Step-Out of the Months April to July; Refreshers 258, 259, 260; IDoZ 2024; New Tangle Duppler; and Inspired by...

Step-Out of the Month

Step-Out of the Month April - Waves of Depth. After I published my 1st Waves of Depth tile in the long overdue last post I had an idea for a second tile. The style of 'waves' is similar; but I added Toodles to camouflage the the loops above the middle line with the circles.. 

Hashtags: #wavesofdepth #sootmapril24 #sootm #stepoutofthemonth #ConZENtric 

Tangle Patterns: Waves of Deoth, Toodles

Step-Out of the Month May - Waves of Depth 2.

For more info please check with their FB website or use the link to their general patterns page..

#wavesofdepth2 #sootm #stepoutofthemonth #sootmmay24 #ConZENtric

Tangle Pattern: Waves o Depth 2

Step-Out of the Month June - Elfi with Hollis and Fescu

Tangle Patterns: Elfi, Hollis, Fescu

2nd sootm tile for month June: Elfi with Zinger Hats

Tangle Patterns: Elfi, Zinger

Bent down those Elfi Hurray arms gently to not cause too much harm.

Tangle Pattern: Elfi

Elfi with Tipple and Flux

Tangle Patterns: Elfi, Flux, Tipple

One last Elfi tile for sootm June 2024 together with the beautiful tangle Phicu.

Tangle Patterns: Elfi, Phicu

Step-Out of the Month July - Twinning with Phicops and Flux 'broken tennis rackets...

Tangle Patterns: Twinning, Phicops, Flux

...and with Henna Drums looking like fish in the water. No planning here, only just see it now as such after I placed the tile.

Tangle Patterns: Twinning, Henna Drum

Refreshers

Refresher #258 with tangles Beelight, S-Vine, Sikito, Saatin, and Tut published March 8, 2024.

Tangle Patterns: Beelight, S-Vine, Sikito, Saatin, Tut

Refresher #259 with tangles Beeline, Zig Zag Track, Pod Flower, Sampa, and Pena, published April 5, 2024.

Tangle Patterns: Beeline, Zig Zag Track, Pod Flower, Sampa, Pena

Refresher #260 with tangles Betweed, Logan, UBud, Pud, and Taiga, published May 10, 2024.

Tangle Patterns: Betweed, Logan, UBud, Pud, Taiga

New Tangle: Duppler

♻️Duppler with a flower combination of Waves of Depth2/Mooka and leaves.

Tangle Pattern: Duppler

Stepout to Duppler

Tangle Pattern: Duppler

Inspired by...

...Betweed

Tangle Pattern: Betweed

...Accoladen 01, a beautiful new tangle by Annett Ruempler, CZT.

Tangle Pattern: Accoladen 01

International Day of Zentangle 2024

IDoZ 2024

Tangle Pattern: IDoZ

IDoZ 2024 inside-out

Tangle Pattern: IDoz inside-out

Time to Kill

There we go with another brain teaster. At the time I place this image, I had only glanced at the teaser, but noticed, the first 2 are a child's play. As for the other 4....let me see...

Please click on the image to enlarge it if necessary.

Solutions - as always - right at the end of this post in the smallest font size so you don't accidentally scroll all the way down and read the solutions without having had a proper go at quiz. 

Animal Happy Day

'From an Aussie doggy day care center to a Doggy Farm. Love the story, love the people and am speechless about how well 20+ off-leash rescue dogs of all 'brands' and fur color behave. Who was it who said it is easier to train kids than dogs? 

Thank you very much for visiting.

Brain teaser solutions:

1 – Four-wheel drive

2 – Apple pie

3 – Up to  you

4 – Robin Hood

5 – Design

6 – Engineer

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Step-Out of the Months August 2023 to April 2024 Supo, Sayfa, Rice Pattern, Blap, Wisp, Bent, Nexta, Mando, and Waves of Depth; Refreshers; Inspired by...;

Step-Out of the Month

2024

Step-Out of the Month April - Waves of Depth.

Hashtags: #wavesofdepth #sootmapril24 #sootm #stepoutofthemonth #ConZENtric 

Tangle Pattern: Waves of Depth

Step-Out of the Month March - Mando with a new tangle named Side-Winder and Black Pearlz.

Hashtags: #mando #sootmmarch24 #sootm #stepoutofthemonth #ConZENtric 

Tangle Patterns: Mando, Side-Winder, Black Pearlz

Mando with Msst and CrabEye on transparent tile glued on yellow background tile.

Tangle Patterns: Mando, Crabeye, Msst

Step-Out of the Month February - Nexta Wheels with Kelp I.Am.

Hashtags: #nexta #sootmfebruary24 #sootm #stepoutofthemonth #ConZENtric 

Tangle Patterns: Nexta, Kelp I.Am

Nexta in an ogee grid

Tangle Pattern: Nexta

Isolated Nexta in Pangea with Stonestory

Tangle Patterns: Nexta, Stonestory

Never really happy with my above results I tried Nexta drawn small as texture inside Toodles-like leaves and adding a shy attempt of the beautiful tangle Amplion (more Amplion below).

