'NEWBORN KING'

Dans Friday,........(On a Monday)

'Newborn King'

Coloring Page #4

   Wow, I don't even know where to begin,.......... 'Life as I know it' has been very much like a rollercoaster! Highs and lows!!! Some good, some bad! Besides my neighborhood around me changing from an agricultural, peaceful nature,.... to an industrial, cement tilt up, highway, catastrophe, it has also been under great siege of investigation. Yes, I live about 30 minutes from the San Bernardino shooting that took place last week. It saddens me greatly! So with a heavy heart, I felt that this month's Dans Friday coloring page, needed a strong message of HOPE! 

   I don't remember how long ago it was that I first saw the image of Santa Claus kneeling beside the Infant Jesus, with cap off and hands folded in prayer. It just grabbed my heart! I would love to give credit to whoever was the first to illustrate this powerful image, but I don't know who that is. (If anyone knows, please add it in my comment section and I will rewrite this post.) 

   Forgive me for not having this posted on Friday, as it should be. And believe it or not, it wasn't even due to the Hustle and Bustle of the season. Life sometimes calls us to dedicate ourselves to being helpful hands and not so much about the superficials of life. (Not that it is easy.) I have so much I have to do for Christmas, but I feel that the 'True' spirit of Christmas is in my heart and my family's. That's all that really matters!

   May this coloring page be shared with your families and friends to remind you that Christ is always Love and Hope! That 'He' is the greatest gift, one can have!!!

   Click HERE, for your Dans Friday #4 coloring page download. 

   Not only did I not have this completed by it's due date, I did not have time to color last months 'Give Thanks' coloring page. Maybe over the kid's Christmas break I will have some extra time to sit back, relax and color. 

   I pray that this Christmas Season will bring wonderment and joy to your hearts and families! 

God Bless You and 

Merry Christmas!!!

(((hugs)))

Annette Carlo

The Art Zenter

:0)

   See you next year! 

PLANT A TREE, CREATE A FOREST

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge #246

"Guest Post: Monotangle Tree"

with Dilip Patel

   I have been preoccupied with a many different things in my life, right now, and computer time is last on my list. (Unfortunately I haven't even had time to tangle,......big sigh of sadness....) Any who, I was able to read, briefly, last week of what the challenge was to be set before us. My heart filled with emotion!!!! "I LOVE TREES!!!!!"  On Pinterest, I have a board dedicated just to trees! Trees, even as silent as they are, speak volumes of Strength, Stability, Life, Future, Beauty, Purpose, Hope, New Beginnings ........and the list goes on! 

    Recently, I have been touched by sadness, concerning trees. With the progress of development and buildings going ALL around me, ALL the trees that have been here forever, are being cut down. Yes, the developers are planting some, new ones,.........but not as many as were here before.

A beautiful, mature Olive tree on my parent's property. (From which my Pops, cures delicious olives)

Many, many Citrus trees on my parent's property, also. All of which are getting ready to be ripened.

The front of my parent's home. Look at all of those mature trees!  

Across from the corner where I live. Pure destruction of homes and trees down to the ground!!!!

   This is why this challenge touched me so profoundly!!! Thank you Dilip for giving us such an awesome and purposeful challenge!! In California, we are in a drought right know too. So we are being asked to not water our trees. They've even gone as far as wanting us to move most if not all foliage, anywhere on our properties. (It doesn't make any sense to me. Trees help our environment so much, but,...... I won't go there.)

Go Plant a Tree and Create a Forest!!!!

Here are my trees, using tangle LoLo by CZT Hsin-Ya Hsu. She has deconstructed some of the most amazing patterns. LoLo is one of my 'mac n cheese' tangles. I just love it!

   Anyway, I have had so much that I have been wanting to share with you all but my hands and brain and computer intelligence get in my way of getting these posts done quickly. What probably takes some of you 5 minutes to do on a computer, takes me about 30 minutes. My thoughts and comprehension of technology just get in my way. :0/

   Sorry for the long and babbly post, but I always have so much that I want to say! (I'm known to babble :0)    )

   Have a blessed week and may you and your families be safe, wherever you are!<3

Go 

put some

Zen

into this

TaNgLeD

world

!!

:0)

GOURDGEOUSO!!!

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge # 242

New Official Tangle: Gourdgeous

   Well, it was a crazy busy week last week and this week set me off to be a little under the weather and welcomed me with a root canal. (yuk yuk yuk) So if you'd like to pass up all my exciting happenings and scroll down to my Diva entry, please do so at any time. (But I promise, I will not include info about my root canal.) (yuk yuk yuk) 

   So my daughter's kindergarten class had a field trip to a pumpkin patch, Mind you this is my 3rd time getting to go, because of my other two kids. :0) I love going on field trips with their school and love helping out any time I can, because I get to meet their friends and get to know the teachers a bit better. (The privileges of being self employed, I guess.)

Here we were on a hayride!

   Then we had our first Halloween celebration! Can you guess the theme we chose this year?

Please feel free to click on images to enlarge.

     Well, at that celebration, there is always a very gigantic pumpkin they have and everyone gets a chance at guessing the weight of it. So guess who guessed the closest weight? You got it, ME!!!

So I'm not going to tell how much it weighed until next week's challenge, but do you think you might be able to guess it correctly?

There it is in our van.

Here my client is standing with it. Just to give you an idea of how big it is, next to a grown man.

