Tangle 365 May; ZIA MayDays Alphabet Strings; Mental Health month, Inspired by...; My New Tangle and a New Fragment

Tangle 365 - Daily Bite-Sized Prompts May 2022

What a difference. I can finally approach these daily prompts in a relaxed and enjoyable fashion and have time to do the things that I had to leave by the wayside such as...ironing... (ehh, maybe I better hang back again.) 

Day 121 (May 1) Rezeda - 4 tiles. I started with the green; by tile 3 I knew my alterations were getting out of hand - hence back to basic with tile 4.

Tangle Patterns: Rezeda

Day 122 (May 2) Tulipdue

Day 123 (May 3) Talbert

Day 122 (May 2) Tulipdue and Day 123 (May 3) Talbert

Day 124 (May 4) Blooming Butter

Tangle Patterns: Tulipdue, Talbert, Blooming Butter

Day 125 (May 5) Snaylz Trayl

Day 126 (May 6) Esther

Day 127 (May 7) Keeta

Day 128 (May 8) Petals

Tangle Patterns: Snaylz Trayl, Esther, Keeta, Petals

Day 129 (May 9) La-La-Lavendel and Day 130 (May 10) Birds on a Wire

Day 131 (May 11) Plop

Day 132 (May 12) Drupe

Day 133 (May 13) Ribbon Rose and Day 135 (May 15) Quabog

Tangle Patterns: La-La-Lavendel, Birds on a Wire, Plop, Drupe,
Ribbon Rose, and Quabog

Day 131 (May 11) Plop...a bigger plop.

Tangle Pattern: Plop

Day 134 (May 14) Harvey

Day 137 (May 17) Patience - The string for this tile I copied from my Inktober 2018 Patience tile.

Day 136 (May 16) Marley - A tale of 2 tangles. 

The grid Marley was an inspiration by Ulrike Brenn which I found on Pinterest. However, while she drew 'Well' I saw "Marley". 

Tangle Patterns: Harley, Patience, Marley

Day 138 (May 18) Poppins

Day 139 (May 19) Mumsy and Day 143 (May 23) Pendrils

Day 140 (May 20) Pane

Day 141 (May 21) Wud

Tangle Patterns: Poppins, Mumsy, Pendrils, Pane, Wud

Day 142 (May 22) Fluxism and Day 144 (May 24) Wirbel

Day 145 (May 25) Pod Flower

Day 146 (May 26) Pokelily

Day 147 (May 27) Boulder Builder and Day 148 (May 28) Dayzee-Mae

Tangle Patterns: Fluxism, Wirbel, Pod Flower,
Pokelily, Boulder Builder, Dayzee-Mae

Day 149 (May 29) Zaungast...and one more at the very bottom...

Day 150 (May 30) Triplex

Day 151 (May 31) Pea-Fea and Pea-Fea with DooDah

Tangle Patterns: Zaungast, Triplex, Pea-Fea, DooDah

Google Album link for all Tangle 365 2022 tiles

ZIA TT&T MayDay's Alphabet Strings Challenge 2022

It has been a while since I visited ZIA group on FB, but I was lucky that I caught the May Alphabet String challenge just in time. So this is part 1 of 'I-don't-know-how-many-parts-in-total-yet', but true to my word, I will do them all. The Rules were pretty simple. Tangle names need to start with the string letter given and the string letter needs to be clearly seen. Oops! 

Day 1, letter M - Mooka, Marasu, Meer

Day 2, letter G - Gemma, Gra-Vee, Ginaleaf

Day 3, letter B - Batter, BB, Bellinno

Day 4, letter U - U-Bend, Uncorked, Utwr

Tangle Patterns starting with letters M, G, B, U

Day 5, letter L - Lotsadots, Lair, LaBel

Day 6, letter F - Fenoglio, Fento, Finegogh

Day 7, letter S - Sassanian, Sindoo, skwim

Day 8, letter I - Ilac, Ineer, Indy-Rella

Tangle Patterns starting with letters L, F, S, I

Google Album link

...to be continued...

Inspired by...

...the Zentangle HQ reminder that May is the month for Mental Health Awareness in the States and they appropriately use the tangle 'Well' to honour it. I decided to create a similar tangle for this occasion...an open knot I named Pom Dok Ma.I (stepout below). 

Part 1 of the Mental Health month with Pom Dok Ma.I, Verve, Mooka and Tipple. 

Tangle Patterns: Pom Dok Ma.I, Verve, Mooka, Tipple

Part 2 with Pom Dok Ma.I, Meer and Shattuck

Tangle Patters: Pom Dok Ma.I, Shattuck, Meer, and more

Part 3 with 'Reversed' Pom Dok Ma.I and Doodles.

Tangle Patters: Pom Dok Ma.I, Toodles

Part 4 with Pom Dok Ma.I, Finery and Onamato.

