Winterland Hasselt

We always try to make a day trip with the family during the Christmas hollidays.  It's always nice to do something together in a relaxed way, we all enjoy these days.  Last year we visited the China Zoo project in the Antwerp Zoo.  You can find a post of it on my blog.
This year we decided to visit Winterland in Hasselt.  We visited the town first in the afternoon and did some shopping, and in the evening we went to Winterland.  It was a nice and beautiful Christmas Market with lots of attractions, beautiful stalls and lights and yummy food.

My husband took a formidable family picture in a kind of superlarge Christmass ball full of light.  You can see the picture down here.  It inspired me to make a zentangle of it.  Nice, isn't it ?  I used the patterns Narwal and Ahh for it.

And here is the picture.

Star wars space ship

This weeks Diva challenge # 216 is to use the pattern 'Brella' (by Bunny Wright).  It's a new pattern for me, but I found it a very pleasant one to do.  And as mai 4th is in America 'star wars day', I made the effort to seek some pictures of star wars I could use for my tile.  I was not aware about this 4th mai as a star wars day, but my housmates surely were ! So, I learned also something about them...

I found a nice picture of a space ship and used it for my tile.  Below I also post the picture I started with.  Besides Brella, I used also Diva Dance, Ahh and Strircles.

Starting point:

Challenges January Square One

In Januray, I made some nice tiles for the challenges of the facebook group "Square One: Pure Zentangle".  I post them all together here on my blog.

First January: Ahh
Ahh... on new years day. Together with ING, Fescu and flux.

Second week: Nzeppel
Nzeppel in a windstrom - as the last days were here. With fricle, agua and printemps

Third week: BB
Out of my sketchbook: BB and Keeko.  I started a while ago to learn all the official tangles and I make a tile of them in my sketchbook.  So BB was already in it. Hope you like it.

Fourth week:Rixty
Rixty was a new pattern to me, but I had a lot of fun with it last week.  Together with copada, tipple, Fricle, BB and Fescu

Wall paper, curtains and Ahh...

In June we were invited by our neighbor girl on her school to visit the exposition of thesis they made to finalize their high school.  She followed an art education, and we were interested in seeing all the things the students made.  In one of the exposition rooms they used a piece of wallpaper as decoration, and I found it so beautiful for a new zentangle.  I took a picture of it and put in my 'zentangle inspiration' album.  (I also took some other pictures, but not worked out in a zentangle yet).

And last week I passed a neigbors house (other neighbors) while fetching some bread at the bakery, and had a good look to their curtains.  Yes, today was the day I  would take a picture of it to make a nice zentangle card of it.  I already saw it many times, but never took the time to stand still and had a good look. So now I did ! Mindfulness you know :)

In the mean time, I got to know the pattern Ahh - as I am learning the official list of zentangle patterns - and Ahh... in a sudden I saw these two things were just a variation on Ahh.  Back at home I made my cards, and I publish them now together.

Here you can see wat I made of it, and I post the original pictures also. I hope it can be an inspiration to you too!

(creation date 2/10/2014)

(creation date 29/6/2014)

And here the pictures (yes that's me in the background)