Update!

Thanks for stopping by and praying. They didn't take the breast. She is going through treatments. Not sure what is going to happen in the future. Please keep praying! We got a virus and my blog didn't show up. Not even when I put in the address. The compu- ter is still a bit iffy and so is getting to my blog. Hope everyone had a very blessed Christmas and has a Very Blessed Happy New Year full of God's Blessing's!!! Rene on my prayer list at right is cancer free but still needs prayers!!! Keep Praying for Ninnie and the others on my list to please!!! Pray 4 {DIL} too!!!

Needing Prayers!

Dear daughter-in-law has breast cancer. Please pray for her! She is having breast removed on December 8th. So pray on the 7th if your in the United States because of the time difference. And before and after that date too! God Bless & Thanks for Praying!!!

Linen Blouse

Comments open at {Natrual Dyes}. I finished this blouse using a pattern out of {Sew Liberated} twenty stylish projects for the modern sewists by Meg McElwee. This one does not have the puffy sleeve that the pattern called for. I made one blouse using mater-

ial, one using a recycled shirt and this one pictured here was made out of a vintage table linen.

Natural Dye for Linen

I used natural dyes on this blouse I made with a table linen to cover up the stains that were on it. The embroid-

ery threads got a little muted, but at least the colors didn't turn all one color. I didn't want to use commerical dyes because I thought they would for sure turn the embroidery threads all one color. I used dan-

delion and some other natural dyes before settling on using tea. I just wasn't getting it dark enough to cover the stains. I need to learn a bit more about natural dyes. Do some experimenting. I lost my other blog entry trying to add this pic. I never saved the before pic. It is fun to experiment with natural dyes. I was able to turn the trim so it would show on the outside of the underarm of both the sleeves. I was happy with the results when finished with this project. {Pray 4}

Please Keep Praying!!!

Please Keep Praying for All the People on My Prayer List!!!

Pop-Up Card

You can find a link to instructions and patterns at the ship pop-up I made here: {Robert Sabuda}. I find that double sided pattern card stock works well for these cards if you don't want to go through coloring them. I added a ribbon and made the card a little longer than it was suppose to be because the candles were sticking out a little bit above the card when I shut it. I just glued ribbon to a strip of cardstock and glued it to the card in the middle. I used glue stick & doublesided photo tape. There is a cute reindeer I might try for Christmas next year. You might check out One Pretty Thing blog for another doe and fawn pop-up card that looks a little easier. I might try making both next year. Just remember that if you are going to mail them they just might cost you more postage to do so.

Paddle to the Sea

I enjoy watching this fun video about a little boy who had a dream.

New Books & Sketches

Katherine Dunn's {Creative Illustration Workshop} & {Mice that Love} New Sketches at: {Magnetic Sketch}

Hoxsey Cancer Clinics

This morning I started reading, When Healing Becomes a Crime The Amazing Story of Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Therapies by Kenny Ausubel Forward by Bernie Siegel, M.D. I met someone who went to this clinic years ago, who was cured of cancer. I had written the name of the clinic down on the inside cover of a notebook. I came upon it while looking through some of my notebooks. So I decided to looked it up and the book came up, so I looked into seeing if the public library had it. It did, so I checked it out. I've got books from other states also, so check out your interlibrary loan if your public library doesn't have the book. Read it! Here is a Documentary Film to watch for free online: {Hoxsey How Healing Becomes A Crime Documentary}

Free Harmonica Lessons

Learn How at:{Jack's Harmonica Page} There is all kinds of different types of songs to learn at this site. Just scroll down the page and check them out at the link. The harmonica is a great instrument. ~Toots Thielemans

Make it @ Home

{Sustainably Raw Food Blog} shares non-toxic products you can make at home.

Red Clover Syrup

I canned {Red Clover Syrup} this morning . Thanks JoyceAnn for the recipe!! I used some of the leftover that wasn't enough to fill a jar, on apple bread french toast. My apple bread was a little dry so I thought I'd make french toast with it. Turned out yummy.

