Quandry, Tea Time and Tangle Heart

Tangles used = Quandry, Keeko, Flux, Tripoli, Moocha, Betweed, 

I plan to add to this post in the near future. I am excitedly waiting for a piece of mail to arrive before I finnish this post........ 

...... and it arrived today. It felt like Christmas or my Birthday when I opened the mailbox and found this beautiful envelope from Maria Thomas. 

I won a tile from the Zentangle® blog. I posted a comment and won, which is unheard of for me. I don't usually win things. Now I need to find a very special way to frame this beautiful piece of artwork which you can see here on Maria and Rick's blog. The post is about using tea to add colour and shading to your tile.  The next post tittled Tangle Heart was about using a relief technique when you tangle. I was behind on the Diva's Challenge in which Laura asked us to use Quandry in a tile. I do struggle with that pattern. I have been trying it off and on since CZT™10 without the success that I would like. I still need to practice it some more. I bundled up all my thoughts on those two posts and Laura's challenge and came up with the tile above. I was visiting with my Mother and we shared tea each afternoon last week. I used the bottom of my cup and found a brush in my fathers old studio downstairs to add the tea.  It reminds me of an architectural detail, which was the inspiration for Maria's post.  I know.... you just want to see the tile that I received in the mail, so here it is. 

I have sent Maria a thank you message and asked for her permission to use it here. She said "Of Course. The spirit of generosity in the Community of Zentangle continues to inspire, amaze and comfort me.