Day Two

     Today I made my block for the  Internet Round Robin I have signed up for.  I need to get it mailed off tomorrow to be "official".  Then in a few weeks, I will get someone else's block...add a border....then send it off to someone else for another border...I will receive another one...etc. until I get mine back!  We are not to post pictures of what we are working on it its entirety so it will be a surprise.
      The Diva is taking a few weeks off from the Zentangle challenges so I have improvised my own challenge!   I am doing the Alphabet with the zentangle designs inside each letter with patterns starting with that letter.
     This year I have decided to join a class called "One Little Word". It is sponsored by a website Ali has established for many creative classes and ideas.  I didn't realize that the main focus on the site is scrapbooking which I am not into in a big way, but I do like journaling and that seems to be a secondary emphasis...and I love words so the title of this workshop is what caught my eye.
      My word for the year is NATURE!  I don't know for sure what we are going to do with one word all year..."lessons"/ideas will be forth coming.  But until that happens, I am going out on a limb on my own and begin:
  Definition:  (a noun)
  Origin: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin-natura                                                                   from natus, past participle of nasci-to be born
 First use:  14th Century
                       1. The inherent character or basic constitution of a person or thing .
                       2. a. A creative and controlling force in the universe.
                           b. An inner force or the sum of such forces in an individual.
                       3. a kind or class usually distinguished by fundamental or essential      
                           characteristics.
                       4. The physical constitution or drives of an organism.
                       5. A spontaneous attitude (as of generosity)
                       6. The external world in its entirety.
                       7. a. Humankind's original natural condition.
                           b. A simplified mode of life resembling this condition.
                       8. The genetically controlled qualities of an organism.
                       9. Natural scenery.

Nature...at its best!!!