn them anyway...  

  I love the effect of the Fancy Nancy... and will incorporate it in a lot of different ways...  

Have a happy and fun day with Family and Friends... and thanks so very much for stopping by for a visit.  Remember the lessons that all the GREAT Prophets came down to teach us... LOVE... the one common thing that we all need to practice all the time..... UNCONDITIONALLY too...  Just spread it around all over the place...  

Have a wonderful time doing it too...  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Flowing along the road

Merry Christmas...  a little early, but tomorrow is the BIG day... Santa arrives and the joy of the season is upon us in full force... Love should be shared with all everyday... but this is one time when you should allow your hearts to open to all...  (something that should really be done all the time... with everyone!!!)  

Anyway.. .I felt sort of at odds today... because it is Monday... and Monday is Diva day...  so I did another challenge from last weeks Diva Dance Medley of GREAT new tangles that Marie gave us.. . 
Wow... I have really had fun with these...  

 I created this on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of white cardstock paper...  

I have been loving working on some larger pieces too...  

So many people have been asking if I am selling these that I started to sell them about a month ago... so if you are interested in any of my TIA... just drop me an e-mail and we will talk..  Thanks a million...  

Okay...  so tomorrow is Christmas and a huge holiday for so many of us...  I send you my love each day... and double it at this time of year... thanks so very much for stopping by and visiting my blog all the time... I have made over 1000 post now... and have over 200 people a day that visit my blog...  I love you all...  Thanks so very much for all the lovely comments and feelings.   THANKS...  

Also I wish a Happy happy day for you and all of your family and friends around you.  Even if you are alone on this day ...  you are loved by so many people for being just YOU.. . don't forget that.  

Have a very Merry Christmas .... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Entrance to the Garden

It happens every year the week prior to Christmas... the seed catalogs come out... and we spend way too much time looking at all the seeds, flowers and herbs...  so many pretty ones... I want them all... and of course blooming RIGHT NOW in my yard, gardens and all around... and then I dream of my own herb garden... ohhhhh I want to do one so very much... maybe I will this year... start off slowly and add tthing could be better...  

So do you know what you are going to plant this spring... we planted broccoli two days ago... we are getting ready for SPRING...  

The heck with winter...  come on SPRING...  

Can you tell I love spring???  

Well... see you tomorrow... thanks for stopping by for a visit...  and all the comments that you leave... I am on dial up, and it is not very compatible with all the fast systems out there...  so please forgive me for not looking at your site and leaving a comment.. . I really wish I could.  Hope you have a really GREAT day...  and that you are ready for Santa to arrive... 

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie   

Under the Tree

With Christmas only a few days away... all I could think about was when the children were wee little ones we would put all the presents that we had bought for others under the tree... also they knew that we had bought some for them too... so much excitement over all the pretty boxes, and what was in each one...  

So when I saw the Mandala this week that ERIN had posted... all I could think about was the excitement of Christmas...  So please take a look over at the Bright Owl at all the other ZENDALAs there too...  I am sure that there will be some really magnificent ones...  I would love to see them all..  maybe someday I will have dsl... and will be able to zip around to each blog to see all the pretties myself...  

So here is mine... in all the excitement of Christmas...  

I hope that you have a wonderful, magical, exciting day... and enjoy it all...  

WE will have our daughter and her family up sometime this week... and we are looking forward to all the excitement at that time...  and hopefully we will have the house put back together a little more...  we have been working on it all day for the past few weeks now... and we might have this top floor of our house back together by then... keeping fingers crossed...  

Thanks for stopping by for a visit and have a very very Merry day... 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Happy Solstice

Happy Solstice

What a special day this is...  12 .  21 .  12   the numbers alone tell you it is special... but with all the planets lining up!!!  I just wish I had a telescope to see it...  hopefully they will show some pictures on the news or some shows.. .  Such a special time in our history... this will not happen again for another 26,000 years... do you think we will be around then???  

Our thinking should be elevated today or soon... and I am anxiously awaiting it...  I love meditating and feeling 'higher' will just add to that experience..   So very happy.  

Well I had to have another try at this delightful DANCING... on the paper...  so here are a few short steps on this one too... I guess this will be an all time favorite of mine.  I love the effects..  

