ZENT'EGG'LES

How Do You

Zent'Egg'le?

(that's the term I came up with for tangled egg art)

Most of these eggs, my daughter scribbled on when she was younger, and I didn't have the heart to throw them away. So, I tangled over the scribbles.

   I just love Easter! The most important message, that Christ gave His life to free us from sin, is so powerful!!! No greater Love!!!!

   I do enjoy the meaning of the egg this time of year too, and what it represents. Life!!! So I like to think of it as that Eternal Life, that Jesus talks about. 

   The egg is such a beautiful creation, all in its own! To hold the fragileness of one in my hand is such a miraculous wonder. Oh,......... any way, I can go on and on about my passion with eggs. Here I will share a little nonsense info about eggs and chickens that you might want to know.

These are the eggs that we get from our 6 chickens. See the different colors?

Now look at the differences in color. Same 6 chickens and yet the eggs have changed a bit.

   We are so egg cited every day to see what we will find in the nests. On line they call they chickens that lay these kind of eggs, Easter Eggers. Funny, huh? Anyway, I thought I would share a few of the eggs that I have decorated from our Easter Eggers. (If I could, I would blow out every egg we get from them because I find them so beautiful!!!!!, But my family already thinks I'm crazy,......!)

These little beauties, are from my brother's chickens. That are pure white. They are smaller in size because they are the pullet eggs. (When a chicken first starts laying eggs, they are smaller and they are called pullet eggs.)

These are green eggs. It's hard to tell because of the green artwork on them. I should have taken a pic, with them next to a white egg. The chickens that lay these and the blue/green eggs are called Ameraucanas and Araucanas. The blue/greens are my favorite, but for some reason they have been eating them. They are like finding the golden ticket!!

   I used Zentangle patterns on all of these. These are blown out eggs, so they are just meant for decoration. These are the markers that I use.

These can be found at Michaels' stores. Use 40% coupon and get them really cheap.  Click to enlarge image.

   I hope and pray that you all may enjoy the beauty of this Easter Season and all it's meaning!!

Please, go to my post with my free 'Alleluia' coloring page download. Enjoy!

Happy Easter!!

"Christ is Risen,

Alleluia, Alleluia!!!"

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ALLELUIA

Dans Friday

'HAPPY EASTER'

Coloring Page #6

   Easter is just 3 days away! I am ready to say 'Alleluia' and sing praise that 'Christ is Risen!!!' And with that, I wanted to create a coloring page that would show the spirit of Easter!

   Click HERE to get your free download!

       May everyone have a wonderful Easter and may Peace be yours! Please enjoy this coloring page and share it with family and friends!

Many Blessings!

Go put 

some 

CoLoR

into 

 this 

World!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016

Dans Friday

'Happy New Years 2016"

Coloring Page #5

    Happy New Year 2016, to one and all!!! I hope that your 2015 holidays were joyous and that you were able to celebrate them with loved ones! Here in California, we have had quite the cold weather. And by that, I mean it's been getting in the mid 40's at night. Oh, but I have been loving it, I'm not complaining.

   My father's side of the family is Sicilian and we have a tradition that we uphold every new year. We place a head of cabbage for wealth, a loaf of bread for food, and salt for wisdom, on our table, to represent the wishes we ask for in the new year!

   Before I post this month's coloring page, I just want to wish every one of you a very Happy New Year! May it bring you Good Health, Happiness, Love, Peace, Prosperity, Hope and Good Will!

    To get your free download and print this New Year's 2016 Coloring page, click HERE. As you can see, it is a bottle of champagne popped open and all it's bubbly and goodness is flowing, with wishes for the new year! 

Enjoy!!

   

   This month I have some fantastic pictures to show you! I was so excited to see family members taking part in coloring 'The Newborn King' coloring page, from last month. I want to share them with you.

(Done by my 9 year old niece.)

(Done by my 9 year old nieces twin sister. )

(My sister's client's 5 year old daughter.)

