Over the last couple of weeks anxiety has raised it oddly shaped head again. My anxiety seems to start when I’m sat in the front of the car and gets a hell of a lot worse on motorways. Especially if there is lots of traffic around. I’ve got to the point where I can no longer look round at what’s going on. I’m now spending my time focusing on my phone looking through Facebook or something like that.

I feel really anxious and worried but my brain starts trying to focus on everything that’s going on. When I say everything I really mean it. The song that’s playing in the radio. The speed of the car. The other conversations that are happening in the car. What ever other car round me is doing. The motorway signs. What the cars up ahead are doing. The blinds spot warning lights. What’s happening on Facebook (if that’s what I’m looking at). What the other people in the Sanntangle Facebook group are doing. What they’re posting and if they’ve read the pinned posts and what they think of me, do they like me or do they hate me? Have I done something to upset a friend? Do they find me annoying and when they see a message from me do they look at their phone and say “him again” ( maybe with a few swear words in their too). And while that’s all happening I’m jumping from thing to thing getting confused and can’t keep up and panic a bit more if a car goes past or if someone changes lane.

I try to distract myself with my phone but you can guess that it doesn’t always work and my brain is still hopping round and the anxiety keeps building.

It’s just as bad when the car is parking. Those reverse distance beep things make me cringe and worry we’re going to hit something. I feel better being in the back of a car but those beeps still make me cringe.

I need to ask that you send love light and healing to some friends. I’ve been sending it and they’ve been put in healing books but the more people that send healing the better.

Linda Taylor – A close friend from knitting had a stroke last week and is in hospital at the moment.

Angie Young a tangling friend and her dad Ken Rhodes. Ken’s been poorly recently and Angie has been running round trying to sort things out. So both need healing and a boost.

As per usual there has been some tangling. Some card making and some knitting. I told you last time I found a pattern. So I’ve been following that. I’m working on the back at the moment and it’s coming along nicely.

So tangling. Here are the things I’ve been working on over the last couple of week’s:

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I received my tile swap from Lesley Wild. Here it is:

Lovely little tile with some great shading and inking of the tile.

So now I should share the tile I did. Here’s a picture of my tile and the letter that went with it:

I’ve done a larger tangle piece too. I made it using the Nonagon Frame Stencil.

I’ve also done a tile that’s been sent to Sandra for the Tangle wall at Hobby Maker:

At this point I would like to present to the world my new Tangle Board.

It’s quite personal because it represents the 4 elements. Air on the right, fire at the bottom, water on the left and earth at the top. Each of the the things on the board represents myself. It is a tangle version of a medicine wheel I made years ago.

Here is the medicine where I made that my tangle board is based on.

I’ve made a couple of cards too:

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Had my hair done again yesterday and I’m embracing the curls.

Someone has asked me a couple of times now if I’ve had a perm. Well I haven’t it’s naturally curly. It can be a little unmanageable at times and goes in my face but I’m liking it. It has got really long though. It’s about shoulder length now but the curls make it look shorter. This might give you a bit of an idea of the length:

And just to finish off a couple of random photos. This is how Zoe sleeps in her bed:

On her back with legs in the air. It makes me chuckle and smile when I see her doing it.

And to finish things off. A nice little winged heart. I die cut the wings playing with ideas for the condolence card and the heart was something random that was floating about on the table. It looks a lot like a mixed media version of Sanntangle Tile 100.

On that note I’ll leave it there.

Love and light.