IAST 299, 300; Square One; and my first Hump Day 8

This is my first participation on the newly born challenge Hump Day - #8 - by Suzanne Fluhr. This first of the month challenge flies the theme 'Tangle Choice', or, we can chose our own tangles. I am not good at choosing tangles let alone combining, but ever since I saw Star-Fanleaf on Margarete's website, a tile she drew following Ela's challenge #1469, I knew one day I will draw it. Star-Fanleaf is joined by yet another new tangle I liked on the spot: Gelijoy. The background was a bit empty so I made a bubble brush in Photoshop and added some moisturizer to Star-Fanleaf.

Tangle Patterns: Star-Fanleaf, Gelijoy

IAST Challenge #299. With this challenge Adele gave me a tough nut to crack. 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing in human history, *July 24, 1969*. How 'on earth' do I represent this extraterrestrial event with tangles Zanglers, Croon, and Twirlies? I had time to think about it while I was busy in my small garden pulling out dead and half dead grass to be replaced by little stones. Finally an idea formed:

First: I need a background - space would be great, but I remembered I had a fireworks newspaper page I put away for a special event.

Second: The fireworks paper was too busy and intense in colors, it needed to be dulled; tracing paper for the tile would do the trick.

Third: Represent the moon landing with the given tangles. The string, signifying the most popular image ever taken, namely earth looked at from the moon, made me choose Croon, but I replaced the inner circle with continent shapes. Twirlies became my Apollo 11 rocket (and some stars). My attempt to draw Apollo 11 failed and it turned more into an alien  spaceship (so be it!). Finally it came to give Zanglers a position and I used it to draw some weird moon landscaping.

So here my tile for IAST #299, drawn on tracing paper which then was glued onto the fireworks newspaper image. The only thing missing are the 50 candles.

Tangle Patterns: Zanglers, Croon, Twirlies

IAST challenge #300. Yet another milestone to celebrate in 2019: Adele's 300 - yes, three-hundreds!!! - Zentangle challenge. Congratulations to you, Adele, and thanks so much for your ongoing work you do for us tangler to indulge in! Her chosen tangles for this event are Ada, 100, and C-Perfs. I am one of many tanglers who is looking forward to the next 100 challenges Adele surprises us with.

Tangle Patterns: Ada, 100, C-Perfs

...and hence comes darkness over me. I worked on this Square One week July 26 with tangle Double Double (in a wonky grid) tile while watching a 'dark', historic sinister, movie. (Do I need to tell?) Then I realized the true story movie actually came from the same era and geographical area as the above. One being technically so advanced and futuristic; the other a reminder of the Middle Ages.

Tangle Patterns: Double Double, Brrrst

If you ever heard the 'mind over matter' joke you will not be surprised that, while listening to Enya, for this Double Double tile I got confused with Celtic knots.

Tangle Patterns: Double Double mixed with Celtic Knots

Sometimes you get lost in the world of tangles and other times you get stuck with one and you draw it over and over and over because each time you finish a tile, another idea on how you could draw the tangle pops up. So all things being three, this is my getting stuck with tangle Double Double and this time it is truly only Double Double with just a bit of a different shading approach.

Tangle Patterns: Double Double

I like the above Double Double tile as it was, but saw all kinds of possibilities. So I put it into Photoshop and started filling and coloring it.

In the first tile I filled some empty spaces with black. In the second tile I filled all spaces with black and ran a gradient over those spaces. In the 3rd I filled in less black and a gradient just over the middle part of the tile. I like this the best as it has the best 3D effect.

Square One week August 2 with tangle Cadent. At the bottom I used Cadent as a vessel and filled it with the tangle stormy Wind and Sails by Annette Ruempler, CZT.

Tangle Patterns: Cadent, Wind and Sails, Florz

And look who refuses to leave the stage. Yet another 100DayProject tile. No, no, not another failure, but an expectation. For me to avoid catch-up stress during this project I thought it a good idea to guess the tangle that might lie ahead. Pokeroot. Pokeroot must show up at one point as it is a fav for many tanglers and thus I started a tile. Today we know, it didn't.