       

This one I had colored with my Prismacolor colored pencils and new markers I received for Christmas! :0)

   Again, A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Color on!!!

Go Add

 Some 

CoLoR

to this

World

!!!

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JUST A TINY TASTE

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge #243

'Just a Tiny Taste'

Haha, and you thought it was going to be about eating,...........Nah!!

   This week's challenge, the Diva, Laura, has asked us to give just a sample of tangling on a tile (hence, just a taste of tangling').  I actually love having open space on tiles, so I enjoyed this challenge very much!!

    As a little girl, I would make my own stationary. (What little girl does not like pretty paper and pens?) So for stationary, I would always give some kind of border and then add a little something in a corner. Then on the envelop I would add a touch of, matching whatever it is was that went with the stationary. Before email, everything was snail mail (sorry Bijou, no offense). I think that is why stationary was such a hit. The prettier the better. Sometimes though, I would receive some as a gift and I wouldn't want to use it because it was too pretty. (Sound familiar, anyone?)

   So this week, I made stationary cards to hand out for Thanksgiving. I told each of my children that they had to think of someone that they wanted to 'Thank' in a special way, and we would send them a card. So for the challenge, I left off the words that will go in the center of each card. I had so much fun, that I know I will be making more! 

(feel free to click images to enlarge)

   I have been busy! But I wanted to give the kid's teachers something for Thanksgiving. They have such wonderful teachers and I am always so impressed with the way they inspire and feed my children wealths of knowledge!! A many thanks to all teachers!!!!

It was difficult to find the best lighting for these. My mother and I would make these kind of hanging trio eggs and give them at Easter. We would, mostly, do Pysanky Eggs.

Again, these are eggs that our chickens are laying. They are so pretty all in themselves, that I cannot crack them and throw them away. :0/

   

   Please, don't forget that it is Dans Friday, here at The Art Zenter! Click HERE to get your free download for November's coloring page, 'Give Thanks'.

   Have a wonderful weekend and may we all be reminded that there is always something to be thankful for!!! 

   Speaking of thanks,........THANK YOU,...for all the lovely rays of sunshine left on my blog last week. Hugs to all!! ((((hugs)))) :0)

Now,

go put

 some 

Zen

into this

TaNgLeD

world

!!

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GIVE THANKS

Happy Dans Friday

"Give Thanks"

Coloring Page #3

   November is already upon us and almost half way gone! On November 11th, we celebrate Veteran's Day here in the US. It is a tribute to all the brave men and women who have given their lives for our country and our freedom, and all the privileges we have in our wonderful country!

   We also celebrate Thanksgiving, a holiday to commemorate a harvest festival celebrated by the Pilgrims and Native American Indians, in 1621.

   We have so much to be thankful for! I know I do! My family, my faith, my talents, my home, water, food, and the list goes on,............it is endless! So please as you color this month's coloring page, reflect on all the wonderful things you are blessed with and want to give thanks for. 

   Maybe, once you have colored your page, you'd like to give it to someone to say thanks. Or give it to someone as a gift to color it themselves. Whatever you do, "Enjoy"!! A many blessings and thanks to all who visit my blog and continue to inspire me and keep me motivated to share my talents!

   To get your free "Give Thanks" download, click HERE

   I hope you enjoy this coloring page and please share you blog or website address with a finished picture of this month's Dans Friday picture!

   I almost forgot! Here is my finished colored picture of "Trick or Treat", last month's coloring page!

click to enlarge

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add some

CoLoR

to this 

world

!!

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T_H_A_N_K_S.......... ZENDALA

The Bright Owl

Weekly Challenge #115

with Erin

   I just fell in love with this week's template! Right away I was going to use Mooka and brake up those bumps on the outer perimeter,.....but wait,.............Erin threw us for a loop and made the challenge an even bigger challenge!!!!!!!! WHAT????? Hahaha, just kidding'. But I do have to say, I was a little stumped this week. Thank goodness for Linda Farmer's, Tanglepatterns.com! Erin asked us to not only use her template, but to use tangles that began using the letters in T_H_A_N_K_S.

