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  Zentangle® Tangle Time: WhyApril 17, 2021
  OH MY GOSH did we ever have fun with this new, fun & whimsical tangle from CZT Daniela Nielsen – click Why for my step-out. This is the first tangle she has created, and I can’t wait to see more!!! Click here for the post on TanglePatterns.com. Look …
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  Zentangle® Tangle Time: ZoolooApril 2, 2021
  Zooloo is another looks more complicated than it is tangle. LOVE these kinds of tangles!! It’s easy, but still requires focus; and while it’s easy, you still have to pay attention to what you are doing. Click the links for step-outs or scroll to the end for links …
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  Zentangle® Tangle Time: Courant and OpusMarch 31, 2021
  What a pair of fun tangles!!!! Courant and Opus – both are Zentangle® original tangles. Click the links for step-outs or scroll to the end for links to videos on these. Look at all the wonderful work and the variety of creativity from our Tangle Time sessions. Beautiful!!! …
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  Zentangle® Tangle Time: Lucky and O’KevinMarch 15, 2021
  Earlier this month, with St. Patrick’s day in mind, I thought we’d have fun with the luck of the Irish with the tangle Lucky by CZT Adele Bruno. We also premiered a tangle by my good friend Diane DuRussel, O’Kevin. (Click the names for the step-outs.) Thanks to …
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  Zentangle® Tangle Time: INGMarch 5, 2021
  What a fun time we had tangle-ING, ING!! This tangle was created by Molly Hollibaugh, from Zentangle, Inc. Click HERE to learn more and see the source of the inspiration for (and the naming of) ING. Enjoy the work created at our Tangle Time sessions, and if you …
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  Zentangle® Special Session: WaybopFebruary 21, 2021
  Waybop is a fun tangle that is also a string or a structure in which you can tangle within. It also allows for some really neat tangleations (variations, tangle style). We had A LOT of fun with this. Check out the pictures below. Thanks to everyone that sent …
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  Zentangle® Tangle Time: Antidots & FineryJanuary 26, 2021
  If you are looking for a tangle that helps you with meditation or to get into a mindful state, look for tangles with minimal numbers of strokes. Antidots, by CZT Anita Roby-Lavery is one such tangle. Rocking from left to right, start a new one, rinse and repeat! …
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  Tangle Time: FifeJanuary 11, 2021
  Fife is such a neat tangle and we had great fun with it on Jan 7, 2021 – Our first full Tangle Time of the new year. This starts as a grid of dots that can be looked at 2 ways – a straight grid where you see …
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  Tangle Time: DexJanuary 6, 2021
  Sometimes, I’m just in the mood for a little 3-D, Optical Illusion (Op Art) tangling fun. Tangle Time Dec 24, 2020 was just the time for it, so we explored the tangle, Dex by Zentangle®. Maybe I was hungry while tangling, but to me, these look a bit …
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  Tangle Time: Mysteria and QuibJanuary 5, 2021
  After a super fun Tangled Monograms Class, I decided that it would be fun to further explore the tangle, Quib, as I had tossed that tangle in at somewhat the last minute and I only gave an overview of it. So this week (Dec, 17, 2020), we looked …
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  Tangle Time: OOF!December 31, 2020
  HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I was looking for something festive, special for New Year’s. As I’m looking, I run across this tangle OOF by Zentangle® and immediately heard it in my head like “Doh!” and thought PERFECT! I say OOF to 2020! Although, one of the good things this …
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  Special Zentangle® Session: Tangled MonogramsDecember 16, 2020
  December 15, 2020: Words can not describe how much fun this class was – Only letters can – hahahaha! This is a definite “had to be there” class! No matter how good (or otherwise) your handwriting is, you can have fun with this! First we drew our string …
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  Tangle Time: Hemp and SpringkleDecember 11, 2020
  On Dec 10, 2020 we explored the tangles Hemp by Sandy Steen Bartholomew and Springkle by Zentangle®. (Confirmed – it’s Springkle) I ran across Springkle, looking through my CZT Zenthology, looking for a new tangle to try. This looks fun, I thought. It’s similar to Fescu and Zinger …
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  Tangle Time: Purk and FlorzDecember 9, 2020
