So much fun stuff this past week with the challenges and dares! I love this - even if I did get a bit out of control this time. Let's set the stage for my mental wobbling - I get paid the first of every month. Our printer is out of ink and won't print. It isn't the first. Get the picture? I am out of school for this week so I have NO access to a printer. Friday night I began hoping (okay, praying) for an "easy" template from the Bright Owl. One I could duplicate by drawing. At least to some degree. Hide the wobbly lines with tangles . . . Oh Erin, it was not to be! This template was intense. Beautiful, if I could have printed it. So I began to devise plans. Creative ones. My very best - I would bring it up on my tablet, Ray would hold it up to a mirror while I traced with marker on the mirror. Then I would put tracing paper over it, copy it and transfer it to a "real" piece of paper! Genius! (or nuts). Ray just looked at me - I am sure it was an admiring glance, not matching his words of "have you gone crazy?" Thinking he might not cooperate fully, I thought about putting a piece of paper on the computer screen to trace it. This sent him around the bend with words of admiration. Leading him to suggest we go to the library to print me a copy when it opened on Monday. Okay, that was plan C. I would have thought of it. After all that I got to pull out the pen and grab some zen for myself! I love this template - it is so frilly and delicate (if you are not considering ways to copy it). Judy - over at Creative Doodling (see side bar) - had a really great template this week. It was built on interlocking boxes stacked. Remember the no ink? Still a problem, but she said we could do our own and I can duplicate boxes without damage to any personal property. I had some serious fun with this one! I got all caught up in the scenes and the little stick people. What a blast! After the library visit on Monday, I went off to check out the Diva's challenge. This week we had to use a new tangle called "Zingers". Cute little filler type tangle. I really love the work of fellow tangler, Helen Williams, and had loved what she did with randomizing "bloom" on her video. So this gave me a chance to try out both tangles. If you have not checked out her gorgeous style of tangling head over to A Little Lime. Her work takes my breath away. Seriously. It has been a great vacation so far. Tomorrow, I plan on pulling out the cricut and working on December birthday cards and Christmas cards . . . For now, I need to step outside to my yard and see what that man with the strange white jacket in his hand is saying about "coming with him peacefully". Odd. Happy Thanksgiving and have a great week!!