 I call this piece  A WILD PARTY.... as it is a wild time on the paper.   Nature has popped out in different places... and yet the beat goes on...  as it does when dancing.  

I think Rock and Roll will be easily turned into Roses on many a tia...  

Oh what fun this is...  
Have a super good day... and enjoy everything that you create...  

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and see you tomorrow with a zendala ....  Love it..  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

 

BALANCED

BALANCED.... 
Are you balanced???  Are you able to think while others are going in a different direction??? Are you trying to stay in your own space of thinking???  I try to do all these things everyday of my life...  staying in the middle of my being...  enjoying life, to the fullest extent...  that to me is so very important... especially at this time on the Earth.   Trying to stay centered... even though 1000's or millions are very happy or very depressed... staying centered and enjoying life to the fullest...  BALANCED....  I hope I am making sense to you...  if not my picture above came to me while I was watching the movie ELF!!!!  Staying in a child's mind... and adults body... balanced??? or not...  I wanted to share it with you... as I loved doing this... and it was hard to keep the entire picture balanced... and still sign my name on it...  so shading helped...  

Have a wonderful day and night... and stay balanced...  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Dance Party

Oh... I had to do another run on this DANCE FEVER that I felt coming over me...  so this is what happened...

 This is a larger TIA than I normally do... it is 8.5 X 11  but I loved doing it this large.. .I had plenty of room to dance all around the floor.. . LOL..  

I got the Fox Trot in... and the Waltz and of course the Rock and Roll went all Around the Fox Trot!!!!  WOW...  of course I had to add a few more things... and then had fun shading.  I think I love the shading almost as much as the tangling...  well almost.  

Hope that you are having a good day and that you have time to play a little bit.   Thanks for stopping by and see you tomorrow.  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Looking inwards

When ever there is a problem we tend to look OUTWARD for the solution... when actually we should look INWARD and find the answer within us...  Looking inward will give us the strength to go forward and find more in depth answers...  on well just  thought that has been zooming around in my head...  

Tuesday... what a fun day...  getting boxes ready to mail to for Presents to my Mom and family members that we will not be seeing over the holidays...  fun to see all the pretty colors... this year I took tissue paper and dyed it myself...  all different colors and then tied with a pretty bow...  that I dyed to match it... or some are even in contrasting colors...  such fun... and so very different looking... but they can use the paper again... as I used no tape... and lots of ribbon...  so it will be fun for them too..  oh yes... they are all in love with creating too..  

So today I needed to share this tangle that I created... called looking INWARD...  to no surprise...  

 I wanted to be able to see all the areas in my mind that have areas of depth...  some are open to experience all the time... while others are much deeper...

I did this in a very relaxed state of mind... and really like the way it came out...  just lines...  and shading...  

Hope you are having a good day... and that you are ready for the holidays...  without stress and enjoy your time...  I am... but that is what I love to do all the time... LOL..  
Thanks for stopping by on this busy day... and also for all the comments that you leave...  I really and truly appreciate it...  

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie  

Happy 100th WOW!!!!

You have to say HAPPY 100th Anniversary to Laura for posting 100 challenges that have created so much love and happiness to so many wonderful people...  CONGRATS again Laura... a standing ovation is in order...  

And Thank You Marie for all the great new tangles and examples of you tiles...  

Laura even did a video... so you can watch that... I am not really sure what is on it... (dial up situation!!!  UGH)  but go take a look...  
It is all on  I am the DIVA challenge today... 

So much EYE CANDY for sure.. thanks to you both...  

Well here is my contribution to the new tangles and also congrats...  

 My TIA today is a little bit larger than normal... as I wanted to add a lot of details and Happy-ness to the TIA... so it is 9X8.5....  give or take a little bit..

Of course I had to get a few flowers in there... and the Happy 100th 

Yes I had fun doing this... I actually didn't want to stop... but have so very much to get done today... and wanted to post this...  

Thanks so much for stopping by... and the next Diva Challenge will not be until January 7th... wow  that sounds like a long time away... and yet in reality it is not...  
 See you tomorrow... as I will be here...  
Have a great one today...  Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  
 

Happy Day....

