This Week's Challenges Including St Patrick's Family Feast

So....this is Aidan, my first grandchild. He will be 15 this year!!! How is that EVEN possible? Me? With a HALF GROWN boy-man grandson? Next thing, they'll be saying I'm old or something. But I had to share it, because it is VERY rare to get a picture of this feller. Not long after this picture was taken, his Aunt Abbie (Orion's mama) did a French braid in his hair, but he shook it out pretty fast. 

St Aidan?

This was at the family St Patrick's Day feast. LOVE LOVE LOVE my fam!

L to R: Jason (My firstborn); Marci (sis-n-law); Curt (bro-in-law)
Hilary (sister); Sheila nee McSharry (mom...see that Irish name?
Now do you see why St Paddy's is a favorite for us?)

Not in the picture: Dave (brother) Alec and Preston (nephews) Lily and Sarah (nieces) Nadia (granddaughter) Lakota (dog) Wylie (my sweetheart and Orion's Opa) Kristi (daughter-in-law)...What a FAMILEEEEE! 

Got busy yesterday with tissue transfer colored paper again. On the left is the "up" side of the paper, but then I turned it over!!! Look how cool the bleed through is! I mean, it looks like a star field in that one corner! I'm super excited to do something with this awesome paper!

Now, on to the Diva Challenge: she asked us to use our name as a string

which I did...and then a faint memory from my grade school days came to me...

We wrote our signature, and then did a mirror image of it by folding and tracing, with a window behind it for light. Once we were done, the project continued into making a sort of insect looking thing...SO much fun! Fast forward 46 years... I didn't have a window handy, and I didn't want to fold my tile, and the challenge wasn't about insects...but I think I did a passing job of mirroring my name:

making it bold

And this was my result. I used Verve again, because it was so much fun last week. Then Bunzo, Flux, Well, and whateverthatisundertheH's. By going "behind" with the patterns, and then the shading...I think it turned out pretty cool. 

here is Love Bean again, sitting on daddy's lap. It was a large gathering, and he wanted to sit and see who all was there before venturing out into the crowd. Didn't take long...he wanted to bolt for the stairs in the kitchen, so he ended up being held or guarded by one or another aunt, uncle, cousin, Opa, or YaYa, throughout the night.



Here he is with Aunt Marci, after a change of shirt.

JOEY'S FINISH MY TILE CHALLENGE

The squares look like Drawings on a Half Grid, and then some upward Msst, some black perls, and some shading

Joey continues her Ribbons and Curls "finish my tile" challenges, and this one started with Coil. I didn't take a picture before this one, but I did of the one I "flubbed":

Joey's start

Jules's Start

This is a Traveling Tangle! Jules Mack sent it to me a month or two ago, and I finally finished it up:

I thought it looked like an old ivy covered library on a University campus. 

This happy baby!