My new Tangle Mock I.Am, DIVA 384, IAST 280; Square One; Refresher 194, 195, and a Valentine tile

My new Tangle 

Mock I.AM

Tangle Pattern: Mock I.Am in a wonky grid

My "I.Am" tangle series is growing; "Mock" has joined the family. I introduced Mock I.Am on my blog the first time with my Zenuari 2019 tile for day 9 "New to me Tangles" (left). I guess I took the theme of the day a bit too literal (something I seem to do only too often) and sat down to actually produce a new tangle. I am a bit slow at drawing step outs and even slower at drawing sample tiles as I prefer to work on challenges, but I was finally able to kill that inner lazy me and officially introduce "Mock I.Am" to the world (LOL, how I love to dramatize things).



The first tile (under the title) is Mock I.Am in a wonky grid. The tile below shows Mock I.Am in ribbons with a Mock I.Am bug up in the corner.

Tangle Pattern: Mock I.Am ribbons and Mock I.Am bug

I love to place tangles into leaves or petals, so Mock I.Am had to undergo the same treatment. The other tangles are Sunflower, Sinko, and Columbine.

Tangle Patterns: Mock I.Am as leaves with Sunflower, Sinko, Columbine

Here are two tiles that look the same. I so desperately wanted to make a star or Zendala tile. I came up with three tiles in total. One, the first, went straight onto my pile of rejects (thanks to Anita Aspfors Westin inspirational blog "Oops" it will (hopefully, eventually, maybe) be remodeled on a later date), the second and third outputs still didn't hit the nail on the head so I decided to stop wasting time on this rather stupid idea (but they count as samples!!!) and just post them. On the green tile the D's are big as per pattern and in the other the D's are small and look like bow ties.

Tangle Pattern: Mock I.Am with big or normal D's

Tangle Pattern: Mock I.Am with small D's

....and of course, I had to do a bookmark with Mock I.Am. Here the D's turned into leaves.

Tangle Pattern: Mock I.Am

The basic Mock I.Am exists of lines, diamond shapes, D's and D's mirrored, V's, and commas. That's it. So here the step out:

Tangle Pattern: Mock I.Am Step out

Facebook's Square One February 15 - February 21, 2019: Flydance. I looked at the stepout of flydance and was instantly in love with it. Thanks, Annett Ruempler.

Tangle Pattern: Flydance

IAST challenge #280 with tangles Mi2, Cat-Kin, Opus.

Tangle Patterns: Mi2, Cat-Kin, Opus

DIVA's Weekly Challenge #384: "UMT - Anthem by Jody Genovese, CZT". I like this tangle, seriously!

Tangle Patterns: Anthem, Damsel Leaf

Refresher #195 with tangles Rixty, Floose, TreFoil, Zati, and SoDeceiving. Count-down towards 200: 2 1/2 months to go.

Tangle Patterns: Rixty, Floose, TreFoil, Zati, SoDeceiving

Refresher #194 with tangles Snail, Flec, Iriemon, Satsu, Faux Weave. After finishing tile 1 I had to change the Faux Weave and Iriemon trail. I had to take these tangles out of their grid. Okay, maybe Iriemon in the newer tile in the leaves looks more like Betweed, but I used the suggested 3rd variation version by changing step 2 to / \.

Tangle Patterns: Snail, Flec, Iriemon, Satsu, Faux Weave

Tangle Patterns: Snail, Flec, Iriemon, Satsu, Faux Weave

Refreshers in Google Album / On this website - 50 per page.



ValenTangle 2019 had Love Fragment sort of as the feature tangle for the 2 weeks leading up to Valentine's Day Feb 14th. Not a particular 'hearts' tangler I decided to do ONE tile and one only with this fragment and for the occasion.

Tangle Pattern: Love Fragment

Animal Happy Day

Have you seen a dog skating yet? Then I urge you to watch this video. AMAZING!!!!




If you are a loving dog owner, this video contains a lesson you might consider if you don't already have.

Wishing you all a splendid weekend!

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DIVA 381, 382, 383; IAST 277, 278; Square One; Zenuari19; Keep It Classic

Square One. I missed out on the last 3 SO temptations, so I had to combine them simply to be able to catch up. Life in the Zentangle fast lane is overtaking me lighting fast, making my head spin. I can't blame anybody. I love these challenges, temptations, inspirations, call it whatever you want and my fingers itch to do them all! Tangles: Zwieblbee from January 4th, CalligraV, January 11th, and Zenith from January 18th 2019.