Tangle Patterns: Pom Dok Ma.I, Finery, Onamato

Part 5, the Wrap Up. with Pom Dok Ma.I

Tangle Pattern: Pom Dok Ma.I

Google Album link

...the tangle Gadroon, deconstructed by Sandra Strait. I found this tangle when I was looking for G-Tangles for ZIA's May challenge 'Alphabet Strings'.

Tangle Pattern: Gadroon

...the tangle Bedrox by J. Murphy. Same as above with Gadroon. The tangle intreged me somehow. So I decided I will use it as a 'warm up for tangling' tangle. 

Tangle Pattern: Bedrox

...LOL, a simple but fun tangle by Joana Santos.

Tangle Pattern: LOL

My New Tangle...

...Pom Dok Ma.I, or, in English, Knot Flower. I got the idea from the above ZHQ Mental Health 2022 project. 

Tangle Pattern: Pom Dok Ma.I

Find all my own tangles with samples in my
Google Album Tangle Collection folder.

My New Fragment...

...FS-Z027

Tangle Fragment: FS-Z027

The String for FS-Z027

Animal Happy Day

To May, the US National Mental Health Month. At the end of this video it says that I should share this video with someone...I chose you. 

A picture is worth a thousand words. However, the picture with CO and Coal together fools you. There is no camaraderie. friendship or even BBF (Best Brothers Forever) among these two. But each time I see them together like this my hope rises. Coal is still young, he can change, but can CO? 

BTW, CO is back on meds...got into a fight with another cat and now suffers from a small hole inside his ear. It is a never ending story with this silly loony cat. Coal, on the other hand, prefers to stick at home more so I got myself a clever loony cat, too.

With love...

...Zaungast

Thanks for visiting. 

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Tangle 365 April; and my new Tangle Thus I.Am

Tangle 365 - Daily Bite-Sized Prompts April 2022...

...and on goes catch up speed drawing, but I am closing in!

Day 91 (Apr 1) Anluci - Fairies dancing

Day 92 (Apr 2) Bridges    

Day 93 (Apr 3) Fan and Day 96 (Apr 6) Flutterby Wings*

Day 95 (Apr 5) Bowie

* When I saw Fan and Flutterby Wings I shook my head, took a deep breath in and let it out with a deep hopelessness. Nope, I thought, I will skip these 2 for sure. But then, me giving up? No way. I kept coming back to the 2...tried combining them somehow until finally I was ready to accepted this very real challenge and produce a tile. That was then... Now I love the tangles and like the tile which I consider as one of my top favorites in this series. Thanks creators Angelina Foong (Fan) and Nancy Swanger (Flutterby Wings) for sending in your patterns and letting me (!) 'struggle' with them.

Tangle Patterns: Anluci, Bridges, Fan, Flutterby Wings, Bowie

Sometimes you get hooked on a tangle for no appearant reason and you keep drawing it over and over again. This is what happened here.

Day 94 (Apr 4) Lumi

Tangle Pattern: Lumi

Day 97 (Apr 7) Hallow Pace

Day 98 (Apr 8) Fi

Day 99 (Apr 9) Tootrz and Day 115 (Apr 25) Keystone - Oops, my Keystone got a little oil leak.

Day 100 (Apr 10) Bravensword

Tangle Patterns: Hallow Pace, Fi, Tootrz, Keystone, Bravensword

Day 101 (Apr 11) Bolly Point

Day 102 (Apr 12) D'Coratif

Day 103 (Apr 13) Pokiok

Day 104 (Apr 14) Blixty and Day 117 (Apr 27) Turn-Turn-Turn

Tangle Patterns: Bolly Point, D'Coratif, Pokiok, Blixty, Turn-Turn-Turn

Day 105 (Apr 15) Arnia

Day 106 (Apr 16) Flow Mo

Day 106 (Apr 16) Flow Mo and Day 113 (Apr 23) Exo

Day 108 (Apr 18) Bale e Vine

Tangle Patterns: Arnia, Flow Mo, Exo, Bale-e-Vine

Day 107 (Apr 17) Desert Flower and Day 118 (Apr 28) Loop de Loop

Tangle Patterns: Desert Flower, Loop de Loop

Day 109 (Apr 19) In-N-Out Folded

Day 110 (Apr 20) Drippy and Day 112 (Apr 22) Charmzy

Day 111 (Apr 21) Bulbs

Day 113 (Apr 23) Exo

Tangle Patterns: In-N-Out Folded, Drippy, Charmzy, Bulbs, Exo

Day 114 (Apr 24) Pot-Top

Day 116 (Apr 26) Kurtinz

Day 119 (Apr 29) Roni

Day120 (Apr 30)  Sayfa

Tangle Patterns: Pot-Top, Kurtinz, Roni, Sayfa

Day 118 (Apr 28) Loop de Loop

Day 115 (Apr 25) Keystone - 3 more tiles

Tangle Patterns: Loop de Loop, Keystone

I collect all my Tangle 365 - Daily Bite-Sized Prompts 2022 tiles in this Google Album.

My New Tangle...

...Thus I.Am. Flower with petals made of rhomboids. 

