The worlds worst mom...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 30
Tackle it tuesday #58
It's a string thing #77

... That's me... It feels like that today...

My beautiful, sweet little guy was telling me about his day.

How his legs were hurting because he had walked through the city (there's a lot of hills...) visiting several places and back to school...

He told me all about what they did and where they ate their lunch...

Hey - wait a minute... Lunch... Not from the fridge... From his schoolbag...

Bag! Oh, S***... So he's been carrying his schoolbag with all his books around all day...

All because his mom forgot about the their outing...

And to make matters worse his lunch was leftovers of his favorite dish which he was going to heat in the microwave they have in the classroom... He ate it cold! And a yogurt... Which must have been kinda lukewarm...

Not a word of complaint from him... Oh, how I love that boy...

Thankfully I had a plate with a freshly baked sausage roll and an apple/chocolate muffin ready for him when he got home...

So maybe I'm not the worst mom on earth... But pretty close...

Now let's just forget all about that and move on to some happy colorful zen stuff...

Yesterday's promt in the #whimsybykelly2015 challenge was to make something colorful...

So that's what I did today!

I have to say it's so not the last time my colored microns will find their way into a tile!

Tickled to Tangle: It's a string thing #77

String #77

Heartstrings - Heartvine - Luv-a

I'm very happy with this tile and very glad I resisted the urge to fill the spaces in Luv-a with tipple - it was a battle...

And what a lovely string to work with!

Artful creations: Tackle it Tuesday #58: A B C

String #6

Agua - Box spirals - Cruffle - Copada

Have you noticed string #6 is the letter S if you turn your tile?

My daughter told me while I was tangeling this... Never crossed my mind...

S just happens to be the initial of both my kids names so this one is for my amazing son!

I'll have to do another tomorrow for my daughter... Great string!

And again I love the colors...

 

Thanks to Kelly for the color promt...

Diva #202...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 29
I am the diva challenge #202

Another two new tangles under my belt... Yay!

The Diva's Weekly Challenge #202:

DuoTangle: Chebucto vs Copada

I used string #8

Copada is really pretty and nice to draw - not so much chebucto... 

It gives me an urge to find a ruler...

For "U" and me...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 28
that's new to me #4

The letter of the week over at SuzyMosh's That's new to me challenge is "U"...

There's not a lot of U-tangles... But the ones that are there are pretty...

I used almost all of the U tangles, they were all new to me...

Uni, Unyun (love that one!), Undling and Unme...  See all U tangles here...

String #5

Lucky fingers...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 27

joey's weekly tangle challenge #45

Tried my hand at Joey's tangle challenge, litteraly...

Well, almost - it's my sons hand...

I was trying to do the lines in the palm with hollibaugh...

My son (6) likes to pick his nose so I put tipple on the fingertips, because, you know, sometimes he gets lucky...

And on the indexfinger I put joy, that's his favorite nosepicking finger...

I'm not going to tell him that though...

My daughter would laugh out loud if I had made it for her... So would my son, but when the laugh is on his account he gets utterly insulted...

It's incredibly amazing how these two little wonders we made can be so completely different...

(You're supposed to pretend you did not notice how many times I messed up my arukas...)

A good cry...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 26

every inchie monday #4

Now that always makes me feel good!

How do you feel about subtitles?

If you can deal with them and get a chance to watch this movie...

"Silent heart" (Stille hjerte - It's Danish) by Bille August then treat yourself to a good cry and and certainly food for thought... 

A very moving and heartfelt and also very relevant movie with amazing acting...

It grips your heart and does not let go till well after the sorrowful yet somehow happy end...

If someone you loved suffered from an incurable disease and wished to die with dignity and while she was able to breathe on her own...

Oh my, it's been quite a while since I shed so many tears...

Well... On top of that mouthful I really needed to sit down and draw a little - very little - as little as an inch...

Every inchie monday #4

... Off to practice the new tangles in Diva's challenge...

Thank you for commenting! I love to hear your opinion...

It's a record!

#whimsybykelly2015 day 25

It really is... I got 7 new tangles under my belt today... Granted I don't have a zentangle to show for it... But I do have page 2 in my tangle sampler book...

So there we have it, all the tangles I know including 7 new ones...

I know there's more that I have learned and forgotten about... But you see, that will never happen again because from now on new tangles I learn, will get their very own space in my book...