Happy DAY.... no matter what day of the week it is... it is always a good day... as we are alive and able to do SOMETHING... no matter how little or how much... we can do something... and that is what living is all about!!!!  

Even thinking is doing something... isn't it..???  Being is also doing something...  so we all do so many things in the course of a day... and how many times have you heard people say they are bored... or that they haven't done anything all day long!!!!  WOW..... they have to be super good meditators... right..????  

Oh well...  so much for that...  I have been having fun doing all kinds of things... throwing out stuff that I no longer need in my space seems to be the priority that my hubby and I are doing...  making trips to the thrift stores, the county landfill... where there is also recycling... and filling up the car or the pick up with as much as we can...  YEAH... we are going to have a clean, un cluttered house...  not that our house was unclean... just that we have so many collections of stuff.. including magazines... oh my goodness... I love to have neatly stacked piles of yummy mags around...  I had the whole collection of County Living... for over 10 years I collected these great mags... also how about scrapbooking mags... well... I really thought that I would use them... but when I scrapped... I used my own ideas... and could never find the right layout in a mag...  took too long... LOL... anyway... they are all in new homes now... and it feels good...  

Maybe we will be finished by the New Year... but we are not rushing thru this... just settling into getting rid of things is a good feeling...  

I use to be a material Holoic...  is that a word... anyway.. you know what I mean... I had to make room for some other things... so I got a large BIN... I think it is 40 gallon size... and got rid of a whole bin of new fabrics...  OMG... am I sick... but it did feel and look great... so I am happy...  

In between all that... I have been tangling... releases the stress of getting rid of all these stashes...  

So when you tangle you can see what has been going on in your life... if you look close enough...  it is called Art Therapy...  LOL...  seeing what the person is doing internally...  wow... a lot of tangling going on...  

Well you get the idea... at least  I hope so.. 

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and have a super wonderful stress less day...  Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

A wild Zendala...

Today being Saturday I do the Zendala Challenge over at the BRIGHT OWL... Congrats, ERIN  on getting the teeth 'cleaned' up...  they look so very pretty too...  what a good feeling that must be to have the braces off...  Yikes...  

Well  the mandala is really different today... and I have to say that I had fun doing it... but then I think I say that every Saturday... but truth is truth...  and so here it is...  

As you can see I had fun... I tangled all over the place... creating little things here and there...  no rhyme, nor reason... just played all over the space...  

Wanted to do something with the holiday in mind... but it just didn't come out... so that is it...  

Fun on a square piece of paper that has a really nice zendala on it... Thanks Erin... I love it...  

Thanks for stopping by... and let me say thanks to all that stop by and leave comments... I really do appreciate it... 100% of them... thanks so very much.. . wish I could do the same for you... I am sure that they are wonderful...  

Have a great day... what is left of it... and enjoy it all... 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

 

Inspired by LOOPS

Ya know that sometimes when a pen and paper are sitting around I find that the pen jumps into my hand... LOL... and then I start to draw, doodle, tangle... or make lists of things that I SHOULD do...  the tangling always seems to win out... and so here are some of the things that happened over the past 24 hours...  

 This one I put first... as it is my very favorite... and I have to say that it took the longest to finish also...  I love all the little sections that I was able to tangle in....  I love doing that... also I had a lot of fun doing all the shading... and did it as I drew...  so I brought out areas that I really wanted too...  

I also had to add a dragonfly and a snail...  yaaaaa Hooooooo  ... fun with little critters...  I also love the look of the double Girlande...  love it...  I am going to have to do that again...  

I really enjoyed the time spent on this 5X5 tangle... and didn't want the areas to be over... and done... boo hoo... but I will do another that is for sure.. 

 I love this one too... but not as detailed as the first one... 
I love the ornament breaking through the loop... LOL.. on paper... anything can and will happen... so much fun...Love the 'ruffle' around the one loop and feel that it is holding it all in the loop...  

I just wish I had all the names of these tangles memorized, but my mind remembers some... and not others... just not enough room in the brain box these days for that kind of thing....so sorry... 

 You might know that I love snails...  and so this one the actual snail left...  or maybe he was eaten... but a big old dragon... or maybe a mermaid......but it is missing... but this is his/her home... and so I had to do this one too.. 

