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Black Friday Do it yourself gift Idea

Simple and Creative
Show your friends you care with a
handmade Friendship Pin
Easy and Fun to Make

Here's my stuff.

Things you'll need.

Safety Pins, Beads, Round Nose Jewelry Plier and Flat Nose Pier : )

Get your safety pin out and open it.

Take your round nose pliers. Do like you see in the pic and with the other hand start to straighten the safety pin.

You got this!

Now take you flat nose pliers and try and make the pin as straight as you can.

Getting closer

Now for the fun part

Start putting Beads on!

Put beads on untill you reach the bent part of the pin.

Take your round nose pliers, put them as tight and close to the last bead.

Wrap the metal around the plier towards the closer end until it looks like this.

Way to go! Don't stop now Keep going!

Get Creative Happy ThanksGiving

Keep on Thanks Living!!!

Akua Lani LLC

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A fun way for kids to eat veggies

Edible Art soup
& smootie mix

sustainable & Edible

This is a great project for Homeschoolers, Community Garden Teachers and Anyone who loves, art, kids and good food.

what you'll need
for art food

Organic Bright Colored Vegetables, Organic Bright Colored Fruit, Organic Milk or Milk substitute, Dehydrator with fine mesh screens, cooking pots, blender, coffee grinder, small jelly jars, small glass bottles with corks and skewer sticks.

Organic Pumpkin organic Beet are a must for soups

Organic blueberries art a must for smoothies

Start by making your soups or smoothies. Don't add salt or sugar! You might have to use some at the end when you are using the coffee grinder.
I make the strong, bright batch 1st. This is organic Kobocha pumpkin we grew here on Akua Lani LLC. Make a large batch of this soup for your base color, save some to dehydrate. Then you add some Organic Milk or Organic Milk Substitute. Don't add to much. Save some of this batch for the dehydrator. You'll need to do this at least one more time.

After you have your at least 3 different shades of the same color, its time to Dehydrate!
Make sure your soup and smoothie mix is thick enough to not pour over the sides of your fine mesh dehydration sheets. Start prepping more color soups and store them in the fridge or freezer. Dehydrating takes a while. Nice to have the next batch ready, prepping a bunch of soups takes time too.

Getting closer to goodness : )

Now You have a nice collection of Dehydrated flavor colors! Next You'll want to get a clean coffee grinder. Make sure your colors are really dry. Grind away! Turn it into power or sand. This is when you can add a little sugar or salt to help with grinding.

Get your jelly jars and fill them with the colors. Keep them dry. Next get your food art bottles and skewer sticks. Same Idea as sand art at the fair. Now Bring the Kids and play with your food!! Cork the bottles, best stored in the fridge. Take them out and admire your colorful food art! Rehydrate and enjoy your flavor art meal or snack!

Try making these organic soups and smooties

soup Flavor colors

Organic Beet:
Makes deep Fuchsia. Add Organic Milk or Milk Sub. to get different shades of pink.

Organic Tomato:
Dark Red.

Organic Pumpkin:
Bright Orange. Add Organic Milk or Milk Sub. to get different shades of Yellow.

Organic Leafy Greens:
Makes Green. Lol. Add Organic Milk or Milk Sub. to get different shades of light green.

Organic Blueberries: Make a savory Organic Cream sauce, add a few Blueberries and Dehydrate for a light sky blue.

Smootie Flavor Colors

Organic Raspberries:
Dark Red. Add Organic Milk or Milk Substitute, protein powder or bananas to get different shades of pink.

Organic Mangos:
Bright Yellow. Add Organic Milk or Milk Substitute, protein powder or bananas to get different shades of yellow.

Organic Spirulina Powder:
Dark Green. Add Organic Powdered Milk or Milk Substitute or protein powder to get different shades of green.

Organic Blueberries:Dark Blue. Add Organic Milk or Milk Substitute, protein powder or bananas to get different shades of blue.

These are the ingredients I used for the photo above above.

Organic Kabocha Pumpkin, Beet and Vegetable Soup Mix.
Edible Colors grown on Akua Lani Farm.
These one of a kind salt art soup mixes are made with Aloha from the finest organic vegetables grown and dehydrated here at Akua Lani LLC, Farm and Sustainable Sanctuary.

Landscape ingredients:

Hawaiian Sea Salt, *Kabocha Pumpkin, *Beet, *Kale, *Collards, *Chard, *Leeks, and......

"Hawaiian Grown Gourmet Herbs & Tropical Fruit, Spicy With Sea Salt"
Ingredients: Dehydrated GMO free *MANGO, *FIG, *ROSE APPLE, *ROSEMARY, *CELERY, *HOLY BASIL, *THAI BASIL, *MINT, *GREEN ONION, *KEFIR LIME LEAVES, *CAYENNE PEPPER, HAWAIIAN SEA SALT & *ALOHA
Mixed with
AKUA LANI VEGGY CHIPS: ORGANIC *KALE, *CHARD, *COLLARDS, RUBBED AND DEHYDRATED WITH AKUA LANI ORIGINAL HAWAIIAN LAVA SAUCE TM. : *HAWAIIAN CHILI PEPPERS, APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, *SOLAR STEAM DISTILLED HAWAIIAN RAIN WATER, GARLIC, GINGER, *GREEN ONION, HAWAIIAN CANE SUGAR, HAWAIIAN SEA SALT, *ALOHA AND XANTHAN GUM

* Ingredients GROWN on SUSTAINABLE FARM & SANCTUARY, AKUA LANI LLC

We use no Chemicals, only the best organic fertilizers and collected rainwater.

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Author: Carmen, Artist Farmer and owner of Akua Lani LLC.

Sustainable Living, Gardening and Art have been my passion as long as I can remember.
Before moving to Hawaii in 2002 to live on a sustainable farm. I was part of several non profit groups, such as The Sofia Quintero Art and Cultural Center and Toledo Grows. These Groups have created many beautiful community gardens and have amazing volunteers flourishing today!
Be prepared for some interesting Blog topics. From Solar Power, Organic Gardening, Art, what to do when your goat is sick and more.

Friendship Pins are Back In

Black Friday Do it yourself gift Idea

Now for the fun part

Way to go! Don't stop now Keep going!

Get Creative Happy ThanksGiving

Keep on Thanks Living!!!

Play with your food

A fun way for kids to eat veggies

Edible Art soup
& smootie mix

sustainable & Edible

what you'll need
for art food

Organic Pumpkin organic Beet are a must for soups

Organic blueberries art a must for smoothies

Getting closer to goodness : )

Try making these organic soups and smooties

soup Flavor colors

Smootie Flavor Colors

Archives

Categories

Friendship Pins are Back In

Black Friday Do it yourself gift Idea

Now for the fun part

Way to go! Don't stop now Keep going!

Get Creative Happy ThanksGiving

Keep on Thanks Living!!!

Play with your food

A fun way for kids to eat veggies

Edible Art soup & smootie mix

sustainable & Edible

what you'll need for art food

Organic Pumpkin organic Beet are a must for soups

Organic blueberries art a must for smoothies

Getting closer to goodness : )

Try making these organic soups and smooties

soup Flavor colors

Smootie Flavor Colors

Archives

Categories

Edible Art soup
& smootie mix

what you'll need
for art food