This Should Have Been My First Post...

... but it wasn't. Because I was too excited about putting up my responses to the Diva Challenge.

And this should have been my first post because this is the "why this blog" post.

So, why this blog?

I have two other blogs, but they are quite particular. One, History in the Making, is for my genealogy stuff. I really need to get back to that. It's been four months since I last wrote on that. Slack, but there are reasons, just not very good ones. The other, Grasping Nettles, is for my art production, keeping myself on track by going public with my progress. That gets used a lot. This one, Catching the Bug, is specifically for things Zentangle.

There are some tangle posts on Grasping Nettles, in the context of exhibitions. You can read them here, here, here, here, and here if you are interested. But I came to the conclusion yesterday that if I am going to regularly do the Diva Challenges, which is my aim, and as I want to post more Zentangle-related things, I could do with a specific blog. So here it is.

And the title? I am a punner and my son is a literalist. So we have been joking around since January with the idea of the Tangle Bug that I caught being an actual little bug, or beetle. Then Maria Thomas introduced the world to Bijou, so I felt inspired to bring the Bug to life on paper. And now it's gone virtual.

The thing about bugs, and it holds true for this, is that sometimes they are beautiful and fascinating and just what you need in your day, and other times they are really irritating and won't let you be. And won't go away. I have a few bugs, the Tangle Bug being just one. Sometimes I feel like Charles Darwin, one in each hand and one in my mouth, just so I can carry them all (yes, he really did. Boys).

So here's to bugs. And lots of tangling.

Tangle Bug, Megan Hitchens 2014, Bijou tile