SEMPRONIUS ENTERPRISES PRESENTS: WINTER ART EXHIBITION:

SEMPRONIUS ENTERPRISES PRESENTS

“Winter Art exhibition”

Patrick Miller and Wendy Bandurski-Miller

Invite you to our fine art exhibition of paintings and photography

Saturday November 26th 4pm- late

2661 HATHAWAY ROAD SEMPRONIUS

NEW YORK

yellow two story house on the hill.

Paintings can be previewed online.

Contact Wendy for pricing at

redreamer@live.com

For online purchases look to the right and you will see the paypal option. Select the work you want to purchase from the drop down selection then click ADD TO CART.

$50 

1.   Redreaming Village 
12 X 12 x 1 inch box canvas

2. Redreaming Growth
12 X 12 x 1 inch box canvas

                                                          3. Redreaming Connections   

12 X 12 x 1 inch box canvas

                                                           4. Redreaming Dark Heart  

12 X 12 x 1 inch box canvas

5.   Redreaming One Tree  

12 X 12 x 1 inch box canvas  

6.   Redreaming Two Tree’s      

12 X 12 x 1 inch box canvas

7.   Redreaming Mote  

12 X 12 x 1 inch box canvas

   

8.   Redreaming Earth 
12 X 12 x 1 inch box canvas

9.   Redreaming Ethos
12 X 12 x 1 inch box canvas

10. Redreaming Solar Flare 
12 X 12 x 1 inch box canvas

11. Redreaming Leaf Love 

12 X 12 x 1 inch box canvas

12. At the Edge of the Forest  
12 X 12 x 1 inch box canvas

13. Redreaming Carnivale of Fireflies
12 X 12 x 1 inch box canvas

14. Outback Orange 
12 X 12 x 1 inch box canvas

15. Out of the Blue  
12 X 12 x 1 inch box canvas

16. Single Sunflower 
11x13inch

17. Trillium 
11 x 13 inches

18. Red winged Blackbird 
11x 13 inches

19. Wonder 

16 x 20 inches

20. Paradox 
16 x 20 inches

21. Blackeyed Susan 
12 x 12 inches

22. The Pout 
12 x 12 inches box canvas

23. Redreaming Sunshine Garden
12 x 12 inches box canvas

$100

24. Dragonfly Dreaming
24 x 18 inches

25. The Spark
30 x 18 inches box canvas

26. The Walkabout  
30 x 18 inches box canvas

27. Prophesy
24 x 18inches

28. Tribal Love 
24 x 18 inches

29. Tower of Laughter
20 x 16 inches

30. Lilypads
28 x 11.5 inches x 2 inch handmade box canvas

31. Green Eyes
24 x 18 inches

32. Mindscapes Walkabout

24 x 18 inches

33. Tryst
20 x 16 inches

$250. PAINTINGS

34.  Towards Tomorrow
36 x 12 x 3 inch handmade box canvas

35.  Redreaming Golden Valley
36 x 12 x 3 inch handmade box canvas

36.  Perception Is All
40 x 13 inch  on wood

37.  Sempronius Hollyhocks
36 x 14 x 3 inch handmade box canvas

38.  Tower of Inspiration
30 x 18 x 3 inch handmade box canvas

39.  Bearded Iris

36 x 18 x 3 inch handmade box canvas

40.  Flesh
24 x 18 inches

41.  Redreaming Gecko
36 x 12 x 3 inches handmade box canvas

$300

42. Redreaming Antipodes
48 x 18 x 3 inch handmade box canvas

43. Frankie 

48 x 12 x 3 inch handmade box canvas

Organic Apples and SNOW!

This year's apple harvest was a LOT challenging. Mostly because we have been in this place for 4 1/2 years and the apple orchard tree's were about 3 year olds when we moved in. This year they hit SERIOUS production for the first time and with some 40 tree's to pick..... i didn't really expect or plan on such a bountiful year. Very much an oversight.

Next year I will do a roadside stand...... this year i have given the apples away by the bucketful and still canned huge amounts, dehydrated huge amounts and baked huge amounts.

There are still boxes and bags of apples all over the place... moving them all down to the root cellar part of the cellar this weekend when i have young legs to help carry them.

Time to double check snow boot needs in the house! One kid down... one to go... one day THEY WILL stop growing! 

Making Liquid Laundry Soap

I have been meaning to add this to my blog for over a week now and have just been too busy and have had several requests so here you go...... Part of our home school science activities was to make a supply of liquid laundry detergent that lasts 6-8 months for the time invested.....which is not a long time. Total time needed is about an hour ... half an hour to prepare the liquid recipe and about half an hour to bottle it up the next day.

Enjoy!

FALL IS COMING.... AND the first colds of the season.

So here i am feeling under the weather along with most of the family... its wet and drizzly outside and everyone has a cold and headache and generally feeling pretty miserable. So while I have a moment i thought i would take some times to create some products i have been wanting to make for a while now....

check them out... and I hope you like.


