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...

Molly writes:   Some of you may have heard of the phrase, “thinking outside the box”. This metaphor speaks of a creative thought process that perhaps explores an unknown territory, looks at something from a new perspective, offers a unique approach and steps outside of the otherwise expected way. Encouraging this perspective on brainstorming and problem solving often leads to new and exciting exploration and discovery. I was raised in an “outside the box” house. Every day, every meal, every holiday, every hairdo, even every prom dress was a new adventure. Sometimes I would ask to get back in the box....