IAST 251, my new Tangle Y.I.Am, lots of Browneees, and self-made Crystals

The story behind my Browneees. I bought a brown MICRON pen about a year ago and promptly forgot about it. Every once in a while though I noticed it in my pot of pens, but always only wondered about my purchase of 2 red 01 pens when red is not exactly a color I particularly like to draw with. Now, there is an event coming up in about 2 weeks for which I want to draw a dedicated tile and needed the red...only to grab the wrong red. Hey, those brown and red bottom caps look the same to my color-blind eyes! But now I am in love with my rediscovered brown Micron!

My Accidental Twins

First born: Summer Tangles 2018. Here my tile for July 7-9 featuring the tangles Dew Drops, Wisket, Abundies in respective order. I never draw Dew Drops, am not good at them. Maybe I will sincerely forget to draw them! Wow! That hope flushed down the drain the very instant Lynn Mead's (A Tangler's Mind) webpage Dew Drop tutorial popped up. You have to draw the DDs FIRST!

Tangle Patterns: Dew Drops, Wisket, Abundies

Second born: The Square One tangle for the week of July 6-12 was Tangleflake3, surrounded by Dublin and Tipple followed by my pre-natel Tangleflake test tile.

Tangle Patterns: Tangleflake3, Dublin, Tipple

Tangle Patterns: Tangleflake3

♻️  July 12th listed 'Monotangle' on the Summer Tangles 2018 manifest. I used Y.I.Am, my new tangle, stepout below, and Tipple as garnishing only. (Envelope tile)

Tangle Pattern: Y.I.Am with Tipple garnishing

On with Summer Tangles 2018, a tangle per day which I combine (mostly), day 10 and 11 July with Ponio, here as a suggested variation by the author - I think, and Cubic.

Tangle Patterns: Ponio, Cubic

♻️  IAST challenge #251 with tangles Stikz and Muchin (on another paper reuse).

Tangle Patterns: Stikz, Munchin

Y.I.Am (Why I Am) - My new Tangle

Tangle Patterns: Y.I.Am, Ruutz, Beadlines, Tipple, Mssst

Stepout and Variations

Tangle Pattern: Y.I.Am stepout and with variations

♻️  This (pre brown pen discovery) IAST challenge #250 experimental tile didn't get finished in time last week. Tira and Ahh! are drawn on white crumbly dried vegetable paper (here in Thailand the cauliflower stem is wrapped in soft wet paper) and then I glued the two-fold white paper on a black background.

Tangle Patterns: Tira and Ahh!

These past few weeks I was also busy making my own crystals. All it needs is Borax, food coloring and one of the many, many video instructions on youTube.

Animal Happy Day

Close to my heart, too!!!!

Enjoy and have a splendid weekend!

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