Gourds and pumpkins

Gourds and pumpkins - part 2

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 - after our circle, I saw a great post explaining that before pumpkins made it to the 'Old World,' from the New, folks in Switzerland and the British Isles carved - turnips!!

So I had to give it a try! Roasting ~ 10 minutes in my Air fryer first made it a bit easier to hollow, using a spoon and sharp knife. More pics are in this post.

My Hollowed and Carved Turnip

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