Weekly Challenge #383: "New Official tangle: Ratoon"

Ratoon was on my to-try-list so this challenge gave me a push to work on it this week. First seeing Ratoon  I thought it looks complex  but really it is not hard at all when following the directions. After a little practise I got the hang of it.  Decided to make several Ratoons on my tile. More practise for me.  Since it snowed last night and snow had formed ice crystals on my attic window this morning, I named  my tile "Snowflake Ratoons". 

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Weekly Challenge #382: Stripes o plenty

This week's challenge is to use a string of stripes. 

Done it the easy way, no movement in the tile

but it was just fun tangling on this rainy Sunday. 

Tangles used: Knight's Tri, Inlay, Basilica, Square Grid, Nzeppel, Cadent Grid and Florz.

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Weekly Challenge #381: "A Happy (new) Medium"

This week's challenge is to try tangling with a medium you haven't tangled with before. the idea what came up first was my Tombow pens I used before my Zentagle period when I was a stamper. these pens have a brush tip and a fine marker in one. I had not used these pens for quite a time and some had dried out but I still could use a few colors. It didn't turn out to my liking.

So another idea popped up. I could use a stamp!! I found a window stamp. 

and this is how it turned out.

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Weekly Challenge #380: Spundala...Zendala....Zenbuttonz....it's a circle.

Best wishes for 2019!!!

2019 has just started and I noticed that I haven't  participated in  I am the Diva Challenge since 02/13/2015. I haven't done so much tangling lately. I think this will be my New Year's resolution:  picking up Zentangle again.  I read that a third of resolutions don't make it past the first month. Don't let myself get discouraged of that.  

Laura, the Diva, leads  her challenge to all Zentangle enthusiasts into her 9th year now. 

The first challenge for 2019 will be a circle. She got the idea from a friend who used a paint spinner to make spundala's. I don't have a paint spinner,  I will be looking in thriftstores, maybe I find one and try to use it to add color and have some fun with it with my grandkids.  For now it came out as a plain black and white one. 

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Space-A trip to USA, Spring 2017, Part 3

It took almost 1 1/2 year before I finished part 3 but here it is finally.

After we arrived in Ramstein, Germany, we reserved two nights at the base lodging facility. There was a volksmarch on Saturday in Ramstein Miessenbach, organized by the Ramstein Roadrunners Volkssport Club.

We walked the 16 km route. 

In spring you see these flowering rapeseed fields everywhere. It's a spectacular sight across the country.

We walked through small villages.

Lots of fruit trees where blooming

Apple blossom.

We walked the dark green route

The next  day we drove home and got stuck for an hour in a traffic jam due to an accident.

Happy to arrive home safe afterwards.

Another great trip to USA. Although you don't always catch the flight you want, flying Space-A is the way !!!

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