Busy, busy, busy

II've had a busy 24 hours as we had guests staying. I had to tidy all my drawing gear away, which means it all had to be put out again today. I have managed to do tiles for three challenges, but taking photos and putting them online takes a little longer. I managed to sneak a little time whilst everyone was in bed.

I did this tile for Tackle It Tuesday. F made an easy if rather inelegant string. I used Frondus, Fracas, Finery, Florez, Flux and Tipple thrown in for good measure ;-)

Next came It's a String Thing #103. It seemed obvious which areas of the string to put Meer into, but I shall be interested to see what other takes everybody else has. I did two areas of Mr E, but the bit curled around the Meer curl turned out looking more like the Worm tangle pattern. As for the string, I preferred it upside down :-)

Finally I did Diane and Carolein's weekly Triple alphabet challenge. For SPV I chose Pendrils, pepper, Vega and Swarm. There seems to be a server error on their site at the moment so I can't add the link here. I managed to find the page via a circuitous route to add my entry but the link won't go directly there, however as soon as it is sorted I will edit the post to include it.

Terrainiums

Do you remember those large glass carboy Terrainiums which were so popular in the 70's, or maybe it was the 80's? I lose track of time, the years just flow by. Anyway, as soon as organic tangle patterns were mentioned in the Diva's Challenge this week a terrainium popped into my head and wouldn't move so I got out my green pen to see what I could do.

I chose floos and an upside down wist to plant in the tipple earth and surrounded it with Florz.

Made for Joey

As you know Joey's Challenge this week is a Monotangle of Hollibaugh. There is always such a lot you can do with Hollibaugh, so much you can mix it up with. However when it comes to a Monotangle there is only itself, so I wondered if it was possible to put Hollibaugh within Hollibaugh and so my tile was born. I also wanted curvy Hollibaugh in it so I wrapped some around, but I think it could have been a bit more wrapped around itself as well as the straight Hollibaugh.

My week 8 - Cats

Let me introduce you to my cat, Jasmine. She is such a funny, timid, indoor cat. She hates going outside, it is far too dirty for her delicate pink paws. She has very good manners, she never jumps up to walk on the furniture. She spends her time between the windowsills and the sofa where she sits between us and sleeps.

She has a routine, eating her food in the kitchen when we have breakfast, after having a shower. Yes, you heard, she has a shower. She comes up and joins us in the bathroom at shower time, waits until we have finished, then gets in herself and looks at us as much to say "My turn now". She does this every morning:-

My entry for SuzyMosh's Tangle Me Three Challenge is a ZIA of my cat. Her body is the original Widget, her tail and ears are the second version and the square widgets on her head is the third.

My tiles this week for both of SuzyMosh's challenges just seemed to emerge without a lot of research which was very relaxing. Even when looking for a tangle that was New To Me beginning with L. They instantly appeared before me and were so easy to learn. I chose Arc Flower from J J LaBarbera's tangle patterns and from then on the garden theme just seemed to evolve. Lazy Eights, Lily Pads, and Lichen, all are new to me.

Tackling Tuesday on Friday

It is Friday already and I have only just finished the Tackle It Tuesday Challenge. The string this week is E so I used a single Eez to form the string E. I then used Eez to outline the string. The tangle patterns I used were Ennies, Eddies, Estrel, Encke and Euca.

Prehistoric Tangling

Adele Bruno, in the 'It's a String Thing' Challenge chose some very interesting tangle patterns to try this week. I hadn't come across Sez before and I was immediately struck with it's likeness to the tri-spiral found in prehistoric art.

Near to where I live here in Ireland is the Newgrange Passage Tomb, which is a world heritage site. It was built around 3200BC and it is mind boggling how such a massive construction was built to such a high standard in those days. I have been inside it and the corbelled roof is still bone dry after all these years - no leaks! Anyway you can read all about it, if you wish, by clicking on the link above, but the reason I mention it is the Neolithic art which both surrounds it and can be found inside it.

I hadn't come across Rick's Sez tangle pattern before, and as soon as I saw it I immediately thought of the famous tri-spirals found on the Newgrange Entrance Stone (here second photo down) and inside here (11th picture down). That entrance stone is massive, it is almost taller than me. Looking at the indoor photos I could see other tangle patterns, did you spot Static? Also was that the beginnings of Magda's Graancirkel half way down? Did you notice any others?

Before I started my tile for the challenge I decided to draw  a bijou tri-spiral tile in honour of the pre-historic people who made the art-work. I then proceeded to fill in this week's string and then turned it on it's side because then it looked roughly the shape of the entrance stone.

U-N-I

U-N-I, is this Unicorn, University or UNI the Hip Hop duo? No, this is Diane and Carolien's Weekly Challenge.

I chose Unme, Navajo, Noodlez Nzeppel and Inderella.