Hump Day 18; Square One; Refresher 206; and more...

My final post in 2019 is a 'Black & White Only' post. Okay, there is a colored tile in the mix, but that tile is digitally altered and does not count as one of my original 'handmade' artworks. So I start with...

... Hump Day #18 themed "The InaFlux Edition". I added an abstractly weird Cubine. and some nameless pointed stem collars.

Tangle Patterns: InaFlux, Cubine

Play with Square One's choice of tangle Fenglish for week November 8-14, 2019.

Tangle Pattern: Fenglish

Due to literally 'no time' (and swollen fingers due to working with cement wearing no gloves!!!!) I combine 2 Square One weeks: Nov 15-21 with Gingo and Nov 22-28 with Vivi, and added Ravel and some Nzeppel with Printemps as background filler.

Tangle Patterns: Gingo, Vivi, Ravel, Nzeppel, Printemps

Square One week Nov 29-Dec 5 featuring Hollis. I added Damsel Leaf, Tipple and some Fescu.

Tangle Patterns: Hollis, Damsel Leaf, Tipple, Fescu

Then I gave the tile a digital makeover in Photoshop using the Photo Filter and setting it to exclusion. (I need to fill this post. I am so busy as of late I have to steal minutes to have some time to draw).

Tangle Patterns: same as above

...and still some more Square One. Here week Dec 6-12 with the tangle Taiga. It's not the real Taiga I came up with, but it was squarely on my mind when I drew this tile. Added Oaura and Msst.

Tangle Patterns: Taiga, Oaura, Msst

Square One week December 13-19 with tangle Return. I drew this tile using only pencils and grey pens.

Tangle Pattern: Return

Square One week December 20-26 featuring the tangle PanePinto. I filled it with Namody and used the new tangle Elmu by Ela Rieger as a background filler. Elmu, I guess this is the abbreviation for 'Ela' and 'Muster'?

Tangle Patterns: PanePinto, Elmu, Namody

I was quite inspired by the new Ela Rieger tangle Elmu, so I decided to draw a few sketches on left over paper slips from my 9x9 cm square tile cutting. I came up with the normal Elmu star, then Elmu tags and finally Elmu trees, which I like best.

Tangle Pattern: Elmu (Trees), Elmu (Tags), Elmu (Star)

Still filling out left-over paper... I hadn't done Pokeleaf for a while, so here tiny and big fantasy Pokeleaf grounded and kept in control by the tangle Namody, the real inspiration.

Tangle Patterns: Pokeleaf, Namody

Another inspiration...Alosa. Recently, the new tangle Alosa by Annett Ruempler was introduced on Musterquelle. I had to try it and put it into an ogee grid. After I finished the tile I tried to find the ogee grid...

...still looking for the ogee grid...

Hmm, I somewhat lost the ogee grid. But be assured, it was there... at the beginning stages of the drawing.

Tangle Patterns: Alosa

This is Refresher #206 published on the tangle pattern website tanglepatterns.com and it is also my refresher #206. Yeap, I drew a tile for all 206! If you wanna check them out, click here. This tangle package includes: Sampson, Diamond Heart, Sunspots, Ok-Rah, and Trix.

Tangle Patterns: Sampson, Diamond Heart, Sunspots, Ok-Rah, Trix

All Refreshers in Google Album

Off the Topic

Yesterday ('yesterday' was several days ago), I was proud that in my age (65) I am still able motivate (at least) one total stranger to get out of the lazy pool and do some exercise. My whole life in Thailand consisted of physical activity. I used to be a scuba diving instructor, taught aerobics and water aerobics in gyms, hotels, and privately, was a front running b* at the local hash, and was into other physical activities/sports to fill more hours in a day. Nowadays my activity is limited to daily brisk walks/jogs at the beach. So yesterday a total stranger asked my permission to accompany me on my tour. He used to be a runner, but has lost his fitness level (and mojo) over the last few years and wants to work both up again. Although I lost him halfway round he promised to keep an eye out for me. It remains to be seen whether his New Year Resolution sticks, but he certainly made my day. Thanks, Sky.

