Perfect Autumn Days
This is my favorite time of the year and it has been perfect autumn weather in Madison lately. The temperatures have been in the upper 60s to lower 70s (I feel a bit like Goldilocks
Back on the Wagon
It is time for me to admit that I fell off the wagon when it comes to posting to my blog. I don't even want to acknowledge how long it has been. Now that the new school year has started and I can reclaim time to devote to my art and my business, I vow to get my act together. I have so many things I want to accomplish that it is always a challenge to decide where to begin. As they say, "you have to start somewhere" and I think the key is to just start. By the way,
Sunning in Sanibel(le)
Beginning this week, the Diva, is introducing a new feature as part of her weekly challenges. The first Monday of each month, she will be doing a new Use My Tangle (UMT) challenge. This week is the inaugural week hence the challenge name "UMT v1". The challenge is to use the pattern Sanibelle which was created by Tricia Faraone. I love the look of this tangle and have wanted to explore it so I was excited to be "challenged" to do it. This tile was done earlier this week and I had wanted to do another but that never happened.
Challenging Challenge #56
This week "the Diva" gave us the challenge to use our non-dominant hand to create a zentangle. Her name for the challenge is "Non Dominatrix* v.2" because it is the second time she has issued this challenge (the first being challenge #13). Since I am behind with the previous challenges, this was the first time I did this. Other than being a true challenge, I learned several things: this forces me to slow WAY down, my natural tendency for perfectionism caused me to "thicken" my lines to take out the wobbliness, it is much easier drawing right to left since my left hand
Diva Challenge #55
I'm back with another Diva inspired Zentangle. This weeks challenge, Weekly Challenge #55 "String Theory v. VIII: Moebius Trip" was in recognition of Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day, which was on January 24th. Laura gave us the pattern of the Moebius Syndrome Foundation logo to use as the string or we could do our own interpretation. I decided to use the logo as my string and also use the pattern Maus that I referred to in my last post. I've also included my steps for making the pattern. What I love about this pattern is that you can vary it