I'm going to from time to time do some posts that collect a scattering of thoughts, links, things I'm currently working on, anything that strikes my fancy that week, etc. These won't be that often; maybe twice a month, sometimes, maybe every other month, other times.
I'll start with Zendala Challenge #9 at Bright Owl's blog; it became a chore after awhile, repeating the patterns over and over; Challenge #10 has even more sections to repeat, although I could alternate, I suppose . . . or I could do it the Zentangle© way, and not worry about how it looks at all.
That doesn't seem to fit the way these challenges are done, however, but it's up to me.
I used patterns of my own devising here; Nestabol, Quirk, and Fandana. Those names don't seem to be used at Tanglepatterns.com, but I have no idea if they are too similar to tangles already in existence.
Patterns for these will be at the bottom of this post.
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My therapist is gone for a couple of weeks. Can I go without therapy for a period of time? Yes. Am I feeling particularly fragile, volatile, and unstable right now? Yes. I'll get through it, though.
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New to me - I never knew there was such a thing as a pretzel cone . . . nor cookie cones, either. Think of the salty crunchy goodness combined with sweet, creamy ice cream . . . . mmmm.
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My favorite DQ Blizzard is Chocolate Covered Strawberry. Although when DQ barely mixes the Blizzards, it drives me nuts . . .
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My bedroom cleaning/organizing project has stalled. Time to figure out what to do next.
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My Tangle Patterns:
Fandana - the name, well, is probably obvious why.
Nestabol - same thing. Try this one with wider bowls, with shallower bowls, or both.
Snake this around all over. Or make it really skinny and tiny as in my Zendala Challenge #8 up above.
Quirk, well, my example isn't the best, but in the cluster of them, you can see some less wonky ones.
You can do a variety of variations of this one!
Zendallion - I was playing around with Z's and came up with this. You need to be fairly precise, though. It's ripe for embellishment! Oh, I messed up the second step and did it in black; see the red line next to the black one, that indicates the second step (one line only, not double). And woops the first step is missing. I think you can see it though in step 2.
Happy tangling, fellow tanglers! I'd be happy to see what any of you do with these.
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