  On Dec 3, 2020 we explored the tangles Purk and Florz. I was still thinking about how much fun we had with our festive tangles, and Purk, also seems festive. In my mind, I was picturing Purk as a chandelier (or disco ball) hanging above the dance floor(z). …
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  Special Zentangle® Session: Festive TanglesNovember 30, 2020
  November 17, 2020: We had a LOT of fun and plowed through, maybe, a record number of tangles. hahaha! Rather than creating a tile or a specific project, the objective was to share tangles that lend themselves, on purpose or not, to the festiveness of Christmastime. Click HERE …
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  Tangle Time: SpokenNovember 12, 2020
  Today, the Zentangle® tangle, Spoken really spoke to me. Hahaha! Couldn’t resist that! But it did!! It’s such a neat tangle that can stand alone or become a string where you can fill in the sections how ever you wish. One of my goals in the Tangle Time …
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  10/22 Special Zentangle® Session: Autumn tangles and more…November 3, 2020
  Every year, while others are carving pumpkins, I like to draw on decorative ones – sometimes plastic and sometimes flat wood cut outs. (They last a lot longer!) Also, every year, when doing in-person classes, I would hold a pumpkin decorating class. Had to get creative this year! …
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  Tangle Time 10/29: FassettOctober 31, 2020
  Picking today’s date in the #IntoberTangles2020 list by CZT Stephanie Jennifer, we find the tangle Fassett by CZT Lynn Mead. It’s a wonderful tangle, one of those – looks more complicated than it is – tangles! This is the first time I have used this tangle, and as …
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  Tangle Time: AbukasOctober 18, 2020
  Picking today’s date in the #IntoberTangles2020 list by CZT Stephanie Jennifer, we find ourselves looking at Abukas by CZT CharKat. This is a new tangle for me, and it was fun to learn and share!! Before we dug in, we took a look at CZT CharKat’s post where …
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  Tangle Time: Amarin and Tortuca!October 14, 2020
  In the spirit of Inktober, looking at the tangle recommended for today, Amarin, I decided that I needed to continue what I am calling my “planter phase” where I pair an organic tangle with something that could look like the outside of a decorative planter. I chose Tortuca …
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  Tangle Time: Struzzle!October 5, 2020
  As we move towards colder weather here in Michigan, I get to thinking about fun indoor activities such as doing puzzles. So why not create our own puzzle – with this super cool tangle, Struzzle, by Jo Newsham This is a neat grid based tangle with tons of …
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  Tangle Time: Twing!September 27, 2020
  Add a bit of Twing to your Tangle! Wow, what a nice line/border tangle this is!! A line or border tangle is one that is primarily just that one that goes in a line versus one that fills a space. Now, you could repeat it as we did …
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  Tangle Time: PokeLeaf in the ZanderSeptember 26, 2020
  With the end of Summer approaching, I felt the need to do some Nature-y/Organic tangles. Picking an old favorite, PokeLeaf, and one I enjoyed but hadn’t used in a while, Zander. In my mind, I had set out how I wanted to place these two tangles. Similar to …
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  Zentangle®’s Waybop!September 21, 2020
  Waybop is such a fun tangle! To be able to draw interlocking rings, is amazing. We use one stroke, the curved line, and two techniques, auraing and hollibaugh. The results are fantastic! Because I am not an artist, I found that I needed to add one step before …
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  Tangle Time: Well!September 16, 2020
  Well, getting caught up on the blog. Hope you are well!! On our last Tangle Time, we focused on the tangle Well – and what a fun time we had!!! Another great grid tangle brought to us by the folks at Zentangle®. This one has SO MANY options. …
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  Tangle Time: Which way, Schway?September 6, 2020
  This week we found our inner Escher and explored the tangle, Schway. This is another one of those, easy, but not easy tangles. Takes a little concentration but Oh what fun and Oh so many fun things can be done with this. The video is almost done and …
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  Tangle Time: Fun with Munchin!!September 1, 2020
  This week on Tangle Time we had two times the fun with the tangle Munchin! First we drew it in the traditional, Zentangle style and experimented with shading. Shading from the point and then from the baseline, and shading carefuly from both ends. THEN, I threw everyone for …
