In May of this year, we honored Mental Health Awareness Month with our annual Bijou Be Well Series. For 21 straight days, we tangled one tangle a day, putting pen to paper for just 10-15 minutes, giving ourselves the gift of creativity and calm. Our surface was a Zentangle Opus tile, the largest tile in the Zentangle collection. Its generous size can feel a little intimidating at first, but there was comfort in that we were all filling these tiles together, one tangle at a time. I have finished Opus tiles before, and I was excited to start a new...

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our third annual International Day of Zentangle! Three years ago, we wondered what it might feel like if tanglers around the world paused at the same moment to put pen to paper together. Today, that idea has become a cherished tradition. Once again, thousands of you joined us from every corner of the world, gathering across time zones to celebrate creativity, connection, and the power of the Zentangle Method.  This year, we tangled polypoli! Polypoli is a distant cousin of the 2026 Tangle of the Year, tripoli. Tripoli is constructed by assembling triangle shapes...

For years, Maria dreamed of an event like this. The images and sounds of the emotional “We Are the World” concert from the 1980's echoed in her thoughts. She thought, what if our Z world came together to tangle at the same time, all over the world? What effects would it have on all of us as artists, creatives, heck, just people in general? So, that’s what Rick, Maria, Martha, and Molly decided to do. Gather with all of you... and tangle!  Now here we are again... on the eve of the 2026 International Day of Zentangle. We are so excited...