Welcome to the very LAST Tangled Tuesday post… of 2015, that is! I’m looking forward to great things for 2016 in my little corner of the tangling world – not the least of which will be to finally attend a training seminar to become a CZT! – but first I need to wrap things up for the current year. Hope you enjoy!
Tangling Goodies
Santa – in the form of my lovely family, of course! – was very generous to me this Christmas, gifting me with a whole bunch of wonderful art supplies and goodies that will keep me happy for a very long time.
Thank you, dear family, for all the goodies. They will be well used in the days to come. 🙂
Finished Projects
I carried on with my celebration of vacation time by tangling another 6″ x 6″ ZIA, which mostly consisted of several new-to-me patterns.
ZIA 71
In the process of working on this piece I made a couple of annoying mistakes in planning and execution, which at one point in my life might have led to my abandoning the project in frustration. But as I continue to practice tangling I continue to learn that, just as with life, I need to work with my mistakes and accept that they are part of the bigger picture and not a reason to give up.
One of my favourite pieces of jewellery is a pendant that reads, “If you stumble… make it part of your dance!” That, to me, is where I want to be with my art. I’m not there yet – I confess that if I’m at the beginning of a piece and not yet invested in it, I will start over on a fresh piece of paper if I make a mistake. But I’m working to get over that, and tangling is teaching me to do so.
“If you stumble… make it part of your dance!”
I suspect this will be a lifelong process, both in art and in life!
Challenges
Several of the challenge hosts are taking a break over the holiday season, but a couple of them are still at it… so with time on my hands, I jumped right in!
I started out with Diane & Carolien’s Weekly Challenge #38: Tangle with L-P-N, choosing the tangles Land Girlz, Plop, and Niuroda. All three patterns were ones I’d previously learned but had not yet had a chance to use in a finished project, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to do so.
Zentangle 122 for Weekly Challenge #38: Tangle with L-P-N
Finally I completed joey’s weekly tangle challenge #93, which was another template – this time a pretty snowflake – to be filled in with tangles.
ZIA 72 for joey’s weekly tangle challenge #93
Now on to a new week of tangling!
P.S.
The Zentangle® Method was created by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas and is copyrighted. Zentangle® is a registered trademark of Zentangle, Inc. Learn more at zentangle.com.
Previous posts in this series are all tagged Tangled Tuesday.
For background on how I discovered and got involved in Zentangle, and links to further information and resources, check out my blog post For the love of tangling.
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How have you been creative this week?
Please share!