Tangle Patterns: black Pokeroot

Animal Very Happy Wild Days Ahead

In my younger years I was a scuba diving instructor for 11 years. During that time I only once (!) had an underwater encounter with a passing pod of dolphins in open water and it lasted but for a few seconds. What would I have given for an encounter like this!



Another "can you see the cat" image. This time I give you the brand name of the wild kitten: bobcat. Now all you need to know is what a bobcat looks like and possess the eyes to find it. If you can't claim either of the aforementioned but still want to see the kitten, click here.

Thanks for visiting and happy summer days to you.

"C.O.!" ... ... ... "C.O.!"... "C.O.! Wake up and meow something!"

I guess you can't make a sleeping cat meow you a goodbye.

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Refresher 201, 202; IAST 298; Square One; 100DayProject

After a long mental fight with myself I decided to continue with Linda Farmer's Refresher prompts, project, whatever you want to call it. After all I spent a lot of time catching up with all "before my Zentangle time" published Refreshers and doing one now every 2-3 weeks doesn't sound so bad. So here is Refresher #201 with the tangles Noom, Trilad, PS23, Firecracker, and Agni.

Tangle Patterns: Noom, Trilad, PS23, Firecracker, Agni

Refresher #202 featuring tangles Fengle, Hemp, M-Anning, Trisnail, and Oddbalz.

Tangle Patterns: Fengle, Hemp, M-Anning, Trisnail, Oddbalz

Square One week June 14-20 with Worms.

Tangle Pattern: Worms

Square One week June 21-27 with main tangle Snag and some Sez. Snag reminded me of the hands on a clock, which in turn reminded me of an image I saw some time ago of a broken clock. One thing let to the other.

Well, it turned out a bit too busy and too balanced. Less Sez would have been more.

Tangle Patterns: Snag, Sez

Square One week July 12-18 with Windmill and....

Tangle Pattern: Windmill

...another Windmill, a more organic Windmill.

Tangle Pattern: Windmill

Square One week July 19-25 with Anibal.

Tangle Patterns: Anibal

Helen Williams published a new tangle called SweetHeart recently and, being in a trumped up tangle mood, had to try it not asap but instantly. I am glad though that I watched her little instruction video only viable on her site (not the email as she often mentions) because I initially started it all wrong - of course - drawing the tangle line by line instead of a continuous flow. At first, it was a bit tricky (for me), but I eventually mastered her flow.

Tangle Pattern: SweetHeart in a wonky grid

Inspired by...Zonked, a prompt for the 100DayProject on day July 4. Although Zonked was never a tangle on my fav list, I got hooked.

From Aura-Leah to Aura-Leah Zonked, over Zonked in Hectagons, to Zonked wonky Swimsuit.

Tangle Pattern: Inspired by...Zonked

Another prompt I had to look deeper into is Demi for day July 5, but I altered the Demi squares to Demi triangles - or to a square fragment (which likely already exists).

Tangle Pattern: Demi Triangles

IAST challenge #298 with tangles Doo Dah and Kitl.

Tangle Patterns: Doo Dah, Kitl

My 100DayProject titled...

*** 1Day1Tangle1Tile 2019 ***

We are taking the last few days in this year's 100DayProject and I don't lie when I say that I am glad it is over and done with. I won't complain. There were certainly days I enjoyed drawing the prompts for my 1Day1Tile1Tamgle tiles, but they were balanced by times I fret about them and it had nothing to do with the tangles. I realize now how long 100 days really are. The question remains though: will I remember next year?

So here the last 8 groups of 4.

Group 18 June 9: Ok-Rah, June 10: Nouvart, June 11: Sonnenband, June 12: Good Joss.

Tangle Patterns: Ok-Rah, Nouvart, Sonnenband, Good Joss

Group 19 June 13: Fandango, June 14: Z-Trik, June 15: Sea Wave, June 16: Sails.

