INKtober 2023

INKtober 2023

31 Days of Inkktober 2023 following Stephanie Jennifer's .pdf in irregular sequence.

Day 1 Beelight

Day 3 Caro.

Tangle Patterns: Beelight, Caro

Day 2 Flame Flower

Tangle Pattern: Flame Flower

Day 4 Sunbelt

Day 18 Zutto

Day 27 Camus

Tangle Patterns: Sunbelt, Zutto, Camus

Day 5 Nayu

Day 21 Enoc

Day 22 Syndeo.

Tangle Patterns: Nayu, Enoc, Syndeo

Day 6 Imaritas

Tangle Pattern: Imaritas

Day 7 Foundabout Extended

Tangle Pattern: Foundabout Extended

Day 8 Barz

Day 28 Kasual

Tangle Patterns: Barz, Kasual

Day 9 Bailarine

Day 19 Knightsbridge

Day 25 Onamato.

Tangle Patterns: Bailarine, Knightsbridge, Onamato

Day 10 Buldiz

Tangle Pattern: Buldiz

Day 11 Dark Busters

Day 14 Prima

Day 29 Oasis

Tangle Patterns: Dark Busters, Prima, Oasis

Day 12 Amath

Day 23 Roos

Tangle Patterns: Amath, Roos

Day 13 Icanthis

Day 20 Kalooa

Day 31 Pokeroot

Tangle Patterns: Icanthis, Kalooa, Pokeroot

Day 15 Scara

Tangle Pattern: Scara

Day 16 Walnutz

Day 26 Miliacrown

Tangle Patterns: Walnutz, Miliacrown

Day 17 Acropolis

Tangle Pattern: Acropolis

Day 24 Flutch unbound and Flutch stacked.

Tangle Pattern: Flutch

Day 30 TriXYZ

Tangle Pattern: TriXYZ

Time to Kill

A new set of 6 puzzles. #3 is a bit small; it reads 'Legs' with 5 'g's, and #5 I enlarged. Solutions - as always - right at the end of this post in the smallest font size in case you accidentally scroll all the way down without having had a go at the puzzle first. (I drew a blank on #4.) 

Enlarged #5

Animal Happy Day...

...and how TikTok is fake? 

I first came across a TikTok video in Facebook where a mother Deer blocs a car and leads him to her bambi entangled in a soccer net. At the end a really fantastic scene happens and I decided that I check whether youTube has the same video so I can place the video here. 

Yeap! Found it. Or better said I found the exact same footage which is shown at the end of FB video, but it was a different video. One is fake.

Here the link to the FB TikTok video...

...and here the youTube.

          

Snakey, Snakey

Winter is acoming. Well, not exactly here in Thailand, but we do have a cold season. And in cold season our snakes are looking for warmth. A few days ago I found this beauty in my garden. I never kill snakes or rodents or whatever. They all have a purpose in life and on this earth, so I quickly fetched my too snake catching tools (fishing nets) and captured the intruder. While I carried it out towards an open field I noticed how docile it was. So before the final release I hurried back to get my mobile to shot some images. I believe it to be a baby Boa, but what do I know about snakes.

Still caught in my fishing net, but...

...released and happily back in the wild again.

Finally the over-and-out and a thank you for visiting my post. However, not before showing Coal in his latest exercise routine. Caught him just before doing the corpse pose Shavasana. 

...twist your knees to your right, arms to your left and
get comfy....

Solution to above puzzle:

1 – Trip around the world or around the world trip

2 – Lemonade

3 – Long legs

4 – advice

5 – Spaceman

6 – Big bad wolf

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Step-Out of the Month April and May; Refresher 247; 7F5R; Inspired by...; and a Baby Bird story.

Step-Out of the Month

ConZENtric's Step-Out of the Month of April is the interesting tangle 'Florcha'. I couldn't resist and drew several tiles. This one is accompanied by Marito and DooDah. #florcha and generic #sootm  #stepoutofthemonth #conzentric

Tangle Patterns: Florcha, DooDah, Marito

The 2nd I did was on a pink/purpelish watercolor background and I drew Florcha as a triangle. 

Tangle Pattern: Florcha

♻️ I wasn't convinced the pink tile was all that great, so I thought I will do the same again but in black and white. How the light blue pencil slipped into my fingers..., so it was colourisation AGAIN - the whole way. Trying to draw a 3rd version would sort of be ridiculous, wouldn't it... 

(Drawn on packaging paper.)

Tangle Pattern: Florcha

...♻️ so I drew a ribbon sort of thingy, or bookmark. (Drawn on Manila envelope.)