Tangle Patterns: Zwieblbee, CaligraV, Zenith

Square One week of  January 25 - 31 featuring Andante.

Tangle Patterns: Andante, Molygon

DIVA challenge #381 sporting the theme: A Happy (new) Medium, meaning a new pen or paper. I didn't have anything new really, so I dismissed the challenge not thinking twice about it. Then yesterday I had to highlight a text and went to buy a highlighter. I ended up buying 4 different colors (blue, pink, green and yellow) as it dawned on me that I could use one or all of them for the DIVA challenge.

Tangle Patterns: Damsel Leaf

DIVA challenge #382 with theme "Stripes". Drawn on green notepaper I used the tangles Aurabedd, Bravo, Betwinkle, DropRow, Dazzly.

Tangle Patterns: Aurabedd, Bravo, Betwinkle, DropRow, Dazzly

DIVA challenge #383 with Ratoon.

Tangle Patterns: Ratoon

IAST challenge #277 with Fancy Nancy and A-Frame tangles on a tile with an 'N' string.

Tangle Patterns: Fancy Nancy, A-Frame

IAST challenge #278 using Ratoon.

Tangle Patterns: Ratoon, Breach, Ginili, Mooka, Flux

Zenuari 2019 - day 12: "Grid tangles only" with tangles Side-eye, Betwix'd, N, Florz, Knightsbridge, Insydeout, DL-Labyrinth and a bit of Pop-Cloud to fill the corners and to cover the sun. I know Pop-Cloud is not a grid tangle, but I didn't put it into the grid, so....tssss!

Tangle Patterns: Side-eye, Betwix'd, N, Florz, Knightsbridge,

Insydeout, DL-Labyrinth and a bit of Pop-Cloud

Zenuari 2019 - day 10: Nametangles. My name is Susie hence I chose tangles starting with the letter S such as Sindoo, Stonestory, Stem Topper, and Spikor3.

Tangle Patterns: Sindoo, Stonestory, Stem Topper, and Spikor3

Zenuari 2019 - day 15: Donut with Phicops paper holder to not get your fingers sticky, The Fab, and a paper napkin for the mess.

Tangle Patterns: Phicops, The Fab, and a napkin

Paradox or Gourdgeous? Optical Illusion?

Zenuari 2019 - day 22: I took a huge leap towards the front of the end with day 22: Optical Illusions. I was certain I was going to skip this challenge, but then I did my first tile for Today'sTangles: Keeping it Classic (TTKICPrompt012119) from Jan 22 with the versatile tangle Paradox on green notepaper (duh, me, this invalidated it for the TTKIC challenge). However, after I finished the tile I noticed Paradox had turned into Gourdgeous! Ha! Thus I drew a second tile, this time on white paper (!) for TTKIC andthe green one got reassigned to Zenuari day 22. 2 hits with one prompt!

They have both the same string, but while the green has the original challenge string drawn with straight lines the string lines of the while tile are wavy.

Tangle Pattern: Paradox with illusion of Gourdgeous

Apropos Optical Illusion. I found this "Extreme Confusion Reading Optical Illusion" on the net which I found quite amusing and wanted to share with you. Enjoy.



Zenuari 2019 - day 20: Maze. I made it. Another Zenuari day I was sure to skip because, honestly, Maze? Then Crabeye jumped to mind, the tangle that reminded me of my childhood when we played with the round handheld labyrinth containing 3 little marbles. I strongly believe Crabeye has the wrong name, it should be Maze.

Tangle Pattern: Crabeye

Animal Happy Day

Maybe ditching that bacon forever after watching this "Happy ever After" video?




And here another one I couldn't resist placing. If you are in the business of animal rescue, even if only your heart is, please check out this video so you know if you ever cross path with a thirsty pigeon.

Thanks for visiting and have a good one!

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IAST 274 and 276, Zenuari19 tiles, and a Refresher

With IAST challenge #276 with SiStar and See I jumped the queue again. Still have IAST tile #272 on my plate. Tangling has become hard work and I am a bit panicky trying to stay afloat and ajour with all the fantastic challenges I want to do. But I love every hectic minute of it!

