For months I have been trying to do Laura Harm's Zentangle® challenge at her blog, I am the diva czt. I have done a few of the challenges but never posted them to my blog. Last week's challenge was to use the Paradox tangle to fill an entire tile. Variations of paradox (or tangleations as us CZT's® tend to call them) were also open to use. Now that the boys are in school, I sat down with a cup of tea last Thursday and got into the "zen" of the challenge. I had also been wanting to play around with

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The numbers in the calendar Zentangles© are done in a font called Hill House by Jon Hicks. I will admit that so far the numbers didn't really look all that special. But today's number "8" was what really grabbed my attention and the number itself makes a cool tangle. And now for the zentangle for July 8th

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I have a lot of reasons for loving Thursday, including feeding my addiction to the USA network show "Burn Notice". But this week it is my Zentangle® for the 7th that has me really excited. Out of the seven Zentangles I did for the CreateMixedMedia.com's "Week as Art", today is my favorite. It contains some of my favorite tangles and a technique I saw used in a 1905 Japanese textile design. I used the technique with the tangle at the bottom which unfortunately I don't know if it has an "official name", either by Rick and Maria, the founders of

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my family gave to me, a website that I'm not embarrassed to have people see. ;-) Thanks to my techie nephew and brother, my website is looking much better. I still have things I want to change but at least you can see some of my work (plus my family members do have lives of their own, who knew). Anyway, time to move on bigger and better things, like today's zentangle.

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