Tangle Pattern: Florcha

ConZENtric's Step-Out of the Month of May is the floral tangle 'Chueca'. B&W with tangle Aura-Leah and 3 toppers.

#chueca and generic #sootm  #stepoutofthemonth #conzentric

Tangle Patterns: Chueca, Aura-Leah

♻️ Chueca with The String Thing and some leaves. (Drawn on packaging paper.)

Tangle Patterns: Chueca, The String Thing

...and one more Chueca tangle sharing the tile with the new tangle Seedwayz/SeedwayzXtra.

Tangle Patterns: Chueca, SeedwayzXtra

7 Forests 5 Rivers

7F5R Tuesday Tea & Tangle April 18 - InaCalm with Gilbert.

Tangle Patterns: InaCalm, Gilbert

♻️ A 7F5R tangle called stable SYNDEO drawn on Manila envelope.

Tangle Pattern: Syndeo

Refresher

Refresher #247, published April 14, with tangles Gneiss, Eye-V, Momo, Love Handles, and Zeppo. That little bit of color in Love Handles is from my new - and used for the first time - Rainbow Color Pencil. Needs practising...

Tangle Patterns: Gneiss, Eye-V, Momo, Love Handles, Zeppo

Inspired by...

...IX in a video tutorial by SANDYArt Studio. Sandy did hers on a black tile. That looked really amazing.

Tangle Pattern: IX

...Nodana, another knot tangle, accompanied by Vipson.

Tangle Patterns: Nodana, Vipson

...♻️ Holliooki extending into Damsel Leaf. (Drawn on packaging paper)

Tangle Patterns: Holliooki, Damsel Leaf

...♻️ Pussle as drawn in Akasky's tutorial video. (Drawn on Manila envelope)

Tangle Pattern: Pussle

...another of Akasky's video tuts: Q-MI, her 2nd version of this tangle and I made it my version by expanding it a bit...

Tangle Pattern: Q-MI

A Birdy Kind of Animal Happy Day

What's with the box on my sun cover you might ask. One word: COAL. Last night (May 27th) he caught a baby bird and, like with snakes, brought it to me - unscathed. I put the bird in a box and locked it in the storeroom. As Scarlett would say: "I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow."

The first thing I did in the morning was to search the Internet for how to care for a wild baby bird with feathers and almost ready to take flight. Answers were aplenty, from 'put it back into the nest' (what nest?) to 'call wild bird rescues' (which here would be the fire department - I know! - but that is another bird story...) and what to feed and what NOT to feed. 

My rescued baby bird

Bread soaked in milk would have been my preferred choice because I had both at home, but milk and bread was on the 'NOT to feed' manifest, but boiled egg was an approved feed. So boiled egg it was. 

Have you ever tried to feed boiled egg yolk to a baby bird without stressing it (the bird, not the yolk) and not forcing the beak open? I needed another solution, I needed the help of the parents, and that is how the box ended up on top of my sun cover.

To my utter surprise...

IT WORKED!!! 

Click here for a short video showing one of the parents hearing the chirping and hopping into the box to feed the baby. Oh! I was so proud of my solution. I couldn't have done it without the parents. No way.

Skip forward to May 30 afternoon. I heard the baby's call, but no parents for quite a while. I checked, yes, the baby was still alive. It also looked rather 'grown up', so I inserted a stick through the windows. Yes, you guessed it, the moment has come the kids leave home. The first attempt was a flop. Birdy baby ended sitting in the middle of the road rather exhausted. So back into the box. 

About 30 min later it was all quiet. Really quiet. No baby chirping, no parents replying...no other birds...nothing. 

Baby Bird has left the building. Alive and well fed.
May you live a long and happy bird life. And remember, if you ever
need a home, or a home for your babies,

I kept the box.

As for the "other" bird story - the fire department story: A wild bird flew into my bedroom and slipped down into the narrow gap between the wall and the wardrobe. No way could he spread its wings to get out of there and no way could I get it out either - I tried. The idea that the bird could die in my bedroom, behind my wardrobe, was nerve wrecking, you know, the Skeleton behind the Wardrobe. So I called the police and they in turn sent the fire department. 

The four firemen tried varies methods to lift the bird out of the narrow space, but all to no avail. After about 30 min one of the fireman had the idea to put a bit of mouse trapping glue to the tip of the long stick and touch the bird lightly. It was a horrific idea, but the bird got more and more stressed and our best hope, lowering a small container for the bird to be coaxed in, had failed too many times, so glue it was. 

In now time at all we had a rescued bird in our hands. As soon as it was up one of the fireman started tenderly pealing off as much of the glue as he could. They then took the bird to the station where they could clean it up properly and watch it for a few days. 

A big Thank You to our fire department here in Naklua, Thailand! You are the best.

