Julie writes... I find myself in a particularly busy season of life at the moment. All that is happening is good and exciting, but busy none the less. There doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day lately and the to do list keeps getting longer and longer. Last night, I was working on my computer when my eyes started to get heavy. I was closing my computer and getting ready call it a night when I glanced at my to-do list and noticed that I never got around to writing the blog post I meant to for today. I...
Maria writes... Hello all you wonderful, creative, caring, beautiful/handsome tanglers!We recently got a very unusual email here at Zentangle Central. One of our (see above descriptions) tanglers (we will call SF), informed us that we sent her a (most remarkable) legend booklet in her Zentangle Project Pack. Although she (or he) did not notice it right away because he (or she) assumed it was the way it came, . . . suddenly noticed, while watching the Zentangle Project Pack videos that accompanied the materials, that many of the spaces were already tangled! Hmmmm. In the videos, they spaces were empty,...
Bijou and I were talking the other day about how Maria and I say that creativity comes from the heart. Bijou said, “I think creativity comes THROUGH the heart.” “What do you call a well where the water flows out naturally under its own pressure?” asked Bijou. “An artesian well,” I replied. “How do you spell that?” “A-R-T-E-S-I-A-N” “How do you spell heart?” “H-E-A-R-T” “Do you see it?” asked Bijou. At first I didn’t, then . . . “YES! They both have A-R-T!” “I have an idea for a new word . . . put “heart” and “artesian” together and...