Tangle Patterns: SiStgar, See

IAST #274 challenge with tangles Lex and Centipede and a number '19' string. Not for the first time the 'string' flew right over my head and I mistook the '19' for '12' and was wondering why '12'. Duh, me! I also didn't think much about the tangles other than how best I can make them work together and thus, this tile was the result. However, I wasn't happy with the 9 loop. What was it???!!! Meaning???!!! It was the alien on the tile.

Tangle Patterns: Centipede, Lex

Then it hit me! Hence tile number two was born and this time the 'alien' on the tile hits the mark!

Although I again missed the deadline to send my tile to Adele, please check out the many other - on the mark - beautiful tiles on her site.

Tangle Patterns: Centipede, Lex

Zenuari 2019 day 2 - Stars with tangles Printemps, A-Dalfa, Vega, Knase, Ahh. Original in B/W and...

Tangle Patterns: Printemps, A-Dalfa, Vega, Knase, Ahh

...a B/Gold version courtesy of Mr. Photoshop.

Zenuari 2019 day 4 - Biggify with tangle Counterpoint.

Tangle Pattern: Counterpoint

Zenuari 2019 day 7 - Duotone. Tangles are Dropug free-style and Hollibaugh.

Tangle Patterns: Dropug and Hollibaugh

Zenuari 2019 day 9 - New to me Tangles: Mock I.Am, Running Around in Circles, Buddeena.

Tangle Patterns: Mock I.Am, Running Around in Circles, Buddeena

Zenuari 2019 day 11 - Unusual String: Umble, Palrevo, Onamato, Florz. I wasn't sure what the 'Unusual" String was supposed to be. An unusual shape or an unusual placement, so I combined the two.

Tangle Patterns: Umble, Palrevo, Onamato, Florz

Zenuari 2019 day 6 - Blind String: Hatflox and Schilfertjes. For the blind string I drew blindly loose loops on an A4 paper, cut a 9x9 cm square out of another paper, closed my eyes and moved the cut-out over the loops until I felt I had captured the magic string. It felt like playing with a viji board.

Tangle Patterns: Hatflox, Schilfertjes

♻️ Zenuari 2019 day 8 - No String: Calla Lilies and Trique on toilet roll cardboard. The 2 lines are no border, but the cut and glued lines typical to the roll.

Tangle Patterns: Calla Lilies, Trique

Refresher #193 with tangles Quib, Barquillos, Fr'eggs, Zingo, Scarrow... I am not a happy camper so my second...I mean 3rd attempt below. I don't even bother with the 2nd tile!

Tangle Patterns: Quib, Barquillos, Fr'eggs, Zingo, Scarrow

Tangle Patterns: Quib, Barquillos, Fr'eggs, Zingo, Scarrow

For Refresher tiles #001 to #193 click here.

Animal Happy Day

Isn't this the most beautiful abundend and neglected street dog? Well, not on this image, but...




And yet another Animal Happy Ending story. Don't get the wrong impression from this image!!!

The leap into the New Year, or in this cow's case: The leap into a sanctuary for life. Such is the heartwarming story about this cow. It starts with a crowded drive to the slaughterhouse and ends with something extra special. Click here for the Animal Happy Day short story with plenty of videos, too.

And as for 'the cat': She is now occupying my very comfy TV chair. What will she claim next?

Hey, somebody in need of a cat??

Anyway, wishing you a great week ahead and thanks for visiting!

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IAST 273, Zenuari2019, Square One, Anything Goes, and a Refresher

This post is a float post. It floats from 2018 into 2019. I am not much of a xmassy person and here where I live New Year means traffic jam and lots of tourists. So I have been waiting for all those cars to be back on Sukhumvit Rd heading towards home and for the tourists to be back at the beaches where they belong before I hit the road again. While I was waiting for the air to clear I started and left too many unfinished tiles on my desk. Somehow my heart was not into endurance tangling.

IAST challenge #273 is one of them. Yes indeed, there is also a half finished/half unfinished IAST #272 tile in my ToDo file, but maybe I get a Round Tuit to finish it by next Christmas... Anyway, below my #273 tile with Afterglo, Meriberries, and Ahh! on a water colored tile.

Tangle Patterns: Afterglo, Meriberries, Ahh

Hmmm... not much into Xmas, huh? So why did Photoshop turn this tile into Christmas balls for you to hang on the next Christmas tree???!!!