Alkaline vs Acid

While trying to find some information on Vinegar, Cornmeal & Alkali this website {Alkaline Vs Acid} popped up that sparked my interest, about diseases. I bought myself this: {Home Test PH Kit}, but when my son was here I ended up giving it to him to use. Edited in 8-22: Watch this movie: {Food Matters} There is men- tion of cancer & Vitamin C. Vitamin C not taken by mouth but another way. You'll have to watch the movie. There are other natural cures and I know it's not for everyone. It's your own personal choice to make. One thing I know about cancer is to stay away from sugar. Sugar is fuel for cancer and candida. They love it and it makes both cancer cells and candida grow. Not a good thing to eat. I'm not a doctor and I can't give advice. But learn all you can about cancer so you can make better health choices and better food choices. Also focus on the people who beat cancer and not the ones who didn't. I am switching to natural cleaners for the home, because they are the healthier choice. GOD BLESS YOUR HEALTH IN JESUS PRECIOUS HOLY NAME, AMEN!!! I know some people do not believe in GOD because they do not see Him, but that doesn't mean He doesn't exist. You can't see the air you breath either but it is there all the same. I believe in Him. I've went through a lot of hardship in my life, and the number one relationship I've been able to count on is GOD, even if things didn't turn out the way I wanted them to. He has always been with me and He promised to never leave me.

Apple Butter-Crisp-Rings

I made a couple of pint jars of apple butter from a recipe out of the cookbook, Just a Matter of Thyme. There was a recipe for an apple crisp but I had ran out of flour and butter. So my substitutes were olive oil and homeade oatmeal cookies. I added I think it was a 1/4 c sugar, a few shakes of cinnamon and lemon juice from a half lemon to the apples. I crumbled two or three oatmeal cookies over the apples and mixed it up as my substitute for flour, then I crum-

bled some oatmeal cookies into a separate bowl added a little sugar, a little olive oil and mixed it up and added it on top of the apples that I had in a baking dish. Than I baked it. Yummy! I got the dried apple recipe from the book, {Possum Living}. {Thistles}

Ninnie's Journey

{Journey Through Breast Cancer} is Ninnie's Journey. Please keep her and the other's on my prayer lists at right in your prayers.

Ants on Thistle

Can you see the ant? Not sure what the ants are doing up there on this thistle, but I do see little dots that look like eggs or something. Maybe they are going to eat the eggs. They are red ants. There is more than one but the other one is out of site. Quote: “Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.” ~Guru Nanak. This link to: {Eat The Weeds} I will eventually remove. Have you ever eaten thistles before? Check out: {Eating Thistles}

Blackberries & Bird ID

I forged for blackberries down by the pond today and made them into a freezer jam. I seen some new little ducklings while down there. I seen lots of these little birds. Do you know what type of bird it is? Click photo twice for a close-up. Check out: {Eat Weeds}

Dandelion Medicine

I really have enjoyed this book, Dandelion Medicine by Brigitte Mars, Herbalist AHG. I think it would be nice to have it on hand. Quote: The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.~ Henry Ward Beecher {B M}

Leaf Lady

Find out the Benefits of Psyllium at: {Leaf Lady}

Eating Thistles

{Plain Old Kristi} made a blog entry about Eating Thistles. I also thought you could eat the inside of the buds. I picked a Bull Thistle and looked up different info and what was written about it was that the inside of the buds taste like articokes. I cooked the one I picked and cut it open, but there just didn't seem like much of nothing was inside of it. I didn't eat it, but I did smell it though and it does smell like articokes. Makes a good green color in the cooking water. I wonder if that would be good to drink. Does anyone know? I also read that the flower petals were used as gum. Have you heard of this before? Quote: Danger and delight grow on one stalk.~Scottish Proverb. Ducks on Pond @ :{Edible Recipes}

PRAY 4

{Pray 4 Elizabeth}, {Ninnie}, one of my bils and everyone on my Prayer list at the right, please. Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need. ~E.M. Bounds

Tickled Pink

I spotted a couple of patches of this pink five petal blossom with yellow center as I turned away from the Elderberry bush I had just collected blossoms from. So I decided to bring a little of it home with me. Do you know what it might be? The other is Rabbit Foot Clover. Is anyone familer with either?

