Tuesday 26 April 2016

Stripes

We have been away for a few days, staying with friends in Kerry, which is a county in the south-west of Ireland. It has been fabulous, the weather glorious and there was time to both relax and do some touring. We thought we lived in a rather picturesque fishing village on the east coast, but the views from their house are amazing! There is an almost 360 degree view around with about 180 degrees of it framed with mountains. Unfortunately photos of panaramas never come out well, but this is the view from one of their kitchen windows which will give you some idea:-
We drove all around the Dingle Peninsula, the Ring of Kerry and Killarney, which is the Lake District of Ireland and saw everything from the ancient Gallerus Oratory (6th century)
To the more modern Ross Castle (15th century) :-)
We also saw where they are making part of the new Star Wars movie, I was very excited even if it was in the distance. We tried to get closer but they were stopping everyone and not allowing photos. I did manage to get this from further away. They are midway between the Grecian urns, up on the very top of the hill. You can just about make out the metal road they have had to lay down the hillside if you click on the photo to enlarge it. Yes that is how mad I am about Sci-Fi, sad isn't it :-D

So here i am back at home, enjoying the east coast again and starting on this week's tangling challenges. The Diva has gone all stripey this week. I was a bit stuck about how I wanted to draw my tile and decided to try a small vertically striped square in the centre of diagonal stripes. I used Shattuck, Zander, Natti and Meer. This was the result:-
It wasn't quite what I had in mind so in order to jazz the subject up a bit I decided to draw one of those tangle folk wearing a stripey outfit, which made me feel a bit happier. lol.


22 comments:

  1. I like your diva challenge esp natti and meer combo 😊. Kerry is a beautiful place isn't it. We were there a few weeks ago for a cousins wedding, actually right near ross castle its where they went for photos 😊.

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  2. Nice pictures and you are lucky to have had such beautiful weather! At the moment, it is snowing in the south of Belgium and pretty cold. I don't like the winter anymore but we are still waiting for Spring!!!
    I do like the happy drawing of the puppet with the striping outfit and also the variation you have made of Meer is very nice. Good work!

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  3. Sorry, I 've said variation of Meer, I mean the combination of Meer and Natti, that is really nice!

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  4. Beautiful pictures. How exciting to be so close to the Star Wars set! Your stripes has a nice compositional flow to it and I always enjoy seeing one of those tangled folks!

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  5. Great tiles! Like your Diva tile tangles very much....sort of looks like eyes! Good combo and your little person tile is very cute!

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  6. Thank you for the photos of your trip, I love them.

    Also love your striped Diva challenge tile, and your little tangle person. I don't think I've seen one before, but now I just have to tangle on for myself, so than you for the inspiration.

    Joyce

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  7. We did pretty much the same trip in 2012 although ours was probably a little more exciting because we were driving on what was the wrong side of the road for us. I like your idea and your execution of the stripes within stripes tile---and your whimsical little stripey person.

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  8. Thanks for showing these wonderful photos :-) Your striped tile is wonderful and it was a great idea to tangle a little square in the centre - love it :-)
    Your little striped folk is so cute!

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  9. the idea of a little tile in a tile is pretty, and beautiful stripes in each.

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  10. For you it's Star Wars, for me it's Dr Who. We all have our geeky side and none the worse for that. I like your stripes and adore the tangled lady. I'm going to have a go at one of them, I think, for my grand daughter's birthday.

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  11. Both are super and I like the stripey folk tile the best.

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  12. Great Photos! Thank you for the arm chair traveling! Beautiful tiles both of them.

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  13. Great tiles and gorgeous pictures. I love Star Wars. I just finished watching all six of the films again.

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  14. Wow, what a view! Your tile is lovely.

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  15. I like the effect of laying that smaller square "over" the rest of the tile. And your tangle folk with her fluffy stripey dress is adorable.

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  16. I love the stripe dolly for sure

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  17. I really like your stripes. You managed to turn a straight string into something curvy - so cool. And your dolly is so sweet. Lucky you getting close to that film set, even if from a distance.

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  18. Your tiles are beautiful & thank you for the wonderful photos!

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  19. Thank you for sharing the wonderful photos. I like your stripes.

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  20. Wonderful tiles and beautiful photos! Thanks for sharing!

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  21. Very nice tiles and beautiful photos of Ireland

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  22. Your little striped tangle folk is adorable in that beautifully tangled dress you put on her. I like the small square of stripes in the middle of your diagonal stripes. Nice change of direction there. It was great to see the photos as well. We don't travel much, so I'm glad when I get to travel vicariously through some of the blogs that I read. Thank you so much for sharing!

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