I received this new Glass Ink Pen just before year's end and couldn't resist drawing a few wavy lines on watercolor paper. I loved the drawing experience, but the w/c paper is probably not the best choice as the ink seeps sideways into the paper. That is where the good old micron pen 'Jumped to the Rescue' (that is a clue)....

When the Facebook group Anything Goes announced the theme of the week 'Fescu to the Rescue' I knew instantly how to finish my wavy Diva-like tile: add some quirky and shady Fescu and keep the tile light as a feather. Voila, my tile for the fb group.

Unfortunately, the image does not show the delicate gold glitter in the ink.

Tangle Patterns: Fescu, Diva Dance

Inspired by...Dublin. I can't get Dublin out of my head, but I can put it on paper.

Tangle Patterns: Dublin, Zinger

Another inspirational tile...Rope Toodles. That single Toodles hanging down on the right is the main character on this rather large, 12 x 12 cm, note paper tile. The rest is garnishing.

Tangle Patterns: Toodles, Stickers, Diva Dance

Square One Dec 14-20 - Roloflex in black & white.

Tangle Pattern: Roloflex

Square One Dec 21-27 - Love Handles with Tipple and Printemps. Love Handles, such an easy tangle, but so hard to draw so the tangle really looks like Love Handles. I can't!

Tangle Patterns: Love Handles, Tipple, Printemps

I had another go at Love Handles when Square One week Dec 28 to Jan 3 in the new year had OTM on the menu. Now I am a bit happier with my LH, but still not quite there yet.

Tangle Patterns: OTM, Love Handles, Indy-Rella

Refresher #192 with tangles Punzel, Strutz, Hearts-A-Flutter, Horti, Brace-S. (See all Refresher tiles on my pages.)

Tangle Patterns: Punzel, Strutz, Hearts-A-Flutter, Horti, Brace-S

#Fullmoonmosaic at Instagram for December 2018 features the tangles SiStar and Fullmoon. I did the 'green-glitter-eyed' Fullmoon Monster first > wasn't impressed &gt...

Tangle Patterns: Sistar and Fullmoon

...so I did this one. Ah, much better! Now I can sleep well. BTW, that dirty speck there at the top between Sistar - do you see it? - that is the real full moon with its dark and light areas. Just to make sure...

Tangle Patterns:

There is a new challenge in town - well, for me anyway - called Zenuari 2019. It consists of a variety of daily prompts for the whole year, served in monthly installments. Quite interesting! If you are interested and want to join the group on facebook, click here.

My tiles thus far: Zenuari 2019 day 3: Monotangle. I chose Narwal...

Tangle Pattern: Narwal

...and Zenuari 2019 day 5: a hint of tint. I chose the tangle OTM (from Square One last week) and a hint of gold and silver.

Tangle Pattern: OTM with a hint of gold and silver

Animal - and Thailand - Happy Day

Remember Shadow's side kick in his last days? The cat has no adopted me and visits me every day for her 10am-4pm midday nap. Yes, I have upgraded her chosen sleeping niche, but that is as far as I go. Sure!

A few days later I found the cat occupying a more accessible niche... in my store room. And she was not alone. She coerced her boyfriend to join her.

Shhhhh! We better give them some privacy. Please, very quietly scroll out of my store room.
Thanks.

Thailand
And now to Thailand. I am not sure what the perception of Thailand is abroad, but I have good news. 40+ shops and food chains (maybe more have joined by now) have joined together in a campaign to fight the plastic bag litter crisis. 

Believe you me, we have a HUGE issue with plastic bags!!!!
(and litter in general!)

Every 4th of the month the shops will not pack your goods in plastic bags anymore. They give you the option to buy recycled paper shopping bags to carry away your groceries or you bring your own bag. I only know of ONE chain that has absolutely never ever given out plastic bags: Hat off to Makro!

I noticed it first Dec 4th last year when I shopped in my little corner convenience store. Ever since I have bmob or hand-carried my items out of there. I hope this campaign will not get lost in the plastic bag trash mountain as others have in the past, but will actually add additional days to the month. More has to be done, but it is a start.

I end this post with a video and a link to a page for mothers who can't bring their kids to eat breakfast.

Only in New York...




...and the  breakfast encouragement page.

Happy 2019!

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