What fun... every challenge that the Diva publishes is really fun and also a challenge in some way... To find time was the real challenge this week... I had been tangling a little bit here and there this week... but yesterday was a really busy day.. . but I finally got it done...
Yeah... Finally
I hope you can see the string I created blind sighted... it sort of went out of the box a little .... ooops... but that doesn't bother me at all... I love being out of the box in all ways.
I also had some fun this week with a few new Strings that were offered by TanglesPatterns.com .. They are always so much fun too...
I felt I needed a little color in my Zen Tangles... so I added some. I love the way the colors actually came out the way I wanted them for a change... usually I am not happy about them... but today I actually like them.
This is String #49
And then Maria Thomas, one of the founders of Zen Tangles sent this one in... #50... I really got lost in doing this one... I just kept on adding and adding new lines... and new tangles here and there... a lot of tangling fun... and a good meditation...
And then I also did a another free style by drawing a line and going from there...
This one was a real challenge for me... as I have a hard time with some of the tangles... but I got thru it... practicing different tangles in different ways is a challenge...
I had to color in the pearls RED... a little surprise here and there is always good...
WEll a busy week ahead... our kids are all coming... so we will be enjoying them and doing different things... that is for sure.
Hope you have a GREAT week... and tangle a lot of time... I will have get out some extra pens... as we will all enjoy a good tangle at the table after dinner. everyone but our son in law is an artist in some way... and he really is too... he paints cars!!! Just a different form of artistry but a real art all unto it's self...
Enjoy the week... and absorb the sun...
Thanks for stopping by for a visit... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
This week we as a world recognize that EARTH DAY is on April 22nd.... but I hope that there are more of us that think of EARTH DAY as every day of the year... so I tangled this .....
Everything in this TIA has a very special meaning to the Earth Mother and to Father Sky... we all need to honor where we are and to cherish everything around us.... as we are ALL ONE .
The air we breathe, the soil we live from and live on.... the celestial seasons, the littlest critters, the sea, the fauna, and of course US... So we think of that when we get into the car and take a needless trip to buy something that we can really do without... do we think of that when we throw something out that should be used again and again.. Oh I could go on and on...
This week on I am the DIVA, Laura gave us the challenge of using Earth Day as our theme... Thank You Laura for making us look at where we are...
I thank you for every thing that YOU do to help the Earth Mother and the Father Sky... and thank you also for stopping by for a visit... hope that you have a wonderfully beautiful day on this special place that we live... Enjoy it 100% in all ways...
I am looking out my windows and seeing azaleas blooming in Red, pinks, whites, and lavenders... so very pretty.... Dogwoods in White, and BRIGHT pinks... the shiny leaves of the magnolia trees, the wonderful fragrant aroma of the pines, and the other trees just starting to get their green clothes. I love it where I live.. and I hope that you do to... look for the positive in the nature around you... look for the clues of what is going on... Mother Earth needs our help in keeping her alive... our azaleas are beautiful... but they are a month late this year... ????? and that is not normal... the leaves came out first... usually the blooms are first... wow... the earth is actually talking to us... and we are not listening...
Please help us all.. and of course yourself.
Thank You...
Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie
Seems like time is flying by so quickly that some times I miss getting some things done on the day I want too... LOL... so today is Tuesday and I am still working on Monday's list of things to do.. but I will catch up today... so have no fear...
Today, I am going to make pickled Ginger... yummmy and also sauerkraut.... which I love... our kids will all be here by the first of the month and I need to have lots of different kinds of kraut... they love it all.. so do we.
Also our asparagus are popping... and so I need to make another pot of asparagus soup... a household favorite... that is for sure. The other way we love to eat them is totally raw... so very good for a nice spring time cleanse. I also made a huge bowl of some really nice cole slaw... wow... we have been eating so very good this year... still eating lots of sweet potatoes too... how great this garden has been to us this past couple of years. Glenn is really a green thumb gardener.
Okay... The Diva has asked for us to be inspired by the stars... what ever that means to us...
Well my very favorite type of star is of course the ones in the sky... we have a wonderful vista of them most nights... and the weather has been clear to see them as I lay in bed at night... I love to watch them as I fall asleep... all of a sudden I am deeply asleep... and it is so wonderful...
But another favorite is a firework that goes off in the sky... and shoots all kinds of swirls all over the place... and then has little ones that spin around... so that is what I have tried to capture here...
I found this star in a bunch of papers I had saved over the years.. and when I was cleaning things out... I saved it again... and so here it is...
I love it... and so this is my fireworks... with the night sky all around it.. twinkling and all in lights...
I had to add my little snail and also because I was looking at Maria and Ricks book on tangling... I had to add a little lady bug... so cute...
I love drawing stars and did this one a while ago... all the stars and some bunzo too... love it of course...