 Okay... these have all been inspired by loops... and so this one is really a loopy flower and leaf... 

All loops...  

Even the center of the flower is a loopy place... 

 I added another variety of loopy flower and also a very veined leaf...  just fooling around and having fun...  

do you every do that..??? ? if not... try it sometime... you might enjoy it...  

So these are my tangles and doodles from the past couple of hours... hope you enjoy them...  

Loops if from the challenge offered this week on  I AM the DIVA.... and when the challenge is given... you know that I can't stop at one or two TIA.... so maybe this is the end...  I really have a lot of things on my TO DO LIST...  but  it is all the pens fault... it keeps on jumping into my hand...  and I have to tangle... 

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and hopefully I  will see you tomorrow...  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

A little bit more

Oh wow... another day... another Tangle...  
also more stuff cleaned out... YEAH...  
WE can see the end of the tunnel... and it is looking really GREAT...  maybe we will finally have less to dust!!!  That would be a good thing...  I love knick knacks... and also have so many pictures in each room..   to dust frames is an hour alone... LOL... but hey... I just love it...  

Oh well...  

 When we are finished I will let you know... LOL... do you think that you will ever be 100% satisfied with the space you call home???  I know that I can always find something to change... add to or subtract from the house and then it feels a little bit better for a little while... then I need to do more...  just like a tangle... add a little more shading, a little more tangling to the edges... and then it is done...  oh my ... start another one...  LOL... and then you have tons of room to play with...  

I love to make my tangle papers all different sizes... but I think my very favorite is now 5.5 x 5.5...  love it...  what size tile do you tangle on..???  

WEll... have a fun day... and enjoy whatever you are doing...  are you ready for the holidays???  I am not... and it is really funny... I am okay with it too...  I will be ready when I need to be ready... and everyone will love what I give to them...  it will be unique to say the least...  LOL.. this year is a funny year for us... but we are still having fun, living and enjoying as we do things...  

Hope you are... and thanks for stopping by for a visit... come on back again soon...  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Loopy Loops

Well My pen was found doodling again... LOL.. .and it was drawing loops all over the paper!!! Go figure that one...  anyway... this is what happened... 

Since I did the last Challenge piece with the loops going outward.. .I went inward with this one... and made them smaller so that the whole page was covered with them.. . 

I like the way it turned out and could have filled in more... but I wanted to go to sleep...  it was a long day...  so here it is...  

Hope that you take a look over at I am the DIVA and join in on the fun.. . love doing these... thanks Laura and everyone that helps with this process...  like Margaret and all the other gals...  and thank you for all your great comments...  I love you all...  

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and hope to see you tomorrow... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

A day YOUNGER

Today is the first day of a new year for me...  and I am a day younger... and that will continue to happen each and every day... forever and ever!!!!  Best way to be these days...  

Okay... so I have been tangling...  what else is new...  
I love to do that... 

  and I decided to do 
STRING   28   

A very different string...  
but I did enjoy all the different sections... and played a few up...  and then again added a few too...  



Thanks for stopping by and wish I had the virtual tea pot on... or the coffee press moving...  but today I am just enjoying the time of tangling... and might do a few more...  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie

Loops

It's Monday again... and the Diva  
has Margaret as a guest challenger... and this week Margaret wants us to make loops... that will create string... so I did mine outward...  
as I felt it would give me more freedom to move around the paper...  My tile is 5x5 and so I had plenty of room to play with...  

What fun this was...  
I hope you can see the loops...  

 It is trying to rain here... so today is a GREAT day to clean out all the excess STUFF in my studio that I have been using...  There is way too much in there.. and I am going to move my sewing, felting, jewelry making and spinning into my studio now too.. I would like to have that extra bedroom!!!  

So I am going to be busy busy busy... hopefully I will get this all done prior to January 1...  just my own personal deadline...  would like to start the new year out in a clean state... LOL...  organized and with less...  

Hope you have a nice day where you are... we are sort of trying to get some much needed rain... and so it is overcast and gray... yuckie... but only if we don't get the rain...  come on rain...  

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and thanks again for all your lovely comments... I wish I could get around to see all that you are doing...  someday soon... HOPEFULLY they will realize that people out here in the sticks need dsl too... LOL... 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Flowers are on my mind

and they are trying to come out into my art... but having a little bit of trouble with it...  

