We had so much fun at today's circle - thank you Luna for leading and Cindy for being our co-pilot!! Luna invited us to share a way we enjoy pumpkin, and they all sounded so savory - from essential oils, to soups, Rice pudding and Gluten Free pumpkin Cheesecake! Made us all hungry! One of each I had a lovely time sitting back and creating - and will play with messages in a bit! I pulled out my fluid acrylics (love the gold!) and decorated the gourd first - then painted a ᎢᏯ (i-ya - pumpkin in Cherokee) in my journal. Punkin play zine I used a pre-election mailer as the base for a little zine - painted random strokes for a background, and then added collage (I even found pictures of ᎢᏯ (pumpkin) I'll add it's name and more words later 🎃 Zine - Back and front covers There were some great ideas on favorite ways to use pumpkin - now I'm hungry!! Here's a recipe for a Pumpkin bean soup, that's similar to one mentioned (it's vegan and Gluten Free.) And -
This fall our RT SiStar Luna invited us to ' paint, carve, or color jack o lanterns for the Halloween season.' Luna found a coloring page to post in our FB group, and some fun pumpkin art for inspiration. She got a large pumpkin, while I found a palm size gourd! Small Gourd T'is is the season for our Art Harvest Studio tour, and this lovely spiral pendant followed me home on the weekend. Spiral pendant - Debra Franciosi I love spirals, and think some may appear on my gourd. Will you be working on paper, in your journal, or on a physical curcubid?