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May 29

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The week the Diva challenged us to use ONLY straight lines. As fun as it was, this is my third attempt. It is more difficult to create a tile using nothing but straight lines.  I finally created one, so here is my entry to  The Diva's Weekly Challenge #219 This next tile actually started out as 2 separate tiles, but due to the way things worked out, I combined them into one tile that I can actually use for three challenges!  It started out with the letter R for  Suzy Mosh's "That's New To Me" Weekly Challenge . But I was never able to get a tile that I liked enough to post for the challenge. Then the next challenge was the letter A.  In the meantime, the focus for the Square One: Purely Zentangle was RAIN (an Original Zentangle). So, RAIN covers last week's "R" challenge, then I found ALLIUM, by JJ LaBarbera as my new to me "A" tangle, and this is what I came up with. Thanks for stopping by. Please let me know you were...

May 25

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I finish a new project today.  I wish I had taken more pictures, but it started out as some copper wire and beads. The heavier wire is some random copper wire that I picked up at Lowe's. The finer wire is some copper wire that came in a wire wrap kit I bought YEARS ago for making wire decorations for scrapbooking. OH! And my husband took me shopping for a new tool, because if I would have used his MAN size one, I would have her someone, or worse!  So we bought this tiny purrfect sized soldering torch that I can use for jewelry. Work in Process.  You can see my new wrap bracelet and some of my tools in the background.    Since the girls (our cats) don't leave me alone to work on jewelry in the house, now that the weather in nice I set up my portable desk outside on the deck. Another plus of working on the deck is the visitors we get. Well, anyway, here is the finished piece.  And it even fits! LOL S...

May 21

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I'm finally back! Hopefully it won't be another month or so before I come here to update.  There's been a lot going on, including a wonderful vacation in Arizona! Maybe more about that later. In the meantime, here's a new tile I just finished. It's for  Diva's Weekly Challenge #218 , where we were challenged to use a white gel pen (I used Gelly Roll by Sakura) on black tile (I used an official Zentangle tile).  The tangles I used for this are Mooka and Zinger. I thought maybe that was a little too simple, so I've changed it a bit. Which one do you prefer, the original or this one? And here is black on white! Black Pigma Micron on white 3.5 x 3.5 Zentangle tile. Lightly shaded with regular graphite #2 pencil. And here again I used Mooka and Zinger. Also, some of you know that I also make jewelry. I have entered a contest to win a book about making Vintage style Jewelry . Wish me luck! I'll be back in a couple days w...

April 11

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It's been awhile since I was here with a new post!  I'm hoping things have calmed down a bit now, and I will be able to post here at least once a week. First, my friend Lisa suggested I also post my jewelry here on my blog. I hadn't really thought of that.  I was just using this blog for my tangleations. But I'll give it a try. Let me know if you want me to continue posting jewelry when I make some. Now for my latest tangleation. The outside is a tangle called LOOPS by Amelie Liao, CZT and inside is a tangle called 'BRELLA by Bunny Wright, CZT. As always, thanks for stopping by!  I hope to have more to share with you very soon. And a special thanks to those of you who take the time to leave such nice comments. They are truly appreciated!   =^;^=

March 22 to 28

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Welcome back! I'm so glad to see that you've stopped by again. This first tile is for SuzyMosh's  "That's New to Me" Weekly Challenge . Our random letter this week was the letter "O" and I chose the original Zentangle tangle "Opus" with and aura.  The background for this one is called Spawn by Shoshi. There will be more this week... hopefully... so please stop by again toward the end of the week.  See you then!

March 15 thru 21

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This first one was done for  I Am The Diva Weekly Challenge #209 The challenge was simply to add some green to our tile, in honour of St. Patty's Day.. I chose a special new-to-me tangle for this, Boo*Kee, which was developed by the Diva herself, Laura Harms CZT.  The other tangle you've seen me use before, Neuron by Beth Snoderly.   I also used this for my submission to  SuzyMosh That's New To Me Weekly Challenge .  Our random letter this week was the letter B, and I have never used Boo*Kee before this tile. This next tile was for the Square One Focus. This week our focus was the tangle MOOKA. The background I used here is Florz. As always THANKS for stopping by, and for the wonderful comments that you leave. I truly appreciate you!

March 8 - 14

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This first tile has a border of XYP (pronounced zip) which is an Zentangle-Original tangle which was introduced by Maria Thomas.  Inside the border is Unbatz, a tangle by Sandy Hunter CZT. This tile was done for  The DIVA'S Weekly Challenge #207 Taking center stage in this tile is a New-To-Me tangle called Acrosstick by CZT Ed Gucker. It is my entry to  SuzyMosh's Thats New-To-Me-weekly-challenge . This weeks random letter is "A". And one more.  This one for  The Diva's Weekly Challenge #208 Please stop by again next week to see what I come up with! Thanks for checking out my blog, and for the wonderful comments you leave. The bring a smile to my face and brighten my day!