GEL

We gave a Zentangle class yesterday at the New York Times center in New York City as part of the Good Experience Living (GEL) Conference.

An expected 30 people in our class quickly doubled and continued to grow. We had brought lapboards for 50 just in case. Pretty soon we were cutting those in half. We also proved in practice that you can create a Zentangle just holding your tile in your hand. If there were no more chairs to sit on, then the floor was just fine - Zentangle's version of standing room only on Broadway!

We met some amazing people and have made some wonderful new friends. Here are some quick shots to give you an idea.

We are so grateful to Mark Hurst and everyone at GEL for this wonderful opportunity.

And . . .

We're grateful for the Flying Karamazov Brothers who taught us to juggle three balls! Seriously. It was part of the conference and both Maria and I who never juggled, can now juggle three balls! Too much fun.

Too Cute

OK, we couldn't not share this email from "C."

Hi,

Just thought I would share this photo.

I wasn't feeling well this afternoon so I printed up a few design patterns from your newsletters, grabbed my pens, paper and a clipboard and headed off to bed to relax.

Minnie decided that mommy should not go to bed alone and soon had swiped my pencil and was studying the patterns!

The photo is not the greatest because I had to snap it with my phone....this girl rarely sits still!

Finally got around to ordering my kit a couple days ago and am eagerly awaiting it's arrival! :-)

Thank you, C (and Minnie). We look forward to seeing what you create!

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Marbles . . .

Loosing and and finding them can be fun.

It was time to replace our front hall table. We combined a treadle sewing machine base and an antique marble table top.

This table top had a deep stain that we could not remove.

So (you do know what's coming next, right?), out came some Sakura® Pigma Microns. We're using black and brown to match this stain.

We coated it with Minwax® semi-gloss polyurethane.

Here's a detail shot. The old marble's porous surface gives the pen edges a nice velvety feel.

We'll show you how it looks when we do some more.

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Newsletter Discussion - April 27, 2010

We just emailed our April 27, 2010 newsletter and we're looking forward to your questions and comments.

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NeedlePointed

Lee discovered Zentangle and now he uses Zentangle tangles and creations as needlepoint pattern inspirations.

Take a look at some of the fun he is having!

If you have questions for Lee you can post them here or email him at the email he asked us to provide, lee.tougas[at]gmail[dot]com.

Beautiful work! Thanks Lee.

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Well aPointed

Molly created these Zentangles with just dots following and flowing from her string. With this you can easily appreciate her strings and the impact of shading.

Looks like anything is possible one "point" at a time, too!

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