Weekly Challenge #62

Happy Monday everyone!
First of all, as always - a few house keeping items:

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This week has been very trying for us at Chez Diva... Artoo's throat virus made its way to me, and to Chewie and finally to B-rad - we're all feeling, kinda...uhnnn.... bleh.

Mostly i'm feeling it in the morning and right at night.  There's a nagging cough that just won't go away....

Monday morning B-rad stayed home from work to be with Artoo so Chewie and i could go to the doctor...and let me just say that Chewie does NOT like to have his throat inspected, but even more than that, he hates having his ears touched.  You wouldn't think a 3 year old could be that strong!

  On Tuesday we got slammed with a big fat snow storm. 
 (since i didn't give you any photos last week...here's a bunch for you)

Snow snow snow...

our front steps were completely covered

 The snow had calmed by the evening, and B-rad shoveled and shoveled and shoveled...

AHH!!

Chewie eating an ice cream cone - to stay warm

 And Artoo just slept a lot this week - and had a brief stint of eating nothing but vanilla yogurt for 4 days. 

A week of no sleep and feeling mostly like warmed up garbage.... fun fun fun! We are all starting to feel better, but like i said, this nagging cough - it's the worst.

LUCKILY FOR ME (and for you!) this week's challenge will be brought to you by Certified Zentangle Teacher, Marizaan van Beek, all the way from South Africa!  Let's welcome her! 


Weekly Challenge #62: Sprial Vs Paradox

The challenge is to use spiral together with paradox. Your basic string should be a spiral and tangled with paradox. More than one spiral string can be used.*

*If you follow the Paradox tangle from the lower left quadrant,
the spiral string moves counter clockwise into the center. 
It's really quite elegant.
If you do more than one spiraled string, just be sure to have your main
spiral tangled with Paradox, as Marizaan has done.  -Laura

I posted the challenge Spiral vs Paradox because of my own challenge. At the seminar Paradox proved to be my nemesis. So I am a spiral person and decided to combine the triangle and the spiral just to say I have mastered the challenge.

I used a big spiral as the basic string and drew lines inside the curves to make triangles, and just started tangling.

 Life is about obstacles and Zentangle has proven once again that they can be overcome.

(For anyone who needs help with this tricky tangle, Paradox, Margaret Bremner, my fellow Saskatonian CZT, has a wonderful tutorial on her blog where she demonstrates the method of doing Paradox triangles - you can see it here!! -Laura)

I am from South Africa, have two teenagers, and I am married almost 20 years. I saw Zentangle at a camp 4 years ago from someone that was taking classes from a woman teaching Zentangle - not a CZT. How Ironic is that ? Well I made up my mind that this is what I want to teach because it brings my Social Work background and my love for art together in one teachable medium to people that often feel left out in the art department and in self esteem. So off I went last year in October at the first seminar in Providence and proudly became a CZT#7.

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If you don't have a blog but still want to participate, you can email your tile to me and i will post it here. (See the contact tab above for my email address).  The deadline for each weekly challenge is Saturday night so that i can round everyone up by Sunday. What this means is that i will stop adding tiles to the slideshow on Sunday. You're still more than welcome to do the challenges and add your name to the linkey machine.

I will be more diligent with the linkey machine - by editing out the ones that don't work, the doubles, the links that lead to nowhere, the links that go just to blog home pages (this is why we need those site specific urls), and the spam. And there is some spam.  PLEASE do not put your *home* page in the linkey machine... please? for me??