Needless to say that their last action was to seal the gab so no other bird befell the same misfortune.

Time to Kill

Another set of those Rebus puzzles we all love to figure out. Solutions - as always - right at the end of this post. If you don't get #4, you know, the one with that POT and all the circle pairs...don't despair, you are not alone.

Animal Happy Day?

Yes, in the end and after 60 years. 

Another Card-box story

Regular visitors to my blog know by now that I love animals. Each of my posts has an Animal Happy Day video section. However, the link further below is not leading to a video but to a web page. When I read this article (from the bottom up as I do not like to read about bad outcomes) I knew I had to place its link into my post. So here I go: The cleverest idea of them all. Click and enjoy!

And then there is Coal...

I never noticed it until I worked with this image: Coal has a broken tooth. Jeez, I got all hot from feeling guilty. I took the image January 6th and wondered whether Coal has been in pain ever since. He never complained or cried out while eating. I packed him up and went to the vet for a check up. The verdict: Coal is A-OK. 

1-fanged Coal

Thank you, visitor, for hopping by my blog.
As of late, I have been rather slow in
tangling. Reason: my garden is in need of me. 

Solutions to above Rebus puzzle

7 – Eyeshadow

8 – Stepfather

9 – Once upon a time

10 – Potatoes (pot 8 O’s) [this flew right over my head]

11 – 3D movie

12 – Top secret

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Step-Out of the Month; Refresher 245, 246; Inspired by...;

Step-Out of the Month 

This is a new Facebook group I just discovered. If you are interested in joining ConZENtric GbR and get a new step-out emailed to you every month, sign up for their newsletter.

February 2023 Step-out of the Month: JuKaJe - knotted and not knotted.

#jukaje #februarysootm #sootm #stepoutofthemonth #conzentric

Tangle Pattern: JuKaJe knotted

Tangle Pattern: JuKaJe

March 2023 Step-out of the Month: Bresa. 

#bresa #marchsootm

Tangle Pattern: Bresa

Tangle Pattern: Bresa

Inspired by...

...a short video in Pinterest. After a year of daily prompts and an additional month of daily fragment prompts I needed something super simple, no design, no special shading or dramatisation...just simple straight forward lines. 

Tangle Pattern: just lines

...an Icanthis study. Icanthis this and that, interlocked, as design string lines, squared off, and outlined on my first 3Z tile.

Tangle Patterns above 4 tiles: IcanThis, Fescu inside Mooka, Sez,
Betwwed, Verve and Lines and Circles

...Shipz. Yes, why not a tile with just Shipz?

Tangle Patterns: Shipz loaded with Berries

...based on a video tutorial by Alena Light: Crescent Moons. Although there is no stepout to the outlines for this particular Crescent Moons Mandala design, watching her create Crescent Moons for another tile might help.

Tangle Pattern: DooDah

...by an Inktober 2021 LovelyZen video demonstrating days 8 and 9, Zenith and Xac.

Tangle Patterns: Zenith, Xac

...Zen Linea's Tangle BitZ video: Foundabout.

Tangle Patterns: Foundabout

...Bounees.

Tangle Pattern: Bounees

...Punzel. Pumzel, or Chainging for that matter, is a tangle I always get confused. I need step by step instructions for every attempt to draw it. So when I came across SandyArtStudio's slow drawn Punzel video I had to try it out. If you happen to suffer from the same confusiossis, click that link above.

Tangle Patterns: Punzel

Refreshers

Refresher #245 from Tanglepatterns features the tangles Chillon, Grassroots, Xadent, Divi, and Core published February 10th, 2023.

Tangle Patterns: Chillon, Grassroots, Xadent, Divi, Core

Refresher #246 with the tangles Zander, Ayes, F2F, Quasahnt, and Vivi from March 10th.

Tangle Patterns: Zander, Ayes, F2F, Quasahnt, Vivi

Time to Kill

There we go again. If you have time to kill and love brainteasers I found some more Rebus puzzles. Don't worry, you don't need to wait for my next post to be published for the results. In case you just didn't get that one in the middle, you know, row 2, then go to the very end of this post. There, written in tiny letters in case you scrolled too early, you find the answers. 

Animal Happy Day

If he is not the CATMAN...

This is the time when having the neck of a giraffe would come in handy. CO, this is also called 'wishful thinking'. 

Greetings from me, both of my cats,
and the wonderful hot weather here in Thailand.

Solutions from above

1 – For once in my life (four ones in my life) - [If you guessed "the ONE in my life"...so did I]

2 – Forget it

3 – Try to understand

4 – Travel overseas or overseas travel

5 – Breakfast

6 – Downtown

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