Some more Bunzo and Aura Knots... stars, and having fun...
Have to love these tangling papers... I was trying to straighten up my desk area and came across a pile of tangles... have to now re-organize my books on all my tangles... the books are getting high... I think I am on my 5th notebook filled with them... all in plastic pages... yikes... I am a little prolific... and I LOVE it...
Well I do hope that you all have a WONDERFULLY fitting Spring day... and that the sun shines where ever you are.. Our yard is all in flower today... so many of the trees are blooming, and the azaleas are all on color too... a little later this year... we have some weird things happening this year... the azaleas got their leaves about 3 weeks ago... and now they are blooming... usually they bloom first... oh well.. the dogwoods are all blooming and it is so very pretty... the one in our backyard is really PINK... love to see it all a glow... maybe in a few days it will be bright PINKS...
Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and also for all the wonderful comments... I love and cherish each one. Thanks a million.
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
It's a NEW Day! Love each and every day for all the BRIGHTNESS it brings to us... Even though it is a dreary day... over cast, rainy day... it is a GREAT day... we need the rain as we planted sweet potatoes yesterday for the new crop to start for this years divine dining on them... so the rain is very welcome...
It is a good time to Tangle... so since I had some 'extra' time, I pulled out this weeks Zendala from the BRIGHT OWL and created this...
I would have loved to have done the one last week with nothing but circles... LOL... I LOVE CIRCLES... the sign for ETERNAL LIFE... love it... they are not the easiest thing to draw, but when you go into a zen state of mind... very easy... and they come out rather circular!!!
I also LOVE Purk... I think it is one of my very favorite tangles at this time... so this was an easy and fun zendala for me...
Thanks Erin for all the Challenges... they are all fun... with circles or without... I love doing them...
Hope you all have a great NEW DAY... and enjoy the day greatly...
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
This week I had a few things that I wanted to Tangle... and finally got them done!!! First off were two cards... One for our daughter, whom we are very proud of... being a wife, Mom and works full time... she is also getting her bachelors degree.. and she graduates this week!!!! So Congrats Heather Amy.... we love you and are very proud of you... So I had to Tangle a card for this occasion.
It is our daughter in laws birthday and so I made a card for Casey too...
Happy Birthday Casey...May this year be a happy one for you.
I went to the ZenTangle site... and Maria had done some lovely frame work.. so I decided to give a try again at framing... and this is what I came up with...
Thanks for the challenge on this Maria... I did find it very enjoyable and will get some pictures into these... they are all on 8.5 x 11 paper... and will most likely be hanging on the wall soon... I have to find a little wall space first off...
I put some leaves in this one... and really enjoyed all the tangles too... I really enjoyed doing this one though... and loved the way it turned out...
And since I still had the mooka bug... I had to do one with all mooka... I have to say though that I really didn't like the shading in the background.. I felt it took away from the actual mookas... but I totally did have fun creating this one.. that is for sure...
And then of course I had to do the I AM THE DIVA CHALLENGE.... as it is Monday again!!!! Well I am right in style this week... The Challenge is to use a string.... create a box, within a box, within a box, etc...
So I used the frame above to create a box within a box...I really wasn't as fond of this frame as I was of the others...
So I took it and filled it in... it is a large frame... on a 8.5 x 11 paper... but I did have fun with it...
I love to make purk turn and twist... and then I got into some other things that Maria had on some of her frames... I so love her work... When I got to the center... I used a chain... pulling it all together... LOL... and then some hatching in the very center...
I also did this one... I think that I like this one better... it is smaller... on a 5x5 paper... and very compact for me...
I had to put the mooka in there... it was screaming to be used... LOL.. how can you disappoint a tangle... ????
Well... I have a very busy week ahead of me... I am teaching a couple of classes this week.. and also have a lot of other appointments... a fun week... so I am glad that I had time tonight to tangle a wee bit.... and also to share with you...
Thanks for all the lovely comments that you all leave me.. .I certainly wish I could see your tangles... and also leave comments ... we are working on a way so that I can do this... it just might work...
Have a GREAT week... and tangle to your hearts delight... enjoy it all... Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and see you soon... maybe I will even have some time in between to tangle some more...
Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie
I wanted to share with you something that I did prior to being on the Altered Alice Design Team... and it is my book called .... Down the Rabbit Hole...
I wanted to create a book with Alice Falling down the rabbit hole... with all the wonderful stories along her journey in Wonderland.. .
this is the Cover.. with the Rabbit and his watch...
Each page of course has a hole in it... and they get smaller and smaller as she travels down the Rabbit hole...
Each page has a little bit showing on the inner circle... and that you can see from the hole ....
So much fun... A favorite of mine... so many hours of work on this one... but a treasure...
