This week's challenge is for Pinwheels for Peace. If you get a chance, pop over to I am the Diva's website, do the challenge, then enter to win a set of Pocket Pages for your Zentangle tiles.

Whew! My little Squeaky Burrito has decided to space out his feedings to every 2 hours today, and take naps in between. I can write another post! Woohoo!

This is my attempt at the Diva's Weekly Tangle Challenge. This week it's a monotangle of Paradox, suggested by Maria (one of the creators of Zentangle). At first Paradox made me angry because I could never get it to look as awesome as everyone else's tangles. After practicing with it many times, I'm finally getting the hang of it and starting to love it. Reminds me of Betweed, and in some areas, Sanabel.


I used one of my 'bleed-through' papers that I cut into tangle tiles a few months back. I love the colors of bleed-throughs, especially this one.

This is one of my first attempts (but I like it less, so I'm showing it second). There's no shading, but I may go back and shade it later.

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For this week's Tangle Weekly Challenge, we had an awesome string to fill -- a Zendela (the fusion of a mandala and Zentangle).

Here's my smaller one (3.5"x 3.5"):


I'm still working on the larger one on 8x11 paper, but can only do one little section at a time since my hands fall asleep after holding a pen for 15-20 minutes. I probably won't get it finished by tonight. :(

I did last week's challenge too, where we had to make a string of stripes and tangle those in, but I didn't get around to photographing and posting in time, so here they are:

Blargh!

How do cats know exactly where you are going to step and when? And then, why do they look at you like you're the complete jerk for stepping on them when they run up under your foot, no matter how wide you step to avoid stepping on them in the first place?

Resolution for March: I'm going to stop feeling bad for stepping on my cat when it's his fault.

In other news, it's almost April. That means I need to finish and post my art journal calendar for the month of April, as part of the Art Calendar 365 challenge, from thekathyrnwheel.

I stumbled across her blog a couple of weeks ago, and bookmarked it, fully intending to get right on making an art calendar for March, but with birthdays and setting up my new Etsy shop , things kinda got away from me. But this time, for sure! I'm already halfway finished with April's calendar, and hope to have it done tonight or tomorrow.

I promise...
...no, really.