A week of challenges...

Joey's Weekly Tangle Challenge #65: Bunzo monotangle

Bunzo is new to me and I have to say I really like this pattern.

That's New to Me #24: "R"

Artist Focus - Lily Popcheff

Rixty is an old favorite...

Riki-Tiki and Chechain by Lily Popcheff are both new to me and the latter is now a new favorite.

That's New to Me #25: "F"

Flora by Sandy Steen Bartholomew
Facets by Nancy Pinke
Both of these great tangles were new to me. I'm already a fan of Facets, it looks amazing when shaded...

Be sure to check out Suzy's new monotangle challenge "Tangle me 3". It airs today!


Diva's Weekly Tangle Challenge #222: "Colors of the Rainbow"

Riki Tiki by Renee King

Dust Bunny by Margaret Bremner

I do so enjoy tangling with color...

Inside my journal...

My journal has some extra pages, so I added some zendala dares...

Of course afterwards it occoured to me it would be wiser to remove extra pages as my journal is already mad thick and we're only half through the year...

I have been searching the net for a journal with a bigger spiral so it wont be as bulgy, but so far I'm coming up short...

Every Inchie Monday #25: Apple

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Favorite things...

Two by two by Tuesday: Favorite things

It's great to see more people participating in this biweekly twinchie challenge!

Zendala dare #4

The zendala dare is one of my favorite challenges. Unfortunately there has been no new challenges for a long time now...

Which is why I started from the beginning and am now up to dare number 4.

Every Inchie Monday #22: Pillow

Inside my journal

A peek into my journal with some zen, inchies, books I've read and under the tile and zendala is layered more stuff I created and also notes about what we have been doing.

As you can see I'm also revisiting one of my absolute favorite tv-shows.

You should go check out Joey's "Inside my sketchbook" and participate. I love sneaking a peek into Joey's sketchbook and it would be fun to see more join in.

It doesn't have to be an actual sketchbook - anything goes!

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A week in color...

The Diva's Weekly Challenge #218: "White on Black"

 I really enjoy drawing white on black so this challenge was right up my alley...

joey's weekly tangle challenge #61: Tangle a flower shaped string
Zendala Dare #3

 

Inside my sketchbook

My son sat down next to me while I was tangling and asked if he could make a tiny drawing too!

He only wanted to color in though so I drew him a string and this is as far as he got before something else caught his attention...

Watching him I just got an urge to color in, it's so relaxing. So I made one for myself too...

Every inchie monday #21: "Envelope"

 This weeks inchie I made on a piece of an actual envelope...

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Snow, spring and back to work...

 Every Inchie Monday #14

Tangle used: Knyt by LyndelC

Needlework Tuesday...

Sofie's Universe...

 Round 21 is done. I had a little trouble as my popcorns was too much to one side, so I decided to start in the stitch before the one the pattern suggests. I hope this won't come back to haunt me on the next round!

*crossing fingers*

I am really loving this pattern. It's just the right mix of learning new but still repetitive enough that it's not too hard.

If only I could decide whether to go ahead and order the yarn the pattern suggests (it's pretty pricy with the shipping from UK to DK...) or try and pick something in a DK shop... I still haven't found something that's just right.

Joey's Inside my sketchbook...

 The pages for the past week is done. Even though this week started with snow it finished with spring, almost summer!

I felt the need for some happy spring feely paper...

As always my journal lets you play a little game of hide and seek.

Below the zendala dare you find my tile for the Tackle it Tuesday challenge and a bookmark made for Joey's weekly tangle challenge.

No books read this week, but I watched most of season one of the UK series "Fortitude". Very exciting, thrilling, horrific and with the most beautiful scenery filmed on Iceland.

Lastly a few notes on what we did this week...

On this page I made a pocket within the pretty paper storing tangled tiles and some photos from this week.

Below the picture of my Sofie's Universe is a little note on how far along I am.

On ebay I bought a pack of the cutest little tags and they are just perfect for my Every Monday Inchies!

I had expected to use up a second set of pages for this week. As we had the whole week off I really thought I would have done a lot more tangling and drawing.

But the weather have been just amazing which calls for outdoorsy playing with the kids and of course there's the holiday family visits, house full of kids most of the time... And suddenly the week is just gone!

It's been a great holiday and I'm feeling so good and relaxed and ready to take on work!

Tuesday show me what you've got!

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Inside my sketchbook...

 Well... Journal anyways...

Come show your sketchbook/journal/papers... over at

Joey's weekly "Inside my sketchbook"

Today I finished last weeks pages in my journal...

As always I make more space by putting stuff under.. stuff...

(Yes, I know my way around words...)

My daughter and 3 of her classmates won an "Oscar" (a chocolate bunny that has a very short life ahead of him...) for a stop-motion movie they made.

They also got interviewed for the local paper.

They did such a great job making all the props and sets them selves. All third and fourth graders was guided by a pro stop-motion movie maker (I sure there's a fancy term for that...) in a workshop at the local library.

They really did make the very best of all the movies!

A proud mom I am in dead!

It's funny how seeing the pages like this always makes me think of something I could add or have done different... It seems I see my journal with different eyes when it's on the screen rather than irl...

The feLINEs (get it? There I go again with my brilliant wording!) should have switched places with the black tile...

And you can see from a mile away that the border-tile (by the black tile) was forgotten and added after I finished...

Some stuff can't be in the journal, like the two birthday cards under the cats, so I print pictures of it in stead. That also have the advantage that it takes up less space and lets me stay on my choice of just one page spread per week, keeping me at just one journal for the entire year.

"Mona" is a book by Swedish Dan T. Sehlberg I read last week. Really great thriller, I recommend it highly! (All though it's probably only available in the Scandinavian languages.)

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Back in black...

TACKLE IT TUESDAY, TANGLES STARTING WITH Y AND Z

 

String: I drew a border with loops...

Y-ful power, a new tangle I have seen used so many times, never getting around to trying it, so thank you!

Yomaho, I think I've already learned another tangle that is very much like this one...

Zopfe, a new tangle I learned for the tangled thursday biweekly challenge...

Zinger, well known...

Zilly, much like Zinger...

Zescen, great tangle, very nice to draw...

And yesterdays creativeness...

New "challenge" from madebyjoey...
 

"Inside my sketch book..."

 Every friday Joey will share pages from her sketch book and she invites us all to join in...

I don't really have a sketch book (all though I am planning on making a cut-n-paste one as Joeys have done.) So for this (or last week, I fininshed the pages yesterday but the content was made last week.) I will share my tangle-journal/diary...

 Whatever I drew during the past week is put in between the pages of my journal. Then I finish 2 pages for each week during the weekend... (Or whenever I find the time/feel like it...) Using some of the tiles/drawings I made and some pretty paper. Then I write or draw/tangle or watercolor...

I usually have a lot more stuff than I have room for on two pages. So I layer it all and make sure almost everything can be lifted to see what's hiding underneath.

Sometimes I make a pocket on a page or glue two pages together to make a pocket for storage.

Under this first tile I wrote about a book I read last week and under the second I wrote a little story about how my son takes after me...

I tangled a little here and there with new tangles I learned last week...

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