   So I used TanglePatterns to look up these lettered tangles. Linda's website is like using the dictionary but it's for tangles. If you haven't visited her site, I strongly recommend it because it is such a fabulous resource in the tangle community.

   The tangles I chose were Twile (also known as Stoic), Hypnotic, Agua, Narwal, Kelp, and Showgirl.

Here it is without color. Click on image to enlarge.

   

I used Recollections Signature Especial markers for the color. They have a really fine tip on one end and a brush tip (which I absolutely love) on the other. (They might be just a Michael's brand????)

  If you are a Zentangle junkie and would love to challenge yourself, with yet another challenge, then you should try out the Zendala Dares. I once was afraid of zendalas but now I look forward to see what Erin puts in front of us every week. So much enjoyment!!

   Have an awesome weekend and I will see you 'round the corner!

TaNgLE

your

way

a'round 

a

Zendala

!! 

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GOURDGEOUSO!!!

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge # 242

New Official Tangle: Gourdgeous

   Well, it was a crazy busy week last week and this week set me off to be a little under the weather and welcomed me with a root canal. (yuk yuk yuk) So if you'd like to pass up all my exciting happenings and scroll down to my Diva entry, please do so at any time. (But I promise, I will not include info about my root canal.) (yuk yuk yuk) 

   So my daughter's kindergarten class had a field trip to a pumpkin patch, Mind you this is my 3rd time getting to go, because of my other two kids. :0) I love going on field trips with their school and love helping out any time I can, because I get to meet their friends and get to know the teachers a bit better. (The privileges of being self employed, I guess.)

Here we were on a hayride!

   Then we had our first Halloween celebration! Can you guess the theme we chose this year?

Please feel free to click on images to enlarge.

     Well, at that celebration, there is always a very gigantic pumpkin they have and everyone gets a chance at guessing the weight of it. So guess who guessed the closest weight? You got it, ME!!!

So I'm not going to tell how much it weighed until next week's challenge, but do you think you might be able to guess it correctly?

There it is in our van.

Here my client is standing with it. Just to give you an idea of how big it is, next to a grown man.

   Now it was 'Say No to Drug Week' at my kid's school so they had a different dress up day every day, but I won't include all of that. I also got chosen to go on another field trip this time, with my son, to the Safari Wild Animal Park. (I am having waaaaaaay too much fun, right?)

This was just one of my favorite creatures we got to see.

 

These are just little 'do' drop zenisms that I left around the zoo, and on the bus for people to find.

   And last but not least, my entry for the Diva Challenge. I thoroughly enjoyed this new tangle. Anything that is more on the organic side of tangles, become my favorites!!!!

tangles; 'gorgeous' 'blooming butter' and a form of mooka

 

I still have a passion for doing artwork on eggs, and I thought this new tangle would look great on one. To find the step outs for Gourdgeous, go HERE

My array of different fall eggs. All the brown ones are coming from our chickens. We are getting 3 a day now. They are all so pretty just in the raw, that I can't use them with cracking them. So I blow them out and keep the beautiful shells to be used as a canvas!! (Yes, my husband thinks I'm crazy!!)

   I sure hope I didn't bore you! Please keep an eye out for my blogpost about all of my Inktober creations. What a fun idea that is. If you didn't join in on Inktober this year, give it a try next year!

   I love reading all of your uplifting comments that you leave on my blog! Thank you Very much!! 

Blessings to all and I will see you next week!

Go

put some

Zen 

into this

TaNgLeD

world

!!!

:0)

TAKE THE ZENDALA DARE

The Bright Owl

Zendala Dare #114

with Erin

   I guess I can say, "better late than never!" It was a crazy, busy week so I didn't get to this week's challenge until today! Thank you so much Erin for another fun template!

Feel free to click on image to enlarge!

  Thank you all for your friendly messages!! I'm off to view everyone's blogs to see your version of this awesome template!