Pizza Dough

I found a recipe in my 1956 Betty Crocker's cookbook for Italian Pizza Dough that only uses 1/2 tsp of yeast in the recipe. I added a Tblsp of olive oil to the recipe because I liked a softer crust. I put the rest of the yeast in a canning jar for later use. I use to think I had to use the whole yeast packet. Sure glad I found the recipe. Have you ever eaten squirrel? It is in the recipe book also. How about frog legs? There are three frog leg recipes in an old 1943 Joy of Cooking book that I have. I've had frog legs when I was a kid. Do not think I've ever had squirrel though. Quote: After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile. ~English Saying

Mosquito Repellant

{Natural Mosquito Repellant} At: {Wilderness College} the Vanilla Leaf pictured here in photo I took is mentioned as a natural repellant. I wish it was in bloom here. You can look it up online and find photos of it if you've never seen one be- fore. It reminds me of a bird. Eucalyptus is suppose to be a good one. Quote: Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room. ~Christie Todd Whitman

Wildly Wonderfully...

Wildflowers, Wild Weeds, Wild Plants, Wild Herbs, Wild Birds and Wild Animals. All Wild Things are Beautiful and Free to Grow Wildly Beautiful...It's the Nature of Being Beautifully Wildly Wonderfully Beautiful...!! That's what's pretty perfectly beautiful in my world today!! That was my answer to Linda's question: {Linda's Stuff}

Prayers Needed

Please {Pray for Rene}, Elsita's Brother!!!

Amongst Cabbages

I bought this some years ago at an estate sale. Do you think it's the first altered book? lol! The split peas in this book reminds me of when, I use to love to go out into the garden when I was a child and eat fresh peas off the vine. You'd find me amongst the peas, although I love cabbage too. One of my sils gave me a recipe she got from one of her aunts called, Iya Oya some years ago. You saute garlic til brown in olive oil, add a can of oil packed tuna and cooked spaghetti. So yummy. We added peas a lot of times. This year I think it was I didn't have any noodles so I decided to use shredded cabbage and a can of water packed tuna instead. So yummy and my favorite way to make it now. Add salt & pepper. {P L}

Checker Silhouette

Wouldn't this checker board be great to paint a silhouette onto? Either a person or a city scape, etc. I am not going to do it since it is no longer at my house but I am tossing the idea out there.

Baking Records

I melted this in the oven yes- terday. Wouldn't it be a fun gift. Didn't take that long to do. Link: {Vinyl Record Bowl} Check out Jeff Davis Vinyl Bowls: {Vinylux} Jeff Davis was featured on the PBS show Reading Rainbow and I hap- pened to be watching it that day. I enjoy that show. Have you watched it before? {Blog & Site}

Painting & Prayers

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer. ~Mother Teresa {Pray 4} The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rear- ranged by the hand of man. ~Author Unknown {July 18th}

Edilbe Wild Plants

I highly recommend this book. I can't hardly wait for his oth-

er books to come out. This book is everything I hoped it would be and more. Read more about it at this link:

{Edible Wild Plants} Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate by John Kallas Ph.D {Raw Family}

A Simple Way to

I am so excited that I can make my own yogurt!! It was so simple to do. I found the instructions at this link: {What I Made Today}. I used a small cooler. That is what I had. It doesn't have a tight seal so I wrapped it also in a couple of towels and also used her instructions for wrapping the jar in towels.

Creation Care

Link: {National Day of Prayer for Creation Care}

Akira Kurosawa Dreams

My favorite dream in the movie is, The Water Wheels dream. I like a few others and the ending scene of the first dream you see here on the cover. Some of it is slow and some a little scary in parts but all of them make you stop and think about the earth and how it effects all of us and all living things by the way it is treated.

Herb Study &

{Biblical Herb Study} - {Could it be?} - {The Scent}

Herbal Roots Zine Giveaway

Kristine over at {Herbal Roots Zine} is having another giveaway and this time it is the {June Issue of Herbal Roots}!! Details at: {Herbal Roots Zine} for more than one chance to WIN this fabulous giveaway!! {Nettle}?? 7 The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin. 8 The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a handmill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into cakes. And it tasted like something made with olive oil. 9 When the dew settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down. ~Numbers 11:7-9

Pino Pie Day

{Pino Needs Pie Umbrellas} and {Aprons Too!} Send by June 21 because Pie day is just around the corner, June 27, 2010. Pino also needs a Wheel chair access Porta Potty. Please take the time to check out the list of ways to: {Help Pino for Pie Day}!! I have a lot more blog entries in draft that I want to share but I wanted to get the word out for Pie Day for Pino!! Got to Love a Dreamy Don- key Named Pino!! Comments open below.