For fall i am making some new designs in clothing... hoodies and t shirts and baseball caps.... more to come as i get time... ALL products can be customized with size and colours...

REDREAMING FREE RANGE HUMAN bbcap by wendybandurskimiller

REDREAMING FREE RANGE HUMAN by wendybandurskimiller

REDREAMING FREE RANGE HUMAN jacket by wendybandurskimiller

REDREAMING FREE RANGE HUMAN tote bag by wendybandurskimiller

REDREAMING FREE RANGE HUMAN sticker by wendybandurskimiller

REUSE RECYCLE RETHINK REDREAM

Just brilliant.

Tomatoes Tomatoes TOMATOES........

This has been a brilliantly successful tomato year and i will take it!. It has also meant that i have had little time to update my blog... i have been too busy being hands on in the garden... and i am sure you understand... it is not just about the growing... it is also about the maintaining... the picking the washing the preparing and the storing of the produce to last through the winter months.

I have been dehydrating non stop for two months pretty much.... tomatoes and zucchini and herbs and summer squash... concurrent with that I have also been canning... roasting tomatoes making spagetti sauces and generally constantly washing pots and and other kitchen equipment and sterilizing jars.

Some photo's to follow...... and the only reason i have sat down to write this is because it is labour day... school starts Wednesday and life is about to get even MORE hectic at least for a little while.

New Ducklings first day out.

They were born yesterday and today they went out with mummy to explore the world.

Canning Season Begins.

12 yellow crookneck squash (Any size will do, but smaller squash have less seeds.)

2 medium onions
2 medium sweet peppers (optional)

Combine:
2 1/4 cups sugar
2 1/4 cups vinegar
2 teaspoons celery seeds
2 teaspoons mustard seeds
1 teaspoon turmeric

So with Zucchini and summer squash beginning to come into their own in the garden i went in search of a pickle recipe..... and came up with one for OLD FASHIONED SQUASH PICKLES.

Preparing the pickle ingredients... Sugar, Tumeric, Celery seeds and mustards seeds (sorta). Add 2 1/4 cups of vinegar and bring to the boil stirring constantly ... once boiled continue rapid boil for 3 minutes then turn off the heat and remove from the stove. (Smells divine).

The summer squash, zuchinni, red capsicum, and a whole medium sized onion chopped up placed under chilled water for an hour (add ice blocks).

Sterilize your jars and hot pack the drained chopped vegetables straight into them.

Fill to within half an inch of the top.

Pour over the pickling liquid still hot from the stove. To about 1/4 inch from the top.....

Wipe rims and add the lid and the band and finger tighten and put back in the water.....

 I used the recipe i found HERE 

It smells divine and i will be making more for winter goodness to remember summer by.

Walk around the Vegetable garden

Of Crazy Growth in the garden and a new AA Canner......

So...... with warm and wet days everything is going CRAZY in the garden growing at double speed and it is not hard to get a sense of OVERWHELMED at times..... one of the disadvantages of a large garden... you turn your back for five minutes and BAM weeds have emerged where there were none and the tiny weeds DOUBLE in size..... the potatoes all need hilling, the tomatoes need pruning before they take over the planet and i need to harvest some parsley and summer squash.... Life is good and my tailbone is sore! 

Yes well i finally went ahead and bought the bright and shiny new All American Canner 921 as it is on special at the moment at  AMAZON  for a VERY good price. It arrived very quickly (3 days) and i can't WAIT to use it..... but I will give it a test run first to check the seal and my technique for closing it since it appears people sometimes have troubles with steam escaping out the rim..... I must say i am pretty excited about being able to do ANYTHING in cans now and not be limited to just acid based foods.

If you have never canned your own food before go HERE for a quick read up.

FOOD STORAGE LONG TERM

You tube has a WEALTH of video's on canning......go on explore a little! 

Strawberry Moon

To be perfectly honest i really do have a thing for taking photographs of what i call *skyscapes* and interesting things in the sky...... so my day started super early because i happened to see the moon before it set.......


THIS MORNING

THIS EVENING

amazing the difference a cup of coffee makes..... he he.

Follow this link to the names of the full moons for each month of the year.

 Full Strawberry Moon – June This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Rose Moon. Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full Moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry!

.....did you look UP tonight?


And for those that didn't see it.... there is images HERE of the eclipse that we here in the north east did not get to see.....except online.

Baby Red Fox

This morning on the way home from the hardware store for paint i came across these three baby fox in the driveway of a neighbour.... with the help of a long lens and patience i got close enough for a good shot. They were very wary ..... as they should be.... but were warming themselves out on the open which I didn't think was good.... but also I didn't want to interfere it is a fine line. I suspect their mother has been shot. 

Spring Storms...

So from my initial assessment that there wasn't much damaged... about 40% of the apples are dented ......as is my new car! GHAAAA what a pita!

Luckily the garden survived with a few holes in leaves but nothing too tragic.....
Time to sort out a parking bay for the vehicle in the barn.......

The weather this year is nothing short of EXTREME.... extreme heat and unusual storms... and the season has only barely begun.