Tangle Patterns: Fandango, Z-Trik, Sea Wave, Sails

Group 20 June 17: Taiga, June 18: Y-Full Power, June 19: Bask-It, June 20: Arukas.

Tangle Patterns: Taiga, Y-Full Power, Bask-It, Arukas

Group 21 June 21: Twile (Stoic), June 22: Meshmerize, June 23: Ginili, June 24: Jud.

Tangle Patterns: Twile (Stoic), Meshmerize, Ginili, Jud

Group 22 Verve, June 26: Cruffle, June 27: Noom, June 28: Borbs.

Verve as a bouquet; Cruffle ovals; Noom squared; and Borbs as seeds for something to grow out of.

Tangle Patterns: Verve,  Cruffle,  Noom,  Borbs

Group 23 June 29: Cirque, June 30: Brax, July 1: Flontrast, July 2: Zimba.

Tangle Patterns: Cirque, Brax, Flontrast, Zimba

Group 24 Vano, July 4: Zonked, July 5: Demi, July 6: Sanaura.

Tangle Patterns: 

Group 25 July 7: Tissoooh, July 8: Ubud, July 9: Sistar, July 10: Snugz.

Tissoooh - sorry for the color of the tile, but... I drew 2 Tissooohs on top of each other and wound two arms of the lower bigger Tissoooh onto the upper smaller Tissoooh. Or at least, that was the idea of it. Sistar as a star - yeap, like that one; and Snugz got doubled.

Tangle Patterns: 

Now that I have reached the finishing line for the 100DayProject 2019 and didn't skip a day/tangle prompt I feel like having accomplished something. 100DayProject 2020 today looks a lot more appealing then a few days ago when I started with this post. We will see...

A case of stupidity or tenacity. 

Cleaning up my 100DayProject folder I found the tile original meant for the May 28 prompt Tut. At the time I wasn't happy with the outcome because it didn't look like what I had in mind, drawing Tut in 3 Gourdgeous shapes. I couldn't see the shapes so I abandoned the tile. Now, almost 2 months later, I shake my head, wondering about my sanity: Who cares about the shape, string or image I have in mind??!!

This happened a few times during the 100 days, but this was the most extreme case. However, tenacity is my middle name and I finally got my Gourdgeous shapes filled with Tut onto my present tangle tiles journal cover. That is what I had in mind.

Tangle Pattern: Tut 

On journal cover.

Tangle Pattern: Tut 

Animal Happy Day

Can you spot the big cat? I looked and looked, with glasses on top of magnifying glasses, and couldn't spot it. So if you have the same problem, click here. I was relieved when I found out this is not a case of old age, but fantastic camouflage.

Good news also on my latest very shy stray cat project. After my initial try to get the cat to the vet in a basket where he escaped out of before we were even in the car, I had to acclimated him to the basket again. Had to let him understand that the basket is friendly, so I placed food into the basket.

It still took a few days/weeks of that and me petting him until I dared the second attack. SUCCESS! I got him to the vet while all the way fighting to hold the roped tied basket lid down, picked him up 2 days later and gave him the name C.O. C for Clockwork (for his punctuality appearing for breakfast) and O for you guessed it, his fur color Orange.

For the time being O.C, remains our local shy stray cat and he knows where he can still get his daily meals. Below: Photogenic C.O. on his approach to get his daily dose of strokes.

Last week I didn't place a video because the blog post was already too long. So here is my animal video of the blog.

From Heartbreak to Happiness - yes, even dogs experience it.





And last but not least...

From my Garden
I have tons of cacti, but am extremely unlucky with flowers. So when I saw this one, I was over the moon. It only lives for about 8 hours, but there are already 2 new promising sprouts about to bloom - if I am lucky.

The next day...

Have a fantastic week and thanks for looking in.

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Refreshers 198, 200; IAST 292, 293, 294; Square One; 100DayProject, All Stars and Ellipse and more...

