Monotangle Mondays; 7F5R; OrgTangle 2025; This Month's Tile....

Monotangle Mondays by Zen Gulf Cafe

May 25 - Avreal

Tangle Pattern: Avreal

June 1 - Bucky v1 and Bucky v2-inception: Bucky v2 inside Bucky v2...okay, fine, just one Bucky v2 (Russian-doll vibes, but with fewer surprises).

Tangle Pattern: Bucky, Bucky

June 8 - Cogwheel

Tangle Pattern: Cogwheel

June 15 - Enyshou with a little bit of AHH!

Tangle Patterns: Enyshou, AHH!

June 22 - Flukes

Tangle Pattern: Flukes

7F5R Tuesday Tangle of the Day

May 19 - Smoldering iBex. A bit late with this tile. The original plan was "Fiery iBex," but by the time I finished, only the embers remained. Fortunately, the fire department declared the tile safe for public viewing this morning. 🔥😄

Tangle Pattern: iBex

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..and this is what Facebook's AI made of my smoldering iBex...Proof that AI could unleash innocent fires on the internet. 🤔🔥

Smoldering iBex on a paper stamp

May 26 - Pirouetting Pental

Tangle Pattern: Pental

June 2 - Twing. Yep, Twing again.

It was all the rage last week with another challenge (May post), so naturally we revisited it for 7F5R. This time I let my pen run wild. It seemed to know where it was going. I certainly didn't.

Tangle Pattern: Twing

June 9 - Drachsel

Tangle Pattern: Drachsel

Autangle's Bi-Monthly OrgTangle 4th Year, 2025

May 31 - Dalima - Stepout16

Tangle Pattern: Dalima

June 15 - Lovtus with a thing in the middle - Stepout17

Tangle Pattern: Lovtus

This Month's Tile

A blank tile is not procrastination. 

It is merely a future masterpiece that hasn't made up its mind yet.

Time to Kill...

...as we knew it for...who knows how many posts...has finished. However, found a new stack of nonsense to keep us entertained.

Welcome to Funny Book Titles! No literary degree required. Simply read the book title and see if you can guess the author's name. Some are clever, some are terrible, and some are terribly clever.

Good luck with these first 6 books! 

Authors

a) Mike Robes

b) Justin Case

c) M. T. Tank

d) Anna Conder

e) Hugo First

f) Roxanne Minerals

Solutions in tiny font at bottom of post.

Animal Happy Day

....and last but not least, if you need some laughs today, watch fun with animals.

Well... that's six months behind us already. Whoever keeps pressing the fast-forward button,
please stop...I still have tangles waiting in the queue!

Happy tangling, and thank you to everyone
who keeps dropping by my little corner of the Zentangle world.

Solutions to June's Time to Kill Funny Book Titles word game

1. Why Cars Stop  – M. T. Tank (empty tank)

2. I’ll Go Second – Hugo First (you go first)

3. Bacteria – Mike Robes (microbes)

4. Geology –  Roxanne Minerals (rocks and minerals)

5. Insurance – Justin Case (just in case)

6. Big Snakes – Anna Conder (anaconda)

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Autangle 2025; Monotangle Mondays; 7F5R; Autangle's OrgTangle 2025; Refresher 279 & 280; Video tut; Inspired by...

My first general post in the year 2026. May you all prosper, be healthy and most of all be Happy!

Autangle Series #4, 2025

Day 10, September 19 - Birdy, Foundabout, Flora Magic

Tangle Patterns: Birdy, Foundabout, Flora Magic

♻️ Day 11, September 21 - Maryshel, Yumemi

Tangle Patterns: Maryshel, Yumemi

another "Day 11, September 21 - Maryshel, Yumemi" just for fun, but also because I wasn't so happy with my first version.

Tangle Patterns: Maryshel, Yumemi

Monotangle Mondays by Zen Gulf Cafe 2025

Stuck in the previous year...the last Monotangle Monday for a while. Zen Gulf Cafe interrupted the Series with the challenge ZMSF (Zen Magical Spring Festival) to keep the interest going. 

