This has been another busy social week, so I wasn’t able to do much in the way of tangling until yesterday (my day off) – but never fear, for tangle I did, and I have plenty of tangly goodness to share with you! Welcome to another Tangled Tuesday!
Shop!
As you may know, I’ve signed up to attend a CZT (Certified Zentangle Teacher) seminar in June 2016, and one of the ways I’m planning to earn the money to pay my fees is through the sale of my tangled art, both as prints and also on a wide (and I do mean wide!) variety of products.
This week I’m excited about a brand new product that’s now being offered at ArtofWhere – beanies! I spent some time creating a beanie for each of the designs I’m currently showcasing on ArtofWhere, and thought I’d share a sampling of them here.

Beanies on ArtofWhere
Aren’t they fun?! You can check out my full collection of beanies here… and any time you’d like to browse through my entire selection of tangled goodies, click on * shop! (in the menu below the Alphabet Salad header) for a list of my online portfolios and storefronts.
Thank you for your support!
New Tangles
This week I learned Gourdgeous and Chechain, both from TanglePatterns.com.
I also learned Niuroda by Akua of Akua-Art, and Sand by Adele Bruno, CZT of Tickled to Tangle.
Challenges
I started out with joey’s weekly tangle challenge #85, which was to use Verdigogh in a monotangle. I actually learned this pattern early on in my tangling journey, and enjoyed using it again in this week’s challenge tile.

Zentangle 106 for joey’s weekly tangle challenge #85
Then I moved on to Diane & Carolien’s Weekly Challenge #30: Tangle with O-A-C, choosing the tangles Orange Peel, African Artist, and Chechain. All three patterns were ones I’d previously learned but had not yet had a chance to use in a finished project, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to do so… unfortunately, though, I totally messed up on Orange Peel – so I guess I’ll have to try again on another project!

Zentangle 107 for Weekly Challenge #30: Tangle with O-A-C
Next was The Diva’s Challenge, in which we were to try out the new official tangle pattern Gourdgeous.

ZIA 60 for The Diva’s Challenge #242
Finally I completed Zendala Dare #114 from The Bright Owl.

ZIA 61 for Zendala Dare #114
Now on to a new week of tangling!
P.S.
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.
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 Ten Thousand Tangles portfolios and shops on ArtofWhere, DeviantArt, Etsy, Redbubble, Society6, Spoonflower, and Zazzle. (Pssst… links to my international Ten Thousand Tangles shops on Zazzle are on my “shop!” page – just click on the appropriate flag and you’ll get to the place you need to be!)
How have you been creative this week?
Please share!

Twitter: Wordwrights, Ink
November 3, 2015
Oh. My. Word. You continually amaze me! And love those beanies! 🙂
Diane recently posted… Play On
Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 4, 2015
They’re rather fun, aren’t they?! I wish I was more of a hat person so I could get one for myself.
Laurel Regan recently posted… Tangled Tuesday No. 66
Wow, very nice challenges! And the beanies are cute too! At first I thought you drew one Verdigogh and copied it to form the four corners but then I looked at it more closely and I see each one is different! It’s beautiful!
~ joey ~
Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 4, 2015
Thank you very much!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Tangled Tuesday No. 66
Those beanies are so cute. What are they made of? Are they soft? I love Verdigogh, too, and your tile is lovely–so symmetrical. These challenges are tempting me to get back to practicing tangling!
Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 4, 2015
I think there are a couple of different fabric options, all of which sound very nice. I’d love to get one for myself, if only I was more of a hat person!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Tangled Tuesday No. 66
I too love those beanies, I had to take a second look to check they had been tangled. What a great Gourdgeous tile too, it works really well on the black.
Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 4, 2015
Thank you so much! 🙂
Laurel Regan recently posted… Tangled Tuesday No. 66
Twitter: Boomeresque
November 3, 2015
You are awesome—and must be incredibly organized. I’m so impressed by your ability to have a real (day) job and turn out the amount of high quality art work that you do. It’s all I can do to manage the Diva challenge each week. I’m so glad that you signed up for a CZT seminar. I think you’ll enjoy it, meet like-minded people and perhaps spark a Zentangle teaching career.
Suzanne Fluhr recently posted… Philadephia’s Magic Gardens
Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 4, 2015
I’ve noticed it getting more challenging now that I’m working more hours each week… thankfully I still have Mondays off, though! Thank you for your very kind words. 🙂
Laurel Regan recently posted… Tangled Tuesday No. 66
Love the gourdeous on black tiles it really shows up doesn’t it.love the tangled beanies too.great idea to sell your art and products to fund your czt training 🙂 you may have given me some ideas for a few years time when baby starts school!:) I will get there eventually…
Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 4, 2015
Thank you so much! I hope it works out for you. 🙂
Laurel Regan recently posted… Tangled Tuesday No. 66
Twitter: obsessivemom06
November 3, 2015
I am amazed at the range of products you come up with. The beanies are very cute.
Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 4, 2015
It’s always exciting when one of the shops starts offering a new product!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Tangled Tuesday No. 66
beautiful tiles, great work
Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 4, 2015
Thank you!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Tangled Tuesday No. 66
beanies, tiles, oh my. i came to see the verdigogh and spent several minutes looking at all this fun. (your verdigogh is great, so is gourdgeous, which i haven’t tackled yet)
Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 4, 2015
Thank you so much! 🙂
Laurel Regan recently posted… Tangled Tuesday No. 66
Love your designs 🙂 I have tried my hand at tangles as well – but oh well, I don’t want to talk about at all (if you know what I mean)
Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 4, 2015
Thank you! Oh dear… maybe some day you’ll feel like giving it another try!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Tangled Tuesday No. 66
So much done and so beautiful! I like the Gourdeous on black, it’s very elegant. The zendala is lovely as well.
Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 4, 2015
Thank you so much!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Tangled Tuesday No. 66
these would look so fabulous as wall frames 😀 Loved the patterns in the last one 😀
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Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 4, 2015
Thank you so much!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Tangled Tuesday No. 66
All are very lovely! Especially I like your Gourdgeous in the black paper … it´s very elegant!
Annette P. recently posted… Gourdgeous – Challenge #242
Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 7, 2015
Thank you so much!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Photo Friday: Minimalism
Beautiful beanies ánd tiles! Especially love your Zendala dare.
Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 7, 2015
Thank you so much!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Photo Friday: Minimalism
All of them are very nice 🙂
Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 7, 2015
Thank you! 🙂
Laurel Regan recently posted… Photo Friday: Minimalism
Cute hats!
Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 7, 2015
Thank you!
Laurel Regan recently posted… Photo Friday: Minimalism
Twitter: CorinneBlogs
November 9, 2015
Those beanies are so cool. I love how your art is taking off!
Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 11, 2015
Thank you!
Laurel Regan recently posted… In Flanders Fields
Twitter: DianeClancy
November 29, 2015
Laurel, what a delightful set of tiles!! Your O-A-C is cool … I have to look a couple of them up 🙂 And it really works!! I am in awe that you can do the Joey tangle so easily and well – congrats!! Your Diva is beautiful!! 🙂 🙂 Thank you for joining in!!
~ Diane Clancy
http://www.dianeclancy.com/blog/2015/10/my-diane-caroliens-o-a-c-challenge-entry
http://www.dianeclancy.com/blog/2015/11/my-joeys-monotangle-verdigogh-challenge
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Twitter: alphabetsalad
November 30, 2015
Thank you so much, Diane!
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