Today’s happiness is brought to you by… drumroll, please… dinner! Dinner in general (because the fact that Peter takes care of preparing it always makes me happy), but also – more specifically – today it was the most delicious spiced potato wedges that brought a smile to my face. It had been one of those days where I skipped breakfast and didn’t get around to eating much of a lunch, so by the time dinner rolled around I was absolutely ravenous. Dinner was yummy anyway, but even more so on a relatively empty stomach!
100 Happy Days – Day 18
I was too hungry to actually clean up the plate and take a proper photo (hey, I never claimed to be a food blogger OR pro food photographer!), but rest assured that these potatoes made me VERY happy indeed!
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Now, in terms of life in my little tangling world, I’m afraid today’s Tangled Tuesday post is a bit of a bust. Here we go, such as it is…
New Tangles
Since I’d worked my way through to the end of Yoga for Your Brain by Sandy Steen Bartholomew, I had a look through my tangling library to see what I could tackle next. I had a couple of choices, and in the ended I decided on AlphaTangle: A Truly Tangled Alphabet by the same author.
As it turns out, though, I’m a little disappointed to find that I won’t be able to learn very many new-to-me designs from this book. As I’ve mentioned in the past, there is often overlap and some repetition between the various Zentangle®1 books, and this one is no exception – so several of its designs are ones that I’d already added to my repertoire. Plus, the book is made up of finished and labelled tangle examples rather than specific instructions. I’ve managed to piece together instructions for a number of the designs from both TanglePatterns.com and the author’s Tangle Library iPhone app (more about that in this post), but there are several that I’ve had no luck finding – quite possibly because they are “official” Zentangle designs which are only taught at the workshops and not available online. (Guess I’ll just have to get myself to the workshop to learn them!)
So quite a bit of my time this week was spent on the background work of searching for and printing instructions for my tangle sketchbook, and zero time actually learning new tangles. Ah, well – there’s always next week!
Tangling-in-Progress
I’m afraid that, in spite of my best intentions to complete the last three letters in my tangled alphabet, I only ended up getting partway through the letter X and no further. So… since I have nothing new to share with you, I thought I’d post a few of my earlier pieces. Wouldn’t want this update to be entirely tangle-free, now, would we?! 🙂
ZIA 3
ZIA 8
ZIA 9
Coming Soon
This week’s tangling goals include:
- I couldn’t do it last week, but can I finish my Zenletter collection this week? All that’s left are the rest of X and then Y and Z… well, I’ll give it my best shot!
- Depending on when I finish the alphabet, the next step is to take the originals to be scanned at the print shop so that I can start uploading the designs to various products on Ten Thousand Tangles.
- Continue adding products to Ten Thousand Tangles.
Photograph my previously-completed set of four Zendalas and set up listings to sell the originals in my as-yet-to-be-opened Etsy store.(Sigh. OK, this little project is now ON HOLD while I focus my energies on completing the alphabet series.)
P.S.
Previous posts in this series are all tagged Tangled Tuesday.
For background on how I discovered and got involved in Zentangle, and links to further information and resources, check out my blog post For the love of tangling.
You can browse my entire tangle gallery at Ten Thousand Tangles.
And, if you’re interested in having a little piece of my art for yourself, please click on the GoFundMe button below for more information and also visit my Zazzle shop Ten Thousand Tangles. (Pssst… links to my international Ten Thousand Tangles shops are in the Alphabet Salad sidebar – just click on the appropriate flag and you’ll get to the place you need to be!)
1 The Zentangle® Method was created by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas and is copyrighted. Zentangle® is a registered trademark of Zentangle, Inc. Learn more at zentangle.com.
Laurel – you are SO fortunate Peter makes you dinner. I want that in a man 🙂 But OK I’ll keep the one I have.
Beautiful tangles!!
I’ve had trouble leaving comments the past week. Annoying ads keep popping up and blocking my ability to comment on your site!
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September 30, 2014
I’m sure grateful for a personal cook!
So sorry about the ad troubles – are you using a desktop or mobile device? If it’s mobile, I think the ones that are in use right now are new and BlogHer is probably working out some glitches. Hopefully they settle down soon!
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September 30, 2014
OOH! I want those wedges now 🙂 Love the photograph, Laurel!
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September 30, 2014
Thank you! They were delicious!
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September 30, 2014
The dinner looks absolutely delicious…I have a soft spot for anything with potatoes anyways 🙂 … And the tangles are lovely…Keep tangling Laurel!
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October 3, 2014
I love potatoes as well. 🙂
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I would wear those potatoes out. I would need ketchup, of course.
I hope that did not offend… We are major ketchup consumers in our house.
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October 3, 2014
I definitely like ketchup on things like potato wedges and homefries. For sure!
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Very tempting dinner. Tangles are attractive.
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October 3, 2014
Thank you!
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September 30, 2014
I am hungry now after looking at those wedges!!
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October 3, 2014
I’m hungry all over again, LOL!
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September 30, 2014
Dinner is may favorite meal. I would rather miss any other meal rather than dinner.
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October 3, 2014
For me it’s a tossup between breakfast and dinner – which is why I love breakfast for dinner!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Photo Friday: Curvy + 100 Happy Days – Day 21
Sorry you weren’t able to get to do any new tangles this week, but thanks for posting these older ones! They’re fabulous. From the dates it looks like you were doing these only about a month after you started tangling–that is remarkable. They look so polished, as if you’d had years of experience. Mine aren’t anywhere near that good. Speaking of which, I do plan to post some of my first efforts on my blog soon, though they pale by comparison to yours! And keep working toward that workshop! I know you’ll do it!
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October 3, 2014
Thank you so much for your kind words! I can’t wait to see yours – I’m sure they’re wonderful!
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October 1, 2014
Your tangles are gorgeous, I love looking at them and getting caught up with all the various details.
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October 3, 2014
Thank you so much!
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