December 29 - Braze

Tangle Pattern: Braze

7F5R Tuesday Tangle of the Day...

...the last one before January's A Fragment of your Imagination 2026. We should be starting again in February.

♻️ December 23 - Hearty Wyfore on a roll with Flux, a Mooka, a Henna Drum, and Tipple.

This is the washed paper tile I mentioned in my December post (Refresher #278). A lot easier to draw on, but WOW!, what a difference in color.

Tangle Patterns: Hearty Wyfore, Flux, Mooka, Henna Drum, Tipple

(Refresher #278)

Autangle's bi-monthly OrgTangle 4th Year, 2025

December 31 - Popri (Stepout06)

Tangle Pattern: Popri

January 15 - Chaperon (Stepout07)

Tangle Pattern: Chaperon

Refreshers

Refresher #279, published December 12 last year, with tangles Pangea, Blanes, Panepinto, Fluxism, and Heartlock.

Tangle Patterns: Pangea, Blanes, Panepinto, Fluxism, Heartlock

Refresher # 280 with tangles Pouyang, Noodle, Blind Membranat, Wooti, and Printen

Tangle Patterns: Pouyang, Noodle, Blind Membranart, Wooti, Printen

Video tutorial

Tangle Tuesday Ep: 2 by Alison Russell Art with tangle Medo.

Jeez, I can't remember when I started this tile, but it was a loooong time ago. Today, I am really glad I finished it.

Tangle Patterns: Medo

Inspired by...

...drawing a multi tangle tile to produce a big mess. Actually this is only half the truth. I bought some new tiles and had to try them out (this tile was on the back burner as well - with good reason). As for the tile quality: good for water-coloring; bad for using color pencil and shading. Above two light blue Org Tangles were drawn on the same tiles.

Tangle Patterns: Toodles, Pokeroot, Crescent Moon, etc

Time to Kill...

...survived the cross-over into 2026 and will stay with us for a while longer. So January 2026 sports a new set of 6 brainteasers you may or may not figure them out. HowEver! Don't fret! The solution is listed at the very bottom of this post in the smallest font possible so you don't inadvertently spoil your attempt at the teasers. Good luck.

Animal Happy Day

I would not show this video if it ended badly...

Thank you very much for visiting 

my post and enjoy the weekend.

Solution to the January Brainteaser set

1 – Headquarters

2 – Blanket

3 – Cut corners

4 – Cocktail

5 – Tennis shoes

6 – Summary

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Mono Mondays & 7F5R weeklies; Autangle's OrgTangle 2025; Refresher 278; Inspired by...

Monotangle Mondays by Zen Gulf Cafe

December 1 - Quipple. 

This tangle absolutely ambushed me. It started innocently enough with a chain of balls. Just… balls. So? Then Tipple. As I sat there slogging through those tiny tipples, hand cramping, brain questioning life choices, I kept thinking: "Is this some kind of artistic endurance test?" 

The next day more tipples...the ones I'd left out due to cramps in my wrist the previous day. Then...enter the Diva Dance lines. Swish. Swagger. Suddenly the chaos had rhythm, attitude. Finally, the grand, dramatic finale: pencil meets white charcoal. Shadows deepened, highlights sparked, the whole thing snapped into focus...BAM. From utter nonsense to undeniable magic...that is QUIPPLE.

Tangle Pattern: Quipple

December 8 - SeZ is sucked up by a huge SeZ tornado.

Tangle Pattern: SeZ

December 15 - Tortuca

Tangle Pattern: Tortuca

December 22 - Auraknot

Tangle Pattern: Auraknot

7F5R Tuesday Tangle of the Day

December 2 - Auragin

Tangle Pattern: Auragin

December 9 - Infreya

Tangle Pattern: Infreya

December 16 - Sprinx.

As so often, I couldn't resist to disguise the tangle and thus I changed the ring's outside lines ever so slightly.

