Weekly Challenge #116

Happy Monday everyone!
First of all, as always - a few house keeping items:

• If you're NEW here (and there've been a lot of new additions to the party!) I'm working on creating some tutorials to help you out.  You can click on the links above or:  See "Getting Started"  and "Tutorials" 
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Happy Monday!

The temperatures have finally warmed up around here! Almost all the snow has melted, and we took advantage of the nice weather and tried to play outside a lot this weekend.  Chewie was excited to get back on his bike after almost 7 months of winter.

Cool Rider

We also did some adventuring in the catwalk in our neighbourhood, Chewie was pretending we were pirates and we had to go through Windy Forest.

And we made some time for some EXTREME hop scotch, i don't know if you can tell, but there's a huge gap of fire between blocks 6/7 and 8 that you had to JUMP over to stay alive.

 Artoo has been working on his smiling, i will never ever get sick of photos like this.
He also discovered his brother's slinky - and thinks it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. ;)

everyone loves a slinky!

 This Pooh-Bear suit was Chewie's at one point, it's adorable on anyone.... i wish i had one in my size...

We are so happy that spring is finally here.
Oh, and before i forget - here's that video of me singing last weekend.  The quality's not great, but you get the idea.  (thanks to B-rad for filming it)




Weekly Challenge #116: "Blind Sighted"
I'm revisiting another past challenge - using a blind string. 
i feel that it's good to go back and remind myself that not all my tiles need to be pretty, and sometimes i need to let go and just tangle, to take a deep breath or two, and to centre and not worry about what the outcome of my piece will be.  To find my zen. 

my before tile

 So i started out by doing dots, and border - and before i drew my string, i placed my pencil on the border, closed my eyes - and jumped in.

Finito burrito

I think i was successful, in that i did let go of the outcome and focused on the process.  I will be the first to admit that i'm not wild about the tile, that it's definitely not my 'style', but it was a good exercise.  
Have fun!

If you have a blog, add the site-specific URL where your tile is posted to the linkey machine below! Don't forget to link back here so that others can join in the fun! (if you don't know how to find this, you can see my half assed tutorial here)

Also,  please feel free to come back often and visit the links of those people on the linkey machine - don't forget to leave a comment or feedback, everyone loves feedback. ;)

If you don't have a blog but still want to participate, you can email your tile to me and i will post it here. (please email to weeklychallenge(at)mail(dot)com).  I just ask that you put in the subject line:  Challenge # ________

The deadline for each weekly challenge is Saturday night so that i can round everyone up by Sunday. What this means is that i will stop adding tiles to the slideshow on Sunday. You're still more than welcome to do the challenges and add your name to the linkey machine.

I will be more diligent with the linkey machine - by editing out the ones that don't work, the doubles, the links that lead to nowhere, the links that go just to blog home pages (this is why we need those site specific urls), and the spam. And there is some spam.  PLEASE do not put your *home* page in the linkey machine... please? for me??