Update Dec 28: Sky called out from the pool letting me know that he needs time to first recover from the aches and then get going on his own until he is fit enough to follow my pace. Hmmm, I believe the aches, but I am suspicious about the second part being a mere excuse. Will see end January. Gave him a month. (Jeez, I am still exercise-bossing people around!!!)

Animal Happy Day

I was biting my nails while watching this bear mum giving her off-springs their first swimming lessons across a lake. But I was very proud of how the people reacted when the family finally reached the other side. Yes, all alive and well and this is no spoiler. After all, this video runs under "Animal Happy Day".




And this short 35 second video I had to include. We know how bad it is when the police turns crook. Don't we all hate that guy. But not this one. No, not this one!!! For SURE not this one!



Remember this guy? Yes, it is my sidekick C.O., bathing in the first early morning sun rays and enjoying the tranquility at this time of day. He still mistrusts people. Maybe he might as well because he loves to spend most of the day outside, specially now with all these construction people everywhere renovating houses. It is funny though how he knows when it is safe to come home for hugs, kisses and a healthy meal. Cats are smart!

Apropos 'cats are smart'. This 23 sec video is worth your time and will make your day even if you are no cat person and I am sure you will agree with me that this man vs cat battle is definitely won by the cat. Please click here to go to the Dodo website.

Thanks for visiting my blog and
an exciting and fun-filled

2020!

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Inktober 2019; Hump Day 15, 16, 17; Refresher 205

The theme for Hump Day #15 is Ribbons and Chains. The chain in the tile is obvious, but the ribbon got a bit small. It is that line-ish thing at the bottom. Just in case you were wondering. Except for 3D Printemps there is no known tangle in this tile.

Tangle Patterns: Chain links, a tiny ribbon and 3D Printemps

Hump Day #16 ran under the theme "It's Greek to Me". So I made this simple tile using 3D Printemps and Box Spirals and then...

Tangle Patterns: 3D Printemps, Box Spirals

...turned it into a quadruple in Photoshop. Now I like this one a lot better! I made some others, but this one is the most interesting.

Hump Day #17 is running under the theme Australia Inspired. There were a few things that jumped to mind the instant I read the theme:

- Steve Irwin with his world famous shout
- "Crickey!"
- Snakes and
- Australia's Indigenous Dot Art. 

I am/was a huge fan of Steve Irwin and I have to apologize to him and every Australian Indigenous Artist alive for producing such a mediocre tile representing them. Tangles I can name are: Printemps and Liuliu Dashun in the second snake.

Tangle Patterns: Printemps, LiuLiu Dashun

Refresher #205 with tangles Toodles, Danzer, 2A, 03, Heart Flower.

Tangle Patterns: Toodles, Danzer, 2A, 03, Heart Flower

...Inktober 2019 continues from previous post...

Blown Up

...with tile #7 that I call "Blown Up", leaning on the Jake Parker prompt Overgrown, Oct 14. And why 'overgrown' or 'blown up'? Because tiny delicate ribbon tangle Flip (on the left), filled with Yincut, is way too huge for its delicate original stepout. So the tangles used in this Oct 13-15 prompt tile are:

Oct 13 - YinCut (SJ)
Oct 14 - Peek-a- boo Daisy (TAA), Overgrown (JP)
Oct 15 - Flip (PC), Maryhill (SJ)

Tangle Patterns: YinCut, Peek-a-doo Daisy, Flip, Maryhill

PS: The purpose of the ball was to be filled with Iffy, but I forgot all about it. Sorry, Iffy!

