Wild Violet Nori Roll

My part of the Wild Violet assignment was to
demonstrate a recipe.
so here is my demonstration, I was very nervous!

Here are some more fun and tasty recipes:

Violet Jelly

Violet Jam

Violet Tea

Crystallized Violets

Violet Honey

Violet Syrup
Violet Butter

We found this information in a book we have
The Essential Wild Food Survival Guide
by Linda Runyon

Amount of nutrient per 100 g.
(about ½ cup) calories: 16

Water 94.8g
Calcium 47mg
Protein 1.4g
Phosphate 86mg
Fat 0.3g
Iron 1mg
Carb 2.7g
Sodium 18mg
Fiber 0.6g
Ascorbic. 18mg
Ash 0.8g
Riboflavin 110µg
Carotene 400µg
Niacin 600µg
Thiamin 20µg
Potassium 116mg

The violet leaves are packed with vitamin A & C

Hope you will try a recipe, if nothing else throw some violet leaves in a salad and
enjoy! But before you do make sure you can identify a violet leaf from other plants,
if violets are new to you it is best to have an experience person who know how to identify
wild edibles to show you one.

Enjoy!!

Hebrew Blessing of the Bread

We are learning Hebrew, it was hard at first, but slowly we are progressing.

Here is a little video of the first part to the Hebrew Blessing of the Bread.

Garden Days

Hi, I am Halea. I just turned 13, and it is my desire to be a Torah Keeping Maiden of Yah! I also did not like being involved with the G.S. so, I am super exited about this club (blog). Thanks for letting me join!

I am waiting for my Keeper of the Home handbook.
So, I thought I would share with you some things I did in the garden...
I like to help my mom work in the garden.

Here we just collected lettuce and strawberries.

This is our growing garden...

We have lots of veggies and herbs planted in the picture above. And below is our corn and more herbs (although some of the seed we just planted, so they haven't sprouted yet.)

I helped my mom plant blueberry and thornless blackberry bushes.

Here is where my mom planted the Mammoth Sunflowers. I put the border in around them.

Then I did the clean up of the old dead leaves and grass.

I want to learn about gardening so that one day I will be able to provide food from my own yard, for my own family.

Wild Violets ~ Viola Odorata

Today mama, Yahchanna, and I went foraging for wild violet's,

we found a whole bunch! We didn't find them in direct sun light,

we found them in a shaded areas, they come in different variety's

of colors, Such as, white, blue, purple, yellow,

lavender, and red. This is my first video, and I was really nervous!

I was so nervous that I forgot to mention the leaves

are heart shaped, and the plant only grows

four inches high. So if you ever see a heart

shaped leaf on a vine or a tall plant, you

know that it isn't a violet plant.

You can harvest them three month's out of the year,

April, May, and June.

The violet has over nine hundred species,

and what I under stand is only the yellow violet has a look a like

which is the buttercup, which is DEADLY poisonous!

Some medicinal properties of the violet are:

• anti-inflammatory which means
  it will help relieve swelling, pain, and redness do to injury or illness
  
• expectorant- An expectorant helps to dissolve the
  thick mucus caused by a respiratory infection.
  
• diuretic- a diuretic helps to remove
  extra water build up in the tissues of the body.
  
• laxative- helps to induce a bowel movement or to
  loosen the stools from constipation.
  
• softens and smooths the skin
  This a close up of a violet plant
  

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Topsy Turvey Dolls

This is a Topsy Turvey Doll.

Two dolls in one.

We found the pattern here, but

tweaked it a bit.

We didn't make the arms separate from the

body but made it one piece, cut it out as

one piece.

This is my doll. I wanted

one doll. One side she is awake

the flip side she is asleep.

her name is Jasmine. She isn't

finish yet, I still have to

make her sleeping cap. When

I'm finished I'll post a final

picture.
Here I am hand stitching

her dress.

Here is the embroidered face

Here I'm attaching her hair. I wanted her
to have braids. So I cut three strands, knotted
them in the middle, attached the knot to her
head and braided the six strands into
two braids

Torah Keeping Maiden,
YahChanna

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I wanted two dolls. A white doll and a black doll

both are babies.

Here I'm sewing the doll together

Here I'm embroidering the face on the white doll.

the face is finished!

Here is the finished white doll, her name Caroline.

My doll isn't finished yet, I'm working on the

dress of the black baby who's name

will be Sarah. When I finish her

I'll post pics of both dolls.

Here is little Caroline


The pattern we used for the dresses and
bonnets is Simplicity 4707

Our mom enlarged the pattern on PagePlus a free
a desktop publishing program that she uses to makes
lapbook templates, cards, worksheet,
and lots of other things

Torah Keeping Maiden,
AbbiYah

Learning to read Hebrew

We are trying to learn how to read

in Hebrew. Our mom made

us some flash cards to play games

with. One of our favorite games

is called BAM. All the cards

are placed in the bucket and

each player gets to draw out one card and

say it's name, sound and ancient name

and sound. If it is correct the player

keeps the card if not it goes back

in the bucket. Each player does this,

now the fun part is when someone pulls

out a BAM card, that mean they have

to put all the cards they have collect back in the bucket...

oh it's so much fun!!

There are three different decks of cards momma made:
Modern Hebrew letters
Ancient Hebrew pictographs
and a deck that has both.

We use Hebrew Made Easy book and
we also learn from
Ancient Hebrew and
Hebrew 4 Christians

Hebrew Blessing

We learned how to sing a Hebrew Blessing

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Gardening

We have no place to keep a garden were we live,

so my granny is letting us use a section in

her backyard.

Mama says it's our garden this year.

here are a few pick of us pulling up the weeds,

getting the ground ready to plant seeds.

Our granny got most of the weeds out before

we came over, she left us

a small section to work on.

we dug up under the weeds and pulled up the weeds

by the roots, then we shook out all the dirt

see the pile of weeds behind YahChana...woo, it
was hard work!
We planted summer squash, zucchini, green beans, tomatoes, and bell peppers
seeds. And the banana peppers, cauliflower, and green onions were
small plants.
Oh yeah we also planted four sunflower seeds.

We came across some wild garlic so we didn't throw them
away, we just transplanted them in at the corner of
the garden next to our sunflower seeds.