I have been having a lot of fun with Tea Bag Folding again... it has been a long time since I did this last... but the folds are coming back to me with no problems... so I guess my memory is serving me pretty good... now to find my birthday book!!! Lost it... and I feel really bad as I am missing birthdays... oh well I know that the people know I love them.. .at least I hope so...
I love making these little boxes... they are so nice to have around... they make me happy to see them... and also make others happy when they receive them from me... I love this color combination too..
Class two is ready for Tea Bag Folding... so for those of you have received Class one... two is waiting for you... you can find these Klasses on Kre8tive Classes...
I also had fun last night playing with the Tangle Bales... Laura from I am the Diva has this challenge of using only this tangle to create a TIA... so I had fun with this last night...
I find that if I tangle prior to getting ready for bed that I sleep so very better... so I had to do it a couple of times last night.. just to insure a good nights sleep...
I drew a slight string in the box... and then had some BALES of fun creating this one..
I just enjoyed the loops all over the place...
Because in the last one I had done a center repeat on the bales... I decided to do that again... and really love the outcome... a fun tangle to say the least... you really have to play with a tangle to get the hang of it..
I also made a bracelet with it... and then a maybe it is a ring with the band... and a large stone ... LOL... just a fun way to unwind at the end of a long day of playing...
Thanks for taking a look at my blog... I really appreciate all your lovely comments... thanks so very much... I also get a lot of great e-mails and love them... I just enjoy chatting with you all..
Have a great day... and enjoy the weather that is around you... unless you are experiencing tornadoes.. that is not fun in the least little bit.. I still am sending love to everyone that is experiencing these horrible situations..
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
This has truly been a week for me... I have been reading a book called The Power Behind Your EYES... what a powerful book it is.. I am not all the way thru it yet... but I have decided that I need to really take a LOOK at what I am seeing and doing with my eyes... so as of five days ago I stopped wearing my eye glasses, for near sightedness (which I have for over 55 years) and also my 'cheater' glasses which I have used for the past 8 years... and so far it has been 6 days... YEAH!!!! I am excited... I am doing exercises with my eyes... and also thinking differently... and it is wonderful for me... I will most likely wear my glasses for driving... but that all depends... I am going to go get a pair of glasses with a lower prescription in them so that I will use them for driving... I am so happy to be free of these things... and the best thing is that I am actually seeing BETTER!!!! AMAZING...
So I spent time this week working on blogs for my on line classes and also my other classes... and had a blast... but worked my eyes differently than I ever have. I actually had more energy... surprisingly so...
Here are some of the pretties for a Christmas class... and you can actually take it on line!!!
You can see all the details on my Class blog... Hope you will take a look ...
I have so very much fun creating things to teach... and love the fact that they are east with nice results... So many have asked for more KLASSES... so here they are...
So last night when I decided to TANGLE... I was a little bit scared... but I think I did okay.. no glasses... and I used the smallest Pen I had for the owl... a .005...
I just wanted to do something simple for my first tangle without my glasses for closeup work.. .
This week the Diva has asked that we do a Mono TIA... using the tangle BALES...
So here is my cute little Owl... just simple but sitting on a branch waiting for night to arrive...
Then I had a little more confidence and tackled a large piece...
I had no problem with this one either... I most likely would have done it with a little bit tighter control but I really love it just the way it is...
Bales is a really fun tangle to do... so thanks Laura for the challenge ... I needed this to get past my own challenge.
Well I do hope that you will have a wonderful week... I will be tangling a little more, hopefully... but have a full week going as of now... yikes... so very many fun things to do... I am truly impassioned with my art and life... hope that you are too..
Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and thank you also for all the lovely comments that you leave for me... I LOVE you all...
Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie
I bet you think I have been goofing off... well I haven't been doing that at all.. I have been busy as all get out... LOL..
I have 9 klasses for you to take a look at...
Card klasses, box classes, medallion art classes... and much more to come... I am trying to get as many classes on line as I can for you to enjoy.. .
Never Ending Cards... Tea Bag Medallion classes... How to's and much more... check them out..
I feel that with the price of things today we need to have things more available for us to enjoy... and easy to get instructions to make beautiful gifts, and pleasure items... so I hope you will take a look and see all the pretties.. .
I hope to hear from you... I have added a Pay Pal Button on each class... they are easy to receive... some are on line, and some I have to mail to you.. but I do it really quickly... no fooling around.
I know what it is like to want something yesterday... and so I get these things out to you as soon as I can. within 24 hours max. (snail mail..) if the class is on line... it is generally within a few hours..
Hope you will give me some ideas on some other classes you would like to take.. I love creating classes and projects to teach.
I have about 15 more up coming and just have to get them all up loaded... that is my major problem... dial up does limit me a little bit... LOL.. But I do get it done...
Thanks a million for all of you have recently purchased Kre8tive Klasses... and I know you have loved them... as each one of you has written me back saying so.. thanks for that vote of Love and confidence..