Tangle Pattern: Thus I.Am

Stepout to Thus I.Am

Tangle Pattern: Thus I.Am

More Thus I.Am

Tangle Pattern: Thus I am

Animal Happy Day

Mom helps rescuers digging for her babies, buried under a collapsed house.

I have a new motto for my Tangle 365 days.... "Keep Up, Lil' Susie 🎵". I finally made it and caught up April 24th. Huff-puff!  😅

Thanks so much for visiting. I am a little bit in a hurry, but I can assure you, both my roommates are doing fine. It is me who suffers. The tyrants are waking me earlier and earlier (now ~ 3.30am) which forces me into earlier and earlier bedtimes. 
 

Good nite and YOU sleep well!

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Tangle 365 March; Refreshers 233, 234, and 235; and Inspired by...

Tangle 365 - Daily Bite-Sized Prompts March 2022.

Still on my catch up trip. I was doing very well until I bought a new laptop with a new windows number: Eleven. I always ran into problems with newly released Window versions and this upgrade is no exception. I have enough experience to fix issues by making changes to the registry, but I am really at a loss when I can't find solutions to problems I urgently need fixing. Speak the File Explorer's Search field. One step fore means first fixing 3 to 6 other settings/issues first. Help!  (Update at time of publication: Found the fix! Me am happy again!)

Anyway, the above situation has slowed me in my catch up efforts. The week I won is lost again and has me speed-drawing again.

Tiles are business cards, 5 x 6 cm where the drawing area is 5 x 5 cm. 

Day 60 (Mar 1) Raindotty

Day 61 (Mar 2) Oflaarla

Day 62 (Mar 3) Ample

Day 63 (Mar 4) Lee-Bee

Tangle Pattern: Raindotty, Oflaarla, Ample, Lee-Bee

Day 65 (Mar 6) Es-Sizz

Day 66 (Mar 7) Adeline

Day 66 (Mar 7) Adeline Knot

Day 67 (Mar 8) Zeppo

Tangle Patterns: Ess-sizz, Adeline, Adeline Knot, Zeppo

Day 68 (Mar 9) Akoya and Day 70 (Mar 11) Gord

Day 69 (Mar 10) Parthenon

Day 71 (Mar 12) Marigular

Day 72 (Mar 13) Tortuca

Tangle Patterns: Akoya, Gord, Parthenon, Marigular, Tortuca

Day 73 (Mar 14) Eeric

Day 74 (Mar 15) Lucky, Day 77 (Mar 18) Bumps and Day 79 (Mar 20) Clob
Day 75 (Mar 16) Lukiline and Day 79 (Mar 20) Clob

Day 76 (Mar 17) ShRock

Tangle Patterns: Eeric, Lucky, Bumps, Clob, Lukiline, ShRock

Day 78 (Mar 19) Balloya

Day 80 (Mar 21) Balo

Day 81 (Mar 22) Spawn and Day 84 (Mar 25) Sindoo

Day 82 (Mar 23) Borbz and Day 88 (Mar 29) Ciceron

Tangle Patterns: Balloya, Balo, Spawn, Sindoo, Borbz, Ciceron

Day 87 (Mar 28) Victory and Day 83 (Mar 24) Go 4th and Multiply

Day 85 (Mar 26) Maryhill 

Day 86 (Mar 27) Sarnia-Cherie

Day 89 (Mar 30) Onba

Day 90 (Mar 31) Dicso

Tangle Patterns: Victory, Go 4th and Multiply, MaryHill
Sarnia-Cherie, Onba, Dicso

I collect all my Tangle 365 - Daily Bite-Sized Prompts 2022 tiles in this Google Album.

Refreshers

Refresher #233 with tangles Therefore, Centraal, CaligraV, Vea, and Tofube was published February 11, 2022.

Tangle Patterns: Therefore, Centraal, CaligraV, Vea, Tofube

Refresher #234 with tangles Marasu, Ubiko, Anibal, Flog, and Konk was published March 11, 2022.

Tangle Patterns: Marasu, Ubiko, Anibal, Flog, Konk

Refresher #235 with tangles IX, Tatu, Mazorito, Dinoflor, and Twilight, published April 8, 2022.

Tangle Patterns: IX, Tatu, Mazorito, Dinoflor, Twilight

Inspired by...

...Es-Sizz

Tangle Pattern: Es-Sizz

...C-Rendipity

Tangle Pattern: C-Rendipity

Animal Happy Day

Stray kitten gets picked up by tour-around-the-world guy... Lucky Guy!

And a needle away from Death...

Not so quick. Death, you've got to wait many years longer for this cutie.

I have my own fighting club at home since Coal insisted, my house is now his new home. CO, who's bite wound on the shoulder has finally healed, and Coal, this young, obnoxious kitty who still needs to adjust to CO and my more calm and peaceful household, in a rare state of all-is-well-on-the-Andrea-Doria. 

Each is waiting for the other to make the first move.

Thanks for visiting.

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