Goal Setting - Reaching for the Moon

Today I received an email from FinerMinds recommending this link. I work much better with goals but sometimes I have too many goals in my head. Perhaps I should slow down a bit in order to stay on task. 

http://www.finerminds.com/career-entrepreneurship/goal-setting-motivation/

A year ago Don needed to make a Zentangle® presentation during worship at his church so we made the following video for that particular Sunday using some of his favorite tiles.  It was a lot of fun to make this video and we have enjoyed the outcome. To view it, you will need Quicktime (a free installation) on your computer.

My New Tangle "Joy"

A year ago after showing my neighbor, Barb, how to tangle, I was kind of playing around with some ideas while she was tangling.  She looked at it, said she liked it and called it Joy.  So  . . . .  this is Joy.  It is reminiscent of Ahh!  Joy is also indicative of what tangling has done for me since I retired from teaching.  I always enjoyed teaching so much and was fearful of my retirement.  Rick and Maria's Zentangle art form has really brought much joy to my life. Thanks to them and thanks also to Don McCollum (CZT3) for introducing it to me.

On Saturday, Don and I gave a demo at Artist and Display in Milwaukee.  At these demos we usually teach a tangle, perhaps two, in hopes that people will then sign up for the next class that we have scheduled.  Our next class will move away from our normal classes a bit.  We will use color (first time for us) and we will have a Holiday theme. For the demo on Saturday we used a bell and taught them Bales . . . just the basic Bales . . . no embellishments.  When they finished we told them to use their own creativity to enhance it a bit.  These two pictures are what a few of them came up with.  We found that they all became very creative.  We must have seen over 50 people during the time we were there. It was great fun!  Look for more picture from the Holiday class at the end of November.

Zentangle Demo

We have a demo this Saturday at Artist and Display in Milwaukee.  Hopefully, through this demo we will encourage people to come to our ZIA Christmas with Color class at the end of November.  We will be doing larger than the regular zentangle tiles; the string will be the shape of a bell, Christmas tree, stocking, things like that.  Don and I have not done much with color before so this will be new for us but we are excited about it. Tune in and we'll see what happens.

Zentangle®

The Zentangle® art form and method was created by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas and is copyrighted. Zentangle® is a registered trademark of Zentangle, Inc. Learn more at zentangle.com.


Don McCollum (CZT3) and I (CZT7) have been teaching Zentnagle classes for about a year now.  I was helping him with the classes but now that I am also certified (as of October 13) I am now a co-teacher.  We have lots of classes scheduled for the end of October through the end of November, some new things that we have not done before. It should be exciting!

Halloween

Saturday evening of last week our storyteller's group, Lake Country Storytellers, gave a "concert" of Spooky Stories at Hartland Library.  A varied group was in the audience . . . both young, middle aged, and "mature" folks were there.  Because I am a new storyteller, it was one of the first experiences I have had "telling" a story.  The story I told was "The Golden Arm."  I think I can really get into this. There were 7 tellers there and most were more experienced that I am but it was a lot of fun. I just fear that I will forget part of the story at the end.