Challenge 29 - String IV

This week the Challenge was to take an item with a weighted end and let the string drop around it.  Because yesterday was a pretty lazy day around here, I used my camera's USB cord that connected it to computer.  I tried to draw the "line" but since it was a cord it was a little more difficult than I thought it would be.  Nothing unusual that I made it harder on myself than I needed to but when it was all said and done, even though the string moved a little after I snapped the picture of it, I sort of like this piece.  I think I like the string challenges (which I wasn't too sure when we first started doing them) and congrats to Sue Jacobs for coming up with a great string idea!

Happy Independence Day!!!

Taking a Stand

When we were kids we always knew where the line between right and wrong was.  We knew how far we could push our parents (which wasn't very far) and we understood there would be consequences if we crossed over the clearly defined (and sometimes unspoken) boundaries.  But the older I've gotten and experienced things with my own kids, the lines seems to have blurred - not only for kids but for the parents who once knew where those lines were.  How did that change?  As I walk through stores I (far too often) see kids yelling (and even hitting) at their parents while they appear to stand there stunned but apparently familiar with this type of behavior.  There is bullying all over the news and stories of even parents being involved.  How can that be????  When I was growing up the parents acted like adults and were the authoritative roll model.  I would NEVER have found my mom arguing (online (which hadn't been invented yet) or in person) with anyone.  She had way to much dignity and knew what was right and what wasn't.  One of the things our country was founded on was freedom of speech, but on this fourth of July holiday, lets try to remember that if we want the quality of life we grew up with, where the lines between right and wrong are clearly defined, then we all need to step up to the plate and do our part - like OUR parents did.  Love your families and enjoy all that this Independence Day stands for!

In all directions

The older I get the more I see how life cycles.  It's really so much like the Cat Stevens song, "Father and Son".  When our kids are young they are our world and when they grow up, they have their own world, which sad to say, doesn't revolve around us anymore because they've made their way.  I'm so lucky that up until this point, we are very close to all of our kids.  I hope that never changes!!  This tangle reminds me of that because it seems like we're all going in so many different directions, but the center of it all, we still come together - and that's what really counts in our crazy busy lives!  I hope you're enjoying those closest to your heart!!

More Tripoli

I felt my my first tripoli piece lacked in structure (because my brain thinks like that) so I've been playing around with the pattern a little more.  I think I like it better when it's not the main pattern, even though there is a lot of it in this piece.  Laura was sure a smart girl when she came up with the weekly challenge, because for a lot of different reasons, they are all challenging!  Hope you're day is easy-going for you and totally non-challenging!

Challenge 28 - Trip to Tripoli

I really look forward to the weekly Challenge and early Monday morning I start looking for it and trying to plan what I'm going to do with it.  In all reality I would love to sit down and draw it then post it right then and there - way before noon every monday - BUT that isn't happening!!  It seems for me lately, the challenge is actually getting the Challenge done before the deadline!!  I trying to figure out how my world got so busy that I don't have hardly any time to tangle.  I can tell you that I don't like it!!!!  So here it is Friday morning (of the forth of July weekend by the way) and Mr. Thisorthat and Little Miss Thisorthat are still sleeping (a miracle in itself) so I'm  FINALLY posting my weekly Challenge.  FINALLY!!!!