Wagon Train Cereal

Someone told me that Popped Popcorn use to be eaten as a cereal in wagon train days. Has anyone heard of this? It does taste pretty good. I looked it up and found this link: {Popcorn Cereal Bowl} I added cinnamon, milk and honey to this bowl of cereal. Funny Quote: The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pan- cakes so they would turn over by themselves. ~W. C. Fields. LOL!

FOODMATTERS

Oh my goodness you have to see: Foodmatters: You are what you eat. Check out: {FOODMATTERS} Check your public library for it or buy it. Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food. ~Hippocrates. I want to see the {Future of Food} also.

Paint Outside the Box

There are a few touch ups that need to be attended to, before a coat of varnish of some sort is put on. I'll either add a ribbon for the handle or use the original one. Link: {Ban Box}.

Possum Living & Food Matters

Blog & Book:{Possum Living} & Movie:{FOODMATTERS}

Ring of Bright Water

I really enjoyed this movie a lot. I loved listening to the man who drove the bus speak in his Scottish broque voice. Some of the looks on peoples faces on the bus cracked me up. And their change in attitude was so funny, from one scene to the next about the otter while on the bus. The children changed their attitude.

Anne with an E

A couple favorite movies I enjoy a lot. Ann of Green Gables and Ann of Green Gables the Sequel. Ann of Green Gables the Sequel is also titled Ann of Anvonlea.

Dandelion Lemonade & Festival

Learning Herbs Blog has a recipe posted for {Dandelion Lemonade} and Unusally Unusal Farm Chick made a blog entry about a {Dandelion Festival}.

The Future of Food

Goats in the Garden blogged about the document- ary {The Future of Food} I am waiting for the mov- ie Food Matters from the Library. In comments Food Inc is also mentioned.

Bedstraw, Catchweed, Cleavers

I've been reading about cleavers in the book called, Stop Colds And Flu The Natural Way by Nancy Pauling Bruning. It is so exciting to learn about weeds and their benefits. "Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest."- Mary Webb. {Green Onions}

May Blossoms

Is this a {Hawthron} bush/tree? Is anyone familiar with this bush or tree? The fair maid who, the first of May, Goes to the fields at break of day, And washes in dew from the hawthorn tree, Will ever after handsome be. ~ Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme. {Bedstraw}

The 24 Hour Sting?

Do you know if this is {Stining Nettle}, Field Nettle or another type of nettle seen here in photos? 24 hr. Sting!

Bless the Weeds and Let them Grow, Learn to Know them, so You can Appreciate their Show. ~Flassie

Ban Box

This is a thrifted ban box that I decided to paint. Not finished with it yet. The bottom part is craft paint mixed with mod podge. The lid is just craft paint. I will mix some paint with mod podge to help the paint adhere better to the top of the box. A little tole painting, stenciling, add a silhouette or decoupage something on it. You could even use stamps, add glitter. How about a glitter silhouette. I use to make fabric ban boxes many years ago. You could add material, lace, ribbon, silk flowers, buttons, etc. There are so many of possibilties.

Raw Family

Green Smoothie Recipes @ {RAW FAMILY}

Everyday Earthday

The Health of the Planet Depends on You! ~Flassie

The Onions are Growing

{The Onions are Growing, The Onions are Growing} “My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold.” ~George Washington (attributed)

The Scent of a Cob

I kept trying to figure out the smell of Dead Nettle after pull- ing the leaves and bloosoms off. I finally figured out that it smells like a corn cob. Kind of looks and feels like it a little bit too, minus the cream color and size. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers? ~ Andrew Marvel. Check out JoyceAnn's fun new name for {Dead Nettle} @ {Drying Herbs}

Medicine Soup

A friend gave me this recipe called Medicine Soup: Chopped onion, drained can of corn, green beans with juice in can, 3 peeled chopped carrots, 3 or 4 chopped potatoes, 1/2 c. chopped cabbage, 1 or more cloves of garlic, 1 large can or 2 medium cans of blended tomatoes, add water as needed, add herbs as desired, parsley, sweet basil, Italian herbs, salt, eat many bowls of hot steaming soup to "cure" especially, colds and flu! Can add other veggies like, broccoli, peas, beets, celery, etc. Red beans will make it a minestrone type more hearty soup. Barley or veggie meat makes it heav- ier meal. Add pasta to vary it. Cook it like you would any type of Minestrone soup recipe.

