Challenge, quote, garage sale

"Life is what happens while your making other plans"

I can't believe how long it's been since I've posted on my blog!  Just as I can't belive how fast this summer flew by. 

The Diva's challenge this week is to use only two patterns:  Knights bridge and Tipple.  Knights bridge has always been one of my favoriate tangle patterns, and I use it in the majority of my zentangle designs.  Here's three tiles I did for this weeks challenge:

A couple of weeks ago, I had a big, successful garage.  I'd put off doing a yard sale for years, usually just donating "stuff" or stacking it in my garage, shed or basement.  Finally the stacks of stuff became overwhelming.  After the sale, leftovers were donated however I must admit that my "packrat's disease" is still showing symptoms as I still have lots of "stuff".  The next few weeks are going to be devoted to organizing.  Wish me luck!

Challenge 130, Quote

 


"Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don't you wonder who sent the flowers?" ~Robert Brault

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"There's an alternative.  There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways.  It's a different way." ~David Carradine



The Diva has done it again - a very challenging challenge (for me anyway).  We were to use only two tangle designs "Opus" and "Cirquital".  Both patterns are challenging - little on combining the two.  Here's my interpretation:

Happy 4th, zentangle, quote

 And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
 who gave that right to me.
~Lee Greenwood

Happy 4th everyone!

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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."  ~Helen Keller

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"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


This is one of my favorite quotes and I may have posted it before, but it fits this weeks challenge by "The Diva's website this week.  The challenge is to create a zentangle design by not using the familiar tangle patterns we are so familiar with.  Thus  . . . .  is it a Zentangle or not?  Here's mine:

 

 

What a challenge!  You must check on The Diva's website button here on my blog and check out all the creative designs this week!

 

 

Quote, Memory

"The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God." ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

In memory of Todd Satterfield, my best friend's son.  May he rest in peace.

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"Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom." ~Merry Browne

 

This weeks challenge by "The Diva" is to use patterns from a grid - "(un)lock the grid".

 

 

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." - Lou Holtz

This weeks challenge by the Diva is to use the tangle pattern called "Bird on a Wire" by Mary Kissel.
When I first looked at the pattern, I wasn't too sure that I'd like it, but I really enjoyed how the pattern flowed.  This was a fun challenge.

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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~Niels Bohr


This weeks challenge by The Diva is titled "ebony and ivory".  

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The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place:  from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.  ~Pablo Picasso

The Diva's challenge this week was so much fun, that I did a second design using the new tangle called Kuke.

Challenge 118- Kuke, quote, sharing tangles

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer. ~Terri Guillemets


 The Diva''s challenge this week is to try a new tangle pattern called Kuke by Katy Abbott.
Here's mine:

 
 

challenge 117, quote

Be nice to those you meet on the way up.  They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down.  ~Walter Winchell, 1932

This is my zentangle created for the Diva's challenge this week.  The challenge is to use a new zentangle just created called "schway".

When I first saw schway, I didn't think I would like it; but once I starting drawing it, it became a pattern that just began to create itself.  

Quote, challenge 114

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands.  But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.  ~Carl Schurz, address, Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1859

This weeks challenge by "The Diva" is to create a zentangle design using the theme "Stars".

Diva Challenge #113, quote

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. ~Walt Whitman






The Diva's challenge this week is to create a design using a square within a square, within a square theme as the design "string".

Zentangle challenge, quote

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~Author Unknown

This week the Diva challenged us to try something we've never tried before using zentangles.

Recently I purchased a small spirograph and have been wanting to incorporate a spirograph design with tangle patterns.  Here's my design:

Quote, Diva Challenge zentangle

Challenge 109   The Diva challenge this week is titled Zenquest.   Here's my take on  the challenge.

 

 

 

Here's my quote for the day:  After spending a couple of weeks with a nasty virus and lots of time in bed recovering, I can attest to this quote!

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving quote, zentangle

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.  ~W.T. Purkiser

A Framed Zentangle, quote

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice? 

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-Bette Midler

Diva Challenge #90, quote

I missed out on last weeks challenge as I've been busy making a king-size quilt for my grandson and his new bride.    As soon as the quilt is finished, I will post it here

This is the "string" given to us by the Diva as the challenge this week: