Merry Christmas and/or Happy Winter Holiday of your choice!
Big thanks to my venue owners, helpers, and customers for supporting my art practice this year, I appreciate it big time!
The Dart Gallery in Dartmouth is now shut until mid January after an epic moving of the entire gallery to the Historic Properties for the last weekend of the Halifax Lights market.
Jenny Jib in Lunenburg will be open between Christmas and New Years: open Dec 24th, shut on Christmas Day, open the 26th & 27th, shut on the 28th & 29th, then open Dec 30th - January 3rd, before shutting down for a winter break.
On to this week's list.
1. Garlic for toothache. I had a wicked painful toothache this past week and after googling home remedies tried the combo of chewing on garlic slices and 'oil pulling' - swishing oil around in one's mouth, coconut oil in my case. No more toothache! It took 2 or 3 days to be completely pain free, though the pain relief was pretty quick after using garlic, and I really thought I was in for a big dental bill at first.
Here are a couple articles where many others have commented to say that garlic works, and can possibly clear up infections.
First, results from a survey on whether garlic works or not from growyouthful.com
And, this Earth Clinic article: Garlic for Tooth Infection, a natural alternative
2. This Date Energy Ball recipe from Detoxinista. Found this after craving a healthy sweet snack. It's a great basic recipe that makes for tasty treats for the holidays or anytime.
I didn't measure anything, added a few ingredient that weren't in the recipe, and don't have a food processor.
I ground up walnuts and coconut in a coffee grinder - Bulk Barn now has unsulfured coconut in bulk which is very nice, pitted and chopped some medjool dates just with a knife, added melted coconut oil, cinnamon, ground ginger, cocoa powder, vanilla, some gingerbread kahlua, non-gmo rice crispy type cereal, some hulled hemp seeds. Then I smashed everything together with a fork and rolled the mess up into balls to chill in the freezer, separated on random plastic trays though pressing the mixture into silicone baking cups works too.
The result is a really great, quick, easy, vegan, glutenfree, mostly sugar free, rich, filling, healthy sweet snack/holiday treat that requires no baking. The crispy rice cereal gives them a bit of crunch and spreads out the more costly ingredients. An initial batch I made without adding booze - as per the original recipe - was great too and would be completely sugar free as medjool dates are plenty sweet and a lot stickier than the other dates used in baking. I like the dates that come in plastic tubs in the Superstore produce section, and the club pack of walnuts from the baking section.
3. Awen Alive a pair of clay artists living in England making awesome stuff. Here's their Facebook Page. Nice to see there are other artist around that feel compelled to carve cosmic spirals into animal haunches! I googled what "Awen" means, in Welsh tradition it's the inspirational muse of creative types
4. This SifouTV Pottery channel on Youtube. This is the channel of a Greek potter posting nice instructional videos, including some for products I never thought could be ceramic, such as a lemon squeezer.
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