Tangle Pattern: Sprinx

Autangle's bi-monthly OrgTangle 4th Year, 2025

November 30 - Hamail (Stepout04)

Tangle Pattern: Hamail

December 15 - Tryton (Stepout05)

Tangle Pattern: Tryton

Autangle Series 4, 2025

Day 8, September 15 - RunCC, Wyfore, Oyvia

Tangle Patterns: RunCC, Wyfore, Oyvia

Day 9, September 17 - Phibel, Balexo, and Vam

Tangle Patterns: Phibel, Balexo, Vam

Refresher

♻️ Refresher #278 with tangles MoonPie, Vilbert, Chairs, J’loop, and Oaura on packaging paper. I fell for the chocolate colored paper, even though it fought me every step of the way. Constant pen cleaning ensued. 

I washed the rest of the paper (yes, literally) and tested it; the color calmed down, the pen cooperated, and I was reminded that art, like life, refuses to let me have it both ways. I will certainly draw a tile I  post in my January issue. Maybe you will recognize the faded paper.....

Tangle Patterns: MoonPie, Vilbert, Chairs, J’loop, Oaura

Inspired by...

...Dragonair on my journal #16 cover.

Tangle Pattern: Dragonair

...Da-Kris and some embellishment.
Da-Kris or Unfinished ING compared to...

Tangle Pattern: Da-Kris 

...ING with embellishment.

Tangle Pattern: ING

Inspired by...or a new tangle? I have no idea. There are thousands of tangles out there and no-one knows them all. I call it Slug. 

Tangle Pattern: Slug

Advent Tangles 2025 Post and GratiTangleZ 2025

Should you have missed my separate Advent Tangles 2025 post, click here.

I am still working on the prompts for GratiTangleZ 2025. I just finished November 20 and 21 with Zenith and Dex. Zenith turned into Ladybirds and they flew onto my cacti...well, the flowers. It is amazing how versatile Zenith is.

Time to Kill

The December Brainteaser has arrived—the final one of the year. Somehow the yearly cycle has been upgraded: smoother, faster, and more efficient, which I can only assume is AI’s fault. Speaking of which, if one (or two) of this month’s Brainteasers gives you trouble, feel free to consult Grok, ChatGPT, or any other silicon brain. For those who prefer a quicker victory, the solutions are waiting quietly at the bottom of the page—in very tiny font.

OK, here it comes. I actually sent the last riddle to Algo (that is the name ChatGPT and I agreed I use when we talk) and asked for his, her, its solution:

Nice one 🙂
I think I can read it—and I’ll tell you my reasoning so you can say yes/no.

What I see:

• A person falling

• A fishing spoon (lure)

Put together as a rebus, that reads as:

👉 “Falling for the lure”
(or more loosely, “falling for it” / being taken in)

It’s very close in meaning to “hook, line, and sinker,” but this one leans on the spoon lure specifically.

If that’s not the intended answer, then yes—one example would lock me in instantly.

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Then I gave Algo the solution and this is what he, she, I think it is 'it' said:

Ahhh—yes, that clicks now 👍
You were kind to say “close.”

A falling figure = fail
A spoon = ure (as in lure → sound cue)

So together: fail + ure = failure

That’s a nicely sneaky brainteaser—very clean once you see it, and very annoying just before you do 😄

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Now Algo wants more brainteasers. It got hooked. 🤣

Animal Happy Day...

..or is it? This case was handled by a vet and groomers, but we don't know what happened and what was done to clean the inside of the dog. Hmm...just thinking.

Unfortunately, Coal couldn't find a smaller container than this tray to squeeze his body in for a nap. 

Ah! Isn't he cute and looking so comfy!

Thank you so much for visiting and as we Swiss would say:

"En guete Rutsch is neui Jahr"

or in Thai:

"Sawasdee Pee Mai"

or in English

"Happy New Year"

Pick the one you like.

Solutions to December's brainteasers:

1 – Microscope

2 – One night stand

3 – Eye sockets

4 – Houseplant

5 – Neighbourhood

6 – Failure

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