I love the simplicity of this page... not too often can I do a SIMPLE page in anything... but I love this page.
Of course the Caterpillar is a main character in the story... right??? So he has to be in a good location in this book...
Each page is a little bit differently done, to capture the mood of the area... I love using paper laces... so I added some here... along with hands and rabbits falling and falling down the hole... more and more...
One of my favorite pages.. I love the background paper... I made it with 5 different layers of paints, embossing powders, and coloring...
Of course Mr. Rabbit is a favorite with his watch... watching the time... something I hardly ever do... but I do admire his need to do that... ??? If you look closely, you can see the paper beads that match the background papers... and the ribbon of course was dyed to match the background paper too.. .
Another Favorite of mine is a Hat bot... this box is large... it holds all my Alice projects... with the exception of my Hat... that is huge... it just wouldn't fit in here...
All around the box there are the main characters in Wonderland... The mad hatter, the queen,
But my favorite is Alice inside this watch... so much fun can be had doing the different things one can do with paper, and embellishments..
I love using the original Alice Prints... and can create so many wonderful hours of things with them.. .
Hope that you enjoy these projects... I love sharing them with you... that is for sure.
Have a great day... enjoy your Wonderland... and make it work for YOU... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
I told you that I would be back with another tangle today... so here it is...
Oh YES I had FUN!!!! I thing that the Challenge this week at the Diva's with Lee Ann's Tuxado is really going to be a favorite of mine.. As you know the others you see here are favorites.. so why not more... Mr E is really also going to be fun to play with... very exciting to see these new tangles fit so very nicely into a TIA... LOVE IT ALL!!!! Dont' you...Have you tried them yet and posted them to share with others??? I think it is fun to learn new tangles... and also a lot of other things too..
Well hope you have a GREAT day... I have to gt a lot of thingsdone today... so no tangling today for me... maybe tonight I can squeeze some in... LOL..
thanks for stopping by for a visit... see you tomorrow hopefully...
Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie
It's Monday again... how does this happen every so often... seems like it is shorter and shorter time between these Mondays!!!! Does it seem that way to you???
Anyway...
I will bring you a little bit up to date on things...
Sande and I played .... She had bought these heart shaped boxes for us to play with... and we did this...
This was one of those kraft brown boxes... and we turned them into pieces of art for our own personal usage... I am going to put all the ways that I find positives in my life... in my love of self... in finding ME...
So I used my favorite color combination... Green and Pink... love it... and I of course colored my own ribbon with colors I love too...
It criss crosses to hold the love within all the time... and yet it can be seen by anyone at all.. at any time!!!!
I think it is a pretty heart.. and it will be fun to use to put all my thoughts into on a regular basis.
When you open the top of the heart you see the message that I will be meditating on...
LIVING IN THE HEART...
Have you read the book??? A very good one to say the least.
Inside are all these little hearts that are folded in such a way that they hold a small envelope to put all my thoughts onto each tag inside it...
On the front of the hearts there is also a message... like Heart and Soul...
Here you can see the inside of the hearts...
Now all I have to do is to fill them all up!!!
No hurry... I will be working on this for a while... each message an important one for ME!!!
We were talking to our son on the phone... and a bill paper was handy... so up came this fantastic bic pen... and it drew all over the paper...!!!!
A little Mooka... along with other things... LOL.. Never know what is going to happen on paper do you???
And MORE MOOKA.... I love the little tangles in the pods... so I took it a little further and created some when I got off the phone...
From all that I see with mooka... it is a continuous line... and you have to create all these little pods... So this is ONE line... and I diverted it off to the right a little bit... so very much fun...
This is Two lines... with some Purks in the centers of the pods... WOW... you can really get carried away with the pods...
Then I added a few more ... there are 4 in this one... with some added Zingers... love them...
and of course purks...
and some little pebbles at the bottom...
Mooka...
Four in this one too... can you tell that I had some fun... and all this watching a DVD that I have been waiting to see for over a year now... and we finally got to see it...
Thanks again Sande... it was really good...
FIANLLY I go to my TIA for the Week... LOL..
Not that this will be the only one... but I have to add something here...
I have a lot of trouble getting onto blogs and web sites... due to my lovely dial up system... (Unable to get anything else where we live ) and I receive all these really great comments all the time... and Lee Ann always leaves so many wonderful ones... and so today I was able to actually leave one on her site!!!! YEAH!!! Thanks Lee Ann for this tangle... for all the love you are always sending... I totally appreciate it all..
Thanks again for Rick and Maria for all the love they are always pouring into the art of Tangling... and thanks to Laura and Erin for the challenges... wow.. .love it all and SUPER STRONG THANKS TO All of you...
Thank you for stopping by today for a visit... and hope that you all have a wonderful full week of tangling and having fun... and also enjoying the spring we are having...
Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie
