DIVA Challenge 322

DIVA Challenge #322 is a monotangle - we are "Trying Aquafleur". I love Aquafleur, it is organic!, and there are literally tons of different drawing possibilities. Funny enough, I only drew this tangle once before, exactly a year ago (plus 2 weeks or so, who is counting). Then, as now, I cannot just rest after drawing one, ideas just come flooding in.

My first tile is Aqua-Orchid.

Patterns: Aquafleur as an orchid

Here I tried to be pointy, so I mixed Aquafleur with Nouvart, Ria Mattheussen's tangle. I didn't know where to put the Nouvart diamond shaped foot, so on one I reversed its place and put it on top and on the others I just have it 'hang out'.

Patterns: Aquafleur, Nouvart

My 3rd is a stippling Aquafleur. Ask me whether I am up to any more stippling...

Patterns: Stippling Aquafleur

My 4th tile in the DIVA 322 challenge I hurried to get it done because I still haven't started with Joey's letter challenge yet - the last one! - let alone IAST. I tend to add beads everywhere so I needed to make a beaded Aquafleur tile. First I wanted to put the beads on the bands, but that is predictable, I do that all the time, so I made a melee of beads on strings and placed it on the fleur itself. The little white beads are actually tiny LED bulbs, solar powered. Well, it could be...it could be, couldn't it.

Patterns: Aquafleur with a strings of beads melee

And here the ones I did last year. The long red design further down is one I adapted from Helen Williams. If you ever need ideas on how to draw Aquafleur with an umph, visit Helen's website.

Animal Happy Day

Pregnant Pit Bull was not alone under abandoned school. 

Thanks, Eldad, you did it again.

Animals Need Help

Whales - Denmark - Sea Shepherd needs your signature.

picture courtesy Sea Shepherd

A while ago I signed the petition to 

"URGENT: Hold Denmark Accountable for the Slaughter of Pilot Whales!" 

Yesterday I received an update and it says: After receiving over 240k signatures, Sea Shepherd has submitted the petition to the European Commission, which has acknowledged receipt of our request to start infringement proceedings. 

They included links to share the petition:

Facebook:  http://bit.ly/2teJ1kM

If you don't have Facebook, like me, click here

During these illegal killings, the Danes do not differentiate between adult, pregnant, or baby whales. Everything gets slaughtered in the most brutal way. Whales are very intelligent mammals - we are mammals, but sometimes I wonder where our intellect has gone. The slaughter of whales in the whole world has got to stop and with a simple signature, you can help Sea Shepherd to succeed!

A huge thank you to everyone who signed the petition.

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