Have a GREAT day... enjoy a safe holiday week-end...
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
My Love today is being sent to all the people in Oklahoma.... I watched this yesterday unfold and my mouth was on the floor... I don't know if I could make it through something like that... they are super people to live there and have that always over their shoulder to watch for.. . I just am sending my love to all there... and all effected by this horrible storm...
I am keeping my fingers crossed today as we are suppose to get some SEVERE storms today... and we are right in line with that area... Living in the mountains does have a little bit of an advantage, as the tornadoes have a hard time landing... keeping fingers crossed and hopes that these storms die out...
Onto something more uplifting...
So many people asked what Tea Bag folding is.. and also I got quite a few E-mail letters asking for classes etc... Everything happens when it is suppose to I guess... I taught Tea Bag Folding over 10 years ago... and then moved onto other things... Cards, Boxes, books, Zentangling, Basket making, learning techniques on how to create different ways with paper etc... I love creating and love making things and projects that keep my interest. So here I am back at the beginning of paper teaching... with Tea Bag Folding... it is one of the many pleasures that I do love.. truly LOVE making medallions for special things..
The most fun is that they are easy to make, and add so much to what ever you are adding them too.. .
So I have added another page to my Medallion Art blog... and will be offering classes, to those that are interested and also for those of you that just want to know what it is... it is little pieces of paper folded to create a medallion... the size of paper is all up to you... the tiles I have designed are many... in fact I think at the last count it was well over 10,000... so I have decided that I don't need to count anymore... just enjoy them ...and create with them...
Here is where you can see more Boxes and things that I have created with medallion art..
http://wwwmedallionart.blogspot.com
Hope you enjoy your time there...
Okay... I also did a few Tangles last night too...
I made some tiles that measure only 3x3 inches... and so these first three are done on those...
I had a lot of fun doing these..
Ruffles going in and some on the outside...
A quick string just before going into bed... a really quick one... but a fun one none the less..
This one is on an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper... and I love making these look like tiles... Maria is always doing that... have you seen their book??? So many wonderful inspirations in there... and the bugs... love them... going to have to get into drawing them... I just love them.
Maria and Rick are always busy sharing and giving us inspirations to create more and new things... and that is what Laura wants us to do this week with the challenge...
So.. this is what I have created...
I really didn't have my heart into this... I have been meditating for the people of Oklahoma, and should really have taken my time with this one.. but I do have a full week, but will hopefully find time to do one with heart and excess time...
Mirrowing is a fun process... I haven't done it in a long long time.. . Hope you like it... This is truly not a mirror image.. but close enough for this... a few errors, but I am a human... not a machine... This one is very black and white with no shading... just stark black and white...
I had made a tangle the other day using one of Maria's originals as a model... Mine is not 100% like hers... hers are so free flowing and I love them... mine is not as free... but I do love it...
Anyway... I took the one and added onto it with black paper...
What do you think???
Fun times...
Well... I don't think we are getting the storms today... the sun is still out... the heat is on... around 88 degrees outside... a little cooler inside... (no AC is not on... I personally don't care for it...)
Now to make dinner... I have been so absorbed in this all day... that nothing has gotten done... LOL... except these...
So please go to the Diva's blog... and check out all the details etc... It is a fun challenge... even though it is a little bit difficult... I really had to think through this one... Brain in gear and go...
Have a great day... enjoy and create something wonderful... and send prayers to Oklahoma people....
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
I had a little time last night to play.... so I tangled... I have been working on a class for this Saturday and have totally gotten absorbed into it... I am loving doing Tea Bag Folding again... which I had gotten away from for way too long... so I was really enjoying making some pretty medallions...
You can see more of these on my class scheduling... but I had to share this one with you.. .
I use to do tons of tea bag folding ... and now that I have my hands back on the tea bag tiles I have been totally absorbed by them... I also created all the tiles myself too.. . which is also so very much fun...
I call this box the Pink Lotus... the medallion is almost 2 inches high... what a pretty one it is... The box is only about 3 x 3 inches... so it is a fun little box.
This week on the Diva's challenge, Laura has given us yet another new to me tangle... I really am loving it too.. it is easy and fits into so many places... you don't have to fit it in... it just fits in the tiniest of places... Kukes... and since that is a favorite fruit, I eat a lot of them... have a few very favorite recipes too. another subject again.. . I guess I love to wander when I write... LOL.. I really find so much to talk about... and share.
I love the way that Marie Thomas does this with her tiles... and so I tried it... it is really quite fun.... I also had the purk traveling from one tile to the other...
Look at those kukes... love them too...
This one is a little bit smaller... and I only used one kuke... but did have fun with all the grids, and swirls...
Anyway... another day... another couple of tangles...
Tomorrow I have a lot of misc things to get caught up on... so no tangling for a few days...
Thanks for stopping by... and for all the lovely comments that all you sweet people leave... I really appreciate them all...just wish I was able to get around to see all that you create... of course my head would be spinning I am sure... and then I would most likely not tangle as much... Never a dull moment...
have a wonderful time and see ya'll soon..