Sticking to the Pan

If food starts to stick to the pan it is in while cooking soup, rice, etc: Turn off the burner and pull the pan off its heat source and let the steam from the moisture in the food loosen it. I had added Quinoa to this leftover bean soup, so it would add a few extra serv- ings to it. It started to stick at the bottom and the above tech- nique fixed it. I was just glad it wasn't at the burning point stage.

Have a Good Friday, Holy Sabbath & Blessed Easter

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that who ever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. ~John 3:16 The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstan- ces. ~Robert Flatt. May the Good Lord's Blessing Be Upon You!!!

Could it Be?

I think it might be Hairy Bitter Cress? Check here: {The Seed Site} to see what you think. It looks like the second weed down from the top. Here is a recipe that states it's edible, but I think I want to learn more before I eat {Hairy Bitter Cress}. There is other info on other weeds, from the same site called: {Eat Weeds}. I'll have to see if I can find it in any books. It would be a really good idea to take classes to learn more about edible and med-icinal plants. Some plants have look alikes that are poisonous. Do you know of any good books with great photos about edible and medicinal plants? Looking forward to this book: {Edible Wild Plants} Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate by John Kallas Ph.D.

Take Five Tuesday

Check out Etsy Take Five Tuesday at {Decor8} Blog! Enjoy the Art!

Herbal Recipes

One of the books I am reading is Rosemary Gladstar's Herbal Rec- ipes for Vibrant Health. So far really good. Check it out at your local librar- y, favorite local book- store or online book- store. I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. ~ John Burroughs

Seed Catchers

Check out Sandi Holland's lovely: {Seed Catchers} She has them for sale in her Wink- elf Store. Jesus explained that the kingdom of God works like a seed. So, if we are to under- stand God's kingdom and how He operates, we need to un- derstand seeds.~Mark 4:30-31

Hydrogenated Oils

I was given this months ago. Dd wasn't using it anymore. I do not use it. I thought it could come in use for maybe taking sticky residue from taking labels off of jars or something. I notice it does do that. It's expiration date was June 2009. It still smells the same and no mold on it. Kind of scary isn't it, because people eat the stuff. Check this article out about:{Hydrogenated Oils} I found the link to the site while at JoyceAnn's {Herbal Spirits}blog.

Robert Sabuda

In February I made a Valentine's Day Pop-up {Heart} card. It was my second pop-up card. I made this {Ship} Pop-up card also using {Robert Sabuda's} instructions on his website. He has books for sale and if your interested in this type of art check out his web-

site. Take a close up of the two cards. I added a little twist in the water. The first card shows kind of how it is suppose to be and I decided that it needed to be a different color so I started playing with the scissors and glue. I used what I had to make the card. I messed up and the card was to small so I added a border. I glued a message at the front of the boat area. I still have a lot of practis-

ing to do. I couldn't get the deck to do what I wanted in the back so I glued it on the outside. {Creative Illustration Workshop}{Pray 4}

By Katherine Dunn

So excited to see Katherine Dunn has a book out that you can pre-order: Creative Illustration Workshop :Seeing, Sketching, Story- telling, and Mixed Media.

Set Date or Signs?

When do the seasons change? By man's set date or when nature shows signs of it? We have had flora life signs of an early spring for weeks now. I found a fitting quote to my question: Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb. Quote: Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring. ~Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Wake Up Call, 1992. Today I seen a little boy trying to fly his kite.

Dandelion Pasta

I made homeade {Dandelion} Pasta. This is {Eggless Pasta} that I made using the dandelion greens. Here is another eggless pasta recipe {Trenette}. Think- ing about making Ravioli next. Give a weed an inch and it will take a yard.~ Author Unknown. Weed 'um and reap!~Unknown