My favorite of todays new tangles have to be cruffle and folds (found in a youtube video). And sez. And I was very happy to be reunited with Squid, I love the swirlyness (if that's a word...)...

Over at Tickled To Tangle I found Adele Bruno's tips for tangleling bales and just got an urge to get baling...

Here's my result so far, there's more to come for sure... This is really fun and I'm happy with most of the variations...

 I'm thinking I want to try it with other tangles as well...

It is very tempting to just run through those basic bales like the wind. So I put in a few words to remind me of slowing down...

(And now I see I wrote deliberative in stead of deliberate... Bleh...)

Let it snow...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 24

Don't you just love saturdays?

How about saturdays with snow?

We do!

There's pretty much nothing that tops a landscape covered in white new snow...

The first snow of the year fell today... It will probably be gone by tomorrow... It was 5C out there this morning and the sun was sending down bright beems reflected on this wonderfully white new world...

Tomorrow it'll all be brown slush, so we tried to make the most of it...

Out we went and a new family member was born...

We named him Barbapappa Snow...

And of course, back inside after a cup of hot chocolate I just had to cut some snowflakes...

I never stop being surprised when unfolding a snowflake... It's just so amazing to see how just cutting a little here and there can turn into something beautiful...

 The blue ones I cut today... I need some darker blue paper, that would look amazing...

 These are from december... The lowest hanging one is my favorite...

The stuff in the window and on the wall is all my daughters handywork...

Exept for the blue owls, I made those when attending a glass art class. That was fun!

Inspired by Kelly, I started a tangle collection...

I don't have a neat coin collector binder like hers so I'm settling for a paper pad... 

I really don't know that many tangles... Half a page more and I'll be done...

Some of these I haven't ever used in a tile, they're on there because they were in my "One zentangle a day book"... Some I've forgotten about even though I really liked them, so I'm loving this...

In the future I can flip through (my 2 pages... ;) and stop neglecting those poor tangles...

Plan for tomorrow: new tangle!

Well aren't I chatty today...

Well worth the wait...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 23
it's a string thing
That's new to me

Apple Pie
- The worlds quickest and easiest pie... Ever...
180 celcius - 30 min

100 g butter
125 g sugar
100 g flour
1 tsp bakingpowder
1 egg

While melting the butter mix everything in a bowl. Mix in the butter.
Pour the batter into a pie pan.
Now fill it with whatever your kitchen holds of tasty stuff... Berries, fruit, chocolate, nuts... Just go nuts...

The batter will rise so there's no need to push the filling down, just lay it on top of the batter. Into the oven it goes and watch the tasty magic happen...

Today I added a little coconut flour and chopped almonds to the batter. Not the last time!

 Now while your mouth is watering for all of 30 min waiting for pie you could do like I did and... Tangle of course!

"This is new to me" Challenge #3
Letter of the week: "V"
My chosen tangle: Vigne
My chosen string: #4

"It's a string thing" #76
String of the week: #84
Tangles of the week:
Trumpits
Oolo
  Fjord  

Today I'm scottish...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 22
joey's weekly tangle challenge #44

I am lucky enough to be able to listen to audiobooks while at work. Currently I'm "reading" Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. After watching the tv-show I just had to read the books too...

The book takes place in Scotland and the narrator does a fine job indeed. In fact I find my self thinking with a scottish accent... I just can't get rid of it! Funny, aye?

Great book btw, though after two days it is getting a wee bit long and I see that there's still a good 8 hours left of it. Must be one brick of a book... But I'm loving the scottish...

Now, me fine lassy, I'd thank you to look down yonder and see me zentangle for the day...

Challenge: Joey's weekly tangle challenge #44

String: #10

Tangle: Joy (New to me - Loving it!) and some rixty...

Prompt: Joey's sons 10th birthday... Congrats!

Birthdays calls for festive colors...

Thank you for your comments - they make me happy!

Aye, where's me whiskey...

It's a keeper!

#whimsybykelly2015 day 21

tackle it tuesday

Artful creations' Tackle it tuesday challenge...

This week the letters are J-A-N...

Tangles used:

J - Jetties

A - Amphora

N - 'Nzeppel

String #3 from tanglepatterns.com

The only tangle I know that starts with an A is amaze, which I'm not all that fund of...

So I popped by tanglepatters.com and on the A list I found Amphora... I really like the look of it and it's really nice to draw... It's a keeper!