   Now it was 'Say No to Drug Week' at my kid's school so they had a different dress up day every day, but I won't include all of that. I also got chosen to go on another field trip this time, with my son, to the Safari Wild Animal Park. (I am having waaaaaaay too much fun, right?)

This was just one of my favorite creatures we got to see.

 

These are just little 'do' drop zenisms that I left around the zoo, and on the bus for people to find.

   And last but not least, my entry for the Diva Challenge. I thoroughly enjoyed this new tangle. Anything that is more on the organic side of tangles, become my favorites!!!!

tangles; 'gorgeous' 'blooming butter' and a form of mooka

 

I still have a passion for doing artwork on eggs, and I thought this new tangle would look great on one. To find the step outs for Gourdgeous, go HERE

My array of different fall eggs. All the brown ones are coming from our chickens. We are getting 3 a day now. They are all so pretty just in the raw, that I can't use them with cracking them. So I blow them out and keep the beautiful shells to be used as a canvas!! (Yes, my husband thinks I'm crazy!!)

   I sure hope I didn't bore you! Please keep an eye out for my blogpost about all of my Inktober creations. What a fun idea that is. If you didn't join in on Inktober this year, give it a try next year!

   I love reading all of your uplifting comments that you leave on my blog! Thank you Very much!! 

Blessings to all and I will see you next week!

Go

put some

Zen 

into this

TaNgLeD

world

!!!

:0)

GHOULISH TRI-BEE

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge #238

UMT (Use My Tangle): Tri-Bee

by

Beate Winkler CZT, @ Bea Bea Design

   

   Before I get straight to the challenge, I just wanted to show you a little bit of 'life as I know it', here at Casa deCarlo's. Back in April we bought chickies for the kids, (I mean the Easter Bunny brought chickies for the kids). So now that we're in September, we can definitely see which 'one' turned out to be rooster. (Thank goodness, it was only one!)  So we have 5 hens and one rooster. And as of this week, we are now benefiting from these little ladies. We are getting eggs! (I guess I should say, one of them is laying. One egg a day!) Beautiful brown eggs!!!!

The white ones are from the store. (I just added them in the photo shoot.)

Anybody want a rooster? We need to get rid of him now that there are eggs coming!  This is our mobile chicken coupe.

   And then we had a glorious rain!!! Oh, how I wish we would get a true 'Fall' like so many other states!

This is my view when I'm washing dishes! Oh how I would love to Tangle that wall!!!!  As soon as I find out that our house is in escrow and they will be tearing it down,......I'm gonna be tangling this whole house:0)

   So there is a bit of 'life as I know it'! Now on with the fun!!

Oh, how I love this new tangle by Beate Winkle, CZT. Thank you Beate for sharing it with us, and thank you Laura for choosing it for UMT! It's always exciting to see new tangles that everyone has created.

Ok, I wish I had taken a picture of the true shapes of Tri-bee, before I started turning them into Narwal.  But for step outs for Narwal, the pencil shape used, can be like that of what is used in Tri-bee. That is what inspired me to use Narwal. Turned this way, it looks a little like a wonky elephant.

I know,....... a little crazy and wild!!!!! But I tell you what, when I got started I just couldn't stop! I got so into my zen that I completely got lost!!

As I had finished the original, I kept thinking what would it look like if I colored it?  So my good friend Jean Chaney, gave me the perfect solution,.........Scan it and then print it and color the print! (now why didn't I think of that?) Thanks again, Jean :0)

   I also figured that since it is October and close to Halloween, I might as well spook it up even more.

Please remember to go to the Diva's website and check out how everyone else has used Tri-Bee. Also, if you like to tangle, why not give the Zendala Dare at The Bright Owl, a try. It's lots of fun, and this weeks' challenge is getting us ready for Halloween too!

   A big THANKS to all of you who visit and leave a message! Your words are always appreciated!

Ps, Please go to my page Dans Friday, for a free download coloring page. I add a new one every second Friday of every month. Download it and share it with others!!! <3

Have an awesome rest of the week!!

Go put

some

Zen 

into this

TaNgLeD

world

!!!

:0)

'I LIKE STRIPES'

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge #235

"String Theory: Stripes"

   I love stripes!!! I don't know what it is, but they make me smile!! So thank you, Laura, for that easy smile, because the Lord knows that I needed it this week!! :0)  (I'm not going to get into my woes, now but,......) 

   "But I do have to say I 'JUST' also got some very GREAT news that makes all my troubles just seem so minute, itsy bitsy tiny!!!! My niece, Katie, has been told by her doctor that she is in remission and she doesn't have to go in every month, but now only every other month!!!! THAT IS NEWS FOR CELEBRATION!!!!  I love you Katie, and I know you're gonna whip this!!!

<3

 These pictures are just a snip-it of what is happening to my world around me! Trees going down left and right and houses crumbling to nothing! "Life as I know it", is changing!!!! 

  

See that building over there on the other corner? 639,000 sq feet of building.

   So this is just a tiny, itty, bitty, bit of what has been going on in my world! (updates will be posted, as so called progress, in future posts)

Ooops! I guess I got carried away.,............... And for this week's Diva challenge,..........

Tangles used: 'Quickzly', 'X-Did', '120 Ribbons', ' Diva Dance,' 'Hollibaugh' and 'Cabana'

 
   May your weekend be filled with reasons to celebrate and SMILE!!!

Thank you for visiting and hope to see you next week!!! 

Go put

some

Zen

into this

TaNgLeD 

world

!!

:0)