Easter

Jesus in the garden at Gesethme, AGONY
Jesus at his trial, MOCKERY

Crucified, FINISHED


These images were created, first by setting up the Church stage in to 3 sceenes, The Garden, the Trial, and Calvery. The sceens were then potographed, and then I painted in images of Jesus. In the image of the trial, the courtyard is a painted backdrop.

3 Things happening

This is the painting I'm working on. It is huge, about twice the size of anything else I've done -- I've only been painting for 12 months.

This is just my foundation image. I did it last week at about 2 one morning, when I was suffering "busy brain" and couldn't sleep.

I'm just waiting for school to start, so I can get on with it.

These are Beau's feet, she is modeling the little slippers I have been working on. I made some for myself, then the kids wanted some. they just love them. I think that I should jigg my pattern again to make baby ones too.

I hope to finish the pattern and post it in the next few days.

This is the kids breakfast, with Home Made Tomato Sauce, They love it.

I was given a box of tomatos, so many, and decided to do somthing special. I adapted the recipe in Stephanie Alaxanders "Cooks Companion" (one of my fav. recipe books)

TOMATO SAUCE

5kg ripe tomatos, chopped

1 table spoon peppercorns and

1tbs clove wrapped in muslin

1tbs ground ginger

1tbs all spice

3/4 bulb of garlic - chopped

30 salt

500ml apple cider vinegar

Boil all these things together for 1 hour, then add

1kg raw sugar

Boil for 2 hours, stir regularly, so that it dosen't

catch on the bottom of your saucepan. Blend it

with a stick blender in your sauce pan. Bottle in

hot sterile jars/ bottles, I used screw cap wine

bottles.

I am absolutly delighted with this sauce, Handy loved it, and licked out the sauce pan. I am totally suprised that the kids like it, I hated the tomato sauce my mother made, I seem to remember it having somthing icky in it, maybe it was the spice, maybe I had an imature pallet.

Jesus - he's here

And isn't he beautiful. I am absolutly positive that Jesus was a beautiful baby, one that slept through the night and didn't sick up, all the time.

This centre piece is about 1.5m and is the gift, in a "Jesus is the Gift" window display for church. The rest of the display is wrapped and unwrapped Christmas boxes, and maybe some dud gifts. More photos to come. Let me tell you, this image maxes out my heart with love.