Sakura

Inktober 2019 tile #8 is reserved to A-R-U-K-A-S, includes Diva Dance and a whiff of Printemps just to kill the large white space, and it runs under the theme "Sakura". Sakura is not a Jake Parker prompt, but Arukas, spelled backwards, reads Sakura. Also, I found this very ZEN appropriate alternative meaning for A-R-U-K-A-S. Although I am pretty sure this could be applied to almost every tangle name I still list it here:

A is for authentic, be real
R is for relax, you know how!
U is for understanding, you show for others.
K is for kindle, the warmth in others.
A is for accomplished, in all that you do.
S is for serene, your calm time.

Oct 14 - Arukas (SJ)
Oct 19 - Diva Dance (SJ)

Tangle Patterns: Arukas, Diva Dance

Unorganized

I call Inktober 2019 tile #9 "Unorganized" for Jake Parker's prompt "misfit" on day Oct 18. I just added tangles and filled tangles into tangles until I had all 3 tangles of every list from Oct 16-18 placed somewhere. So Misfit is pretty much the perfect theme.

Oct 16 - KaroFlo (PC), Ribbon Rose (TAA), Trentwith (SJ)
Oct 17 - Chimidle (TAA), MagzVine (PC), Dreamdex (SJ)
Oct 18 - Box Sprials (TAA), Sindoo (SJ), Folded (PC), Misfit (JP)

Tangle Patterns: KaroFlo, Ribbon Rose, Trentwith, Chimidle, MagzVine,

Dreamdex, Box Sprials, Sindoo, Folded

Grace

Inktober 20129 tile #10 - "Grace". I hate drawing zendalas, but sometimes you have to jump into the water to learn to swim (enough said). So here the prompts:

Oct 17 - Ornament (JP)
Oct 19 - Zett-Heart (PC)
Oct 20 - Accolade (PC), Antidots (SJ)
Oct 21 - Batumber (SJ)

Tangle Patterns: Zett-Heart, Accolade, Antidots, Batumber

BOO-oooooh!

Tile #11 is attributed to this year's Halloween (albeit still a few days early) using Jake Parker's Oct 22 prompt ghost...and aptly themed it: "BOO-oooooh!" (spot the ghost if you can). Inktober 2019 prompts used are:

Oct 22 - Abundies (SJ), Ghost (JP)
Oct 23 - Pixioze (SJ)
Oct 24 - Baton (SJ), Hatflox (PC), Yale (TAA)

Tangle Patterns: Abundies, Pixioze, Baton, Hatflox, Yale

Tic-Tac-Toe

Tile #12 - Wonky grid. That is what I instantly thought of when I first saw the Oct 23 prompt Des-Ti-Ney on the pattern collection list. So I made a monotile and called it: "Tic-Tac-Toe" referring to Jake Parker's Oct 30 prompt: Catch. Now, that was easy.

Oct 23 - Des-Ti-Ney (PC)
Oct 30 - Catch (JP)

Tangle Patterns: Des-Ti-Ney

Inky

Inktober 2019 tile #13. I call it "Inky" according to Jake Parker's Oct 26th prompt 'dark'. It wasn't easy to fill in all those black spaces. Microns just don't work well on watercolor distressed paper and easily get destroyed. Luckily I have a lot of old, scratchy pens which I keep for cases just like these. Prompts and days for this tile are:

Oct 25 - Tripoli (SJ)
Oct 26 - Your Call (TAA), Ratoon (SJ), dark (JP)
Oct 27 - Egyptian Wave (PC), Crescent Moon (SJ)

Tangle Patterns: Tripoli, Your Call, Ratoon, Egyptian Wave, Crescent Moon

Turkish Delight

Inktober 2019 tile #14 is running under the theme "Turkish Delight" in reference to Jake Parker's Oct 7th prompt "Enchanted. Maybe a bit far fetched but if you think of Turkish Delight as a flower... The new pattern is in one of the leaves, I just can't decided which of the two, but not Kuke. Or maybe I should have picked a 'new pattern' PC just published?

