A Bit of a Week

So I haven't posted in a couple days and I was wondering why not. Then I realized a lot has been going on in my life. I did find time to participate in A String Symphony with my Facebook group Zentangle All Around. Above is my tile for string #30.  I am only about 30 strings behind. Hahaha! The tile is a mashup of arukas and airways. Such fun!

 I also got to spend some time with the Frankles.

She loves those sunglasses. 

 She even insisted I wear them -

even if they were made for a little guy

and barely fit my face.

Frankles wore her new glasses that 

are helping her see better.

(When she gets tired of wearing them,

she will have them to me and say, "thank you.")

And our really big news this week is that Bobbie - my son's wife who I call daughter - and mom of the Frankles - earned her ears at Disney two days ago. The beginning of a new adventure for their family. My son will be starting a new job dispatching in a 911 call center for one of the Sheriff's Offices in the area. And the Frankles is starting day care.
In the meantime, we are packing everything  that doesn't move in preparation for our move to Maine.  Happy times. 
What are you up to? How was your week?

Camouflaging a String

 I love making the string disappear,

make it vanish right into the tangling.

Can you see the string in the drawing above?

In my Facebook group Zentangle All Around

we are doing a string each day.

By the end of 2016 we will have 366 completed

works of art!

I tangled this last night.

Because I know what the string looks like I can see it.

Can you?

Here is the string I used.

This particular string is #51,

the string for February 20th.

Strings are meant to be used as guidelines.

You can either follow the string exactly,

or use portions of it.

For my tile, I elected to leave out the square borderline, 

but keep the string itself intact.

This tangling was done on a piece of scrapbook paper

that I bound into a handmade art journal.

That tulip band in the center is a tangle of mine 

called veez. 

It was published in Cris and Sonya's book

Pattern Play: a Zentangle Creativity Boost.

Everything else you see is a tangle called arukas.

I don't recall the specific story behind arukas, 

but i remember how to spell it

because it is Sakura backwards. :)

Yes. I can see the string very obviously,

and you can see it because I showed you the blank

string tile.

But my guess is - 

most people won't spot the string that helped

me create a bit of interesting art.

And they probably (hopefully, maybe) are going

to wonder how I created this.

So.

Camouflage your string line and leave them

wondering!

String #11 for January 11th

 I tried several times yesterday to make a post,

but Photobucket was down and so many of my photos

were missing. 

I didn't want to draw attention to that.

And it seems I have lost 11 subscribers since yesterday.

I don't know if that is because the blog looked so messed up yesterday, or not. 

I do apologize, but I have no control over Photobucket.

That is where all my photos are stored.

They have me totally at their mercy.

At lease it is back to normal today.

Above you see string #11 that I posted for January 11th.

From top to bottom I used - scallops, rixty, and florz. This was a fun string to tangle up. I love rixty, though I rarely use it. I need to rectify that situation. I need to work on those black sections and figure out how to make them more uniform.
If you should want to play along with our String Symphony - one new string for each day of the year -  then head on over to Zentangle All Around at this link and send me a join request. Hope to see you there!

A String Symphony #10

 String #10?, you say.

And today's the 28th?, you say. 

Yes, I am abysmally behind. Nothing new there. But the beauty that I built into this String Symphony is simply this - you can NOT be behind. Work on whichever day you wish, whenever you wish, just keep tangling along when you have the time.
The thought is by me providing one string for each day of the year, at the end of 2016 we will have 366 lovely pieces of art. AND if we keep them in a binder, or a journal,  or a file box  - we will be able to travel through a progression of our tangleabilities  and watch our style and capabilities expand  as we simply relaxed each day and let the zen part of zentangle occur.
Want to join us? Easy peasy. Head on over here to Zentangle All Around, send me a join request, and get started.

String 24, January 24, 2016

I am a day late posting, but better late than never.

This is the string I drew for the 24th of January.

In our Facebook group Zentangle All Around,

the prompt for this string was to do it as a monotangle.

Using just one tangle, variations or tangleations were acceptable as well.

For mine, I used my tangle TootsieMoon.

It works very well when you have several sections that

meet and intertwine.

Shading really makes it yummy!

It is not too late for you to get involved in our year long endeavor -

A String Symphony.

Just head on over to Facebook and join us in

Zentangle All Around

by using this link.

Hope to see you there!