Gimme some Rixty...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 20
I am the diva #201

Another special week for our Diva... Moebius syndrome awereness day...

Learn more about Moebius here...

So this week our string is the Moebius syndrome foundation logo...

I learned a new tangle today and decided to use it; Rixty...

(Thanks to Jamie for pointing it out!)

A very versitile tangle indeed and I will absolutely be playing around with that one more. It is so very relaxing to draw... Love it...

Also still feeling the love for poke root... And gave it another go today...

This tile and the purple one I painted with watercolor before drawing...

It felt kinda slippery when drawing on it, but I do like the look of it...

Thank you!
For your comments... Everyone is so sweet!
 

I'm in love...

#whimsybykelly2015 day19
"That's new to me" #2
"Tackle it tuesday"
"Every inchie monday"

So I fell upon this amazing Poke root monotangle for diva's 200th made by Jamie while poking around (just had to...) instagram...

Poke root - which I never liked... Because I could never get it right...

But the way Jamie drew it just made me want to do that too!

And can you believe it - I just fell in love... Now I just want to draw more poke root...

I love drawing it this way... It has a hollibaugh feel to it... Which I also love!

Can you feel the love?

Are you rooting for me... ?

(Okay, all done...)

 

Every monday inchie...

That's new to me "C" & Tackle it tuesday "C-A-R-S"...

String #2

C: Chainlette - New to me...

A: Amaze

R: Rain

S: Sedgling

Now if only there were more hours in a day I could go crazy with some poke root...

That's new to me...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 18

That's new to me #1

The "That's new to me!" weekly challenge is new to me...

I love learning new patterns, great idea for a challenge...

I surfed right over to tanglepatterns and found a new to me tangle starting with the letter T, which is this weeks promt...

Tearce is what I fell for and I really like it...

Also sneeked in my favorite, which coincidently also is a T tangle; tipple...

I tried really hard to make a light and airy tile as I always seem to fill every empty space... I think I succeded...

And in the spirit of using my good stuff... I used an official zentangle tile...
I love them, but my budget says no to US airmailing prices... :|

Using my good stuff...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 17

 I have this thing where I buy beautiful paper and just save them, because I want to use them for something really special...

And sometimes I do... But mostly they just grow old in the binder I keep them stored in.

Going through my stuff I was finding pretty patterned papers I couldn't even remember when I bought.

So now is the time... Because I'm worth it... (Is it just me or is that a shampoo commercial or something like that?)

This is just some of my stash...

The front piece with the deer needs to be framed, it's just so pretty... I love the colors. I cannot cut that one up!

Top one is wrappingpaper I've been saving for years and only used a tiny bit of. It's now on next week's pages in my journal. Because... well you know... I'm worth it...

Second one is for the week of valentines... Indian handmade paper, love it. And a bookmark I've been saving (it says loves me, loves me not...)

Fourth one I prettied up with some butterfly stamps which has also been collecting dust in my stash for years. Put to use because.. you know why...

Last one, I love those flowers. Will draw on those pages too. Have been wondering how it would take watercolor... But it would probably curl...

I'm really loving this jounal journey...

(So just how much of my stash do I really have to use before I have an excuse to buy new beautiful stuff?)

Loving the inchies...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 16
every inchie monday #1

The word of last week: Egg...

Missed the first inchie, but for the sake of completion, here we go...

It's not the size of the inchie...

#whimsybykelly2015 Day 15
Every inchie monday #2

 Word of the week: Giraffe

My very first inchie!

This is really tiny. But I love the challenge.

Joey's weekly tangle challenge #43...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 14
Joey's weekly tangle challenge #43...

Draw 4 tiles and put them together and see the magic!

I did a quarter mandala and mirrored it in a photoeditor.

The 3rd one is the original, the other two is the magic of filters!
I really love the colors in the middle one.

The magic mandala..
Awesome challenge. It was fun to see the end result.

Five-oh so lovely...

#whimsybykelly day 13

String #1 from tanglepatterns
Five-oh, vitruvius, knigths bridge

Five-oh is new to me. Loving it. Will use again.

The diva's 200th...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 12
I am the diva challenge #200

My second submission for Diva's monday zentangle challenge.

I'm very happy to take part in her 200th anniversary.

Congrats.

 

Monotangle featuring my favorite tangle pattern:

Tipple.