Oct 7 - Enchanted (JP)
Oct 28 - New Pattern (PC), Well Well Who (SJ)
Oct 29 - Zonked (TAA), Kuke (SJ)

Tangle Patterns: Well Well Who, Zonked, Kuke

Feral

#15 is an afterthought, October days potpourri Inktober 2019 tile running under the name "Feral" according to Jake Parker's Oct 16th prompt 'wild'. I needed to get October 31st in to round up the month and thus picked just about any day to fill the tile. Although, coming to think of it, a Florz monotile wouldn't have been such a bad idea at all. Potpourri days are:

Oct 16 - wild (JP)
Oct 22 - O-Hooks (PC)
Oct 23 - Raphael (TAA)
Oct 25 - Striping (PC)
Oct 27 - Golden (TAA)
Oct 31 - Florz (SJ)

Tangle Patterns: O-Hooks, Raphael, Striping, Golden, Florz

Collapse

I still had time to finish one more Inktober 2019 tile, my 16th, while still in the month of October. I chose the tangle Pezino (TAA Oct 5th) and the prompt 'build' from the Jake Parker list on the same day and drew a monotile I themed "Collapse".

If October doesn't transform into November soon, I might be tempted to draw yet another tile....Yes, I just might be! (written Oct 28).

Oct 5 - Pezino (TAA), Build (JP)

Tangle Patterns: Pexino

...and thus Inktober 2019 has reached its end. I admit, it has been a bit sticky going at times, but now that it is over I am already looking forward to next year's Inktober challenges. How many unofficial lists will we have then?

Animal Happy Days

...and the animals rescued are...

A huge thank you to everyone visiting my site.

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Inktober 2019; Hump Day 14; Square One; and Refresher 204

Square One September 20-26 featuring Soluna. I put it into Lollywimple.

Tangle Patterns: Soluna, Lollywimple

And here we are at Hump Day #14 - Clouds. The other day while jogging at the beach (I jog or walk almost daily at the beach) I came across the most beautiful dramatic sunset. However, I didn't have my phone with me. So the next day I made sure it was in my pocket, but of course, it wasn't the same. Still, I took this shot which became the base for my HD 14 tile. I am in no doubt you can clearly see the similarity. The tangles used in the adaptation are Pop-Cloud, Msst, and Sea Wave.

Tangle Patterns: Pop-Cloud, Msst, Sea Wave

...and here when it was Photoshop raining.🌧

Tangle Patterns: Pop-Cloud, Msst, Sea Wave and with Photoshop Rain

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...And thus started Inktober 2019. I am working with 4 very 'unofficial' Official Inktober 2019 lists:

Jake Parker's (JP),
Stephanie Jennifer's (SJ),
Tangle All Around's (TAA) in Facebook, and last but not least
Pattern Collection's (PC).

I will combine the lists and pick prompts from up to 3 days and give them a theme (giving a theme turned out to be the real challenge here). So this, my first Inktober 2019 tile, sports the following tangles under the theme....

Dreamcatcher

Oct 1 - Ring (JP) for "Dreamcatcher"; Printemps (SJ); Baubles (TAA)
Oct 2 - Line Dance (TAA); TunnelVizion (SJ)
Oct 3 - Lada (PC); Toodles (SJ)

Tangle Patterns: Printemps, Baubles, Line Dance, TunnelVizion, Lada, Toodles

Frozen 2

My Inktober's 2nd tile I aptly call "Frozen 2" (just like the cartoon movie) according to JP's prompt Oct 4 Freeze. I know, this is INK (!) tober, but...there is always a but, I just can't think of a good excuse right now. Anyway, I populated the "Frozen 2" tile with below mentioned tangles and added some snowflakes and icicles. Not proud of it, but it IS a tile!!!