Tangle Patterns: Nexta, Toodles, Amplion

Step-Out of the Month January - Bent

Hashtags: #bent #sootmjanuary24 #sootm #stepoutofthemonth #ConZENtric 

Tangle Pattern: Bent

2023

Step-Out of the Month December - Wisp, with some stem topper looking like Damsel Leaf.

Hashtags: #wisp #sootmdecember23 #sootm #stepoutofthemonth #ConZENtric 

Tangle Pattern: Wisp

♻️ Step-Out of the Month November - Blap, drawn on one of my recycled flower market packaging paper.

Hashtags: #blap #sootmnovember23 #sootm #stepoutofthemonth #ConZENtric 

Tangle Pattern: Blap

♻️ Step-Out of the Month September - Sayfa and October - the Rice Pattern. Two months with one stroke...well, on one tile. Tile again from the packaging paper when shopping for plants. 

Hashtags: #sayfa #sootmseptember23 and #ricepattern #sootmoctober23 together with the generic tags #sootm #stepoutofthemonth and #ConZENtric on their FB page.

Tangle Patterns: Sayfa, Rice Pattern

♻️ Step-Out of the Month August - Supo. Supo looks and reads very much like another tangle...Opus read backwards. Garnished Supo with a bit of Rice Pattern. On a recycled flower Market packaging paper tile.

Hashtags: #supo #sootmaugust23 #sootm #stepoutofthemonth #ConZENtric on their FB page.

Tangle Patterns: Supo, Rice Pattern

Refreshers

Refresher #256 with tangles Three & Three, Javik, Floria, Springerz, Oodles published January 5th, 2024.

Tangle Patterns: Three & Three, Javik, Floria, Springerz, Oodles

Refresher #257 with tangles BB, Return, Klomp, Wink, Bekk published Feb 9th, 2024.

Tangle Patterns: BB, Return, Klomp, Wink, Bekk

Inspired by...

...the new tangle FloraBella. 

Tangle Pattern: FloraBella

...Mysealiam, listed as a 100 Days of Tangling tangle in Tangle All Around, February 24 - March 1, 2024. 

I never dared to draw this tangle while it was hot from the pipes a few months ago because it reminds me of Gourdgeous and I have two left hands drawing Gourdgeous. Then it appeared as a fragment on January 28 in the FYI2024 challenge. I took up the challenge and confirmed myself that I am not good at Gourdgeous or Dive Dance for that matter. So I practised and these are the results:

...Mysealiam, the Centipede.

Tangle Pattern: Mysealiam: 

...Mysealiam, the Scorpion.

Tangle Patterns: Mysealiam

...Mysealiam, the Jellyfish.

Tangle Patterns: Ntsealiam

...Mysealiam on a Verve base with Fescu

Tangle Patterns: Mysealiam, Verve, Fescu

...Mysealiam...progressing away from Mysealiam.

Tangle Patterns: Mysealiam

...Mysealiam, the Fairy. Or Mysealiam in progressive mood or, in the style I used to doodle-draw before discovering Zentangle.

Tangle Patterns: Mysealiam

...the beautiful Amplion and Amplion dotted tangle by Nina Dreher-Göddertz. 7F5R Feb 2024 Tuesday’s Tangle of the Day. After I drew my first Amplion above, with Nexta, I decided to try it "halved". 

Tangle Pattern: Amplion

...Amplion black & grey on transparent paper glued on packaging paper. 

Tangle Pattern: Amplion

Time to Kill

A new brain teaser. A new set of 6 puzzles. Oh, my goodness, is all I can say. Thanks for #2 and 6! After looking at the solutions I highly recommend you don't give up quickly and screen them carefully. I enlarged #1 and 3.

Solutions - as always - right at the end of this post in the smallest font size so you don't accidentally scroll all the way down and read the solutions without having had a proper go at quiz. 

Animal Happy Day

I am following the health progress of an elephant baby called Bani in India. She got badly injured by a speeding train while her mother got killed. Wildlife SOS is doing everything to a) keep this baby alive and b) make her healthy again. Nothing, absolutely nothing is too much for the rescue team and I have full confidence, baby Bani will overcome all her many injuries and turn into the mischievous little elephant baby elephants are destined to be.

Here is a link you might consider clicking  (see link typed out below). It leads to a petition webpage asking for signatures to prevent elephants from being killed by speeding trains. And if you can spare a few cents/dollars, please consider a donation.

https://action.wildlifesos.org/page/143465/petition/1 

This is CO, my orange cat. With his absence of 23 hours plus per day he is definitely not a house/home cat. All he wants from me is food, treats, and lavish him with hugs and kisses when he asks for them. The funny thing though is that when it rains, he dashes home as soon and quickly as he can, complaining loudly as if it was MY fault it rains. After I apologise profoundly to him I quickly towel-dry him which he hates as much as he hates being wet, and then off he goes again. Cats!!! ORANGE cats!!! 

"Hi CO, thank you for staying long enough and not moving,
for me to grab my phone, lie down on the floor
and take this photo."