We finally reached Refresher #200 with its tangles Waybop, Cirli, Companion, Chaist, and Cross-ur-Heart. I have the whole collection and at this milestone I have to decide whether I want to continue drawing each newly published prompts. The series might also end; Refresher 200 was 3 weeks overdue. An ominous sign? Time will tell. (I wrote this many weeks ago. Meanwhile 201 has been published and I decided to continue drawing each and every Refresher.)

Tangle Patterns: Waybop, Cirli, Companion, Chaist, Cross-ur-Heart

Refresher #198 with tangles Chainging and Punzel, Apacore, Scallamp, Purze, C-View.

Tangle Patterns: Chainging and Punzel, Apacore, Scallamp, Purze, C-View

Square One week of May 17-23 with tangle Bekk.

Tangle Pattern: Bekk

Square One week May 10 to 16 with tangle Tangled U's.

Tangle Patterns: Tangled U's and Beadlines

Another IAST challenge, #292 where I took it very 'liberal' (not in the political sense I may add) with the given tangles Fife, Fuenf and Furr Balls - of which I don't even have one full ball.

Tangle Patterns: Fife, Fuenf, Furr Balls

And then there is my very dirty IAST tile for challenge #293 with tangles Partay, Pixioze, Croon. Again and again I put it in front of me, trying hard to make it look better, cleaner, but not even the bright yellow dots and lines could save it. I guess we all have one of those misfits in our repertoire.

Tangle Patterns: Partay, Pixioze, Croon

I think I got it this time. IAST #294 with new tangle Happy does actually look like "Happy". The tile just got a bit too pinkish, but I can't blame "Happy" for that.

Tangle Pattern: Happy

Inspired by...Zenith. Zenith was a 100DayProject prompt for May 19. Somehow I got inspired to do a bit more with it and on normal 9x9 cm tile.

Tangle Patterns: Zenith, Diva Dance

Another Inspired by... tile - Z-Trik, a given prompt for June 14. When I had finished that tile, I felt like going on drawing lines. Hence this simple mini monotangle tile was born.

Tangle Pattern: Z-Trik

My 100DayProject titled...

*** 1Day1Tangle1Tile 2019 ***

...and on goes my monotangle theme under the 100DayProject for 2019. However, there is good and bad news. The bad news: We are still 40 days off the finish line. The good news: We are past the half way point.

Below 7 more tiles containing 4 monotangle tiles. Again, I try to find a variation for the daily tangles. While I mostly fail sometimes I succeed to 'hide' the original, e.g.: May 30's Mountain in group 15.

So here we go...


Group 11 with May 12: Pod Flower, May 13: Block'd, May 14: Blooming Butter, May 15: Floatfest. May 12 - Pod Flower, a new grid tangle by Helen Williams, was not one of the suggested prompts, but as from time to time on weekends there was none posted so I squeezed this beautiful tangle in. May 13 - I think I can safely say that this is a no-tangle tile. I used Block'd as a string and filled it with dice dots and some lines. May 14 - Blooming Butter with Fescu petals.

Tangle Patterns: Pod Flower, Block'd, Blooming Butter, Floatfest

Group 12 with May 16: X, May 17: Xplode, May 18: Onamato, May 19: Zenith.

Tangle Patterns: X, Xplode, Onamato, Zenith

Group 13 with May 20: Stwist, May 21: Shirley, May 22: Mazorito, May 23: F2F (Fringe to Fringe). May 21 - my 2 Shirley strips got a bit too close to each other and promptly got entangled. May 22 - Mazorito: angry birds of pray or masks of the damned - could be both. May 23 - F2F is probably the easiest tangle by Tomas Padros. I tried it with all kinds of shapes, but with leaves (or with his Chlorophilia tangle) it turned out to be my favorite. As an exception to my 100DayProject 2019 theme 1Day1Tile1Tangle, here I morphed F2F into Chlorophilia.