Oct 4 - Freeze (JP) for "Frozen 2"; Snow Flower (PC); Zonked (SJ)
Oct 5 - Jalousie (SJ)
Oct 6 - Flukes (SJ)

Tangle Patterns: Snow Flower, Zonked, Jalousie, Flukes 

Mutualism

My Inktober's 3rd tile I call "Mutualism" loosely interpreted by JP's Oct 2 prompt "Bait". Imagine the Bud Heads are aquatic Venus Flytraps and they live in a symbiotic relationship with Paradox where Paradox is their rooting bed and Bud Head 1 lures in Tipple parasites as food for Paradox. Well, that is what I was thinking of when I remembered the symbiotic relationship of clownfish and sea anemones. I added (Sea)Ur-chen to give the scene a more credible underwater feel.

Oct 2 - Bait (JP) for "Mutualism"
Oct 4 - Paradox (PC)
Oct 5 - Bud Head 1 (PC)
Oct 6 - Ur-chen (PC)

Tangle Patterns: Paradox, Bud Head 1, Ur-chen (PC)

Swing Low...

Inktober tile #4. I didn't have to think twice about which of JP prompts I should choose for the theme: "swing"! Anytime. Swing for "Swing Low...". 'Turn me Loose and let me Swing Swing' would have been a better choice, but it was just way too long. So here we go, the prompts:

Oct 7 - I'am Watching You (PC)
Oct 8 - Praa (TAA); Bales (SJ)
Oct 9 - MySwing (TAA); Lola (SJ); Wrapping (PC); Swing (JP)

Tangle Patterns: I'am Watching You, Praa, Bales, MySwing, Lola, Wrapping

Ornamented

Inktober tile #5 I dedicate entirely to Jake Parker's Oct 10th prompt he listed as "Pattern". And "Ornamented" it is. That is the tile is ornamented. I was inspired to this pattern after I joined the Pattern Collection's Designer Group. I was told by Ina Sonnenmoser to start with lesson 1, creating a ribbon pattern. Half-heatedly I wired my brain cells to a pattern designer mood and came up with this. And yes, it can be used as a ribbon. Now all that is left is to make it a ribbon and send it in to Ina S. (Maybe she will slap my wrist again.) 😱

Oct 10 - Pattern (JP)

Tangle Patterns: My - yet - unnamed ribbon tangle

Drogon

My #6 tile for Inktober 2019 is more of a flower power tile than a nasty "Drogon", the theme I took from Jake Parker's list for day 12. The "Drogon" theme needs no explanation though. Anyone who watched Game of Thrones is familiar with Daenerys' pets.

Oct 10 - Windmill (TAA) (Hiroko Matsuo/Ina Sonnenmoser), Cubine (SJ)
Oct 11 - Victorian Flake (TAA), InaFlux (SJ), X's and O's (PC)
Oct 12 - Floo (SJ), Dragonfly (TAA), Dragon (JP) 

Tangle Patterns: Windmill, Cubine, Victorian Flake, InaFlux, X's and O's, Floo, Dragonfly, Dragon

...and then I had to digitally color it a bit.

Inktober 2019 to be continued...

(Find Inktober 2019 list and tile collection in my Google Photo Album.)



Refresher #204 from tanglepatterns.com with tangles Spoken, Asgard, Shorely, Spangle, and Zenjellies. For this tile I used a Micron Sepia 003 pen. Love it

Tangle Patterns: Spoken, Asgard, Shorely, Spangle, Zenjellies

If interested, click here for listing/prompts/tiles for all Refreshers since the first published.



Now for the real Fun...

Language Evolution

Evolution? Really?!

You can Make it an Animal Happy Day

Viktor Larkhill of the Spanish animal rescue "Let's Adopt" is on a new mission as we speak. Spain experienced tremendous rainfall in the south causing unbelievable damage. Suffering are also Animal Shelters. If you have a heart for animals please watch the video and if you can afford it...click on the youtube link where you will find a support link in the description below the video.

