Counting the Days to Tangle-U and Spring!

          I am very excited that in 48 hours I will be in Northampton, Massachusetts for Tangle-U. This is a special CZT only event. We'll be taking some awesome classes from some amazing teachers and we'll be making new friends, and eating, and shopping, and tangling, and eating, and chatting, and more shopping, and probably more eating! I am most anxious to talk to other CZT's and mine their brains for ideas.

          My "business" has gotten off to kind of a slow start. I was sick and in the hospital for 5 days in December and three days after I got out, Mr. Ed had a major heart attack and a triple bi-pass and was in the hospital for 23 days.  Between that and snowy weather I ended up postponing classes twice.

          Finally had class for 4 lovely ladies. Thank goodness they were patient with me and the weather. They were excellent students too! Their tiles came out beautifully! I was really proud to be a part of their learning.

Zentangle 101 March 11, 2013

Today is the first day of Spring! Yeah! We got over a foot of snow in the last two days. Two snow days in a row! Yuck! I'm thinking some tangling in color might cheer me up!

Really great kids and class schedule!

Today was so neat! I gave a Zentangle 101 class to 10 students at the Brewer Community School.  The kids are part of the gifted and talented program run by Sue Gaitings. The kids did an awesome job. They were polite, enthusiastic and very quick learners. It was great to have the art teacher there too. Jenn Jordan you are terrific.

They learned 6 tangles: crescent moon, static, bales, printemps, hollibaugh, and keeko. The kids did a great job and their tiles turned out beautifully, just check out the mosaic below.

We had so much fun, we're going to do it again in a few weeks.

Upcoming classes:
Zentangle 101:

Monday
February 11, 2013
Brewer Community School
6:00

Or

Monday
March 11, 2013
Same place and time

Class fee is $35.00 and materials are $5.00

Come tangle with me!

Just for you and just for the fun of it!

          In the last month you have cooked and cleaned and decorated and undecorated and bought gifts and cleaned and wrapped gifts and gone to parties and cleaned and eaten too much and maybe even cleaned some more.

You deserve to do something just for you. 

Here is your chance to do something fun, educational and creative. 

It's a Zentangle Class!

Zentangle 101  - *   December 27, 2012
                          *   6:00 pm
                          *   Brewer Community School

This  90 minute class is a prerequisite for all other classes. You will learn the history of Zentangle, its philosophy and several tangles (aka patterns). You will go home with two finished pieces of artwork and hopefully a new appreciation for yourself as a creative being. You will also receive a mini Zentangle kit to take home with you.

            Class fee $35.00

            Supplies $5.00

The class fee holds your place in class and the materials fee can be paid on the night of the class. To register please email me or leave a comment below so I can contact you.

Thanks! I can't wait to tangle with you!

Wow! Sometimes that is the only word for it, Wow!

My life as a Certified Zentangle Teacher should have started in September. Unfortunately life got in the way, as life has a tendency to do. My mind has been percolating for weeks in the ways I could use Zentangle to enrich other people's lives the way it has enriched mine.

Well the percolation has paid off! I attended our school's Holiday Extravaganza today. The parent group invited staff to display their crafts, while the children were singing, and crafting and buying trinkets for their parents. I haven't done a craft fair in twenty years! I almost turned down the invitation, but this was my chance to market Zentangle. I am happy to say, it was very successful and I am so excited!

I have a list of people who I will add to my mailing list and lots of people have shown interest in taking a class.Wow!

First Class is Tuesday, December 27 at 6:00 at Brewer Community School. Please contact me to register for class. I can't wait to see you!

I Goofed!

So I went to the CZT training in Providence, RI and came back excited and invigorated. I gave out lots of my mini moo cards at the seminar that have this blog address on them. So I expected lots of visitors. When I got home I was looking over this blog and decided it really didn't fit my new artistic adventures. I wanted a new look, new name and new address. I promptly changed the name and address, unfortunately that meant anyone who follows Hello Sunshine would not be able to access it. Silly me, I thought people would just get forwarded to the new blog address. So here is your warning: this blog will remain the same for awhile but all new posts will be made on my new and improved artistic blog "My Kind of Sunshine" - It is not up yet, since I have to recreate it from scratch. When I do I will put a link here. :-) Sorry about that.

On-line Scribbling!

Found something that is just too much fun! Scribblertoo is an online doodling program. I am so impressed with my creations. Do I have to give a lot of credit to the program? I did not take time to learn all the ins and outs of the brush types etc. - the one thing I wish it had is an eraser. You can undo your last lines but you can't go back and erase.

Tell me what you think.

Oh Yeah, I downloaded a watermark program - so my name will appear on all my artwork. I need to make it a bit more transparent.  Cool, huh?

ABC or CBA?

The swap task at hand is to create an set of alphabet letters - tanlged in any way we choose. Three letters are to be done every month until the alphabet is complete. Umm, it's summer so my brain doesn't work as quickly as usual but I think that means I'm committed until next April.

When I scanned these together I was careful to make sure they were all facing the same direction - but I didn't get the order correct. This would drive my Mr. crazy. He has OCD and he is so OCD he calls it CDO because that is alphabetical - the way everything should be!

Love to hear what you think. Thanks for stopping by.