TaNgLe

your 

way

a'round' 

a

Zendala

!

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ZENDALA OF FALL

The Bright Owl

Zendala Dare #113

with Erin

Go to The Bright Owl and download your Zendala Dare!

   It's been quite the busy week,.......and yet,........I didn't get any housework done! :0/ Actually, I take that back, I got ALL of my laundry done. (And yet, if you looked in the laundry baskets in each bedroom it would be depressing, because there are already dirty clothes in each one!!! Yeeeeeks!!!!)

   Anyways,...when I saw this week's template, I wasn't too sure about it. I kept going back to it and looking at it, thinking, "what am I going to do with it?" Well, once I traced it and the pencil markings were on my paper, it came to life! I tend, NOT, to use all the lines that are on the template and/or if I do, I just restructure them.  

   Thank you Erin for always giving us such interesting templates to play with. I really feel I'm breaking through a lot of my own personal challenges because of them!

Here is my zendala without shading and without color.

I used  my Faber Castell Gelatos to watercolor this.

   When I trace Erin's template and transfer it onto my page, I always pick the largest template. The artist pad that I use is the Canson Mix Media XL. It is 7x10 inches and is 98 lb weighted paper. I really love it and the large template always fits so nice on it. But I usually have a strip of solid white to the right of my zendala. So I have been filling them up with a couple Bijou size squares. And putting a bit of inspirational words along with them. So here's what this week's space filler looked like. (I stayed with the fall theme.)

   I am still learning how to use my Faber Castell Gelatos. I have never taken art classes so a lot of this mixed medium stuff,..........I'm still learning. But it's fun and I enjoy looking at my past blog posts and seeing that I am making progress. (baby steps) 

   Anyways, enjoy your fall weather! If your on the opposite side of this planet and you're having spring right now,..... Enjoy !!!!!

   Thank you, one and all, for your uplifting comments! I will see you all next week! WE have our first Halloween party this Sunday. Stay tuned to see pics of what our theme is this year! :0)

TaNgLe

your 

way

a 'round'

a

Zendala

!!

 :0)

LEAVES, LEAVES, BEAUTIFUL LEAVES

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge #240

"Birthday Leaves for Artoo"

   "Happy 5th Birthday Artoo!!!" This passed weekend Laura, The Diva's youngest son had a 5th birthday celebration!!! It is always so nice to see her updates with her children and family, on her blog. I think with all that celebrating, though, Artoo ended up getting sick. So, lots of well wishes are going out to the birthday boy!!! Hope you feel better soon!!! :0)

   As a part of Artoo's birthday fun, he and his little celebrators were playing in the leaves outside. So that inspired Laura to give us a challenge surrounding leaves. Her challenge is to use colors of fall, tangles that look like leaves, tangled leaf zia's and/or anything that is fall inspired. I just love fall, and these kind of challenges just warm my heart. The colors, the smells, the feeling in the air,........everything about fall, I LOVE!!!! 

   Last year I had quite a lot of fun tangling on real leaves. I think I ended up flattening and drying out about 50 leaves from last year, to work on for future projects. (It's so hard to pass up a perfect leaf that has fallen on the ground, and not pick it up.) Anyway, if you'd like take a peak at my sister blog, Call it What You Quill, HERE, you will see leaves I tangled last year.

The background is actually handmade scrapbook paper that I have had stashed away.

   Here are the tools that I used for these leaves.

I just love brush pens. The black ink is from a Faber-Castell brush pen. (I forgot to add it to the pic.)

Hope all is well in everyone's neck of the woods! We've got Halloween, fast approaching! Yeeeeks!!! I think we have decided what we are going dressed as for the festivities. Easy year for me, no face painting and no making costumes. (Nice, but it doesn't help me get in the mood.) Have an awesome week and hope to see ya' all around, next week!!! :0) Hugs

Go put

some

Zen

into this

TaNgLeD

world

!!

 :0)