(He left a few seconds after the shot)

Solutions to the riddle above:

1 – Seahorse

2 – Middle-aged

3 – Broken heart

4 – Seesaw

5 – Miss you or missing you

6 – Teabag

Very hot greetings from a very hot Thailand to all my visitors.

May you not suffer as much as I do.

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7F5R A Fragment of your Imagination 2024

A Fragment of Your Imagination January 2024

by 7F5R - 4th Year Running

Jan 1 Spoken and Jan 2 Fescu

Tangle Fragments: Spoken, Fescu

Jan 3 Jonqual with Striping

Tangle Fragments: Jonqual, striping

Jan 4 Hanging Paradox Seed. Mine are falling down.

Tangle Fragment: Hanging Paradox Seed

Jan 5 Flet and Jan 6 Static

Tangle Fragments: Flet, Static

Jan 7 Twicod

Tangle Fragment: Twicod

Jan 8 Hokusai with something else

Tangle Fragment: Hokusai

Jan 9 Partial and Jan 24 Flow

Tangle Fragments: Partial, Flow

Jan 10 Bs and Jan 28 Mysealiam

Tangle Fragments: Bs, Mysealiam

Jan 11 KupuPolly and Jan 13 Ixi

Tangle Fragments: KupuPolly, Ixi

Jan 12 Kalooa

Tangle Fragment: Kalooa

Jan 13 with Jan 11

Jan 14 Loopz

Tangle Fragment: Loopz

Jan 15 Betweed and Jan 27 Serenity

Tangle Fragments: Betweed, Serenity

Jan 16 Dycember  and Jan 20 Nehphi

Tangle Fragments: Dycember, Nehphi

Jan 17 F6 fragment and Jan 23 Galaxy

Tangle Fragments: F006, Galaxy

Jan 18 Opus

Tangle Fragment: Opus

Jan 19 Trivolution and Jan 26 A24 Fragment, Cartwheels

Tangle Fragments: Trivolution, A024

Jan 20 with Jan 16

Jan 21 Yerba

Tangle Fragment: Yebba

Jan 22 Firhelix with Blattwerk

Tangle Fragment: Firhelix

Jan 23 with Jan 17

Jan 24 with Jan 9

Jan 25 S9

Tangle Fragment: S9

Jan 26 with Jan 19

Jan 27 with Jan 15
Jan 28 with Jan 10

Jan 29 Mucha Bee with one of the nameless extra fragments.and...

Tangle Fragments: Mucha Bee with nameless fragment

...Jan 29 Mucha Bee the Egypt version

Tangle Fragment: Mucha Bee

Jan 30 SnailZ with Black Pearls

Tangle Fragment: SnailZ

Jan 31 "Teamwork fragment"

Update Feb 15: The fragment go its name: 7F5R named it 3rioZ

Tangle Fragment: Teamwork

Time to Kill

Here another one of those brain teasers. A new set of 6 puzzles. I didn't get #2, but have to admit, it is rather clever. So if you are stuck as well, don't give up as quickly as I did.

Solutions - as always - right at the end of this post in the smallest font size so you don't accidentally scroll all the way down and read the solutions without having had a proper go at quiz. 

Animal Happy Day

A long but very touching dog rescue story that happened in Spain. 

Imagine you are a homeless big dog with a huge lump on your foot and people are shooting at you and chasing you over gravel and earth piles because they think you are dangerous...evil even. You can hardly walk and you are in enormous pain because the lump on your foot is very heavy and infected and you always step on it. New faces show up and they, too, chase you and again you manage to get away...however, this time you have run out of luck. They don't give up and after many hours they catch you. 

This is ALMA's story...

On a more Private Note:

New Year Resolutions. I had a few for 2024. Finish the Stepouts of the Month from last year, which I have done and will be included in my next post. Partake in the Fragment of Your Imagination 2024 challenge, which I obviously did as well. I was also doing all my Daily Yoga Challenges, 4 in all, every single day! Yes, January's days were a bit stressful at times, but only until I rolled out my mat. Then the world was OK again.  

One of my Yoga challenge sessions ended with poem, which I would like to share with you here. I am not at all a poem person, but this one made me listen. It is by Erin Hanson and in case you are interested, it was at the end of Charlie Follows' practice day 20 called 45 Min Full Body Yoga Flow.

You are your Home

If there's one thing I may tell you

Let it be this : You Are Your Home

Your body is the only house

that you will ever truly own.

Maybe it's got some broken windows,

Maybe there are tear stains on the floors,

Maybe you lock the things you wish you weren't behind its many doors..

But there is wisdom on its bookshelves

And, a laugh to light the rooms.

There's a vase on the table, where the love you've grown all blooms.

Dreams sit on the mantelpiece, next to kindness and your trust,

Where you use them all so often, they have no time to collect dust.

Your body is your shelter, so you deserve to love it all

Don't let the world stand around outside, and tell you how to paint it's walls.

How lucky that you have somewhere to protect you from the night

And, if there's cracks left from the past? 

Well, then they just let in more light

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Thank you very much for visiting!

Solutions:

1 – Forehead

2 – Good looking

3 – Waterfall

4 – Wake up

5 – Tuna fish

6 – Foreign language

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