 I really had fun doing this tangle.... let freedom roar with pleasure...  just doing this is a  GREAT Release of feelings... hope you get the same when you tangle...  

We all need to know and experience Freedom on all levels...  

Thanks so very much for stopping by today for a visit...  I hope that you find FREEDOM in your day... and that you can enjoy it 100% .... 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Snowflake Zendala

The Bright Owl (Erin) has given us a challenge that is so very much fun... you have to check it out and try it... wow... puts a whole different slant to paper snowflakes that you made when you were a kid...  LOL.. so much fun... T hanks so very much Erin for the tutorial on this too... wow... love it... 

So... here is my snowflake...  

 I folded paper and made a snowflake like I did when I was little girl...  oh okay... I did it in high school too...  LOL...  

 And then I traced it and added some lines...  maybe a few too many... but I love it...  

I love this whole process... 

All I could see was a poinsettia...  me and my flowers... but I so love them.. . 

 And I added some leaves too...  I love leaves too.. . LOL...  so I have my poinsettia in the center and some cyclamen on the outer edges...  I love them too...  

So there is my very own zendala...  Love it... 

I will be making more... and please feel free to copy the one above and use it too...  have fun.. 

And please enjoy the wonderful day we have at this time of year.. 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

What day is it???

Oh my Goodness.... it is the 7th already???  

Where is this month going???  As fast as ever... 
Anyway... just wanted to remind you that I have added all the alphabets I have done on a separate page...you can find them all there....  the link is on the right hand column next to this text...  

Please go and see all my letters...  Thanks so much... 

Okay... so for today I have a couple of fun things...  

 Now only on paper can you create a plant in such a small container...  LOL.. but I had to share as  I love the flowers in this one....  as you know.. .I happen to LOVE flowers... can you tell... 

 And leaves...  

Plants of all kinds find their way into my work...  

 BUT then again... I also love to tangle... so tangling is always not too far away...  

WOW... it is the 7th!!!  Gracious me...  

Well better go get some things done...  


Thanks for stopping by for a visit and now I know you have to move onwards...  thanks and enjoy your day 100% no matter you are doing????  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

The last Letter Z

The last letter of the Alphabet...  Z   

 Sometimes I use the letter like a string... and some times I make it stand out... all depends on my mood and also the way that the piece is started in my minds eye...  

This one is 'hidden' so you have to find the Z...  

 This one was my first letter and it is a copy of one that Rick did... I feel in love with doing letters after doing this one...  so thanks for the input Rick...  naturally mine is different, as you really can't copy a tangle to the tee...  at least I can't...  and don't see the need to do that... learning is a form of copying to me though... and it is a sincere gesture of admiration and awe...  at least that is the way I take it when I see my work copied...  I dont' take offense to that  at all...  I am honored...  and I hope that Rick takes it that way too...  as I do honor his work and also recognize him as the creator of this piece...  

 Love this combination that Sandy Hunter came up with... she is also one CREATIVE person...  wow... love the way here brain thinks...  

I wanted the letter Z to stand out on this one..  

Well that is the end of the Alphabet... you can check back in a little while and I might have the blog up for you to see all the letters... so check on the right hand side of this page and see if you see it there...  

Hope you have enjoyed seeing my alphabets...  I have certainly enjoyed doing them...  Thanks for stopping by to see them too...  and for all the great comments.... 

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie  

The Letter Y

The Letter Y... another fun letter to create around... 

 Again... I really have to say this.. I had fun with these letters...  adding things here and there... and creating spaces where I wanted to add something...  making the letter stand out...  as each letter is  so very important to our everyday life...  

 My snail even had fun on this letter...  and a purk never hurt anyone...  

 Just enjoying the act of creating is a special gift that I give to myself each and every day... if even in between things that are going on all around me... I sit for a few minutes and tangle...  a pen and paper is all I need and I can have creative fun...  

But then I love to cook too... so I need a little more for that... LOL...  Starting to think about Cookies???  I am...  making them is so much fun... 