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
Today is the day of the DIVA challenge.. and it is all about kuke's... check it out... love this one... never saw it prior to this morning... and because of my love of circles and flowers... I know that this will be added as an all time favorite.. thanks...
I really had fun with these little glass beads... love them...
They will really be used often...
I had fun with this TIA... it is 11x8.5 and it is really moving and going all over the place... That is what I have to do this morning too...
Really get a move on today... lots of things to do... yikes... it is Tuesday already...
WEll hope you have a fun day... enjoy yourself... no matter what you have to do... like clean... oooops... bad word... but I do love a clean house...
Talk to you later... and thanks for taking the time to stop by and visit... and also for any comments you leave... I love them all...
Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie
Back to normal around here... feeling good again... Love the kids... but wow... their life style just isn't for us anymore!!!! Do You know what I mean??? So amazingly different... fast paced and never sitting and enjoying life as it should be enjoyed..... but they are doing what they need to do.. that is for sure.
I didn't get my normal things done ... but did take self time to tangle and keep some of my sanity... LOL..
This is a large TIA... 8.5 X 11... and it was fun to do.. that is for sure..
Had to get a few more strings done too... this is String 47... I did a couple of these..
This duck came thru too... wanted to be seen... love the mooka on her head...
Just a few more tangles all together.
Using Knightsbrige only... I created this one...
A little Purk....
Some more purk... do you think I like purk... WRONG... I love purk...
I saw this tree the other day when we were riding around... and had to draw it.. took a few pictures and needed to get it onto paper
I love the textures of this one.
Some more Challenge for this week
Diva's new tangle challenge...
I had to color it too... just felt like zoning... and so I colored it...
Hope you have a great day... we have sun again... 2nd day with sun... yeah.. I hope we are past the horrible rains...
Thanks for stopping by... and see you soon...
Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie
I am happy today... BUT...our son and his wife have been visiting us for the past week... and today is the last day they will be here... boo hoo... so even though the sun is out for the first time since they have been here... I am a little sad to see them starting to gather things up for their trip home... they dug some Sun Artichokes today... and loaded up a couple of bushels of Sweet Potatoes... also I packed up some Pickled Okra, and Pickled peppers... and some of Glenns' Special Persimmon vinegar.. Yummmm it is so very delicious... We have had a nice visit... but as normal.. way way to short... but they are looking for land in this area.. so hopefully they will be down here more often... that will be a wonderful asset to our lives..
The Challenge today (the Diva's )is to use Rick's newest TANGLE... this one is called Schway... I love Feng shui...and generally have the house arranged in a feng Shui manner.. But at this moment in time... LOL.. it is a wreck... stuff is all over the place...
Anyway... here is my TIA for the day..
I really had fun doing this TIA... had to get some flowers in there too...
What would a tangle be without flowers ...
I think that this tangle will be used a lot... thanks Rick... it is really easy and fun to use. Love that about some of the tangles....
Here is another piece I sort of did at some time this past week.. . ???? Not really sure when...
I love the spring time.. one of my very favorite times of the year... so I had to use some green leaves.. they seem to be all over the place... and the rain has really brought them out even more...
Hope that no matter where you are living that your weather is nice... and that you are enjoying it every bit of it..
Thanks for stopping by... and have a GREAT day...
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
Did you know that Alice was a creative person??? She was... or is... how ever you look at this whole thing... She wanted to capture all her Wonderland friends and be able to remember them for ever and ever... so she started to create a little tag for each MEMORY...
(Side note: When I had to pick out a stamp from this sponsor... I didn't really know what I was going to do... but I had been making these cute little suitcases for some classes that I teach... and I wanted a stamp like it... so this is what I chose... and it led to all this... LOL... what FUN I have had with this one... )
so this is the stamps that I chose to receive... and I made this fun tag..
We have to always think of what it says...
ENJOY TODAY
Live for Tomorrow
Dream for the future...
That is what Alice was doing!!!!
Dreaming for the future when she would be home and then she could remember all her friends..
A nice closeup of the stamps... they really are wonderful... and I am glad to have them in my collection of stamps...
Then I had to tie in my suitcase with this stamp...
Here is my pile of tiny suitcases... I love them... they are fun to have and look at...
I really would love to have a lot of old ones to pile up... but then I would need another room... as I have the rest of the house all piled up... LOL..
The Alice Alphabet tags...
I love the I one... it is the invisible cat.... LOL..
Tweedle Dee and Dum had to get in there too...
Can you help Alice think of something for the N and the O ... ???
All of Alice's friends just fit into this tiny little suitcase... so she will be able to carry it home with her... if she remembers to take it... sometimes when you are dreaming you forget things... don't we all...
They are all ready to go back home with her though... so maybe they will....
I hope that you have a nice day.. and enjoy your day in Wonderland that is all around you...
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
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