Animal Happy Day

When I came across this video I knew I had to put it into my post. Swimming with wild dolphins in open water was always a dream of mine (I used to be a PADI scuba diving instructor for 11 years). The closest I came was at the end of a scuba dive in the Maldives. I was waiting to be assisted out of the water when I heard people on the boat shout "Dolphins! Dolphins!". Still in my gear I ducked under and - indeed - watched a whole pod passing by the boat. I was elated and excited, punched the water to get their attention while sucking air from my regulator like mad... and then they were gone as quickly as they came. Not one - NOT ONE! -  had looked in my direction to flip a hello, let alone show a sign of noticing me. (One of my other dreams: hanging on to a whale shark's mouth to find out what I can see on the inside, however, did turn real while fun diving off Similan Islands (Thailand).)




...and a last quiz: What kind of baby animal is this? Find out here.

***** Thanks so much for visiting and have a great weekend! *****

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Square One; Hump Day 11, 12, 13; Inspired by...

Square One week September 13-19 featuring Sikito which I overlaid over the tangle Aloha.

Tangle Patterns: Sikito, Aloha

Square One, with the week of August 30 to September 5, had the tangle Molygon featured. The sample tile was a simple Molygon cloud on a black square. I loved the concept and implemented it on my one-sided Molygon butterfly with an Indy-Rella body.

Tangle Patterns: Molygon, Indy-Rella

I tried to manipulate the butterfly a bit. What if I make a cracked oil painting out of it? OK Photoshop, hpo into action! Hmm.. it looks better, or maybe it is the frame I add?

It's raining here and the air feels clammy. Just the kind of weather I do not cope well with while others enjoy the time off the hot sun. Banned to my desk I looked through my unfinished tiles, of which I have a few, and there was a Square One tile from August 15th with All Boxed Up. I made a bunch of Monsterra and Snailway snailing its way through the tile.

Tangle Patterns: All Boxed Up, Monsterra, Snailway

Square One week September 6-12 with 3Pair. All in all I made 3 tiles, trying to "make something" with it, but it didn't work out well. So I will bore you only with 2. 3Pair with 3-corner cadent and 3Pair and a more liberal version as flowers with Stickers and some Toodles to fill the background.

Tangle Pattern: 3Pair

Tangle Patterns: 3Pair,, Stickers, Toodles

Update 15 September (I wrote the above about 10 days earlier) All that you just read above has become false a few days later. I just couldn't get my hands to stop draw-trying more 3Pair. So here is the 4th and really the last tile - with a lace edge.

Tangle Pattern: 3Pair

Inspired by...Geerandola, an organic tangle. Or a cephalopods if slightly altered? Certainly reminds me a bit of a nautilus. I added Zigmat, Zinger, Coffeebean Flower, and Crescent Moon, all hydrophytes, or aquatic plants as well.

Tangle Patterns: Geerandola,  Zigmat, Zinger, Coffeebean Flower, and Crescent Moon

A Pattern under Inspection

In one of the last emails from Pattern Collection about 'deconstructing patterns' they talked about how seemingly tricky patterns can reveal simplifying 'clues' if looked at from different perspectives. I looked at the pattern they showed as an example and thought that - since it is Sunday and I have nothing better to do - I give it a try.

My first attempt, starting with the small circles, was a flop. So I tried the squares. That seemed the way to go, however, since I drew the squares too far apart the crosses didn't work out. So I took out my grid paper and sure enuff, I got my step-out to this 'tricky' pattern in 5 simple steps: penciled grid, squares, circles, loops, and crosses.

There is already a step-out called Curly Squares. It shows that you control the pattern by where you place the squares.

So here we go, Curly Square tangle step-out variation a la sng.

Tangle Pattern: Curly Square a la sng

Inspired by...Curly Square. Now that we have a step-out what about a variation? In this tile I exchanged the 'curly' part with Mooka-loops and put the whole thing into an ogee grid.