Have a fun day and Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit...  
I do so wish you could stop in for a tea and a cookie...  reality computer is not quite here... and I dont' think that I really want it to be either...  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

CELEBRATE

Celebrate.. I am ready to celebrate my 68th birthday...  YIKES... I was just 21 a few years ago... where has the time ever gone...  so very much fun and creation each and every day of my life... in so many ways... I have had a very interesting life and have met so very many wonderful people...  for more details on things I have done... you can read my profile... it is more like a book!!!! LOL... a real problem for me... nothing fits into a nut shell... LOL... at all..  Profile or book... 

Anyway... that is me...  

So I had to create a few things last night for a few challenges... one of the Challenges is for Creative Every Day... where the theme is CELEBRATE...so I had to think of my birthday and that word...  right???  

And the other challenge is for the I am the DIVA challenge of the week... which I had already done a piece for... but hey... I am just prolific in all ways... so I had to use the tangle a few more times...  

So lets get started...  as I have a few things to share with you...  

 When I think of Celebrations, I think of JOY...  Joy in all ways around the celebration...  and of course at this time of year we are looking at all the wonderful holidays that are coming up in this month of December...  JOYOUS ness plus...  all people love to celebrate the seasonal feelings... even if they are alone during this time...  they are still happy or joyous to be alive...  so I did this painting in my art journal for JOY...  

I attached a zen tangle ball as an ornament...  and some seam binding to hold it in place...  LOL... the yin yang of life...  the balance we all need to keep each and every day of our lives...  oh so many things we do each and every day without even thinking about it... but it gets done...  

 A HUGE Paisley with a flower... of course, on the top of it...  and it sort of reminded me a balloon taking off from the field...  I love those huge balloons when they take off...  have you ever seen that... I love watching them at night too... with all their lights on...  oh so very magical in all ways...  I put a few Keenees at the bottom to balance this one...  and then surrounded the celebration with the girlande tangle...  I love this one...  

Of course the feeling of each holiday that is celebrated during this time... is LOVE.. love for everything, everyone and a joyous love of life... what could be more perfect... LOVE...   

So I had to make a couple of Yin Yang hearts... and then add a few keenees..  to dangle from the E...  

I didn't want to color the hearts as they needed to balance by themselves...  on their own right...  

Okay... now this one is all about the celebration that I am going to have...  

One of  LOVE, Joyous, Happy, Fun and lots MORE...  68 years young!!!!  

CELEBRATION plus...  

A little snail.. and little frog... and lots of shells...  LOL...  oh well I have never ever said I was 'normal'  just fun loving and love do create...  

These balloons are so very joyous in real life... I love the contrasting colors in each one...  anyway... it is all about CELEBRATION... and I do hope that you will celebrate too... no matter what it is...  just celebrate each and every day...  it is always a good thing to do...  

Thanks for stopping by...  and don't forget to see the rest of the alphabet that is going on...  On Thursday  I will publish the whole set on a separate page... and also show you the third set!!!  Oh yes... prolific me... was at it again... three sets of alphabet tangled letters...  LOL...  

Love, Light and Peace.... Bonnie   ps... please think World Peace... deep inside of you...  thanks... 

The Letter X

The Letter X.... Marking the spot... signing a name if you don't know how to write... all X's... or how about tic tac toe... seemed like the X's always won!!!!  

 Anyway.... back to the tangles...  X... So many people write Christmas with an X which stands for the Cross...  or an X...  

Since it is December... and Christmas is right around the corner... I did a Christmas X...  

What fun... I love Tangling... 

 A little Sea Squid and some plant life... 

 And then we have a really deep sea X... 

I spent my summers around the ocean growing up... Maine, Cape Cod, The Jersey Shore...  and we even made a trip or two to Florida when I was a child... which was a HUGE trip back then... it took us four days to get from NJ to Florida and we went speeds that we had never done prior to then...  50 MPH....  wow... have things ever changed...  

 Can you find the X in here...  

I got a little over done with the X's... but hey... some letters just demand more attention...  

Hope you are getting ready for the holidays... and also giving yourself a space to enjoy creating on paper too...  

Thanks for stopping by...  
and have a GREAT day... 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

It's Monday again!!!!

December is upon us... and it is Monday on top of that...  so it is a DIVA day....  and I had to do a couple of things first... but finally got around to tangling... Sometimes things just don't happen as quickly as I want them too... and today was one of those days...  ugh... 