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  Tangle Time: Flukes and ShattuckAugust 22, 2020
  This week on Tangle Time we had fun with the tangles Flukes and Shattuck. Flukes is nice in that it has a bit of a 3D effect, looking like scales or shingles (adding shading really makes them pop!!). Shattuck is a nice “nature-y” looking tangle. It’s simple, but …
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  Crazy Huggins!August 19, 2020
  What a fun couple of sessions exploring Crazy Huggins. We started out with Huggins – regular style. THEN we broke the rules and went crazy. Crazy, meaning, it’s matter of randomizing or scattering the dot grid and then adding the “c”s of Huggins, come what may. Occasionally, you …
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  Down the rabbit hole with Knightsbridge and EchoismAugust 15, 2020
  This week on Tangle Time we had fun with the tangles Knightsbridge and Echoism. I hadn’t thought of this until the finishing phases of the tangle, it really made me think of “Alice in Wonderland”. In the PM session, I decided to go “Through the Looking Glass”! View …
• Dingsplatz!July 20, 2020
  Getting caught up on posts here. On July 7th, we focused our attention to this wonderful, hodgepodge of tangles called Dingsplatz. Starting with a loop deloop deloop as the frame and string all in one, and adding tangles inside and outside of the structure. There are three Dingsplatz’ …
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  Tangle Time: Drupe – More than a just type of fruitJune 22, 2020
  Last week we played with the tangle Drupe. In the fruit world, fruits that are fleshy, and have a stone pit, are in the Drupe classification. As I was searching to find where the inspiration came from, the best examples I found was in the peach. I’m thinking …
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  Tangle Time: The HugJune 12, 2020
  The tangle I decided to present on June 4th’s Tangle Time was inspired by how badly, it seems, we all just need a good hug right now. We all know why – so not going there – we all just need a good hug. I have Aunts that …
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  May 28, 2020 Tangle TimeMay 29, 2020
  Every week, we take a small mental vacation with a few tangles. Today we took a walk outside to explore nature. I gave the option to do the 4 corner dots and create a border, and used the tangle Quipple as a string. This week I thought of …
• Tangled Cookies!November 24, 2017
  It’s that time of year again for Tangling on Cookies!!  This is last year’s post from after the event. This year, I thought it would be good to re-post it ahead of time. Check my Facebook page or website for Tangle Cookie event days. Recipes are at the end …
• Put a little creative in your life!!April 22, 2017
  Watch this video! Enough said except for – after you watch it, I’d love to hear your thoughts and reactions.  
• Tangled Cookies!November 27, 2016
  We had another great afternoon Zentangling cookies. The cookies are sugar cookies, some are frosted with royal icing, some were plain. Karen’s: Heather ‘s: Diane’s: Denise’s: Our “Ugly” sweaters. These had no frosting and the pens worked great, just have to wipe the tip frequently for crumbs.  We …
• For France…July 15, 2016
  and the world. As we cry and stand with France over yet another senseless tragedy, I decided to channel my emotions into Zentangle.  As my friends know, I have to have some type of tangle theme in mind, so decided to look for French inspired tangles. You’ll find …
• Netflix DVD Mailer ChallengeMarch 23, 2016
  Earlier this month, I went to put a Netflix DVD back in the mail and it noticed that the mailer was blank on the one side. In the lower right, there was a note asking if you like to draw, to use this as your canvas and you …
• Zentangled Christmas Cookies – What we learnedDecember 29, 2015
  If you’ve been following me or Tangle Addicts on Facebook, you’ll have seen all the excitement as we were inspired by pictures of some henna designed cookies and thought it would be fun to Zentangle on iced sugar cookies. We made several batches with friends and family posting …
• Help us decide the best backs for our Tangle Game, Razzama – tanga!June 14, 2015
  We are putting the final touches on our game, “Razzama-Tanga!” (soon to be released) and are looking for your help to decide the backs of the cards. Each set of cards will all have a different color (wording) back,  So which red, blue, and yellow card do you …
• Welcome to TangleAddicts.comJune 12, 2013
  Hello my name is Heather and I’m a Tangle Addict. I was introduced to ZenTangle by my Mother. I have creative talent, but was horrible at drawing.  Amazingly, I took to this art form and have found that some of the things I’ve created come out pretty good. …

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