Tangle Patterns: Curly Square with Mooka-loops, Snailway

Another Inspired by...tangle: Flostar by Hennie Brouwer. When I saw the stepout I didn't think I would be drawing the tangle, unless of course, it would be featured in a challenge. But then I saw another Flostar tile by Hennie, filled with Paradox, and I became inspired (sorry, I don't have a link for those 2 tiles she drew). So I looked at the stepout again, but noticed that there was a bit of a difference in the steps to the Flostar I saw on the tile. In the stepout we draw the curves in step 2 like a question mark, in step 3 and 4 like an S, while on her later tiles all curves are drawn in the same direction. I had to do both - of course.

So this is done according to stepout - 2 different directions...

Tangle Patterns: Flostar with tipple

...and in these two tiles I only drew the curves in one direction. One with beads and the other with big and small Flostars.

Tangle Patterns: Flostar, big and small

Hump Day #12; first Wednesday of the month with an S-String and S-Tangle(s) for the month S-eptember (so next month it is all about 'O'). I have 2 s-curves and applied the tangle Steps. However, I admit Steps turned out a bit different - Starfishy of sorts maybe? - but what counts is that I had Steps planned and on my mind when drawing this blue tile.

Tangle Patterns: Steps or Starfish something

I did another Hump Day S-eptember tile. This time with real Steps.

Tangle Pattern: Steps

Labor Day! You can say that again. "Labor Day!" It should say "Labor DayS". I indeed labored for this tile and I had headaches on how to draw this challenge. The weekly tangle challenge by Boomeresque, with Hump Day challenge #11, week of August 28-September 3, had the motto "Steampunk" as focus. Although I thought this was quite appropriate considering the Labor day weekend, I am absolutely no Steampunk tangler. Full stop. Still, I accepted the challenge and "labored" over several days adding here a screw and there a nut until finally I had a tile. I have no idea what the 'tangles' are called, but there is a recognizable Strutz and 2 strength adjustable magnifying glasses in it. Well, one is adjustable the other is not.

Tangle Patterns: Strutz and several unnamed

Hump Day #13. It is time I upload this post, but there is always "yet another tile" in the making and thus I keep populating it. Anyway, Hump Day #13, a Boomeresque.com challenge series, has the theme Tree Nymphs for this week. I used my very ONE go-to tangle Narwal for the tree's top, Diva Dance for its trunk, added some Ruutz and Coffeebean Flower/Damsel Leaf (same tangle; different artists) for 'grass'. The little hanging stars represent the tree nymphs.

Tangle Patterns: Narwal, Diva Dance, Ruutz, Coffeebean Flower/Damsel Leaf

Goodbye to IAST

You noticed, there is no IAST in my post title. It was sad to learn that Adele Bruno has retired her weekly challenge series after her 302nd 'tickle', IAST's 6th Birthday. 6 years of hard work, 302 strings, nearly 1,000 tangles, over 9000 tiles sent in from 100's of tanglers from 36 different countries, and tons of the tiles she commented with her little tangle bits, all just to keep us tanglers busy and entertained is remarkable to say the least. I for one miss her, but I also understand Adele's decision and I thank her for her dedication from the bottom of my heart. IAST may you R.I.P.

My personal stats with IAST? First tile which I didn't send in due to lack of reading about deadline was for challenge #181; total tiles I drew for IAST: 117 (for a few challenges I drew 2 tiles); and my last was for #302, published in my previous post.

My first IAST tile

Animal Happy Day

We all know former President Bush, 41. We also know that he had a service dog later in his life called Sully. What you may not know is what happened to Sully after his duty at the Bush residence got terminated. Well, click below and see for yourself...




C.O. has finally 'moved in' - all by himself, didn't give a hand, just to be clear. Yeah, we get along - sort of - his sleeping hours differ to mine. He still has to learn that when I am still sleeping I am still sleeping (at 4 am). So presently he goes through the lessons that it is me who is in control of the exit door and I am quick even that early in the morning.

The rainy season has started here, causing the air to be rather uncomfy humid and clammy. Still, I wish you a great few weeks until my next post makes the net.

Thanks for visiting!

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