Diva Challenge and Mother Nature's Dirty Tricks!

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This week's Diva Challenge # 210 was to use a spiral as a string.  I had an idea, but it all blended in together until I added the shading.  It's better but it's still not like it was in my head but it was fun to play with anyway.  I always put my first try up so here it is.


I know that my friends and family are all totally buried on the East Coast and I really don't have any grounds to complain, but that's never stopped me before...so... 

All our snow was gone. We even had a couple of days in the 70°s! Spent Sunday at the park, rejoicing in the open water...




Hunting for fossils...





 Walking by the river...


Communing with the chittering muskrats...


Walking a new path in the spring woods....


That had fun bridges over the melted snow and mud.


My crocuses bloomed on Sunday afternoon!


Then Monday morning I woke to this!


We were supposed to get 1-3 inches...we got 10-12 inches instead!  Darn you and your nasty surprises, Mother Nature.   There's only one thing to say in a situation like that.....


Comments

Ulrike B. said…
your spiral string tile ist so beautyful. i like the black pearls
1:15 AM
lilystangles said…
Very nice tile :)
6:36 AM
SuzyMosh said…
Nice pearls!
11:12 AM
Annette P.-L. said…
Very lovely tile with these black pearls!
1:52 PM
Suzanne Fluhr said…
I'm not sure what your tile looked like in progress, but with your shading, you certainly achieved depth. I feel like I could pick up the string of "pearls".

I'm not sure where you live, but I know my friends and family in Philadelphia and environs were somewhat annoyed with more snow on or about March 20th. I missed it by getting out of Dodge---to Turkey. I spruced up my tile post for this week's challenge with some photos of tangle inspirations I found there.
9:53 AM
Suzanne Fluhr said…
I'm not sure how your tile looked in progress, but you certainly managed to add depth with your shading and ended up with a pleasing composition.
10:43 AM
Anonymous said…
Very nice spiral string of pearls!
10:51 AM
Anonymous said…
Sounds like you had a fun time outdoors! Looking for fossils is so awesome. Nice tile too, isn't it shading such a game changer?
6:13 PM
Anne's tangle blog said…
I like your duo spiral and the shading in it. Hope there will be just spring at your place from now on.
2:19 AM
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