I drew a string... and then did the tangling thing all over the string!!!!    

Even though I wanted to do this one quickly... I took my time and played a little bit...  and even did another one for the spirit of Christmas...  

 I had to create an ornament with the challenge tangle today... this Keenees is so useful... and I think  I will be using it a lot...  a nice addition to the other triangle things that we use...  



Monday... busy day...  Busy DAY.... and so now I have to move on to other things...  enough tangling for right now... but I will do more tangling today... that is for sure...  

Hope you have  wonderful day... it is bright and sunny here... nice day all around... except we really need some rain...  NOW...  

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and I hope to see you tomorrow... 

Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie 

The Many Faces of Alice in Black and White

From a Fairy to a Child 

LADY dear, if Fairies mayFor a moment lay asideCunning tricks and elfish play,'Tis at happy Christmas-tide. 

We have heared the children say -Gentle children, whom we love -Long ago, on Christmas Day,Came a message from above. 

Still, as Christmas-tide comes round,They remember it again -Echo still the joyful sound,'Peace on earth, good-will to men.' 

Yet the hearts must child-like beWhere such heavenly guests abide.Unto children, in their glee,All the year is Christmas-tide. 

Thus, forgetting tricks and playFor a moment, Lady dear,We would wish you, if we may,Merry Christmas, glad New Year.
--Lewis Carroll, Christmas, 1887.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from The Altered Alice! This month the design team brings you their holiday wishes, and we invite you to send your holiday greetings to The Altered Alice and to our other readers. 

We do not have a sponsor this month, so we are just sharing for the joy of Christmas in Wonderland, and we hope that you will share too. We will have honorable mentions, so play along for the glory if not a prize!

To celebrate the season, we bring you The Lewis Carroll Memorial Window at Daniell Chapel in England. Notice the left panel where Lewis Carroll and Alice kneel to pay homage to the newly born Christ in this wonderful Nativity scene! This month's quote is actually contained within the windows, do you see it?

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The window was designed by the stained glass artist Geoffrey Webb,  a must-see for anyone that loves Wonderland. The Christmas poem by Lewis Carroll is shown in the center three bottom panels, which include characters from Wonderland - the White Rabbit, Dodo, the Caterpillar, Mad Hatter, and more! Our own Sue Roddis visited this chapel and gave me permission to show her close-up photos here, click to enlarge:

Echo still the joyous sound, Peace on earth, Good will to men. Merry Christmas to one and all, with great love from The Altered Alice!

Merry Christmas to all of you from Wonderland...  

This month is a free month that we can do and use anything that we desire... so I made an Alice book... one that I have been wanting to do for a LONG long time... (In Wonderland years... that is of course a flash of time...  like a minute in our world...but I still have wanted to do this for a long long long time... )  

So here it is...  

The Many Faces of Alice...  Actually when studying them... Alice always seems to be upset or frowning... but you have to look beyond that... and realize that she is being a very sincere little girl...

So because of that... I wanted the book to be of the original pictures... and so I also used a black and white theme of the colors I used...  

The book is made from a childs board book...  and the last page was actually tall... but I had to make it a little bit larger... as I wanted Alice to be HUGE...   

 The front of the book...  
AS you can see, Alice is sitting reading a book...  with a little kitten...  
And you can also see the last page... with Alice towering over everything...  

 I used a very old piece of lace on the front of the book...  

 I think I got the lace in a Lace swap I did about 6 years ago...  

love it...  

Then I had to add a few of the pictures with Alice and some Critters...   

 Some of the papers have a golden tone to them... but they are actually all black and white...  

Adding ribbons, buttons and bows in black and white are just dimensional additions... 

 Love the Spoons and clocks that are in these papers... 

 And some of the papers are black with white prints...  so unique... love it...  

And then finally the end of the book... 

I love this little book... the smaller pages are only 3.5 x 3.5... and the tall one I made 3.5 x 8...  so much fun... 

Hope you all have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS... and a wonderful year in Wonderland...  

Come on back in January... as we are starting off with a GREAT Sponsor...  love this one...  
Can hardly wait to share it with you...  

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie