This is by Jean Kent of Adelaide.. who is going for the Archibald prize.. Ooh it's eerie to see myself on a painting, especially when our heads have been swapped! Velvetta Grimstone's head is on my body, while mine is placed on the tiny body of my puppet Velvetta.. Goodluck Jean - I hope you win!
Sustainable Living
- How to preserve local food for winter
Eat delicious, local, sustainable food from your pantry all year round. - How to really grow food in your backyard
Here I share with you the secrets that have transformed me from a gardener with a not-very-productive vegie patch, to growing most of my family's fruit and veg. - A simple composting toilet
Find out how to make a really simple but effective composting toilet for very little money.
About Asphyxia
- Guide to this blog
Read this to help you find the posts on my blog that will be most interesting to you.
The Grimstones
- My Shop
Buy my books about The Grimstones: Hatched, Mortimer Revealed, and the Artist's Journal. Also available: postcards and CDs. - The Grimstones
The Grimstones is a gothic fairytale about a girl who can read dreams, a baby boy with three legs, a mother who sew garments lined with warmth and joy, and a grandfather who heals people with his magical concoctions. I created The Grimstones as a marionette performance, and now it's a book series too.
Food and Nutrition
- Traditional Foods
My health has dramatically improved after changing my diet for a more traditional way of eating, as advised by Sally Fallon. - Food Flower Poster
Forget the food pyramid! It was developed by the agricultural industry, not by nutritionists. Instead, print this Food Flower poster, which shows a visual guide to choosing nutritious and satisfying traditional foods. - Sourdough bread Recipes
I make delicious sourdough bread in my bread machine - recipes and tips here. - Raw Food
Should we be eating a diet of 100% raw food? Here's what I found by way of "scientific proof". - Raw garlic to cure colds & flu
If you feel a cold or flu coming on, eat a whole clove of raw garlic, three times a day - it works miracles.
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18 March 2011
Food Forest Sign
As if I hadn't already received enough magnificent art for my birthday, here's a sign that Paula made me for my food forest. She used an old panel of wood we had lying around and nailed on the words made from little snippings of hazel wood. I love it! And I love that now my food forest has an official name!
14 March 2011
A Scarehawk... garden art
For my birthday, Jesse made me this magnificent hawk, which flies over my vegie garden, suspended above my water tank. I adore it! Its beady eye and long beak seem poised to peck at my beans, and it looks as though it will swoop at any moment to catch some cheeky bug nibbling on my plants. Jesse drew this on paper, then transferred the images to scraps of wood that we had lying around. Paula helped him to cut them out with a jigsaw and assisted with screwing it together, but it's Jesse's creative vision.. his art. O I love it!
10 March 2011
It's my Birthday!
I have had the most amazing birthday morning this morning. I can't believe how lucky I am to be so fussed over by my gorgeous little family. I had a pile of presents to open first thing, and then after pilates, I came home to discover an outdoor treasure hunt! I actually cried I was so touched, when I saw what Paula and Jesse had made for me. This pic is of a piece of art Paula made for me. She took photos of all the plants in my garden, my harvest and everything, and combined them in this amazing collage which she glued onto a big board of plywood. I am gobsmacked. The photo I took doesn't quite do it justice because some of the colours faded. But still, you can see what a beautiful piece of art it is. I love the enormous bee with its pollen, the juxtaposition of sizes of everything, the bounty of harvest.. Not only does it capture this year in my garden and the many plants I've grown for the first time (my first ever watermelon is swelling in the top right corner, my first nasturtium flower in the bottom centre)... but it also shows Paula's sweet appreciation for all that I've grown/made/fed us with. Her lovely words, "Thank you for feeding us, body and soul." refer to the food grown for our bodies, but also the beautiful space the garden is, that feeds our souls. It's so lovely to be appreciated. This art captures all that is dear to my heart and I feel so lucky!
06 March 2011
Bunny
Right after this photo was taken I trimmed her fur again and I've already started spinning it. I'm planning to knit it into a skirt/belly warmer for winter!
02 March 2011
The best graffiti art I've seen
I found this outisde the Uniting Church in Northcote. O I love it - especially the cards glued to the wall and then scattered down onto the ground.
I'm so glad I snapped it because already it's been cleaned up :(
