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Zentangle Diva’s Weekly Challenge
March 9, 2015
(Start here if you don’t have a clue what Zentangle is.) In two days we leave for our 3 week trip to Turkey and Israel. I hope I’m actually closer to being ready to leave than I feel. I spent the weekend delivering our dog, Dino, to my sisters-in-law in Cambridge, Massachusetts (part of the […]
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March 2, 2015
[If you’re scratching your head and wondering, “Zen-what?”, start here.] I wear a few hats: recovering lawyer, mother of adult sons and one fur child, daughter of a soon to be 90 year old mother, blogger and trailing spouse. The last is why I found myself attempting today’s Diva’s challenge in a Starbucks in Bethesda, […]
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February 23, 2015
(If you’ve never heard of Zentangle, start here.) The Zentangle Diva’s challenge this week is to use materials or tools we’ve never used before for tangling. Uh oh. Change is anxiety producing for me and I’m already feeling stressed because we leave for Turkey and Israel on March 11th, we’ll be gone for three weeks […]
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February 2, 2015
(If you are sitting there scratching your head and wondering, Zen—what? who?, you may want to start here for my take on it (prior to my upcoming training to be a Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT) after which my take is likely to change.) It’s the first Monday of the month, so this week is a […]
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January 12, 2015
(For those of you new to Zentangle, you can read my take on it here.) This week, the Zentangle Diva challenged us to produce a monotangle tile using one of our “mac ‘n cheese” (i.e. comfort) tangles and incorporating the number 200 to celebrate the 200th week of the Diva’s weekly challenges. One of my […]
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December 9, 2014
This week, the Zentangle Diva, Laura Harms, returned to the challenge after a four week hiatus during which her son had eye surgery. Here’s hoping things continue to go well for young Artoo. The challenge this week is to use the tangle Arukas by Molly Hollibaugh. It is also one I had tried before with […]
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November 19, 2014
The Diva is still very occupied with her family and her son’s eye surgery, so her guest Diva this week was Elisa Murphy, CZT. Elisa’s challenge was to “Embrace the Yuck” — that is — do what you have to do despite whatever difficult circumstances or curve balls life throws at you. Both she and […]
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November 11, 2014
CZT (Certified Zentangle Teacher) Holly Atwater filled in for the Diva in setting forth this week’s challenge. She asked us to do a “Tritangle”, using the following tangles: Trio (pattern by CZT, Hanny Waldburger)Huggins (by Zentangle)Xyp (by Zentangle) I had no familiarity with these tangles and I’m not sure I’ve quite mastered them. However, I […]
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October 6, 2014
This week’s challenge #188 by the Zentangle Diva was inspired by an email she received from a 12 year old boy, who wrote to her in recognition of a gay friend and asked her to consider “a achallenge to somehow put some aspect of LGBT in a tile. Perhaps using the colors of the rainbow, or […]
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September 29, 2014
Today didn’t start well. Our rental apartment had no running water. Fortunately, this turned out to be a First World problem because it’s already fixed. I used the lack of running water as an excuse to check out the newly remodeled cafe across the street. I was looking forward to having a new venue, free […]
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