Tangle Patterns: Stwist, Shirley, Mazorito, F2F (Fringe to Fringe morphing into Chlorophilia)

Group 14 with May 24: Sling Slang, May 25: Cubine, May 26: Squid, May 27: Odir. May 25 - Cubine in an ogee grid where the ogee seeds are sliced in half resulted in 'Tribine'.

Tangle Patterns: Sling Slang, Cubine, Squid, Odir

Group 15 with May 28: Tut, May 29: YouDoo, May 30: Mountain, May 31: Jester. May 28 - Tut, my personal favorite of the 4, but May 30 - Mountain, is my best variation.

Tangle Patterns: Tut, YouDoo, Mountain, Jester

Group 16 with June 1: Enyshou, June 2: Marasu, June 3: Arkand, and June 4: Ratoon.

Tangle Patterns: Enyshou, Marasu, Arkand, Ratoon

Group 17 with June 5: Floria, June 6: Dooleedo, June 7: Sprigs, and June 8: Pax.

Tangle Patterns: Floria, Dooleedo, Sprigs, Pax

All Stars? Ellipse?

Last but not least in my tangle exploration is a "study" of All Stars and Ellipse. All Stars was a prompt in Square One during the week May 24-30. I think Ellipse was introduced shortly after or during that week. Honestly, I think one is just a variation of the other. With some of my tiles I didn't follow the stepout, but drew S-curves which was a lot faster for me.

This All Stars/Ellipse testing tile was my first of many. I drew this tile with mainly All Stars in mind and in a wonky grid and filled it with Ruutz. The fine lines is the wonky grid and if you look closely all eyes are on a cross section.

Tangle Pattern: All Stars, Ruutz

This was my first "Inspired by..." Ellipse-on-my-mind tile - also in a wonky grid. But honestly, if you see All Stars in it that'll be OK with me, too.

Tangle Pattern: Ellipse

All Stars or Ellipse? I have no idea. I just drew S-curves horizontally and vertically on this and the next tile.

Tangle Pattern: All Stars or Ellipse?

Tangle Pattern:All Stars or Ellipse?

Then I tried it with leaves...No, don't try that!

Tangle Pattern: All Stars

...and finally an All Stars and Ellipse tile hand in hand. Here I also proof that I know what Ellipse should really look like.

Tangle Patterns: All Stars and Ellipse

Finally, the very last tile I drew with both, All Stars and Ellipse on my mind.

Tangle Patterns: All Stars and Ellipse

Animal Happy Days

Remember this photo from my previous blog post? Well, I have good news regarding this cat family. Getting hold of the mum was easy and meanwhile she has given birth to 6 (SIX!!!) new kittens. My neighbor and I are glad we acted when we did and found a foster before the kittens were born. As it turns out, she has not enough milk to feed all 6. Now they have a fighting chance. In fact, 4 already have a home. In time the mum will be spayed and hopefully ends up in a loving home, too.

As for her 2 kittens (boy named Seng Cann, girl named Pian Peirn and no, I have no idea what the names mean). It took a while until we found them, caught them, and placed them in a room where we could 'tame' them. We soon had an interested owner and she helped with the feeding and playing. Now they have their vaccinations, are spayed and neutered and live happily with the new owner.

Seng Cann and Pian Peirn

The nursery. 5 kittens in the basket and one outside.

New cat project. 

Stray Tabby

He is a male Tabby and the first attempt to bring him to the vet failed when he broke one of the basket cover hinges and escaped. He, too, is not tamed, but since I am feeding him daily, I can handle him - carefully - although he hisses at me every so often (especially when I am not quick enough with the food). I consider this a case of mind over matter and I am the one with the mind.

Watch out, Tabby!!!

If you still don't have enough of cats, here a funny story about a water-loving, pain in the bathroom, cat. One of the drawings made me LOL.


From my garden....

Black Bat Flower

Now it is back to my 100DayProject - 1Day1Tile1Tangle. There is a lot of catching up to do and honestly, I am glad we are heading towards the end of the 100 days. My windows need cleaning, the footpath water pressured...the list is long.

Thanks for visiting my blog and enjoy a wonderful week.

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