Zendala Dare 64

Hello All :) It has been quite a while since I last posted. Life has been a bit hectic lately (but only in good ways). I just started my new job so I'm getting use to a new schedule and it's off season for my boyfriend's work so he gets to work at the office here in town (yay!) instead of traveling all over the U.S. (and sometimes Mexico). We finally got our apartment all in order. Our office has been a box haven since we moved in but we successfully put our desks together and got rid of the rest of the boxes. We had an incredibly lazy 4th of July since it was raining here in Atlanta but I hope everyone else got to see some fireworks!

I'm so excited that I had time to do Erin's Zendala Dare this week. I swear her challenge is my absolute favorite one to do even though it doesn't seem like it when you look at my post history. For me, zendalas take more time to complete so I'm more likely to be able to squeeze a Diva Challenge in. I have a sketchbook I use just for zentangling and I often have many pages of half done pieces, so with the DC it's easy for me to finish off a piece I've already been working on with whatever the particular challenge is that week. With zendalas I have to start and finish one whole piece which is a bit of a challenge for me.

Our challenge was to fill the zendala with tangles that begin with either H, E, A, T or H, O, T. I decided on HOT so my tangles include: onomato, henna drum, twisted rope, ojo, and tagh. When I first saw the template I knew I would unintentionally make it very dense if I let myself so I tried to make it as light and airy as possible.