Awz

Awz

I have always loved cameras. I took photography in my college days and spent many long hours in the dark room transforming film into print. It was a slow process, unlike today's incredible digital cameras.

When I travel, I take way too many digital photo's. In 2010 I traveled to Australia. I have over 1000 photo's from that trip. It is such a beautiful country.

The photo above is a very large seed pod that I saw on a tree. I have no idea what kind of tree it was. I have spent time on the internet trying to find out, with no luck. So, if any of you reading this are familiar with it I would really like to know what it is. The seed pod inspired the basic structure of the pattern and when I played with it I was awed by its transformation. 

I went ahead and gave this pattern a name to reflect the country and the experience of deconstructing my first pattern.  I was planning on calling it Abuz but changed my mind. You can see where I used it in a previous post here.  It is entirely possible that this pattern has already been put out there by some one else in the tangle world. If it has, please let me know. 

I hope you have an awzome time with it. 

"Grid (un)Locked"

Tangles used = The grid unlocked and Abuzz

Here is my entry for the Diva's Challenge this week. If you have not already read her post you can find it here. She is inspiring and giving in so many ways. Thank you Laura for all that you do.

Of course none of us would be entering these challenges without the beautiful gift of Zentangle. Rick and Maria continue to surprise us with wonderful newsletters and share their beautiful artform. Laura's challenge is based on one of their newsletters wich you can find here.

I would love to have the time to cruise the challenge and post comments on every blog. There is so much to see and be inspired by with every entry. I hope that once July gets here I will have more time for that. Right now I just don't have that time and so the slide shows are great to get caught up with all the submissions. 

Thanks for having a peek. 

Oh yeah, Abuzz is a grid based tangle, but not your typical grid. I will get to that post, but first a visit with my beautiful and precious Mom is in order.