Cause you were made for being awesome! And for being an encourager. Watch this short video till the end. It's worth your time. Then, go be awesome for someone else today. It's your destiny!
Thursday, January 31, 2013
You Were Made For Being Awesome!
Cause you were made for being awesome! And for being an encourager. Watch this short video till the end. It's worth your time. Then, go be awesome for someone else today. It's your destiny!
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Coming Soon, Are You Ready?
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ATC,
betweed,
brayd,
crescent moon,
diva dance,
printemps,
stamp,
waltz
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Starting 2013 Out Sick
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Baby Girl Hendon
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Playing Catch Up
It seems like most of the time I am playing catch-up! I am behind in posts, behind in blogging, behind in drawing, behind in my classes >.<, behind in my Etsy shop. It's like the story of my life.
And that would explain why on January 12th, eighteen days after Christmas, I am just now posting some Christmas tangles. I've mentioned before that I am teaching a home school 4-H group the wonderful art of zentangle.Friday, January 11, 2013
Life Book 2013
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Love This Phicops!
Linda Farmer at Tangle Patterns posts a new string each week for us to work with. This string was provided by Jadie Wright. I thought it looked like a water lily. You can read about Linda's string challenge here.
Yesterday, Laura - at I Am the Diva - posted a new tangle that her husband B-rad designed. It's called Phicops and it was this week's Diva Challenge. So I combined the string challenge with the Diva Challenge and came up with my phicopped water lily.
I combined phicops with betweed, and threw in a little Derwent and there you go! You can check out all the phicops tiles here.
Jenn at Just Add Water, Silly gave us the APR challenge #39 for the word 'resolution.' She left the interpretation of the word up to us. As I considered my tile, and thought about the word 'resolution,' it reminded me of being open to ideas, open to new thoughts, open to new challenges, new ways of doing things, being open to other opinions, open to others' desires, wants, and wishes. Resolution is a means of being open - open like the petals on my water lily. An open heart, a heart reaching upwards. There are so many ways to interpret resolution. This one is mine. You can look at other interpretations of 'resolution' at Jenn's page - here.
And just like that - 3 challenges met for the week :).
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Wall of Ice
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Books For 2012
My favorite author for military action books was actually the team of Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice. Their Dreamland Series is excellent! Brown was a former US Air Force captain where he served as a navigator-bombadier. He brings a lot of authenticity to the stories. DeFelice doesn't bring that experience to the team, but he does bring award-winning writing skills which you can clearly see as you read through the series.
Sadly, that brings me to my most disappointing read of the year - Tiger's Claw by Dale Brown. This book is part of Brown's Patrick McLanahan series which I have been reading and investing myself in for a couple years now. There are 18 books in the series. Along the way I've come to really enjoy the character of Patrick McLanahan, his brain works like no one else's. He isn't afraid of anything and will take a challenge head-on, make a decision, and implement the attack without second-guessing. Coming from my law enforcement background I really like his decision-making skills. So I was really looking forward to this new book, having pre-ordered it. As soon as it was available I started reading. The storyline was excellent, lot of sub-plots to follow and keep in order as I read through. So as not to spoil the book for any of you interested in reading Dale Brown, I was severely disappointed with the ending. Severely. To the point that I have vowed never to read another Dale Brown book, and this being after I've read at least 18, plus the ones he wrote with DeFelice. I realize I probably won't hold to this vow, but for right now I don't even want to see another cover with Brown's name on it. Juvenile? Probably.
With that being said, I had two highly anticipated books this year. The first being Michael Connelly's The Black Box. Connelly's background comes from being a crime reporter/journalist for the Los Angeles Times. He's written two series: the Harry Bosch Series (19 books) and the Mickey Haller Series (5 books.) I've read every one of them. Probably Connelly's most popular book was The Lincoln Lawyer which was made into a movie starring Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, William Macy, and country singer Trace Adkins. I waited months for this book to be released. I pre-ordered it literally six or so months ahead of time. The morning it became available I downloaded it to my kindle and started reading. Michael Connelly outdid himself on this one! I texted my husband that I was spending the day with a new Harry Bosch story. Sweet!
Dee Henderson has forever been my favorite Christian fiction author. Well, maybe not 'forever' because she isn't that old, although I do have every book she's written and read them all at least twice. It has been six years since Dee released her last book, so this was a highly anticipated release in the Christian fiction world. Full Disclosure did not disappoint! The book actually fills out a pre-storyline to one of Dee's series and answers a lot of questions I had about other characters. Definitely worth a read - especially if you are into law enforcement, military, and romance.
The final book for 2012 was Vince Flynn's The Last Man, the most recent release in the 14 book Mitch Rapp Series (I've read all 14.) Flynn has an interesting bio as a dyslexic author who received many, many rejections before his first book came out in print. His works are read by presidents, foreign heads of state, and intelligence professionals across the globe. His novels are taken very seriously by the CIA as sources of ways to wage the war on terrorism. This was an excellent read!
It's been a good book year for me. I plan on starting a new list for 2013, starting with a David Baldacci book The Forgotten.
Should you be interested in seeing my read 2012 list, you can find it here.
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