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Chris Titus, a CZT in New York, sent us this warm and intimate look into a Zentangle class she gave.

Here's the LINK.

Pour yourself a comforting cup of something and settle in for some enjoyable minutes.



Thank you for sharing that, Chris!

Back Pocket

One of our (local) fabulous CZTs stopped by yesterday morning. She is working with teachers to use Zentangle to help students relax and focus before taking tests.

One of the many profound stories she relayed was that students she had worked with were comforted merely knowing they had Zentangle to fall back on, to "have in their back pocket" when things went awry.

We've heard many stories about how comforting creating a Zentangle tile can be.  For these students, just knowing it was there was a comfort, too.

Very cool!

Click image to see larger version of the tile Maria created in celebration of this story.

More Show and Tell (CZT-8)

Here are some more images that will round out our time at February's teacher training.

Here is a mosaic of one of our workshop sets of tiles. The are mounted on a muslin coated foam-core display. We use straight pins to hold the tiles without putting holes in them.

At one point, Molly taught some of her tangles:

Here's Maria, during a break, showing how to do punzel:

We played with tangling on fabric. Here Maria is lettering some strings:

On the screen you can see one of the bar coasters from the hotel. We tangled a bunch of them and they are now framed and hanging in the hotel. Here's a look at some of them:

Everyone contributed to a group Zentangle which was framed and then this lucky student got to take home!

As you can see, we had a wonderful time. This was our third seminar in February and our weather luck continued. There was no snow on the ground and it was in the 50s . . . amazing weather for February in New England!

We open registration in about a week for our next two teacher certification seminars, August 12 - 15 and September 23 - 26. We'll announce it in our newsletter and in this blog.

Click to enjoy some larger images.

Show and Tell (CZT-8)

We always look forward to seeing the Zentangle inspired creations that students bring to seminar. Our recent CZT seminar was awash with inspiring visual treats that students brought to share.

Here are eight images from our eighth seminar:

We encourage everyone to bring items to exhibit no matter how small or how new you are to Zentangle. This a custom that has spontaneously developed. It's not a requirement, but we all learn something from everyone's work.

There is always a wide range of Zentangle experience in our classes. There will be people who have been exploring Zentangle for years. Then, there will be people who literally heard about Zentangle a week earlier and just knew they had to be here. All have a wonderful time.

We're planning two more classes for this year (August and September) and we'll open registration in about a week.

More to come in our next blog!

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CZT - VIII

Please join us in welcoming another group of amazing individuals to our growing family of Certified Zentangle Teachers:

We will be posting some more pictures of this recent CZT conference very soon.

Over the next few days these folks will begin appearing on our CZT page.

More soon!


Click image to see some wonderful, passionate and creative individuals!

2 4 Today

We're running around getting ready for seminar. We still find time to tangle.

Here are two that Maria just did . . . no words necessary!

Enjoy!

Much more soon.


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Breakfast at Valentine's

Maria got up early this morning. When I got up, this was on our kitchen table:

We also traded limericks. Hers is much better (and more shareable :-).

From a small part of this planet, home to the first Valentine's Day Card, the Smiley Face, Zentangle and many other notable events . . .

Happy Valentine's Day to all!





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